Long Beach is invited to the city’s inaugural Mariachi Festival this weekend. The festival will be on Saturday, May 4, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Harry Bridge Park, 1126 Queens Highway. Councilmembers Roberto Uranga and Mary Zendejas teamed up to host the vibrant celebration of Latin culture event for the community. “As the …
Christopher Poole celebrates winning the Congressional Cup in Long Beach on Sunday,. April 28. Photo: Jo Murray, for SCNG New Yorker Chris Poole completed a dynamic double off the wind-whipped coast of Long Beach on Sunday, April 28, winning his second consecutive Congressional Cup in the 59th edition of the world’s longest-running annual match-race regatta. …
PARADISE — Lifelong Paradise resident Cherie Brown-Spellings can’t count how many times she’s been to the Gold Nugget Days Parade. “I think as we get more new people it’s going to be the only thing left of our history to have like, activities like this,” Brown-Spellings said. Gold Nugget Days is an annual Paradise festival …
When the state attached endangered species status to the iconic Southern California steelhead trout last week, it was like giving an aging Hollywood starlet new billing. But will the klieg lights bring attention, money and fame, or ready them for their final close-up? Known simply as Southern California steelhead, they once teemed in the tens …
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – When he was 17 years old, Gilberto Gonzalez moved with his family to Kensington. “I wasn’t in a good place,” said Gonzalez. “And my father gave me a camera and said you gotta do something with your life.” Gonzalez took that camera and ran with it, spending the early years of his …
The new education center at the Port Administration Building in Civic Center Plaza will be named after former Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, as the City Council approved the name change on Tuesday, April 23. The 10,000-square-foot space will be named the Congressman Alan Lowenthal Global Trade and Education Center, which Port of Long Beach …
LOS ANGELES — The red, blue and orange of Armenia’s flag flew on the streets of Los Angeles on Wednesday as marchers remembered the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in what is regarded as the first genocide of the 20th century. A crowd rallied in LA’s Little Armenia district before proceeding down Hollywood Boulevard. Another …
Schools will be closed today — Wednesday, April 24 — in the Los Angeles and Glendale unified school districts to commemorate Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, marking the 109th anniversary of the start of events widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. The LAUSD Board of Education adopted a policy in …
A frolicking juvenile humpback repeatedly breached from waters among the coves off South Laguna, drawing cheers not only from passengers aboard whale-watching vessels but also from residents in homes along the steep hills overlooking the shoreline. Also spotted were fin whales, minke whales and dolphins on Sunday, April 21 – a display that couldn’t have …
CHICO — Community members collected baseballs, batting gloves, cigarette butts and small plastic trash — among other assorted items — Saturday during the fourth annual Chico Spring Clean Day. The city holds the event during Earth Day weekend to clean up different parts of Chico. The parks division supplied trash bags, trash grabbers and a …