FEATURE
The Art Theater
March 5 is the last night you’ll see first-run art films at the Art Theater for a while. That’s because 30-year owner Howard Linn has sold the Art Deco art house, and the Art will be closing for an estimated five- to six-month historically-sensitive renovation. Then? It’ll be back, probably some time this summer.

NEWS
Beam Me Up, Queenie
Russian subs, English teas, paranormal dinners—if the Queen Mary only hosted things we like (like its recent out-of-this-world Star Trek retrospective), Steve Lowery thinks it would do just fine. Plus, Vector Control, Criminy and I, Fink.

MUSIC
Pity Party
Linda Rapka talks trash with the Pity Party and Chris Ziegler wonders about Ludacris’ entrepreneurial sidelines.

ART
LBMA After Dark
Rebecca Schoekopf reviews “Cabaret” at International City Theatre. And Long Beach Museum of Art joins the club and stays open past closing time four times a year.

FOOD+DRINK
El Gallo Giro
Miles Clements gets a head full of head cheese and Ellen Griley chows on chilaquiles at 212 Bistro. Then Megan Brescini gets a real drink with the Perfect Manhattan and finishes up with Blottery.

DEPT. OF COMMERCE
BJ Clothes
Jim Hall stocks up on Dickies and Kim Lachance talks to the female shutterbugs at Bad Kitty.

SHELTER
Through the Window
Reviving a Belmont Shore Spanish Revival house.

FILM
Be Kind Rewind
Be Kind Rewind and Vantage Point.