Where to screw and be screwed in Long Beach
Sometimes a couple’s love just can’t be confined to the bedroom—we promise we won’t ask questions. Instead, we’re here to provide you our list (thoughtfully divided according to difficulty) of where best to display your Long Beach loving.
BEGINNER
Hilltop Park: This Signal Hill staple is crucial, if not [...]

Los Angeles Times reporter Louis Sahagun, who wrote at least once this summer about the city’s plans to close Main Library, has a story out today about the city’s recently-announced land-swap wetlands deal in east Long Beach.
There’s some nice detail about how the wetlands actually appear today–a mixture of migratory birds, rusting metal and trash–but [...]

Urban Paradise revives a single planter with drought-tolerant vegetation. You can help
This Sunday, if you’re not busy, you might consider helping save Main Library. Again. Maybe. (Any plan to really save our existing Main Library has to seem a little tenuous now that the folks at 333 W. Ocean Blvd.–that’s City Hall–have declared their intentions [...]

This has been a rough week in journalism, thanks in no small part to our main man Dean Singleton, who owns the Press-Telegram, and the Daily Breeze in Torrance.

The Main Library downtown will be closed this Monday, October 6, and every Monday thereafter as part of the cost-cutting compromised that helped keep the facility from being shut down completely. Additionally, the facility will close two hours earlier—at 6 p.m.—on Thursdays.
Eleanore Schmidt, Long Beach’s director of Library Services, announced the new schedule today. It [...]

LBReport.com broke the news last week that Main Library’s Director of Library Services Eleanore Schmidt was retiring, but the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins has what we believe is the first interview with Schmidt.
Check it out. Schmidt, who came to Long Beach in 1989, fought years ago for a library tax that was shot down by Long [...]

Long Beach City Council grapples with Main Library issue
Where does last night’s Long Beach City Council budget study session on closing Main Library leave those of us who live here?
That’s an interesting question–and with just 12 days and one council meeting until the council must approve the Fiscal Year 2008-2009 budget, it’s still impossible to [...]

Snoop Dogg talks to Councilman Dee Andrews about giving back to Long Beach
He wasn’t there to bemoan the possible loss of our concretinous Main Library if it closes due to budget cuts, but rapper-actor-football coach Snoop Dogg spent more than two hours Friday in the library’s Admiral Room, considering ways to give back to Long [...]

If the City of Long Beach had stuck to its original timetable, Main Library would be open just more six weeks before closing indefinitely. Then, some day, a new, watertight, earthquake-proof Main Library would be built or rebuilt, there or elsewhere. Some day.
That’s what worries members of

Wow! So here it is: noted science fiction author Ray Bradbury has an open letter on the Opinion page of today’s Press-Telegram, imploring us to keep our library open.
“I recently learned of the pending forced closure of the Long Beach Main Library from public access to balance the city budget. This is heartbreak and an [...]