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As we predicted more than a year ago, it looks as if Long Beach is now the city to turn to for all of your roller skating needs.
God we’re good.
Just ask garage-rockers-turned-dance-floor-heroes, the Gossip! For the newest video from the band’s Rick Rubin-produced album Music For Men, Beth Ditto and Co. went for a roller [...]

In what is surely very good news for Long Beach’s burgeoning roller skating scene, Estro Jen of Moxi Roller Skates sent out the following text last night:
It is official! Long Beach will finally have its very own roller derby league! First meeting is on Fri., July 24 at 7 p.m. at 2218 E. Fourth Street. [...]

Revisit roller-skating at Moxi Roller Skates

PHOTO by MICHAEL ZAMPELLI
If City Manager Pat West gets his way, Long Beach will one day be known as the most bike-friendly city in the nation—this after the city has already been recognized as the home of the upcoming Toyota Grand Prix and, to a lesser extent (okay, a significantly [...]

A real Hawaiian-style wedding, at a University by the Sea warm-up
Linda and Terry Eason were married nearly 25 years ago at 423 E. First St. in the East Village Arts District–but there they were again Tuesday morning in matching Hawaiian shirts,