Long Beach will host The 2nd Annual Black Authors' Festival on April 3, 2010. This event is free to the public and will be from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. A program will be from 2:00-3:30 p.m. Over 20 Authors are expected to attend this event. Any donations collected will go to help support the Children’s Programs for the Library. At last years event, Mayor Bob Foster, presented a Proclamation and declared it “Black Authors Festival Day” in Long Beach, California. Help "The Authors" celebrate National Library Month at the Mark Twain Library.

Free quotes for commercial steel buildings in Long Beach are now available from CitySteelBuildings.com. Long Beach steel building quotes can be obtained from the online steel buildings resource by filling a no-obligation form at: http://www.citysteelbuildings.com/california/long-beach/ . Free commercial steel buildings quotes for Long Beach are accompanied by a no-obligation consultancy from a steel building expert.

Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach is proud to announce the upcoming arrival of the all-new E350 BlueTEC Sedan. The All-New E350 BlueTEC Sedan hits showrooms this summer.

With efficiency and power veiled in luxury, the new member of the E-Class is the engineering equivalent of a win-win propostion.

“With the E350, endowed with BlueTEC clean diesel technology, drivers get an uncompromising ode to the automotive future that can get up to 600 miles on a single tank of fuel,” Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach General Manager Ray Burke said.

Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach is proud to offer customers the automotive industry’s latest technology.

As Mercedes-Benz continues to drive the future of the automobile, they’ve carried forward everything they’ve ever imagined, studied and learned along the way. Some of the results include the trademarked PRE-SAFE system, Night View Assist, Distronic Plus, COMAND and Rear View Monitor.

Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach is thrilled to announce the upcoming arrival of the 2011 E-Class Cabriolet.

Boasting the aggressive lines of the ninth-generation E-Class and the windswept profile of the all-new E-Class Coupe, the 2011 E-Class Cabriolet delivers tantalizing performance in a four-passenger convertible engineered for year-round enjoyment.

Finally, self-decorators to artists can buy paper-reproductions of “antique gilded frames” like they buy fine art posters. Made of mat board, they “pop-up” to become a three-dimensional period frame worthy of a museum.

In fact, the frames are now sold at the J. Paul Getty Museum store in Los Angeles, CA. "As I walked the16th and 17th century galleries at the Getty, I was stunned at how my French Rococo and Italian Baroque motifs captured the look of the originals framing the masters," said Suzette Mehler, President.

Author Kevin “Coach” Brown’s novel From Ghetto to Greatness is a masterpiece of storytelling that grabs young readers’ attention from the very beginning. Once they are pulled into the protagonist’s Jerome Brown’s world, they are whisked away with him through many previously unglamorized ghetto situations including teenage drug addiction.

Author Kevin “Coach” Brown’s novel From Ghetto to Greatness is a masterpiece of storytelling that grabs young readers’ attention from the very beginning. Once they are pulled into the protagonist’s Jerome Brown’s world, they are whisked away with him through many previously unglamorized ghetto situations including teenage drug addiction.

Author Kevin “Coach” Brown’s novel From Ghetto to Greatness is a masterpiece of storytelling that grabs young readers’ attention from the very beginning. Once they are pulled into the protagonist’s Jerome Brown’s world, they are whisked away with him through many previously unglamorized ghetto situations including teenage drug addiction.

Gafcon Inc., a leading California-based construction management and consulting firm, has been awarded a contract to serve as project manager for “The Wall Project,” a major civic commemoration program developed by the Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, in cooperation with the City of Los Angeles, The LA Inc. and the German Consulate General in Los Angeles. The program involves the original Berlin Wall segments and the symbolic re-creation of the wall, featuring the commissioned work of professional and amateur artists, to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Gafcon Inc., a leading California-based construction management and consulting firm, has been awarded a contract to serve as project manager for “The Wall Project,” a major civic commemoration program developed by the Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, in cooperation with the City of Los Angeles, The LA Inc. and the German Consulate General in Los Angeles. The program involves the original Berlin Wall segments and the symbolic re-creation of the wall, featuring the commissioned work of professional and amateur artists, to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

With nearly 500,000 people, Long Beach is the 6th largest city in the California. Yet, thanks to the city’s extraordinary collection of neighborhoods, many still say it feels like “small town America.”

This marvelous approach to “communities within a community” gives Long Beach locals the best of both worlds — a connection to a thriving metropolis and a sense of neighborhood pride.

To celebrate the wonderful neighborhoods that make Long Beach special, EverythingLongBeach.com is hosting the Long Beach Neighborhoods Essay Contest September 18 through October 2.

Daybreak Counseling Service has provided anger management education and anger management classes in the city of Los Angeles for over 7 years. The company is the most widely used source for court ordered and self-referred anger management clients in the city.

Daybreak Counseling Service provides anger management courses in Gardena, Van Nuys, Long Beach, Santa Monica and Pasadena.