Long Beach (New York)

Andreas Mitisek: Where Opera Dares to Go

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Andreas Mitisek is sitting in the Long Beach Opera's modest church-rental office near the southern terminus of the 710 freeway, days after wrapping the first performances of th ... More >>

BBQ Contest At The Queen Mary This Saturday Your Insider's Guide to Sampling!

Legit barbecue contests like the ones you see on TV don't happen much in Los Angeles. Did you make it the contest at Santa Anita Park we told you about? No? Well, the 1st Annual West Coast BBQ Classic drops anchor this weekend at the Queen Mary Events Park in Long Beach, and it is the last sanction ... More >>

L.A. Is an Open Book

Shawn Tischler, TV Extra and Venice Denizen is Missing; Dad Seeks Help Finding Schizophrenic Son

Shawn Tischler, missing denizen of Venice Beach ​By Carly Klein Schizophrenic former TV extra Shawn William Tischler went missing May 27 in Pacoima, and his father is asking the Los Angeles public's help in finding the slight, tattooed Venice regular who "doesn't know who he is and gets confus ... More >>

Where There's Smoke, There's Fuego

Looking for love — and a good restaurant — along the Belmont Shore

Blue Skies Forecast For L.A. Trade

Port of Los Angeles.​2008 and 2009 were described as "dismal years" for international trade at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. But 2010 and 2011 are looking up, according to a report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation.

Man Shot Near Long Beach Medical Marijuana Dispensary

​In the wake of a debate about whether or not medical marijuana dispensaries attract crime in places like Los Angeles, Long Beach police are reporting a man was shot in an attack that might have been connected to a pot shop there. The shooting happened Monday shortly after 9 p.m. in an alley ... More >>

THE GLEE STOPS HERE

HEY BATTER!

Today In WTF: L.A. Tornado Warning Issued (UPDATED

​A tornado warning for south central Los Angeles County has been canceled Tuesday afternoon, but another was issued for southeastern Orange County, southwester Riverside County and northwestern San Diego County. This as the second of three successive winter storms hit the Southland Tuesday. T ... More >>

Long Beach's Bubblin' Crude Could Be Worth $280 Million To City

​An oil field beneath Long Beach could be worth $280 million to the city over the next 10 years. It's almost as if Jed Clampett himself shot a hole in the ground near the city's port, in an area know as the Wilmington Oil Field. The projections were reported over the weekend in the Long Beach ... More >>

High Schoolers Nabbed For ... Grabbing Booty

​Five freshmen from Long Beach Poly High School were in court today to face arraignment on suspicion of misdemeanor sexual battery. They were nabbed after two ninth-grade girls accused the football and basketball team members of inappropriately touching them during a lunch break. In other wor ... More >>

STREET SCREAM

Long Beach Says, "Take a Bike!"

​While many cities over the past 20 years have made cosmetic gestures of accommodation to the growing demands of bicyclists, some road modifications, such as the skinny bike lane, seem to be more of an attractive nuisance than help.  LAStreetsBlog has been examining how Long Beach has been mo ... More >>

Today in Photographs: October 7, 1951

​Collision Courses. Two accidents occurring on the same day share similarities: A restless crowd of gawkers and a woman bent over a fallen man. Top: Traffic accident at Olympic Boulevard and Pelham Avenue in West L.A. (LA Examiner/USC)(Bottom: Two speedboats collided at the mouth of the L.A. River ... More >>

BELLY UP TO THE BALLET

LOVE TO LOVE YOU LOBSTER

End of Week Bits n' Bites: Fuego in Long Beach, Hungry Cat Crabs, Smokin' Joint BBQ, Essex Happy Hour

Fuego at the Hotel Maya brings a coastal oriented, pan-Latin menu and a non-chain option to the Long Beach waterfront. The restaurant, bar and lounge incorporates an indoor/outdoor flow, faces expansive views of the port and beyond, and shows off a mixture of polychromatic materials and textures des ... More >>

Raise Your Arms, Flick Your Bic, and Close Your Eyes

Today in Photographs: July 19, 1951

A Long Beach man pushes his wife on a raft to drier ground as high tides flood homes located near coastal oil fields.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

Where Have All the Cajuns Gone? (Psssst: Long Beach.)

