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Baby Mama Fri to Wed (1:25, 7:20.)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Fri to Sun (9:15 AM, 9:45 AM, 12:30, 1, 3:45, 4:15, 7, 7:30, 10:15, 10:45.) Mon to Thu (10, 12:30, 1, 3:45, 4:15, 7, 7:30, 10:15.)
The Forbidden Kingdom Fri and Sat (10:50 AM, 4, 10:05.) Sun [...]

The City of Downey has purchased The Avenue, Downey’s smallest, most vacant movie house–a single-screen theater on Downey Avenue in the heart of the downtown.
That’s according to Samantha Gonzaga in this morning’s Press-Telegram–part of which was once prepared in a small office next door.
The city’s cost: $1.2 million for the 850-seat theater which is housed [...]

As usual, Mayor Foster has some high-profile appearances planned. Here’s a few:
“Long Beach Better Learning After School Today (BLAST) will hold a fundraising breakfast on May 15, 2008 at 7:30am at the Long Beach Yacht Club.  Mayor Bob Foster and fellow supporters of BLAST will discuss the challenges faced by at-risk youth in Long Beach [...]

Where else is there to go when you have your own in-home bar?

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Apartments like the airy, two-story, three bedroom unit just off Retro Row rented by Susan Janz and Jennifer Celio can at once leave you feeling overwhelmed and pissed. Overwhelmed, because you realize this is but one of our city’s legion [...]

An upcoming audit will shape the Long Beach Museum of Art’s future, and possibly shed some light on two long-lost paintings by the Russian master

JAWLENSKY: GONE MISSING?
Buried in the city’s 2006 audit of the Long Beach Museum of Art, there’s this sentence, a brief one —and boring (“Discussion with Foundation staff and review of documentation [...]

Josh One contemplating ‘Tolerance’

PHOTO by ZACK PIANKO
Josh One moved to California as a little kid from Louisiana and found it slow right from the start: “I was like, ‘I learned this last year!’” he laughs now, remembering crash disillusionment in fourth grade. And he may well have recalled how it felt to be out front [...]

High on Fire awake from Sleep

PHOTO by LUKE MCGARRY

“Matt Pike never mellowed with age,” Ethan Miller told me once. “High on Fire stomps the shit out of you, and that’s great!” And except to add footnotes—Miller plays guitar in Comets on Fire, the Pink Floyd to Pike and High on Fire’s Black Sabbath—that particular observation [...]

Nine to five is never a drag when you’re Jewels

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
Renowned Long Beach drag queen Jewels (real name a closely guarded secret!) has been performing—as Marilyn, as Dolly, as Tammy Faye and Courtney Love and Mariah, too—since she was 18 years old. Seven years ago, she became part of the Long Beach scene [...]

Is the Long Beach Gay Pride Parade only worth it if you’re gay?
Despite minoring in women’s studies at Cal State Long Beach and ranting feministically in the Daily Forty-Niner, it was only a few weeks ago that I had my first drink at Que Sera. Surprised? Apparently, you’re supposed to be. But although my feminism [...]

That’s the conception—but of course, the city has always had a vibrant gay nightlife scene

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
We’re standing in the Crest, outwardly a nondescript little cinderblock of a bear bar on an industrial stretch of Cherry Avenue near Long Beach’s border with Paramount. Inside, there’s a fireplace, and out back a waterfall.
What’s a [...]