In the history of cooking, there has never been a more challenging environment than cooking in the craft in which humans take to the skies. The tale begins with meals aboard balloons and zeppelins, where cooking was accomplished below explosive bags of hydrogen, ending with space station dinners that were cooked thousands of miles below. Richard Foss’s book “Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the Skies” is the first to chart that history worldwide, exploring the intricacies of inflight dining from 1783 to the present day, aboard balloons, zeppelins, land-based aircraft and flying boats, jets, and spacecraft. RSVP’s are recommended.
“A Small Indiscretion” fixes an unflinching eye on the power of desire and the danger of obsession as it unfolds the story of one woman’s reckoning with a youthful mistake. At nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in her washed-out hometown for a London winter of drinking to oblivion and yearning for deliverance. Some two decades later, she is married to a good man and settled in San Francisco, with a son and two daughters and a successful career designing artistic interior lights. One June morning, a photograph arrives in her mailbox, igniting an old longing and setting off a chain of events that rock the foundations of her marriage and threaten to overturn her family’s hard-won happiness. Come and meet the author before she gets really, really famous!! RSVP’s are recommended.
Wendy Lee is the author of the novels “Across a Green Ocean”and “Happy Family”. “Happy Family” was named one of the top ten debut novels of 2008 by Booklist and awarded an honorable mention from the Association of Asian American Studies.
A graduate of Stanford University and New York University’s Creative Writing Program, Wendy spent more than ten years in the publishing industry as an editor at HarperCollins Publishers and Lantern Books in Brooklyn. She has also worked as an English teacher in China, taught writing at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and served as a mentor with Girls Write Now.
This powerfully honest novel captures the complexity of the immigrant experience, exploring one family’s hidden history, unspoken hurts, and search for a place to call home. RSVP’s Recommended.
Ready, Set, STRIKE!
It’s time for Walk WIth Sally’s 8th Annual Bowl-A-Thon!
Get your teams together and your costumes planned…this year’s Bowl-A-Thon is set to be the best yet!
Saturday, March 7th @ 12:00 p.m.
PV Bowl
24600 Crenshaw Blvd.
Torrance, CA
It’s time to round up your families, friends, kids, moms, dads, grandparents, teens, schools, corporations, teachers, bankers, florists, pastors, coaches, cops, doctors, nurses, dentists, neighbors and EVERYONE you know to help Walk With Sally raise $75,000 for children and families impacted by cancer.
Here’s how you can get started:
1. Sign Up as a Fundraiser
2. Get your team together – decide which decade you’ll dress up as
3. Share your story (#WhyDoYouBowl) with your contacts via email and social media
4. Show up on March 7th for a fun time!
We are asking each team to raise at least $1000 to participate in all of the fun…that’s so easy! (Just $250/person on a 4person team!) To help incentivize you all to reach for the stars we are setting a goal of $2500 per team for 2015! That’s just $500/person on a 5 person team!
Teams Raising $2500 will receive:
-Entry into the Bowling Tournament for a chance to win the Best Bowling Team prize
-Open Bar for your team of fundraisers from 12p.m. – 1p.m.
PLUS for those of you who are really ambitious, the team that fundraises the MOST will AUTOMATICALLY win a 2-night stay at a Lake Tahoe cabin that sleeps up to 12 people! Go for the gold!
The event promises to be FUN, INTERACTIVE and HILARIOUS! Great for the entire family, an opportunity for some “friendly competition” and fun team building exercise for the office too! If you aren’t a bowling fan, or not in town on March 7th, create a virtual team and donate your lane to a family from the Walk With Sally program so they can enjoy a day of fun!
Last, but certainly not least, don’t forget about the COSTUME CONTEST! There will be celebrity judges making the rounds to determine which team will win the elusive Most Spirited prize. So, get your team together, figure out which decade you’ll represent, and get creative!
Dear Carley,
You’re a talented New York City Ballet dancer and all the press just wants to talk about your weight.
Don’t you want to know how you would handle that?
Jenifer Ringer shares her story in her book, Dancing Through it.
And with us at {pages} bookstore on Thursday, February 26th at 7pm.
She is an LA resident and might be willing to talk with you as well.
Here’s the information:
Jenifer Ringer, author of Dancing Through It
visits {pages} on Thursday, February 26 at 7pm
Jenifer Ringer, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, was thrust into the headlines after her weight was commented on by a New York Times critic, and her response ignited a public dialogue about dance and weight. Ballet aficionados and aspiring performers of all ages will want to join Ringer behind the scenes as she shares her journey from student to star and candidly discusses both her struggle with an eating disorder and the media storm that erupted after the Times review. An unusually upbeat account of life on the stage, Dancing Through It is also a coming-of-age story and an inspiring memoir of faith and of triumph over the body issues that torment all too many women and men.
