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Brodard—one of California’s best Vietnamese spots—opens in Long Beach on Oct. 1

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Brodard will open its first Long Beach location on Oct. 1 at the 2nd & PCH retail complex, in the former Tocaya space.
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SnoCorner celebrates five years of bringing New Orleans love and sugar to Long Beach

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Five years ago, Ashley Monconduit opened SnoCorner as a deeply personal ode to New Orleans snoball culture and Long Beach.
Long Beach Food Scene

Selva and Bar Becky create one of Long Beach’s best collaborations

The closing of Bar Becky was many things: Infuriating. Heartbreaking. Another sobering reminder of how brutally difficult it is to operate an independent, chef-driven restaurant—particularly when landlords, leases and...
Long Beach Food Scene

Chefs César Sánchez of Ruta 15, Danny Le of Chez Bacchus advance in Long Beach Grand Prix Fixe

The second Long Beach Grand Prix Fixe officially kicked off with two wildly different culinary battles—and brought its first two winners.
Long Beach Food Scene

Bungalow Kitchen Long Beach to reopen officially on Sept. 16

After closing down earlier this year, The Bungalow Kitchen Long Beach is reopening—and brings a much-missed chef along with it.
Long Beach Food Scene

Chef Jason Witzl to take over Picarelli’s space with American comfort concept, Gigi’s

Chef Jason Witzl—along with partner Molly Sirody and Chef Patrick Claytor—is ready to introduce Gigi's, Long Beach.
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WERK is Long Beach’s latest queer space—and it wants everyone to be seen

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There's a new, three-level queer bar in town. And she will rightfully tell you that you betta WERK, Long Beach.
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Here are the places to watch the World Cup in Long Beach

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Long Beach restaurants are going all out for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Here's where you can comfortably get your soccer on.
Culture & Commentary

A kitchen operation out of your Long Beach home? Here’s what to know

After years of advocacy, policy discussions, feasibility studies, and city approvals, Long Beach residents can now officially apply to operate Micro-Enterprise Home Kitchen Operations—better...
Culture & Commentary

Amid Long Beach’s Pride debacle, we lost the whole damn point

Amid the blame game, we forgot that Long Beach Pride has always been for the have-nots, the black and brown kids, and the unprivileged.
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Urbanism & Development

New concrete curb-protected bike lane on Clark Avenue in Long Beach

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The city of Long Beach recently completed phase 1 of its Clark Avenue Complete Street Project.
Urbanism & Development

Metro clearing mature trees to widen 91 Freeway through North Long Beach

Metro contractors are cutting down mature trees in order to clear space to add one more westbound lane on the 91 through North Long Beach.
Urbanism & Development

Beach Streets returns to Long Beach with its best route ever

Beach Streets—the City of Long Beach's removal of vehicles from streets to make way for everyone from bicyclists and skaters to walkers and those...
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Events & Festivals

Long Beach’s ultimate burger competition, Burger Bash, returns

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Come Sunday, Sept. 13, Burger Bash 2026 invades the Selva parking lot with a stacked lineup of competitors.
Events & Festivals

8 chefs to compete bracket-style in Long Beach Grand Prix Fixe 2026

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Long Beach Grand Prix Fixe 2026 is here, bringing a bracket-style competition whose winner will be determined by the diners themselves.
Events & Festivals

Long Beach’s zine fest dedicated all things cats returns for 2026

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Cat Zine Fest returns for its second iteration thanks to one of Long Beach's most unique spaces, Cool Cat Collective.
Events & Festivals

Moonlight Movies on the Beach returns with 2026 lineup

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The city’s free, summer-long, movies-on-the-beach series, Moonlight Movies on the Beach, is back for 2026.

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