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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.
11/16/2024
With so many weird lists out there that have outright wrong or awkward information, here is a list of Long Beach restaurants open for dine-in on Thanksgiving that's actually useful. There are hours, costs, phone numbers, and links to menus and reservations. It’s simple and easy.
And yes, there is a Thanksgiving brunch and dinner on a boat cruise through the harbor.
Long Beach restaurants open on Thanksgiving? Fear not: We have you covered with traditional and non-traditional options.
11/15/2024
Well this is just rad, Long Beach.
Jin of BTS opted for Long Beach's Retro Row to be the opening backdrop for his first solo music video, "Running Wild."
11/15/2024
Sky Room lovers rejoice: the top-floor restaurant that has existed since 1946—and re-opens in the Fairmont Breakers Nov. 19—is accepting reservations on Open Table.
The famed Sky Room—the top-floor restaurant that has existed in DTLB since 1946—is accepting reservations on Open Table.
11/14/2024
From tacos de tripas and hot beef sandwiches to the city’s best carrot cake and new cocktail, here are the favorite things Brian Addison inhaled throughout November in Long Beach.
Eat well, be kind.
Brian Addison's Favorite Things is a monthly list showcasing his five favorite things he is mowing down and gulping through in Long Beach.
11/14/2024
Breakfast lovers, unite: EggBred opens its first Long Beach location on Nov. 23.
Japanese milk buns stuffed with egg and house-made chorizo patties? Yes and yes.
EggBred Long Beach—the quickly expanding, self-described craft breakfast sandwich chain—will be opening on Nov. 23.
11/13/2024
Hand-carved ice. House-made bitters, amaros, and vermouths. A hyper-focus on the art of subtlety melded with the fultire of showmanship.
Tokyo Noir much, much more than Long Beach’s newest speakeasy.
Tucked into a space where one enters through the alley way of El Barrio, Tokyo Noir is far more than a speakeasy.
11/13/2024
Solita, the massive Mexican-American corporate restaurant chain that took over the largest retail space inside Landmark Square, will be closing by the end of the year.
And with it, leaves behind another massive, empty commercial space. That, in turn, opens a conversation about how we examine and help sell restaurant spaces of that size.
Solita, the corporate chain that took over the largest retail space inside Landmark Square, will be closing by the end of the year.
11/11/2024
This mid-century gem finally gets the love it deserves.
The City Center hotel always had the bones to be a great space. And now, it has the makeover it always deserved.
11/11/2024
As always, a ton of food news in this week’s Intel, Long Beach. From mini-market Indian food to Olive & Rose unveiling their cocktail program to more dim sum finally hitting the tables of our city.
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.
11/11/2024
We already know Panxa is home to the city’s largest collection of agave spirits. But the New Mexico-inspired concept—birthed by Chef Arthur Gonzalez and now headed by his wife, Vanessa Auclair, following his tragic death—is also home to some of the city’s best events.
‘A Taste of Mexico’ is one of those events. And it comes with unlimited tastings from some of the finest purveyors of agave spirits, tacos, music, and good vibes on Tuesday, Dec. 3 from 6PM ot 9PM.
"A Taste of Mexico" at Panxa comes with unlimited spirits tastings, tacos, music, and good vibes on Tuesday, Dec. 3 from 6PM ot 9PM.
11/10/2024
The room—lovingly called “hayati” (حياتي), or “my life” in Arabic—is the lifelong culmination of Chef Dima’s dream not just to bring Levantine food to SoCal but to have a constant swarm of people asking for, learning about, and yearning for the food of her heritage.
Ammatolí newest space, a room called "hayati" (or "my life" in Arabic) has officially opened—and is a culmination of Chef Dima's love of food.
11/08/2024
This weekend is the time, Long Beach: Beach Streets returns with a North LB route that will close off a portion of Artesia from all cars in order to make way for bicyclists, runners, walkers, strollers, skaters, those in wheelchairs, and pretty much any human not in a motorized mode of transit.
After fear that not a single Beach Streets event would happen in 2024 at all due to a lack of funding, city officials have formally cleared the way for Beach Streets Uptown to move forward in the fall.
11/05/2024
The Fairmont Breakers has been years in the making. Dates have been perpetually pushed back due to the pandemic and construction constrictions. Taking over the historic building that once operated as a senior home, it lines the southern end of Ocean between Collins Avenue.
After a preemptive but false announcement to employees that the space would be opening Nov. 7, online reservations for stays can begin on Nov. 19.
The Fairmont Breakers has been years in the making—and Long Beach's first luxury hotel is set to open Nov. 7.
11/01/2024
This Sunday, the first ever Taco Death Match invades Downtown Long Beach with the ultimate taco competition.
From Sinaloa-style carne asada and tortillas con nopal to pastrami and fried oster'n'bone marrow tacos, this will be quite the experience.
Taco Death Match, the taco competition heading to DTLB on Nov. 3, has a curated slate of 10 chefs and taqueros who will battle it out.
10/31/2024
A G-funk holiday miracle?
