Taking a closer look at downtown statistics

Editor’s note: this item has been partially re-written–by its author–in hopes of improving it
When you think of downtown Long Beach and Pine Avenue, what images come to mind? A late-night walker being stalked–and badly beaten–by four still-unidentified assailants? A brawl outside a nightclub? For Long Beach police, how we [...]

As the Los Angeles Times reports, the Los Angeles Unified School District–which has owned portions of the Ft. MacArthur site in San Pedro for 29 years–is getting ready to knock some of the buildings down next year to build a high school.
What’s the big deal? The buildings–a barracks, a mess hall, a Quonset hut among [...]

Twista spiels light years

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Twista is the rapper so fast he sometimes has to sit down to do it—tagged in by pleading Kanye in single “Slow Jams,” he leans back in a comfy chair and spiels a meteor shower into a carefully disrobing gal at a party, the kind of authoritative dispensation believed [...]

Here’s a list of some LB things for you to think about if you’re not set on plans tonight…

Razteca versions with Quinto Sol

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
So Bob Marley took a trip down Whittier Boulevard, and there waiting was Quinto Sol, a nine-piece (Mizraim Leal, Javier Villalobos, Martin Perez, Cesar Villalobos, Abel Gonzalez, Armando Padilla, Mando Gonzalez, Bernie Bran, and Sal Magallon, plus a quintet of auxiliaries as demanded) reggae-centered band that started out [...]