Monday, June 16, 2025

Culture & Commentary

Meet the Long Beach artists trying to make empty storefronts and murals come to life with animation

Loiter Gallery in Long Beach—the nonprofit art gallery that has long helped local artists with affordable gallery space, promotion, and support—is wanting to tackle something beyond its gallery walls.

‘You can’t age out of love:’ How Long Beach nonprofit DSF Werks uplifts former foster youth

DSF Werks has one simple mission: to offer emancipated youth the opportunity to understand the power of social relationships.

Long Beach Museum of Art’s ‘Art of Food’ exhibit is deliciously of the time

The Long Beach Museum of Art's latest exhibition, "The Art of Food"—a sprawling, compellingly complex look at the aesthetics, politics, and social constructions of food—features over 100 works from both the masters and their contemporaries.

Long Beach Art Scene: Kintsugi workshops, artist symposium, tiki documentary, more

There is plenty of news surrounding Long Beach's art scene—here are the highlights.

Cake Picnic Long Beach: Hundreds of slices up for sampling at this charitable event

Michelle Cortado has already registered over 400 attendees for Cake Picnic Long Beach, set to take place on the Sports Basement event deck on Sunday, June 15, at noon.

Long Beach’s most unique gallery, Dark Art Emporium, to permanently close

In a heartbreaking loss to the Long Beach art scene, Dark Art Emporium in the East Village Arts District will close come May 31.

Long Beach’s premiere listening session club, Good Luck Vinyl, goes brunch for Pride

Good Luck Vinyl Club—Isaak Navarro's monthly album listening session that takes over The Social List—is taking on Pride this Sunday.

Long Beach Lost: The 16-foot baby sculpture that terrorized prudish Alamitos Beach residents

A massive, 16-foot, saturated-ROYGBIV-yellow baby sculpture from Matt Wedel once terrorized Long Beach prudes.

Amid Trump-blamed loss of title sponsorships, Long Beach Pride 2025 features no headliners, scales down

Long Beach Pride 2025 is facing massive uphill battles with its festival, one of the longest-running Pride festivals in the nation.

With acclaimed performers Caminos Flamencos, Telefèric cements itself as Long Beach’s properly Spanish space

With monthly performances from acclaimed duo Caminos Flamencos, Telefèric cements itself as Long Beach's premier Spanish space.
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