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Local leaders: ‘Pull the plug’ on Metro/Caltrans 91 Freeway expansion in Long Beach

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It appears that Metro may not be proceeding with the 91 Freeway expansion through North Long Beach. On Monday, July 22, Metro hosted a community input meeting for the project. Attendees roundly criticized the project, convincing elected leaders of the need to pull the plug on Metro and Caltrans' plans.
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Long Beach Food Scene
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Food & Drink

Seal Beach Fish Co. is the sole line-caught seafood restaurant in the region

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Our neighbor to the south has some hidden gems worth exploring—Koi immediately comes to mind. So does the classic Mahe. But few are as unique as the Seal Beach Fish Co. In fact, it is the only line-caught seafood restaurant in the entire region.
Food & Drink

Favorite things I’m eating right now in Long Beach: July 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

Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Sonoratown moves forward; Flamin’ Curry opens second location; 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.
Food & Drink

The 4th Horseman’s expansion in Downtown Long Beach cements it as one of our most distinct pizzerias

The world of Long Beach pizza is vast and fiercely competitive. Amid the stretching and proofing and topping, The 4th Horseman has managed to stand out as a horrorcore ode to the mightily humble pie.
Food & Drink

SnoCorner is Long Beach’s ultimate ode to the sweets of New Orleans

Snocorner—the bright, tricolorized snoball shop directly across from Poly High School—is one helluva ode to the sweet treats of New Orleans.
Development & Urbanism
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Urbanism & Development

Crews break ground on 163-unit affordable housing project dubbed ‘1400 Long Beach’

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Construction crews formally began the process of building a new 163-unit affordable housing project dubbed 1400 Long Beach. Honoring the property's intersection at 14th Street and Long Beach Boulevard, the project...
Urbanism & Development

A Long Beach design district? Downtown wants to create just that—and it deserves one

A Long Beach design district is what is being proposed by architectural firm Studio One Eleven—a worthy cause given the neighborhood's rich cultural attachment to design ideals.
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach Lost: The funky, weird ‘worm in a sock’ that was The Loop in DTLB

Long Beach Lost, was launched to examine buildings—like the former Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool, spaces, and cultural happenings that have have largely been erased, including the forgotten tales attached to existing places and things.
Urbanism & Development

Mayor’s Grow Long Beach 2024 lays out future development; Ford Motors opening up R&D shop

Mayor Rex Richardson hosted his Grow Long Beach 2024 event at the Aquarium of the Pacific, coming with big announcements. Spanning an hour-long presentation and covering development, tourism, aerospace, manufacturing, and entertainment, he came with one particularly big announcement: Ford Motors will be moving into town.
Culture & Commentary

The city is waiving Long Beach block party fees (which is cool and culturally important)

Get ready to party—as in Long Beach block party. The city will waive the $100 fee for a neighborhood block party permit application, as well as the cost to rent street barricades, which can cost hosts hundreds of dollars.
Cultural Currents
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Culture & Commentary

Long Beach Lost: Bill Viola’s death reminds us we once owned the world’s most prominent collection of video art

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Following complications with Alzheimer's, famed and pioneering video artist Bill Viola died—reminding us we (literally) gave away an important collection of art.
Culture & Commentary

Cool Cat Collective is the ultimate space for the cat lovers (and rescuers) of Long Beach

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Long Beach's Cool Cat Collective is, indeed, the consummate cat lover space. The newest addition to 4th Street's growing business district as it sprawls beyond the confines of Retro Row, Cool Cat Collective is part humanitarian effort, part art space, part retail business that seeks to bring in All Things Kitty.
Culture & Commentary

An ode to Golden Burgers—and the immigrant-led diners that have long defined Long Beach and L.A.

Golden Burgers was a staple at the northeast corner of 4th Street and Junipero Avenue for over four decades. Part of the definitive SoCal...
Culture & Commentary

Compound Long Beach—the art-meets-food-meets-music hub—leans into its nonprofit roots

Compound Long Beach is many, many things: Art gallery. Restaurant thanks to The Union. Community hub for everything from wellness seminars to mini-markets. But the thing that people should know first and foremost is that it's a nonprofit.
Culture & Commentary

GUEST COLUMN: When the walls (almost) came tumbling down in Long Beach

Julia Huang reflects on the recent challenges and surprises encountered to organize Long Beach’s ninth annual urban art festival, Long Beach Walls.
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach Walls 2024 officially kicks off: Here are the artists mural-ing our city

Long Beach Walls 2024 is here—and it with the Art Renzei Festival have changed the city’s art scene. Together, they have essentially turned Long Beach into one of the region’s finest outdoor museums.
Long Beach Events
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Events & Festivals

After controversy, Big Bang on the Bay formally moved to Labor Day

Brian Addison
After submitting paperwork late to the California Coastal Commission, the annual July 3rd (not 4th) fireworks tradition that is Big Bang on the Bay was indefinitely cancelled. But it has returned: Organizer John Morris says the new version will be on Sept. 1.
Events & Festivals

Long Beach Taco and Tequila Festival to host legendary luchador Damián 666 for final match

Brian Addison
The 2024 Long Beach Taco and Tequila Festival is upon us—and it not only brings said tacos and tequila but music and culture as well.

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