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Utility giant Southern California Edison’s popularity contest in Lakewood is apparently far from over. The electric company started alienating its (sorry) power base last month when its workers quietly installed a 13-ton, 93-foot power pole at Centralia Street and Palo Verde Avenue, outside the home of Shelby and William Ranson.
“I think if SCE would have [...]

Its civic motto has changed from “Tomorrow’s City Today” to “Times Change, Values Don’t”, but at just 54 years old, Lakewood is still new enough that some of its founders still survive.
Sadly, their numbers are becoming fewer. As Samantha Gonzaga writes in today’s Press-Telegram, Lakewood lost a former mayor and one of its founders, Jacqueline [...]

This Week: Acres of Books, Slum Futures and Coyotes
Tues | APR 1 Dandy British supermarket Fresh & Easy—with locations in Long Beach, Lakewood and Compton—enters its six month of American operation with crumpet sales somewhere around 70 percent below expectations and a marketing disconnect so severe that the Los Angeles Times interviewed a Norwalk man [...]

Opening statements were yesterday in Long Beach accountant Yasith Chhun’s trial on charges of allegedly spearheading a coup attempt in Cambodia, and jurors got a chance–so the Assistant U.S. Attorney said–to go inside Operation Volcano.
The Press-Telegram’s story today is from Greg Risling of The Associated Press.
Operation Volcano is reportedly the name of the group Chhun [...]

Village Cafe’s Beach Burger
It’s a common assumption back in the colder half of the country that California cuisine inevitably chooses style over substance, that we’re more content to crack open a Corona and plop some protein on the grill than to dutifully toil behind a stove. But one bite into the Village Cafe’s so-called Beach [...]

A newer old Long Beach is the subject of this year’s final Smithsonian Week event: “Edge City, Suburban Design: Now and Then,” a lecture and discussion of ’50s and ’60s Long Beach, as framed by architectural historian Alan Hess.
But Hess—chronicler of midcentury architecture in such books as Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture—won’t just be telling [...]

Since M&M’s standbys are the standouts, the most obvious choice on the menu is the fried chicken. Better than most, M&M’s chicken is crispy, peppered, and only the slightest bit dry—a problem easily solved by ordering a thigh and a leg instead of a breast. Along with their thick, heavy entrees, M&M also serves up [...]

Keith Dobbins plays Santa for the money and the kids. Also, he’s a Parrothead

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
The last time Keith Dobbins met Santa Claus, the fat man was handing him socks. For a kid growing up in Pitt Gas, a coal mining town located along the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania, socks were a practical [...]

Warren Furutani, the Democratic Party’s now-officially endorsed candidate for Laura Richardson’s vacant 55th Assembly District seat, has what he admits may be a cheeky plan to improve air quality–if he’s elected, and if they let him.