There’s no celebration like a Brazilian Carnival celebration, especially when it’s the 13th annual Brazilian Independance Day Carnival! The Long Beach Promenade hosts this year’s Rio-style carnival, a Trio-Electrio parade, food, bands, and more color than you can shake a stick at! Headlining the entertainment for this year’s event is SambaLa Samba School, Made in [...]
Sep 17, 2010 | Categories: Culture, Los Angeles | Tags: Brazil, Brazilian Carnival, Brazilian dancers, Brazilian music, Capoeira Centro Sul, carnival, Long Beach, Long Beach Promenade, Made in Bahia, Natalia & Daniel, Pagode, parade, Raiz Brasil Dance Troupe, Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Samba 4 U Bloco, SambaLa Samba, TMA Music, Trio Electrio | Leave A Comment »
The annual invasion of the Lobsters is back and better than ever! Break out your lobster bib and polish off your lobster crackers – you’re gonna need ‘em! The 12th Annual Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival is serving up a heaping portion of sizzling entertainment Sept. 17, 18 and 19 with eighteen bands, comedy [...]
Aug 29, 2010 | Categories: EAT DRINK, FOOD, Los Angeles | Tags: AWOLnation, country folks Leslie Stevens & the Badgers, Dengue Fever, Devon Eisenbarger, Fitz & The Tantrums, Gram Rabbit, John Doe Exene Cervenka, Judson & Mary, KROQ, LA Weekly, Long Beach, Long Beach festival, Long Beach Lobster, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles festival, Los Angeles lobster, Miss Derringer, OC Weekly, Pirates of the Red Swan, Port of Los Angeles, Port of Los Angeles Lobsterfest, Saint Motel, Spider Problem, Talking Sleep, The Country, The Daily Breeze, The Growlers, The Section Quartet, Tijuana Panthers, Venue Infers, We Barbarians, X | Leave A Comment »
The Red Bull Flugtag has lived in infamy for years now, mainly as one of the most literal translations of a marketing line ever. Red Bull celebrates years and years of giving you wings by allowing you to give something wings and fly it off the 30-ft high flight deck, straight into the waters below. [...]
Aug 18, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz, Los Angeles, Sports | Tags: Burning Man, Flugtag, flying machines, free events, human-powered flight, LA Decom, Long Beach, Long Beach events, Long Beach Flugtag, Long Beach summer events, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles Flugtag, Los Angeles free events, Los Angeles Red Bull, Los Angeles sports, Rainbow Harbor, Red Bull, Red Bull Flugtag, Red Bull Long Beach, soapbox derby, Sports | Leave A Comment »
Now’s about high time you go check out fast-emerging LA artist Michael Pukac. Relevant, timely and timeless, and beautifully executed, Pukac is well-situated in the current steampunk art movement, while distancing his work through content and tone. This Friday the 13th, the Imaginary Light Bulb Factory proudly presents Pukac’s solo show, “A Dreampunk Review”, at [...]
Aug 09, 2010 | Categories: Art, Los Angeles | Tags: A Dreampunk Review, Alyssandra and teh Daymakers, Atlantis, fantasy art, indie art, indie artist, Long Beach, Long Beach art openings, Long Beach artists, Los Angeles emergin artists, Los Angeles emerging art, Los Angeles indie artists, Michael Pukac, Paper Kites, steampunk, steampunk art, The Hive Gallery, Victorian art, Viento y Agua | 1 Comment »
There is nothing like beer and boats to start the summer off right. If you like boats, and you like drinking, and can handle drinking on the boat, you’re going to love the Micro Brew Cruise hosted by Morry’s on June 12! Via The Rubber Duck, a 49 passenger amphibious vehicle, you will [...]
May 27, 2010 | Categories: DRINKS, EAT DRINK, Los Angeles | Tags: booze cruise, indie, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Los Angeles boating, Los Angeles boats, Micro Brew Cruise, micro brews, Morry's, Rubber Duck, Rubber Duck Long Beach | Leave A Comment »
You like Avi Buffalo, right? Those plucky kids from the mean streets of Long Beach have recently soared to indie rock fame, quickly becoming everyone’s darling. The newest huge news is that they’re opening for Modest Mouse for five dates in July (yay!), and the freshest slice is their record release party at the Troubadour [...]
