I left the workshop with a loaf of beautiful sourdough, a few tablespoons of hungry starter and a new understanding of how much time it takes to make really good things.

More than 100 vendors offered everything from party vans to dance crews to Egyptian sarcophagus—because that’s a thing—to the gowns. Of course, the gowns.

On Saturday evening in Downtown, I swear, there was a couple hugging and kissing on every corner.

“There’s nothing else like this in Long Beach.”

If you know journalists, then you know some of us are a crazy bunch who like to test limits and explore boundaries.

The Long Beach Animal Shelter put out a plea last week on Facebook for kitten foster homes and our reporter couldn’t resist. 

They came with the kind of directed, aggressive laughter that often precedes a bar fight—something they may have taken part in in their very recent past.