Downtown Scene

With a whirlwind of development happening in Long Beach, especially in DTLB, Mayor Garcia will be delivering an update at the Beverly O'Neill Theater on Tuesday, June 6 at 11 am titled: Building a Better Long Beach: An Update on Development in Long Beach. The event is...

Beer-lovers in Long Beach know Taste of Brews well by now, it's the annual beer tasting event featuring the top local brewers. This summer they're bringing you brews all summer long with Thirsty Thursdays at The Pike Outlets the second Thursday of the month through...

Downtown Long Beach property owners, and businesses interested in making a difference in their community are encouraged to apply for available seats on the Downtown Long Beach Alliance Board of Directors. The deadline to apply is Friday, June 16. The DLBA administers...

2016 marked the inaugural Music Tastes Good, brainchild of the amazingly talented late Josh Fischel. This year, his legacy will live on when Josh Fischel's Music Tastes Good returns to Long Beach from September 30th – October 1st. The festival is presented by KCRW and...

Shoreline Comics is tucked away in the maze of Shoreline Village shops and  welcomes comic boo-lovers, Game of Thrones and Star Wars fans, Pop! vinyl character collectors, and all those those just wishing to nerd out.   Feon Cooper’s store is part personal...

As you already know, we're one of America's Bike-friendliest Cities, and May is the time to let that shine as it's National Bike Month.  Bike Month is celebrated across the United States and offers an opportunity to showcase the benefits of bicycling, and encourages...

You may already have each first Friday and second Saturday of the month blocked off, but now there’s another one for you: Fourth Friday. Urban Hive Market is a monthly community event supporting small businesses and creative minds throughout Southern California....

Seeing the sign up for King Buffet at 525 Pine in recent months has made us eager for new lunch and dinner options every time we pass by. They opened their doors for the first time this week, and hungry diners in DTLB were not disappointed. This is one massive...

The Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services, Long Beach Area Coalition for the Homeless and Mental Health America collaborated with community partners to hold a conference entitled Community Connections for Homeless Solutions on April 27, 2017. Community...

Seeing a dearth of Vietnamese food in DTLB, Thanh Ninh knew he had to open his first restaurant, 123 Phở, right here in our backyard. Dubbing themselves the "Chipotle of Phở," 123 Phở will open early Summer 2017 at 210 East 3rd Street and offer not only the eponymous...

It's no doubt Downtown Long Beach is growing at breakneck speed. In keeping with the Downtown Long Beach Alliance’s mission to become a clearinghouse of information, the 2017 Downtown Long Beach Economic Profile covers every aspect of DTLB data, from development...

One of the highest grossing Oscar winners ever is coming to back in Long Beach for one night. That's right, The Blind Donkey will be transformed back into Seb's from La La Land one more time in celebration of the film's home release - but this time the public is...

The old story is that in the 1880s, a woman spotted some tobacco-chewing debaters on the veranda of the Long Beach Hotel and complained to a friend: "All they do is spit and argue." ...and so became the Spit 'n' Argue Club of Long Beach. They met daily to chew tobacco...

A few short years ago the odd intersection at 7th and Alamitos was dubbed one of the most dangerous in all of the city. In 2015, construction began on a project to add public space and do away with the dangerous street once and for all, that project is Robert Gumbiner...

Clarifying what our Downtown is all about, where the landmarks are, and how to move through it are all aspects of Long Beach's upcoming wayfinding signage project. And it isn’t just about building pretty signs, it’s about analyzing the space and determining the most...