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IN PICTURES: Long Beach Pride Parade 2013

By Shelby Dereszynski | 05.20.13

For the thirtieth year in a row, members and supporters of Long Beach's LGBTQ community strutted down Ocean Boulevard in the Pride Parade. Tens of thousands of onlookers googled and goggled at the array of floats, costumes, dancers and organizations that, even if just for a brief moment, let their...

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IN PICTURES: 2nd Annual Long Beach Lawn-to-Garden Tour

By Nicholas Noell | 05.20.13

More than 2000 people drove, biked and strolled through Long Beach neighborhoods on Saturday seeking native landscaping featured in the 2nd annual Long Beach Lawn-to-Garden Tour, hosted by the Long Beach Water Department. Photos by Nicholas Noell More than 2000 people drove, biked and stroll...

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Long Beach Poetry Slam A Growing Forum For Spoken Word

By Charles Snyder | 05.20.13

On Saturday, May 4, the 2nd Annual Long Beach Poetry Slam took over MADHaus in Downtown Long Beach. The event was hosted by The Definitive Soapbox, a ministry facet of the Redemption Church of Long Beach, which very well may be the epicentre of a progressive poetry movement in Long Beach...

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Long Beach's Thriving E-Cigarette Businesses Turn Smokers Into Vapers

By Jason Ruiz | 05.20.13

With their two shops flanking LBCC, Vapes of Wrath and Revolver represent hubs for what is a growing vaping community in Long Beach. Along with a handful of other local e-cigarette shops, they would be hurt by the possible passage of a California Senate Bill that would classify electronic cig...

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Kidical Mass Celebrates One Year Anniversary (And Imitators)

By Brian Addison | 05.20.13

Kidical Mass in Bixby Knolls has become not just widely popular, but solidified Long Beach's place as an innovator in pushing forward with bicycling culture. It's an event that has become not just widely popular, but solidified Long Beach's place as an innovator in pushing forward with bicyclin...

Stroke Center Launches Emergency Telecommunications Program with 24-Hour Access to Specialists

By Staff Reports | 05.20.13

Stroke is a medical emergency that requires early assessment and treatment by specialists. Treating acute stroke patients with thrombolytics – medicine that breaks down blood clots – is key to preventing stroke-related disability and improving patient outcomes. In fact, treatment with thrombolytics ...

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2013 Long Beach Pride Week Calendar of Events

By Staff Reports | 05.20.13

Here is a list of events that are occuring throughout the city during Pride Week to help you celebrate in any fashion you'd like, whether it is reveling or striking a pose. TUESDAY, MAY 14 Celebrate Pride ForeverPresented by: Port City Tattoo Port City Tattoo | 4290 east Pacific Coast Highway | ...

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Long Beach's Leather Roots

By Brian Addison | 05.20.13

Perhaps it is due to the odd correlation between the birth of Fascism in Europe and Fascist style--the leather boots, the clean lines, the regimented behavior, the rampant masculinity of it all--that most people assume the origin of the gay leather culture lies within European boundaries. How...

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Parade and Festival Celebrates 30 Years of Long Beach Pride

By Brian Addison | 05.20.13

It has been nothing short of a transformational 30 years for the Long Beach Pride celebration. Photo courtesy of LBLGP, Inc. This story appears in our current print edition, available at 500 locations throughout the city. To find a location, click here. It has been nothing short of a transf...

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LBUSD to Show Pride in Parade for the First Time Ever

By Brian Addison | 05.20.13

As Pride hits its 30 year anniversary, the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) will mark a first in its history: partaking in a LBUSD-sponsored trip down Ocean Boulevard for Pride. As Pride hits its 30 year anniversary, the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) will mark a first in it...

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Discovering Our Transgender Pride

By Justine May Calma | 05.20.13

For most of us, a doctor assigned us a gender after taking one look at what was or was not present below the waist. For some, however, the gender assigned at birth becomes a prison caging one’s true self, a mismatch between what others see and what they know in their heart. For most of us, a do...

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When Causing a Scene Might Be the Right Idea

By Greggory Moore | 05.20.13

During Act Two I told a complete stranger to shut up. But that was nothing to the public scene that came later. During Act Two I told a complete stranger to shut up. But that was nothing to the public scene that came later. I can't recall the last time I seriously told someone to shut ...

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OP-ED: Could Craft Beer Become Long Beach’s Newest Growth Industry?

By Sarah Bennett | 05.15.13

Craft beer has become a major source of tourism money for cities from San Diego to Torrance. Should Long Beach be taking advantage of the popularity of locally made beer and encouraging this new economic resource? Photo by Lydia Chain This past weekend, hundreds of people from across t...

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East Village Businesses to Host Pre-Summer Sidewalk Sale

By Brian Addison | 05.15.13

This Saturday will welcome the first sidewalk sale hosted by a group of established and new East Village Arts District stores to celebrate the coming of summer. This Saturday will welcome the first sidewalk sale hosted by a group of established and new East Village Arts District stores to celebra...