Snoop Dogg has been teasing “Missionary”—the Dr. Dre-produced album that is meant to be an homage to Snoop’s 1993 masterpiece and debut, “Do******le”—for years. And now, the album has an official release date: Dec. 13, just in time for the holidays.
Snoop Dogg has been teasing “Missionary”—the Dr. Dre-produced album that is meant to be an homage to Snoop’s 1993 masterpiece and debut, “Do******le”—for years. And now, the album has an official release date: Dec. 13, just in time for the holidays. Why Snoop Dogg’s ‘Missionary’ ...
10/30/2024
So much food news in this week’s Food Intel, from new openings and menu updates to Miracle at the Ordinaire opening earlier this year and Sonoratown open seven days a week for lunch. Praise the tortilla gods!
Read, share, 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.
10/29/2024
In SoCal, there is probably no other form of food more ubiquitous, influential, or comforting than a taco.
That is why we are so honored these Long Beach chefs will be offering up their interpretation of a taco for Taco Death Match, coming to DTLB on Nov. 3.
Taco Death Match 2024 will pit ten taqueros from Long Beach and L.A. battling in the ultimate competition focused on SoCal's favorite food.
10/28/2024
Taco Death Match is upon us, Long Beach, come Sunday, Nov. 3—and the taco competition-meets-festival-meets-tequila tasting will pit some of the most talented culinary minds against one another.
And for the traditional taqueros? Like, the list is stellar with longtime Best Taco list toppers and even a few 101 Best Restaurants recipients from the LA Times.
From Long Beach, Tacos La Carreta and Los Reyes Del Taco Sabroso. And from L.A., the legends that are Los Dorados and Asadero Chikali. Nothing short of awesome.
Taco Death Match 2024 will pit ten taqueros from Long Beach and L.A. battling in the ultimate competition focused on SoCal's favorite food.
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Sober bars and mocktail lists are becoming an integral part of cities—and please, don’t mock them by sarcastically saying, ‘Isn’t that just a coffee shop?’
It shouldn’t be shocking that sometimes, adults want adult adult places to socialize that aren’t always bars or where they don’t have to deal with families.
That’s where @shirleytemplelb comes in. Go for their three holiday mocktails or, if those are too sweet for you, go for their drier options like their Negroni mocktail.
✍️ & 🎥: @brianaddisonlb
Long Beach’s annual tree lighting ceremony is TONIGHT at 5PM—and everyone at @visitlb and @longbeachize is encouraging everyone to bring a toy that will be collected and dispensed to children by the Long Beach Fire Department.
See you tonight at 5PM!
Long Beach’s annual tree lighting ceremony is TONIGHT at 5PM—and everyone at @visitlb and @longbeachize is encouraging everyone to bring a toy that will be collected and dispensed to children by the Long Beach Fire Department.
See you tonight!
Welcome to the new Longbeachize
New website, new profile pic—who this?
Welcome to the new Longbeachize, where award-winning advocacy and impact journalism cross with the people, places, and perspectives that make Long Beach, well, Long Beach.
For more: www.longbeachize.com
What Long Beach pedestrians face every day when crossing Willow St. at the 710 Freeway
This is what pedestrians face every day when trying to take Willow Street across the 710 Freeway and Los Angeles River. This year alone, a bicyclist and a pedestrian have already been killed and yet no safety amenities have been put in place—unlike other cities like Oakland and San Francisco, which altered their streets immediately following unneeded deaths.
We'll have a full analysis on this soon. Video courtesy of the Cabrillo High School Community Page.
EMPHASIZE: URBAN DESIGN, A @Longbeachize Speaker Series
We invited KCRW's Frances Anderton to talk face-to-face with Long Beach about design, architecture, and human space as our free talk series, Emphasize, continues.
We invited three affordable housing experts to talk to Long Beach about how we can create a more equitable community and expound on the belief that housing is a human right.
Join the Conversation on Emphasize: Getting Home Safely
LIVE! Q&A with Judge Craig Mitchell and Film Producer Gabriele Hayes @SkidRoWMarathon
Emphasize Talk Series: Affordable Housing
Emphasize Talk Series: Affordable Housing
Our free talk series, Emphasize, will continue hosting its public forums on Thursday, January 11 at 6:30PM when we tackle affordable housing with a discussion at the Art Theatre on Retro Row. Doors open at 6:30PM while the talk will begin no later than 7PM.
Additionally, we plan on streaming it live to you on our Facebook. Please share the live stream for those that can't physically make the forum.
Beach Streets Grand Prix-View 2017
This, Long Beach, is what it looks like when you give the streets back to people. This is Beach Streets' Grand Prix-view, where hundreds of bicyclists, skaters, walkers, and runners took over the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach track.
For us, we believe a ciclovía holds this strange philosophical power–you invert a street to be used for people’s feet and bikes and skateboards, not cars–that when enacted, suddenly shows off a very tangible benefit–that our urban landscape thrives most when people are exploring it at a human scale.
Video: Allan Crawford
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).
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