IN PICTURES: Long Beach Greek Festival is back with 3 days of food, music and celebration
The festival will celebrate Greek culture throughout the Labor Day weekend.
Uptown Jazz Fest 2021 brings live-music back to North Long Beach
Houghton Park and the surrounding streets in North Long Beach came to life with live-music, dance parties and food trucks Saturday as day two of the annual Uptown Jazz Fest continued into the weekend.
‘The Queen of Percussion’ Sheila E. to headline North Long Beach Uptown Jazz this August
Sheila E. lauded by fans as the Queen of Percussion for her electric drum solos, will headline day one of the two-day Uptown Jazz Fest set to kick off on Aug. 21.
A Lucky Charms latte? Collaborative Coffee Bar brings experimental drinks to Lakewood
Collaborative Coffee Bar’s adventurous trial-and-error style created some duds but also some unique drinks that owner Robert Lopez says keep customers hooked.
Una canción para los difuntos: los mariachis consolaron a las familias que perdieron seres queridos por el COVID-19
La pandemia puso fin a eventos de celebración para los que se suele contratar a los mariachis: bodas, quinceañeras y cumpleaños de familias grandes. Pero los funerales eran abundantes.
A song for the dead: Mariachis comforted families who lost loved ones to COVID-19
The North Long Beach band stopped getting invitations to play at these large-scale celebratory events because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but funerals were an exception.
Hip-hop artist Huey Briss pays homage to his North Long Beach upbringing
Huey Briss and his newest single, “Grace Park Legend,” are products of the old-as-time saying that Long Beach is a melting pot of cultures.
As Long Beach preps to welcome back tourists, Downtown gets a fresh mural and street cleanup
A street muralist and groups of volunteers gathered Downtown to help beautify the area in anticipation of crowds coming back to Long Beach.
TV show to spotlight CSULB student who studies the diet of SoCal sharks
On Saturday, a CBS show called Mission Unstoppable will feature Yamilla Samara and her technique for discovering what juvenile white sharks eat.
Snoop Dogg in director’s seat for Long Beach artist HeyDeon’s upcoming music video
It’s not uncommon for Deon to work with Snoop on creative projects. After all, Deon was an opener for the rap icon’s set at the Once Upon a Time at the LBC music festival in 2019.