Musician Michael Espinach, who goes by the stagename BREATHERRR, is a California State University, Long Beach alumnus who is making ripples in Long Beach’s psychedelic music scene. The Daily 49er put on their swim caps and goggles and plunged into BREATHERRR’s world for a talk about his sound, what he’s[Read More…]
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Black hair politics and how hairdos can un-define
The flashy colors, crocheted illusions, whimsical wavy textures and coiled kinks of Black women’s hair have been the object of enchantment, awe and even controversy. For all those whose childhood did not include a particular emphasis on hair, like extensive upkeep, social stigma and involuntary cultural significance, Black woman’s hair[Read More…]
Long Beach Zombie Walk
News alert: On Saturday, zombies broke free from the exclusion zone located at Rainbow Lagoon Park. The brain-hungry living dead stalked the streets in and around The Pike, searching for victims to infect. For the unsuspecting shoppers and diners caught in the path of the annual Long Beach Zombie Walk,[Read More…]
Spying into the mind of Steven Spielberg
Like many of us speed-walking up a sweat, a young, shaggy-haired Steven Spielberg found himself victim to parking woes, 10 minutes too late during his first go-around pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English at California State University, Long Beach. “I remember I was late for my very first class on[Read More…]
Review: Toxic Boy’s ‘Troubled’
Toxic Boy’s debut album “Troubled” opens with an eponymous force of fuzz full of slacker growls that verge on the Cobain-esque. While Toxic Boy, whose real-life name is Andy Groke, may at times exude punk bravado, in his quieter moments he reveals himself to be an introspective over-thinker. Vice gripped[Read More…]
‘The Martian’ is out of this world
Every young child’s dream of exploring another planet quickly turns into a nightmare of unfathomable despair as a man is left behind alone on the harsh landscape of Mars. Houston, we have a problem. In a testament to human ingenuity, “The Martian,” based on the novel by Andy Weir, pulls[Read More…]
5 genuine spots you can’t miss on 2nd Street
Second Street can get nuts. It always feels like there’s a lot going on. The following places are just a few of the classic 2nd Street go-to’s that will assuage the anxiety of where to go when you hit the chaos of people and restaurant. La Creperie Café 4911 E[Read More…]
Thomas Hodge discusses VHS cover art
Before digital, analog was king. For cinephiles who came up before DVDs and YouTube, a large chunk of their lives was spent rewinding videotapes. In their heyday, the Video Home System was a revolutionary technology that allowed consumers to watch films in the comfort of their own home. And like[Read More…]
Happy accidents
Some look like formations plucked from a coral reef or like sections of innards cut from a living body. Others look like undulations in a pond or volcanic smoke. But what all the hollow, amorphous sculptures in Cory Mahoney’s ceramics exhibition “This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen” have in common is[Read More…]
Screening of ‘Free Angela and All Political Prisoners’ draws a crowd at CSULB
An ethereal voice wailed violently to the tune of a tortured, melancholy jazz as the Marin County courthouse in San Rafael, California filled the projector screen. Old photos depicting the bloodied bodies of Black men who had been gunned down after attempting to free political prisoners and kidnapping a judge[Read More…]