Arts & Life

Content that focuses on popular culture, local art and music, entertainment and the events. Common topics include lifestyle, television and film, theater, music, video game, food, etc

New adventures on the train

Beach Streets will be closing car traffic to downtown Long Beach on March 19. Patrons are encouraged to walk or bike to the event and discover everything from Retro Row to Pine ave. and back again. One alternative to arrive at the event may be a ride on the Metro[Read More…]

Listen to your Mothers

The exhausting, aching and kind of grooving album “When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired” aims to leave listeners — well, tired. Georgia-based group Mothers’ released their debut album on Feb. 26. The album features the dizzying vocal talent of guitarist and vocalist Kristine Leschper, whose vocal chords[Read More…]

FESTIVAL FEST 2016

Californians: It’s March. Music festival season is upon us. So start cutting down your shorts and growing daisies to shove behind your ears. And for the love of all good things check the line-ups, listen to something else other than Top 40 and learn something. Damn it. CRSSD- Madison Waterfront[Read More…]

MOLAA enters young adulthood

The Museum of Latin American Art’s 20th anniversary invited guests to step into a historical storybook of the museum’s humble beginnings rooted in silent film and roller skates. MOLAA was filled with a plethora of pieces both familiar and unfamiliar to the museum’s walls. The pieces varied from light-up photographs[Read More…]

African music and dance return

Crowds were welcomed to experience both underwater sea life and the traditional African dance and music at the African-American cultural festival in the Aquarium of the Pacific. This past weekend the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach hosted its 14th annual African-American festival. The festival included many avenues of[Read More…]

Squared Away

I strive for making a difference in my fellow veteran’s lives so they have the hope and faith I possess to overcome mental illness. When I was in high school, I started to hear voices and they kept me from enjoying company of others.  When I found alcohol and the[Read More…]

Pachuco Swing dance revisits Chicano resistance

Pachuco style is coming back to life this Friday night at Cal State Long Beach. The Chicano Latino Studies Student Association will be hosting its second annual Pachuco Swing dance from 6:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. in the Kinesiology East Gym. Organizers Julieta Hernandez, Luis Guerrero and Nancy Haro are[Read More…]

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