PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
Mark your calendars in black ink: Acres of Books–Long Beach’s oldest, most thoroughly-, intriguingly-stocked store of used literature–will begin a discount sale of its stock this Thursday.
And how long will the sale go? “‘Til we run out of stuff to sell,” says Jackie Smith, who owns the store with her husband [...]

It’s Independence Day, and the man who owns the Press-Telegram piggybacked the holiday to send employees a Fourth of July Eve memo full of gung-ho slogans and exclamation points, which is about as close as you can come to fireworks in print. But the upshot was shellshock: the three-page memo left most employees with the [...]

If you ask some people about the first audit the city did of the Long Beach Museum of Art, they say the museum got off easy because the 2006 audit came out the same night that then-Second District Councilman Dan Baker abruptly resigned.
But really, tonight’s second audit (the third one comes next month) didn’t go [...]