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.

Usher coming to Lakewood. Make sure you sit on the groom’s side.

D.J. Waldie and Diane Keaton’s new book
It’s about time Lakewood public information officer D.J. Waldie wrote a new book, you’re saying? Well he has–a book on Spanish Revival architecture in Southern California–co-written, with none other than actress Diane Keaton.

How much is Lakewood really shelling out to developers?

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
Long Beach has taken a pretty good pounding over the years for a development strategy that shortchanges residents by giving sales-tax rebates to mega-retailers—especially since neighboring Lakewood has been able to attract more of those big stores without resorting to such tactics.
“Lakewood has never [...]

Every time Long Beach offers to rebate sales tax to mega-retailers in an attempt to lure their business to town, some reporter is sure to call Lakewood City Hall for comment. That’s what I do, anyway. Lakewood kinda likes to righteously remind the world that it doesn’t stoop to such self-cheapening tactics.
“Lakewood has never given [...]

FRI OCT. 5: FIRST GERALD, THEN OLIVER
Tues | Oct 2 In an effort to save old growth trees from the wood chipper, the Long Beach City Council votes 7-0 to look into creating “meandering sidewalks.” Older trees are many times cut down because they break up sidewalks due to their tendency to have enlarged roots—also, [...]

SUN SEPT. 23: PARK(ING) DAY LA by DANIEL DE BOOM
Tues | Sept 18 Lakewood is getting itself a brand new Costco, so congratulations all of you who require mayonnaise by the pallet or prefer your Stephen King by-the-pound. And congratulations to the city of Lakewood, which according to the most excellent LBReport.com managed to attract [...]

Lapping up M&M’s familiar tastes

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
For a lot of people, soul food is a kind of hesitant paradise—an always enticing, always gratifying cuisine that, once it draws you in, stuffs you so full that you can’t even feel regret. What’s more, it’s only afterwards that you even remember you had limits—that you promised [...]