Welcome to the Hi-lo.

What’s the Hi-lo?

Remember when cellphones first appeared and you thought “Why do I need this?” and, like eight minutes later, you were all “Why do I need anything else?” That’s the Hi-lo; a brand new arts, culture and lifestyle digital magazine from the Long Beach Post.

Into hip hop and visual art? We got you. Live for opera and deep dish pizza? Ditto. What used to be presented under the umbrella of “Arts and Culture” will now come to you via the Hi-lo, only lots more, every day, all in one place, all to itself.

Here you’ll find the best things to do, eat, hear, see and experience. Through award-winning writing, photos, video and audio—including podcasts “Suppertime in the LBC” and “Can You Hear Me, Long Beach?”—you’ll learn about the people and ideas responsible for creating Long Beach’s vast and diverse cultural landscape; diving deep into what gives this city its vibrancy.

If you depend on Brian Addison to tell you where the best new and old places are to eat—and maybe one or two to avoid—you’ll be doing that on the Hi-lo. If you don’t consider yourself plugged in to what the creative community has to offer without Asia Morris pointing you in the right direction, you’ll be heading to the Hi-lo.

If you need something to sort out the gorgeous, sonic jumble that is the local music scene… Hi-lo. If your world revolves around pets… Hi-lo. If you can’t leave the house on a Saturday night without first consulting “The 7”… Hi-lo. If you think puppets get the best interviews… Hi-lo.

So, whether you get your information from your phone, tablet or the suddenly antiquated laptop, you’ll be getting it from the one place that knows Long Beach, lives Long Beach and gladly shares with you the rich, varied, crazy, beautiful, ridiculous, wonderful pageant this city has to offer.

Also, puppets. Welcome to the Hi-lo.