FEATURE
Our Second Annual Drinks Issue
We salute you responsible Long Beach tipplers with our Z-to-A guide to the best beverages around town—everything from the Abandoned Couch (last year’s invention, still wetting whistles thanks to Lulu from Alex’s) to the Question Mark—a drink so new it doesn’t even have a name—to . . . something starting with Z. The Zombie Zebra Zuzu? Maybe. Enjoy!

NEWS
On the Waterfront
The solutions to the pollution problems on the Long Beach waterfront are complex—but they’re compact, too. They fit in the hoodie that’s wrapped around Keith Higginbotham’s caffeinated head. Jenny Stockdale goes there. And Theo Douglas interviews two of the convicted sex offenders in Alamitos Beach. Plus Steve Lowery hails Progressive Wiccans and a bike-edition of Criminy!

MUSIC
Heru John Basil
Chris Ziegler covers cover songs with Heru John Basil (”Hail Satan!”) and unearths Earth Crisis’ supposed sideband Brownstars.

ART
Too Busy For Love
Multimedia artist Matthew Thomas shows what’s been occupying his time. And architecture historian Alan Hess talks about Cliff May ranch houses.

DEPT. OF COMMERCE
Nails by Christy
Melissa Balmer coats her toes at Nails by Christy and Ayn Imperato finds sales and salvation at Heavenly Couture.

FOOD
Beachwood BBQ
Ellen Griley gets an afternoon buzz at Beachwood BBQ and Kevin Ferguson falls for the Cuban sandwich at Belle’s School of Cake Decorating.

SHELTER
Spanish Colonial
How Craig and Christine Bouma preserved a gorgeously original 1936 California Heights house.

FILM
Never Back Down
We review Never Back Down and Horton Hears a Who.