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Madden to curate CES shows through 2024-25 school year

Special to Long Beach Breeze Gulf Coast Artist Ann Dinwiddie Madden is curating three art shows at Coast Episcopal School’s (CES) Gail Keenan Art Center (GKAC) throughout the 2024-25 …
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Churches unite for inaugural Praise in the Park

by Emma Ellard First Baptist Church of Long Beach sponsored an inaugural event called Praise in the Park, which took place on Saturday, October 5, at the Harper McCaughan Town Green. Local …
Hendrix Longfellow holds a copy of the proclamation dedicating September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in Long Beach.

Cancer diagnosis and battle changes life for local family

By Katelyn Petty Hendrix Longfellow, the eight-year-old son of two Gulf Coast police officers, Amanda (Long Beach Police Department) and Justin Branning (Biloxi Police Department), has five …

Brown chosen for McNair Scholars Program at USM

Special to Long Beach Breeze Long Beach resident Kyle Brown is one of only twelve University of Southern Mississippi (USM) undergraduates that have been chosen for the prestigious McNair …

Movie Review:  “Joker: Folie à Deux” 

By: Bob Garver             Back in 2019, “Joker” managed to make over $1 billion at the global box office and earn itself 11 Oscar nominations, …

Boots and Bowties Gala fundraiser set for Nov. 9

By Toni Miles The Long Beach-based Pink Heart Funds non-profit will be the beneficiary of the proceeds from the upcoming Boots and Bowties: The Giving Gala event. Scheduled to take place on …
Kara Kimbrough
There’s no better comfort food than Salisbury steak served with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy.

Kara's Sights and Bites: Crocktober heralds the start of fix it/forget it meals

By: Kara Kimbrough      I’ve never understood why Crockpots are used more in the fall and winter months. I understand that cooler weather signals the start of comfort …

Kara's Sights and Bites: Search for pound cake recipe stirs up pleasant memories

By: Kara Kimbrough     I’ve shared my love of pound cake before. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I recently spent a few hours following the comments of members of …

Kara's Sights and Bites: Ending Souptember on a delicious note

By: Kara Kimbrough     It’s been entertaining, to say the least, to watch grownups bicker on the internet this week over whether or not gumbo and chili should be considered soup. …
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CoffeeTime: "Listen to the old gambler"

Send any responses to:  andybowman839@gmail.com A grizzled old man observed with trained eyes and alert ears as the novice young man did his best to hold his own at a table filled with …

CoffeeTime: "Scared Spitless? Join the Crowd"

Send any responses to:  andybowman839@gmail.com If there has ever been a time in my life when I feel like crawling under the bed with a blankie and lying there whimpering – it just …

CoffeeTime: "Naked"

Send any responses to:  andybowman839@gmail.com Nope, don’t get your dander up (or your hopes up, depending on what you were hoping to read). I am not going to write about naked …
Movie Reviews
By: Bob Garver             For better or worse, late September this year is certainly the time for animated robot movies. Fortunately, we got the …
By: Bob Garver Nobody is going to mistake cut-rate biopic “Reagan” for a great movie. At best, it’s a pretty standard greatest-hits collection of important moments in the …
By: Bob Garver  “Speak No Evil” is a remake of a 2022 Danish movie with a famously vile twist. I went into this film expecting it to have the same twist. That’s not to say …
By: Bob Garver In preparation for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” I watched the original film from 1988. I found that I liked “some” things about it, like the set and …
Hudson's Journey
By: Mika Hartman October is here. As we commemorate both Down Syndrome Awareness Month and National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), I can reflect on what I have learned on this …
By: Mika Hartman Each year , National Down Syndrome Congress (NDSC) host a conference. If you are lucky, you don’t miss it; you can’t miss it, so much happens in a year of research …
By: Mika Hartman If given the opportunity to take away my sons extra chromosome, I would not. If given the opportunity to remove some of his ailments due to his extra chromosome, I absolutely …
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MicroRNA − a new Nobel laureate describes the scientific process of discovering these tiny molecules that turn genes on and off
Victor Ambros received half of the Nobel Prize for his work on microRNAs. Here he talks about the teamwork – and the nematodes – that made the discovery possible.
How one 83-year-old fell into a fraudster’s fear bubble – and how gift cards played a key role
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Responding to work emails after hours contributes to burnout, hostility
Image it’s Friday evening. You’re about to watch a new Netflix drama, trying to unwind after a long week. Suddenly, your phone pings with a work email marked “urgent.” Your heart sinks; your …
The latest Halloween trick-or-treat trends, according to Instacart data
Instacart shares insights about the top candy picks state-by-state, what's uniquely popular in different regions, how many people plan to trick-or-treat and pass out candy this year, and more.