Long Beach (New York)

Father's Day Food Drink Specials

It's Father's Day this Sunday, June 16. Sure, you could get him a tie, a barbecue grill, or an electronic 5-in-1 gadget from Brookstone that he'll likely never use. Or you can show appreciation for all that he's done for you with a good meal and a stiff drink. So we compiled a list of restaurants fr ... More >>

Lina's Party Pick of the Week

Photo by Amy Darling BLISS 525 525 E. Broadway, Long Beach, Sat., May 18; competition starts at 11:30 p.m. When it comes to gay club carousing and "vogueing" a la Paris Is Burning, Los Angeles has been smoldering something fierce at Los Globos' party called, yes, L.A. Is Burning. This weekend, as ... More >>

Capturing the Carnage

From Opera to the Terminator: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, Feb. 22 USC will be showing a free advance screening of Phantom, starring Ed Harris as the captain of a Cold War Soviet submarine who faces off against a rogue KGB agent (David Duchovny) trying to seize control of a nuclear missile. The film start ... More >>

Marijuana Bust Worth $300 Million At Long Beach Nursery, Cops Say

Sheriff's officials today announced a marijuana bust of historic proportions. The stats: 16 tons of weed worth as much as $300 million. Phew. And where did they find it, of all places? A frigging nursery. For real. Allegedly. Talk about a green thumb:

VIDEO: Man Set On Fire Outside Long Beach Market

Updated at the bottom with a suspect description. First posted at 8:02 a.m. The drive-by shooting isn't the only way people are attacked in Southern California: A particularly evil suspect resurrected a weapon with a sordid, political history, the Molotov cocktail, over the weekend. Last night the ... More >>

Beachwood BBQ Medals Twice at the 2012 GABF

DENVER -- On Saturday morning, Oct. 13, thousands of brewers, media and festival volunteers watched as Long Beach-based Beachwood BBQ and Brewing accepted two medals at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival. Winning gold and bronze for L.A. County, they were in good company with California brewers, ... More >>

Father Jose Luis Cuevas, Long Beach Priest, Charged With Sexual Battery on Church Grounds

The latest sex scandal and PR nightmare for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles comes by way of northern Long Beach, near Compton: Father Jose Luis Cuevas, 67, the longtime head priest at St. Athanasius Church, is being charged with "nine counts of sexual assault" for years of allegedly m ... More >>

Summer on the Plaza

ICE Agent Shot at Home in Carson; 14-Year-Old Son Arrested for Murder

On the same night that three Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents were shot on the job in NorCal -- and about a month after a fatal shootout between agents at the Long Beach federal courthouse -- another ICE agent died just after 9 p.m. on Thursday while sitting in his home in Carson. The vi ... More >>

ICE Agent Shot at Home in Carson; 14-Year-Old Son Arrested for Murder

On the same night that three Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents were shot on the job in NorCal -- and about a month after a fatal shootout between agents at the Long Beach federal courthouse -- another ICE agent died just after 9 p.m. on Thursday while sitting in his home in Carson. The vi ... More >>

Stolen Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW Headed For Asia Seized at Port of L.A: PHOTOS

A Gone In 60 Seconds-style stolen car ring saw a shipment to Asia disrupted by federal authorities, who seized a near-new Ferrari and other vehicles, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today. The 20-car haul at the port of Los Angeles/Long Beach was worth $1.5 million, according to a CBP ... More >>

Pressed, Not Infused: A New Crushed Garlic-Flavored Olive Oil Revelation

Blame it on one too many "truffle" fries, but we're skeptical of every mushroom, garlic and jalapeño-knows-what infused oil out there, too. Enter "crush flavored" olive oils, the jam "confitures" (oh, the food regulation semantic wonders) of the olive oil world. Lodi-based Calivirgin has been pro ... More >>

How To Raise Hell and Influence People

Douglas Zerby Ruling: D.A. Clears Long Beach Police, Says They Killed Troubled Man in Self-Defense

Long Beach PostRally at LBPD headquarters.​Friends and family of Long Beach resident Douglas Derby were outraged last December, when two Long Beach police officers (identified today as Victor Ortiz and Jeffrey Shurtleff, veterans on the force) shot the 35-year-old dead on his doorstep. They sa ... More >>

Villaraigosa's 'Clean Truck' Plan for Port of Los Angeles Fails in 9th District Court of Appeals: Greenwashing Failed to Impress

Sparkling clean truck: Los Angeles greenwashing almost worked.​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's controversial "clean trucks" plan to squeeze independent truckers out of the Port of Los Angeles as a favor to the Teamsters -- a green-washing plan he sold as merely a wholesome effort to r ... More >>

Come on and Take a Wallride

Danny Logan, Long Beach 24-Year-Old, Found Fatally Stabbed on 710 Freeway Ramp

RaymondYu via FlickrThe 710, near where Danny Logan was murdered.​A young man found stabbed to death in Long Beach on Monday night has since been identified as 24-year-old Danny Calvin Logan, a local resident. The Long Beach Press-Telegram reports that an LBPD officer happened upon Logan's bo ... More >>

