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…

We loved chatting and eating with the Mayor!

New Year’s Resolutions are promises we make to ourselves, why do so many of us resolve to do something we don’t really want to do? We pick life changes we’ve been avoiding – like losing weight – discounting the enjoyment of a loaded pizza or decadent dessert shared with friends. This year, make resolutions you’ll enjoy keeping, and revisit them often. Resolutions are all about improving – even the resolutions themselves. 1. Resolve To Give. A study from Harvard Business School documented that helping others financially brought donors greater happiness than if they’d spent the money on themselves. If you can’t give financial gifts, give time. If you don’t know who to help, try VolunteerMatch.org or GreatNonprofits.org, and type in Long Beach, CA. You’ll find everything from Algalita Marine Research and Education to Special Olympics Southern California or the Red Cross. 2. Resolve To…

We are Open New Year’s Day! But we are sleeping in til 9:00am. Open 9:00 am to 3:00pm