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Events & Festivals
From architecture and art to taco poetry and block parties: LA Design Festival 2025 comes to Long Beach
The LA Design Festival 2025 returns to Long Beach yet again come June 26 through June 29. Long Beach is not just on the map, but front and center as a driving force in the festival’s region-wide celebration of design, imagination, and community.
Urbanism & Development
Re-thinking the Downtown shoreline in Long Beach: Why history and equity matter
The Downtown shoreline is being reimagined in Long Beach—but how we attach history and equity is essential for a proper future.
Culture & Commentary
Meet the Long Beach artists trying to make empty storefronts and murals come to life with animation
Loiter Gallery in Long Beach—the nonprofit art gallery that has long helped local artists with affordable gallery space, promotion, and support—is wanting to tackle something beyond its gallery walls.
Culture & Commentary
‘You can’t age out of love:’ How Long Beach nonprofit DSF Werks uplifts former foster youth
DSF Werks has one simple mission: to offer emancipated youth the opportunity to understand the power of social relationships.
Culture & Commentary
Cake Picnic Long Beach: Hundreds of slices up for sampling at this charitable event
Michelle Cortado has already registered over 400 attendees for Cake Picnic Long Beach, set to take place on the Sports Basement event deck on Sunday, June 15, at noon.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach coffee pioneer Wade Windsor faces cancer, Lyme disease; family seeking help
Wade Windsor, the charming, affable, kind coffee pioneer who brought Long Beach some of its first taste of third-wave coffee with the (much-missed) Lord Windsor in Alamitos Beach, is facing one hell of an uphill battle.
Culture & Commentary
‘It’s me and we, fam:’ How Black community leader Duke Givens became a rep for Long Beach’s relief efforts
Duke Givens, the Black community leader from Long Beach, has been dedicated to the regional relief efforts—starting in Altadena.
Events & Festivals
Long Beach mayor joins grassroots fundraising efforts, raising $20K—but more is needed
Joining the multiple grassroots efforts across the city—from the makeshift command center that Bixby Knolls has become to the efforts of Black community leader...
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach staple Lola’s has delivered thousands of meals during the fires—and it showcases much larger concerns
Lola's relief efforts have led it to become one of Long Beach's leaders in delivering warm meals to those who need them.
Culture & Commentary
How the Bixby Knolls community became the epicenter in Long Beach’s relief efforts
In an entirely grassroots undertaking, Bixby Knolls has become Long Beach's epicenter as the county unites in relief efforts.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s Alley Cat Delivery delivers extinguishers to those defending homes and salvaging what they can
For the past six years, Robb Smith has been building his independent food delivery service, Alley Cat Delivery, in a locally driven, keep-it-Long-Beach effort...
Culture & Commentary
Through hell and back: How Right Mealz got three U-Hauls of supplies to first responders and evacuees
For Right Mealz owner Chris Sweeney, getting donations proved easier than delivering them to the right place.
Events & Festivals
Lights, aerials, Christmas: Long Beach neighborhood lights & aerobatics show has last performances this weekend
They call it the Circus Spectacular Nights, an annual partnership between neighborhood light show JZ Light Show and acrobatic troupe Aerial Butterflies.
Food & Drink
Mangia 562: Meet the Long Beach food lovers delivering warm lasagnas to those who deserve it
Manga 562 has one simple goal. To deliver a par-cooked tray of lasagna to a person or family whose peers think they're deserving of it.
Culture & Commentary
Meet Anne Bergstedt, the alleged Long Beach rental scam artist whose cover is being blown
Anne Bergstedt goes by many names and many professions—her most perturbing being the alleged scamming of renters throughout the region.
Events & Festivals
Insanely stacked Long Beach FAM Fest 2024 lineup gives away every cent from tickets to cancer research
The FAM Fest 2024 lineup is, well, nothing short of stacked with food, art, and music for its Saturday, Oct. 12 outing.
Events & Festivals
Vibez on the Bay is bringing reggae to the sunset—but it’s much, much more than a concert
Vibez on the Bay is more than a reggae concert; it is about shedding the stigmas behind suicide.
Events & Festivals
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.
Culture & Commentary
The dignity of a hot meal: CSULB, LBCC food pantries find support via Bixby Knolls business association—but need more
"The smiles and gratitude behind the stories of the students that depend on these food pantries? They're impossible not to cheer for—and that's why...
