Sasha Kanno has always had a deep connection to the earth and what it can bring about–quite literally. In a continually booming urban landscape that often exchanges concrete for earth, the importance of reconnecting people to produce–straight from its source–is something that is important to Sasha. And even more, it’s important for sustainability. After all, […]

Here’s the thing: I love roundabouts and pretty much hate most traffic signals. And here’s why: the former are simply better on all every level possible. And, frankly put, the folks who are dealing with the Daisy Bike Boulevard and its proposed three roundabouts should take a step back and regard not only substantial evidence […]

This is part two of a series on Long Beach housing. To read part one, which examines Long Beach’s migration movements and its ties to housing, click here.  The author would like to thank Housing Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, the Long Beach Community Database, Kerry Gallagher, and Patrick Moreno. **** As previously mentioned, […]

Little is it known that a Long Beach-based organization, the Fair Housing Foundation, played an extensively large part in creating California’s current open-housing policies and sale/rental equalities. This is particularly interesting given that Long Beach’s Housing Element (HE)–the state-required planning document that analyzes a city’s housing needs in eight-year blocks–is due for renewal this October. The draft HE, released […]

It’s the sadly abandoned building that attempted to be M.C. Escher-like but ended up looking more like a forrest green and maroon mess. And the property that is 245 W Broadway–what was once filled with offices and last occupied, at least in one of them, with a strange artist collective known as 245 West Broadway […]

Built in 1959, the famed Kenneth Wing-designed building between 1st & Broadway–sadly vacant since 2005–has officially closed escrow following the sale of the property by the city to developers Ratkovich Properties for $2.1 million. Having closed escrow June 7, the Long Beach developer–through a partnership known as 100 LBB Real Estate LLC with Los Angeles-based […]

We should create open, free, accessible graffiti space. There, I said it. And I know it holds with it a plethora of cons–the term graffiti itself, the worry of what will be painted, the influx of those people that neighborhoods supposedly “don’t want”–and I, albeit begrudgingly, get this. I know my choice of terminology–“graffiti” over […]