The Burrito Project is here again...

Burrito Project (sometimes known as the burrito brigade) is a group of people who have a heart for meeting the basic needs of the homeless in our city. Each Thursday, we meet at 6:30pm to cook and wrap approximately 40-50 burritos. After we have packed away a water bottle for each burrito, we ride together on our bikes towards downtown and we hand them out to the homeless.
"It is the many conversations, and the building of relationships with the homeless and with each other that has made this weekly ride special."

If you are interested in being a part of the Burrito Project, we meet each Thursday night at:

269 Obispo Ave (in the backhouse)
Long Beach, CA 90803
We meet at 6:30pm and make the burritos.

If you can only make it for the ride, we leave around 8:00pm on our bikes.

If you are interested show up or you can email us: welovelb@gmail.com

The Book Club is Growing

The Belmont Shore book club was Into the Wild this week, doubling our numbers from last month. Thank you for coming... Sean Penn would be pleased!!! He said that he was going to come but was held up in traffic. I think I would rather hang out with his brother Chris though. Does anyone else agree? I think that Cyrus already talked with him :) Come out and Plaaaayyyyy... We are looking at two sites in order to keep our talks more intimate...
Hope to see you next month!

The Breakfast was great!

We Love Long Beach was at it again... The second Belmont Shore Breakfast brought together even more neighbors excited to know one another. This stuff in the end is so easy to do. I can only imagine there will soon be twenty breakfasts going on in Long Beach...maybe even one and a half going on in Lakewood. :) A guy can dream right! Thank you everyone that helped out and who attended.

Book Of the Month for May...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer has written a novel for our times, a story so deeply affecting and wise that it has to potential to have an impact far beyond that of most novels. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a collage about the world we live in: its terrorism, its beauty, its love, its mysteries, its absurdities, its people. Oskar is a precocious nine-year old who writes letters to famously intelligent people asking to be their protégé, invents a "googolplex" of devices (such as an ambulance that tells people when a loved one is inside and a lollipop that tells people how they are feeling), who knows a tremendous amount of facts (many of which he wishes he didn't know) - and who has lost his beloved father in the World Trade Center bombings. Oskar harbors a secret about that day that he cannot bring to share with anyone, not even his mother or grandmother. When he discovers a strange key among his father's possessions, he sets out in the five boroughs of New York to see what it unlocks. His narrative is punctuated by that of his grandfather, a man left speechless by what he experienced during the bombing of Dresden, and his grandmother, also a survivor of the Dresden firebombing, who loves Oskar in ways his mother cannot and who tries to make sense of why her husband left her before the birth of their son. The relationships are complex and heartfelt, and are marked by an affection that will make readers laugh from the pleasure of them. Just when you think Foer can't get any deeper with his insights, he does.


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The date for our next meeting is Monday, May 26th from 7-9pm.
Meeting place: Aroma Di Roma, 5327 E. 2nd Street, Long Beach, CA 90803; And a our second new location at Vint's American Grill 4722 E. 2nd StreetLong Beach, CA 90803 across from Super Mex...

Book Club this Monday!!!! Excitement...

Welovel0ngbeach Book of the Month: Into the Wild by Jack Krakauer


What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.


The date for our next meeting is Monday, April 28th from 7-9pm.
Meeting place: Aroma Di Roma, 5327 E. 2nd Street, Long Beach, CA 90803

Belmont Shore Breakfast #2 "Be There!!!"

The Belmont Shore Breakfast is our way of caring for and loving our neighbors. Our desire is to have a cheap breakfast once a month(the last Saturday of every month) where you can enjoy great food and a have place where we are able to get to know our neighbors better.


If this is something that your interested in then we invite you to come check it out...

The date is this Saturday, April 26th from 8-10am
The breakfast will be served in the front yard @ 230 St. Joseph Ave in Belmont Shore. (Right next to Livingston Park)

****We will be serving pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and orange juice.
(A donation is recommended to help with the cost of the food.)
Please invite your friends and neighbors as we learn to love one another better.

Questions email Scott @ welovelb@gmail.com

We Love Long Beach Presents: Murufest!!!

Burrito Project

Burrito Project (sometimes known as the burrito brigade) is a group of people who have a heart for meeting the basic needs of the homeless in our city. Each Thursday, we meet at 6:30pm to cook and wrap approximately 40-50 burritos. After we have packed away a water bottle for each burrito, we ride together on our bikes towards downtown and we hand them out to the homeless.
It is the many conversations, and the building of relationships with the homeless and with each other that has made this weekly ride special.

If you are interested in being a part of the Burrito Project, we meet each Thursday night at:
269 Obispo Ave (in the backhouse)
Long Beach, CA 90803
6:30pm
If you can only make it for the ride, we leave around 8:00pm on our bikes.

OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT

OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT

We Love Long Beach is hosting the 1st Monthly Outdoor Movie Night this Friday night. We will be showing "Lars and the Real Girl" at Jessica Dobson's house in the courtyard area.

April 18th, 2008
269 Obispo Ave (the backhouse)
Long Beach, CA 90803

-event begins at 7:00pm, movie starts at 8:00pm sharp
-bring blankets and pillows, no tall chairs allowed
-bring picnic dinner and drinks
-homemade popcorn will be provided

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL(PG-13)
Ryan Gosling is a strange but likeable young man who manages to keep down a job but keeps mostly to himself. He only leaves the garage where he lives when his older brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and loving sister-in-law Karin (Emily Mortimer) drag him to their house next door for dinner. Lars doesn't take well to questioning, so the disturbing level of his isolation is never openly discussed. It's only when he announces he has a girlfriend in the form of an anatomically correct doll he purchased via the Internet that everyone must admit his precarious mental state. No one quite knows how to help Lars, so they play along, careful not to do anything that might push him or Bianca (his plastic fianc�e) over the edge. The results are touching efforts on the part of all those who love him to help Lars through what his psychologist (Patricia Clarkson) assures them may be only a stage. Kelli Garner shines as Margo, the real, live girl who Lars seems incapable of seeing. Despite being ignored, Margo hangs in there, hopeful Lars will come around to sanity and to her. Craig Gillespie's LARS AND THE REAL GIRL is a sweet love story and a film which deals with mental illness in surprisingly subtle ways. With a formula that could easily have manipulated for cheap laughs, the film achieves quirky humor in parts but mostly touching observations about the nature of delusions themselves. The film's talented cast gathers around Lars, a sensitive character who the film respects and who Gosling (THE NOTEBOOK, HALF NELSON) brings fully to life.

Long Beach Neighborhood BBQ

Long Beach Neighborhood BBQ

Where: Livingston Park in Belmont Shore (Intersection Livingston Dr. and St. Joseph Ave.)

When: Saturday, May 17th from 1-4pm

Description: Free food like Hamburgers and Hotdogs, face painting & coloring contest for kids, live art, and volleyball matches.

Live Local bands: Deep Sea Diver, The Original Colonies, The Fling, and the Tijuana Panthers

Come join us in celebrating our great city!

Questions or to help out contact us: welovelb@gmail.com

The book club last night...

For those you were not able to make it last night to the Belmont Shore book club, you missed a great discussion. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was so fascinating. The thing that struck me the most was the author's ability to begin to look at life in a new way. What I mean by that is the small things in life (ie eating, smelling, moving body parts, playing, talking) are too easily taken for granted. I came out of reading the book with a new sense of thankfulness for the small yet important things that life has to offer. I am truly a fortunate human!!! Thanks to everyone that was there. You know who you are. *** Scott