Where else is there to go when you have your own in-home bar?

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Apartments like the airy, two-story, three bedroom unit just off Retro Row rented by Susan Janz and Jennifer Celio can at once leave you feeling overwhelmed and pissed. Overwhelmed, because you realize this is but one of our city’s legion [...]

{open} (also noted a bit back by our old pal Andrew Asch in L.A. Times) lights up Third Thursday on 4th St. with a transmaniacal phantasmagorium of light and sound courtesy Huntington Beach’s Celer, who inflate ambient sound to gas-giant volumes, and hop-frog kollectiv’s Phaul, presenting “psychedelic psights and sonics,” plus a short film called [...]

One final, private screening with Art Theater owner Howard Linn

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
For a man whose life has been spent showing some of our most intelligent films—The Conversation, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Little Thief, Less Than Zero—the Art Theater’s owner Howard Linn doesn’t talk much about the movies he’s seen. But then Linn, who [...]

Open House: Retro Row opens up for the holidays—free tastings, holiday sales and a vintage Santa. 4-8pm.
FOR MORE INFO call Portfolio Coffeehouse at 562.434.2486.
Grindhouse: Schlock-fest turned up by L.A. Record, this time screening the presumable classic “She Freak”. 7:30pm. $8.
NEW BEVERLY CINEMA 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles 90036. 323.465.8764; myspace.com/grindhouse.

if{open}: Continuing on with Retro Row’s so-called rebirth, {open} hosts its fourth-anniversary party with Dublab and cupcakes. The event will also kick off the bookstore’s “if{open}” exhibit, in which 25 artists from around the world imagine and re-imagine the word “open.” 7pm. Free.
{OPEN} 2226 E Fourth St, Long Beach 90814. 562.499.6736; thestoryofopen.com.
Tree Planting: Wrigley residents [...]

Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before
It’s interesting how the news sometimes gets out–and out and out and out.
On Sunday, the New York Times published a story on Long Beach’s vintage furnishings district on Fourth Street, otherwise known as Retro Row. Our comrades at Portfolio informed us on Monday–and we informed [...]

New York Times says LB’s Retro Row a tourist destination
Thanks to our friends at Portfolio for this story . . .