The Nightclubs, Bars, Restaurants (NCBRs) of primary interest to GoDanceLB.com are those that specifically provide dancing opportunities; they have dance floors or dance areas, and people do dance and go there for the purpose of dancing or being in a place with dancing.
In our GoDanceLB.com Listings there are more than 40 listings in NCBR Dance and more than a dozen each in NCBR Dance-cordial and NCBR Concert. Putting the 40+ NCBR Dance places on our GoDanceLB.com Calendar is too many and destroys workability and readability of the Calendar.
Since some NCBRs are very well promoted and are listed almost anywhere you might look, the best solution is for GoDanceLB.com to focus on the less visible and the most unique and interesting, and to complement the best other listings that already exist. Some of the other calendars provide day-by-day listings of specific DJ's, Bands and promoter-nights.
The best way to find information on NCBR Dancing is to see what we have on our Calendar, to check our Listings section for NCBR Dance, click through to the NCBR website(s), check your favorite other websites for events, calendars, what to do, nightlife, etc.
Some of the newspaper calendars list the particular acts for the day at the club; for example, see District Weekly Calendar.
The NCBRs which are listed in GoDanceLB.com Calendar in some way include a few which are quite unique in the LB area:
Others listed in our Calendar are types of dancing found outside of NCBRs (Salsa, Swing, ...), or not much available (Reggae), or are dance places with bands that play for dancers (Starting Gate, and Cellar at times), or are performance-dancing (Flamenco) of some interest to social recreational dancers:
The benefits of this approach include:
Good dancing, but tiny floor / a primary focus is Flamenco shows
Entertainment Line Up
115 Pine Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802
144 Pine Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802
Serious dance place; 7 days
weekly schedule
110 E Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90802
200 Pine Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802
search is not turning up a myspace or website
200 N Pine, Long Beach CA
Sadly the Blue Cafe might be out of commision: Blue Cafe not open
[Warning: If you subscribe to the newsletter the service they use provides no way to ever unsubscribe; and they now do not send anything relevant to Long Beach, but only to the Huntington Beach location]
210 Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802
Cellar MySpace / Cellar Facebook / Cellar Live Music Meetup / LA Urban Singles
Schedule appears to not have regular days for events
201 E Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90802
199 Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802
This was the space of The Cave; what a difference now with new ownership.
49 S Pine, Long Beach CA
V2O - website under reconstruction; the place is still going strong
81 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802
97 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802
Rainbow Harbor Dock 6, 100 E Shoreline Dr, Long Beach CA 90802
40 S Locust Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802
Basement Lounge MySpace / Club 149 MySpace
Possible that this club is now shut down: Club 149 > Basement not open
149 Linden, Long Beach, CA 90802
740 E Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90802
Cambodian Disco / apparently no website
101 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA, 90802
Queen Mary / Grand Salon / Observation Bar
1126 Queen's Highway, Long Beach CA 90802
Observation Lounge on Queen Mary
Sunday afternoons, Lisa and Chris of Sound FX play
1126 Queen's Highway, Long Beach, CA 90802
Que Sera / Que Sera MySpace / Calendar
Usually bands for watching; sometimes DJs; and sometimes both band & DJ
1923 E 7th St, Long Beach CA
5100 E 2nd St, Long Beach CA
5300 E 2nd St, Long Beach CA 90803
190 Marina Drive, Long Beach, CA 90803
Alamitos Bay Landing,
Note: Google Maps doesn't 'know' Alamitos Bay Landing;
additionally it gets the point wrong for this group of four there;
but it does get it reasonably close
160 N Marina Dr, Long Beach CA 90803
Alamitos Bay Landing,
Note: Google Maps doesn't 'know' Alamitos Bay Landing;
additionally it gets the point wrong for this group of four there;
but it does get it reasonably close
The keyboardist who played for years at El Dorado Restaurant is now at Khoury's on Thursdays; the Maloof West Coast Swing group that formerly met at Khoury's is no longer there (the parking cost was damaging their attendance, and now the parking is a bit lower cost again); Khoury's is no longer having bands for dancing or atmosphere as they once did; the Bellydance show on Sundays by Mirage Belly Dance Duo [Entertainment tab] is gone, and Tonya and Atlantis present a showcase on Wednesdays.
110 Marina Drive, Long Beach, CA 90803Golden Sails Hotel / This hotel houses the PCH Club which has no website or myspace of its own; and the hotel website does not provide a page or other information for the PCH Club
See the GoDanceLB.com page for PCH Club for listing & links of dance events at PCH Club
6285 E Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach, CA 90803
PCH Club does not have a page on Golden Sails site (or GoDanceLB.com page for Golden Sails); nor does it seem to have a site or myspace of its own
Dance events at PCH Club include (these are links to the GoDanceLB.com listing page):
6285 E Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach, CA 90803
6251 E Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach CA 90803
Executive Suite / Executive Suite MySpace
3428 Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach CA
Phil Trani's / Flashback band
3490 Long Beach Blvd, Long Beach CA 90807
Tracy's Bar & Grill / Entertainment
5511 E Spring St, Long Beach, CA 90808
3014 N Studebaker Rd, Long Beach CA 90808
5456 E Del Amo Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90808
Cowboy Country / Cowboy Country MySpace / History & Facilities / Calendar / Lessons
3321 E South St, Long Beach CA 90805
Copacabana / Copacabana MySpace
2688 E South St, Long Beach CA
Starting Gate Biker Night / Starting Gate Karaoke
Starting Gate draws a consistently floor-filling dance crowd, plus more folks, on Fridays & Saturdays. They've been booking good dance bands for years, including some of the bands (Midwest Coast, ...) that were on monthly rotation at the Atrium before it closed a few years ago (so sad)
5052 Katella Ave, Los Alamitos CA
5201 Clark Ave, Lakewood CA 90712
Josie Neglia teaches here
Ports O' Call Restaurant
Ports O' Call, Berth 76, San Pedro CA 90731
Latin Dance Forever holds classses here
El Pollo Inka of Gardena
1425 W Artesia Blvd, Gardena, CA
