Every year the Food & Wine Festival at Disney California Adventure celebrates all the different…read moremulti-cultural cuisines that make California the melting pot that it is. Disney hosts festival exclusive seminars and cooking demonstrations from local chefs, even Food Network ones like Guy Fieri and Jet Tila. The Sip & Savor pass is offered to save some money on the different treats offered at the festival marketplaces. You can buy a Sip & Savor with 4 or 8 tickets to use during the Food & Wine Festival. The food and drinks offered change yearly but some favorites return too. This year it goes from March 6th to April 27th. Come enjoy the parks and try all the food and drinks the Food & Wine Festival has to offer.

We got to experience the good and wine festival and it was so worth it!! The food was so good!! We…read morehave been reminiscing on it. If you're thinking about getting the passes, DO IT!

This museum is in a really nice location. It's right next to the beach and you can't beat that. I…read morebought my tickets online and they had a special for 50% off. There's also free parking next to the museum which is a plus. It was my first time at this museum and it's a pretty small museum. When I went, the second floor was closed because there was an event that night. I went to see the Robert Williams exhibit which is on the main floor and there was a lot to see. There's also a lower level with an exhibit for local high school artist which is cool. Although the museum was small I was there for almost an hour. I thought the description of the pieces were very detailed and helped me understand what I was looking at.

This is a review for LBMA as a wedding venue. Wow, what a fabulous event LBMA creates for a…read morecouple's special day. They are professional, flexible and very kind. I loved working with the staff to create the perfect day for my daughter Simone and her new husband Ujwal. The venue is lovely on a warm summer night with the palm trees and the setting sun over the Pacific. Worth every penny! The memories are forever.

I won tickets to the Taste of Huntington Beach from Yelp! The event is $65 per person and benefits…read morethe HB Central Library. The event brings in a lot of vendors in and around Huntington Beach. This was my first Taste of HB event. There were breweries, wineries, food, and even grocery vendors. The food and drink is all inclusive with admission which means you get your money's worth just by walking around and trying everything out. It began at 11 am for VIP and 12 pm for the general public going until 4 pm. If you brought your lawn chair you can camp out for the entire time enjoying the live entertainment and sunshine. You park at the HB Sports complex where parking is $1 for the entire day or you could valet for $5. Highlights for me were the spicy edamame from Reef's Edge Grill (Shorebreak), Three Twins ice cream, Strongbow cider, Pan Roast from Ritter's, and the corn and watermelon samples from Solita's Tacos. Great event and can't wait to check it out next year.

Bought 2 vip tickets to this event. We came during vip hour…read moreand they were serving mainly appetizers and drinks that time. It was a little hard to find empty tables to seat since there weren't much seats avaliable. During tasting hours, we tried so much food from the booths. I appreciate how Taste of HB has many tasting booths (40+) for everyone to try! The lines weren't that much of a wait, but there was a lot of people so it was hard to get through. We went for multiple rounds for most of the booths and enjoyed every booth's food! Our experience here was enjoyable. They had bands playing and other giveaways going on. Parking wasn't a haggle. I'm planning to go here again this upcoming year! Can't wait. You guys should go check it out.

Well, it took 5 days to add this as a business, and it was posted on the phone application for Yelp…read moreunder events, but like the others, you could not check in! Better late than pregnant I always say! ============================================================ The city of Long Beach has pushed the elements, gangs, thugs & the ilk out of this area (One of many in progress) and made way via landscaping & reinventing a section of Bixby Park that not only hosted this event, but hosts other venues as well. And on a cloudy, humid, but cooler rain pending Monsoonal day, my Yelp friend Steph H had her eclectic, unique & one of a kind visionary pieces on display for a completely different journey for the eyes, visually taking you from polar bears to butterflies & more amidst others during this much overlooked Long Beach venue. Many other vendors at this event in numbers around 40-50 were offering up many crafts, handmade items, art work in water colors, oils & charcoals, some were works in progress right before your eyes-such talent and great people of many ethnicities made this event a must come & see for every citizen in the LBC! Strolling along, coffees & teas are offered up by a vendor to perk up your senses, stimulate your buying bug or, to cool you down, but what ever you needed, even a cart with churros & chips was there for the "I need to call Jenny Craig" crowd too at prices that won't break the bank! A live band, A-Capella performers, and other live entertainment, made for a few hours of a much needed get out of the house, you work from home way to much MP Saturday, and I'll for sure be back to see what's happening among an ever so crowded lightly venue at the Park known as Bixby, for The Annual Art in the Park-Long Beach. You may even purchase raffle tickets for great prizes, which proceeds go to making this venue possible & more! My fellow Yelpers, keep your eyes open, read those event tabs here on Yelp and look for this venue so as no to miss out, it is listed among many others, and is a nice addition. If nothing else you get to socially interact with many citizens of Long Beach in an environment once off limits to the decent & law abiding. I was delighted to see Steph, her extraordinary work, the talents of others, and hang out with my good Yelp Buddy Dave G. *Most of all, I enjoyed watching the children utilizing the park, swings, jungle gyms, slides and other "Be a, or be a kid just once" attractions feeling safe as parents watched not having to be hyper-vigilant, along with the presence of the LBPD too making sure that this event and others like it continue to bring back our city for what it is known for-Diversity Ad infinitum. Go on, look for the next one, even if you just go to do this, you won't be disappointed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGLNtZ0rEg

