LONG BEACH - Wench Scarlett Harlett and Pirate Lycan share a kiss on the Veterans Memorial Pier in Long Beach, Calif. during Pier Daze - Pirate Invasion and Faire. To see more pictures or buy reprints click here>>
June 2008 Archives
I remember filling up my car once at a remote gas station somewhere between Baker and Pharump and the pump stopped at 50 bucks. Looks like the new limit is one-hundred dollars! and this is a Vons!
Crew members use a black shade to block the Press-Telegram exit and stop me from taking pictures during a scene from the show Prison Break filming at Arco Center in Long Beach. Little did the crew know that they were filming right in front of the newspaper offices. The location manager said he didn't want me taking pictures because I might spoil the plot.
I guess thats the risk you run when you film in front of a newspaper.
The Press-Telegram has a long standing feature in the print edition called Roving Reader. Subscribers are asked to submit photos of themselves in exotic places holding a copy of the P-T. I'm sure this was harder years ago when the paper was thicker, but these days travelers can just folder it up and stick it in their pocket.
During a recent trip to Cambodia writer Greg Mellen and I didn't want to be left out so we took our own Roving picture. If you want to see more readers roving click here If you want to submit your own photo click here
Opera singer Amber Mercomes will be performing June 29 at the Museum of Latin American Art in a show featuring Latin and African-American music. She then will hit the road for Rome, where she will peform in the lead role in an opera to be performed at a festival.
The Gay and Lesbian Center in Long Beach held weddings every half-our on the day same-sex marriages became legal in California.
Somebody made a mistake!
Runners on the Los Angeles River trail during the 10k race in the first Wrigley River Run.
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This blog is a journal of Long Beach, California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It will be updated frequently with the pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram.
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
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