VECTOR CONTROL: SUJA LOWENTHAL—BUDGET CUTS AND … MONKEY BUTLERS?
Oh, there is just something so deliciously twisted, so utterly Marie Antoinettish about Long Beach councilmember Suja Lowenthal discussing cuts in basic city services while in a luxurious palace being served exotic fruits by ... please let it be ... a monkey butler.
COMMIE GIRL: AMIDST THE TURMOIL, THERE ARE STILL TEACHING MOMENTS
Some teachers are gifted, and some teachers aren’t, and some teachers are really terrible and need to handle their shit. My own son—sorry, darling—does not test well. But this year he added 40 percentage points to his social studies score. Don’t you think Mr. Rodney Lusain, the history teacher he loves, should be thrown a goddamn parade?
‘THE CLEAN HOUSE:’ A KILLING JOKE LEADS TO HOME-MAID HUMOR
Matilde the housekeeper immigrated to Connecticut from her native Brazil a year ago, after her mother died laughing from a joke told by Matilde's father, who not long afterward shot himself from grief. Now she's trying to craft the perfect joke. Now playing at International City Theatre.
A VISION FOR LONG BEACH THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE HALLUCINATIONS?
“I want Long Beach to become the green-technology capital of California,” says Alex Cherin of The Cherin Group. “It's perfectly positioned to attract the kind of venture capital to clean technology that Silicon Valley attracted to computer startups in the 1990s.”
GREEN IS GREATER FEST: ENVIROS UNITE OVER MUSIC, ART AND A 50/50 DRAWING
Greater Long Beach is partnering with The Gaslamp restaurant and Heather Altman of the environmental blog EgretsNotRegrets.com to present the Green Is Greater Festival---an event intended to help unite the often-fragmented environmental community. It's Sept. 18 at The Gaslamp.
