F.KING GREATEST NAME: F. KING ALEXANDER That would be F. King Alexander, president of California State University Long Beach, who draws a double-take every time he is introduced, signs his name, hands out a business card or gets any kind of mention in the press. That’s a lot. Through it all, F. King invariably remains [...]

Consultant

PHOTO by JENNIE WARREN
You might say Diane Ripley was born to do good—and look good. The successful consultant/lobbyist is known best for her independent streak and sharp clothes, the latter of which comes as no surprise considering that back in the day she was voted Best Dressed three years in a row at Millikan High [...]

CSULB Student Body President

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
Christopher Chavez’s first steps on the campus of Cal State Long Beach practically landed him on a political rung, and he’s climbed the hierarchy of student government ever since. Elected vice president of Associated Students Incorporated last year, Chavez now serves as CSULB’s student body president.
The 22-year-old political-science major [...]

Former Queen Mary pilot Joe Prevratil resurfaces along yet another waterfront—this time in Texas—and guess what? There are big plans and sinking ships involved!

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
If it’s any consolation, Long Beach isn’t the only port city in America made gullible by its high hopes, low self-esteem, failed downtown business district, obtuse tourist attraction rotting [...]

On Sunday, September 28 at 7 pm, the Long Beach Shakespeare Company will inaugurate a new, FREE series of classic films, opening with Alfred Hitchcock’s great study in terror, Psycho.
The entire series will continue on Sunday evenings at the Richard Goad Theatre in Long Beach at 4250 Atlantic Avenue. 7 pm, one showing only. Due [...]

This Week: Several Unpleasant Smells
Tues | JULY 1 As summer gas prices continue to rise, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a nationwide surge in grave-robbing, spurred by rising scrap-metal prices and good old-fashioned envy for the dead. Police admitted that preventing such crime is difficult because department budgets tend to prioritize the needs of [...]

The LA Times watched the legal system fight against itself in yesterday’s story of Michael Campo, a Long Beach boy who’s in the middle of a struggle between two completely different arms of the court. The story revolves mostly around the boy’s divorced parents, as Campo splits time between his mother’s place in Long Beach [...]

The city sues longtime Queen Mary director Joseph Prevratil. Now we can wonder whether legal action will change Long Beach’s political culture of favoritism for insiders

PHOTO by DANIEL DE BOOM
Oldtimers still tell of the days when Joseph Prevratil roamed the 14th floor of City Hall—where City Council members have their offices—possessed of a confidence and [...]

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Contract negotiations make Long Beach Yacht Club employees feel like workers again

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The Long Beach Yacht Club, which first met in 1929 at the city’s Pacific Coast Club, is so old Long Beach that it seems to run on something called noblesse oblige: the French phrase emphasizing the moral obligation of the high [...]