A ceremony on August 28 heralded the new mental health facilities at the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach, touted by officials there as the national example of future psychiatric care for the military.
Many years ago, as a newly minted New York City restaurant manager, I was reviewing the restaurant’s service contracts. I noted what appeared to be the exorbitant monthly trash collection charge.
Things are peaceful and quiet in the farming town of Earling, Iowa. Peaceful except in the home of the young Emma Schmidt (Abigail Cowen). She begins to suffer from terrifying and inexplicable phenomena and develops an unnatural hatred towards anything sacred.
From Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby and Deathtrap, comes “Veronica’s Room,” a chilling mystery thriller that explores the thin line between reality and fantasy at the Long Beach Playhouse through Sept. 27.
What happened last week at Andres Car Wash and Coast Hand Car Wash was not immigration enforcement. It was a dragnet of terror. ICE agents stormed the Long Beach properties without judicial warrants, snatching up workers in defiance of a court order that explicitly prohibited raids of this kind.
Music enthusiasts have a major spectacle to look forward to, as the ninth annual New Blues Festival (NBF) makes its return to Long Beach’s Shoreline Aquatic Park.
While it’s earned the informal name of “Space Beach,” the Douglas Park commercial district in Long Beach is housing a lot more than intergalactic transport companies.