Thanks to Michael P for getting this page up, despite all odds, lol! This annual event, occurring…read moreevery July, helps raise funds for Long Beach's historic Bixby Park, an awesome neighborhood park that's definitely on its way back from neglect and abuse and is being rediscovered by its residents! I first became aware of this event through Nancy O'Neil, another local Long Beach artist whom I met at an art show I had at Sasha's Living With Style. She's a real local arts activist and is also behind the Long Beach Women's Art Show in December. Anyway, she invited me to be a part of this event and I thought it'd be awesome to be able to show some art close to home and benefit my community as well. As a participating artist I made a donation to the Friends of Bixby Park but didn't have to pay any other fee or commission from my day's sales. It was a great opportunity to connect with other local artists, musicians, vendors and residents, and I felt it was a worthwhile thing for me to do. If I could say anything about how to make this event better, it would have to be increased publicity and artist participation. A lot of people who came by didn't even know this event was going on, and just happened to be randomly at the park. They were happy and excited to see the event, but I wish more people had known about it. However, I'm hoping that with listings like this on Yelp with reviews by established Yelpers like me and Michael P, that the word will spread and the event will only get better. Thanks to all the friends and family who did show up, however--your support was VERY much appreciated!

You know, I've worked at two different art museums, and I'm still not what you'd call an "art…read morebuff," ...I'm more of what's you'd call "a lot buff!" *rimshot* Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Take my wife, please. Boy are my arms tired. I'm pretty sure Grand Central Art Center is my new fave part of downtown Santa Ana. It's part grad student studios/other exhibitions/sales galleries. And, let me tell you, this is one top notch art gallery. Coming from a non-art buff, that means a whole helluva lot, doesn't it? Well, it should - because if I, a person who thinks Damien Hirst is just complete bullshit, then it should mean something to you. I'd say 85% of the works in this gallery caught my attention - a much higher ratio that the rest of the galleries around here. They've got some cutting edge stuff, a lot of trendy stuff and a dash of traditional sorta stuff. The space is top notch too. I love the way the different galleries are setup. But wait...there's more. On this particular art walk night that I went, they had posters of their upcoming exhibitions. Don't you roll your eyes and say "so what." These posters were the best free posters I've ever seen. Printed on fine quality paper with awesome designs. Oh, and FREE. Duh. Thumbs Up: -Non boring art. -If you're lookin' to buy, there is art here you can actually afford. Well, not you, but you over there...you can afford it. -Next to just about everything cool in Downtown Santa Ana. -Free food and drink during art walk! Thumbs Down: -It may end up being my second favorite thing after I finally visit Lola Gaspar across the way.

During the OC Yelp Elite Event here in March, a fascinating piece of artwork caught my eye…read more And no, for those who were there, it was not the Hitler Head teapot. Yes, I agree. W.T.F. Anyways, the husband and I saw a really cool piece of art and inquired about it a few days after the event. The price was right but we had some difficulty actually buying it. Let's just say there was a lack of communication with the curator and it took both my husband and I multiple attempts to buy the piece...over a month later. Whatever. But I would like to add that Alyssa, the curatorial assistant, was very helpful once we were able to finally pick it up. The experience of buying the art was a headache, but I actually really like the gallery. They show very eclectic genres of art and a wide range of contemporary artists - from cult artist "Dark Vomit" (scary!) to Thomas Kinkade (even scarier!). But the stuff in between is really cool. Take an afternoon and go check it out. The Artists Village in Santa Ana is one of the cooler neighborhoods of OC and Grand Central Art Center is, by far, one of the better art centers.

