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From car-shattered walls to shared tables: Long Beach’s food community steps up for SALA

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A car crashed through SALA's building, prompting an abrupt closure. So the Long Beach food community is trying to do something about it.
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Sweetgreen to open first Long Beach location on Jan. 20 near 2nd and PCH

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Sweetgreen, the D.C.-birthed fast casual health diner that has long been a SoCal staple, will be opening its first Long Beach location on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
Food & Drink

Long Beach Food Scene Intel: I Luv Ur Buns closing; Panama International Kitchen opens; more

Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both big and small.
Food & Drink

The Attic expands happy hour in Long Beach with $7 cocktails, mocktails, highballs, and more

The Attic's expanded happy hour—featuring a genuinely stellar array of $7 cocktails, mocktails, highballs...—makes 2026 feel, at the very least, slightly less dark.
Food & Drink

Lima Cebichería—one of the best Peruvian spaces in the region—expands lunch in Long Beach

Lima Cebichería Peruana in Bixby Knolls is expanding its lunch offerings with weekly specials.
Food & Drink

Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Lucky Chopsticks closes; Terrible Burger scores spot at Smorgasburg; more

Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both big and small.
Cultural Currents
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Culture & Commentary

Closures. Menu cuts. Nixed hours: Casual Long Beach restaurants feel the grip of a rich person’s economy

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Casual Long Beach restaurants are, well, going through it. And 2026 is going to be the most challenging year yet.
Culture & Commentary

Food, culture, art, Long Beach: Top Longbeachize stories of 2025

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When it comes to cultural and urban happenings in the city, 2025 was a banner year—hence these incredible Long Beach stories.
Culture & Commentary

A new generation: Joe Jost’s sells to Long Beach native, former employee

For the first time in its history, Joe Jost's founding family is parting ways to let Jon Sweeney take over as owner.
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach’s love of special dinners—collabs, tasting menus, and more—is altering the food scene

Special dinners are popping up consistently around Long Beach, offering diners a distinctly unique perspective on where our food scene is and where it is going.
Development & Urbanism
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Urbanism & Development

Long Beach Amphitheater breaks ground; first show to come June 6

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The Long Beach Amphitheater will officially break ground on Wednesday, Jan. 13—and with it, create the largest live entertainment venue in the city.
Urbanism & Development

How Intertrend and CSULB students are giving Long Beach’s DoLy’s Delectables resources to move into the future

This is the story of how marketing firm Intertrend and Cal State Long Beach interior design students came together to help move DoLy's Delectables into the future.
Urbanism & Development

Portico residential project on Promenade in Long Beach to break ground this month

It is now called Portico—formerly dubbed the Jefferson—in Downtown Long Beach. And—following the securing of a $150M loan—Dallas- and SoCal-based JPI said it will break ground on its project this month.
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Events & Festivals

Long Beach chefs rep heavily (and treated like rock stars) at Anaheim Ducks gala

Brian Addison
For those in the know, Dux in Tux—the annual gala for the famed Anaheim Ducks hockey team—is one of Orange County's largest philanthropic events....
Events & Festivals

Ten Mile’s stacked lineup for Cajun Food Fest 2026: Battambong BBQ, Shady Grove Foods, Sal’s Gumbo Shack, SnoCorner

Brian Addison
Cajun Food Fest 2026 is coming Feb. 7 to Ten Mile Brewing, Long Beach—and its lineup is stacked.
Events & Festivals

ISM Brewing turns two: Three days of beer, community, and Long Beach talent

Brian Addison
ISM Brewing's second anniversary is shaping up to be a full-throttle showcase of why it has become such a fixture the beer scene.
Events & Festivals

Ornament making, snow, shopping, sipping: Clay on First’s ‘Jingle All the Clay’ is a DTLB holiday gem

Brian Addison
Jingle All the Clay returns to Downtown Long Beach as one of the city’s most charming and hands-on holiday traditions.

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