If the City of Long Beach had stuck to its original timetable, Main Library would be open just more six weeks before closing indefinitely. Then, some day, a new, watertight, earthquake-proof Main Library would be built or rebuilt, there or elsewhere. Some day.
That’s what worries members of

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Mark your calendars in black ink: Acres of Books–Long Beach’s oldest, most thoroughly-, intriguingly-stocked store of used literature–will begin a discount sale of its stock this Thursday.
And how long will the sale go? “‘Til we run out of stuff to sell,” says Jackie Smith, who owns the store with her husband [...]

It’s on: this morning at 10, Second District Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal and a cast of city folks will ceremonially begin the demolition of four vacant businesses near Acres of Books in the so-called Broadway Block, bounded by Third Street, Broadway, Long Beach Boulevard and Elm Avenue.

Somehow, we missed Press-Telegram reporter Kris Hanson’s latest port report yesterday–which is too bad, because it kinda reads like a script for the TV series The Fabulous Life of … .
The “of” in this case is Port of Long Beach harbor commissioners, Mayor Bob Foster and Second District Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal, who have flown many [...]

And Long Beach Playhouse gets a new director
Tuesday’s Long Beach City Council meeting was a busy one–in part, no doubt because with the holidays upon us, the Council won’t meet again until Jan. 8.
One of the many projects it approved during the last meeting of the old year was the much-discussed Shoreline Gateway project: a [...]