Downtown Scene

There’s no other way to put it other than we have great news for the Long Beach economy: following a surge in the cruise industry, Carnival Cruises has decided to take over the entirety of the Spruce Goose dome in DTLB and expand its facilities to bring in bigger...

The largest event in Long Beach continues to be the Toyota Grand Prix–and tickets for the 43rd annual event are on sale beginning today as the event kicks off April 7 through April 9 of next year. Tickets range from $30 for Friday general admission to $142 for a...

Shortly after music guru and artist Pharrell Williams announced his decision to head Complex Magazine’s inaugural two-day ComplexCon, speculation as to who he would bring was high. After all, he promised it would be "the hottest ticket of the year.” Mr. Williams had,...

No longer relegated solely to Recreational Coffee or Berlin, specialty coffee drinkers visiting or living or working in DTLB officially have a new joint (and one that boasts arguably one of the best patios this side of Alamitos): Cuppa Cuppa. The artisanal coffee...

Cesar Chavez Park in DTLB is bringin’ the Big Top to town complete with a bounce house, face painting, clowns (not the scary kind), and flow artists on Saturday, October 8, from 11AM to 2PM. This is Circus in the Park. Even better? It is a fundraiser for Long Beach...

Starting a business begins with questions—a lot of them. And that’s precisely why Long Beach’s i-team (short for “Innovation Team”) has been working for months on developing a website that has one main function: to assist budding entrepreneurs starting and sustaining...

Following the tragic loss of Music Tastes Good founder and Long Beach musician Joshua Fischel, his wife, Abbie Peyton Fischel, has decided to create a farewell that is about singing, laughing, crying, and ultimately celebrating the life of a man greatly respected and...

The music just died a little in Long Beach, Joshua. That’s deeply ironic considering just this past weekend, you brought more music to this city than arguably anyone previously had in quite some time. Then again, you were always one of those spirits for which music...

After hundreds of dogs and their human pets descended upon DTLB to take over the Promenade, it is once again time to salute the four-legged members of our families, that is, our pups. Dogs of Downtown returns Saturday, November 19 from 11AM to 3PM. This is not just an...

When it comes to DTLB, I am an optimist and I am proud of that. My first time at the helm of the DLBA Board didn’t come from anything but that sense of optimism because I’ve been shown the great things this organization does and how the equally great Downtown revolves...

Following the initial groundbreaking earlier this year, the new Civic Center will take on additional construction sections come October, when a fence will arise across the boundary of Lincoln Park. The importance of addressing the population that calls Lincoln Park...

It’s official: Long Beach is the proud owner of ten zero-emission electric buses as Long Beach Transit (LBT) debuted the two of the buses this Monday. Come the end of November, LBT plans on having all the entire $11M fleet up and running on DTLB’s Passport route that...

It’s back, Long Beach—and we hope you're thirsty. Our famed Promenade Beer & Wine Festival has long been hailed, some even calling describing as “putting a stake in the sand in calling Long Beach the hottest place to be in Southern California”—and for that reason,...

Music Tastes Good (MTG) is doing a lot for and bringing a lot to Long Beach. It’s supporting and highlighting local artists by giving them jobs. It’s supporting and highlighting local musicians by paying them to perform for a crowd they may have never seen before....

As the inaugural, three-day long musical festival Music Tastes Good (MTG) invades DTLB starting tonight, residents, visitors and business owners should be aware of the street closures planned for the event. For larger versions of the map, click on the images below....