Memorial Medical Center cuts 61 beds, but what it means depends upon whom you ask

“I know you’re looking for a story,” Long Beach Memorial Medical Center’s public relations guy Rick Damrel says understandingly, late in a telephone conversation we had Thursday morning.
He’s right–and I’ve just asked him something about the economic stability of Long Beach’s [...]

Here’s a couple interesting remembrance pieces you might have missed recently.
Firstly, singer-songwriter Dave Alvin remembers the night in 1983 that he and a group of musicians from X and The Blasters backed up the late Bo Diddley at the Music Machine in West Los Angeles.
“Whatever you do, do not play ‘the Beat!’ ” Alvin distinctly [...]