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The Bixby Knolls neighborhood in Long Beach is a community where the charm of the past is alive with the vision for the future. Neighborhoods of tree-lined streets where children play and evening strolls
are commonplace.
Bixby Knolls 80′s Night Part Deux at the Petroleum Club Friday Night
The Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association hosts its summer community party this Friday, August 27, at the Long Beach Petroleum Club. All are welcome (all ages, too). 80’s attire is encouraged but not mandatory for a good time. This was such a popular event in March that “Part Deux” was a must for the summer [...]
Art-Lantic Ave. Comes Alive For First Fridays In Bixby Knolls Tonight
Tonight’s First Fridays runs the gamut of sights and sounds along Art-Lantic Avenue from Led Zeppelin to the Jazz Angels, from art pieces to pirates, and from Dixieland to Peter Pan. Bixby Knolls welcomes our beloved former mayor Beverly O’Neill & Harry Saltzgaver to the Historical Society of Long Beach who will be signing copies [...]
The Legends of Lions return at fifth annual Bixby Knolls Dragster Expo and Car Show
The cackle of the 3000-horsepower racing machines reverberates through the ears, the flames leap out of the engines in the dusk of the summer evening, the smell of nitro fuel permeates the air, and the mind recalls the legends of the famed Lions Drag Strip, as a dozen vintage Top Fuel dragsters simultaneously fire up [...]
Collect, Compact, Recycle: Solar trash cans debut in Long Beach
After being approved by the City Council last December, Long Beach’s first solar trash cans debuted at an installation ceremony on Wednesday. Three solar trash cans—installed in Downtown Long Beach, Belmont Shore and Bixby Knolls—are part of a pilot project that will last six months. “I am pleased our City, the Downtown Long Beach Associates [...]
Bixby Knolls readies for July First Fridays
First Fridays kicks off the Independence Day holiday weekend with a blast of art, music, and community. Begin your holiday festivities with all the sights and sounds that First Fridays has to offer including an amazing display of fire-works..or actually, some fire dancing from Sirena Serpentina. Car art, Potential Lunatics, food, beverages, Mike the Poet, experimental sound work, vintage vinyl, BK farm [...]
Bixby Knolls targets graffiti
The Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association has recently partnered with the Department of Public Works to eliminate graffiti in the district. The BKBIA encourages all business owners and residents to call the city’s graffiti hotline to report any tags as soon as possible but wanted to take this to the next level. Blair Cohn, executive director for [...]
Treasure Island: Classic high-seas tale takes the stage for one weekend only
This weekend, May 7-9, Long Beach Shakespeare Company presents classic tale of Treasure Island at the Expo Building. LBSC’s version of Treasure Island has the villainous Long John Silver enlisting the aid of female pirates to help him get to “Treasure Island” and the infamous chest of gold buried there. With the help of young Jim [...]
Port of Long Beach sets up in Expo Building for First Fridays
Musicians, photographers, impressionistic artists… and now the Port of Long Beach. The Port will participate in the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association’s “First Fridays Long Beach” event on May 7. The Port will share space with various art groups at the Expo Building on 4321 Atlantic Avenue. The program starts at 6 p.m. and Harbor [...]
Bixby Road Bike Lane completes Long Beach bike loop
Last week the City of Long Beach installed a new bike lane on Bixby Road. The Bixby Road Bike Lane includes striping, signage, and bike lane pavement markings along Bixby Road from Country Club Drive to Cherry Avenue. This new bike lane connects Los Cerritos Park, Longfellow Elementary School, and Hughes Middle School, and passes [...]
It’s 80s Night in Bixby Knolls — dance, sing, do your thing
Get ready to dance and sing, get up and do your thing. The Bixby Knolls BIA hosts 80s Night at the Petroleum Club, an all ages event to bring the community together for a fun night of music, dancing, food, big hair, shoulder pads, neon, leg warmers, parachute pants and Members Only jackets in a [...]
