{"id":424437,"date":"2026-08-05T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424437\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:52:10","slug":"a-review-of-the-long-beach-fm-bank-amphitheater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424437\/","title":{"rendered":"A review of the Long Beach F&#038;M Bank Amphitheater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                 <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Kailyn Brown\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/kailyn-brown\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Kailyn Brown. (Ricardo DeAratanha \/ Los Angeles Times)\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785930729_236_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>  <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Quincy Bowie Jr.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/quincy-bowie-jr\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Quincy Bowie Jr. staff headshot at LA Times Photo Studio in El Segundo, CA on Wednesday, July 23, 2025\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775742190_307_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>      Aug. 5, 2026 3 AM PT                           <\/p>\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<p>Staff Writer Kailyn Brown recently took in Ice Cube and Mike Epps\u2019 \u201cEveryday\u2019s Friday\u201d show at the new F&amp;M Bank Amphitheater to find out what\u2019s behind the mixed reviews of the site. Here\u2019s some of what she had to say.<\/p>\n<p>               <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Kailyn Brown\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/kailyn-brown\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785930729_236_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Kailyn Brown is a lifestyle reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she worked as a staff writer for Los Angeles Magazine and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. <\/p>\n<p>         <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Quincy Bowie Jr.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/quincy-bowie-jr\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775742190_307_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Quincy Bowie Jr. is a video fellow at the Los Angeles Times. The proud Alabama native graduated from USC, where he studied journalism and documentary. In his time there, he contributed to the Daily Trojan, USC Annenberg Media and produced multiple documentaries and short films. You can find his previous work at CNN, Spectrum News and Memor\u00edas de Nomada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 5, 2026 3 AM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Staff Writer Kailyn Brown recently took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5177,28729,169295,2424,24601,21006,169294,131,133,132,63,163102,169296,15060,9627,1860,137384,143728],"class_list":["post-424437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-cnn","tag-documentary","tag-everyday","tag-friday","tag-ice-cube","tag-journalism","tag-kailyn-brown","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mike-epps","tag-previous-work","tag-review","tag-short-film","tag-show","tag-spectrum-news","tag-usc-annenberg-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}