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Photos from the MBYP’s 2nd Annual Beer & Music Festival

American Craft Beer, food, fundraiser, Manhattan Beach, Manhattan Beach Young Professionals, MBYP, music, Photos, pictures, PS I Love You Foundation / 2 minutes of reading / July 15, 2012

These photos are from SummerFest 2012, Manhattan Beach Young Professionals (MBYP) 2nd Annual Beer & Music Festival which was held yesterday, July 14, 2012. The event, which was held at Raleigh Studios and was sponsored by Chevron, was a fundraiser for the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce and the PS I Love You Foundation. The event was a blast, seriously; we had so much fun. As you look through the photos you can see that everyone seemed to be having as good a time as we did. The great beer, food and music were surpassed only by the beautiful people, …

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A visit to Dr. Mariko Ishimori

Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Mariko Ishimori, Photos, pictures, RAD, RAD Lovegiver, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease, Rheumatoid Patient Foundation, Tanya / 2 minutes of reading / July 14, 2012

Thursday morning, Tanya and I headed out to Beverly Hills and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to visit a new rheumatologist, Dr. Mariko Ishimori, MD. After Tanya’s last experience with Dr. Forouzesh she decided that she could not handle the stress of having a doctor that changed attitudes and commentary with each visit. The fact that he had been giving her Cimzia as samples that were already allocated to other patients was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I was not really sure what to expect as we entered the Steven Spielberg Building and our introduction to Dr. Ishimori. As it …

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Business N Beer at Select Beer Store

Business N Beer, Local brewers, Local business, networking event, Photos, pictures, Redondo Beach, Select Beer Store / 2 minutes of reading / July 13, 2012

The Business N Beer networking group had our first get-together last night at Select Beer Store in Redondo Beach, and I have to say, I was very happy with the turnout. Even though there were last minute cancellations by some, we still had 10 people show up. Even though I was the only one that knew everyone, the people that did show up immediately began introducing themselves and it looked like a group of old friends talking over a nice beer. We had a real estate agent, insurance agent, merchant processing, telecommunications and the IT sector represented and I heard …

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Networking at Noon: Lisa’s Bon Appetit

Business N Beer, food, Lis'a Bon Appetit, Photos, pictures, restaurants, TACC, Torrance, Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce / 1 minute of reading / July 10, 2012

Today was the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce’s (TACC) July Networking at Noon; this time held at Lisa’s Bon Appetit located at 3511 Pacific Coast Hwy in Torrance, CA. Lisa’s Bon Appetit is a catering service that also has a cafe for dining in, as well as a banquet room (which we used) and a bakery. They have been in Torrance for 33 years, so obviously they are doing something right. I can tell you that their french dip was nice and I really liked the bread on Tanya’s sandwich. Everything is made there from scratch, so as you can …

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Beachwood BBQ & Brewing One Year Anniversary Party

American Craft Beer, Beachwood BBQ, brewpub, gastropub, Local brewers, Long Beach, microbrewery, Photos, pictures, Southern California / 2 minutes of reading / July 8, 2012

These photos were taken Saturday at the Beachwood BBQ & Brewing One Year Anniversary Celebration, which was held at their Long Beach location on E. 3rd Street in Long Beach, CA. You might recall that I made my first visit to Beachwood Brewing a couple weeks ago. During that visit we were impressed enough with their home brews that we brought a growler of Mandarin Dream home with us, with the intent of returning for the one year celebration. It was a good idea. I remember being impressed that Beachwood was only one year old, yet had nine different brews …

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Tasting Allagash Brewing at The Rockefeller

Allagash Brewing, American Craft Beer, food, gastropub, Hermosa Beach, Photos, pictures, Southern California, The Rockefeller / 2 minutes of reading / July 3, 2012

Last night The Rockefeller in Hermosa Beach had a beer tasting featuring Allagash Brewing, from Portland, ME. Allagash specializes in Belgian style brews and I had tried their Allagash White on draught and really enjoyed it, so I did not hesitate in accepting the invitation to try five more of their brews. The downside was that the beers were brought in bottles, which [in my personal opinion] is never as good as on tap. Storing the bottles on ice just made the beer colder than I would have preferred, but the glasses were small and my hands are warm so …

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Neal Bracewell Insurance, ribbon cutting

Neal Bracewell, Photos, pictures, ribbon cutting ceremony, Southern California, State Farm Insurance, TACC, Torrance, Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce / 1 minute of reading / July 2, 2012

The Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce (TACC) welcomed a new business to Torrance with a ribbon cutting today, Neal Bracewell, State Farm Insurance. This is the first ribbon cutting I attended that was not held at the end of the business day and it is Monday, a couple days before the 4th of July. I fully expected the event to be a little less well-attended than usual, but it was actually quite the opposite; the place was packed. It was pretty clear that Neal has a lot of family and friends supporting his new venture and that combined with the …

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South Coast Botanic Garden, Palos Verdes Estates

Family fun, Palos Verdes Estates, Photos, pictures, South Coast Botanic Garden, Southern California / 1 minute of reading / June 30, 2012

These photos were taken at the South Coast Botanic Garden on June 29, 2012. I mentioned a couple weeks ago that we had purchased a membership to the South Coast Botanic Garden primarily because it gave us access to 250 other arboretums; we then visited Descanso Gardens in La Canada using the card. Yesterday we decided to see what was in our own back yard. The place is huge, about 87 acres. We had no idea how big it was until we looked at a map on the way out. We barely scratched the surface. We will definitely be back. …

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Beachwood BBQ & Brewing Long Beach

American Craft Beer, Beachwood BBQ, food, Local brewers, Local business, Long Beach, Photos, pictures, Southern California / 3 minutes of reading / June 28, 2012

Yesterday Tanya and I stopped by Beachwood BBQ & Brewing in Long Beach. We were in Long Beach for the Chocolate Blues & Networking Festival and I knew there were a couple brewpubs in the area, so I figured after a long day of work a nice flight would be a good way to end the day. I recently met one of the bartenders at a local event and Dave over at Select Beer always speaks highly of Beachwood, so I decided to head over. I will be honest, as we worked our way over there I told Tanya there …

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Chocolate Blues & Business Networking, Long Beach, CA

Chocolate Blues, Long Beach, networking event, Photos, pictures, Seaport Marina Hotel, Shelly Rice, Southern California / 2 minutes of reading / June 28, 2012

These photos were taken at the Long Beach/Seal Beach Chocolate Blues and Business Networking Festival; which was held at the Seaport Marina Hotel on June 27. As the name suggests, there was a lot of chocolate there. There was no “Blues” and there was some business networking. I have to be honest; I am not really sure what the target demographic was. While we had been invited to run the “Blogger’s Circle” which was to answer questions people had on how to improve their business and generate income and traffic through blogging the only person that came up had one …

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