PHOTO by cafesiren
Beautiful shot from our new Flickr pool. Follow the link to join and upload photos of whatever catches your eye around town–our dirty beaches, our vacant lots and, in this case, the beautiful Art Theatre.

City wants to know who among us embodies the spirit of America’s patron saint  
From a city press release:
The City of Long Beach is requesting nominations for the First Annual 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Peacemaker Award.
Two award recipients (one adult and one youth) will be honored in January 2008 during Peace Week —a week-long celebration [...]

If you wonder about the role of faith in politics, visit the comments section of my post
on Mitt Romney’s coming speech.

After you check out our most entertaining tribute to author Norman Mailer on DTV–you’re welcome–be sure and stick around for the second feature. It will pop up on the bottom of the screen after our schtick and is titled “Norman Mailer vs. Rip Torn” but could more accurately be called “Craziest MoFo Ever Comes at [...]

Pat Alviso of Military Families Speak Out called to tell us how it went for her at Saturday’s Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade. Alviso’s group was one of three excluded from participating in the parade by organizers who said they were concerned that the groups just wanted to stir up trouble by protesting the war [...]

The decision by organizers of the Long Beach Veteran’s Day Parade to exclude veterans groups that oppose the war in Iraq has been in heavy news rotation the past couple of days. We’ve run nearly 10 stories about the affair and its been the Press-Telegram’s lead story the past two days.
So, it was a bit [...]

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