Downtown Scene

This is part of a series of profiles on each of our Spirit of Downtown honorees, being recognized at this year's Celebrate Downtown event on February 25. For more information, click here. Long before becoming a planning guru and serving as our city’s Vice Mayor under...

For some, the power of El Niño is somewhat lacking—but for those in Coronado, it has proved to unearth something thought to be long lost at sea: the SS Monte Carlo. Nearly 80 years after the ship seemingly disappeared at sea after its mooring chains snapped due to a...

The Pacific Avenue storm drain project is at a critical phase as Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal announced pertinent construction work that could disrupt residents as it continues through the late night and early morning. The work is being done under an emergency permit and...

If you pass by the Psychic Temple Building on the south side of Broadway between Promenade and Long Beach Blvd., you’ll notice that its ground floor window are adorned with a ton of red envelopes, for which you are encouraged to take one. The occasion? The Chinese New...

Jaime “Vyal” Reyes is not one who jumped on the street art bandwagon that has exploded since Banksy and Shepard Fairey became household names. No, Vyal One has been slinging his sprays of paint across Los Angeles since the 1980s and along the way, influenced Latino...

DTLB's free ride known as Long Beach Transit's Passport will have its route slightly expanded as the bus will now travel through the East Village while still catering to its old connections. Its route will remain unchanged south of Ocean but will now travel east on...

This is part of a series of profiles on each of our Spirit of Downtown honorees, being recognized at this year's Celebrate Downtown event on February 25. For more information, click here. Don Darnauer is what one can call a very patient and persistent man—by all means...

Hidden along the strip of Ocean in DTLB, nestled amongst the towering residences and buildings at Linden, sits a new Thai gem dubbed Naree Thai. Formerly La Raffia—the tiny sandwich’n’coffee spot that closed nearly five years ago—Naree has come to the spot and...

One of DTLB’s biggest assets—contractor and preservation guru Jan Van Dijs—and two of DTLB’s most beautiful buildings—the famed and recently restored Psychic Temple Building and the brick building at 237 Long Beach Blvd., the construction of each overseen by Van...

If there has been one thing about our annual Celebrate Downtown event, it is that recognition holds power; remembering what’s been done helps to shape what can be done to elevate DTLB to new heights. Come February 25, we once again invite you to attend the event as we...

After an assortment of artists vied for a chance to turn crosswalks along Pine Avenue in DTLB into pieces of art, the Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) has chosen environmental designer and artist Kipp Kobayashi to take on six mid-block crosswalks. We continually...

Despite the pundits, Long Beach’s rich music culture is more than Snoop and Sublime. From Suburban Rhythm to Free Moral Agents, Cold War Kids to Mars Volta, Long Beach has a plethora of musicians who write their own music and sing their own songs. And it is precisely...

It’s time to get your dog on, Long Beach, as Dog Haus—the gastropub-like franchise whose roots begin in Pasadena and have stretched outward—will be opening its DTLB location along the Promenade just north of Michael’s Pizzeria on January 29. And they want you to...

After nearly two years of rumors and salivating hope, it is official: Los Angeles’s influential Beer Belly is opening up its second location in DTLB at Long Beach Blvd. and 3rd Street. While the only hint of the gastropub’s future home show in an alcohol license...

NOTE: Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to this year’s Celebrate Downtown event, we have unfortunately reached capacity and can no longer take any RSVPs. For those who have RSVPed, we thank you and look forward to seeing you. To those who were unable to RSVP...