As its name suggests, Heavenly Fish Palace is first and foremost about fish. You can get your plates grilled or fried, with straight-from-the-Bayou favorites like catfish, whiting and red snapper eating up most of the menu. In terms of pure flavor and texture, grilled is the way to go. And if you’re looking for something [...]

Praising the eats at Heavenly Fish Palace

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
It’s practically impossible to unseat Roscoe’s House of Chicken ’n Waffles from the throne of Long Beach’s soul food scene—the place holds an almost divine right in its rule over Southern appetites. No restaurant, it seems, can replicate Roscoe’s, but that’s why Signal Hill’s Heavenly Fish [...]

With the price of oil up, the petroleum industry is apparently taking a second look at older wells that aren’t great producers–and trying to get more oil out of them.
Which means they’re returning to cities like Huntington Beach and Signal Hill, which once were famous chiefly for oil–not for their car dealerships or battles to [...]

The best way to get your fill at Delius is with the lamb shank, a huge hunk of meat about the size of a bulked-up bicep. The shank is dressed simply, but cooked perfectly—so tender you can practically strip the entire thing with a single scrape. There’s also your choice of mushroom orzo pasta or [...]

Bare your body for the camera at Bad Kitty Photography

PHOTO by CINNAMON GRAY
Saying cheese nearly nude (or even bare-ass naked) isn’t for the timid. But once you’ve gathered the balls to bare it all, it’s safe to entrust such a delicate endeavor to the pros at Bad Kitty Photography. Spare your other half the shady [...]

With Super Tuesday behind us (not really) the Press-Telegram and LBPost.com tell us what some of you did after you voted: you went to Smooth’s Sports Grille to watch the results trickle in. And trickle. And trickle.
California’s presidential nominees are generally considered to be John McCain and Hillary Clinton, but as the Los Angeles Times [...]

Board and restless
Possibly inspired by The District’s Halloween issue about tall tales and urban legends in Long Beach, reporter Mike Horelick revisits the Signal Hill downhill skating competitions of the 1970s, in today’s Los Angeles Times.

Longtime favorite Delius digs in to Signal Hill

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
It used to be that at Delius, you had to have faith. Dining was mostly out of your hands, locked up instead in the restaurant’s prix fixe meals, all based on set menus and served at set times. And it was that fixed experience that [...]

Illegal immigration’s bad, m’kay?

So, it’s October 2007 and there’s still no great workable solution–federal, state or local–to illegal immigration.
But thankfully, the Press-Telegram’s recent story about the relocated day laborer center outside the Signal Hill Home Depot gives its editorial writers an excuse to rattle their sabers about illegal immigration for several hundred words.
Not surprisingly, they’re [...]

Trailers on the street
No offense to the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins–but, really, someone kill me if I ever read another P-T Long Beach City Council story that leads with an item about parking trailers on the street. It’s not a badly executed story–and, yes, there are streets in Long Beach, and some people must park trailers [...]