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Also on today's calendar: Long Beach Symphony presents Gershwin, Copland and Visions of Humanity & Unity and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: How do billboards talk? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Dinner and a selfie: Long Beach restaurants and bars where photo booths are the main attraction (lbpost.com) — If you're looking for a fun night out in Long Beach, several local bars, cafes, and restaurants now pair food and drinks with nostalgic photo booths. From Rose Park's Good Bar to Mooney's Pizza Tavern and the Hangar Food Hall, you can grab tacos, coffee, pizza, or cocktails while snapping keepsake photo strips with friends around town.
2. Long Beach Rescue Mission's prayer breakfast brings together city leaders to 'celebrate hope' (presstelegram.com) — Long Beach community and civic leaders packed the Westin downtown on Friday for the 43rd annual Long Beach Leadership Prayer Breakfast, hosted by Long Beach Rescue Mission. Speakers, including former Laker AC Green, urged attendees to champion others while the mission highlighted new efforts like its Timothy House youth shelter and honored residents and nonprofits improving life in the city.
3. Equitable or undemocratic? Long Beach council approves controversial public comment change (sigtrib.com) — Long Beach residents face a major change in how they can speak at City Council meetings after a 6–3 vote to consolidate all public comments at the start of sessions. Supporters say this will make meetings more accessible, while opponents argue it weakens democracy by forcing residents to speak before hearing staff presentations, prompting petitions, protests, and threats of litigation.
4. Long Beach teen hospitalized with rare West Nile virus complication (abc7.com) — A 13-year-old Long Beach boy is hospitalized with a rare West Nile virus complication called transverse myelitis, leaving him in significant pain and facing a long recovery. Treated at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, he likely contracted the virus from mosquito bites. Doctors urge Long Beach residents to remove standing water and use bug spray, warning mosquito season may last weeks longer.
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