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Outlet Mall Planned for The Pike at Rainbow Harbor

By Carlos Villarreal | 05.09.13

New development plans for the Pike at Rainbow Harbor were revealed last week and it appears that the latest plan is to turn the maligned waterfront complex into a destination outlet mall. New development plans for the Pike at Rainbow Harbor were revealed last week and it appears that the late...

Updated 1957 Tay Home Hits Park Estates

By Brian Addison | 05.09.13

Another Paul E. Tay--this one an entirely original Tay design--home has hit the Long Beach market in Park Estates along El Parque Street, this one a more prominent example of Tay's impeccable work. All photos courtesy of CRMLS. Another Paul E. Tay--this one an entirely original Tay design--h...

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OP-ED: Rail Project Makes Sense for the Region

By People Post | 05.08.13

By Dave Arian | Economically, the SCIG project is critical to the competitiveness of both the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, ensuring that the tens of thousands of jobs supported by the cargo industry remain in this region. Environmentally, SCIG reduces air pollutants associat...

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1954 Park Estates Home With Paul Tay Alterations Hits Market

By Brian Addison | 05.06.13

A sprawling 1954 home with later alterations made by Paul Edward Tay home has recently been listed for sale in the Park Estates neighborhood of Long Beach. All photos courtesy of CRMLS. A sprawling 1954 home with alterations later made by Paul Edward Tay home has recently been listed fo...

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Outlet Mall Planned for The Pike at Rainbow Harbor

By Carlos Villarreal | 05.09.13

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OP-ED: Could Craft Beer Become Long Beach’s Newest Growth Industry?

By Sarah Bennett | 05.15.13

Updated 1957 Tay Home Hits Park Estates

By Brian Addison | 05.09.13

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OP-ED: Rail Project Makes Sense for the Region

By People Post | 05.08.13

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East Village Businesses to Host Pre-Summer Sidewalk Sale

By Brian Addison | 05.15.13

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Highlanders Come Down From the Riverside For Three at the Beach

By Dan Barber | 05.17.13

Location, location, location. At least that’s mantra for folks in the real estate game. UC Riverside, where the temps can be wickedly warm, trades it all for the sea breezes and big outfield of Blair. Location, location, location. At least that’s mantra for folks in the real estate game. UC River...

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Pepp and the Beach: Objects in Your Baseball Mirror May Be Closer Than You Think

By Dan Barber | 05.14.13

As different as they are--one large and inexpensive state university, one small and expensive private university--Pepperdine and Long Beach State seem to mirror each other at times at least this spring in baseball. As different as they are--one large and inexpensive state university, one small an...

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This Week In LBSU Athletics: May 13, 2013

By Staff Reports | 05.13.13

The week that was and will be in LBSU athletics. THIS WEEK Tuesday, May 14 Baseball vs. Pepperdine | 6PM | Blair Field Friday, May 17 Baseball vs. UC Riverside | 6PM | Blair Field Saturday, May 18 Baseball vs. UC Riverside | 2PM | Blair Field Sunday, May 19 Baseball vs. UC Riverside | 1PM...

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Back at Blair, the Beach Boys are Battling the Bows in a BWC Set

By Dan Barber | 05.10.13

With a body of baseball work totaling 22-24, Long Beach State baseball has finally arrived home, to stay. For the first of seven home games, it will be the struggling Hawaii Rainbows who come in at 11-31 but are just a weekend away from a series win over Pacific. With a body of baseball work...

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Alphabet Super From A to Z and Points in Between

By Dan Barber | 05.08.13

When your inbox stack of facts and figures range from A to Z (Alabama, site of that Sand Volleyball championship to Zator, as in Hillary the, 10,000 meter star for the track team) it must be time for another session of the wildly (or mildly) popular Notes on My Napkin. Beach volleyball nation...

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This Week In LBSU Athletics: May 6, 2013

By Staff Reports | 05.06.13

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Juan Makes it Gone, Sabo Snufs the 'Stangs and LMU Brings an Ace to Our Place

By Dan Barber | 04.30.13

The usual script for baseball at Blair Field is good pitching. Cal Poly Sunday starter Bryan Granger came through but his bullpen let him down. LB Sunday starter freshman David Hill did not come through but while the homefolks waited for the offense to wake up his bullpen did. The usual script fo...

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Alphabet Super From A to Z and Points in Between

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Juan Makes it Gone, Sabo Snufs the 'Stangs and LMU Brings an Ace to Our Place

By Dan Barber | 04.30.13

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Back at Blair, the Beach Boys are Battling the Bows in a BWC Set

By Dan Barber | 05.10.13

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This Week In LBSU Athletics: April 29, 2013

By Staff Reports | 04.30.13

The week that was and will be in LBSU athletics. LAST WEEK Softball (32-20, 14-7)lost to No. 14 Hawai’i 7-4defeated No. 14 Hawai’i 14-7defeated No. 14 Hawai’i 11-3 (5 innings)--The 49ers defeated their first ranked team of the season, winning a crucial Big West series atconference-leading Hawai’...

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