Last Monday night, city officials took their plans to bisect Marina Vista Park by connecting the Colorado Lagoon and Marine Stadium out to the people–at a packed, sometimes contentious public meeting in an elementary school auditorium in Belmont Shore.
(With rows of uncomfortable seating that were fine when we were in grade school–but now just remind [...]

Police make three arrests in Long Beach’s first 2008 shooting
Eight days after three people were shot and a fourth–25-year-old Jonathan Fernandez–
was fatally wounded at a New Year’s Eve party, Long Beach police announced three arrests Wednesday.

Why, skydiving without a parachute, that’s what.
A handful of hardy sky-divers, inventors and BASE-jumpers (folks who jump from tall places, using parachutes to land) are all refining essentially the same piece of technology: a stiff body-suit that will allow one to jump safely from a plane or a high place–and land without a parachute.
(And, presumably, [...]

FRI. NOV. 30: FEAR NO EVEL
Tues | Nov 27 Everyone is talking about the latest issue of Self magazine which says that women living in Long Beach/Los Angeles are the unhappiest in the country. If you check out our back page, you’ll see that one of the Self editors told our Will Swaim that LB/LA [...]