Derrick Brown’s deathbed comedy hour

Derrick Brown is alive and well and already picking out the best bar for the upcoming Best Of Long Beach issue: Joe Jost’s, he says, and the best place to live is on a boat in the Long Beach marina, and after drinking all day, you can piss off the side [...]

Derrick Brown loves you

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Derrick Brown hoped he was just a little jetlagged. “I feel really weird,” he told his friend and fellow poet Amber Tamblyn just 24 hours after a fundraiser for the American Heart Association on August 4, where Derrick, Amber, Mindy Nettifee, Buddy Wakefield, and others performed for a crowd [...]