I have been to Long Beach so many times but NEVER know Long Beach has a sand beach…read more.. The event starts on the beach from the Granada Ave (where the booths are located) , so start looking for parking before or after on Ocean blvd. We first tried street parking inside the residential area but found none. Then we went to pubic parking lot by the beach. It was really cheap for maybe $1 per hour (do not remember exact number). My friends found a street parking by the beach with meter but ended they paid more than the parking lot rate. There were some vendors and food trucks but nothing really memorable. The only thing I remembered was the Yellow Page's truck (YP). The girl who told us we can check gas price from YP app did not know how they got the gas price. We arrived a little after 1:30pm. As schedule stated the contest ended at 2pm so what we saw was almost the final stage of the sculpture. Be sure to check the schedule online, I think if you come early there was a sculpture basic skill workshop to attend. I was so amazed by those amateur team sculptures. My favorite were the crocodile, the dinosaur and castles. The detailed work was amazingly cool that you wouldn't believe how they possibles did it!!?? For me, professional sculptures were rather boring. The technique was definitely perfect but the creativity was lacking. I think if you came on Saturday which only professional sculptures only you would be very disappointed. It was such a nice day at the beach. I told Garfield I want to sign up for the contest next year make something like "The Great Wall" but he didn't believe I can do it lol. It was not a big event, we probably stayed for about 1.5 hrs. The restroom was very limited especially at the end of the event, My friends said they waited like 30 mins for the restroom. If you don't mind walk further, there's another restroom about 10 mins walk to the south. My only complain is the event host did not updated the winner list on their facebook. They only posted some photos and never had any update despite people asking who won. They did have a winner lists on their website but without picture it was hard to connect the team number to what their sculpture looked like. but who cares...it's not about winning...it's about fun and team work!!!

It was a small cool event, a good place to spend an hour…read more We were hanging out in Long Beach over the past weekend and decided to drop by and check out the sculptures. There was about a dozen different ones, of all sizes and skill levels. The creativity exhibited by the artists were impressive. Some of the ones were done by families and that's always cool. There were about a dozen food vendors selling stereotypical fair food. The music was decent, and the crowds were not bad on a Sunday afternoon. The festival area is really small and we spent less than an hour there. I would recommend combining this with hanging out by the beach.

This is a pretty cool event. It's also nice to see that they are making good use of the Belmont…read morePier rather than being used as a hang out for the local homeless population. As for the festival, they have several booths along the pier selling little pirate knick knacks. At the end of the pier they have a pirate band and a beer truck that sells Rogue Ale and other domestic beers. There is a full bar at the end of the pier. They also had food stands and sold food from the dilapidated building at the end. There seems to be a following for this stuff. There were lots of people dressed up in full pirate regalia with their eye patches, hots and swords. It's fun to watch. They also do a mock pirate battle with some of the local sailboats. The only downside would have to the food. At least the food we had. I had a salmon burger that didn't have much flavor and my wife had a turkey leg that didn't seem like it was cooked all the way. But they also have baked potatoes and it looked like that fish and chips were the most popular. So overall, it's something fun to do for a couple of hours to people watch and drink some ale.

What a great event! I love the pirate community they have going- that really adds a nice touch…read more Lots of shopping- if you're looking for pirate wear, this is a great time to shop for corsets, gowns, and fancy pirate hats. Lots for men too, including some unique weaponry. Very kid friendly- lots for them to see and do! There is a kiddie area with lots of jump houses Etc. Mermaids and even Peter Pan characters are adorable. I would definitely suggest bringing plenty of sunscreen and make sure ye pirate shoes are comfortable, matey! Arrive early for parking unless you want to wait in a loooong caravan and hope for a spot. We are around 10 and it was getting tight. By the time we left (around 3:30) there were no parking places and the line of hovering cars was endless. The pirate battle on the beach is so fun! Again, get a spot close to the pier gate (north side beach) so you can see well. Also don't be quick to leave the moment the battle is over- if you hang for a bit, they will start firing cannons and a few things like that. Loved all if this!!! I'm posting a pic of the event schedule (they hand them out in the am's on the pier) but I believe the battle was around 2 pm. Belly dancing is at 7 pm . Live bands go on throughout the event and food is ready around 11 am.

