{"id":2258,"date":"2015-10-28T18:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/live-after-5-to-bring-freak-show-to-dtlb\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:03:51","slug":"live-after-5-to-bring-freak-show-to-dtlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/live-after-5-to-bring-freak-show-to-dtlb","title":{"rendered":"Live After 5 to Bring Cast of Carnies to DTLB (And a Potential World Record)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Photo courtesy of Downtown Long Beach Associates.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) are bringing a little bit more than music to their next Live After 5 event on Thursday, November 12. While Long Beach-based mystic vaudeville band Sex! Money! Power!<\/a> <\/em>will perform that evening, it might be hard to wrap your head around the main performance.<\/p>\n

DTLB will welcome Captain and Maybelle to town and jaw-droppingly watch an attempt to break the world record for heaviest sword swallow. Set to take place in the Promenade parking lot from 6:00PM to 10:00PM, the stunt is a facet of carnie Lucky John’s (aka John Domingue of Seal Beach) curated collection of freaks. Captain (pictured) will be taking on 60-pound kegs, provided by Beachwood BBQ & Brewing, who will fittingly be serving their Thrill Seeker IPA, attached to swords as they slide down his throat.<\/p>\n

“I’ve dedicated the majority of my life to scouring the earth, searching for elite extreme performers to push the limits of human capacity,” said Lucky John in a statement. “The performers I gathered\u2014Captain and Maybelle, having accepted the Thrill Seeker World Challenge\u2014will be faced with extraordinary feats of danger and have to gather the utmost courage.”<\/p>\n

Lucky John says that only a handful of performers have accepted his challenges and even fewer have succeeded.<\/p>\n

Alongside Sex! Money! Power!<\/em>, indie-folk outfit Leather Tramp<\/a><\/em> and DJ Kristin Lush and her electronic circus band will take the stage to provide the theatrical music for the evening. Joining the music makers will be Jason Latex, balloon-manipulating expert, as well as fire dancers and stilt walkers.<\/p>\n

“Last month’s Live After 5\u2014where nearly two-thousand people came to Elm & Broadway to watch a reenactment of Nightmare Before Christmas\u2014proved that theatrics and music combined is something locals are yearning for,” said Gina Dartt, special events & marketing manager for the DLBA, in a statement. “This is of no exception. We strive to bring the extraordinary to DTLB with each event and we are sure to succeed in making that happen on November 12.”<\/p>\n

Live After 5, featuring the Thrill Seeker World Challenge, will take place at the Promenade Lot (located between Third Street and Broadway) on Thursday, November 12 from 6:00PM to 10:00PM. The event is free and open to all ages. For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Downtown Long Beach Associates are bringing a little bit more than music to their next Live After 5 event on Thursday, November 12. DTLB will welcome Captain and Maybelle to town and jaw-droppingly watch an attempt to break the world record for heaviest sword swallow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":67613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[533,297,430],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-dlba","tag-dtlb","tag-live-after-5","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}