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PUT YOUR FUNDS WHERE YOUR FRIENDSHIP IS TO BENEFIT BIXBY PARK
Friends of Bixby Park, the grassroots outfit that’s slowly but steadily revitalizing one of the most-historic public spaces in Long Beach, holds its second annual fundraiser Thursday evening at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Tickets still available.
ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE: ONE QUESTION … FOR COUNCILMAN ROBERT GARCIA
We ask comic-book-geek and Superman fan Robert Garcia (that's him on the right) who would win if Superman and Zombie Superman (that's not him on the left ... is it?) cross paths during Zombie Walk/Comic-Con weekend and get in a fight. Of course, the Long Beach City Council member has an answer. A couple of 'em.
‘LOVESONG’ AT CAL REP: A DANCE WITH DEMONS OF THE ORIGINAL ATOMIC DOG
In Cal Rep's The Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer," the physicist who first helped invent the atomic bomb but later lost his security clearance for outspokenly trying to control it, is teased and tortured by a female demon named Lilith, who finds his big bangs positively orgasmic.
VAL LERCH FINDS LIFE AFTER CITY COUNCIL: WORKING FOR LAURA RICHARDSON
There was relief in the voice of former Long Beach City Council member Val Lerch Friday when he was hired as a field representative by Congresswoman Laura Richardson, ending well over a year without a job. "It's been a long and difficult time," said Lerch, "But politics is what I truly enjoy."
RENE CASTRO RE-ELECTED UNOPPOSED TO CHAIR LB GRIP ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Rene Castro was re-elected as chair of the Long Beach Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention Project (LB GRIP) Advisory Committee without opposition during the group’s meeting Monday night at the Center For Working Families, located on Atlantic Avenue at 19th Street. But new faces were elected to the other offices—Claudette Powers as vice chair and [...]
‘I KNOW THE DUDE WHO TAMES THE SHREW!’
With all respect to Shakespeare, sometimes it's not so much a love of the The Bard as having a buddy in the cast that puts audiences in the seats of local theatres. Other times ... well ... read on to find what Victoria Bryan discovered at the Long Beach Playhouse on opening night of "Taming of the Shrew."
BY SAVING RDA, CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS’ REPUTATION IS BROUGHT TO BLIGHT
Redevelopment Agencies are about everything Republicans claim to loath: bureaucracy, debt, abuses of property rights, big government, excessive land-use rules, subsidized housing and fiscal irresponsibility ... oh, and this oversized macrame thing that the Long Beach RDA erected downtown at a cost of $60,000.
ALL WRITEY!!! OF BIKE LANES, STUDENT POLITICIANS, STAR PARKER & $1.9 BILLION COMPUTERS
THE ROAD TO BIKE-FRIENDLINESS IS A FRUSTRATING CONSTRUCTION ZONE [ By Jeanine Birong ] If bike lanes along Broadway and 3rd are such a great idea, why was no environmental study completed? Where is the traffic study that shows the impact of going from three east/west lanes to two? What about the traffic that is now [...]
WHAT WOULD A STRONGER COASTAL COMMISSION BE LIKE? IN A WORD, “FINE”
What's chilling about the proposal are the priorities of the Legislative Analysts Office. Never mind the impact of fines on Coastal Act enforcement, never mind the issue of whether a state agency ought to have this power---to the LAO, administering fines is first and foremost a matter of raising revenue.
HAS JOHNSON CHANGED HIS CAMPAIGN POSITION ON PORT RAILYARD EXPANSION?
Eleven months after a campaign declaration that he did not support a proposal to expand the Union Pacific ICTS and BNSF railway yards, Seventh District City Council member James Johnson is now merely urging that a “zero emissions option” be included for consideration in an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the expansion proposal. LBReport.com notes [...]
SHASHIN DESAI: THOUGHTS ON A LIFE IN—AND NOW OUT OF—THE THEATER
“Whatever that passion is, whatever you call it, wherever you find it---whether there are five people in the cast or five people in the audience---it is OK, it is perfect. Nothing else is an issue. The issue is how sincere people are.” ---SHASHIN DESAI
ATTACK OF THE CALIFORNIA HAIR RESOURCES BOARD!
Maybe you didn’t know the California Air Resources Board (CARB)---created in 1967 to regulate pollution sources like trucks and automobiles---is also interested in hair-care products? It is ... and watch out, because it takes the responsibility very seriously.
ONE QUESTION … FOR STACIA SAMARTAN: ARE WE NEARING THE END OF THE CUPCAKE TREND?
The back story: Everywhere you look, somebody is predicting the demise of the cupcake—or at least our decade-long obsession with them. As 2010 wound down, it was one of the most-common New Year’s prophecies. Of course, that was true near the end of 2008 and 2009, too. Since Stacia Samartan and her mother opened Frosted Cupcakery in [...]