Post-Prop. 8 Ruling Rallies

While there will be media conferences aplenty following today's California State Supreme Court ruling on a trio of challenges to Proposition 8, at least three public rallies and/or marches are planned for the L.A. area:East L.A., 1-3 p.m.: The Latino Equality Alliance is organizing a news conference ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Is Home Shuling Next? L.A.'s Jewish day schools are facing big problems as the economy continues to teeter. L.A. TimesPrick Up Your Ears City officials are accusing mercenary dog rescuers of "cherry picking" their pound purchases based on later, lucrative resale value. L.A. Daily News Arboretum ... More >>

Snoop Dogg's Medical Marijuana Card: Don't Leave Home Without It

According to TMZ, Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg chivalrously stepped into a potentially awkward situation at a Norfolk, Virginia hotel, when he claimed that a package of pot mailed from Canada to one of the Doggfather's crew -- was actually intended for him. Snoop then flashed his California medical ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

CalTrans Slammed in Flintridge Crash Laura Olhasso, the mayor of La Canada Flintridge, claimed that CalTrans has ignored her town's concerns about runaway trucks on Angeles Crest Highway. A big rig killed two people and injured 12 Wednesday when its driver lost control and struck several vehicles be ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Slumdance Film Festival It was all Slumdog, all the time at the 81st Academy Awards, or so it seemed. DHD, VarietyNo L.A. Rustbelt Yet Manufacturing is still the king of L.A. County's economy -- even if people see less of it around -- according to an ombudsman from the L.A. Economic Development Corp ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Suicide Girls Lingerie Party, Stylized Anarchy of Kawaiietly Please, Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention, Dog Show Madness

For those who see Valentine's Day as much more than Hallmark's evil scheme to tap your piggy bank, the romantic holiday can bring on full-blown panic attacks for singles (and couples) who don't have a plan of action. Luckily, Angelenos had more than enough events and parties to pick from over the we ... More >>

JetBlue Comes to LAX

Cheap, friendly and nonstop. Did we mention cheap? Those qualities have endeared JetBlue to Los Angeles travelers ever since the airline began flights out of Long Beach in the 1990s. Starting June 17, JetBlue is finally coming to LAX, from where it will fly two flight daily to Boston's Logan Interna ... More >>

Sarah Silverman -- Call Me!

Billionaire Eli Broad's Fat Check to Long Beach Unified

In a reminder that it's pure fallacy when teachers and pols claim that tough, urban schools filled with poor kids cannot produce high grades and academic achievement, the tough, urban Long Beach Unified School District was today named one of four finalists for "most improved" urban schools in the n ... More >>

Sound Ideas

Ink N Iron Festival

Saturday, June 7th Queen Mary, Long Beach The greasers, rockers, 'billies and Betties couldn't ask for a better summer shindig than Saturday at the Ink N Iron Festival in Long Beach. Outside the Queen Mary, thousands flocked to see shimmering custom-designed roadsters, lowriders and jalopies gli ... More >>

This Is Rock & Roll Radio!

How Ron Cey and a 10-watt station in Long Beach changed my life

Move It or Lose It

Rock the Mic Like Cal Worthington!

Ugly Duckling put the old-school house-party vibe on wax

Style from the Pile

Digging for buried vintage treasure in Long Beach

The Ring of Truth

Sharing Tookie’s Day: A Coroner’s Cross Section of December 13

God's Little Acre of Books

Où est la bibliothèque?

The Air That We Breathe

Just when it looked like we might win the war on smog, a new and more deadly form of air pollution stalks Los Angeles

Stench of Politics

Industry money to the “Mod Caucus” fouls the fight for clean air

Roseanne Barr’s Domestic Policy

The working-class hero knows you’re hurting and wants to help

Ask Mr. Gold

If It Happened Here

A bioterrorism attack on Los Angeles might look a lot like this

Letters

The Little Company that Can

An Eye for Anarchy

Cracking down on activists in Long Beach

Carrying On at the Atreus Motel

Hybrid Movement

No break for anarchists in Long Beach

Long Reach