by El Gringo Over the past few days I've been forced to search for a parking spot blocks from where I live. Apparently, the TV series Dirty John came to town to film an episode for their upcoming season on the Bravo channel. This is the story of one John Meehan,…
The LA Open Table Tennis Tournament kicked off its move to Long Beach — and its partnership with the Ping Pong Fit International Festival – Saturday, Aug. 31 at the Long Beach Convention Center. The tournament, hosted for the past eight years at a Rosemead badminton club, woos players from all over the…
This year’s event, a week long, paint-your-brains-out-and-party extravaganza just wrapped up in Long Beach. Artists completed 20 new murals across Long Beach during the past week. POW! WOW! Long Beach artists fanned across the city to create large-scale public art and help beautify the city from Sunday, July 21, to Sunday, July…
Another sunny day in the East Village of downtown Long Beach, California, USA. The Queen Mary sits proudly near the entrance to the Port of Los Angeles a gallant reminder of the close cooperation between the USA and Great Britain during the war years as well as the heyday of so…
1982: Frustrated in his dream of becoming an Air Force pilot, a southern California truck driver gets himself airborne anyway with the help of a lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. Airborne, as in 16,000 feet worth of airborne. Poor eyesight put the kibosh on Larry Walters' top-gun dreams, but the…