{"id":6824,"date":"2019-07-08T13:51:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T20:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000000432"},"modified":"2019-07-08T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T21:26:28","slug":"video-rooftop-swim-skool-is-wet-just-the-right-amount-of-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/video-rooftop-swim-skool-is-wet-just-the-right-amount-of-wild","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Rooftop Swim Skool is wet, just the right amount of wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rooftop Swim Skool is wet, just the right amount of wild\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T4bsfYa3-Dc?start=8&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local DJ\/promoter Eusebio Akasa isn\u2019t interested in playing top 40 dance music, not that you won\u2019t hear it in the styled setlists at Swim Skool, Akasa&#8217;s rooftop pool party (the only one in the city) where one can expect a blend of old and new school hip-hop, Latin, soul, and funk dance music every Sunday afternoon and evening this summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inviting both local and wandering DJs to perform behind the turntables at the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel, downtown, Akasa aims to stage an event that welcomes anyone to turn up and chill out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople come here and think we\u2019re going to be like a Vegas pool party and it\u2019s not,\u201d said Akasa, who also puts on Latin nights every Saturday at Mezcalero (525 E Broadway), does classic hip hop nights every other Wednesday at The Stache Bar (941 E 4th St.) and vinyl dance parties every fourth Friday of every month at 4th Street Vine (2142 E 4th St<i>).<\/i> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s not to say that Swim Skool doesn\u2019t encourage its fair share of weekend afternoon hijinks vis-\u00e0-vis the cool swig of pi\u00f1a colada. On Sunday, towel-clad guests, both of the hotel and visiting locals variety, lounged on beach chairs, swam holding Bloody Marys safely aloft and out of the splash zone, while others played ping pong and lawn games, all grooving to tunes provided by DJ\u2019s Sumo Hair and Captain Planet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere\u2019s nothing else like this in Long Beach,\u201d 24-year-old local Alex Vazin said. \u201cThe music, the vibes; it\u2019s everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Renaissance Long Beach Hotel is located at 111 E Ocean Blvd. Tickets can be purchased at the door on the 3rd floor of the hotel on Sundays for $5.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing else like this in Long Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70368,"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":[13],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[8767],"class_list":["post-6824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-my-weekend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}