Is it summer yet? No? Spring? That’s tomorrow? Hooray! Celebrate the first day of spring on the Big Red Bus with a three-stop tour of local wine bars. There’ll be three two-ounce tastings at each stop (that’s 18 ounces all together, if you’re math-challenged like me—like two-thirds of a bottle!). You may also purchase additional [...]

The beat goes on at the 20th annual Long Beach Step Show hosted by CSULB National Pan-Hellenic Council. Be part of the largest collegiate-produced step show in the Western US, where teams from all over the country will come together to compete. This community event is more than just top teams synchronizing in scandalous outfits [...]

Sometimes it’s all about the simple things, so earn some peace, quiet and placation this weekend with the Los Altos Neighborhood Library’s Family Film Festival. This isn’t an all-day affair but a solo screening of DreamWorks’ computer-animated Monsters vs. Aliens. The plot is self-explanatory: there are monsters . . . versus aliens—and the cast is [...]

Empty lots are ugly. The Arts Council for Long Beach’s A Lot series fills this emptiness with art. And this weekend choreographer Heidi Duckler, along with the Collage Dance Theatre, will make a correlation between vacancies and immigration and how the idea of “home” is often in flux. Our own Cambodia Town will provide the [...]

It’s less than one month until tax day; do you know where your W-2 is? Now, hopefully the answer to that question is yes. But you may need a little help with all that paperwork. Fortunately, the kind folks at the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association have organized a community happy hour on Thursday at [...]

Our list of the best places in town to throw bowls down a grass patch, find new friends—if not fish—at the bottom of a concrete basin and pedal in place. plus, an ode to the king of playground sports, four square!

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
Good Grass
ROLLS DON’T GO STRAIGHT, BUT LAWN BOWLING IS FASTER AND TOUGHER [...]

Through the years with Boris Smile

Boris Smile has gone from pet project to proper band to, as founder/frontman Wesley Chung puts it, “that very popular collective thing.” The band’s latest release, the Rockets EP, sees Chung (the proud constant throughout all these years) graduating into proper adulthood—and the revelations that come with it.
The District Weekly: [...]

And five bands who should have played Canada’s closing ceremonies

PHOTO by FRED VAN DIEM
ScrapArtsMusic—five Canadian drummers who play over 140 instruments sculpted out of discarded industrial junk—arrive in Long Beach this weekend on the heels of their performance at the closing ceremonies of the Vancouver winter Olympics. Also onstage at that show? Avril Lavigne, Nickelback [...]

Wake up with the Coffee Cup Cafe

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
As anyone who has walked the city streets at midnight knows, Long Beach is a drinker’s town. Whether that means sequined tops and cocktails on Pine Ave. or T-shirts and PBR elsewhere is up to the individual. But the alcoholic experience is universal. And so are [...]

By now, the sandwiches at Angelo’s Italian Deli are things of legend, monstrous creations constructed to feed what must be utterly inhuman appetites. Try and take a whole one on and it’ll probably knock you out cold. But they don’t substitute quantity for quality here—these are expert sandwiches made with well-sourced Italian ingredients. There are [...]