This Week: Long Beach’s race problem, Chernobyl CityPlace and Your Ad Here A$K How!

Tues | APR 15 It begins.
Wed | APR 16 Idiocracy comes alive as President Bush salutes the second-ever papal visit to the White House—the first being to deliver John Kennedy strict instructions for his first term—by sliding over to the [...]

Our non-comprehensive, 100 percent biased Grand Prix weekend guide
In Long Beach, you either Grand Prix or you don’t. You hop on the Passport dressed in your finest with pockets full of dollars and cigars, prepped to party at our fair city’s equivalent to the Kentucky Derby infield, or . . . you list your apartment [...]

Or how to love the invasion
Insufferably loud noise. A weeklong cross between the sound of fires at the gates of hell and the whine of mosquitoes. Overheated rubber molecules mixing with the air you breathe so that your lungs are like a wetsuit. The locust-like landings of all these people with fannypacks, wicked-looking Oakley sunglasses [...]

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
Tues | Apr 3 The Cal State University system announces it’s reached a tentative salary agreement with its faculty, boosting their pay about 21 percent over the next four years. The faculty had threatened a series of rolling strikes at rotating campuses, “rolling strikes” being labor vernacular for not showing up for [...]