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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Plunge, V-Burger close; BBQ fest to return; more

Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Oaxacan food, bundt cakes, closures, more

Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.

In much needed expansion of the Black food scene, Taste of the Caribbean opens in Long Beach

Chef Bernard James, who started his Taste of the Caribbean food truck back in 2014 before opening Hollywood's sole brick-and-mortar dedicated to Caribbean food, has officially opened up shop in East Long Beach.

City Council approves 21-story, 203-unit Downtown Long Beach development

The Downtown Long Beach development project—a 21-story, 203-unit residential tower—will take over the space at 615 E. Ocean Blvd.

Thank the bicycle gods: A guide to the new curb-protected Long Beach bike lanes

Concrete curbs are real protection compared to plastic bollard posts that errant drivers regularly mow down—and the fact that four new Long Beach bike lanes feature them means there is hope.

New 710 freeway expansion proposal: Metro still plans to widen, doesn’t rule out residential demolitions

Metro's new 710 freeway widening proposal is not as bad as the mega-widening that Metro was hell-bent on a couple years ago, but there's still a lot of harmful freeway/ramp/road expansion, and precious little transit, walk and bike improvements

A look at the Madonna-themed cocktails for Long Beach’s queerest vinyl listening session

The Social List bar manager Erik Rios-Wentzky and local bar celeb and queer advocate Devon Jade have come up with a handful of beautiful, liquid odes to the Queen of Pop—all in the name of Long Beach Last Call's queerest event.

Long Beach’s best vinyl listening club to host-queer centric session with Madonna’s ‘Erotica’

Long Beach Last Call—the 10-day celebration of our bar culture—is partnering with the Good Luck Vinyl Club for a queer-centric event that will listen to Madonna's controversial 1992 masterpiece, "Erotica."

Long Beach Last Call celebration of bar industry continues through Mar. 10

From industry only events and parties aboard the Queen Mary to dive bar bingo and proper Irish coffee lessons, Long Beach Last Call will celebrate the bar culture in a way no event has.

There’s a free disco party aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach this weekend

The Queen Mary, in conjunction with Long Beach Last Call, will be hosting a free disco'n'funk party inside its Observation Bar on Saturday, Mar. 2 from 8PM to 11PM.

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