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Officer Involved in a Shooting in Belmont Heights

LONG BEACH — An officer-involved shooting took place at about 6 p.m. Oct. 21, on the 200 block of Park Avenue,…

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Matthew Cordle: Rupert Pupkin for the Internet Generation

By Greggory Moore In Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, Robert De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin, a delusional comic manqué…

12 years ago

Getting Around Campaign Reform

The Long Beach city attorney recently sent out a memo citing questions “from several parties” that raises constitutional questions about…

12 years ago

A Fall Twist On A Legendary Tart

By Lori Lynn Hirsch Stokoe, Food Writer and Photographer Stéphanie Tatin’s inadvertent “mistake” in cooking an apple pie upside-down has…

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Roots of California Bohemia Lurk in a Hollywood Alley

By Lionel Rolfe Maybe a block or so away from Paramount Pictures, deep in darkest Hollywood, there's a short alley…

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Silenced Journalist Faces 100 Years in Prison

By Cory Hooker, Editorial Intern Activist-journalist Barrett Brown, who faces up to 100 years in prison for sharing leaked documents…

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Who Was The Real Hero Of The 1910 Bombing Of The Los Angeles Times?

By  Lionel Rolfe Lionel Rolfe , along with Nigey Lennon and Paul Greenstein, penned the book, Bread And Hyacinths: The Rise and…

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Israel’s Mystic Pull

By Lionel Rolfe  At a point in the mid-70s, when some nefarious anti-Semitism was rearing its ugly head in the…

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Tales of an Extraordinary Madman

By Lionel Rolfe  In 1972, when I saw fellow Los Angeles Free Press writer Charles Bukowski’s book in the window…

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Green Fleet Truckers Strike For Union Rights

24-Hour Strike Sends Message: We Have Rights, We Are Not Afraid By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor Three days before fast…

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