Dave Williams hesitantly throws out words when you ask him to describe himself in a word or sentence. “Wow…cantankerous…you know I wouldn’t want to be that hostile sounding.” Prodded, the jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and writer tries again. “I can’t. I think I need a paragraph. Driven…maybe I have a bit of chip that I’m…
Vice Mayor Dee Andrews is seeking his third term to continue to represent Long Beach City Council District 6. Andrews faces five opponents in the March 3rd election. The Vice Mayor speaks proudly about his tenure in office and his long experience of over sixty years in Long Beach. His determination to run again, according…
PalacioMagazine.com is on hiatus this week. Happy Holidays! John Culqui is a Long Beach-based Latino artist. He’s one of the artists on display at the Long Beach Museum’s exhibition, Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape scheduled to close October 25. Culqui describes his museum piece as “Fun Art”. And fun he’s having. From John Culqui’s…
Lena Gonzalez, Councilmember and State Senate Candidate, sat down with PalacioMagazine.com to discuss a wide range of topics: from the women who have helped shape her dedication to public service to the challenging issues that she will face in Sacramento. That list includes affordable housing, climate change, and the future of education in California. Lena…
Leadership Long Beach is more than a leadership training program. I should know as an alumnus, former Board of Directors member, and volunteer. The organization which celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year is a Long Beach institution that has, as they describe it, “helped inspire, create and cultivate the more than 1,500 community-engaged alumni to…
Luis and Brenda Navarro must be the hardest working family in Long Beach. They own and operate three restaurants in the city: Lola’s Mexican Cuisine on 4th Street and in Bixby Knolls and The Social List on 4th Street. Now, they’re busy putting the finishing touches on the city’s first distillery, Portuguese Bend in downtown…
Duke Givens is a photographer, documentarian, and social activist who made his life ambition to bring truth to power through his photography. The Long Beach City College alumnus documents that ambition in a powerful photography exhibit called “Power of Choice;” now on display at the school through Friday, March 22. These photographs from the Long…
Dr. Juan Benitez is the Executive Director of the Center for Community Engagement at California State University, Long Beach and an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies there. He also represents the Third District on the Long Beach Unified School Board. Dr. Benitez has a long history in education as both…
PalacioMagazine.com is being reimagined for 2019. It has been more than four years since I took over the reins of Palacio Magazine de Long Beach from my good friend and colleague Andrea Sulsona. For the previous five years to the handover, Andrea tirelessly published the only Long Beach-based bilingual magazine for the city’s Latino Community….
Stephanie Rivera, Diversity and Immigration Reporter at the Long Beach Post, became a journalist because she saw it as a middle ground between social justice activist and politician. “When I was growing up, social justice has always been part of my life. From my siblings, from my mom mostly. Just showing us how to stand-up…