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Best Funk and Soul Night

There are clubs that promise to spin funk and soul records and then there's the Good Foot, the monthly Long Beach dance night that has set the standard for nearly two decades. Founded by resident DJs (and serious crate diggers) Dennis Owens and Rodi Delgadillo in 1998, the all-vinyl affair,......
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Best Open-Streets Cycling Event

Beach Streets0x2029In 2010, Los Angeles launched CicLAvia — the city's now-quarterly open-streets event, which makes miles of car-clogged roads accessible to cyclists and other human-powered transportation for a single day. It took five years but, in 2015, Long Beach obtained a grant to launch its own. Dubbed Beach Streets, the......
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Best Pan-Latin Club Night

Every other Friday, Sudamericana fills the intimate (and underground) Continental Club downtown with a sweaty Latin dance party unlike any other in L.A. Beautiful people dressed in the requisite "stylish attire" — some from South America but many not — crowd the space between black leather booths to shake hips......
Sotomayor from Mexico City is playing Viva! Pomona Saturday August 5.; Credit: Courtesy Sotomayor

7 Artists You Won't Want to Miss at Viva! Pomona 2017

Over the last five years of curating Viva! Pomona, one of the region’s most underrated music festivals, Rene Contreras has proven to be the best kind of music promoter. A baby-faced Chicano with a penchant for the weird, wild and undiscovered, he spends every waking minute surrounded by a diverse......