A house for all seasons

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
There’s a quaint, aged, red brick fireplace in the living room; fake, springy, green grass in the backyard; and a messy, black, floor-to-ceiling chalkboard painted on one of the kitchen walls. I want to live here, you think, already inserting yourself in a matching sweater on the holiday [...]

Morry’s of Naples toasts its 70th anniversary with a pin-up contest

Harkening back to the days of Betty Grable and Brown & Bigelow, and its own 1938 beginnings, Morry’s of Naples is hosting the Miss Morry’s Vintage Pin Up Contest. Results will be determined by voting on the Internet–which, it should be noted, didn’t exist in [...]

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Debbie Cook (debbiecookforcongress.com) is the mayor of Huntington Beach, but her run for the 46th congressional seat occupied by Dana Rohrabacher (R-Embarrassment), offers residents of Long Beach’s East side and coastline their best chance of actual representation in Washington, D.C., in a generation. While Rohrabacher has ignored Long Beach, Cook has roots [...]

Not sure why the level of discourse at last night’s city meeting about closing Main Library seemed so high and lively. Maybe it had something to do with the topic, which hinged on our access to knowledge–and with the fact that the discussion took place just a few feet away from hundreds of classic works [...]

Life is breezy in Edward Killingsworth’s model condominium

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
It’s been summer for seven weeks and Louis Gonzalez still hasn’t gone anywhere—but then if you had a Bluff Park ocean view, from the coolest condominium Killingsworth never built, neither would you.
Killingsworth is the late architect Edward Killingsworth. The architectural firm he helped create still [...]

Long Beach has few areas comparable with, say, Laguna Beach, where you can genuinely fantasize about the plein air masters sitting down to preserve scenes of crisp, fall mornings in oil paint on canvas.
Bluff Park Historic District, where scores of Craftsman-era homes and the similarly-designed Museum of Art co-exist, is one of those places: hazy [...]