{"id":77492,"date":"2023-09-13T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=77492"},"modified":"2023-09-13T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:10:30","slug":"sura-korean-bbq-tofu-house-to-host-exhibit-for-local-artist-sept-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/sura-korean-bbq-tofu-house-to-host-exhibit-for-local-artist-sept-18","title":{"rendered":"Sura Korean BBQ &amp; Tofu House to host exhibit for local artist Sept. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sura Korean BBQ &amp; Tofu House will host its first community artist event Monday, Sept. 18, featuring the work of local artist Carolyn McDonald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandon and Claire Kim, who own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surakbbq.com\/\">Sura<\/a> and another Long Beach store, <a href=\"https:\/\/finefeatherskombucha.com\/\">Fine Feathers Kombucha<\/a>, will host a reception at the restaurant from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. where McDonald&#8217;s photographs from her various collections will be on display, as well as audio samples from her poetry books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe believe food and art, nutrition and community go hand-in-hand. Hence, we opened our space up to other amazing creatives in our city,&#8221; the Kims said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carolynmcdonald.com\/\">McDonald<\/a>, who moved to Long Beach in 2019, is a multimedia artist. In addition to photography and poetry, she has written screenplays, produced and directed films, and worked in the film industry at Warner Brothers, Cinecom and Danny Glover&#8217;s Carrie Productions company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Because I was encouraged to \u2018focus on one thing\u2019, I pursued a career solely in film,&#8221; McDonald said in a statement. &#8220;But after two bouts of Covid, I made a commitment to express my talents fully in every creative discipline I envision.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sura has been open since 2014 serving traditional and modern Korean food like Soon Tofu Soup and marinated barbecue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sura Korean BBQ &amp; Tofu House is located at 621 Atlantic Avenue.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe believe food and art, nutrition and community go hand-in-hand,&#8221; Sura&#8217;s owners said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":77524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[161,153],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32152],"class_list":["post-77492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-art","tag-food","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77492"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77530,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77492\/revisions\/77530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77492"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=77492"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=77492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}