On ice cold beer and CCR: A treatise on dive bars in three parts
The main difference between a $10 million nightclub and the swill-stained seats at your nearest stinkhole usually lies in the overall functioning and flush capacity of its throne(s)—and anyone who says otherwise will have a Coke with lemon, please. Because while what [...]

An apparent oil spill on the Los Cerritos Wetlands owned by developer/oil driller Tom Dean—including the 33-acre parcel south of Second Street that he is trying to trade to the City of Long Beach—has drawn cleanup crews for the fifth consecutive day, The District Weekly has learned. The California Coastal Commission, which must approve any [...]

It’s true: as the Press-Telegram’s Kristopher Hanson reports, Gambol Industries Inc. last year began the preliminary work for what would be a new $50-million shipyard on Terminal Island.
And, as you might suspect, the project continues to meet with some resistance from Port of Los Angeles officials who, says Hanson, view it with considerable suspicion.
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T.I. immigrant detention center stuck in limbo; there’s your irony

Bad news this morning about the immigrant detention center on Terminal Island.

How a UFO caught Southern California in a wartime panic

ILLUSTRATION by BOB AUL
Nobody knew exactly what it was up there, and that’s what terrified them: a shapeless orb hanging lifelessly off the coast—poised, it seemed, to obliterate Los Angeles. Some feared it was the Japanese; others felt it was something a bit more extraterrestrial. Nobody [...]