University by the Sea: Too much to do downtown: Roman history taught by Mayor Bob Foster, an Art Deco walking tour, movie screenings in the recently unearthed Jergins Tunnel. It’s all the knowledge you can handle for a couple bucks—some of it’s free, too. Noon-9pm. $20; $10 for students; Free for students 12 and younger.
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University by the Sea tries teaching Long Beach about itself–and the Romans, Che and crumping

JERGINS TUNNEL PHOTO COURTESY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LONG BEACH
You know how sometimes you’ll sit around your house all stoned, and you and your friends will have some amazing idea? Let’s go to the Vietnamese market and buy live catfish and put [...]

Concerns about the Shoreline Gateway Project are less about the building, more about the cars

THE SHORELINE GATEWAY
The shortest street in Long Beach is about to have an estimated 500 more cars driving on it.
A 35-story residential and retail tower, soon to be the tallest building in the city, is expected to break ground within the [...]

Preservationists’ Options for Acres
With no date yet set for the day that doom will come to Acres of Books, Long Beach preservationists—and would-be preservationists—have an opportunity to consolidate opinion. This is notable in the fast-paced world of razing beloved historic structures—Johnie’s Broiler Bulldoze might be the most egregious recent example—and time spent now could buy [...]

Suzanne Tracht brings her classics to town

TRACHT’S by ROSHEILA ROBLES
The menu posted outside Tracht’s reads a lot like something you might find at a basement pot luck: steaks, roasts, deviled eggs, puddings. But anyone who has eaten at Jar—Chef Suzanne Tracht’s tremendously popular LA restaurant, from which her Ocean Boulevard chophouse was spun off—knows that [...]