Billing themselves as “America’s Most Charismatic Virtuosos,” the Rice Brothers bring their unique blend of casual, friendly and funny approaches to classical music to Music at the Point on Saturday, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m.
Married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra, and divorced from all three of them, Ava Gardner was fodder for 20th century gossip columnists and a signature component of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Mike Barbee took this photo while on the Port of Long Beach Photo Program Sunrise Cruise. This was early in the morning and shot handheld with a Nikon Z7. Send us your recent, best photo in JPG format of a Long Beach scene and we’ll publish it in an upcoming issue of the Beachcomber.
Long Beach will play a part in Virgin Group founder Richard Branson’s vision for space travel becoming accessible for more fellow inhabitants of planet Earth. The company’s Virgin Orbit has made Long Beach its headquarters and has plans to build out its presence in the city.
The discovery of oil and the expansion of the harbor turned Long Beach into a boom town in the early 1920s. In 1922, Long Beach built more homes per each 10,000 of its population than any other city in the United States (LA Times 1/1/1924).
In November 2022, Beachcomber published a story of the Long Beach City Council approving the payment of $1 million, for ongoing repairs to the Queen Mary.
