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Taco Death Match 2024: Meet the passionate artists bringing La Catrina to life
For the artists who bring La Catrina to life, it is much more than just bringing a symbol to fruition.
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Rocky Horror Picture Show returns to Art Theatre Long Beach—with very new, very queer shadow cast
After a 30-year presence at The Art Theatre of Long Beach with Midnight Insanity, a new shadow cast—wittily dubbed Bit of Mustard—has relaunched monthly midnight showings of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
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Raven and the Wolves—Long Beach’s underrated art gem—continues its rightful legacy of forging tattooing into the fine arts world
The Raven and the Wolves is one of the city's most underrated art gems—and it goes far beyond the tattooing.
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Long Beach Art Scene: Dark Art Emporium’s ‘Nocturnal Dysphoria’ is masterfully macabre
The Dark Art Emporium—DTLB's heart for all things dark arts, crafts, and creatives—has brought on guest curator Cristina Rodriguez for their October group show, "Nocturnal Dysphoria."
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The $100 bagel and $85 calzone: Redefining (and questioning) luxury food in Long Beach
Yes, in Long Beach in 2024, there exists a $100 bagel at Olive & Rose and a calzone at Marlena costing you $85.
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Long Beach Art Scene: Much-loved DTLB Art Walk returns Oct. 12
The DTLB Art Walk is returning Oct. 12 thanks to some spearheading from the Downtown Long Beach Alliance.
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Dragula watch party, weekly drag show comes to DTLB’s 4th Horseman for all those dark queers’n’drag lovers
A Dragula watch party? At Long Beach's own horrorcore pizzeria, The 4th Horseman? Yes and yes. Long Beach drag misfit Girl Haggard will be...
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Long Beach Art Scene: With upcoming remake, Art Theatre to screen original ‘Nosferatu’ with live score
The Art Theatre Long Beach will be screening the 1922 horror classic Nosferatu with a live score by Jack Curtis Dubowsky.
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Long Beach Art Scene: Yes, there’s a Childless Cat Lady Art Works Show—or CCLAWS. And it’s everything you want.
One should not mess with cats or their owners. Or you shall rightfully receive the wrath. Like a full on, two-space exhibit dubbed the Childless Cat Lady Art Works Show (or CCLAWS) coming to Long Beach on Sept. 27.
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Long Beach Art Scene: With new executive director, Compound unveils group exhibit, ‘When the Veil Thins’
Compound, the Zaferia-based art-meets-food concept, has not only named a new executive director but will also be unveiling its first major group exhibit, When the Veil Thins, curated by artists Tofer Chin and Mari Orkenyi.
