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THE GRAPE BEYOND

June 24,

Taste it all at the Wine Country PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Neatly tucked in one of Signal Hill's sleepiest business districts

(National Guard building, post office and quiet bakery adjacent) lies

the unassuming Wine Country. The sprawling beverage hall echoes upscale

markets and cavernous liquor emporiums in selection and quality-of-stock

but does little else to recall [...]

Tags: beer, liquor, Long Beach, Signal Hill, spirits, the wine country

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BETWEEN GOODWILL AND THE TRASH

May 27,

Re-purposing 'junk' at the Long Beach Depot for Creative Reuse PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Thousands of hopeful submissions to President Obama's new electronic

wish list sit expectantly at change.gov, waiting to be read and

considered in the nation's future plans. Among them is one sent by

46-year-old Long Beach resident Lisa Hernandez. "Share your vision," the

Web [...]

Tags: change.gov, depot for creative reuse, lisa hernandez, Long Beach, recycling

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ON A ROLL

April 8,

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 [...]

Tags: Estro Jen, Long Beach, MOXI ROLLER SKATES, retro row, roll out

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RACE FOR THE PRIZE

February 25,

Don't let become one big fitness fail. Join the party at South Bay Fit Camp PHOTO by CAROLYN OZIMOK Surely there is a special treadmill reserved in hell for personal

trainers to sweat upon for eternity. (The incline would of course

increase ever so slowly—never to the point of being physically

impossible, just stupidly painful.) At [...]

Tags: exercise, Long Beach, personal training, resolutions, South Bay Fit Camp

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BUYER'S MARKET

November 26,

The ecstasy and agony of eBay for the holidays For 10 years, the bright spot on Black Friday has always been eBay. What

started as a place to buy and sell Pez dispensers has—and you know you

know this—morphed into a bazaar selling everything from the King of

Cambodia's sports car to a Russian MiG fighter [...]

Tags: black friday, eBay, Oprah, pol pot

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FAIR WARNING: DULY NOTED

September 17,

Rose Park Neighborhood Association holds its first-ever Restoration Trade Fair PHOTO by SARAH G. VINCI When you buy a historically significant house—be it bungalow, Spanish

style or miscellaneous—your signature on the mortgage (initial here,

here and here) just opens the floodgates. Cast-iron drainpipe rusted out after 70 years? Get busy and run a new one, unless you'd rather [...]

Tags: historic district, Long Beach, restoration trade fair, rose park

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SECOND TO NONE

August 13,

Five thousand one reasons to open your wallet at

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Despite being home to a number of major retailers—like the Body

Shop/Banana Republic/Gap trifecta, where, I'm not too proud to admit, I

worshiped as a teen—as well as more than a few choice boutiques (Blue

Windows, Body O Soul), Second Street can often [...]

Tags: , Long Beach, second street, shopping

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READY TO WEAR

July 23,

Out of the Closet does not smell like grandma's house PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Thrift stores are essentially condensed department stores—the difference

being department stores sell lots of new junk you don't need, while

thrift stores sell lots of used stuff you don't need. This theory is

nearly always accurate, which explains my confusion each time I [...]

Tags: Long Beach, out of the closet, shopping, thrift store

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FLOWER POWER

July 2,

A Flower Girl's Dream doesn't just tiptoe through the tulips PHOTO by JEFF GOULD It's not uncommon to find Sheri Cervantes running around her store in a

wetsuit, sopping wet with sand still dripping from her hair, rattling

off plant facts while putting together the most perfect, colorful

bouquet of flowers you've ever seen. "This is the only [...]

Tags: a flower girl's dream, flower arranging, Huntington Beach, shopping, sunset beach

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TRUE GRIT

June 11,

From pink slip to playful kitsch at Bungalow Marcasso PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Getting laid off blows, but when your severance check covers two years

of unemployment with enough scratch left over to open a business (and be

your own boss), the pink slip doesn't sound so terrible. Just ask Mark

Sutherland, owner of Bungalow Marcasso. The 47-year-old [...]

Tags: broadway, bungalow marcasso, Long Beach, shopping

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