Driving through downtown Long Beach, it’s impossible to miss the massive development projects every few blocks. The skyline is transforming from rows of apartment buildings and houses built mostly between 1900 and 1950, to the colossal condominium projects of today. Long Beach is being rapidly gentrified and as the older…

Undocumented immigrants are part of the backbone of American society and basically, always have been. In the 1800's Chinese immigrants built the transcontinental railroad. Later it was the Irish, the Jews, the Italians and the Germans who were considered ‘immigrants’, that worked for lower wages. Presently, we have a very…

What exactly is going on in Venezuela right now? Turns out you will get some very different answers depending on who you ask. According to widespread reporting by the mainstream media people in Venezuela are starving and are eating out of garbage cans to survive. While there may have been…

Celebrating Earth Day in the shadow of the Port of LA In an effort to address the environmental inequities faced by communities in close proximity to industrial sites like the Port of Los Angeles, downtown Long Beach hosted an Earth Day festival on April 27th with resources and guest speakers…

According to the DMV, at any given moment throughout the day, roughly 660,000 drivers are attempting to use their cell phones or other electronic devices. In 2018 the CDC found that one-third of drivers between the ages of 18 and 64 read or send texts messages while in traffic. Driving experiments conducted by Car and Driver magazine, found that sober drivers who were texting took significantly longer to react to an alert than drivers with a blood alcohol content of .08, the typical legal standard for intoxication.

The Atlas Obscura Society of Los Angeles brings novelties to life from the far corners of the globe. On Sunday April 21st Lenka Moráková took the audience at Hotel Figueroa on a sensory journey with her one-of-a-kind Bohemian cristal intrument, amplified electronically and by two pieces of metal that look…

Is the Body Positivity Movement truly positive? Thanks to the Body Positivity Movement, the concept of beauty no longer needs to conform to media’s photo-shopped standards. Jamie Leigh Curtis famously posed au natural and explained what a difference hair, makeup, and lighting can make- not to mention plastic surgery. So…

With the Mueller investigation over and the summary findings that we know so far it is time to reflect on a few things. First, does Mueller’s refusal to say whether or not Trump obstructed justice mean that he most likely did in fact obstruct justice? Second, do the many indictments…

Something powerful is happening everyday in Los Angeles. Yes, we all know that LA is the place for auditions, clubs, celebrity spotting and amusement parks, but increasingly, it has become the place for yoga! Not just yoga in fancy, pricey studios, filled with wealthy white woman, but yoga in parks…