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  • News

    February 2, 2012

    Long Beach Offers Collective Punishment

    How the city's botched marijuana lottery screwed its winners and losers alike

  • News

    January 26, 2012

    Occupy Orange County's Protest Courts Disaster

    The dying movement turns into a song-and-dance routine

  • News

    December 29, 2011

    What We Learned

    The Year on Navel Gazing and Beyond!

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    [UPDATED: Occupy Irvine to end Encampment] Occupy Santa Ana Backs off Occupation

    UPDATE, DEC. 20, 5:07 P.M.:  And then there were none. A week after Occupy Santa Ana ended its formal occupation of the Civic Center, Occupy Irvine has decided to do the same. According to activist D'Marie Mulattieri, who was responsible for setting up the original Occupy Orange County Fac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    [UPDATED With Dispatches from the Port:] Occupy Converges on the Port of Long Beach; Over 200 Protestors Block Access to Pier

    Brandon Ferguson​UPDATE DEC. 12, 1:15 P.M.: Though there were several incredibly tense moments at the Port of Long Beach this morning as protesters and police squared off, the day ended without any serious incidents. Between 200 and 300 Occupy activists from Irvine, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, La ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Yeastie Boys Talk Clowns, Cops and Venues That Rhyme With 'Slidenard'

    Photo courtesy of Yeastie BoysDirt Clown of Yeastie Boys​The Yeastie Boys might be simultaneously the best and worst band in Orange County right now--a good old-fashioned punk rock cover band that takes itself so un-seriously it's got a circus theme. Started three years ago as a way to replace ty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Will Carnival Smoking Ban Reach the Port?

    ​Carnival Cruise lines operates two ships out of the Port of Long Beach, but you'd better check before bothering to pack cigars the next time you book the Ensenada turn-around.What's that? Carnival's tub has a cigar lounge? Yep, that's true, but the cruise line is experimenting with a total smokin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Rainbow Harbor Terror Attack is Just a Drill

    ​If you swing by Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach today and notice an unusually large presence of law enforcement types running around like chickens with their heads cut off, you are witnessing neither an actual terror attack nor filming of pick-up scenes for Monday night's 24 finale.

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Gustavo Arellano on TV Tonight, Another Anaheimer Follows

    ​If you're one of those tech heads who can set their TiVo with a cell phone, make it record SoCal Connected at 8 tonight on KCET/Channel 28. For appearing in that episode (which repeats 6 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 p.m. Sunday) is the Weekly's own Gustavo Arellano.Further worldwide domination of ¡Ask ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    It's a Quick Read 24

    Orange County Register: Remember that recent lawsuit brought by the Newport Beach cop who claimed to have been passed over for promotions amid rumors and derogatory comments he was gay? Moxley has been blogging all about it. Anyhoo, Buena Park police officer Pedro Monte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Dana Rohrabacher Praised for Saying the Sky is Falling

    Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), shown here possibly pointing to a dangerous object in the sky, is being commended by the no doubt august Institute for Human Continuity for his "Planet X forsight" and belief that Earth's preparedness for dealing with cosmic debris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2008

    Protest a Port with Tom Morello Today!

    "Now why do I care about the Port of Long Beach?" This is something an average person in Orange County might say. Out of sight, out of mind. But in reality the busy ports of both Long Beach and Los Angeles, with all the shipping and trucking involved, generates a truly lung-busting amount of pollut ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 23, 2007

    Free Fridays

    Long Beach Museum of Art

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2007

    Beach Break: Striking distance

    Well, they're still at it. Negotiations between the Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles' unionized office clerical (OCU) workers and shippers and marine terminal operators that were supposed to end in a strike at midnight if an agreement was not reached. But they are still going! You gotta love it wh ... More >>

  • News

    July 12, 2007

    LNG? WTF?

    Long Beach LNG-terminal developers ad campaign gets a chilly response

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2007

    Explosive Gas

    With the exception of the friendly folks at Sound Energy Solutions (SES), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi and ConocoPhillips, just about nobody in Long Beach—Mayor Bob Foster and most residents who already think there's enough industrial pollution at the port—want to see a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2006

    Rohrabacher Cuts and Runs

    Congressman Dana Rohrabacher had his ass handed to him yesterday in not one but two debates with opponent Jim Brandt. At least, I think he did. It's kinda hard to find out. Why is that? It's because the only mention of Rohrabacher in the past day's press is as Tan Nguyen's former opponent. Damn it. ... More >>

  • Unknown

    November 11, 2004

    So Now What?

    No one said freedom was easy

  • Features

    January 6, 2000

    DIVE!

    Re-creating the Cold War

  • Features

    January 6, 2000

    Long Beach Queen

    Re-created end of British Empire

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