Our first annual list of the Buildings Most Likely to Win a Date with the Wrecking Ball

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
It’s on, Long Beach: This year, you’re going down! We say this every year, and every year someone makes it happen—knocking over a few more buildings just for little old us. Thanks, mysterious stranger! Didn’t know [...]

Stirring words on a hot day at Long Beach’s latest anti-Prop. 8 rally
Saturday’s anti-Proposition 8 rally at the usually-deserted Burton W. Chace Civic Center was, as advertised, a “peaceful rally,” with babies frolicking on the grass outside City Hall, loving couples lounging barefoot in front of the stage, and Long Beach police sitting on their [...]

Literary superhero Ray Bradbury stands up for threatened Main Library, as the vote to keep it open approaches
With a number of our public officials warming to the notion of keeping Main Library open until real, actual plans can be made for its demise, famed science fiction author Ray Bradbury made what could have been a [...]