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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’
IN PRAISE OF … THE EDGEWATER INN
January 27, 2010IS THERE A WRECKING BALL IN ATLANTIC THEATER’S FUTURE?
October 19, 2009It’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 [...]
QUIET ON THE SET
October 15, 2009Mouthpieces 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.
A CONVERSATION ABOUT PRESERVATION
September 14, 2009Developers, 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 [...]
BEACH BOOK ROCK BIO
May 20, 2009‘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, [...]
NOW I KNOW MY A-B-Cs, TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF ME
April 28, 2009A 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 [...]
SIDES
January 7, 2009Considering 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 [...]
DISTRICT WEEKLY PUBLISHER HITS ROAD!
October 31, 2008ROAD 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 [...]
BE AND BRING ME HOME
October 29, 2008Roky 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 [...]
CAL HEIGHTS HOME TOUR CANCELED; INFRASTRUCTURE BOND CAMPAIGNS ORGANIZE
September 9, 2008It’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 [...]
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Saturday, March 20
- Dennis Vernon @ River's End
- Spazzmatics @ Shore Ultra Lounge
- Ladies Night @ Executive Suite
- Blues Jam @ Clancy's
- Flyer @ Buster's Beach House
- Helicopter and Martini Flights @ Ristorante DaVinci
- Karaoke @ Bottoms Up
- Flamenco Dancers @ Alegria
- Spazzmatics @ Shore Ultra Lounge
- DJ DeLa @ The Gaslamp
- Karaoke with Tom Terrific @ Clancy's
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Sunday, March 21
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