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The nonprofit, award-winning blog of writer and photographer Brian Addison, covering livability issues ranging from housing and transit to biking and urban design while advocating for complete streets and New Urbanist ideals.

12/17/2024

Northern Cafe Long Beach opened with a menu that shocked fans of the SoCal staple. And it shocked patrons because it was minimal.

Ownership has heard loud and clear the calls for something more Northern Cafe-esque. They have launched an 11AM-to-4PM daily dim sum menu while vastly expanding their regular menu in what seemingly feels like a ten-fold fashion. And their spicy dry pot? A thing of wonder.

Northern Cafe Long Beach opened with a menu that shocked fans of the SoCal staple. And it shocked patrons because it was minimal. A single page that left dim sum almost entirely off the menu, minus a few soup dumplings. A drop in wok plates that echoed a sharp cutting of offerings from its other [.....

12/17/2024

What do we love to see? A Long Beach-grown business expand and thrive. And one of our most decorated breweries, Trademark Brewing, will be opening a new location in Torrance come next year.

Applause and smiles well-deserved.

Award-winning Long Beach brewery Trademark Brewing is officially expanding into the Enclave, Torrance's retail-meets-food complex.

12/15/2024

Truly a wild story, Long Beach.

Anne Bergstedt. Or Anne Samantha Bergstedt-Jordanova. Or Anne Ivanovna. Anne Gorden. AJ Gordon. She had gone by and goes by many names. And has had many professions.

But her most important profession? Allegedly scamming renters throughout the Long Beach area of tens of thousands of dollars. And doing it so badly that the Long Beach Police Department has an open investigation against her.

Anne Bergstedt goes by many names and many professions—her most perturbing being the alleged scamming of renters throughout the region.

12/14/2024

More food news coming your way with the latest Food Intel update, including the closure of Church’s in North LB, the rebranding of New Amsterdam in DTLB, Taqueria Brand opening for breakfast and more.

Eat well, be kind.

Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both news that needs just a quick mention or repeated news where you might have missed the full features.

12/14/2024

The Fairmont Breakers is the return of many things. There is the return of the building itself. Then there is the return of Sky Room. The revered space is baked into the collective memory of Long Beach—and its reopening is nothing short of the sensation that a much-loved relative has somehow managed to return to the family once more.

Then there is Chef Giuseppe Musso, overseeing the menu at Nettuno at the Fairmont. And yes, for Long Beach at least, it marks a return of the man who once defined Italian cuisine in DTLB.

Visitors likely don't know that Nettuno at the Fairmont Breakers welcomes back Chef Giuseppe Musso, a long-loved Long Beach Italian chef.

12/13/2024

The city’s most wondrous celebration of the array of the world of pasta starts today at Nonna Mercato. ‘12 Days of Pasta’ runs now through Christmas Eve, with each day revealing a new pasta plate that is served for that day only from 10AM until sell-out.

Chef Cameron Slaugh's "12 Days of Pasta" returns to Nonna Mercato. And with it, marks the city's best celebration of this carby creation.

12/12/2024

Sesame Dinette, the underrated, distinctly unique Vietnamese space in Long Beach’s Washington neighborhood, is up for sale. And with their matriarch, Judy Mai Nguyẽn, departing, a part of our food scene’s soul leaves with her.

Sesame Dinette, the Vietnamese-owned and -operated space on Pacific Avenue, is up for sale as its elderly owners seek retirement

12/12/2024

And it’s back. Over 5,000 people attended last year and the same crowds are expected this year for the Long Beach International Tamales Festival. It all goes down this Saturday, Dec. 14, from 1PM to 8PM.

The Long Beach International Tamales Festival, the event dedicated to all things tamal, will return on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 1PM to 8PM.

12/11/2024

A seven-story, micro-unit housing development is being proposed for the vacant lot on the north side of 4th Street between Elm and Linden Avenues in Downtown Long Beach.

A seven-story, micro-unit housing development is being proposed for the vacant lot on the north side of 4th Street in Downtown Long Beach

12/10/2024

We love the pride that Latin Americans beyond Mexico are showing for themselves throughout events and celebrations—and the Sazón Latin Food Festival is no exception.

Experience Caribbean, Central and South American cuisines this Sunday from 11AM to 6PM in DTLB. Entry is free.

