Bars & Clubs
LOOKS LIKE THEY’RE TRYING SOME FUNNY BUSINESS AT COHIBA’S SATURDAY
A couple of comedians---one from Great Britain, the other from San Pedro--are opening a new comedy club Saturday in what they believeve is the perfect location: downtown Long Beach's Club Cohiba.
ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE: ANTIDOTE–BEST BARS FOR A LITTLE ‘HAIR OF THE ZOMBIE’
Even when prescribed as an antidote, a zombie often comes with a limit, or at least an advisory to slow the hell down. With this much alcohol in one cocktail, it's easy to end up walking, well, like a zombie---or what the medical professionals call "getting inoculated on your ass." For more tips, search "Zombie Survival Guide."
DJ DENNIS OWENS: 13 YEARS OF GOOD FOOT WAS REALLY QUITE A FEAT
This is the poster for the first-ever Good Foot in September 1998. DJ Dennis Owens' and Rodi DelGadillo quickly established the funk-and-soul club at Que Sera as a Long Beach institution, but after 13 years the danceable deep cuts and funky hits go quiet in September.
HAVE-A-GREATER-WEEKEND: BOAT-DACIOUSNESS, BOOBATION & A KILLER DINNER
This is the 100th anniversary of offshore powerboat racing in California, and there is no way to celebrate that without celebrating Long Beach, which has contributed some of the sport’s most-iconic events---and will continue that tradition this weekend.
LIFE AFTER DARK: THIS ISN’T YOUR MOM AND DAD’S DOWNEY
Hookah Bars ... a nightclub ... a sports bar ... a micro-brewery ... in Downey? “The city is trying to make a statement,” says Omar Monzon, 29, of Hookah Time Café, part of a flurry of new downtown businesses staying open after dark. “‘We're not dead.’”
GREEN IS GREATER FEST: ENVIROS UNITE OVER MUSIC, ART AND A 50/50 DRAWING
Greater Long Beach is partnering with The Gaslamp restaurant and Heather Altman of the environmental blog EgretsNotRegrets.com to present the Green Is Greater Festival---an event intended to help unite the often-fragmented environmental community. It's Sept. 18 at The Gaslamp.
THE GALWAY HOOKER BAND
The Galway Hooker Band is named after a traditional Irish fishing boat---of course … and shame on you for assuming otherwise. Also? Thank you very much, says bassist Paul Wilson. “That’s what makes the name perfect.”
RETURN WITH THE BLASTERS TO THE MIDDLE OF THE EARTH—RECORD STORE, THAT IS
Subject: “I don’t like music I haven’t heard before” Yeah, someone really said that. We wish we had her name so we could attribute it. But instead, we held her up to ridicule by writing the quote on the infamous felt letterboard that greeted each soul who entered the hallowed grounds of Middle Earth Records [...]
