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Food & Drink

Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Polly’s Pie founder dead at 92; Mangiafoglie starts brunch; more

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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
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Why the upcoming 4th Street farmers market is clutch for Long Beach chefs and the community

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The new 4th Street farmers market will take over the Retro Row parking at the southeast corner of Cherry Avenue and 4th Street come June 5.
Food & Drink

Hey Brother Baker—Long Beach’s most underrated bakery—inches toward shop opening

Hey Brother Baker has long been Long Beach's most underrated bake shop—and now it's ready for its first brick-and-mortar.
Food & Drink

Long Beach’s Owl Owl Thai-Lao restaurant to open second location in Belmont Shore

Owl Owl—the Signal Hill-based Thai-Lao restaurant—is offiically opening its second location in Belmont Shore.
Food & Drink

Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sweetfin, Republic of Pie close in Shore; Chinito’s 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.
Food & Drink

CoffeeDrunk—Long Beach’s continually expanding shop—offers a lesson in ambition, community centeredness

CoffeeDrunk is one of Long Beach's most defining coffee shops—and it is quickly expanding.
Cultural Currents
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Culture & Commentary

Long Beach’s most unique gallery, Dark Art Emporium, to permanently close

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In a heartbreaking loss to the Long Beach art scene, Dark Art Emporium in the East Village Arts District will close come May 31.
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach’s premiere listening session club, Good Luck Vinyl, goes brunch for Pride

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Good Luck Vinyl Club—Isaak Navarro's monthly album listening session that takes over The Social List—is taking on Pride this Sunday.
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach Lost: The 16-foot baby sculpture that terrorized prudish Alamitos Beach residents

A massive, 16-foot, saturated-ROYGBIV-yellow baby sculpture from Matt Wedel once terrorized Long Beach prudes.
Culture & Commentary

Amid Trump-blamed loss of title sponsorships, Long Beach Pride 2025 features no headliners, scales down

Long Beach Pride 2025 is facing massive uphill battles with its festival, one of the longest-running Pride festivals in the nation.
Development & Urbanism
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Urbanism & Development

Water taxi between San Pedro and Long Beach for the 2028 Olympics? Metro’s exploring it.

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Metro will be looking into the feasibility of having a water taxi shuttle Olympic spectators and participants between San Pedro and Long Beach.
Urbanism & Development

How proposed residential complex Apsara could change housing in Long Beach (and beyond)

Apsara Long Beach, a proposed 161-unit development at 400 E. Anaheim St., could alter the way the city zones and builds housing.
Urbanism & Development

Alexan West End, Long Beach’s 600-unit residential project, continues crawl upward

Construction crews for the Alexan West End have laid its foundation and have begun building toward the sky, moving progress forward on the largest residential development under construction for Long Beach.
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Events & Festivals

LA Independent Beer Fest 2025 to bring over 75 breweries to Long Beach

Brian Addison
LA Independent Beer Fest 2025 will take place on Saturday, June 14, transforming Shoreline Aquatic Park into hop heaven.
Events & Festivals

Long Beach BBQ Festival 2025 to bring the meats, music, merriment and more

Brian Addison
Long Beach BBQ Festival 2025 is ready to take over Shoreline Aquatic Park this Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24.
Events & Festivals

Moonlight Movies on the Beach returns with 2025 lineup

Brian Addison
Moonlight Movies on the Beach returns for its 2025 outing come June 17 with its first screening, "The Goonies."
Events & Festivals

‘Retro Romp’ in Bixby Knolls will require bar crawlers to dress up as Mrs. Roper, grandma, or grandpa

Brian Addison
The upcoming "Retro Romp" in Bixby Knolls on Sunday, June 1, from noon to 4PM is a bar crawl-meets-Grandma costume party.

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