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Throw a pie in the face of a community leader on Tuesday, March 14 during The Pie Bar\u2019s inaugural Pie-in-the-Face-Auction on International Pi Day.<\/p>\n
In an effort to donate thousands of dollars to local charities, including the LGBTQ Center of Long Beach and Precious Lamb Preschool, participants are encouraged to bid their donations in a silent auction to throw a pie in someone\u2019s face, such as Kraig Kojian\u2019s, president\/CEO of Downtown Long Beach Alliance, or\u00a0Gio Ferraro’s, founder\/owner of Groundwork Fitness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGiving back to our community is just one way we can thank our customers for their loyalty and support the important groups that make Long Beach such a great place to live,\u201d Laurie Gray, owner and founder of The Pie Bar, said in a statement. \u201cAnd Pi Day is the perfect day to eat\u2014and throw\u2014a pie!\u201d<\/p>\n
The event is free to attend. Silent auction bids start at $100 and will be taken through Pi Day on March 14. Participants can sign up for a bid at The Pie Bar all week, including the day of the event. The highest bids at 3:14PM will get to throw the pies.<\/p>\n
The community leaders and local business owners auctioning themselves include: Cory Allen and Mia Farrow, emperor and empress of the Long Beach Imperial Court; Dina Amadril, founder\/owner of Long Beach Creamery; Heather Kern, general manager of MADE by Millworks; Danielle Alura, former Ms. California, and the Pie Lady herself, Laurie Gray, founder\/owner of The Pie Bar.<\/p>\n
Local charities who will receive the donations include Beacon For Him, Children Today, Family Promise, Precious Lamb Preschool and The LGBTQ Center of Long Beach.<\/p>\n
For more information about The Pie Bar, visit the website here<\/a>. RSVP to Pi Day via the Facebook event page here<\/a>. Free two-hour parking is available at the City Place garages.<\/p>\n The Pie Bar is located at 450 Pine Avenue.<\/em><\/p>\n {FG_GEOMAP [33.7723812,-118.19219709999999] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Throw a pie in the face of a community leader on Tuesday, March 14 during The Pie Bar\u2019s inaugural Pie-in-the-Face-Auction on International Pi Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":66932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[551],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-the-pie-bar","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10138,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/10138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}