The Bulldog Beauty Contest: No Frowns Allowed
Sunday was warm, but you didn’t need a thermometer to know that at the Market Place, where the heat left hundreds of dogs with their tongues hanging low enough to almost touch the ground. Approximately 500 dogs attended the fifth annual Bulldog Beauty Contest, doing what dogs do [...]

Usually hairy legs and beauty contests don’t go together, but in this one hairy legs are preferred, if not compulsory. At the fifth annual Bulldog Beauty Contest those squishy-faced cuties will compete against one another in adorabilitude. Over 400 bulldogs are expected to strut their stuff—there are categories for English bulldogs, French bulldogs, pugs and, [...]

We won’t pooh-pooh Belmont Shore’s dog-poo issue anymore–promise!
Does a bear shit in the woods? Please don’t distract Henry Schwarz with a question like that. He’s busy wondering—and has been for more than a half-dozen years now—why dogs shit on the beach.
Think that’s funny? Schwarz can see why you might. But since Long Beach officials began [...]

What am I doing here? I look around at my teammates in the Justin Rudd Long Beach Losers weight-loss contest. If they’re apprehensive about this, it doesn’t show in their faces.
So, why am I full of doubt about the decision we’ve made?
We’re signed up, weighed in and ready to begin the next 3 months of [...]

Justin Rudd’s 4th annual National Adult Spelling Bee is looking for willing contestants to put their spelling credentials on the line this Sunday. The bee costs $45 to enter, though the winner will get $500 plus $500 more donated to a non-profit/school/church/etc. of his or her choice. More info at adultspellingbee.com.

LB gets federal money; LBPost.com gets a business license; and the color of the year
Yes, 2008 is almost here, which means lots of 2007 contemplation–plus some things you probably won’t see until 2008, and which may or may not ever make a difference in your life. But here you go!

Today’s Turkey Trot 10K run, which Justin Rudd stages to support his endless list of charitable deeds, is becoming a nice Thanksgiving tradition. But if you don’t feel like running as far with so many people — or considering how someone as handsome as Rudd also got to be such a nice guy – there may still be time for you [...]

Turkey Trot: Buy an extra can of food and donate it to the Turkey Trot’s canned food drive.
CANNED FOOD DRIVE Belmont Olympic Pool, 4000 Olympic Plaza, Long Beach 90803. turkeytrot.us.
Why Not!?: Kill-o-Watt bringing out Scotty Coats & J. Mendez, Doug Jordan and Mr. Diggiz. Live art by John & Chemist & Wade. Visuals by Artifical [...]