Must be time for a new budget: in a move that you don’t see very often, Long Beach City Council will meet in closed session today at 4:30 p.m. to discuss employee wage freezes as a way through the looming budget deficit, and the Los Cerritos Wetlands land swap.
Participating via teleconference (which sounds so … [...]

Tuesday afternoon, Mark Tomaino, cast director and producer of the over 20-year-old Rocky Horror Picture Show cast Midnight Insanity, sent me an email. He wrote that the cast, after finding what appeared to be a more-or-less-for-good home at the Warner Grand in San Pedro, was on the hunt for a new venue. Again. The cast [...]

First-generation Audi 100s–where are they now?
Learning was hard before the Internets–so difficult that I never bothered to find out about that cool German car my friend’s dad had in high school.
Turns out, thanks to Wikipedia as usual, it was a first-generation Audi 100LS–made between 1968 and 1976 with mainly incremental changes, and some of the [...]