DTLB is becoming a haven for Latin American celebrations—and this weekend's upcoming Sazón Latin Food Festival is no exception.

12/10/2024

Plenty of news in this week’s Food Intel update: Both Candy Warehouse and Vons in Bixby Knolls are closing; Colossus is expanding in San Pedro; Congregation unveils its renovation; and more.

Eat well, be kind.

Long Beach Food Scene Intel is a series from Brian Addison that will recap food news throughout the city, both big and small.

12/09/2024

We have never seen an onslaught of holiday participation quite like 2024—so here is your guide to all the places that decked both their halls and menus.

Much to the pleasure of holiday lovers, we are witnessing a cheerful growth in Long Beach holiday drinks and food menus.

12/09/2024

The story of Long Beach’s Panxa Cocina is one of both loss and resilience. And for those that don’t know, it is the sole restaurant dedicated to the great cuisine of New Mexico between L.A. and Phoenix.

Celebrating 10 years serving the community of Long Beach, Panxa Cocina has had its ups and downs, with mmense loss and great heights.

12/08/2024

Three words: Martini espresso tree. ‘Tis the season, Long Beach!

When it comes to the holidays—be it Halloween or Oktoberfest or Christmas—Port City Tavern is there for both the neighborhood and its patrons.

12/07/2024

On top of its just-released (and quite stellar) winter cocktail menu, Baby Gee can’t stop and won’t stop. Bringing a flurry of snow on the hour daily outside its walls and a slew of wintertime cheer inside with its onslaught of wondrous winter decorations, it is also offering a yuletide menu on top of its regular winter offerings.

Baby Gee is bringing a flurry of snow on the hour daily and a slew of wintertime cheer inside with its onslaught of wondrous decorations.

12/07/2024

The Long Beach Municipal Auditorium. It was a prized gem until its demolition in 1979 to make way for the then-new Convention Center, hosting everyone from Judy Garland to Elvis Presley.

The Long Beach Municipal Auditorium was 8,000-person exhibit hall that would host everyone from Elvis Presley to Judy Garland.

12/06/2024

The Attic on Broadway has unveiled its holiday cocktail menu, joining the wonderful plethora of spaces that are partaking in creating holiday menus.

And with it, eschews the excessive warmth that comes such cocktail menus—there is not a hot drink in sight to be found and while, sure, cinnamon is used, no drink drowns in the spice rack of nutmeg, cloves, pumpkin spice, or aromatics. Instead, you have a menu that is filled with acids, brightness, hints of nuts, apples, cherries, and more.

The Attic has unveiled its holiday cocktail menu, joining the wonderful plethora of spaces that are partaking in creating holiday menus.

12/05/2024

After a five-year hiatus, the q***r-meets-philanthropy celebration that is It’s a Drag to Give is back in all its campy, glam, fierce glory come Saturday, Dec. 7.

Even more, It’s a Drag to Give is a truly family affair, where matriarch Rocio Rached and her son and daughter, Isa Rached and Josie Quiroz, opted to gather together in the name of their business and salon, The B Room, and celebrating the q***r community.

After a five-year hiatus, the q***r-meets-philanthropy celebration that is It's a Drag to Give is back in all its campy, glam, fierce glory.

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The Story of Longbeachize: From a Napkin Idea to Award-Winning Blog

Longbeachize started with one simple question posed by two locals, Baktaash Sorkhabi and Stephanie Libanati, inspired by the happiness of the citizens in cities like Copenhagen, Auckland, Singapore, and Monterrey : how do we create a better, healthier, more accessible, more informed city?

It was then that Brian Addison was approached by the Southern California Streets Initiative to create a Long Beach-centric blog that would answer this question—and rather than creating a brand himself, he looked to re-stimulate the tiny endeavor known as Longbeachize into something bigger.

Since taking it over, Addison has turned Longbeachize into a nonprofit, award-winning blog that has over 40,000 visitors a month and covers livability issues ranging from housing and transit to biking and urban design while advocating for complete streets and New Urbanist ideals.

Addison has received over ten LA Press Club Award nominations for both his writing and photography on Longbeachize, including winning Online Journalist of the Year in 2015 and scoring second place for Best Individual Blog in 2017 (sitting ahead of Variety and behind The Hollywood Reporter).