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School will be cooler this fall on six more LBUSD campuses

by Tim Grobaty    in News

The latest Long Beach public schools to be modernized with air-conditioning are Cleveland, Garfield, Kettering and Riley elementary schools and Rogers and Stephens middle schools.

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July 18, 2018

Tune in soon to see Long Beach star in a rare film role as… Long Beach

by Tim Grobaty    in Filming

The show is set in the town of Long Beach, and crews have done a lot of filming here for the series’ first season, filming exteriors at several locations, including Bluff Park, a residence on 46th Street and the...

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July 17, 2018

Grobaty: Trump’s explanation of his Helsinki remarks does make sense—even if it doesn’t

by Tim Grobaty    in Commentary

The man hasn’t been born who hasn’t confused opposites from time to time — who’s said “yes,” when clearly he meant “no,” or who’s misunderstood the subtle nuances between “up” and “down” or in the instance of the matter...

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July 16, 2018

Meet Jim Danno, the man responsible for 100,000 street signs in Long Beach

by Tim Grobaty    in Jobs

Jim Danno, of the Long Beach Public Works Department, is on his hands and knees in the Pike Outlets parking garage, holding an electric grinder that's screaming heavy-metal racket at a signpost anchor, a fountain of sparks reflecting in...

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July 14, 2018

LB veterinarian has worked with ostriches, baby crocodiles and an iguana named Lizzy

by Tim Grobaty    in Jobs

Once you put so much work into an orphan and spend so much effort into keeping them alive, it’s hard to let them go.

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July 12, 2018

Bottles of murky liqueur, cherub sconces, salon chairs: Everything goes at Breakers Hotel estate sale

by Tim Grobaty    in City

Stuff has been building up in the Breakers Hotel since it was built in 1926, and almost all of it’s gotta go in order to give the building’s next incarnation, as a boutique hotel, a fresh start when it...

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July 11, 2018

SAM’s Twisted at the Pike will bring wonderful weirdness to South Pine Avenue on Saturday

by Tim Grobaty    in Festivals

The weird, wonderful and surreally out-of-whack Twisted at the Pike event is barreling back to South Pine Avenue for its fourth year at 5 p.m. Saturday at The Pike Outlets.

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July 9, 2018

Why you can’t get ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ out of your head

by Tim Grobaty    in Music

One song-psych in London has compiled a list of more than 2,000 songs, but she’s also noted that there’s no noticeable consensus over the most common ditties that get lodged in people’s brains to spin out a constant loop.

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July 7, 2018

Long Beach-raised doctor treats his first patient miles above the Atlantic Ocean

by Tim Grobaty    in Life

Dean LaBarba was nervous. The woman was his first patient and was showing no signs of life.

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July 6, 2018

One person’s favorite music is another person’s torture

by Tim Grobaty    in Music

Prolonged playing of songs including Tibetan chants, Christmas carols and Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” along and other random noises, at intense volume were famously used to try to get Branch Davidians to surrender at the...

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