Theo Douglas
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THEY CAME TO PRAISE LB’S CIVIC CENTER, NOT TO BURY IT—AND YET …
In the wake of Long Beach's startling announcement that it is inviting anyone who says they can build a new Civic Center to prove it, GreaterLongBeach.com re-publishes this Sept. 12, 2012, story Theo Douglas, who saw it coming.
LB CIVIC CENTER: GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE …AND THE RUMORS
In the wake of Long Beach's startling announcement that it is accepting the qualifications of anyone interested in building a new Civic Center, GreaterLongBeach.com re-publishes this Sept. 7 story by Theo Douglas, who saw it coming.
DAVID WEIDMAN: MR. MIDCENTURY IS AGAIN AN ARTIST FOR OUR TIME
The groundbreaking silkscreen techniques and designs that David Weidman introduced during the Eisenhower presidency are still shaking the earth today. On May 4, the ninetysomething artist will be in Long Beach for a meet-and-greet (and show-and-sell) at In Retrospect on Retro Row.
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REMAINS TO BE SEEN: WILL LB DO RIGHT WITH WHAT’S LEFT OF ITS ICONS?
Ghosts of the grand buildings that once defined downtown Long Beach may forever haunt architecture columnist Theo Douglas, but he notes the increase preservation projects and wonders ... not whether losing them was worth it, exactly, but ...
THEY CAME TO PRAISE LB’S CIVIC CENTER, NOT TO BURY IT—AND YET …
In an event that was literally 40 years in the making, more than 100 paying ticketholders listened as a panel of local historians, architects, structural engineers and city officials praised Long Beach's futuristic, much-maligned Civic Center---not that it killed rumors that a public-private partnership is planning a replacement.
LONG BEACH CIVIC CENTER: GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE … AND THE RUMORS
What's to become of Long Beach's internationally award-winning, locally disdained Civic Center? A panel of experts will consider that question---and any variation of it you may submit---during a discussion this evening (September 10, 2012) at 7 p.m. at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Tickets are $5.
ON CLAIBORNE DRIVE, A HOUSE OUT FROM HIDING, BUT NOT MYSTERY
Greater Long Beach contributor Theo Douglas takes a walkthrough on the wild side, strapping on a haz-mat suit for a tour of a the big, old, crazygreat house at 900 Claiborne Drive, hoping he can inhale its rambling stories without filling his lungs with fatal contagions.
FIRST LOOK: BELLFLOWER TURNS A PAGE—IS IT ENOUGH TO CHANGE ITS STORY?
Bellflower's first downtown development in decades---the $7 million Belmont Court---will replace a stretch of non-descript midcentury buildings with a collection of residential condos above retail shops that the architect describes as "midcentury with a contemporary feel."
BLOOD ON THE SHARROW: BALLAD OF A POLICE SHOOTING IN BELMONT SHORE
After two years and two investigations, Long Beach citizens still haven't been told what happened the night a police officer answered a drunk-and-disorderly call in Belmont Shore's restaurant/bar-and-retail district and shot the unhappy customer five times. Will the victim's lawsuit finally reveal the truth?
KRYLON AND ON … A SUPERHERO FOR OUR TIMES
If you like graffiti murals—murals, not tags; taggers can barely write their names—then Long Beach and Signal Hill are pretty great places to live right now. The minute the real estate market slowed, you could just hear taggers and muralists zipping up backpacks full of Krylon to spraybomb the vacant houses, abandoned factories and rolled-up newspaper buildings.
