This Week: Potential Nightmare Capacity, Iguana Smuggling and Hell Heat
Tues | APR 8 Historic landmark and restaurant Johnie’s Broiler—mostly demolished in a surprise bulldozer raid last year that received respectful golf claps from developers—gets a new lease on life when Bob’s Big Boy announces a new lease on the property. Although Big Boy has period [...]

Forget the San Andreas, it’s the Newport-Inglewood Fault that will level Long Beach. Again

1933 QUAKE PHOTO COURTESY KEN LARKEY, CURATOR LONG BEACH HERITAGE MUSEUM
I’m sitting in my car, staring at the red light at the intersection of Orange and East Willow. Sunnyside Cemetery is over my left shoulder and I’m trying to ignore it as [...]