Fairbrook Manor returns to haunt Los Altos' trick-or-treaters
For
the second year, Fairbrook Manor Haunted House returns to haunt Los Altos' trick-or-treaters with an expanded front-yard-themed Halloween experience at 5426 E Fairbrook.
This
year’s Fairbrook Manor includes actors from local high school drama classes
providing the creepy characters for the 1932 haunting theme.
Entry
to the neighborhood haunt is free, but food and personal care item donations
for the Long Beach Rescue Mission are being accepted. For
more information on the types of donated items sought, please see the details in this week's Fourth District Councilman Daryl Supernaw’s newsletter: COUNCILMAN SUPERNAW'S NEWSLETTER.
Fairbrool
Manor is open 7 pm – 10 pm on the weekends:Friday- Sunday October 22nd, 23rd and 24th; then October 29th,
30th and 31st.
Two new specialty foodie
locations will be opening in the 4th District while the Traffic
Circle’s PetCo Unleashed will be closing.
L.A.’s Dirt Dogs featuring bacon-wrapped
hot dogs will be opening its seventh location in the Circle Center. With three
locations in Las Vegas, the CSULB accessible
Long Beach location will be the fourth in L.A. County where the chain originates. Other L.A. County locations are in
Downey, Pasadena, and Downtown L.A.
Dirt Dog’sorigin storyis rooted
in the Los Angeles street vendor scene. The menu is heavy on bacon-wrapped hot dogs,
but it does feature a vegetation Dirt Dog option, flaming corn, special
versions of esquite cups (ie. Mexican corn meets flaming Cheetos) tacos, and fries.Two kids'
meals are served, one with mini corn dogs and one with chicken nuggets. Desert
is deep-fried based including Oreos, Twinkies, and Churros.
Dirt Dogs' House Dog photo courtesy of Dirt Dogs
The menu already features a nod
to one of Long Beach's favorite sons with the Snoop’s Dogg that the menu describes as: 100% Premium All
Beef Nathan's 5/1 Dog, Wrapped In Center Cut Bacon, Grandma's Slaw, Doggy-Style
BBQ, Billionaire Bacon, Gin & Juice Ketchup.
And yes, it is just a block away from The Circle cannabis
store.
Chix, Nashville Hot Chicken
In the former Subway space at
Palo Verde and Stearns, Chix, Nashville
Hot Chicken is preparing to open. An
independent entry into the chicken sandwich wars. The new restaurant will
feature the niche "Nashville style”
chicken sandwich.
In Nashville, Nashville-style
chicken is king. The “Nashville style” features fried chicken that gets its “hot”
from cayenne and hot sauce in the coating and more spicy sauce drizzled over
the cooked chicken. Add white bread and
pickles and that is “Nashville-style”.
Of course, like BBQ, each restaurant
has its recipe (yes and many are “family recipes) of coating, sauce and fixings making Nashville
style like BBQ in Texas- very competitive.
Of course, with every great food
named after a local, you have to have an origin story. Local lore has the Nashville-style chicken sandwich attributed to Thornton Prince in the 1930s. The gist of the story features a girlfriend,
some womanizing, and revenge food that Prince ended up liking.
PetCo Unleashed closing
While Dirty Dog sets to open in the former Dickey’s BBQ
spot, afew doors down in the Circle
Center the PetCo Unleashed location will be closing. They are having an inventory “everything must
go” sale now.
Love Full Native Kitchen
opens in Los Altos Village
Love
Full Native Kitchen has
opened in the Los Altos North shopping center. It is the third location
for the popular California Caribbean inspired restaurant that features a menu with
many vegan options as well as dessert and breakfast.
The
Los Altos Village store located in the former Wok a Roll next to Trader Joe’s had a soft opening on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.
The
Los Angeles locations opened under the name Grilled
Fraiche boast 4.7 stars on yelp. Fraiche is French for fresh. The Hyde
Park and South Central locations will be rebranding to the new name Love Full
Native Kitchen. The new website for the new name is currently being developed.
The current Long Beach soft opening menu
features Vegan Veggie Tacos along with salmon, shrimp, and chicken. The Believe Stew (which the restaurant was
offering samples) is a jerk-flavored black and kidney bean-based stew in a coconut
milk base. The menu includes a
Build-a-bowl option and burritos and quesadilla’s build options that include
vegan sauces.
Breakfast
offerings include a “Shrimp and Grits” as well as a Cajun-seasoned omelet, an
egg and cheese wonton wrap and a
breakfast bowl.
Desserts
include bread pudding, baked or ala mode, and anytime plantains. The current menu has two juice offerings:
Unsopable- pineapple, sour sop, lemon, honey and ginger; and Mango Manifesto-mango,
passion fruit, lemon, honey and ginger.
Then
menu boasts “organic ingredients, range
free proteins and eco-friendly containers”.
