From a Burning Shore: Rob Woodard and Dan Fante, son of John Fante, head up {OPEN}’s “Readings From a Burning Shore” with select cuts from current and past prose and poetry. 8:30pm.
{OPEN} 2226 E Fourth St, Long Beach 90814. 562.499.6736; thestoryofopen.com.

The Warlocks: Spacemen 3 drones and Velvet Underground fuzz from the Warlocks. Plus, more psychedelic [...]

Long Beach NAACP: The monthly meeting of the Long Beach chapter of the NAACP featuring guest speaker Congresswoman Laura Richardson. She’ll probably be in her seat for life, but see her now before she gets too entrenched in Washington. 3pm.
CALIFORNIA RECREATION CENTER 1550 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Long Beach 90813.

Long Beach Antique Market: Like [...]

TREE OF LIFE: BEACH HEALTH TREE NATURAL FOODS The necessary center step between the prescription conglomerates and drinking hot lemon water in your darkened sick hole: Beach Tree has a sympathetic and knowledgeable staff able to deploy their selection with precision, compassion and efficiency. Simple things they have totally covered and esoteric things they have [...]

Derrick Brown’s deathbed comedy hour

Derrick Brown is alive and well and already picking out the best bar for the upcoming Best Of Long Beach issue: Joe Jost’s, he says, and the best place to live is on a boat in the Long Beach marina, and after drinking all day, you can piss off the side [...]

Finally, a chance to do something with all those abandoned toys from your wee years that you have, for whatever reason, clung to all this time: circuit bending. “Circuit bending is the creative rewiring of internal components from electronic devices such as children’s toys, synthesizers and drum machines to create new sounds the devices were [...]