Boo-yaaah (your spelling may vary)! New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman interviews the–wait for it–spokesman for the Somali pirates who last week seized a mysterious Ukranian freighter loaded to the gunwales with tanks, artillery, grenade launchers and ammo.
(Mysterious because the ship’s log reads like a Rodney Dangerfield stand-up: “I told her I was going out [...]

Reuters pushed out a story yesterday about the rise of sex tourism in Mombasa, Kenya. The twist, however, is that Mombasa has flipped the sexy paradigm–older women are traveling to the city to get with young men.
Our connection? Mombasa is our newest Sister City.

Long Beach has a new Sister City — Mombasa, Kenya — thanks to Tuesday night’s vote by the City Council, and Randy Terrell of LBPost.com foreshadowed the latest addition to our international family with a funny bit that examined the resemblances between our old town and its new kid sister. Terrell points out that, [...]