Joe Jost, Long Beach’s oldest surviving bar, has a newly redesigned website, with a front page which–wisely–gives you a drinker’s-eye-view of the darkly-wooded bar: schooners at the ready, ancient pennants and “No shirt, no shoes …” sign; and, of course, the jar of famously-pickled eggs and bags of roasted peanuts.
You can almost taste the beer, [...]

Hard to believe, but in less than two months, our own congressional Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) is up for re-election, in a race she’s expected to win despite financial woes that earned her a recent dishonorable mention from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics.
The Washington watchdog group gave Richardson the frowning of a lifetime for, [...]