Culture & Commentary
Not as safe as we think: Why are so many fatal crashes in Long Beach being left out of data?
City, state, and federal governments depend on fatal crash data to determine which streets and arterials need money invested into making them safer—but how they can do that soundly when the data is faulty?
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‘Haunting of the Queen Mary,’ filmed aboard Long Beach’s famed ship, gets trailer and release date
A decade in the making and filmed on the actual ship itself, the horror flick will hit theaters and streaming services come Aug. 18.
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Meet the artists altering the city’s artistic landscape for Long Beach Walls 2023
Long Beach Walls has taken one ethic—that art shouldn't be confined to museums or galleries but accessible to all—and created one of the country's best outdoor art collection.
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Long Beach Pride to have a first of its kind, thanks to Jewels: A stage entirely dedicated to the art of drag—all types of...
In what is thought to be a first of its kind, as the country continues to battle over the art of drag, Long Beach Pride is doubling down with a stage dedicated entirely to drag during its two-day festival.
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Long Beach has scored its first Michelin star—but the Guide’s importance in SoCal (and the world) needs to be dismissed in the modern world
There is no question this is an accolade—but therein lies another question: Should this accolade mean something for an organization that dismissed our entire region?
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Bring on the Deadpool: Meet Wrexham AFC team this Friday in Long Beach
This free event is a very strange but warmly welcomed amalgamation of brand promotion, sports, Hollywood, and using one's relationships to the best of their ability.
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Dark Art Emporium’s new, double-artist exhibit not only happily dances with the macabre—it helps actually sell art for artists
These fine words from Dark Art Emporium co-owner Jeremy Schott have always the perfect description of the gallery that has long existed has a...
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The appearance of Long Beach butch queer Angie Evans on RuPaul’s Drag Race is much more important than it seems
Queer unity can often be filtered through a rose-tinted lens—but for a show as campy as RuPaul's Drag Race can be, this particular episode featuring a Long Beach business owner seizing her vulnerability opens the door for many future, rich conversations for queers.
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Long Beach Lost: Ivanhoe Room, the medieval-themed restaurant that once sat below the Lafayette
My ongoing series, Long Beach Lost, was launched to examine buildings and spaces that have either been demolished or were never even in existence—including the forgotten tales attached to existing or nonexistent things and places.
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After a coordinated homophobic clash, Casita Bookstore in Long Beach continues to thrive by loving everyone
The bookstore's entire aura is about letting kids be seen and represented as they wish to be—an irony considering a group of men coordinated an incident to tell them they were going to hell because a drag queen was reading books to children about empowerment, strength in self-identity, and being an overall good person.
