Column: When Long Beach sunk the plan to ship the Queen Mary to Japan
In mid-May 1997, after two hours of discussion, the council torpedoed the Queen’s adventure to Japan.
Column: New bridge name voting is over. We have a ‘winner’
The name that you shall call the bridge henceforth: Long Beach International Gateway Bridge.
Column: Dollars to doughnuts—using freebies to lure people into getting their lives saved
Here in Long Beach, you can be entered into a drawing for a Nintendo Switch or a couple of nights in one of the city’s fine hotels. The catch? To be eligible you have to get a vaccination that will prevent you from dying a slow and miserable death.
Column: Why Southern Californians throw a ‘the’ in front of freeway names and numbers
Many of the weak-of-heart who have over the years abandoned the southern part of the the aptly-named Golden State, have kept the “the,” so you’ll hear it now and again in some of the lesser western states. But it remains, by birth, a Southern California thing.
Column: Recalling the Cinerama Dome. Twice.
I did manage to see one film at the Cinerama Dome. It was my birthday, Jan. 12, 1969 and I asked my parents to drop me and my best friend off at the theater to see Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Opinion: Trump asks us to remember what he’s done to combat COVID. How could we forget?
Without getting tangled up in the intricacies of medical science and the whole messy business about how viruses work, Trump nearly a year ago put the threat of coronavirus in terms that a layperson could understand: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Column: 88 years later, an observant survivor’s experience in the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake
Today, March 10, is the 88th anniversary of the Long Beach Earthquake.
Column: Vaccination-bragging is trending
They call it their “golden ticket” and include a photo of getting a shot, or a filled-out CDC card reminding them (and you) of their second shot appointment, which will give them eternal life.
Column: It’s COVID Ash Wednesday; what else is there to give up?
The Lenten experience has traditionally been a mostly Catholic endeavor, though other religions also practice it, as do dedicated atheists who treat the 40-day sacrifice as an abbreviated, non-secular New Year’s Resolution.
Column: The best play for Super Bowl Sunday is taking a safety at home, but there are other options
LA County public health director Barbara Ferrer offers pretty blunt buzz-killing advice: “Don’t organize a party at home, don’t go to a Super Bowl party.”