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Vans Warped Tour to come to Long Beach in 2025

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The Vans Warped Tour has announced that they will be bringing their famed rock festival—which had its last showing in 2019—to Long Beach for two days, July 26 and 27, 2025, as part of its 30th anniversary.
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Port City Tavern joins the spooktacularly stellar lineup of Long Beach Halloween cocktail menus

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Port City Tavern has a whimsical, spooky array of Halloween cocktail offerings and skull-tacular decorations.
Food & Drink

El Barrio tackles pricey food directly with ‘recession lunch’ items: ‘It’s what the community needs’

El Barrio's new happy hour menu includes tons of items under $10 and nearly every single hearty dish being under $15. And for a space with parking across the street, it is a gem for Long Beach in more ways than one.
Food & Drink

Long Beach breweries score at the 2024 Great American Beer Fest

Ambitious Ales, ISM Brewing, and Trademark Brewing all scored medals at the 2024 Great American Beer Fest.
Food & Drink

Stache Bar’s horror movie-inspired cocktail menu marks a return to form

Stache Bar, 4th Street's much beloved dive-meets-high-end-spirits space, helped introduce Long Beach to good liquor. And now, they return with their first formal cocktail menu in a while.
Food & Drink

Long Beach Food Scene Intel: JP23 space has new tenant; BMore Protein Pub closes; 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.
Cultural Currents
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Culture & Commentary

The $100 bagel and $85 calzone: Redefining (and questioning) luxury food in Long Beach

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Yes, in Long Beach in 2024, there exists a $100 bagel at Olive & Rose and a calzone at Marlena costing you $85.
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach Art Scene: Much-loved DTLB Art Walk returns Oct. 12

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The DTLB Art Walk is returning Oct. 12 thanks to some spearheading from the Downtown Long Beach Alliance.
Culture & Commentary

Dragula watch party, weekly drag show comes to DTLB’s 4th Horseman for all those dark queers’n’drag lovers

A Dragula watch party? At Long Beach's own horrorcore pizzeria, The 4th Horseman? Yes and yes. Long Beach drag misfit Girl Haggard will be...
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach Art Scene: With upcoming remake, Art Theatre to screen original ‘Nosferatu’ with live score

The Art Theatre Long Beach will be screening the 1922 horror classic Nosferatu with a live score by Jack Curtis Dubowsky.
Development & Urbanism
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Urbanism & Development

Harbor Yard, the $92M affordable housing project in Central Long Beach, nears completion

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Harbor Yard—the massive, $92M affordable housing development at 2400 Long Beach Blvd.—is nearing completion as crews finally begin the final touches after breaking ground in early 2023.
Events & Festivals

Beach Streets 2024 will arrive with North Long Beach route on Nov. 9

After fear that not a single Beach Streets event would happen in 2024 at all due to a lack of funding, city officials have formally cleared the way for Beach Streets Uptown to move forward in the fall.
Urbanism & Development

Fairmont Breakers—years in the making—set to open Nov. 7

The Fairmont Breakers has been years in the making—and Long Beach's first luxury hotel is set to open Nov. 7.
Long Beach Events
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Halloween Hootenanny 2024: Long Beach’s best beer festival returns to MOLAA

Brian Addison
Halloween Hootenanny 2024—Long Beach's best beer festival—returns with its dedication to horror'n'hops come Oct. 12 at the Museum of Latin American Art.
Events & Festivals

The glorious, ghoulish return of The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor in Long Beach

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The Queen Mary's Dark Harbor returned after a nearly five-year hiatus—and it is a giddily ghoulish, masterfully macabre celebration.
Events & Festivals

Insanely stacked Long Beach FAM Fest 2024 lineup gives away every cent from tickets to cancer research

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The FAM Fest 2024 lineup is, well, nothing short of stacked with food, art, and music for its Saturday, Oct. 12 outing.
Events & Festivals

Nearing 15 years, the Long Beach Urban Farm Dinner continues to uplift our best chefs

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The Long Beach Urban Farm Dinner—founded by Primal Alchemy owners Chef Paul and Dana Buchanan—is about to have its 14th dinner come Sunday, Sept. 22 at Organic Harvest Gardens.

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