Jenifer is now the Director of the Colburn Dance Academy, a pre-professional ballet training program in Los Angeles. We are very honored to have her speak at {pages}. RSVP’s recommended. Call 310-318-0900 or email us at info@pagesabookstore.com
We hope this event is of interest of you.
Thank you, in advance for your consideration.
Jane Guthrie
You’re invited to The Richstone Family Center’s 20th Annual “An Affair of the Heart” Gala on Saturday, March 21, 2015. This years My Big Fat Greek Gala will take place at Audi Pacific in Torrance, CA and will be catered by Petros Restaurant of Manhattan Beach. During this event over 40 wineries will be in attendance, along with local craft beer, cocktails, live entertainment, photo booth and more.
You are invited to join the flavor of an event that brings together those who are dedicated to prevent and treat child abuse, strengthen families, and prevent violence in families, schools and communities.
WHO: The Richstone Family Center
WHAT: My Big Fat Greek Gala
WHEN: 6:30pm Saturday, March 21, 2015
WHERE: Audi Pacific 20460 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503
RSVP: Tickets and tables can be purchased at www.richstonefamily.org
Hi there!
With over 20 mentees on the waiting list for Walk With Sally services, they are having a Mentor Training on March 29, 2015 from 9:30am through 3:30pm at their El Segundo. The mentor training workshop is a 6-hour interactive training aimed at providing tools, information, policies and procedures in becoming an effective mentor. In addition, information and training about preventing and/or identifying child abuse, complying with emergency safety protocol as well as driver safety are very important aspects of the Mentor Training. Completion of the training is required before being matched with a child.
Walk With Sally is a non-profit based in Los Angeles, CA and is committed to providing healing and comfort to children debilitated by the emotional experience of living with or losing a parent or sibling to cancer. This healing is facilitated through free of charge mentoring support programs and services that provide an emotionally safe environment for children to share their difficult experience with someone who has suffered the same.
The 28th Annual Richstone Pier-to-Pier Walkathon is on Saturday, April 25, 2015 with check-in beginning at 7:00am at the Manhattan Beach Pier. Walkers start at the Manhattan Beach Pier, travel to the Hermosa Beach Pier and back.
Each year the Walkathon is held in April, which also happens to be National Child Abuse Prevention Month and proceeds benefit Richstone Family Center and its programs to treat and prevent child abuse. National Child Abuse Prevention Month happens every April and is a time to acknowledge the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse and neglect, and to promote the social and emotional well-being of children and families. During the month of April and throughout the year, Richstone Family Center is encouraged to share child abuse and neglect prevention awareness strategies and activities and promote prevention across Los Angeles, California.
Kicking off this years Walkathon is USC’s Assistant Athletic Director, Steve Lopes. Roger Van Remmen, CEO of Richstone Family Center says, “We are very fortunate to welcome Steve Lopes to the 28th Annual Walkathon. We here at Richstone are dedicated to building healthy families.”
To help Richstone Family Center build healthy families, this years event will feature many active and healthy lifestyle vendors including KIND Bar, Mamma Chia, Juice It Up! Poise Fitness, Diabolo Beverage, Health Ade, Grow Produce in Manhattan Beach, 325 Coffee, YogaWorks and many others. Warm up classes will be hosted by YogaWorks and Baby Bootcamp just before the Walkathon kicks off at 8:00am.
Walkers and runners can register for the Walkathon by visiting RichstoneFamily.org and pay the registration fee of $25.00 which will give access to an official Richstone Family Center t-shirt, access to all vendors, giveaways, photobooth and more.
Dorie Clark, branding expert and author of “Reinventing You,” returns with “Stand Out,” a guide book for breaking out with your idea in today’s ever-changing world. She helps you to develop your expert niche, generate brand-new research, and branch out to find your network, audience and community. Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. RSVP’s are appreciated. Call us at 310-318-0900 or email
info@pagesabookstore.com.
Acclaimed author, and therapist Smith confronts the question she encounters every day in private practice—what happens after we die? In an exploration of the afterlife that is part personal, part prescriptive, Smith invites us on her journey into the unknown. Chronicling our steps along the path that bridges this world and the next and drawing on both her personal losses, as well as her background working in hospice as a bereavement counselor, Smith attempts to show how exploring the afterlife can have a positive impact on the grief process. RSVP’s requested. Call 310-318-0900 or email us at info@pagesabookstore.com