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Jan 20, 2015 Long Beach: Work in Progress 2

by Martin Wong

On April 26, 2013, I helped organize an Imprint conference called Long Beach: Work in Progress. The idea was to celebrate the city where Imprint and its sister companies were about to put down some serious roots. After being housed in a nondescript Ocean Boulevard high rise for more than a decade, plans were announced...

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Jun 19, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Video 3 of 3

by Martin Wong

Has it really been eight weeks since Imprint's Long Beach: Work in Progress conference took place at the historic and long-shuttered Edison Theatre? Time flies, yet it was always our intention that its message of understanding and growing local history and culture would reach the entire city. We have also hoped to inspire members of other...

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Jun 11, 2013 Imprint Culture Lab Update with Jack Grisham from T.S.O.L.

by Martin Wong

Remember Jack Grisham from the music panel of Long Beach: Work in Progress? He has just released a collection of short stories titled Untamed. To celebrate, Jack hosted a book signing at The Observatory in Santa Ana where the price of the publication included a matinee including his band T.S.O.L. and other old-school Orange County...

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May 14, 2013 Portraits from Long Beach: Work in Progress

by Martin Wong

As long as new material from Long Beach: Work in Progress keeps trickling in, I'm going to keep blogging about it. This post features some excellent portraiture of the speakers by my friend Ben Clark. Above, Architecture and Food Panelists: Long Beach architecture experts and authors Cara Mullio and Jennifer M. Volland (Edward A. Killingsworth:...

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May 07, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Photo Recap

by Martin Wong

Our friend and photographer Ben Clark has been sending us previews of images that he and his team shot at the Long Beach: Work in Progress conference and they are sweet. I love how they show that the event was an actual gathering of people--and not just a collision of ideas. And while I've been blabbing...

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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...

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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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Feb 05, 2013 Imprint Long Beach: T.S.O.L., Dengue Fever, and Joe Escalante (The Vandals)

by Martin Wong

The April Imprint conference is coming up quickly, and we're proud to start rolling out the confirmed guests. Kicking off the music panel is the legendary/infamous Jack Grisham from True Sounds of Liberty, The Joy Killer, and The Manic Low. T.S.O.L.'s role in Southern California's punk rock history was documented in Roger Corman's 1984 movie...

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Jan 29, 2013 Imprint Culture Lab comes to Long Beach

by Martin Wong

Since 2006, Imprint Culture Lab has put a spotlight on under-the-radar, up-and-coming, and just-plain-cool topics: unseen influencers, next-level interests, and most recently Architecture for Dogs. We are pleased to announce that the next event will take place in Downtown Long Beach, CA and cover...

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Jan 20, 2015 Long Beach: Work in Progress 2

Jun 19, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Video 3 of 3

Jun 11, 2013 Imprint Culture Lab Update with Jack Grisham from T.S.O.L.

May 14, 2013 Portraits from Long Beach: Work in Progress

May 07, 2013 Long Beach: Work in Progress – Photo Recap

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

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

Mar 26, 2013 Imprint Long Beach playlist

Feb 05, 2013 Imprint Long Beach: T.S.O.L., Dengue Fever, and Joe Escalante (The Vandals)

Jan 29, 2013 Imprint Culture Lab comes to Long Beach