During the wee hours of the morning on June 5th, anti-war graffiti was removed from a military recruitment center on Pine Ave. and 6th St. Though community development director Dennis Thys claims that this was strictly routine, the story leaves a few questions unanswered.

Homeland Cultural Arts Center has seen it all: Martial arts classes, African drummers, breakdance memorials. And you don’t stop

PHOTO by ZACK PIANKO
It’s open all day, but Homeland Cultural Arts Center doesn’t start popping—or drumming or acting or breaking—until the streetlights come on. Then the scene shifts from soccer in MacArthur Park outside to whatever’s happening [...]

The Homeland Cultural Center’s graffiti mural art program lives, with new space to paint

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
Despite Fifth District Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske’s public opposition, and what you may have read in the papers, there is still a graffiti mural-making art program at the Homeland Cultural Center in MacArthur Park. Which is in the Sixth [...]

A list of important city services
By Rachel Powers
Neighborhood Services, 570.6866
Neighborhood Watch, 570.7229
Apartment Watch, 570.7160
Business Watch, 570.7274
Graffiti Hotline, 570.2773
Shopping Cart Removal, 800.252.4613
Code Enforcement Violations, 570.CODE
Noise Abatement, 570.4126
Urban Forestry Program, 570.5221
Neighborhood Clean-Up, 570.5221
City Light and Power, 983.2000 (for burned out street lights)
Neighborhood Leadership Program, 570.1010
Community Development , 570.6841. http://www.ci.long-beach.ca.us/cd/default.asp
Neighborhood Services, 570.6866. www.ci.long-beach.ca.us/cd/neighborhood_services