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DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet For Your Weekend: Look Out, Long Beach

Last weekend cops were swarming the streets like the Ravens' defensive line shutting down a last-minute touchdown attempt by the 49ers. It was rough out there because, cops and experts say, Super Bowl weekend is one of the worst times of the year for DUI accidents. But if you thought you were off ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in L.A. See Ray of Hope in Face of Ban: California Supreme Court Could Throw a Lifeline

We feel a little sorry for all those pot shop employees sweating out the future of their paychecks, but the battle over marijuana dispensaries in Southern California is turning out to be epic, with the kind of last-minute touchdowns we saw in last weekend's 49ers-Saints game. It has us on the edge ... More >>

Annette Lujan: Woman Dies in CSU Long Beach Elevator Accident [UPDATED]

KTLA via DMVAnnette Lujan reportedly attempted to exit a CSULB elevator just as it began to move.​The victim has been identified as 48-year-old Annette Lujan, a resident of Huntington Beach. She had worked at CSULB's grants and contracts office for nine years. More details at the bottom. Orig ... More >>

Bella Lives

'Occupy Long Beach' Campers Arrested for Refusing to Vacate Lincoln Park

Occupy Long Beach via Facebook​As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads worldwide, it's also filling itself out here at home -- building slowly but surely in small towns and communities surrounding the big urban hubs. (Occupy Venice, Occupy Northridge, Occupy Irvine, Occupy Riverside, etc.) ... More >>

Bich Truong, Lisa Nguyen, L.A. Homicides No. 7, No. 8: Harbor City Man Strangles Wife, Daughter to Death Before Committing Suicide

Robyn Do via gofundme.comThe late Lisa Nguyen​A tragic murder-suicide on January 9 left two Vietnamese women -- 56-year-old Bich Truong and her daughter, 27-year-old Lisa Nguyen -- dead in their Harbor City home on the 25200 block of Petroleum Avenue. After relatives notified the LAPD of a go ... More >>

CSU Long Beach Cheerleading Scandal: Coach Fired After Non-Student Ringer Helps Win National Title

"Bring It On"Boys can be cheerleaders, too! Just... not if they're alumni.​The good news: Everybody now knows that CSU Long Beach cheer came in first at Florida nationals this month! Congrats, guys. And, uh, the bad: No sooner did we find out, than the team was forced into forfeiting its title ... More >>

Lisa Nguyen, Long Beach Graphic Designer, Murdered By Suicidal Father At 27 Years Old

MySpaceLong Beach's Lisa Nguyen was home on a two-week vacation when her father snapped​Updated after the jump: One of Lisa's professors remembers how fellow students used to call her "WikiLisa." Originally posted on Jan. 10. The youngest victim of a bizarre Harbor City murder-suicide on Sun ... More >>

The Ass Essors

Supporters of Transgender Slashing Victim Rally in Long Beach

As part of a "Take Back the Night" event at Cal State Long Beach, organizers will denounce the slashing of a transgender male that took place on April 15 in a restroom on that campus.Sketch of alleged slashing assailant​The 27-year-old victim, according to news reports, was beaten and then had the ... More >>

Stage Raw: LADCC Winners

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on gay politics in Halam Iran and Salam Shalom THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS coming March 29! Nominees RSVP now to (310) 574-7208. Public tickets available at http://laweekly.comTHE 41ST ANNUAL LOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWAR ... More >>

Cal State Long Beach Closed Due To Storms, Flooding

​Campus officials closed Cal State Long Beach at 3 p.m. Wednesday as a result of flooding and hazardous road conditions that would greet many of its students. The closure is in effect through Thursday, officials said. "The determination was made because of the impact of flooding on campus and ... More >>

Decision in Long Beach: State University Tuitions to Rocket Upward

How's this for your cost of living adjustment? The board of trustees for California's state university system voted today in Long Beach to increase student tuition by 20 percent -- even though the fees had been raised by 10 percent only two months ago. In addition, out-of-state tuition will rise alm ... More >>

Students Prepare for Budget Protest

View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video.As LAist and TV/radio reports are noting, students are already gathering today ahead of tomorrow's protest at California State University, Long  Beach. On Tuesday the Cal State system's board of trustees will convene on the Long Beach ... More >>

ROCK PICKS: CEU, GIRL IN A COMA, COLDPLAY, GRAVEYARD

Also, Amadou & Mariam,The Pains of Being Pure, Jason Collett, The Smithereens, and others.

GO LA: Mort Sahl, Ziggy Marley and Everything In Between

What to do in L.A., May 1-7

Stage Raw: The Seafarer

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS  NEW REVIEW: THE SEAFARER at the Geffen PlayhouseJohn Mahoney and Andrew Connolly in The Seafarer Photo by Michael LamontNEW REVIEW GO THE SEAFARER If you're seeking innovation in the theater, look elsewhere. Conor McPherson's I ... More >>

LA People 2009: Cool Twist — LemonLime Agency's Robin Harrington

Advertising America's alternative-culture darlings are quirky-cool nerds, and Harrington knows just where to find them

Stage Raw: Stick Fly

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: THE WEEKEND'S NEW THEATER REVIEWS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSand this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupReviewed this week: the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair at South Coast Rep; the west coast ... More >>

Long Beach Calling

Long Beach Calling!

What to do in L.A., August 29-September 4

Indigenous Indignation

“It must be difficult not knowing, whenever there’s construction in the city, if your great-great-great-great- great-grandfather’s skull is going to end up in the bucket of a backhoe.”

Rock Picks: Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, The Frames

For the week of Aug 31 – Sept. 6

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

At Long Beach, Unusual Biz As Usual

Goddard's Kid

Biz as Usual

Made in America

With pride and ambivalence

Going to Bed, Early and Often

Let’s Hear It for Luigi

Shipshape

BattleBots!

Mechanical gladiators who maim one another may be the spectator sport of the future

Nudity, Gunshots, Sex, Feathers