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Candified doesn’t just give The Candy Queen a storefront—it represents everything beautiful about women friendships

Through the power of serendipity, commiseration, and sisterly love, Jackie Sorkin and Amy Mason have created a world which celebrates candy, color, and community.

Meet the woman trying to connect her community with chefs and cooking skills—steak dinner coming up for LB Food Scene Week

Abbey Metcalf ditched her corporate job mid-pandemic to focus on something more fulfilling—a discovered food is the best conduit for human connection.

As 4th Street continues its beautiful evolution, business district hires first executive director

After decades of no business association at all to being able to hire its first full-time executive director, 4th Street is evolving into the corridor it always wanted to be.

Seabirds, Holé Molé join second string of burglaries at Long Beach restaurants; owners asked to be ‘on alert’

Two restaurants and a bar on 4th Street in Alamitos Beach join seven other burglaries that occurred in the month of June alone across the city.

Yes, Chef: This Long Beach baker made customized cookies for some of the folks behind ‘The Bear’

Alenni Chitwood went from innocently baking cookies for her kid's first birthday to having clients ranging from Lexus and Barbie to none other than FX's monumental restaurant drama, "The Bear."

Goodies—the much-loved, L.A.-based, nothing-over-$25 home store—is coming to Belmont Shore

Longbeachize Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month: The growing home living brand—founded by Philippines native, Texas-raised Rhea Carlisle—has quickly expanded from its roots from Santa Monica to Venice and Costa Mesa is ready to take on Long Beach.

MADE, the long-running DTLB store dedicated to local creators, will be permanently closing

A private memo was sent out to select vendors by its owner, stating they wanted to inform "friends" before announcing publicly on Facebook, along with noting that Elinor, the shuttered drinking space that Millworks promised to reopen, will also have no future.

Japan-based high-end clothing reseller 2nd Street is opening on, well, 2nd Street

The expansion of 2nd Street stores across the country has been almost blitz-like since opening its first U.S. store on Melrose in Los Angeles in 2018: From Atlanta and Portland to multiple cities in Texas, the store's USA umbrella is expanding and expanding quickly.

Long Beach’s last video store, Broadway Video—a cultural cornerstone with 50K titles—officially closes and liquidates

Broadway Video & Art has been around for nearly four decades—and its current owner, determined to show a unique world antithetical to the Streaming Domain, can no longer move on.

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Candified doesn’t just give The Candy Queen a storefront—it represents everything beautiful about women friendships

Through the power of serendipity, commiseration, and sisterly love, Jackie Sorkin and Amy Mason have created a world which celebrates candy, color, and community.

MADE, the long-running DTLB store dedicated to local creators, will be permanently closing

A private memo was sent out to select vendors by its owner, stating they wanted to inform "friends" before announcing publicly on Facebook, along with noting that Elinor, the shuttered drinking space that Millworks promised to reopen, will also have no future.

Long Beach’s last video store, Broadway Video—a cultural cornerstone with 50K titles—officially closes and liquidates

Broadway Video & Art has been around for nearly four decades—and its current owner, determined to show a unique world antithetical to the Streaming Domain, can no longer move on.

Meet the woman trying to connect her community with chefs and cooking skills—steak dinner coming up for LB Food Scene Week

Abbey Metcalf ditched her corporate job mid-pandemic to focus on something more fulfilling—a discovered food is the best conduit for human connection.

Yes, Chef: This Long Beach baker made customized cookies for some of the folks behind ‘The Bear’

Alenni Chitwood went from innocently baking cookies for her kid's first birthday to having clients ranging from Lexus and Barbie to none other than FX's monumental restaurant drama, "The Bear."