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04/04/2024 - 5:05pm
Attorney Catherine Grant Wieder took this photo from Bluff Park using her iPhone with native Menzies’ Goldenbush shrubs in the foreground. Send us your recent, best photo in JPG format of a Long Beach scene and we’ll publish it in an upcoming issue of the Beachcomber. Email to editor@beachcomber.news, write “Best Shot” in the subject line and include your name, contact information (which is not...
04/04/2024 - 5:03pm
This is the commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three...
04/04/2024 - 4:57pm
On March 22, management at the Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal laid off nine of its 14 staff members. Melissa Evans, chief executive officer for the Post and Business Journal, wrote in a March 24 Long Beach Post commentary that it was “an enormous blow … but it was better than letting the community asset the Post has become disappear altogether.”
Members of a newly formed union,...
04/04/2024 - 4:54pm
My first encounter with the Long Beach Post was during a summer 2008 lunch at the downtown Fish Grill with Verizon VP Mike Murray and former USC and College Football Hall of Fame running back Sam “Bam” Cunningham.
I was unprepared as to why I’d been invited to this get-together, but Murray explained it. He’d been a fan of my Sunday morning KLON R&B show and brought up a movie pitch he and...
04/04/2024 - 4:24pm
After making their first National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament in 12 years, the Long Beach State University men’s basketball team was knocked out in the first round by University of Arizona, losing 65-85 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 21.
The No. 15 seed Beach were snuffed by the No. 2 seeded Wildcats on the first day of March Madness. Arizona’s Kylan Boswell...
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