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Taco Death Match 2024: Meet the traditional taqueros competing, Long Beach

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Taco Death Match 2024 will pit ten taqueros from Long Beach and L.A. battling in the ultimate competition focused on SoCal's favorite food.
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Long Beach Food Scene
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Long Beach restaurants land in Yelp rankings; Shlap Muan and Pickle Banh Mi land in Top 10

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Multiple Long Beach businesses landed in Yelp! Elites' rankings for the best restaurants throughout Los Angeles County.
Food & Drink

Inglorious Funnels offers the best funnel cakes in Long Beach—and they want a more permanent home

Inglorious Funnels is seemingly everywhere in Long Beach—and they are nothing short of being the Kings of the Funnel Cake.
Food & Drink

Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: Oct. 2024

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.
Food & Drink

Cameron Slaugh proves he is Long Beach’s most underrated chef with The Attic’s ‘Southern Nights’ dinners

Chef Cameron Slaugh's "Southern Night" prix fixe dinners every Friday and Saturday evening prove he continues to be the city's most underrated chef.
Food & Drink

Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Babette Bakery to close Nov. 3; 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

Raven and the Wolves—Long Beach’s underrated art gem—continues its rightful legacy of forging tattooing into the fine arts world

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The Raven and the Wolves is one of the city's most underrated art gems—and it goes far beyond the tattooing.
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach Art Scene: Dark Art Emporium’s ‘Nocturnal Dysphoria’ is masterfully macabre

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The Dark Art Emporium—DTLB's heart for all things dark arts, crafts, and creatives—has brought on guest curator Cristina Rodriguez for their October group show, "Nocturnal Dysphoria."
Culture & Commentary

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

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

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

73-unit affordable housing project proposed for Cal Heights at 3401 Cerritos Ave. in Long Beach

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An initial study looking at the environmental consequences of a proposed affordable housing project at 3401 Cerritos Ave. in Cal Heights has been formally submitted to the city.
Urbanism & Development

Historic 115 Pine Ave. building in Downtown Long Beach to be converted to housing

The iconic, 1906 French Renaissance Revival gem that is the Enloe Building at 115 Pine Ave. is set to be converted to 70 housing...
Urbanism & Development

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

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.
Long Beach Events
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Events & Festivals

Vans Warped Tour to come to Long Beach in 2025

Brian Addison
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.
Events & Festivals

Taco Death Match 2024: 10 taqueros, one winner, all in Downtown Long Beach

Brian Addison
Taco Death Match, the inaugural taco competition heading to Mosaic in Downtown Long Beach on Nov. 3, has a curated slate of 10 chefs and taqueros who will battle it out.
Events & Festivals

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

Brian Addison
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.
Events & Festivals

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.

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