Repeater can’t take breaks

PHOTO by DREW KELLEY
So I can geek out for a second, let me put aside the Bunsen burners and the time-honored practice of fanning through science books to find anatomically correct illustrations of the bathing-suit area: A repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it at a higher [...]

Chris Ziegler hitches a ride with Ikey Owens

PHOTO by MATT WIGNALL
The future mayor of Long Beach stops his Mercedes in front of my old house—he still remembers where I lived three years ago, though he’d only been there once. He gives me burned copies of his last six records. Then he lends me the laptop [...]