We are so pleased to have been voted best brunch and breakfast by Long Beach Home and Living.com. They had close to 500 nominees, 88 different categories and 86,207 votes! Here are all your Best of Long Beach 2017 Winners!
Currently, the art hanging at the Black Bird Cafe is a small representation of the 2017 LB Open Studio Tour. The LBOST is an annual event, sponsored by the Arts Council for Long Beach and is part of Long Beach’s celebration of “October is Arts Month.” This is a free event to the public and an opportunity to meet local artists in their working environments. This year, the tour will be on Saturday and Sunday, October 14th & 15th, from noon to 5 p.m. Please visit the website, www.LBopenstudiotour.com for a full artist list, samples of artists’ work, live music schedule, and tour map. Artists participating in the Blackbird LBOST show are: Lisa Wibroe, Studio #1 Tina Burnight, Studio #1 David Early, Studio #3 Tani Taylor, Studio #5 Nora Chen, Studio #7 Jaime Sabatte, Studio #10 Jamie Sandberg, Studio #12 Susan Erikson Hawkins, Studio #13…
Happy New Year! Here are our current specials!
We love to support local artists and you’ll notice that our artwork changes. Currently we are featuring the work of Verónica Blohm: I find each blank canvas to be an invitation to palpable infiniteness. How can I refuse? In painting I find a quiet, joyful place for my thoughts to become shapes and light. My intent is to transform feelings into lines and passion into color, and best offer beauty, fullness and pause for the viewer. I portray in pictures the subtle intensity which I believe is life: a fix of sensations, a breath of feelings: for my enjoyment and for those willing to come along. Oil has proven to be the best media with which to represent what I appreciate: it is as rude and as soft as one wants it to be, which is really what I think all experience on this earth is…
With Springtime already upon us, here at Blackbird we’d like to take a moment to encourage all of our friends to focus their attention on wellness and community. There are plenty of important local groups that concentrate on getting/staying active, whether you’re walking, running, our even going on a scavenger hunt. Bixby Knolls Strollers bring Long Beach locals together to “explore every nook and cranny of the greater Bixby Knolls area.” Bixby Knolls Runners are a newer run club, typically running no more than 5 miles at a time. The Cal Heights Pavement Pounders, who take 3 mile walks around the parameter of Cal Heights, will have their first walk on April 6th at 6:30 AM meeting at Roxanne’s on Wardlow. Bixby Knolls Scavenger Hunt: Recreation Fitness is “bringing a family-friendly scavenger hunt to the Bixby Knolls community on April 3rd”. A race that will test…