Apr 30, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, Avi Buffalo, Avi Buffalo record release, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, Brooklyn, Culture, Culture DTLA, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, Habonim Dror, Jessie Rifkin, LA Artwalk, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles live music, record release, record release party, Sunset Strip, The Troubadour, The Wailing Wall, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, troubadour, underground, Voices Voices, weekend | 1 Comment »
The Ink and Iron Festival is happening this June under the Gemini moon at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, and you know what that means – all kinds of rockabilly craziness! Ink N Iron is a 3 day rockabilly fest custom made for Los Angeles, featuring art, aerial showladies, tons of live bands, a [...]
Apr 30, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, LAbuzz | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, burlesque, caberet, classic cars, Culture, Culture DTLA, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, Hepcat, Ink and Iron Festival, Ink N Iron Festival, Klingonz, LA Artwalk, live music, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Mad Sin, Merle Haggard, Nine Lives, pin-up girls, pin-up pagent, Queen Mary, Restless, Reverend Horton Heat, rockabilly, Rockabilly Festival, Stiff Little Fingers, Swinging Utters, tattoo festival, The Aggrolites, The Bronx, The Embalmers, The Go Getters, the Reach Around Rodeo Clowns, The Silver Shine, The Southerners, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, X | Leave A Comment »
For those who really want to impress your Valentine’s Day date… I mean REALLY impress…like by bringing the canals of Venice Italy to your backyard in Long Beach, from 11am-11pm on Valentine’s Day you can really blow your date’s mind. For Valentine’s Day weekend, Gondola Getaways is offering an hour-long ride with complimentary take-home wine [...]
Feb 09, 2010 | Categories: Play | Tags: Dar Magreb, Gondola, Hollywood, L'Opera, Long Beach, Los Angeles Italian restaurants, Los Angeles Valentine's Day, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day date, Valentine's Day date ideas, Valentine's Day Long Beach | Leave A Comment »
Check out the Affliction Tour THIS SATURDAY, featuring Glenn Danzig, Pennywise, and T.S.O.L at the Long Beach Convention Center. I’ve seen the tickets listed from $5 to $64. But it’s Glenn Danzig! And that’s reason enough for anything. Remember little Glenn Danzig? The net gestalt of his career has been that of a heavy metal [...]
Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Culture, Music | Tags: Affliction Tour, Black Aria, California, Coheed and Cambria, Danzig, Glenn Danzig, heavy metal, horror movies, Jersey, Long Beach, Long Beach concerts, Los Angeles, Lucifuge, metal show, Misfits, New Jersey, old punk, Pennywise, punk, punk show, Samhain, T.S.O.L, the Misfits, TSOL | Leave A Comment »
Redrawn Arts is featured in the Real Talk 2009 Fashion Show in the upstairs loft of Wokano at the Long Beach Promenade. The comfortable corset is back, and the show will feature a handful of the Redrawn Arts traditional designs, as well as some brand-new, freshly made designs – Check out the Roped Back designs [...]
Dec 10, 2009 | Categories: FASHION | Tags: comfortable corsets, corsets, designers, Fashion, fashion designs, fashion show, indie designers, Long Beach, Long Beach fashion, Long Beach Promenade, Los Angeles designers, Los Angeles fashion, Los Angeles indie designers, Redrawn Arts, sexy shirts, sexy tops, t-shirt corsets, Wokano | Leave A Comment »
Get yo funk on! Join the party on Saturday, all day long at the Long Beach Funk Fest! Featuring a ton of booty-shakin’ music. Live painting from noon – 7pm on Pine & Broadway. There’s even the Phantom Galleries’ opening their doors to the Fueled by Funk show, featuring artwork by George Clinton of P-Funk! [...]
Aug 27, 2009 | Categories: Culture, Music, Parties | Tags: concert, festival, Fueled by Funk, funk, George Clinton, live music, Long Beach, Long Beach Funk Fest, Music, outdoor festival, P-Funk, Parliament Funkadelic, Phantom Galleries | Leave A Comment »
Humanity Can! Presents the After the Storms Aid Concert to benefit victims of the recent gulf storms. The headliner is an all-star conglomeration of members of Guns & Roses, Deep Purple, AC/DC, the Cars, and Megadeth. I’d pay money to see what kind of music that Frankenstein band cranks out, benefit or not! The benefit [...]
Oct 11, 2008 | Categories: Culture, LAbuzz, Music | Tags: benefit, concert, Gulf, Long Beach, relief, Storm | Leave A Comment »
