FRI. FEB. 8: ON POINTE!
Tues | Feb 5 Super Tuesday is here and Californians go to the polls to exercise their right to vote for whoever they want. They respond by reiterating their love of term limits, thereby limiting their right to vote for whoever they want. Except, of course, when it comes to Warren [...]

Male comedy troupe Trockadero goes there

PHOTO by SASCHA VAUGHN
It’s understandable that anyone, well, me, would first think about the Harlem Globetrotters when learning that Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo—“Trocks” to their buds—is coming back to town. After all, the Trocks, who perform Feb. 7 and 8 at Cal State Long Beach’s Carpenter Center, and [...]

Valerie Plame warms up at the Carpenter Center

It’s funny: four years after Valerie Plame was outed by Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer and Dick Armitage as a covert operative of the CIA working in nuclear counter-proliferation, I forget there are people who haven’t quite heard of the affair.
“Valerie Plame . . .” friends would [...]

The Dibs’ Chris Hamlin comes home happy

On Saturday, Chris Hanlin returns to Long Beach, the city he left two years ago after acting for years as a fulcrum for its music scene. The founder and driving force behind The Dibs, Hanlin and his band are performing at “Schooled in Song,” a benefit at the Carpenter [...]