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The Ordinarie rediscovered this cocktail birthed in Long Beach 65 years ago
Not only participating in a Long Beach Food Scene meet-up and DTLB crawl, The Ordinarie has a Last Call menu that is an ode to the locals.
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New owners of Long Beach dive bar staple Crow’s want to make it, well, more Crow-y
To know Long Beach is to know its dive bars—and when it comes to the rich dive bar legends of Long Beach, few have the scope of status that is attached to Crow's. And its new owners want to return it to its 1990s divey glory.
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Long Beach’s 4th Horseman pizzeria to expand; Dark Art Emporium to move
The 4th Horseman—Long Beach's horrorcore-meets-metal, beer-gone-macabre, fuck-around-and-find-out-style of pies pizzeria—will be expanding: the Dark Art Emporium, the art gallery attached to the Horseman, will be moving over into the East Village Arts District next to House of Hayden while the Horseman will push into the gallery space for its expansion.
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A look at the Madonna-themed cocktails for Long Beach’s queerest vinyl listening session
The Social List bar manager Erik Rios-Wentzky and local bar celeb and queer advocate Devon Jade have come up with a handful of beautiful, liquid odes to the Queen of Pop—all in the name of Long Beach Last Call's queerest event.
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Long Beach’s best vinyl listening club to host-queer centric session with Madonna’s ‘Erotica’
Long Beach Last Call—the 10-day celebration of our bar culture—is partnering with the Good Luck Vinyl Club for a queer-centric event that will listen to Madonna's controversial 1992 masterpiece, "Erotica."
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Long Beach boxing fans and beyond: There’s a (literal) underground fight club at Harvelle’s
For Long Beach boxing fans, Jack Rabbit’s Boxing Social Club at Harvelle’s has become a space for watching many of our budding boxers spar before fame.
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Maritime Bicycle Courier—Long Beach’s sole bike deliverer—quietly and permanently shutters business
Long Beach has officially lost one of its most unique (and green) businesses: Maritime Bicycle Courier, the nearly decade-long delivery service that used bicyclists, has permanently shut down.
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$77M Wilmington Waterfront Promenade is a win for entire region—especially Long Beach—when it opens this weekend
The transformation of Wilmington's waterfront—a three-part development that will see its second part, the Wilmington Waterfront Promenade, open this weekend—is the largest green space projects in one of the region's most air quality poor neighborhoods.
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NOFX’s ‘Punk in Drublic’ farewell tour-meets-festival to end in San Pedro
When NOFX brings its farewell 'Punk in Drublic' tour mixed with a curated guest list of performers, a craft beer garden, and 40 songs performed by NOFX alone to its final performance, it will be in San Pedro at Berth 46.
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Lyrics’n’Long Beach: Before you watch The Vince Staples Show, learn about the real, local places he’ll likely reference
If there is one thing to say about Long Beach rapper Vince Staples—beyond the obvious lyrical and melodic talents—it is that Staples is a cultural commentator like no other, a quiet observer and, in a very urban-meets-academic sense, an ethnographer. So it was only a certain amount of time before he was offered his own show—and Netflix has done that with The Vince Staples Show, premiering Feb. 15 on the streaming network.
