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Wage Theft Amidst Ongoing Strike, Long Beach Convention Center Faces Backlash

By Daniel Rivera, Labor Reporter On March 18, workers from the Long Beach Convention Center rallied at Long Beach City…

9 months ago

Remember the Promise to Lower Prices on Day One? ― It’s time for a third impeachment

I was sitting at my favorite coffee shop on Sixth Street drinking espresso the other day watching a young woman…

10 months ago

“Tragedy Gift Shop” more fable than play

Commonplace gun violence. Exploitation. Sensationalism. Amoral corporate greed. This is today’s America, and it’s enough to make you want to…

10 months ago

LA’s Political Firestorm ― Former Fire Chief, Mayor Bass, and a Bold Councilman

The former Chief went on a media tour.  CNN, The CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.   Newspaper, radio, and…

10 months ago

Talking Trade, Kool-Aid and Gaslighting ― A Barstool Debate on Tariffs, Robots, and Reality

The problem is that even though this is a kind of performative political theater, real consequences will come. It will…

10 months ago

Lydia Maria Child’s Forgotten Lessons in a Nation Still Learning the Hard Way

As Americans muddle through this “find out” period, 45 days after we inaugurated the first criminal to the presidency, it’s…

10 months ago

Garage Theatre turns 25 by the grace of community

When I sat down with a quartet of Garage Theatre co-founders in 2010 as they got ready to celebrate their…

10 months ago

Long Beach Opera dials up the ambition for season’s second aleatory offering

Having just seen/heard Long Beach Opera’s staging of El Relicario de los Animales, I don’t have a clue what they’re…

10 months ago

Long Beach Playhouse channels the spirit of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson”

According to the American Psychological Institute, the term ‘intergenerational trauma’ did not come into use until the 1960s. So while…

10 months ago