As the USC football team prepares to play rival UCLA on Saturday, with a victory earning them another Rose Bowl berth (they should be playing for the BCS championship … Stanford? What the hell?) USC officials are making sure everyone knows they’re presently negotiating to make the Rose Bowl the team’s permanent home. The university [...]

SAT OCT. 20: PIPE BOMB! by DANIEL DEBOOM
Tues | Oct 16 Yesterday, we put the Best of Long Beach issue together inside a studio apartment in Bluff Heights, where we were joined by a desktop printer, one pizza, four laptops, a highlighter and two cats. This is all very unusual, of course . . . [...]

Some colleges unaware of their awareness
As Rachel Powers notes below, ‘60s leftwing radical turned rightwing radical David Horowitz is promoting an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at colleges nationwide. Unfortunately for Horowitz, he’s been caught padding the list of participating campuses.

One person’s heartfelt erotic fantasy is another’s Exhibit A in a sexual harassment suit. That’s why every workplace is supposed to have rules about lovin’, touchin’, squeezin’ another while on the clock. Paul Abramson, alas, feels the rules at his workplace are too strict. Abramson teaches at UCLA.