We meet again taco-freaks. Worry not, mijos and mijas, for the gastro-quest continues. As I make my way through the vast landscape of Long Beach taquerias—encountering the good, the bad and the ugly—I continue to contemplate the history behind this iconic Mexican finger food. When we last left off, we’d[Read More…]
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#LBTVirgin rides hard: ride along with Charlie
In the moments that hang along 1st Street just before the bus pulls up, Charlie sits head down blowing smoke into the face of the thick black woman yelling at him for puffing on his cigarette too close to the curb. Charlie takes orders from no man — and certainly[Read More…]
CSULB professor hunts down the history of CSULB
California State University, Long Beach journalism professor Barbara Kingsley-Wilson wrote and recently published “Long Beach State: A Brief History.” Through colorful anecdotes and archival photographs, the book chronicles the conception, inception and subsequent growing pains of the now 322-acre campus. The Daily 49er sat down with Kingsley-Wilson to talk about[Read More…]
The cocktail: 400 years in the making
The cocktail has quite the tale to tell. And what better way to hear it than over drink? Bartenders and amateur cocktail historians Damien Montanile and Chris Dion led a boozy prohibition mixology class as part of the Art Deco Festival, which was held at the Queen Mary from Sept.[Read More…]
Long Beach coffee shops open late at night
Night owls, insomniacs and graveyard shifters of Long Beach, it’s no secret that you’re shut out of many popular establishments because of the hours you keep. Now, just because you prefer the moon to the sun, fellow nocturnals, shouldn’t mean you’re not able to grab a tasty cup of coffee or[Read More…]
Drunk on History
The cocktail has quite the tale to tell. And what better way to hear it than over drink? Bartenders and amateur cocktail historians Damien Montanile and Chris Dion led a boozy prohibition mixology class as part of the Art Deco Festival, which was held at the Queen Mary from Sept.[Read More…]
LB Folk Revival Fest: The foot-stopping barnburner returns
The Folk Revival Festival is bringing the jangle and twang to Long Beach for a third straight year. Showcasing folk, roots and bluegrass acts, the festival has grown exponentially since 2013, according to event organizer Shea Newkirk. Last year about 3,500 people showed up and this year they’re expecting a[Read More…]
The end of fiction genres?
CSULB alumni Christopher David Rosales has released his debut novel “Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper,” which mixer called a “communal love child of Marquez, Bolaño, and Orwell, a child who inhabits an America that resembles Pinochet’s Chile, and yet feels uncannily (and frighteningly) familiar to present day Los Angeles.”[Read More…]
Review: Beach House’s ‘Depression Cherry’
Album: “Depression Cherry” Artist: Beach House Label: Sub-Pop Records Release Date: Aug. 28, 2015 Rating: 4.5/5 The best way to listen to Beach House is at night, darting down the fast lane, with every window open. After the Baltimore duo released their fifth album on Friday, I knew what I[Read More…]
Q-and-A with poet Dominic ‘Nerd’ McDonald
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