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IN PICTURES: Hundreds boogie on down aboard The Queen Mary for Longbeachize’s free disco party
500 people reveled and boogied aboard The Queen Mary back in March with a free disco dance event—and once again, in conjunction with Longbeachize and Visit Long Beach, we allowed Long Beach denizens to get down with a free disco’n’funk party inside the ship’s famed Art Deco masterpiece that is the Observation Observation Bar this past Thursday.
Events & Festivals
House heads unite: Day Trip Festival returns to Downtown Long Beach for pure dance ecstasy
Dance festival giant Insomniac is returning to the Queen Mary-as-a-backdrop for its annual house-centric Day Trip festival, where tens of thousands of house lovers from around the country will gather on Long Beach's southern shore to dance the nights away come June 23 and 24.
Events & Festivals
This ain’t Texas: Country Coastal Jam returns to Long Beach with Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett
Bring out the cowboy hats because Long Beach is about to get more country: The massive two-day country festival that is Coastal Country Jam is about to return for its second year at Marina Green Park in Long Beach.
Culture & Commentary
A look at the Madonna-themed cocktails for Long Beach’s queerest vinyl listening session
The Social List bar manager Erik Rios-Wentzky and local bar celeb and queer advocate Devon Jade have come up with a handful of beautiful, liquid odes to the Queen of Pop—all in the name of Long Beach Last Call's queerest event.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s best vinyl listening club to host-queer centric session with Madonna’s ‘Erotica’
Long Beach Last Call—the 10-day celebration of our bar culture—is partnering with the Good Luck Vinyl Club for a queer-centric event that will listen to Madonna's controversial 1992 masterpiece, "Erotica."
Culture & Commentary
NOFX’s ‘Punk in Drublic’ farewell tour-meets-festival to end in San Pedro
When NOFX brings its farewell 'Punk in Drublic' tour mixed with a curated guest list of performers, a craft beer garden, and 40 songs performed by NOFX alone to its final performance, it will be in San Pedro at Berth 46.
Culture & Commentary
Lyrics’n’Long Beach: Before you watch The Vince Staples Show, learn about the real, local places he’ll likely reference
If there is one thing to say about Long Beach rapper Vince Staples—beyond the obvious lyrical and melodic talents—it is that Staples is a cultural commentator like no other, a quiet observer and, in a very urban-meets-academic sense, an ethnographer. So it was only a certain amount of time before he was offered his own show—and Netflix has done that with The Vince Staples Show, premiering Feb. 15 on the streaming network.
Culture & Commentary
Meet Robert Brownwell, the Long Beach artist that crafts guitars tailored for other artists
Robert Brownwell—the Long Beach artist perched on the eighth floor of the historic Pacific Tower building at the northwest corner of Broadway and Long Beach Boulevard—has a deep love of guitars, one which stretches into his artistry far beyond music.