GREATEST OF THE GREATER: MOST-READ STORIES FROM OUR FIRST 6 MONTHS
It's been barely six months since Greater Long Beach was launched---June 24, 2010---but in that small time we've taken some big strides toward preserving and continuing the kind of independent and insightful journalism that Long Beach and surrounding communities not only need, but deserve. Here are the 10 stories that were most-popular with readers.
WETLANDS AUTHORITY CAN AUTHORIZE SEVERAL MAJOR CONSERVATION MOVES AT THURSDAY AFTERNOON MEETING
The Los Cerritos Wetlands Authority (LCWA) meets at 3:15 p.m. Thursday at Seal Beach City Hall with a chance to live up to its mission—to provide for a comprehensive program of acquisition, protection, conservation, restoration and environmental enhancement of the Los Cerritos Wetlands area. The four voting members of the joint-powers group—Chair Gary Delong (City of Long [...]
RACHEL POWERS: HOW I OUT-RAGED THE TEA PARTY IN A WAL-MART PARKING LOT
As I came out of the WalMart I walked up to a man sitting behind a table festooned with a huge "Repeal Obamacare" sign, nodded toward his array of clipboards and asked, "Could you please tell me where I can sign to repeal Medicare?"
MARIO CORDERO NOMINATED BY OBAMA TO FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION
Mario Cordero, Long Beach Harbor Commissioner and Long Beach City College political science professor, will be nominated by President Barack Obama to a position on the Federal Maritime Commission, it was announced late Friday by the White House. Cordero was appointed to the Harbor Commission in 2003 by then-Mayor Beverly O’Neill and was reappointed in 2009 [...]
WHY THINGS ARE HILLS: WONDERING IN THE SIERRA WITH A GEOLOGIST AND A DOG
“Usually there's a reason why things are hills,” he began, while the dog peed on some buckwheat and stuck its nose in the wind. I had never questioned a hill's grounds for existence---just its choice in placing itself at the end of a long hike when I am already tuckered out.
ALL WRITEY!! THIS WEEK’S SAMPLING OF YOUR COMMENTS / CRITICISMS / LOVE NOTES / WITTICISMS
A HOUSE-TO-HOUSE SEARCH PARTY FOR SCOFFLAW CATS? GET MEOWTTA HERE! [Louise Cunningham, July 31] This column deserves a “Purr-litzer” for sure! A real problem, but presented in a hysterically funny piece. Don’t government folks have better things to do than come up with this silly piece of law? Encouraging neighbors to turn each other in [...]
ALL WRONGY!! NEW DAY, NEW DRAIN-BRAMAGED BATCH OF P-T COMMENTERS
THE HEADLINE: Long Beach police officer arrested on grand theft charges THE STORY: Long Beach Police officer Damian Ramos was arrested Friday for grand theft of weapons. Ramos, a five-year employee, answered a found-property report at a Long Beach business but allegedly didn’t put all the recovered property into evidence. P-T COMMENTERS RESPOND: Isn’t this [...]
INITIATIVE REQUIRING VOTER APPROVAL OF COMPTON POLICE DEPARTMENT FINALLY MOVES FORWARD
Almost three months after Compton’s former city clerk, Charles Davis, began trying to place an initiative on the local ballot that would require voter approval to relaunch a local police department, he finally received a response from the city attorney. Davis told the Compton Bulletin that City Attorney Craig Cornwell rejected the first several written requests Davis submitted by Davis because the [...]
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DAVE WIELENGA’S “BEVERLY O’NEILL TO SIGN AND DISCUSS HER BIOGRAPHY SATURDAY AT BORDERS,” JULY 29 “The Beverly O’Neill Story!” That title style is as antiquated as an IBM Selectric typewriter. Anyone remember “The Lou Gehrig Story” or “The Duke Ellington Story”? Here’s my idea for a more contemporary title: “Big-Box Bev!” / DWR I’m thinking [...]
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RACHEL POWERS’ “ALL AROUND THE TOP O’ THE TOWN ON A FAREWELL TOUR WITH VAL LERCH,” JULY 21 Rachel, What a beautiful story. You did NLB justice. Thank you. / VAL Enjoyed every paragraph of this story. / SILVIA BONILLA Val was always a likeable guy. Overboard sometimes, but he has a good heart. No [...]
PROPOSAL TO CUT LB CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS WILL AGGREGATE POWER, NOT SAVE MONEY
The proposal by Long Beach City Councilmembers Robert Garcia, Suja Lowenthal and Gary DeLong to cut the number of Council meetings that they and their colleagues would otherwise be expected to attend isn’t about saving taxpayers money. It’s about power. In the opinion of LBReport.com, their proposal is an abuse of power. We view it [...]
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JUNE 9, RACHEL POWERS’ “ELECTION DAY FOR PERENNIAL CANDIDATE PETER MATHEWS: MANY UNHAPPY RETURNS” Probably time [for Mathews] to give it up; Richardson was eminently beatable. The “lost” campaign mailers story sounds a little fishy to these ears. / HOWARD X Rachel, time to put your incredible talent to work on a fact-based novel about [...]
