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Who Killed Tootsie?And should her bereaved owner get paid for emotional distress? Veterinarians and the pet industry sure hope the answer to the question is ‘no’...
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You’re that girlfriend of mine who likes to shit with the door open and talk loud. Calling me closer to the door to talk isn’t a courtesy for me. When was it...
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Rhinestone CowboysPaperplanes can make Long Beach feel like LubbockPaperplanes put out a record last year, and at the first curl of pedal-steel by Cliff Kane you had to...
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Labor PainsWith Extract, Mike Judge goes back to workMike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in...
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Autumn of Our ContentWhether or not our local stages actually observe the theatrical “seasons,” this fall’s lineup does include Spam, Spam, Spam,...
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The Wiching HourOC’s only outpost of the Which Wich chain should have Subway and Quiznos quaking in their toastersMy first summer job as a teen was at an...
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Smogtown’s punk songs come built on the Adolescents, TSOL and the Beach Blvd. bands and bear such heavy production that sometimes that it’s almost like Chrome...
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With a tagline like “A motion picture destined to offend nearly two thirds of the civilized world. And severely annoy the other third,” anyone unfamiliar with the...
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The best way to diffuse an uncomfortable situation is with humor. For far too long, “The Change” has been a hush-hush subject among women. Well, it’s time to...
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Three things you will not take to the 30th Annual Long Beach Blues Festival – weapons, pets or frowns. The organizers are quite specific. What you can take is an...
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L.A poet Richard Beban will read at the Marina Pacifica Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, at 7 pm. The reading will be hosted by Long Beach poet G. Murray Thomas....
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Honor labor in the way that great laborers honor themselves: By getting drunk in the daytime. The Long Beach Party Project is only charging five bucks for a full day of DJs...
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in OC Parks Resource Specialist Laura Cohen at sunset and watch the full moon rise on this strenuous, 3.5-mile hike on steep, uneven terrain (700-ft. elevation gain) through...
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Stephen Bellinger will be the subject of this artist Meet & Greet. His style is an awesome merging of surrealism, impressionism, and regionlist style murals. Colors and...
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The September 6 Green Party of Orange County meeting will focus on giving and receiving help during these tough economic times. Our focus will be non-profit groups and how we...
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Teen Vogue has created a unique retail destination where girls can shop and socialize in a fun atmosphere. On select days, Teen Vogue will present a variety of fashion...
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Over the past ten years, Scandinavia has had a knack for yielding musically bold bands. Specifically, it has produced groups with an uncanny ability to alchemize something...
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Afrobeat Down started as a tribute to Nigeria’s Fela Kuti, a musical figure so fearlessly larger than life that even something on the scale of a Civil War...
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Back in 2004, the Weekly said that Long Beach's Paper Planes' self-released EP sounded like "the greatest rock & roll music we've ever heard in our lives." In 2008, we...
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama from Nilo Cruz, it's a steamy Florida summer in the 1920s. Passion and ambition flare up among the workers in a Cuban-American cigar...
