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The OG Taco Tuesday: Sura collabs with Sonoratown to honor legacy status

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Celebrating their legacy status, Sura's Taco Tuesday is back for one day—Tuesday, May 19—with Sonoratown tortillas as its base.
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Bubu’s is a Mexican immigrant’s thank you to the Long Beach food industry

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The food of Bubu's in Long Beach—Mexican in spirit, warming in execution—is a blend of memories, culinary growth, and family recipes.
Food & Drink

FIRST LOOK: Chef Carlos Jurado’s carby cosmos of Latin American pasta at Selva

Chef Carlos Jurado of Selva is one of the city's hardest-working chefs. And his upcoming pasta night, Fuego Lento, is proof of that.
Food & Drink

O.C.-based Pastaphony to take over old Michael’s/Ubuntu space in DTLB

Orange County-based fast casual Italian concept Pastaphony will be opening its first Long Beach location.
Food & Drink

Long Beach’s Salt & Grove to debut Chef Giuseppe Musso’s inaugural menu

Old-school in style, traditional in spirit, Chef Giuseppe's gregarious, affable personality is now the front-facing force of Salt & Grove in Long Beach.
Food & Drink

San Diego wing empire Dirty Birds to take over long-empty DTLB space

Dirty Birds—San Diego's mighty chicken wing empire—is officially opening a Downtown Long Beach location on Pine Avenue.
Cultural Currents
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Culture & Commentary

Alter Ego in Fairmont Breakers is Long Beach’s secret jazz, speakeasy-ish haven

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Alter Ego at the Fairmont Breakers—the moodier of the hotel's three bar siblings—is shifting toward a more experiential, transportive vibe.
Culture & Commentary

L.A.’s famed Record Parlor is opening a Long Beach store with special 100K record collection

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The Record Parlour—Hollywood's much-loved record shop that shifted tangible record shopping toward platforms like Instagram—is officially opening a Long Beach store. And it comes...
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach puts money toward becoming a ‘true live music city’—with hopes to help small biz

Long Beach might just become a live music-friendly city—and through policy change, not just aspirations.
Culture & Commentary

A decade of design: 6th & Detroit—Long Beach’s OG mid-mod haven—celebrates

6th & Detroit, Long Beach's OG mid-century modern outlet, is celebrating ten years of old-school furniture, interior design, independent fashion, and good ol' community connection.
Development & Urbanism
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Urbanism & Development

Crews break ground on $37M enhancement project at Long Beach Airport

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The Passenger Concourse Enhancements Project is a $37M endeavor that will upgrade the experience at Long Beach Airport.
Urbanism & Development

Former redevelopment land hits market as Long Beach seeks to reshape Atlantic Avenue block by block

The City of Long Beach has put 11 city-owned properties along Atlantic Avenue between 55th and 60th streets up for sale.
Urbanism & Development

Alexan West End, Long Beach’s 600-unit residential project, crawls toward completion

Construction crews for the Alexan West End have laid its foundation and have begun building toward the sky, moving progress forward on the largest residential development under construction for Long Beach.
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Events & Festivals

Annual ‘halfway to Halloween’ beer festival returns with wildly cool, updated lineup

Brian Addison
Halfway to Halloween Hootenanny is officially Long Beach tradition—and this year's beer lineup is one of the best yet at a SoCal festival.
Events & Festivals

Edgar Allen Poe speakeasy returns to the Queen Mary in Long Beach

Brian Addison
The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy, a traveling immersive cocktail experience, returns to The Queen Mary on May 29 and May 30.
Events & Festivals

Designing Resistance Film Week arrives as design becomes one of the Long Beach’s best cultural languages

Brian Addison
From April 23-30, City Fabrick, in partnership with Art Theatre of Long Beach, will launch the first-ever Designing Resistance Film Week.
Events & Festivals

These are the Long Beach pizzerias reppin’ at Pizzy City Fest L.A. 2026

Brian Addison
Five Long Beach pizzerias—Colossus, Due Fiori, Nonna Mercato, Speak Cheezy, and Thunderbolt—will be at this year's Pizza City Fest.

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