A month after the corporation that owns the Press-Telegram fired its publisher and managing editor and put Long Beach’s once-grand daily newspaper under the control of the publisher and managing editor of the Torrance Daily Breeze, longtime P-T columnist Tom Hennessy finally checked in Sunday with his take on the traumatic events.
And? Amazingly, the man who has been [...]

The most appropriate dish for an izakaya like Musha is one charred at a tableside grill. And the most interesting of those is the dried stingray. The translucent triangles of flesh initially eat like a too-tough jerky inexplicably plucked from the sea. But give the pieces some grilling and a dunk in the accompanying aioli [...]

The Press-Telegram not only made most of the news at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Long Beach City Council, but its local government expert, Paul Eakins, also reports that news in today’s paper. Eakins provides a clear and concise account of Tuesday night’s fallout from the February 29 restructuring at the paper — when it was put under the control of [...]

Long Beach lost its daily newspaper today. The Press-Telegram, a name synonymous with local journalism for 110 years, suffered deep staff cuts and a corporate restructuring that leaves it as little more than a bureau for the Torrance-based Daily Breeze.
MediaNews Group, Inc., the corporate parent of both papers, fired Press-Telegram publisher Dave Kuta, managing editor John Futch and nine newsroom [...]

Musha is your place

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
On even the slowest weekday nights, Musha’s dining room is stacked shoulder-to-shoulder—groups twirl together little piles of udon at the restaurant’s communal table while smaller parties share stories and beers off in the quieter corners. Every time the door opens, the staff lets out a short shout then serves [...]

City may dig into Jergins Tunnel; college cops seek attacker
After languishing for a generation, the Jergins Tunnel–the underground pedestrian walkway that once gave amusement park visitors a traffic-free passage from the Jergins building to the Pike–inches closer to being saved.