Fourth District Councilman Patrick O’Donnell is still waiting for that Bohemian Club membership …
In an exercise that happens once a year for about three weeks, a tiny little Sonoma County burg gets overrun by bank execs, politicians, industry tycoons, even presidents of the United States (especially if they’re Republicans).
You can’t read about it on [...]

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-idiculous) who represents parts of Long Beach for a few months every couple of years while campaigning for re-election, has been typically hysterical in his criticism of wasteful government spending as a solution to the economic crisis that is threatening the way of life of millions of mostly innocent Americans.
Rohrabacher considers himself [...]

Mothers, geezers, students and the unemployed explain why we need this place

The large crowd clustered outside the doors of Main Library at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday is mostly just folks–ordinary people—and that comes as something of a surprise, given the city’s claims that Main Library is too big and used only by the homeless.

I don’t care what you claim as your party affiliation–Democrat, Republican, Progressive Wicken–you had to feel sorry for John McCain Wednesday. The Republican nominee for President was forced to go to the White House to accept the endorsement of George W. Bush, which is sort of like getting an endorsement from the guy who invented [...]

Just got back from “Star Trek: The Tour” at the Queen Mary–hilarious details in future missive–and I’m still shaken but what I was shaken down for regarding parking: $15! Fifteen! When the woman nonchalantly asked for said lucre it suddenly came to me why the Queen is doomed: they are absolutely [...]

If the Majic Wand does return to Long Beach after a long absence, it will be a case of art imitating life. Because when Rockne Krebs arrived in LB to install his laser art project in 1992, it wasn’t his first time here.

Remembering Reagan
The rather saccharine pieties of the rightwing cult of Ronald Reagan have been polluting most media considerations of the low-wattage movie star turned politician since he died. But today in his LA Times column, George Skelton reminds us what the old boy was like in real life.