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What’s Happening in Long Beach
- See the 13 California restaurants that made Esquire’s ‘Best New Restaurants in America’
Burdell in Oakland and Kiln and Dalida in San Francisco are among Esquire's picks for 2023's top new eateries.
- The Rolling Stones add a second date at SoFi Stadium
The iconic rock band is including another stop on its Hackney Diamonds Tour in Inglewood.
- Knott’s Berry Farm barn destroyed by fire was birthplace of historic attractions
The barn was used as a workshop by theme park pioneer Bud Hurlbut, who designed several early Knott’s rides and Castle Park in Riverside.
- A ‘Mean Girls’ pop-up is coming to Santa Monica. That’s so fetch!
The experience opens on Jan. 12 to coincide with the release of Paramount Pictures' new "Mean Girls" musical film.
- 12 Christmas and holiday romance novels to warm your winter or give as gifts
We asked local romance novel experts for matchmaking help, and they delivered a rich array of romantic titles for you to fall for.
- He took 16 years to write ‘Sun House.’ David James Duncan shares his epic quest.
While not easy to describe, the novel is a true epic in which Duncan, 71, tries to encapsulate the joys and pains of being human.
- Jenny Lewis sprinkles some joy into her latest album and tour
Lewis' Joy'All Ball Tour will hit the Observatory in Santa Ana on Dec. 6 and the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Dec. 8.
- Frumpy Mom: Yes, my son is back to work again
Marla Jo Fisher writes the Frumpy Mom column each week.
- This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores
See the top-selling releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade and mass market paperbacks for the sales week that ended Nov. 26.
- How Catalina Island’s past inspired Rachel Howzell Hall’s ‘What Never Happened’
In Hall’s latest thriller, an obituary writer from Los Angeles returns to the island two decades after her family had been brutally murdered there.
