Pedestrians and concertgoers freeze outside of the Blacklight District Lounge as a tremendous crash projects jagged automotive shrapnel through the evening air just before the first act takes the stage. This unfortunate yet entertaining spectacle would soon fall right into place alongside the dark, grimy inyourface musical sounds and standup[Read More…]
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CSULB art students go abroad and under the sea through paint
Upon entering the room, onlookers are met with snap shots of the ocean floor: deep-complex layers of rock exposing hidden life. A few more steps, and these images begin to collide with celestial landscapes in the form of bright pink tentacles wrapped around a galactic night sky. On the farthest[Read More…]
A most violent attempt
“A Most Violent Year” takes an ambitious step back in time to when guns solved everything. Directed by J.C. Candor and released on Friday with A24 Studios, “A Most Violent Year” has every tool to obtain mob-movie greatness: blood, a mischievous, beautiful wife, tax fraud and drawn-out pauses in between[Read More…]
Long Beach Chocolate Festival showcases chocolate-themed treats
Complimenting her chocolate, cupcake-charm necklace, Lisa Ramelow themed her wardrobe with a frosting-pink blouse and cocoa-brown boots in celebration of Belmont Shore’s eleventh annual chocolate festival. Twenty businesses invited the Long Beach populous to purchase pink ticket-vouchers to “spend” on self-indulgent samples along Second Street on Saturday. As the owner[Read More…]
Long Beach welcomes Mardi Gras in all its hues
The gold, purple and green-streaked weekend at Shoreline Village in Long Beach set the scene for an annual celebration of life that softens the blow of the upcoming Catholic season of fasting: Lent. The free community event welcomed guests of all walks of life, and many attendees said they merely[Read More…]
Anderson .Paak performs at Amoeba Hollywood for free on Tuesday
Free, intimate concerts freckle across Los Angeles County every month. Record stores like Fingerprints in Long Beach and Amoeba in Hollywood play homage to up-and-coming artists by giving audiences a glimpse of what’s to come. Oxnard bred drummer and vocalist Anderson .Paak, also known as Breezy Lovejoy, performed a free[Read More…]
Reggae band Headshine serenades CSULB’s South Plaza
Smooth reggae blues weaved with Wednesday’s warm rays at California State University, Long Beach’s South Plaza. The black slab of stage based the centerpiece to this semester’s first installment of ASI and USU’s Noontime Concert Series. About 30 students came out to watch the four-piece from Huntington Beach belt out[Read More…]
George’s Greek Café opens in CSULB’s University Dining Plaza
A semester later than anticipated, George’s Greek Cafe has opened at California State University, Long Beach’s University Dining Plaza. The restaurant was originally promised to open in the first month of the Fall 2014 semester, but never unlocked its registers. “During the rush it gets really hectic,” Marcos Muro, the[Read More…]
Food Fight: the European Union versus the Federal Drug Administration
Just when we thought bread loaves were yoga mat free, the United States dines on disregard once again. The country’s household donut sprinkles are under risk of reform by the Food and Drug Administration, in light of research that states that their make-up of partially hydrogenated oils, known as trans[Read More…]
Review: Title Fight’s ‘Hyperview’ throws a sucker punch
Post-punk heavyweights Title Fight head to a new corner of the ring, pulling out of the unexpected. Echoey tracks layered in sonic distortion, dream-like reverb and droning whirrs make up most of the Pennsylvania-grown foursome’s third album “Hyperview,” which is to be released on Tuesday. Title Fight’s sophomore album, “Floral[Read More…]