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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.
21/07/2025
Some good news, some bad news—but plenty of food news nonetheless in this week’s Food Intel update. The best part? Taste Wine-Beer-Kitchen has formally reopened in Belmont Heights and HB-based Steadfast Cafe has taken over a spot at the Lafayette in DTLB.
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.
20/07/2025
The return of professional baseball to Long Beach?
The City Council is set to vote Tuesday on whether the city should move forward with studying the feasibility of hosting a professional baseball team—specifically the Long Beach Baseball Club. It will be the potential 13th franchise for the Pioneer Baseball League, which severed ties as an affiliated MLB league in 2021 to become fully independent.
Long Beach has long been a baseball city. And few places embody that legacy quite like Blair Field. This historic and city-owned stadium has served generations of players and fans. It’s home to the Long Beach State’s Dirtbags. And it’s also hosted independent league pros like the Long Beach Br...
20/07/2025
Ice cream with caviar. Perfect tortelloni. Fried musubi rolls. Duck breast with duck fat-fried onion rings. These are Brian Addison’s favorite things he was eating across 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.
18/07/2025
Marking its tenth year in SoCal, Dreamstate 2025 will be taking over the Queen Mary’s event space on Nov. 22 and 23.
And yes, tickets are now on sale—but there’s a much bigger surprise. The trance titan himself Tiësto will be performing a rare all-trance set. And this is amongst other legends like Ferry Corsten, Gareth Emery, Paul Oakenfold, and Giuseppe Ottaviani, who share the bill with psy-warriors like Astrix and Burn in Noise.
Marking its tenth year in SoCal, Dreamstate 2025 will be taking over the Queen Mary's event space on Nov. 22 and 23.
18/07/2025
For Chef Regan Chantrirak—who opened The Second Owl with his wife Pason—the journey to what he feels is a “proper space to experience the food of our cultures” isn’t just a story of evolution. It seems to simultaneously harbors but eschews traditions.
Short rib is slathered in proper Massaman then paired with mashed potatoes and spinach—a Thai Thanksgiving dish if there was one. Roasted duck tucked into egg rolls. Nam kao tod melded with koji & red curry.
For Chef Regan Chantrirak—who, with his wife Pason, opened The Second Owl—flipping the script on Thai food is in his blood.
17/07/2025
Honored to be a part of this incredible opportunity for Long Beach restaurants.
17/07/2025
Viento y Agua will be closing its doors, having served the Belmont Heights community for over 20 years. Owner Jenny La Force did not want to publicly discuss the situation, allowing her the space to process it. Jenny has been discussing openly her need to move past the business due to both tiredness and the desire to move on.
Others in the community, however, are not so clear on Jenny’s or the landlord’s decision.
Viento y Agua will be closing its doors at the end of this month after serving the Belmont Heights community for over 20 years.
16/07/2025
Honored to have been asked by Vans Warped Tour to collaborate on a series of special, affordable food offerings leading up to our Long Beach Food Scene Week Aug. 1-10.
All these offerings are $15 or under. And come LBFSW, prepare to watch chefs across the city flex their culinary power.
Shout-out to Insomniac Events, Downtown Long Beach, and Visit Long Beach for being such great collaborators.
Vans Warped Tour has partnered with Long Beach Food Scene for a highlight of local food at affordable prices.
15/07/2025
After four decades under its current ownership and nearly 100 years in operation as a brand, Colonial Bakery has permanently closed, following a vermin infestation reported by the health department on July 9.
It marks a sad time for both a legacy bakery and those who depend on affordable eats like the ones offered at Colonial in the era of the $6-plus donut.
After four decades under its current ownership and nearly 100 years of operation as a brand, Colonial Bakery has permanently closed
15/07/2025
The Long Beach Airport is, yet again, one of the best. It ranked at #2 on the Washington Post’s Best 50 airports in the U.S.
And that is, in large part, thanks to its design and old-school charm. The airport’s open-air concourse evokes everything about the Long Beach lifestyle. Brilliantly thought out, the space is more like an escape than home to an in-and-out for busy travelers and aircrafts. And that is partly thanks to its landscape design from Meléndrez and an architectual upgrade from Studio One Eleven.
The Long Beach Airport is, yet again, one of the best. It ranked at #2 on the Washington Post's Best 50 airports in the U.S.
14/07/2025
What started as a familiar but fading downtown tradition—an art walk tucked into a handful of galleries and side streets—has evolved into something more immersive, more ambitious, and far more representative of Long Beach’s creative core. Thanks to a major collaboration between the DTLB Alliance and Studio One Eleven, the return of the DTLB Art + Design Walk on Saturday, July 26 from 2PM to 7PM, is a reflection of that.
What started as a familiar but fading downtown tradition—an art walk tucked into a handful of galleries and side streets—has evolved into something more immersive, more ambitious, and far more representative of Long Beach’s creative core. Thanks to a major collaboration between the DTLB Allian...
14/07/2025
OMG Burgers & More—the Black-owned sandwich shack near 7th and Park—does, indeed, have the city’s best cheesesteak, where Cooper Sharp cheese and meat meld for a savory bomb tucked into an Amoroso-style roll. (And yes, the chicken version is just as legit.)
But owners Valerie and Billy Paige are about so much more. Yes, the food goes beyond the cheesesteak—perfect water ice, a damn near perfect patty melt on sourdough, some of the best mac, and a heartwarming bowl of chili’n’rice… But also in their souls, where their kindness has already made them a community of their own.
When Valerie Page and her husband Billy opened OMG Burgers & More in Belmont Heights earlier this year, they weren’t just bringing cheesesteaks and water ice to the city.
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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).
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