Human Interest Stories

Long Beach Love Stories: LORNA + MARK

Photo by La Petite Photo, Margot Robert “SMOOTH SAILING” Lorna and Mark met at Leeway Sailing Center in Long Beach where Mark taught one...

Long Beach Love Stories: CHARLES + VALERIE

Photo by Ja Tecson “DANCING THROUGH CSULB” If you love proposals and dancing, do yourself a favor and look up “flash mob proposal at...

Long Beach Love Stories: JEFF + CHRISTINA

Photo by Michael Farmer, f/8 Studios “TEACHING LESSONS” In 2015, Christina Crissman (a teacher at Poly High School) was sent to observe...

Long Beach Love Stories: STEPHANIE + KENNETH

Photo by Cruzio Studios “LOVE & BEACH” Stephanie and Kenneth met in the fall of 2010, at a club in Long Beach called Khoury’s, now...

Long Beach Love Stories: DANIEL + JAIME

Photo by Zoom Theory Photography “FLYING INTO THE FUTURE” Daniel and Jaime met in 2015, at Rounding Third, a Long Beach bar. On one of...

Long Beach Love Stories: VALERIE + NOAH

Photo by Heidi Noelle Allen “HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS” Though Valerie and Noah were both born at (former) Long Beach Community Hospital...

Long Beach Love Stories: DUSTY + ANDREW

Photo by Turner Acre Photo Artistry “2ND CHANCE LOVE” Andy and Dusty worked together for over 20 years. During that time, both were...

Long Beach Love Stories: KATHRYN + KARI

Photo by Nola Fontanez Photography "A LONG BEACH WEDDING" Their story began in 2013, when Kari and Kathryn met for a quick drink at...

AN ODE TO LONG BEACH’S BEAUTY DURING ROUGH TIMES

By John Grossi Photo by Monique Kuhlman Your City, Your Magazine: Gia Mendez graciously responded to our call for readers and followers...

A WORTHY AMBASSADOR FOR LONG BEACH (GOLF): ROGER GILLIAM

By John Grossi Photos by Monique Kuhlman For decades, Recreation Park 18-Hole Golf Course in Long Beach has been denoted as “one of the...

AN A-MAIS-ING LEGACY OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN LONG BEACH

By John Grossi In December of 2023, I attended one of the largest and most amazing funerals I’ve ever been to. The service was for a...

Jerry L. Shultz: A Wonderful Life!

By Gina Valencia Photo by Monique Kuhlman It was the dead of night. The garage door was wide open, as was the door that led from the...

Juan Barrios: “He Takes Care of the Neighborhood”

By Kathleen Mest Photo by Monique Kuhlman I answered my phone. “Juan asked me to call you. He saw 2 coyotes in your front yard and wanted...

Barbara Sunofsky: “Learn From Each Other”

By Gina Valencia Photo by Monique Kuhlman As a 7-year-old German refugee, Barbara Sunofsky remembers what it was like to be an outsider....

OBITUARY- SHERI ANN GILBERT BEEBE

Long Beach civic leader Sheriden Ann Gilbert Beebe, 87, passed away peacefully on July 27 in the presence of her loving family. Sheri was...

The Graves Family

By Laura Graves Smith HOW WE GOT HERE Both my sets of great grandparents came to Long Beach before WWI. On my mom’s side, my great...

The Garner Family

By Juliette Mahoney HOW WE GOT HERE In 1913, my great, great, great grandfather, George Garner, and his wife Mary moved to Long Beach,...

EXPLORING CAMBODIA TOWN

By JeanMarie VanDine | Photos by Alexiz Gomez So —you think you know the LBC? Have you been to our city’s Cambodia Town? This part of...

The Cerulle Family

By Joseph Cerulle HOW WE GOT HERE My family came here in 1936 from Providence, RI, in search of work. It was a time of depression, and...

March Restaurant Madness Bracket 2023!

Welcome to our 2023 Bracket! Who will win on this year's #roadtothefinalfork?? No one knows, but we do know it will be a lot of fun to...

Love on the Water...Debi and Joe Bober

By John Grossi How They Met and First Date Debi, who had grown up in Long Beach her entire life, was tired of the singles scene and...

An AIDS Walk to Remember...Lisa Gonzales-Burris and Maureen Gonzales-Burris

By John Grossi Lisa and Maureen met while at UC Irvine, when they were 18 and 22 respectively. They were part of a large circle of...

From Graves into Gardens....Meet two Long Beach High School Sweethearts

By John Grossi How They Met and the First Date Val and Hector Olivares met through a youth group at the Greater Long Beach Church of...

Papalucci’s and Pickled Eggs...Michelle and Jason Stone

By John Grossi Michelle was living in Huntington Harbor in the summer of 1998. Jason happened to drive down from Long Beach that fateful...

A Date Worth Returning To, and Paying For...Jim Medina and Rick Brown

By John Grossi How They Met and First Date Rick and I met playing volleyball organized through The Center in Long Beach back in 1988,”...

A Cliff May Rancho Romance...Margaret and Don Kennedy

By John Grossi Margaret remembers first hearing about “Donnie” Kennedy when she was in 6th grade at Cubberley. Her neighbor, who was in...

A Legendary Blind Date...David and Susan Zanatta

By John Grossi In 1990, when both were in their 30s, David and Susan Zanatta were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend. It was the...