NEWS
Lobstergang
Dave Wielenga updates us on the city’s recent hour-long gang study session—held a mere hour after a 17-year-old was injured in a gang-style shooting. Also, Len Cutler stays off the streets at DG Boxing and Control Z covers the breaking lawsuit Dude v. Come On. And Criminy!

FEATURE
Memorialize This!
Rachel Powers hangs out with Iraq War vets at the local VA Hospital, just in time to remember the 4,071 Americans who won’t be around to celebrate this Memorial Day. Then she checks in with the family of Ernesto Guerra, subject of our first Memorial Day issue.

DEPT. OF COMMERCE
Organic Chemistry
Ellen Griley chats with Aliye Aydin, owner of organic produce delivery company beachgreens, about rising food prices, organic foods and why now is a better time than ever to support area farmers. And in Buy Curious, Jim Hall finds a holy grail for John Fante fans at Planet Books.

FOOD+DRINK
Golden Anniversary
Miles Clements celebrates 50 years at Dal Rae and lobbies for the humanese condition at Au Lac. Then we pass the gyros at Belmont Grill and take home Korean barbeque from A.R. Supermarket. And Ayn Imperato cools off with a Honey Moon Summer Ale before we wrap up with Blottery.

MUSIC
Fly Rite
Chris Ziegler remembers Ray Charles and rocksteady with Big Sandy and Kevin Ferguson barely moderates an artist-on-artist interview between PWRFL Power and Parenthetical Girls before extracting the purest of pure vibes from Thee Makeout Party’s first LP, Play Pretend, while Srikanth Ashokkumar finds joy in Guilty Simpson’s Ode To The Ghetto.

ART
Bunbury
Tom Jacobson brings Oscar Wilde’s offstage character Bunbury, from The Importance of Being Earnest, to life at Long Beach Playhouse. And at DDR Projects, Dan Fenelon gives us the intriguingly atmospheric “Wavedog Goes West.”

FILM
Will the Penitent Man Pass?
How much do we love you? About this much: enough to give you 800 or so words on the new Indiana Jones installment.