California Parents Can Be Forced to Attend Anti-Gang Classes if Kid Is Caught With Booze, Weed, Fake ID, No Bus Pass

picasaur.usTomorrow's gangsters.​California State Assemblyman Tony Mendoza is tackling L.A.'s gang problem one uninvolved parent at a time: In a bill that breezed through Legislature yesterday -- virtually unreported, except by our sister paper OC Weekly (so proud!) -- Mendoza gives the state ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Dueling Pig Roasts, Crawfish, Wine, LQ @ SK

18th Annual Long Beach Crawfish Festival Long Beach hosts a crawfish festival that features two days of the tasty crustacean battered, boiled, fried and more. There's also the usual array of Cajun music, booths, games and -- bonus! -- beignets. Where: Rainbow Lagoon When: July 30 - 31 Cost: $13 - ... More >>

America, You're Beautiful — Too Bad You Have to Work Tomorrow

Un-Gerrymandering Los Angeles

Get ready for the brawl of cutting Southern California in pieces, on paper

Tonight: Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven, Futurebirds, We Barbarians, Dax Riggs, the Sea of Cortez, Rookie of the Year, Justin Nozuka

Danny ClinchCracker and Camper Van Beethoven​David Lowery turns 50 years old on Friday, which means the man who gave us one of the finest lyrics of the '90s ("What the world needs now / is another folk singer / like I need a hole my head") is likely to be onstage tonight when the clock strikes ... More >>

ROUX THE DAY!

Live in L.A. Tonight: The Like, Sweethead, Los Campesinos, Fang Island, War Tapes

The Like​All signs point to yes -- fans seem to be really in love like with the new incarnation of the Like. Original members Z Berg and Tennessee Thomas, now hooked up with bassist Laena Geronimo and keyboardist Annie Monroe, are kicking off a four-Monday stand tonight at the Echo leading up ... More >>

April Showers Bring Long Beach A New Record

http://www.flickr.com/photos/farfromthepicture/​Last week we saw temperatures in the low 80s in the Los Angeles area. On Monday, however, the National Weather Service posted a "record event report," and it wasn't for sunny weather. It was for rainfall, in Long Beach, which posted a benchmark h ... More >>

Redheaded Stepchildren Beware: Students Encouraged To "Kick A Ginger"

Why couldn't it have been kick a Carrot Top day?​Out of the department of reverse discrimination, a redheaded Calabasas boy was allegedly kicked and beaten by middle school classmates who were apparently inspired by a Facebook post calling it "kick a ginger day." The action Friday was apparen ... More >>

Westwood Expansion: Sunnin Lebanese Opens Another Westwood Café

A new, more formal version of Sunnin Lebanese Café will be opening soon, directly across the street from the original on Westwood Blvd. According to employees, the new cafe will mimic the Long Beach location, with a more extensive menu, a 90-seat dining room, and an alcohol license. (See Eater LA's ... More >>

Sup Pop Signs Avi Buffalo! Releases 7-inch, Gets "Puffed-Up"

Hot off the press. Seattle mega-indie Sub Pop has just announced the signing of Long Beach's Avi Buffalo, which might be our favorite band that still has a member in high school. A 7-inch, "What's In It For" b/w "Jessica," is scheduled for release on December 8 (pre-order here), BUT, as an email fro ... More >>

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOBSTER?

No, You Can't Take Him Home

Glendale City Council: No to 710 Tunnel

One of L.A.'s great communal imbroglios is the extension of the Long Beach Freeway, also known as State Route 710. Years ago construction ended at its Alhambra terminus, so that it currently connects Long Beach directly to -- Valley Boulevard. Caltrans wants to complete it so that the highway will c ... More >>

HE WHO DIES WITH THE MOST FROSTING IN HIS HAIR WINS!

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Long Beach OK's Wetlands Deal The L.B. City Council has approved a deal to trade a 12-acre parcel from a public service yard for nearly 34 acres of Los Cerritos Wetlands located on Bixby Ranch.Man Ends Barricade Standoff Frank Torres peacefully left his Carson home, which is threatened with bank for ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Stadium Protests Begin Residents of Diamond Bar and Walnut organized the first of what promises to be many protests against Ed Roski's dream to bring an NLF team to Industry -- and the stadium he'll build. San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports.Feds Investigating L.A. Cops An L.A. Times story reveals th ... More >>

Stage Raw: Gearing Up

    L.A.'s spring theater season starts snapping from the weekend of January 9, with some trepidation over what the effects of the economic crisis will be on our arts scene. There's been plenty of chatter over at the mid-size and larger institutional theaters that donors are playing defen ... More >>

I'll Believe It When I Breathe It

Residents question ports’ clean-air plan

The Conversation

Rock Listings

For Feb. 10 - 16, Country & Folk listings follow

Hormones and Boogers

In Service to the Patron Saint of Cirrhosis

Killing Time on the Ghetto Blue

The nation's busiest- and deadliest - light rail line

Incident at Charcoal Alley

Guns and trouble on the Blue Line train

Highway 6 Revisited

My Friend the Holy Man

The quest for heaven as a scaled-back dream

Endorsements

The Weekly’s recommendations in the November general election

Island of Bliss

More Endorsements

Regular Joe's

A 75-year Long Beach tradition

Summertime

A calendar of festivals under the sun and stars