The reasons I love La Parolaccia are many, from its fantastic wait staff to the pizza dough employees twist and throw to perfection in front of its wood-burning pizza oven. But my favorite thing about La Parolaccia is the look on a near-and-dear’s face when I surprise him with a hot, fresh take-out pie (Fra’ [...]

Bixby Knolls’ FreeSpirit Yoga hosts a silent auction, opportunity drawing and music tonight during its “Help Haiti Recover” fundraiser. No official word at press time as to what businesses would be donating to the benefit, but given Bixby Knolls’ home-run streak of interesting new openings as of late, you stand to gain almost as much [...]

The Committee of 300’s annual fundraiser at L’Opera this year—to benefit Steel Magnolias, for the Geraldine A. Stramski Children’s Developmental Center at Miller Children’s Hospital—aims to help some who sorely need it: children with life-long health issues like autism, behavior disorders, mental and learning disabilities, and cleft palates. As if that weren’t enough, Steel Magnolias—founded [...]

Okay, so it might not be too hot to cook today, and it certainly won’t be tomorrow (ugh), but if’n you’re still not up for making dinner—or just feel like getting out, meeting some new people and enjoying a margarita in the process, We Love Long Beach is hosting a fundraising dinner at Acapulco Restaurant [...]

This morning we told you of the plight of the Aviles family: how three of their daughters died following a house fire Friday in their illegally-converted garage–and how, after a car wash Sunday to raise money for their funerals, the aunt of the late Aviles sisters was wounded in a 7 p.m. shooting near their [...]

Aviles sisters’ aunt is shot and wounded near their burned-out garage
If you drove through the intersection of Tenth Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue yesterday, you might have seen a car wash in progress. It was a fundraiser for the funeral of Stephanie Aviles, 6, Jocelin Aviles, 7, and Jasmine Aviles, 10–all of whom [...]