Long Beach Commentary

Pet Post USA, Providing Connections Throughout the Pet Community

The Pet Post USA Inc., is an online pet media publication connecting pet owners with pet products and services. The Pet Post USA Inc., promotes and supports community services, local businesses, and non-profit pet related organizations for the care of animals and the homing of pets; maintaining a kindhearted partnership that is rewarding for the [...]

Vote Daily To Help Florence Bixby Elementary School Win $50,000!

Dear Reader, please share this article with as many people as possible: Friends, family, neighbors, acquaintances, colleagues, classmates, teachers, EVERYONE (over age 13).   Your daily votes between October 24 and December 9 are REALLY important for Florence Bixby Elementary School in Long Beach, California.  At the end of the 46-day, $50,000 national competition sponsored by [...]

Mainstage Lineup For Long Beach Playhouse 2011-2012 Season Announced

The Long Beach icon on Anaheim Street announces its next Mainstage Season, bringing plenty of the quality classic theatre Long Beach has come to expect from the Playhouse, while throwing in a couple of twists. The Playhouse season subscription now includes six plays, with a seventh Holiday show available for purchase at a subscriber discount. [...]

Long Beach Playhouse Presents The Taming of The Shrew This Weekend

Long Beach Playhouse is proud to present Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare directed by Gregory Cohen. Cohen tackles this four-hundred year old commentary on male-female relationships with a western twist, creating a different approach to this legendary romantic work of theatre. David Santana will star as Petruchio, and Josh Gren will be featured [...]

Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew at The Long Beach Playhouse

Long Beach Playhouse is proud to present Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare directed by Gregory Cohen.  Cohen tackles this four-hundred year old commentary on male-female relationships with a western twist, creating a different approach to this legendary romantic work of theatre. David Santana will star as Petruchio, and Josh Gren will be featured [...]

Knabe Commentary: How the California Budget Affects L.A. County

The County is thoroughly reviewing the Governor’s proposed budget to identify how it will impact Los Angeles County services and our own budget. While I absolutely believe that services are provided best when they are closest to the people receiving them, it is imperative that with the power over these programs comes the purse to [...]

Commentary: LBUSD Leads School Reform

By Christopher J. Steinhauser, Superintendent LBUSD A few months ago, a researcher from one of the world’s leading business consulting firms walked into my office. She wanted to know more about the Long Beach Unified School District’s successful practices. I glanced at her business card, and I thought there must have been a mistake. Her [...]

Protecting Children Requires Solutions, Not Finger Pointing

Commentary by Supervisor Don Knabe As a father and grandfather, learning of the death of any child in our foster care system is heart-wrenching and unacceptable. Over the last few weeks, the media has reported on an increase in fatalities in our County system through a misguided focus on some recently released data. First and [...]

Aquarium of the Pacific Hosts New Urban Ocean Festival

In Southern California, more than 20 million people live within 50 miles of the Pacific Ocean. The Aquarium of the Pacific will explore and celebrate Southern California’s Urban Ocean with a new weekend festival that looks at human and wildlife uses of this amazing part of the world ocean. The event will include an art [...]

Chasing Legends – Tour de France Film @ The Art Theatre

Gripped Films presents Chasing Legends, a feature length documentary following the HTC-Columbia Team through the 2009 Tour De France. All of cycling is desperate for heroes they can believe in, Gripped Films gives them Team HTC-Columbia like they have never seen, through an intense and personal glimpse inside the most winning professional cycling team as [...]

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