Supernaw requests Long Beach ordinance to target street
takeovers
July 9, 2021, East Long Beach street take-over at Bellflower and Stearns
Long Beach Fourth District Councilman Daryl
Supernaw has agenized a council itemfor July 20,2021 meeting to “prepare
an ordinance to enhance penalties for participating in or being a spectator at
a street takeover”.
The request to the City Manager and City Attorney
came just days after a street takeover at the corner ofBellflower andStearns on the night of Friday, July 9th.That takeover saw cars doing donuts in the
middle of the intersection and racing up
and down Bellflower, including on the wrong side of the road.The takeover included dozens of people
standing in the street videotaping the takeover.
As the police arrived, the participating cars
raced south on Bellflower, some without headlights, as some turned into Los
Altos Village neighborhood streets to avoid the police.
Close to the freeway, both the Los Altos Gateway
Shopping Center north of the 405 and the Los Altos Shopping Center North have
been taken over by social media-promoted car events.
The street takeovers promoted on social media
have had deadly consequences for both drivers and bystanders. Many of the
bystanders come with the cars to video the takeovers for social media.
This year the City of Anaheim passed an ordinance
aimed at giving the police more power to deal with the takeovers, including
charging spectators. Both city’s responses were to incidents where people
were injured in street takeovers in those cities. Other California cities
enacting similar ordinances.
The street takeover problem grew nationwide
during the pandemic. In May, the state of Georgia passed a law to deal with the
growing problem. The new Georgia law creates a new crime category
called reckless stunt driving, requires mandatory jail time, and increases
fines and penalties on participating, organizing, or promoting the takeovers.
For approximately twenty minutes on Friday, July 9, 2021 dozens of cars took over the intersection
of Stearns and Bellflower Blvd.
The
squealing tires and smoke from the burning rubber along with the roar of
souped-up mufflers on the cars racing up and down
Bellflower started just after 10:30 pm and lasted for over 20 minutes. During those 20 minutes before the Long
Beach Police Department arrived, some of
the cars raced on the wrong side of the road down Bellflower Blvd.
When
the police arrived driving south toward the crowd from the direction of the 405
freeway, the cars began racing south down Bellflower, many without their headlights on. A few cut into the Los
Altos Village residential streets in what appeared to be an attempt to evade any police.
The
LBPD did not pursuer the cars but instead stayed at the intersection of Steans
and Bellflower to clear it out. The dark
rubber marks in the intersection are still visible.
The
street takeovers promoted on social media have had deadly consequences for both
drivers and bystanders. Many of the bystanders come with the cars to video the
takeovers for social media.
Regular street takeovers in the Los Angeles suburb of Sylmar took an inevitable dangerous turn last month when a car predicating
in the street takeover almost hit a pedestrian before slamming into a near-by
business and heavily damaging it.
This
year the City of Anaheim passed an ordinance aimed at giving the
police more power to deal with the takeovers, including charging spectators. Both city’s responses were to incidents where people were injured in street
takeovers in those cities. Other California
cities enacting similar ordinances.
The street takeover problem grew nationwide during the pandemic. In May, the state
of Georgia passed a law to deal with the growing problem. The new Georgia law creates a new crime category
called reckless stunt driving,
requires mandatory jail time and increases fines and penalties on participating,
organizing or promoting the takeovers.
UPDATE 7/14/21: Councilman Supernaw has proposed Long Beach develop an ordinance to address street racing. For more information CLICK ON:
Long Beach Airport gets another Southwest
flight to Hawaii
Southwest Airlines announced another flightto Hawaii from the Long Beach Airport today. The announcement on
its expansion into the Hawaiian air market included expanding flights from
airports that it already provides flights to the islands and new cities that
will now offer flights to the state. The new flight schedule will double Southwest's current flights to Hawaii from across the nation.
The new flight from Long
Beach will be the third for Southwest with service beginning June 23, 2021. Hawaiian Airlines also has two flights from Long Beach. With five daily flight to Hawaii, the Long Beach Airport has become a major gateway for vacationers in just a year after JetBlue announced its departure from the Long Beach Airport.
Other cities that will get
expanded service to Hawaii from Southwest include San Diego, San Jose and Oakland.
Southwest also announced inaugural
service to Hawaii from Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Phoenix. Those flights will begin
the new service to Hawaii on June 6, 2021. Southwest is offering special fares as low as
$129 one-way in those cities.
Southwest currently has 34
of the 53 Long Beach flight slots.
Kennedy’s Craft Kitchen & Cocktails in Los Altos Village has a
soft opening
Kennedy's the new restaurant at the former
E.J. Malloy's Los Altos Village space has now opened. With a soft opening under COVID rules the restaurant
has a limited menu (see below).
The new restaurant is owned by Ian Moston who has had ownership
partnerships in Long Beach's Riley's and 908 at the new LBX Mall.
With a small patio, the restaurant is working on opening a parklet
in front of the restaurant.
