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We mentioned that in the summertime the small planes often tow advertisement banners that cause us to subliminally hanker for things like Bud Light Lime. We have never hankered for Bud Light Lime.… → Read More
Friday is when your week starts, and it starts with sheer terror as you foolishly climb into a cabin on what’s euphemistically called The Observation Wheel, which makes its debut appearance t… → Read More
“Kiss the Joy” documents Van Blom’s rapid rise from that first curious visit to her monumental achievement as the first woman to compete as a U.S. rower in the Olympics, winning … → Read More
The noise is intolerable. We wake up screaming, our wife crying, our dogs bolting over the fence and running wild with terror through the neighborhood like deer from a wildfire. Our walls are crack… → Read More
Some of the finest waterfront restaurants along the shoreline were, while not quite impossible to get to, were effectively cut off from town by the 7-mile-long race course which seldom steered far … → Read More
“While reading your column this morning I thought for a second that maybe you woke up. Then I remembered who you are and I woke up. Good luck living in this Libtard State for the rest of your… → Read More
if your mom is anything like ours was, she is just about ready to explode if she doesn’t see a bike race pretty damned soon. → Read More
George Deukmejian knew we had fallen from grace politically, turning liberal, perhaps as a result of head injury. We had always kept in touch with Duke (though we never called him that) and we had … → Read More
Columnist Tim Grobaty fondly recalls a 2012 interview in which the former governor and Long Beach native shared his sense of humor. → Read More
Mayor Robert Garcia stopped to use his phone’s GO Long Beach app to report a pile of trash left in front of a business and an overgrown bougainvillea plant blocking the sidewalk. On Seventh S… → Read More
Recent reports show more Californians are packing up and leaving the state. I can hardly wait to join them.Every day is a new nightmare. Gas up over $3 now, just so Gov. Moonbeam can buy his fantas… → Read More
Prospector Pete died in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (according to us), while Pistol Pete came along in 1923, when a cowpoke named Frank Eaton was asked to be the mascot for Oklahoma A&M, … → Read More
Want details and an evening of free fun? Go to the unveiling of the entire Summer And Music schedule, including performers, artists and times at the May 17 SAM Kick-Off at Fingerprints Music, 420 E… → Read More
Pete was among the more than 3,000 people who died in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Despite a life largely given over to those less fortunate — or maybe because of that life — his … → Read More
Last September, Mayor Robert Garcia announced that the city would be willing to explore a relationship with Sunnyside, and hope sprung up among the headstones → Read More
If you’re old-school, Yellow Fever will bring to mind the acute viral hemorrhagic disease that has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands — likely millions — of people th… → Read More
The big story last week was JetBlue’s cutting back its departures from Long Beach Airport, in part, or perhaps to a large degree, because of the treatment the airline has received from Long B… → Read More
Long Beach, as a coastal city, has a whole ocean to worry about, so the big blowout in our town this weekend is the Urban Ocean Festival at the Aquarium of the Pacific on Saturday and Sunday. → Read More
“I’m disappointed, but as a businessman I get it,” said Gary DeLong, former 3rd District councilman. “Long Beach hasn’t been good to them and I’m sad that the co… → Read More
May we suggest, what with Mother’s Day right around the corner, that you pick up a pair of tickets, at $40 a throw, for you and your mom, because moms love touring great homes if for no other… → Read More