Editor’s note: Among his endeavors, Stan Poe is an author, a founder of the Willmore City Heritage Association, and a noted Long Beach historian.
At 48, the Seaport Marina Hotel is old enough to be an architectural icon
The current catchphrase for the world of architectural historians is “the ’60s turn 50.” In simpler terms, the midcentury [...]

It’s way up in North Long Beach—and it’s been closed for years—but our own Atlantic Theater building, at 5870 Atlantic Ave., is another architectural diamond in the rough.
How diamond-y?
As LBReport.com’s Bill Pearl noted Sunday, the 1941 building was designed by the Boller Brothers—nationally-known experts in theater design, who were also responsible for the “Inglewood Theatre [...]

Mouthpieces are mum as Long Beach Studios deal grinds out
The ongoing sale of 77 acres of land at The Boeing Company to Long Beach Studios—thought earlier this week to be positively imminent—is still … how to say? In pre-production.

Developers, architects, and city folk discuss saving our history
As a way to showcase all their hard work restoring the East Village Creative Offices—the official name for the three buildings of office condos at Fourth Street and Linden Avenue—the folks behind the project threw open their still-being-finished doors Friday for a panel discussion on Adaptive Reuse [...]

‘Waiting for the Sun’ digs a mile wide and an inch deep into LA music

Barney Hoskyns’ Waiting for the Sun: A Rock ’n’ Roll History of Los Angeles is very much the story of the scene you’d expect to find crammed into 440 pages: a sensationalist survey that snakes its way into your guest house, [...]

A new survey says our high school graduation rates are down–but it also lumps us in with Los Angeles

Here’s what former Secretary of State Colin Powell has been up to: he’s been judging us. Someone has to, right? Turns out, he’s it.
Powell is the founding chair of the America’s Promise Alliance–a group dedicated to “forging [...]

Considering the economy doesn’t look like it’ll stop its skid anytime soon, it’s never too early to start looking forward to dining deals. And it’s in this context that the second annual dineLA Restaurant Week, which kicks off Jan. 25 and runs until Feb. 6, couldn’t come any sooner. Last year’s inaugural event started what’s [...]

ROAD HITS BACK!
Will Swaim has been named publisher of LA CityBeat, leaving The District, the Long Beach magazine he created 18 months ago with colleagues from his time at OC Weekly.
One stunned staffer said, “Will who?”
“Swaim strutted around the District like he owned the place,” said another.
In the Friday morning staff meeting where he announced [...]

Roky Erickson back again

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Roky Erickson’s last LA landing shook all the sense out of my head: rock’s greatest lost voice riding out renewed reverberations like he never had to be found in the first place. There he was with his classics, pinned to the stage in a Hawaiian shirt and khakis, singing [...]

It’s official, as first tipped yesterday by a Los Angeles Times blog, the California Heights Neighborhood Association is canceling this year’s tour of homes in the historic district, which would have been its 12th edition.
It’s sad news for those of us in love with the area’s immaculately-restored vintage Spanish-style, Tudor, and California bungalow houses–to say [...]