It’s official: the Long Beach Airport is generating electricity now, thanks to solar power. Thanks, solar power! (Call us back when they start making their own whiskey.)
As the Press-Telegram’s Karen Robes reports, yesterday was throw-the-switch day on six “trees” of solar panels which follow the sun–rotating 15 degrees after it, every hour.
The set-up is supposed [...]

Ristorante DaVinci gets it perfect–almost

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
My boy and I had been having a airly wretched month—2007: Has yours blown too?—when my boss palmed me a Franklin and told me to take the kid to DaVinci. Did the gorgeous ristorante take away all the pain? Well, no. After I ate a plate of venison [...]

Secret lives

PHOTO by VINCENT E. SOLIZ
Ristorante DaVinci, atop a hangar at Long Beach Airport, is a marvelously prosperous-feeling place, all 20-foot, rounded windows under a two-story ceiling. It’s even got a columned rotunda in the middle of the restaurant floor. Really, I wouldn’t be surprised if Olivia Newton-John and her rolling-skating muses showed up and [...]

EYE ON YOU: ABRAHAM LINCOLN STATUE When they built the new City Hall in the mid-1970s, this was supposed to be a redo of the old Lincoln Park, but the new place didn’t come out so well—perhaps because the city didn’t ask Mr. Lincoln. It feels oddly disjointed—and Lincoln relocated seems strangely out-of-place in a [...]

Our weekly microscopic look at Long Beach

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
These brightly-colored tiles are a bit of Long Beach history, though maybe a bit obscure. Even so, people who get around a lot have probably seen them without knowing exactly what they were.

PHOTO by SUSAN SABO
ANSWER: This fantastic ceramic floor mosaic was designed and hand-painted by [...]