Our first-ever list of Long Beach’s scariest!
In Long Beach, there’s the scary—ghosts on the Queen Mary, Igor’s Alley and the unfettered power of people like Chris Pook—and the really scary—Measure I, the parking lots at any of our Trader Joe’s outposts and, 30 days out of 31, Colorado Lagoon. So, while it wasn’t easy for [...]

Beyond ice cream with Matt Allen

PHOTO by JENNIE WARREN
Matt Allen is his name, but you don’t need to know it—about 135,000 people know him as Ice Cream Man, and that’s the important thing, he says. (“People ask, ‘Are you Ice Cream Man?’ And I point to the logo on the truck!’”) They remember him as [...]