The city’s 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival bandshell in Bixby Park reopened this weekend–despite not being a shell at all, but rather a building with an open stage.
And the Los Angeles Times, which last took note of Long Beach when all those manhole covers went missing a couple of weeks ago, sent its “L.A. Then and [...]

Just in case anybody is just about to bring up the idea of building a football stadium on the land next to the Queen Mary and inviting a National Football team to make its home there – because, really, isn’t somebody always just about to bring that up? — here’s a pre-emptive buzzkill, courtesy of the sports [...]

A great man is gone: Cambodian-born photographer and reporter Dith Pran, whose personal story of escaping the enslavement and genocide of 1970s Cambodia under dictator Pol Pot became the film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday of pancreatic cancer.
Dith, 65, is credited with coining the terrible term “killing fields,” according to The Associated Press, whose obituary [...]

There’s this from yesterday’s Los Angeles Times: an obituary for Dr. Frank M. Berger, 94 and creator of the mood-alterer Miltown (and whose very name sounds like a Rocky Horror Picture Show reference if you say it fast).
In the years after World War II (cue documentary music), Berger and his fellow chemists “synthesized a series [...]

This isn’t about Long Beach, but it’s interesting.
Seems the long-hyped condominium boom in downtown Los Angeles is over, at least for now–the boom is off the rose, you might say (though, clearly, I never would). But the top story on the Los Angeles Times website now covers just that.
According to DataQuick, which monitors real estate [...]

Long Beach City Council revisits the issue tomorrow
The public relations people for the Dr. Phil TV show weren’t lying when they said, rather vaguely, that if they were producing a segment on the Alamitos Beach sex offenders, it might run some time in March.
It aired Friday–meaning that, by now, you’ve missed it. (I [...]

Last night’s Long Beach City Council meeting probably had more reporters per square inch than any council meeting since the Queen Mary came to town in ‘67 (but feel free to substitute your own significant local event here).
As near as I can tell, Cal State Long Beach’s Daily 49er was actually the first paper to [...]

You may have read, in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times–or Sunday’s Press-Telegram, via an Associated Press story–how the current owners of the famous Downey house where ’70s soft-rock duo Richard and Karen Carpenter lived want to tear it down?
Well, uh, they do.

With Super Tuesday behind us (not really) the Press-Telegram and LBPost.com tell us what some of you did after you voted: you went to Smooth’s Sports Grille to watch the results trickle in. And trickle. And trickle.
California’s presidential nominees are generally considered to be John McCain and Hillary Clinton, but as the Los Angeles Times [...]

No, really, it’s true: according to the Los Angeles Times‘ bike columnist Susan Carpenter, West Coast Choppers spiritual guru Jesse James’ newest motorcycle is based on an Airstream trailer.
This should come as no surprise to those of you who’ve seen the master Chopper’s chopped Mercury, or his shoebox Chevy, or any of the many other [...]