The City of Downey has purchased The Avenue, Downey’s smallest, most vacant movie house–a single-screen theater on Downey Avenue in the heart of the downtown.
That’s according to Samantha Gonzaga in this morning’s Press-Telegram–part of which was once prepared in a small office next door.
The city’s cost: $1.2 million for the 850-seat theater which is housed [...]

It’s interesting to watch Long Beach’s superdelegates decide who they’ll support for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In today’s Press-Telegram, John Canalis writes about the decision of the last superdelegate, Ed Espinoza, 35–with whom he went to high school–and what that means for Long Beach.
Espinoza, he writes, “works as a political analyst, public relations professional and CNN [...]

Patrick O’Donnell is running unopposed for re-election as the Fourth District’s representative to the Long Beach City Council — and in today’s Q & A with Press-Telegram columnist John Canalis, who lobs a few softballs that O’Donnell swats out of the park. Canalis doesn’t bother with follow-up questions. Still, the interview is better than nothing — [...]

Suja Lowenthal is among three members of the Long Beach City Council — the others are Rae Gabelich and Patrick O’Donnell — who don’t have to campaign for re-election this year because no one filed to oppose them. Trying to hold these officials to some kind of public accounting, the Press-Telegram’s John Canalis submitted questions [...]

Cal State Long Beach poet Gerald Locklin prepares to retire
There are certain people whom you can’t imagine Long Beach without. Kelvin Anderson of VIP Records is one; how would I have gotten through high school without my Eric B. & Rakim fix? Cal Worthington, the car dealer, is another; many of us grew up on [...]

Tues | May 29 I was reading “The Canalis Report” on the Press-Telegram website today. This particular report, published a few days ago, follows new councilman Dee Andrews around his Sixth District neighborhood and contains this line from author John Canalis: “If Long Beach is a body, I know the head uptown, the feet downtown, [...]