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Long Beach Lunch: The Pike Restaurant and Bar

More often than not, The Pike is the dark, punk-rock-slash-nautical-themed hole I wander into on blurry nights when I do not mind drinking in a crowded room of hipster egos along Fourth Street's dive-bar corridor. Once inside the piercing blue neon lighted structure, the busy decor inevitably falls ... More >>

Top 25 Greatest Orange County Bands of All Time: 14-6

14. Reel Big FishZany, wacky, ska-rooted (though they rock harder now) Reel Big Fish elevate self-deprecation to an art form, thanks to a malcontent lead singer in Aaron Barrett, who beats you to the punch with peppy lyrics like "I'll never be anything, anything at all." He lays down these anti-What ... More >>

Local Record Review: 'Spare Parts for Broken Hearts' by Spare Parts for Broken Hearts

Spare Parts for Broken HeartsSpare Parts for Broken Heartshttps://www.facebook.com/sparepartsforbrokenheartsA little late with this review, perhaps -- the EP's been out for nearly a year, for a start.  But Long Beach's Spare Parts for Broken Hearts have been revving up a bit for the journey to ... More >>

Dengue Fever in Cambodia Town, Then Fingerprints Records, Last Friday

Sarah Bennett​Dengue FeverSept. 9, 2011Fingerprints Record Store, Long Beach Friday should have been designated Dengue Fever Day by the City of Long Beach because the Cambodian psych-pop band's double dose of public appearances is the most the band has been seen in these parts since their latest a ... More >>

Long Beach Finally Gets A Lee's Sandwiches

Flickr user evang​You might be thinking to yourself, how could Long Beach, the seventh largest city in California encompassing 50 square miles and home to about a half-million residents, not have a Lee's Sandwiches already. That's what I thought too. But as seemingly ubiquitous as the banh mi chai ... More >>

Poet Gerald Locklin Talks About How Lady Gaga is in his Reading Routine, the Bukowski Connection and OC as 'Sand Beach'

Henry Denander​Poetry readings are boring. And I'm not just saying that as a guy whose sole exposure to the genre was a force-feeding of Maya Angelou in community college. Nope, I actually read -- and try to write -- the stuff and even I think most of these gatherings are really great if you aresu ... More >>

100 Reasons to Be Ecstatic About Summer In OC!

Summer here is bliss, better than anyplace else in the States

Victims of Brutality Protest Awards Ceremony for Long Beach Cops

​The ANSWER Coalition is busy trying to sway public opinion against America going to war in Libya, let alone continuing to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. But a local off-shoot of the grass-roots national movement (which stands for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is not so preoccupied that it can ... More >>

Arrive Early as Pride Flows This Weekend

​Rainbow flags, festive clothing, nuns dressed in drag and plenty of non-stop dancing and music fill Long Beach this weekend at the 28th annual Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival & Parade.The first parade was held in 1984 by advocates who believed the event was needed to instill awareness of and ... More >>

Thy Squid Play Squid Rock City!

[Locals Only] The LBC trio talk influences and working with Ikey Owens of the Mars Volta

Amanda Russell, Long Beach Poly Senior, Wins $20,000 from KFC for a Tweet!

Flickr user Ollie Crafoord​In the Department of Participating in Every Zany Contest Fast-Food Chains Offer comes this news: a Long Beach Poly senior won a $20,000 college scholarship from KFC for the best tweet expressing how the chain would help the student better their lives.Amanda Russell didn' ... More >>

More Bookish Than You

[Best of OC 2010] Sé Reed's 10 OC Survival Tips

UPDATED: Horny CSULB Paper Earns Rebuke for Telling Guys to be "Aggressive" During Sexytime

summum.us / Creative CommonsHeh. Long Beach pyramid. Heh.Originally posted September 28 at 2:35 p.m. Updated September 29 at 2:13 p.m. with comment from the Union Weekly's editor.​It looks like it's the season for local college papers to ingnite politically correct controversies. Yesterd ... More >>

Jonathan Huynh Quickly Found Guilty of Murdering His 20-year-old Girlfriend

​It took jurors less than two hours to agree that Jonathan Huynh strangled and stabbed his 20-year-old girlfriend to death.Huynh, 22, of Mission Viejo, was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in last year's slaying of Cal State Long Beach student Kate Su Yi.

