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A Breakdown of Belmont Businesses

Welcome to the Shore, Belmont Shore that is. A place where you can stroll the streets this winter season and become enticed with the bright Christmas lights, green and red holiday décor and furry reefs on almost every lamp-post on the street. While Christmas decorations in Belmont Shore have been coming up since the start of November, local businesses have recently been closing down. Full story

2012: End of the World Bucket List

2012: End of the World Bucket List According to the Mayan calendar, the world is allegedly coming to an end on December 21, 2012. This is because the mystical calendar the Mayan's created thousands of years ago doesn't go past this date. For those believing next December that fire and brimstone will rain down upon our earth, or that great waves will flood the land, they may want to put together a bucket list of sorts to make sure the last year of their lives is by far their best. Full story

Five Alternatives to Hold You Over During The NBA Lockout

The NBA managed to do the complete opposite of what the NFL did when the NBA players started their own labor discussions two years ago with their owners. Now that the chance of there being no basketball this season, NBA fans will have to find other avenues to fill the void that basketball has left in their lives. Full story

Petra: The Club that Gives Back

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Exchanging those ornate gifts under the colorfully-lit Christmas tree, the sweet smell of delicious delights cascading throughout the kitchen, and cozying up with that significant someone by the dimly lit fire, burning through a cold wintery night. Full story

Joe Jost's: From Barber Shop to Bar

Beer, peanuts, bar stools, the clink of beer glasses, all this can be found in bars across the country. But at Joe Jost's in Long Beach, it's more about the experience than just the beer. First opened in 1924 as a barbershop, Joe's – as the regulars call it – was started by Joe Jost, a man of Hungarian roots who came to the United States through Ellis Island in New York. Full story

Current Dynamics of the Artist–DJ Relationship: Both Sides Weigh In

"Its kinda wack that a lot of artists don't know they need to bring their own DJ to a show," said Billie Knight, on-air radio personality and disc jockey for Power 98 FM. "Most artists typically just use the house DJ or whoever's there. Unfortunately, when something goes wrong with their CD – it skips or whatever – then it falls back on me, the DJ," Knight continued. Full story

Get Hyped about Getting Linked

Have you ever felt there was something wrong with the school systems, the food that you are eating and the tuition that you are paying? The solution to these problems can be found at a new website launched by a group of CSULB design students called hyperlinked.

Dead Man's Party brings Life to Zombies

Amidst the chaos that ensued at the Oct. 29 4th annual Long Beach Zombie Walk, the Dead Man's After-Party featuring Sirena Serpentina's Tribal Fire Belly Dancers and former members of Oingo Boingo, was an outdoor event that went off without a hitch. Perhaps because the concert venue was at the Long Beach Press Telegram parking lot, giving it some distance from the milieu of flesh-eating zombies that roamed downtown Long Beach's Promenade district.