News

• Koi fish auctioned at Japanese Garden
  Going once, going twice, sold! Koi fish were given to the highest bidder at the Japanese Garden Koi Auction Sunday.

• Education grants awarded
  In a joint venture with three local school districts, the Cal State Long Beach history department recently received a second award of federal grants from the Department of Education through its "Teaching American History" progra

• Cell phone numbers become portable
  A new requirement by the Federal Communications Commission will make it mandatory for cell phone carriers to allow for "phone number portability."

 

Opinion

• Our View: Engine company talks it up
  After breathing in the sickening, black smoke from the week of the fires, even our old dirty Southern California air seems refreshing and clean. But our air is still some of the worst in the country, and people's health in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire have been noted as suffering.

• Irregular appointments
  Last week the Senate held a 40-hour talk-a-thon in a Republican effort to convince the Democrats to stop blocking President Bush's judicial appointments. A couple of the nominees, Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owens, have been accused of the apparent crime of being conservative.

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• English professor wins prestigious literary award
  Anonymity is no longer a word that Suzanne Greenberg can use to describe herself.

• Panel discusses 'Resurrection,' exploring legacy of rapper
  The influence of Tupac Shakur on popular youth culture' was the topic of the discussion panel that was held by KJLH-FM radio at the Magic Johnson Theater in Los Angeles last Thursday night.

• Houdon's sculpted works displaying at Getty
  On-line Forty-Niner The works of Jean-Antoine Houdon, one of the most prominent sculptors of 18th century France, famous for his life-like portraits, are now on display at the Getty for the public for the first time in over 200 years.

• Film Review: 'Matrix Revolutions' marred with empty moments
  The ending of the "Matrix Revolutions" leaves you with more unanswered questions than you originally walked into the theater with; a trademark of the Wachowski brothers that is quickly proving tiresome.