Downtown Long Beach’s East Village was an interesting collection of audio installation art combined with creative vibrations and intensities on Saturday during FLOOD’s annual SoundWalk. From headphones emitting hammering sounds hanging from trees to live feedback musicians, hovering musical oil drums and ambient street frequencies, the neighborhood was alive with music as fans of amplitude filled [...]

Photographer Peter Switzer captured the culinary excitement at Taste of Downtown.

City officials to downtown Long Beach: Lighten up!
In anticipation of next year’s TED2010 Conference—theme: “Why Exist?”—city officials announced a momentous, groundbreaking plan to enhance downtown Long Beach’s visibility as a well-lit tourist destination: more light.
“Light, unless you’re blind, is essential to our human experience,” explained Lane E. Denton, chairman of the Mayor’s special joint task [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Among many responses to “The Ice Rink Cometh”—the March 11 story by Diana Bosetti about the Downtown Long Beach Associate’s plan to spend $300,000 on a winter ice-skating rink on The Promenade—runs the opinion that the story is arrogant, too negative and could at least have been constructively critical. Bosetti responds:
Frankly, you probably [...]

As the Press-Telegram’s Tracy Manzer reports this morning, Long Beach police are asking the public for help finding four young men “believed responsible” in the savage beating and robbing of a 55-year-old man in downtown Long Beach, in the early morning hours of Sept. 19.
“The attack on the victim was so savage that all the [...]

Halloween comes early this year

How afraid do you want to be?
The Press-Telegram promotes its annual Halloween scary story competition on the website–but its scariest online story today has to be the one about a pipe bomb explosion last night at Pine Avenue and Ocean Boulevard. That just gets scarier the more you think about it.