NEWS
Happy Face
Chris Pook, who can’t seem to keep a job since he left the Long Beach Grand Prix in 2001, just quit two more: the Sea Festival—which just stiffed the city for $37,000 on one contract—and the Salvation Army fundraising committee, which didn’t give him another. He’s still smiling, though. Also, I, Fink, Criminy and re: Control Z, President Bush says “LOL that sux.”

FEATURE
Ice Cream Man Cometh
Matt Allen is his name, but you don’t need to know it. About 135,000 people know him as Ice Cream Man, and he says that’s the important thing.

DEPT. OF COMMERCE
Glam Pampering
Spa Grace’s Jeremy Grace elevates facials into the realm of performance art. And it’s not a hoax—or a limited-time offer: at e.l.f. Cosmetics, (most) everything really is just $1.

FOOD+DRINK
Vegi Wokery
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Miles Clements finds Vegi Wokery’s mock meat a positive pleasure. Then Jim Hall fills up at Burrito Factory and Adam Pringle gets a kick in the face at Johnny’s Saloon. Also, Blottery.

ART
What They Have
Dave Wielenga says just about everything about Six Feet Under writer Kate Robin’s new play What They Have is wonderful, except for the fact that none of it takes place in a family-owned funeral parlor. And Kevin Ferguson enjoys Gabriela Martinez’s linocuts, at Cal State Long Beach.

MUSIC
Scotty Coats
Charlie Rose eats tacos with Scotty Coats and Chesney Higgins corresponds with Architecture in Helsinki.

FILM
Expelled
Forget that Expelled compares science with Nazism and Stalinism (though it does, repeatedly and remorselessly)—what’s truly weird is that the filmmakers don’t seem to understand the tenets of intelligent design.