Leocadio Unites With The First Catalyst Assembly (Video)

What’s up City Lifers? Yesterday, I went to the Expo in Bixby Knolls to attend the Assembly of The Catalyst Network Communities event. This event had more than 50 people attend including 1st District Councilmember Robert Garcia. Go Catalyst Founder, Eric Leocadio is doing something really cool with his organization – bringing people together to work together [...]

Meet The Long Beach Press Corps

Thanks to Dan Pressburg of the Community Action Group (CAG), yesterday, I had the great opportunity to be on a panel at the North Division Police Substation, with Bill Pearl (LBReport.com), Dave Wielenga (GreaterLongBeach.com), Neena Strichart (Signal Tribune), Paul Eakins (Press Telegram), Harry Salzgaver (Uptown Gazette) and myself, Floyd Hampton Livingston “The Man“ representing Long Beach’s [...]

Tattoos, Art, Music, and Photos from First Fridays

What’s up City Lifers? Here are some photos that I took from last night’s First Fridays event in Bixby Knolls. This was also the first official First Fridays of 2011.   Enjoy and please comment!   Thanks! Find more photos like this on 562 City Life

Long Beach’s Season of Nonviolence

What’s up City Lifers? I have some cool and interesting news about an event that will begin January 29 – April 30 at 1 p.m. inside the Long Beach Public Library auditorium calledA Season for Non Violence. This is 64-day campaign that includes education, media, grassroots to promote and honor Mahatmas Ghandi, Martin Luther King, [...]

ArtPeace in Long Beach

Hey everyone, last evening I attended the ArtPeace event at Martin Luther King Park. It was a really cool event for the youth in that area. This is also a program funded through one of Connected Corridor’s grants. I got some footage from the event. Enjoty!

North Long Beach Initiative

In 2008 Measure K was passed which is where the money for the complete over haul of Jordan High School will come from. Jordan is the high school of the most northern part of the City, North Long Beach. The Ninth District high school will receive $150 million to re-create and build a better school [...]

Art Peace

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to share a cool event called ArtPeace. All the information you need is below. Join us for Art Peace Thursday, January 13, 2011 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm DHHS Central Facility Center at Martin Luther King Jr. Park 1133 Rhea Street Long Beach, CA Art Peace is a mixture of [...]

Connected Corridor Small Businesses: Bella Cosa

I just wanted to share this video with you that I made about Bella Cosa.

Police Shoot and Kill Man in Belmont Shore

I was checking the headlines today, and I came across a story about a man being killed in Belmont Shore by a police officer after an altercation with the man who allegedly had a gun. Authorities have not released the name of the man who died at the scene. Here what the Press Telegram reported [...]

State of the County Address in Long Beach – Video

I had the great opportunity to attend the State of the County Address by Supervisor Don Knabe today. Nice updates on what was going on and I found a video of the event online for everyone to watch. What do you think? I’ve also seen some comments about people asking why should anyone have to [...]