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Long Beach Last Call 2025 celebrates bar industry with events, menus across 10 days

Long Beach Last Call 2025 will return March 1 and run through March 10 with a series of events on each day that celebrates the city’s rich bar culture, community, and its workers.
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Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Colossus opens new location; more sweets come to the Shore; 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.

Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Feb. 2025

Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach—and it's not always new items but it's definitely never repeated things from previous months.

Most anticipated restaurants opening in Long Beach in 2025: UPDATED

2024 was one of the most wildly successful years in terms of new spaces opening: Over thirty new restaurants, bakeries, chains, and other food spaces opened across the year....

Lunar New Year lion dance event in Downtown Long Beach to include Midnight Oil preview

A Midnight Oil preview will be part of a Lunar New Year celebration on The Promenade in Downtown Long Beach. (Yes, lion dance performance included.)

Long Beach wine bar Buvons develops restaurant space—starting with a stellar coffee popup

Alicia Kemper, the owner of Buvons Natural Wine Bar & Shop, has set her eyes on expansion. While she has constantly flexed her love of food at the wine...

Long Beach Art Scene: L.A. artist Fay Ray to unveil exhibition at Compound; current group show leaving Feb. 9

In the space's first large solo exhibition, Compound will bring on L.A.-based, feminist-meets-machinist artist and sculptor Fay Ray come Feb. 15.

This Lunar New Year snake game is projected onto a Long Beach building—and yes, you can play it

Intertrend in Long Beach honors Lunar New Year with an interactive, playable version of the old-school snake game found on phones during the late 1990s and 2000s.

Remembering Dickie Babian: Legendary Long Beach bar owner dead at 90

After celebrating his 90th year, Long Beach dive bar legend Dickie Babian passed on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 21.

Dear white folk: Stop romanticizing MLK as a ‘peaceful protestor’—he was an agitator

Many of my fellow white folks have this very romanticized, outright misaligned perception of the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Long Beach’s Orange Avenue Backbone Bikeway project is an important cog for safety

The Orange Avenue Backbone Bikeway is Long Beach's largest biking infrastructure project, revisioning the arterial from Ocean Boulevard in the south to Jackson Street in the north.

Long Beach to host first community meeting of 2025: Connecting Colorado Lagoon to Marine Stadium

The $32.5M project will bring a new tidal flow channel between Colorado Lagoon and Marine Stadium that hasn't been seen since the 1960s.

With shades up, Junipero Beach Sports Court—roller rink included—set to open Feb. 22

On Saturday, Sept. 14 at 11AM, the public is invited to Junipero Beach, located at 2630 E. Ocean Blvd., to witness the ribbon cutting for the Junipero Beach Sports Court.

Long Beach Last Call returns for 2025 with 10-day celebration of bar and cocktail industry

Long Beach Last Call 2025 will run March 1 through March 10 with a series of events on each day that celebrates the city’s rich bar culture, community, and its workers.

Long Beach mayor joins grassroots fundraising efforts, raising $20K—but more is needed

Joining the multiple grassroots efforts across the city—from the makeshift command center that Bixby Knolls has become to the efforts of Black community leader...

Lights, aerials, Christmas: Long Beach neighborhood lights & aerobatics show has last performances this weekend

They call it the Circus Spectacular Nights, an annual partnership between neighborhood light show JZ Light Show and acrobatic troupe Aerial Butterflies.

Long Beach International Tamales Festival returns Dec. 14

The Long Beach International Tamales Festival, the day-long event dedicated to all things tamal, will return on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 1PM to 8PM.

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