Midsummer Scream was, well, a scream in so many ways! 2026 was their 10th year and they went all…read moreout to celebrate (as did us)! Wifey and I splurged on Gold Bat Passes this year and if you think it doesn't make a difference - it really does! With the convention getting bigger and bigger each year, Gold Bat is the way to go so you can see everything and not get FOMO. It comes with admittance for the entire weekend, priority entrance for Friday night, entrance an hour early on Saturday and Sunday, entrance to the Saturday night after-party, and priority entrance for panels and mazes. We booked a room at the hotel next door for the weekend so we got to come/go to drop off goodies when our hands got full. Speaking of which, there are so many vendors in all corners of the convention center that sell anything/everything Halloween and horror related. You're going to want to bring a bag, but if you don't they also pass out plenty of free tote bags (we got 6 just walking around!). Celebrities are aplenty taking photos and autographing stuff for fans. They can get a bit pricey, but if you're a fan it's hard not to convince yourself to splurge. It's the 30th year anniversary of Scream, so they had plenty of actors (and Marco Beltrami) appear. We took a picture with Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard (both of which couldn't have been nicer). Lots of Ghostface fans in costumes and masks! There are food vendors inside as well, but they're so pricey that you might as well go outside and walk to a nearby restaurant (unless you're super hangry and need an emergency fix). For drinks we had to go with our reliable Horror Vibes Coffee and then topped it off with sweet treats from Deadly Sweet (they consistently had one of the longest lines each day but their cookies are to die for!). The Hall of Shadows is their dark hall filled with haunted attractions/mazes by home haunters and professionals alike. Some experiences are shorter than others, but it hits the spot until proper spooky season in October (though every season is spooky season if you got the horror within you). There's a lot of fog machines so watch your step! This is really one of the better Gold Bat perks - instead of waiting in the General Admission line, you get your own shorter line and basically walk right to the front. We walked right on in for the majority of the mazes! There's an after-party on Saturday night that we were interested in, so we checked it out since we didn't have to pay extra for it. It was in the main ballroom with photo ops on the sides and tables/chairs surrounding the huge dance floor. The energy was kind of buns though - it took a long while for the dancing to fully swing into motion. Lots of lurkers staring from the sides and standing on the dance floor so heavy middle school vibes. Naturally a lot of fans had been there all day so the stank was overwhelming! The after-party also comes with a separate karaoke room and a screening room for a horror movie. If you're a horror/Halloween lover and haven't been to Midsummer Scream - for shame! It's so much fun with so many photo ops around, so much memorabilia/merch, so many free/discounted tickets for other events like Haunted Hayride, and so many fans united in spookiness. If you're thinking about going, follow them on social media and scoop up the Gold Bats as soon as they're available because they'll sell out quick. We can't wait to come back and make this a yearly tradition! We're already 2 years down and we found out that this is the last year Midsummer Scream will be in Long Beach. They have officially grown so much that in 2027 they're moving to Anaheim! We were there for the end of an era, and we'll be there for the beginning of the next!

I have always wanted to go to this convention/expo since I am a spooky girl. As a birthday gift, my…read morefiancé gifted me a pass for both of us this past Saturday. Unfortunately, when we arrived, the line was so long that it took us at least an hour and a half to enter the actual event. It was well worth the wait, and surprisingly, it went by fast, although we got sunburnt. I highly recommend investing in the VIP pass to avoid the long lines because this keeps getting busier each year. The convention itself is pretty cool, especially if you are a fan of everything spooky. You can find unique merch from small businesses such as Backstitch Bruja, Spooksieboo, DIY Light Guy, Bob Gurr, and Black Mast. Plus, there are many event attendees dressed as your favorite monster or whatever your little dark heart desires. Saw many cool costumes, and I was able to capture some in my photos. Convention parking is throughout the convention area in adjacent lots, and I paid $30 to park and walked over to the convention. I suggest trying to get an Uber if you do not want to deal with the traffic getting into a lot. You will be paying around the same amount or possibly more during peak times. There are also food trucks throughout the expo and snacks to enjoy while shopping, browsing, and having fun. In the Hall of Shadows, there are many mazes and photo ops to enjoy. Not too spooky, but you can get a feel of how Universal Horror Nights or Knott's Scary Farm is. So much fun! There are lots of panels, celebrity signings, Casa de Calaveras, and a Black Cat Lounge, but some lines were long, so I didn't get to experience them except for the Casa de Calaveras, which was pretty cool. Can't wait for next year's event, and I will for sure be purchasing the VIP pass to be able to experience more and get more out of my pass. Such a fun and spooky day!