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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.
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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.
