Aquarium of the Pacific to reopen this weekend
A green sea turtle, flashlight fish that glow and clownfish are among the more than a dozen new animal species that are highlighted at the Aquarium’s new coral reef exhibit.
Life out in the world during COVID is unfair, baffling and confusing
Is the fact that they don’t serve food unfair to food-free bars? Yes, it is. And what, exactly, is food? The state’s guidance on restaurants, bars and wineries skirts the philosophical question “what is food?”
Fireworks have become more scourge than celebration in Long Beach neighborhoods
While fireworks have long been a problem in Long Beach, it’s unclear if things are getting worse, but no one is saying they’re getting better.
Is it time to change the name of Woodrow Wilson High School?
Wilson was a racist. And not your basic disgruntled neighbor sort of racist but, rather, “extremely racist—even by the standards of his time,” according to a 2015 article in Vox.
Opinion: What does ‘defunding the police’ mean?
Defunding police departments is an idea that, until very recently, seemed unthinkable.
Officer Anton Fischer, killed on his way to work, was ‘a 10-plus in a uniform’
On Friday morning, an honor line of police vehicles drove down Long Beach Boulevard from 11th Street to the 405 Freeway accompanying the vehicle carrying Fischer’s body as it was being transferred from St. Mary Medical Center to the LA County Coroner’s Office.
Citizens in Long Beach and LA County ask, ‘What time do I have to go home?’
Curfews continue in dozens of cities in the United States where there’s been violence or threats of violence, with many continuing through the weekend.
Quarantine Chronicles Day 80: The end is here!
I’ve written 80 columns in 80 days, and they’ve turned out to be, yes, a chronicle of life trapped in a house for that duration, wrapped up in a cozy cocoon of the internet, social media, Instacart, GrubHub, Postmates, Amazon, Netflix, Kindle books, 2 dogs and a daughter.
‘I gotta believe in hope’: Black leaders say change can come without violence
“I believe that if you believe in something, you don’t loot,” said Naomi Rainey-Pierson. “You protest, but you don’t destroy property. You don’t all fight over everything.”
Quarantine Chronicles Day 78: Watching, helpless at home, as hope for peace grows dim in Long Beach protest
The crowd grew throughout the afternoon to numbers that seemed too large to contain violence, so the taut suspense that had grown since the morning continued.