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Long Beach restaurants are testing the waters with late hours—but patrons need to stay up with them
Long Beach restaurants have long struggled with maintaining late hours, both pre- and post-COVID—and in a huge sense, it's the snake that eats itself: People consistently claim that they want places open later so a handful do but don't receive the patronage because it is presumed that, well, no one is open late.
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Long Beach restaurants for sale: Seabirds, Little Coyote, Saltwater Deck, Steady Brewing, more looking for new owners
2023—despite the amount of great Long Beach restaurants, both new and old, releasing great dishes and the coming of nearly 25 new spaces this year—was a year of immense struggles and it is means that multiple Long Beach restaurants for sale will and are popping up. They already include some of the city's biggest food names, including Seabirds Kitchen, Little Coyote, Saltwater Deck, and more.
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Meet Robert Brownwell, the Long Beach artist that crafts guitars tailored for other artists
Robert Brownwell—the Long Beach artist perched on the eighth floor of the historic Pacific Tower building at the northwest corner of Broadway and Long Beach Boulevard—has a deep love of guitars, one which stretches into his artistry far beyond music.
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Long Beach’s Good Luck Vinyl Club enters 2024 with Snoop Dogg listening party, DJ Battlecat set
Long Beach's Good Luck Vinyl Club—the third-Tuesday-of-every-month vinyl listening event that focuses on a specific album of an artist and then the surrounding sounds of that very album—will open 2024 with a set from DJ Battlecat and a listening to Snoop Dogg.
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The Port of Long Beach’s massive Pier B expansion project scored a huge grant—and how that affects those on the Westside
The Port of Long Beach will receive $283M from the federal government in order to further fund its $1.57B Pier B expansion project, set to begin breaking ground next year and continue through in phases until its completion in 2032.
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Long Beach’s Shady Grove Foods said they were closing—so the mayor visited them with hope
The response to the future closure of Shady Grove Foods led to enormous online vitriol toward the City's handling of small business—leaving Mayor Rex Richardson no choice but to meet with them one-on-one to offer help and hope.
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CSULB’s ‘Drag Show’ exhibit is an ode to the queer community of the ’80s and ’90s—and this is your last chance to see it
'Drag Show,' an exhibit at CSULB's Kleefeld museum, is more than an ode to the queer culture of the 1980s and '90s—it's an outright celebration of resilience.
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Beloved Long Beach shop, East Village Arts District’s 6th and Detroit, to move to Belmont Heights
6th and Detroit has long been ahead of the curve when it comes to mixing online sales with brick-and-mortar charm—and they will be leaving their long-held home in DTLB for a new space in Belmont Heights.
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Long Beach Lost: The stained glass house on the sands of Long Beach, ‘Camouflage House’
Part of Long Beach Walls's 2021 collection of art, 'Camouflage House' greeted passersby on the shore of Long Beach with its array of colors, reflections, and hope—and was one of the city's coolest art installations.
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A holiday ode to the queer bars of Long Beach’s Gayborhood—and every queer bar in the world
The holidays can be a convoluted emotional bag for those within the queer community—and this is a dedication and reminder that whether surrounded by love or still searching to find some form of it, our bars are more than just bars: They're our churches.
