Updates on some of the biggest stories from The District’s first year

PHOTO by JONATHAN NAFARRETE, WINNER OF OUR FIRST-EVER FLICKR PHOTO CONTEST
Bank doors closing for the last time. Roaring factories fallen suddenly silent. The stock market on suicide watch. Evangelical hymns in 10 thousand churches rising to an angry, bearded God. Foreign powers circling, eyeballing [...]

Tuesday afternoon, Mark Tomaino, cast director and producer of the over 20-year-old Rocky Horror Picture Show cast Midnight Insanity, sent me an email. He wrote that the cast, after finding what appeared to be a more-or-less-for-good home at the Warner Grand in San Pedro, was on the hunt for a new venue. Again. The cast [...]

Tues | Jan 22 Rumors of rain.
Wed | Jan 23 Dear God! Is that . . . WETNESS!?
Thurs | Jan 24 A tornado warning. In Long Beach. How gauche. Look, we’re earthquake people, so much more primal and old money. Ditto mudslides and brush fires with their spectacular images of destroyed multimillion-dollar homes. Tornadoes? So [...]