Every Friday through the remainder of the summer, 2ND&PCH is featuring a free drive-in movie showing at the top deck of the Whole Foods Market parking garage.

Makers continue to build and create at Makersville, a nonprofit offering hands on craft-making and science-based classes catered to youngsters and teens in the Long Beach area.

Area youth have another option to experience an online summer camp, this time through an online-based, week-long, photography class facilitated by Tuttle Cameras.

A space that hosts exhibitions, performances, workshops, community projects and more in the Zaferia District is opening its doors to the public this September.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's order closing indoor commercial activities has pushed more than restaurant visitors outside — the Aquarium of the Pacific has opted to stay open with only open sky exhibits open.

Seal Beach Yacht Club celebrated both opening day and the club’s 60th anniversary last Saturday. To keep the numbers in check, it was a members' only event. They were very creative in hosting an event in the current environment, with some of the fare provided by a food truck.

The last slim chance of a 2020 Big Bang on the Bay fireworks show has been swept away by a surge in cases of COVID-19.

Around noon on Wednesday, June 17, Long Beach fans of England's Arsenal Football Club sat at socially-distanced dining tables at the Auld Dubliner to watch the first Premier League game since COVID-19 suspended all restaurant dining in the city.

As is the case with pretty much everything this year, the status of camps is in flux due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Area yacht clubs are taking regatta planning one day at a time this season.

For 20 years, Long Beach's Aquarium of the Pacific boasted being open every day of the year except Christmas Day.

Long Beach Yacht Club announced last week the cancelation of the 2020 Congressional Cup regatta, which had been planned for April 2020 and postponed to mid-October.

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Shout the good news: Mountain camps will be open for needy kids this summer.

Long Beach's public library system long has been known for a strong summer reading program.

Community Action Team's (CAT) founder, Justin Rudd, celebrated another trip around the sun on June 6. Instead of asking for birthday gifts, he's using his nonprofit platform to ask friends, family and the people of Long Beach to consider a donation benefiting Christian Outreach in Action (COA).

This week’s boat memory comes from Naples resident and trademark/patent attorney Vern Schooley and his Columbia 34 Adversary that he co-owned with maritime attorney Tom Vyse.

Long Beach's Aquarium of the Pacific will reopen to the public Sunday, June 14 — exactly three months after it was closed in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Long Beach's historic site, Rancho Los Cerritos, announced that the garden spaces will be open to the public on Wednesday, June 10, but reservations are required to access the premises.

As we wrap up stay at home orders and early curfews, I’m taking the opportunity to reminisce. Growing up, my parents kept getting a smaller house and a bigger boat until when I was in third grade, they sold our cozy Naples house and we became full time “live-aboards” on gangway 5, in front o…

The Shoreline Frontrunners of Long Beach, a LGBTQ running and walking club, would have hosted the 28th annual Long Beach Pride Run earlier this month, but due to COVID-19, the event — which normally would take place the same weekend as Long Beach Pride⁠ — had to be cancelled.

The date was set and the athletes were training for competition day, but the decision to delay the Special Olympics of Southern California (SOSC) event seemed inevitable.

If you have walked along Corso Di Napoli in Naples or been on the water in Alamitos Bay, you likely are familiar with the boat Sea Flute.

Two Harbors

This year, all running events in the city have been cancelled, including  the Grand Prix Race the Course 5K, Storm the Beach and St. Anthony High School's Saint's Run fundraiser.

Events are cancelled and venues are empty, but people still hunger for live entertainment. Blending the desire for fun with the need for safety, one Long Beach businesswoman has devised a plan for small-scale shows.

It was only natural that an engineering firm focused on the waterfront included a boat in the corporate fleet for touring company projects from the best vantage point possible — on the water.

Two decades ago, when Dave Sparks purchased his home on Rivo Alto Canal in Naples, the sellers sweetened the deal with something magical.

Small shops are working to weather the coronavirus storm that's shut down any brick and mortar space deemed non-essential. 

When Eric Gustafson, the co-owner of Flying Cloud Yacht sales, started working with a client a couple of years ago in the market for a power boat with creature comforts, he sensed his buyer was something more than a wannabe stink potter looking for a floating Barcalounger.

The 2020 OC Fair won’t take place this summer because of ongoing concerns about the coronavirus and uncertainty over when the state may lift its ban on large events.

"Sit beside the breakfast table (and) think about your troubles."