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Apr 30, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress recap 1

by Martin Wong

Where were you last Friday? If you weren't at the freshly unlocked and dusted-off Edison Theatre attending Imprint's Long Beach: Work in Progress, here's what you missed following Julia Huang's welcome and introduction. (These are my hack photos but we'll share professional images from Ben Clark Photo next week...

Apr 23, 2013 Three Days until Long Beach: Work in Progress

by Martin Wong

After months of blogging in anticipation of Long Beach: Work in Progress, the week of the conference is finally here. This afternoon the crew visited the Edison Theatre, where the event will take place. The historic venue has been shuttered for years but has been cleared out and prepared for some washing down and selective...

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Apr 16, 2013 Meeting Imprint LBC’s Jonathan Gold, Chad Tim Tim, Justin Reynolds, and Paul Kwon

by Martin Wong

The Long Beach: Work in Progress conference is just a week away and the pieces are coming together...

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Apr 09, 2013 The Vandals’ Joe Escalante on Long Beach and Imprint

by Martin Wong

Since joining The Vandals in 1980, Joe Escalante is the only member to appear on every album and plays bass for the old-school punk band to this day. In addition to playing with the Long Beach-spawned group, Escalante has practiced law, operated a record label, directed movies, hosted various radio shows, and campaigned to be...

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Apr 02, 2013 TSOL’s Jack Grisham on Long Beach (Work in Progress)

by Martin Wong

Long Beach: Work in Progress music panelist Jack Grisham is most famous for being the frontman of TSOL, a first-generation hardcore punk band from Long Beach that started singing about anarchy, moved on to create death rock, and played in legendary local dives like the Cuckoo’s Nest and Fender’s Ballroom. Like most incendiary bands, the lineup...

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Mar 26, 2013 Imprint Long Beach playlist

by Martin Wong

I've been trying to convey through writing how amazing the Music Panel will be in the upcoming Long Beach: Work in Progress conference. Having Jack Grisham from the first-generation hardcore band TSOL (not to mention the goth project Cathedral of Tears, hard rock of Tender Fury, his return to punk The Joykiller, and the dark...

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Mar 19, 2013 Imprint Long Beach: W+K Garage’s John Jay

by Martin Wong

Creativity guru and longtime Wieden+Kennedy heavy John Jay is heading up the world-class agency’s new joint venture, W+K Garage, a muti-disciplined shop that specializes in no-holds-barred innovation, creation, and possibility. When he isn’t traveling the world, curating culture, or pushing the boundaries of media, Jay carves out time to evolve his adopted hometown of Portland....

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Mar 12, 2013 Imprint Long Beach: Justin Reynolds on his life as a skateboarder in Long Beach and the Imprint skateboarding panel

by Martin Wong

Justin Reynolds is an OG Long Beach skateboarder who rode for Acme, G&S, Formula One, Lethol, Grind King, Origin, Furnace, and Stüssy. Today, the 508 skate crew member proudly helms Riviera Skateboards––which specializes in downhill, ditch skating, cruisers, and pool boards. As a guy who is firmy rooted in Long Beach skate history with a...

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Mar 05, 2013 Imprint Long Beach: Cara Mullio and Jennifer M. Volland on Long Beach Architecture and Edward A. Killingsworth

by Martin Wong

Since co-authoring the elegant and cool Long Beach Architecture: The Unexpected Metropolis (Hennessey + Ingalls, 2004), Cara Mullio and Jennifer M. Volland have been championing the city’s variety of architecture from Art Deco to Mid Century to contemporary. They have done it in talks, exhibitions, and bicycle tours. And at the next Imprint conference they...

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Feb 26, 2013 Imprint Long Beach: Chhom Nimol and Zac Holtzman of Dengue Fever

by Martin Wong

[caption id="attachment_6949" align="alignnone" width="790"] Photo: Lauren Dukoff[/caption] Dengue Fever has roots in Echo Park and Silver Lake but also in Long Beach's Little Cambodia. In anticipation of April's Imprint Conference, I talked to lengthy bearded guitar player Zac Holtzman and otherworldly singer Chhom Nimol of the Cambodian psychedelic rock-inspired band about the first time I saw...