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With latest menu, Long Beach’s Heritage finds its storytelling arch

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As with all things that are Chef Philip Pretty, his summer sprawl of a menu at Heritage in Long Beach is never quite what it seems.
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Long Beach bistro Taste Beer-Wine-Kitchen to host last service on Aug. 15

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Taste Beer-Wine-Kitchen, the much-loved Belmont Heights bistro, will shutter following its last service on Aug. 15.
Long Beach Food Scene

Most anticipated restaurants opening in Long Beach in 2026: UPDATED

Here are the Long Beach restaurants that are (hopefully) set to open in 2026, should the permitting and funding gods approve.
Long Beach Food Scene

Dilly’s is one of Long Beach’s best sandwich (and beer tap) shops

Dilly's direct approach to sandwiches is for sandwich lovers—no better expressed than through their Long Beach Food Scene Week 2026 offering.
Long Beach Food Scene

Meet the Long Beach chef quietly changing how Sura Korean BBQ expresses itself

Chef Andy Uk Chang has spent the past year reshaping not what Sura Korean BBQ is, but how it expresses itself.
Long Beach Food Scene

With lines out the door, Due Fiori in Long Beach adds summer items

Barely a year and a half after opening, Due Fiori has done something that many restaurants spend years trying to accomplish: It no longer feels new.
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WERK is Long Beach’s latest queer space—and it wants everyone to be seen

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There's a new, three-level queer bar in town. And she will rightfully tell you that you betta WERK, Long Beach.
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Here are the places to watch the World Cup in Long Beach

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Long Beach restaurants are going all out for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Here's where you can comfortably get your soccer on.
Culture & Commentary

A kitchen operation out of your Long Beach home? Here’s what to know

After years of advocacy, policy discussions, feasibility studies, and city approvals, Long Beach residents can now officially apply to operate Micro-Enterprise Home Kitchen Operations—better...
Culture & Commentary

Amid Long Beach’s Pride debacle, we lost the whole damn point

Amid the blame game, we forgot that Long Beach Pride has always been for the have-nots, the black and brown kids, and the unprivileged.
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Urbanism & Development

Metro clearing mature trees to widen 91 Freeway through North Long Beach

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Metro contractors are cutting down mature trees in order to clear space to add one more westbound lane on the 91 through North Long Beach.
Urbanism & Development

Beach Streets returns to Long Beach with its best route ever

Beach Streets—the City of Long Beach's removal of vehicles from streets to make way for everyone from bicyclists and skaters to walkers and those...
Urbanism & Development

Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson approved for Metro Board

A committee unanimously approved Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson for a Metro Board seat, effective July 1.
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Events & Festivals

Long Beach’s zine fest dedicated all things cats returns for 2026

Brian Addison
Cat Zine Fest returns for its second iteration thanks to one of Long Beach's most unique spaces, Cool Cat Collective.
Events & Festivals

Moonlight Movies on the Beach returns with 2026 lineup

Brian Addison
The city’s free, summer-long, movies-on-the-beach series, Moonlight Movies on the Beach, is back for 2026.
Events & Festivals

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

Brian Addison
The LA Independent Beer Fest will once again take over Shoreline Aquatic Park in Downtown Long Beach on June 6.
Events & Festivals

Meet the Long Beach locals trying to reinvent the Broadway queer scene

Brian Addison
For the Playa Larga events team, their quiet but clear push to uplift Gayborhood parties has been a mission of love and evolution.

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