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BEST TESTAMENT TO ALL THERE EVER WAS—AND ALL THERE NEVER WILL BE AGAIN: ACRES OF BOOKS We shouldn’t have to be writing this, but in addition to being Long Beach’s best bookstore—for three more days, until it closes [...]

The city’s 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival bandshell in Bixby Park reopened this weekend–despite not being a shell at all, but rather a building with an open stage.
And the Los Angeles Times, which last took note of Long Beach when all those manhole covers went missing a couple of weeks ago, sent its “L.A. Then and [...]