Bixby Knolls Events
Community Happy Hour
Enjoy this monthly opportunity for BKBIA members and the local community to meet, greet, mix, mingle, and network.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
State of the District
7:00pm-9:00pm
at
Expo Arts Center
4321
Atlantic Ave.
Bixby Knolls Supper Club
The Bixby Knolls Supper Club meets the first Monday of the month. Monday nights are typically a slow night for restaurants so it’s a great way to get people together and put the bodies in the seats and help support our local restaurants.
Bixby Knolls Supper Club is the simple concept of supporting our local restaurants on a Monday night which is typically a slow night. We come together to meet and eat and support the local economy.
The next Supper Club will be at:
Phil Trani's
3490 Long Beach Blvd.
Monday, February 6, 2012
6:30pm
Reservations a must since we've been selling out so quickly!
Please RSVP to:
info@bixbyknollsinfo.com
Bixby Knolls Strollers
Everyone is welcome! Business owners, residents, friends and family are encouraged to join the Bixby Knolls Strollers a neighborhood walking club that meets every Saturday morning at 7:30am at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (4105 Atlantic Ave). It's a great way to get fit, check out the businesses, explore the neighborhoods, and meet your neighbors. (Friendly) dogs are welcome, too. LaunderPet will provide bags to dog owners. The walks last for about an hour. Route changes each week.
Get past routes here (scroll for more routes)
New routes coming soon starting from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (4105 Atlantic Ave.)
Keep fit during the week with downloadable routes beginning at It’s A Grind
(4345 Atlantic Ave.)
Scouts Honor
El Camino Real
First Day of Spring
Houses of the Holy Route
Lizards, Snakes & Bugs
Los Cerritos, CA
New Things
Downtown Train
An Extra Helping of Knolls, Please
Igor's Alley
Long Lines
In Search of Jotham Bixby
The Emperors New Clothes
Green Space
Northern Exposure
Little Italy
Four Corners From the Park (this route starts & finishes at Los Cerritos Park, San Antonio & Del Mar)
Down & Around in Bixby Knolls
In The Knolls
Mark Twain
On the Outskirts
Wandering Heights
In Memoriam
Here is the Church, There is the Steeple
It's A Long Way From Sullivan's Grove
Behind The Lines
Keep fit during the week with downloadable routes beginning at Starbuck's
(4406 Atlantic Ave @ San Antonio)
Lefts & Rights in the Heights
Criss Cross
Country Club Village
Beware the Ides of March
Wardlow Loop
Park 'n Such
California Heights II
Country Club I
On The Boulevard
"Yes, Virginia, there are knolls in Bixby"
And The Serpentine
To The Rancho
Peace and Tranquility
Bricks, Mortar and the Urban Forest
The Hills Have I's
Bixby Knolls Literary Society
Book List
(scroll to see the complete list) 1. Holy Land by DJ Waldie
2. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
3. Ask the Dust by John Fante
4. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
5. American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
6. The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell
7. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
8. Native Son by Richard Wright
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
11. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
12. Working by Studs Terkel
13. The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
14 Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor
15. Beloved by Toni Morrison
16. A Mass For the Dead by William Gibson
17. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
18. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
19. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20. Light in August by William Faulkner
21. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
22. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
23. Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates
24. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
25. In the Guise of Mercy by Wendy Hornsby
26. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
27. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
28. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
29. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
30.
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
31. The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
32. In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
33. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
34. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammet
35. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
36. Tattoos on the Heart by Fr. Gregory Boyle
37. Call it Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth
38. Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson
40.
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
41. The Killer Angels by
Michael Shaara
42. The Day of the Locust
by Nathanael West
43. My Antonia by Willa Cather
44.
Things Fall Apart by
Chinua Achebe
45. The Bridge by Evan S. Connell
46.
Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II
By Ivan J. Houston
The Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association holds the monthly community book club, the Bixby Knolls Literary Society, at various locations in Bixby Knolls. The Society will focus on current releases as well as American classics. Special guest discussion leaders and authors will participate in the group discussions.
The Society meets the second Wednesday of each month, 7:00pm
February 2012 Selection:
Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II
By Ivan J. Houston with Gordon Cohn
Next Society Meeting:
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 7:00pm
Expo Arts Center
4321
Atlantic Ave.
Refreshments will be provided
Parking available along Atlantic Avenue