Culture & Commentary
Ready to take your best shot? DLBA’s annual Unfiltered photo contest returns
Spanning across five categories, the contest encourages photographers to capture DTLB with their own distinct style while vying for prizes and gallery space.
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‘I can finally work without fear:’ Long Beach street vendor scene celebrate newfound freedom post-SB 972
After being persistently badgered by authorities, the street vendors of Long Beach have discovered a quick sense of freedom after California signed SB 972 into law.
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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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Long Beach Lost: The ambitious Shoreline Village revamp that never came to be
My ongoing series, Long Beach Lost, was launched to examine buildings, places, and things that have either been demolished, are set to be demolished, or are in motion to possibly be demolishe—or were never even in existence. This is not a preservationist series but rather a historical series that will help keep a record of our architectural, cultural, and spatial history.
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Expanding presence, Moonlight Movies on the Beach does the right thing: Bringing free movies to everyone
20 years in, Moonlight Movies has become a Long Beach tradition that is not only entertaining but entirely free each year—but recognition of equity issues has allowed it to evolve into a more accessible event for 2022.
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Remembering Chef Arthur Gonzalez, dead at 47—and continuing his empathetic legacy
Passing at the age of 47, the legacy of Chef Arthur Gonzalez is one that is being felt across the entirety of the Long Beach food scene—and it isn't just because he was a great chef but someone who exuded empathy and warmth.
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Long Beach Chef Arthur Gonzalez, founder of Panxa Cocina, dies
The talented chef was the man not only behind Panxa, but Roe and The Hideaway—a talent that took him back-and-forth from Long Beach to Colorado, where he continued his culinary dream.
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Long Beach Lost: Famed mid-mod SeaPort Marina Hotel was once the gem of the Shore
My ongoing series, Long Beach Lost, was launched to examine buildings, places, and things that have either been demolished, are set to be demolished, or are in motion to possibly be demolished—or were never even in existence. This is not a preservationist series but rather a historical series that will help keep a record of our architectural, cultural, and spatial history.
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Tucked under a freeway in North Long Beach sits Organic Harvest Gardens, a Black-owned farm trying to better the world through harvesting
Chef Rod Dodd has been a steward of both the Black community regionally and the Long Beach food scene—and his mission to better the world through harvesting, education, and love has never changed.
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From cinema to porn: How Downtown Long Beach was once the epicenter of filmmaking and theaters
Long before Hollywood became, well, Hollywood—Long Beach was destined to become the cinematic center of the world, with a ton of studios and theaters dominating the cinema scene in SoCal—that is, until oil moved in.
