PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
BEST MISSING LINK: 2ND CITY COUNCIL GALLERY Some shows play off the actual 2nd City Council Gallery space better than others, but at its best this place is hard to equal—for its link to antiquity and to old Long Beach. You’ll remember: This place used to be Wille’s Tin Shop. It was [...]

Last Monday night, city officials took their plans to bisect Marina Vista Park by connecting the Colorado Lagoon and Marine Stadium out to the people–at a packed, sometimes contentious public meeting in an elementary school auditorium in Belmont Shore.
(With rows of uncomfortable seating that were fine when we were in grade school–but now just remind [...]

Fourth Street’s Art Theatre is ready for its close-up, Mr. Van Dijs

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
By the time you read this, the Art Theatre will be open again—following one of the grandest restorations of a commercial building in recent history—making it once more Long Beach’s only independent movie house, and the city’s last functioning vintage theater.
At [...]

PHOTO by cafesiren
Beautiful shot from our new Flickr pool. Follow the link to join and upload photos of whatever catches your eye around town–our dirty beaches, our vacant lots and, in this case, the beautiful Art Theatre.