Long Beach Opera opens busy season with palate cleansers –
Photo by JJ Geiger. Because Long Beach Opera’s 48th season features their biggest-ever bill of fare, perhaps it’s…
One-night sound-art event returns to Belmont Shore for second year –
Preliminary map of LBsoundbrowse 2026 installations One year ago, the inaugural LBsoundbrowse was an experiment. Could Long Beach’s…
“Night of the Living Dead” a brisk bit of Halloween fun –
Photo by Mike Hardy You may not have seen the film, but you know the premise, so deeply…
“The Swan”: Hyping the transformative possibilities of love –
When it comes to men, Dora (Whitney Ellis) is accommodating to a fault. Married milkman Kevin (Matthew Anderson)…
A Big Surprise: Sparks, Albert Award Scholarship Prep South Bay $100,000 –
Albert CEO and founder Yinon Ravid pose with Sparky, the LA Sparks mascot. Photo by Chris Villanueva By…
“Hangmen”: Lesser McDonagh, imperfectly staged — but still fun –
Photo by Michael Hardy Photography You can rely on Martin McDonagh. Black humor. Sardonicism. Impending menace. Clever twists.…
Amid budget-related service reductions, is City Hall spending over $10K per year on bottled water? –
Mayor Rex Richardson and City Budget Manager Rebecca Bernstorff consuming bottled water at FY2027 budget press conference. On…
LB Fresh Week of Actions: “urban acupunctures” to unblock Long Beach’s grass-roots food chi –
Nick Mann (far right) leads an urban foraging class at Grow2Zero Farm on the inaugural day of LB…
Tim McOsker Takes Aim at Three Longstanding Public Safety Threats in Council District 15 –
Rancho LPG, Jones Chemicals and Harbor Gateway Street Takeovers Finally Face a More Aggressive City ResponseBy Rick Thomas,…
“One Mass Shooting A Day”: Ports New Agreement Doesn’t Change The Daily Cost Of Port Pollution –
Whitney Amaya of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (Left) and Maya Golden-Krasner of the Law Institute at…
Service reductions, layoffs cornerstones of addressing Long Beach’s $58M budget shortfall –
Mayor Rex Richardson addresses the media about FY2027 budget “This is certainly a tough day,” City Manager Tom…
Long Beach Shakespeare Co. camps up “The Importance of Being Earnest” to great effect –
Photo by Mark Chen In my early 20s — a long time ago in a galaxy far, far…