Late notice for Russ Roca’s new bike group Long Beach Cyclists: they’re having a planning meeting tonight at Polly’s Coffee (4606 E Second St) at 7pm. Visit lbcyclists.org for timelier info.

Or twice, I don’t remember exactly. But I’m not proud of it, believing as I do that there are certain businesses – record shops, flower shops, running-shoe stores, breakfast spots and coffee houses — that just ought to be indie operations. But a story in Slate presents evidence that the proliferation of Starbucks (15,000 stores and expanding [...]