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Feb 20 9:00 am
  • West Long Beach

‘We can be influential’: Organizers seek to create a Filipinotown in West Long Beach

Crystal Niebla

From flavorful Filipino cuisine to the culture’s well-known character of hospitality and activism, local organizers are on a mission to create an official Filipinotown in Long Beach, with hopes of providing more representation for the city’s largest Asian population.

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Jan 11 11:59 am
  • community gardening

Westside restaurant seeks volunteers to maintain, harvest kitchen garden

Crystal Niebla

Becoming too much to handle, the owner and chef of Peruvian restaurant, Casa Chaskis, is looking for volunteers to run his backyard kitchen garden in West Long Beach.

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Nov 7 3:22 pm shared from News

Local gardeners need help spreading mulch in Westside improvement project

Crystal Niebla

Anyone interested in helping with this project can just show up at the site on Wednesday morning.

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Aug 12 9:00 am
  • food

Two women challenge stereotypes with ‘remixed’ Mexican food

Crystal Niebla

Best friends Joty Kaur, 28, and Lucy Singleton, 30, are always catching people by surprise with their youth and “remixed” Mexican food.

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Jul 7 9:00 am shared from Long Beach Business Journal

‘Happy to be back’: Popular barber comes back home to West Long Beach

Crystal Niebla
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Jan 20 2021 3:09 pm
  • urban farming

New veteran-led farm kicks off with food giveaway for West Long Beach residents

Crystal Niebla

The farmers plan to giveaway 2,000 pounds worth of fruits and vegetables intended for nearby westside residents on a first-come, first serve basis.

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Dec 10 2020 4:30 pm
  • mural

New West Long Beach mural to honor immigrant families, faith, student success

Crystal Niebla

Community mural painting is slated to kick off this Saturday, Dec. 12 at 2000 Santa Fe Ave.

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Nov 9 2020 1:05 pm
  • african american

Queen Mother Sakkara Ingrid Thomas’ legacy lives on in the historical society she founded

Crystal Niebla

Thomas, Long Beach’s first Miss Black Beauty, died of natural causes in October.

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Oct 21 2020 5:00 pm
  • West Long Beach

Little Manila: A second glance at the culture of West Long Beach

Crystal Niebla

West Long Beach’s Little Manila is a part of town that bursts with life inside loquacious restaurants and a few local parks, where children play beyond dull and dusty apartment buildings and storefronts.

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Jul 12 2020 2:50 pm
  • 562 tacos

‘No he visto nunca una persona que esté triste comiendo sus tacos.’: Una tienda de abarrotes en West Long Beach se reinventa como un puesto de tacos

Crystal Niebla

Después de que el coronavirus dañó su negocio, familiares y amigos crearon 562 Tacos.

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