MITCHELL STEWART
1959-2008
Mitchell Stewart, of Calabasas & Malibu, California passed away from an
apparent heart attack on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at his home.  Stewart was a self-
made visionary entrepreneur, who along with his wife and business partner, Nurit
Petri, founded and operated a mortgage bank and local concert venues including
the Vault 350 in Long Beach and the [...]

LBReport has the story on the passing of Thomas Murphy, a lifetime Long Beach resident and an outspoken critic of the city’s status quo. LBReport cites this telling quote from Murphy:
“In my [80+, fill in the annual figure] years in Long Beach, the city hasn’t been able to complete a single project that hasn’t turned [...]

The last member of the myth-shattering 1936 Olympic team
In popular memory, the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games are all about Jesse Owens shattering the Nazi myth of the Master Race with his brilliant performance in track and field. But Owens wasn’t the only African-American on the U.S. team in 1936. There were five black athletes, and [...]

FRANK AND DEAN ARE TYING YELLOW RIBBONS TO SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE
I’m with Wielenga and Lowery: there is something unseemly about grown men waiting in the rain for hours (if not days) to hear the raspy grunts of a scruffy middle-aged guy with a bad underbite who owns the most expensive house in New Jersey. [...]