Events & Festivals
Long Beach BBQ Fest 2026 comes with promises of better flow and a whole steer cook
Long Beach BBQ Fest 2026 will return to our city for its fourth year on Memorial Day Weekend, bringing two days of barbecue.
Events & Festivals
Annual ‘halfway to Halloween’ beer festival returns with wildly cool, updated lineup
Halfway to Halloween Hootenanny is officially Long Beach tradition—and this year's beer lineup is one of the best yet at a SoCal festival.
Events & Festivals
Edgar Allen Poe speakeasy returns to the Queen Mary in Long Beach
The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy, a traveling immersive cocktail experience, returns to The Queen Mary on May 29 and May 30.
Events & Festivals
Designing Resistance Film Week arrives as design becomes one of the Long Beach’s best cultural languages
From April 23-30, City Fabrick, in partnership with Art Theatre of Long Beach, will launch the first-ever Designing Resistance Film Week.
Events & Festivals
These are the Long Beach pizzerias reppin’ at Pizzy City Fest L.A. 2026
Five Long Beach pizzerias—Colossus, Due Fiori, Nonna Mercato, Speak Cheezy, and Thunderbolt—will be at this year's Pizza City Fest.
Events & Festivals
Oh, yeah: The Model T race up Signal Hill returns
2024 marked a return of the Model T race up Signal Hill following decades of absence. And it is back once again, Long Beach.
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Amateur short-length porn fest HUMP! returns to Long Beach
HUMP! Fest, the touring short-film festival dedicated to amateur porn, will return back to Long Beach on April 4.
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Snoop Dogg to headline inaugural Long Beach Amphitheater show
Snoop Dogg will headline the grand opening of the Long Beach Amphitheater on Saturday, June 6.
