This Week: Manhole Covers, Disappointed Evilists and Handjobs in the Bushes
Tues | MAY 6 Bad news for beer bums when Joe Jost’s drops Pabst from the roster because of cost. Edging out Listerine and Pruno as a replacement is Busch, which has slightly lower alcohol content and dramatically lower poser appeal. (High Life will also [...]

The city’s 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival bandshell in Bixby Park reopened this weekend–despite not being a shell at all, but rather a building with an open stage.
And the Los Angeles Times, which last took note of Long Beach when all those manhole covers went missing a couple of weeks ago, sent its “L.A. Then and [...]

Lessons learned while feeding squirrels

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Riding my bike along Bixby Park on Broadway when I notice a lady with three overstuffed bags feeding a squirrel that is leaning towards her from his position on a tree.
“Hi. You mind if I take a picture of you feeding the squirrels?”
She smiles and says that she [...]

So, you hung out in the Jergins Tunnel Oct. 28, and you consider yourself a tunnel-ologist? You have no idea.
As the city studies how to restore what remains of the subterranean walkway which once led to the beach from Ocean Boulevard and Pine Avenue, it’s important to consider what other abandoned underground walkways may be [...]