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Make Music Long Beach returns—but it needs more support

Make Music Long Beach returns with a simple but ambitious goal: fill the city with as much live music as possible. And, of course, garner more support.
Events & Festivals

Long Beach BBQ Fest 2026 comes with promises of better flow and a whole steer cook

Long Beach BBQ Fest 2026 will return to our city for its fourth year on Memorial Day Weekend, bringing two days of barbecue.
Food & Drink

Californio Chocolate brings the world of Mexican cacao to Long Beach

Eduardo Ponce is opening up Californio Chocolates with the hopes of opening up the world of Mexican cacao to Long Beach.
Culture & Commentary

Long Beach allows food to be sold out of home kitchens. Here’s what that can look like.

It's called a Micro-Enterprise Home Kitchen Operation, or MEHKO. And they just became legal in Long Beach so we have a look at one.
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Food & Drink

Bubu’s is a Mexican immigrant’s thank you to the Long Beach food industry

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.
Events & Festivals

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

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

Celebrating their legacy status, Sura's Taco Tuesday is back for one day—Tuesday, May 19—with Sonoratown tortillas as its base.
Food & Drink

Marlena’s spring menu showcases Chef Michael Flores’s love of all things farmers’ market

Chef Michael Flores of Long Beach's Marlena has created a spring menu built around contrast and balance
Food & Drink

Long Beach Food Scene Intel: Tanuki moving to LBX; Khan’s Mongolian BBQ 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.
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