Long Beach Blues Festival Going On Hiatus

B.B. King at the 12th annual Doheny Blues Fesitval in 2009​The Long Beach Blues Festival, a 30-year-old tradition delivered by local jazz and blues station KKJZ-FM (88.1), is going on hiatus this year. The two-day fest, which has featured legends such as B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Bo Diddle ... More >>

Light-Bulb Mouth Radio

Club 149

Transgender Student Assaulted at Cal State Long Beach Defends School

CalState Long Beach Police DepartmentCSULB Police Department sketch of the attacker.​So, some person resembling the above picture believed to have attacked and carved the word "IT" into the chest of a transgender student at CalState Long Beach on April 15.

Valentine's Speakeasy Celebrating LB Playhouse's 80th Anniversary

Long Beach Playhouse

[Locals Only] Local Artist Chris Schlarb Speaks Wednesday at Cal State Long Beach

[UPDATED] UC Budget Protest at UCLA is Rowdy. Cal State Protest in Long Beach? Not So Much

​UPDATE: University of California Regents voted for a 32 percent tuition increase today, with a dissenting vote coming from the student-regent. The vote was taken and debated over loud protests outside from hundreds of demonstrators. Our big sis' LA Weekly reports one arrest today. See also the Lo ... More >>

Eight Questions with Rick Berry

​Rick Berry's a lot of things. Some of these things include jazz trumpeter (currently in the Hollywood Canteen Swing Band), political candidate (he ran for Long Beach city council) and gardener (he's got a killer backyard garden). But to the rest of the world, he's got a new title that is pretty d ... More >>

Theater Review: 'Festen' at the Queen Mary

California Repertory Company​The rest of America's loss is Long Beach's gain when it comes to Festen, currently playing onboard the Queen Mary in the new home of California Repertory Company. Cal Rep, the graduate theater arm of Cal State Long Beach's theater program, has bounced around at several ... More >>

Off Gerrie Schipske Goes Into the Wild Blue LBC Yonder

Gerrie SchipskeGerrie Schipske vaulted from the delivery room at Long Beach Naval Hospital in 1950 to a degree in history from UC Irvine in 1973 to successful careers as a registered nurse, attorney and teacher of women's studies, political science and public administratio ... More >>

30th Annual Long Beach Blues Festival

Rainbow Lagoon Park

Cherry Poppin' Play Festival this weekend at the Queen Mary

Leave it to Long Beach's Alive Theater group to take two very different types of weekend diversions and crash them together in a single phrase that leaves you totally confused. Now smack-dab in the middle of their second annual Cherry Poppin' Play Festival, this troupe of avant guard thespians from ... More >>

Freddie Hubbard, R.I.P.

Freddie Hubbard died today at Sherman Oaks Hospital. He was 70. I've always been a freak for the jazz trumpeter and still remember the first time I caught him live, in the early '80s at, of all places, Carnation Gardens at Disneyland--about as far as one can get from a smoke-filled gin jo ... More >>

[Locals Only] Crystal Antlers

What you missed over the weekend: Part XI

Dave Segal moved into Detroit Bar on both Friday and Saturday nights: "Free the Robots' thrilling [Friday] live show blew away Afrika Bambaataa's moldy DJ set. Local upstarts overshadowed a legend!" And on Sat, "DJs Josh One, Hyder, James Pants and Peanut Butter Wolf spun loads of great hip-hop cuts ... More >>

To Do Tonight - 2/23

REGGAE CRUISE, 7 p.m. For all the Reggae-loving bredren. Star Party Cruises, 140 Marine Dr. Alamitos Bay Long Beach CLUB RUBBER, 8 p.m. Celebrating their 12-year anniversary. Galaxy Concert Theater, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd. Santa Ana LUDACRIS, 8 p.m. And for extra entertainment: a protest outside. Ca ... More >>

How the West Was Pumped

'Fantasy Islands: Landscaping Long Beachs Oil Platforms'

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Year in Letters

You know who else had lots of supporters? Ted Bundy

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Wheres the Crazy

Its college: Greater LA MFA should be more insane

5 Other Summer Music Festivals To See Before You Die ...

... or that might kill you

METAL MACHINE MUSIC

Driving a Ford, Lately

Overheating In Rush-Hour Traffic Isnt What It Used To Be

The Dead Shall Rise

And Al Green has risen at the Long Beach Blues Fest

The OC Weekly Book Of Food Lists!

Postmodernity Means Never Having to Make Sense

University Players Playing With the Pieces

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Shake That Ass!

Theres a club for every taste

What a Riot!

University Players Twilight

The OCies Yeeeee-ha!

Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!

At the Mercy of Percy!

Sledge, Berry, Diddley and other blues greats scare horses, terrify children, create mayhem

35 Great Things About Summer in Orange County

Letters

Letters

The seventh annual Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Were Here, Were Queer, Were Cinematic

Where to Get Hammered

Back-to-School Night Spots