Cal State Long Beach poet Gerald Locklin prepares to retire
There are certain people whom you can’t imagine Long Beach without. Kelvin Anderson of VIP Records is one; how would I have gotten through high school without my Eric B. & Rakim fix? Cal Worthington, the car dealer, is another; many of us grew up on [...]

Long Beach has few areas comparable with, say, Laguna Beach, where you can genuinely fantasize about the plein air masters sitting down to preserve scenes of crisp, fall mornings in oil paint on canvas.
Bluff Park Historic District, where scores of Craftsman-era homes and the similarly-designed Museum of Art co-exist, is one of those places: hazy [...]

A certain shade of a particular color, created by a Cal State Long Beach professor

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
Most of the lost cities and the rare butterflies have been found and named—and so this sounds like something that doesn’t happen anymore. But back when he was a ceramics student, Cal State Long Beach art professor Tony [...]