Given the Pike Bar & Grill's popularity, it naturally makes sense that Chris Reece, the owner and operator, was looking to expand—but not here in Long Beach, but in Los Alamitos in the middle of a nondescript strip mall, where his new location unlocked its doors for a soft opening on Monday.

Now that CSULB's Underground Music Society has unshackled itself from on-campus obligations, the club is emerging as a fledgling DIY community in its own right, one with the potential to influence Long Beach music as a whole and connect a wide range of local and college musicians.

Dave Van Patten’s work is arguably one of the most prolific throughout Long Beach: his surreal, sinewy figures, creatures, and people can be found in children’s books, on coffeeshop walls, in the historic Dr. Rowan Building downtown, in the Long Beach Post, in LA Record, in zines, on CD covers, in music videos…

For years, hats have graced and heels have traipsed along the Broadway corridor every Easter Sunday to help raise money for the AIDS C.A.R.E. Program in Long Beach. As tradition holds, it always started at the former Hamburger Mary’s site on Broadway and Alamitos, stopping at every bar in the Gayborhood before ending at the Silver Fox.