“100 Greatest Songs of the 90s” is the best clip show countdown that vh1 has ever done and I am glad I am procrastinating things to watch it. I’m really learning a lot. Like “California Love” is apparently less great than Spin Doctors and Freedom Williams from C&C Music Factory still remembers the lyrics [...]

GORD PETERAN’S “ARK”
LBMA sends us an advance look into Gord Peteran’s upcoming exhibit “Furniture Meets Its Maker”:
It is furniture unlike any other. A table that doesn’t hold objects, chairs not made for sitting, objects that appear to function as torture devices or for the sexually experimental. Despite the dubious functionality of many of the pieces [...]

We asked, you answered. Long Beach’s sexiest people as voted by you, our District readers.

ANTHONY BATTS The Police Chief is smooth from the top of his dome to his highly polished persona—crisp all the way down to that seductive smile.

BLUFF PARK SAILOR We will not apologize for our rampant love of seamen—those eyes, that look, [...]

What if your work was all about sex?

PAUL DILLON by SUSAN SABO
For some people, sex is life; for others, it’s a living. We talked to some folks in and around Long Beach whose job descriptions involve sex: selling it, linking to it, spying on it or helping to heal its scars. In one way or [...]

1917
Cleopatra, starring the silent era’s original sex siren, Theda Bara, is filmed in Dominguez Slough. The film is a sensation but, by the 1930s, is banned because of its overt sexuality. It will eventually spawn other films that challenge sexual mores, groundbreaking films such as Porky’s, Porky’s 2 and Porky’s 16: Mystery on Gonorrhea Ridge.
1950ish [...]

How Valley Arena did not jump their career in accounting

PHOTO by TODD WEAVER

Valley Arena soldiers on and soldiers on: When their labels go under, Valley Arena finishes the record anyway, and when their bass players leave, Valley Arena iPods volunteer backing tracks, and when guitarist Chris Stevens (full disclosure: Dude used to cover for me [...]

Self magazine (“You At Your Best”) runs an annual Healthiest Cities list and, in the latest, the megalopolis of Los Angeles/Long Beach placed dead last in what’s arguably the only category that matters: happiness.
Gary, Indiana, is the unhealthiest. The worst eaters live in West Virginia and Ashland, Kentucky. The least sexually healthy women are in [...]

Reuters pushed out a story yesterday about the rise of sex tourism in Mombasa, Kenya. The twist, however, is that Mombasa has flipped the sexy paradigm–older women are traveling to the city to get with young men.
Our connection? Mombasa is our newest Sister City.

State bans chemical linked to low testosterone
The presence of phthalates in children’s plastic toys is linked to lower testosterone levels in boys, according to this article in the latest Nation magazine.

Hard rock mining meets the tender touch
You often hear calls for labor and management to work more closely together– but I’ve never heard anyone suggest they work this closely. The BBC reports:
Australian coal miners are being given lessons in foreplay and the menopause in an attempt to boost productivity.