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Melissa Carpenter, head of The Hangout, our shop collective in Long Beach, was interviewed in the store by Spectrum News 1 in advance of Small Business Saturday! One of our favorite customers, local educator and activist Ebony Murphy-Root, was also asked about why she shops local, and we got to make a brief cameo! 

Watch the video here: https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/business/2020/11/27/small-business-owner-prays-and-prepares-for-holiday-rush

Coverage of our #StandUpForAAPI awareness and action campaign, created 

in response to the March 16th Atlanta-area shootings of 8 people, including 

6 Asian women, and the escalating violence against Asians in the US: 

• Forbes.com in-depth article by Rachel  Kramer Bussel
• Publishers Weekly article by John Maher
• Good Housekeeping article by Shanon Maglente

Image credit: @travelling.the.pages

Local writer Kayla Vokolek interviewed us, along with 3 other LA-based bookstores, about the impact of COVID-19 on our small businesses. 

She highlighted the new #BoxedOut campaign by the American Booksellers Association to draw awareness to the plight of independent bookstores 

around the country as we compete with online retail giants and big box stores. 

We were thrilled and honored to be featured on VoyageLA.com,  as one of their "LA's Most Inspiring Stories." Their mission is  "to build a platform that fosters collaboration and support for small businesses, independent artists 

and entrepreneurs, local institutions and those that make our city interesting.  We want to change the way people spend their money – rather than spending it with the big, cookie-cutter corporations we want them to spend their money with the independent, creative, local entrepreneurs, small businesses and artists." Who doesn't love this?

A huge thank you to Long Beach writer and bookstore friend 

Nancy Lynee Woo for our interview for The Hi-Lo, "a brand new arts, 

culture and lifestyle vertical from the Long Beach Post that tells you 

what to do, eat, hear, see and experience in the LBC." 

Thank you to our friends at Shelf Awareness, which offers a "daily dose of enlightenment for the book trade," for covering our grand opening announcement back in November 2019!