In This Issue

IN THIS ISSUE: VOL. 1, ISSUE 52

 

NEWS
3 A.M. Eternal

Part conveyance, part destination, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s No. 60 bus rolls through the heart of Long Beach when most of us are asleep. In Breakwater Breakdown, Jenny Stockdale says the oil islands aren’t going anywhere and in Control Z, Chris Ziegler fills his maw with grain aid. Plus Criminy!

FEATURE
Stop It, Press-Telegram, You’re Killing Us . . . And, Of Course, Yourself

The wonderful, wacky and undeniably essential 110-year history of Long Beach’s erstwhile local paper gave us clues that it wasn’t going to be around forever . . . but that it could have been. P-T alumnus Dave Wielenga looks back in appreciation, frustration and grief at the paper that raised him, gone to ruin.

FOOD+DRINK
Pâtes Fraîches

Miles Clements eats toward the artisan at Pâtes Fraîches then gets in a California state of mind with a Beach Burger. And Chesney Higgins sips a liquid elixir at the Village Grind. Also, Blottery.

ART
Echoes

The wind blows through painter Robert Maldonado’s feathered hair at Gallery Azul in San Pedro. And don’t miss the final days of “California Visual Artists: An Open Exhibition” at 2nd City Council Gallery.

MUSIC
Imaad Wasif

Chris Ziegler walks through the desert after Imaad Wasif and Two Part Beast and listens for Sonny Rollins on the Williamsburg Bridge.

FILM
Shine a Light

It might not be the Last Waltz, but Light proves you can’t kill the Rolling Stones.

SHELTER
Park Estates History

The Allens’ 1949 ranch house is a midcentury modern survivor.

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