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BY CINDY CAFFERTY Daily Titan Staff Writer thebuzz@dailytitan.com
Sapient OC hipsters know better than to trek all the way to Melrose for cool castoffs, obscure music and multiethnic cuisine. After all, why bother when just up the street from sleepy Seal Beach is 2nd Street in Belmont Shores? Nestled in the southern most part of Long Beach, 2nd Street is lined with quaint boutiques, restaurants and coffee shops. Catering to the conventional and the chic, 2nd Street shops cover the gamut from Banana Republic to Buffalo Exchange. Of particular interest is the west end’s 2nd and Roycroft. The mainstream can keep on moving because this corner is home to Fingerprints, Buffalo
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Exchange and Polly’s Pies. Fingerprints offers the widest variety of CDs and LPs in Long Beach – possibly in the entire L.A. / OC area, Amoeba Records notwithstanding – and what they don’t have, they’ll gladly order. Along with hard-to-find-music, Fingerprints is known for their intimate in-store performances, knowledgeable staff and overall cool vibe. Some of the bands that have buzzed in the Daily Titan this year had already played at Fingerprints before the media got a hold of them. Artists, fans and aficionados in the know head to the store regularly for their music fix.
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Just north of 2nd Street on Livingston. Park and Livingston is usually a safe bet and a short walk to the west end of the boulevard – the best end of the street.
For a little more adventure and a lot more naughty, Rubbertree, located on the same side of the street on the west-end, offers the best selection and is a fantasy funfilled place. Head to Open Sesame in between Nieto and Corona on 2nd Street. There’s usually a wait but with so many shops nearby, passing the time is a breeze.
Serious rantings and pop culture complaints of the best (and worst) of the week’s events that can’t help but make you scream ... WHAT THE F!
2. When did a show filled with fabulous celebrities and the best in movies, television and entertainment get so unentertaining? Golden Globes, you were a bore. 3. Yes, juggling and doing a jig during your American Idol audition is a terrible idea, but judges take it easy on the weird kids and the misfits. It’s not their fault society left them behind.
4.Linsdsay Lohan is in rehab, she’s out of rehab. She in AA, she’s out of AA. All this back and forth is giving me a hangover. 5. VH1 gave Flava Flav’s wannabe ex, New York, her own dating show? Why are we rewarding the ultimate in psycho bitch behavior? 6. Cameron Diaz, it’s very cool that you surf and all, but honey that face! It’s called SPF; it’s like Creme De La Mer for regular people. 7. I know this is California and we’re used to being all beachy and what not, but
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Buffalo Exchange sits on the same side of the street, where a person can find vintage treasures, trendy thrifts or new accessories as well as sell or trade their spring-cleaning castoffs. For those in a charitable mood the Exchange also takes clothing donations to give the less fortunate Polly’s, right next door and a Long Beach fixture offers some of the best coffee in town. Their java is laced with a distinct flavor that comes from roasting their own beans. 2nd Street is lined with places to drop some dough down, more importantly though, it’s lined with parking meters and over-ambitious meter maids.
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Party Props, another Long Beach institution. For the coolest costumes, wigs and a few things naughty, Party Props is the place to be.
1. Apple anounces its latest step towards world domination with the iPhone. But we hipster technophiles have to wait till June?!? WTF!?
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it’s freaking 40 degrees people, not the middle of Siberia. 8. The Trump/ O’Donnel bout continues. One person we all don’t care about versus another person we all don’t care about. 9. AMP magazine got busted for selling adspace in exchange for positive reviews. C’mon man, now no one will ever take entertainment journalism seriously. 10. A judge recently froze OJ Simpson’s assets and reprimanded his spending. WTF? We can punish him for shopping but we can’t get him in jail for murder?