NEWS
Shop On?
Bixby Knolls is still slated to get a Marshalls, once they knock down the vacant midcentury modern Roberts department store. But Redevelopment Agency board members are wondering what it will bring to the shopping center besides sales tax revenue. Also, Criminy! and the Department of Uncomfortable Symbolism in Control Z.

FEATURE
Labor Pains
Eighty-five years ago, author Upton Sinclair turned San Pedro’s maritime strike into a free speech fight. Today, it’s remembered as the birth of the Southern California arm of the ACLU.

FOOD+DRINK
Stewed!
Ellen Griley cozies up with Irish comfort food at K.C. Branaghan’s. Then Brigid McGuire gets a self-serve swirl at Yogurtland and Ayn Imperato relaxes with a Captain’s Dreamscicle.

ART
Bunbury
Playwright Tom Jacobson’s 2004 play Bunbury at Long Beach Playhouse joins other need-to-see offerings elsewhere, from theatrical heavyweights Harold Pinter and Jean Racine. And Jim Hall talks words with writer David Mark Dannov.

Music
Los Mysteriosos
Chris Ziegler teases the bull with Los Mysteriosos, playing their annual Cinco De Mayo show, and then lives lovely with reggae singer Sugar Minott.

FILM
Flight of the Red Balloon
Our thoughts on this French film about a boy who is followed around Paris by a red balloon. Simple and pretty.

SHELTER
Let the Sun Shine In
Andrea Bell’s 1938 house on the Long Beach Greenbelt surroundings is solar-powered and landscaped with gorgeous California native plants—watered with reclaimed water.