CODEPINK
beyond baroque
Suzy Williams at Temple Bar
7 Dudley Cinema/Documental
electric lodge
fridays on abbot kinney
Celebrate the Cuban Revolution
Tony Alva and Erik Joule at QuickSilverEdition Mission
Comics Stand Up for Peace and Freedom
Oakwood Picnic and Barbeque Cook-Off
Kathy Leonardo at Relay for Life
Marx in Soho
Amber Tamblyn - Drums Inside Your Chest
PRT - Stanton's Garage
Parlor Performances: Strange Travel Suggestions
Summer of Love Band in Hermosa
Greed and EcoJunk
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CODEPINK: Women for Peace
Presents Gayle Brandeis and Diane Lefer: Art & Activism: Writers on Politics Now.
With a musical performance by Jill Sobule ("I Kissed a Girl") and some wisdom on how to get out of Iraq from Tom Hayden and Jodie Evans.
Saturday, July 28th at 7:30 pm
Beyond Baroque Foundation 681 Venice Blvd Venice, CA 90291
Gayle Brandeis novel is Self Storage(Ballastine/Random House), a post-9/11 story of a woman buying and reselling of storage unit contents, launched a path of self-discovery. Diane Leefer's novel California Transit (Sarabande) examines the difference between justice and law in Southern California.
The event is free but seating is limited. RSVP to Karin (310) 403-9760 codepinkkarin@gmail.com
Pre-party cocktail fundraiser to benefit the Cities For Peace project
July 31st we are flying Mayors to WDC to tell Congress the cities are done having the money they need used for war. Join CODEPINK and the writers for drinks and stimulating conversation
757 Palms Blvd Venice Ca 90291 at 6 pm $50 contribution rsvp 310-827-4320
Buy tickets at www.codepinkla.org
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beyond baroque 681 Venice Boulevard
27 July, Friday - 7:30 PM
All Acoustic: HENRY MORTENSEN, MIKE MOONVES, and Friends
MIKE MOONVES plays bass in the New York band Chief and sang and played guitar in the LA bands Energy Club and Royal Orange. He's been writing songs for years and is happy to return to acoustic guitar and harmonica for tonight. HENRY MORTENSEN has performed spoken word but this is his first music showcase. His influences range far and wide but this performance is mainly a combination of folk punk rock and glam rock. His poetry chapbook Beginning is a BB bestseller.
28 July, Saturday - 7:30 PM
Code Pink WOMEN FOR PEACE Presents: Art & Activism: Writers on Politics Now, with GAYLE BRANDEIS and DIANE LEFER
Join us in exploring "Art & Activism: Writers on Politics Now," with GAYLE BRANDEIS - winner of Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change. Her novel is Self Storage (Ballantine/Random House), a post-9/11 story of a woman buying and reselling of storage unit contents, launched on a path of self-discovery. DIANE LEFER's California Transit (Sarabande) examines the difference between justice and law in Southern California, "land of dislocation and assimilation." Oscar Hijuelos praised Lefer as "one of the most gifted and witty writers around."
29 July, Sunday - 7 PM
BEYOND MUSIC: THE VOICE, with BECKY ALLEN, JULIE ADLER, SYLVIA DESROCHERS, and KIRA VOLLMAN
Come for an evening of LA vocal artists revisiting and recreating landscapes and atmospheres of sound, cinematic mood, and questions of where they are or are not. BECKY ALLEN, sound artist/composer, worked on Bill Viola's work Ocean without a Short and Sharon Lockhart's film Pineflat. JULIE ADLER, singer, composer, visual artist and writer, has performed at RedCat, Highways, and is a collaborator with sound/visual artist Jacki Apple. SYLVIA DESROCHERS is a singer, actor and opera director. She was last seen in Richard Foreman's "What to Wear" at RedCat. KIRA VOLLMAN, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer and visual artist, co-founded Non Credo, with Joe Berardi, has been a member of Fat and Fucked up, and worked with Kid Congo Powers (ex-Cramps), Kraig Grady, and Jeff Gauthier.
18 August, Saturday - 7:30 PM
An Evening with MAUREEN COTTER
MAUREEN COTTER returns for her summer tale-spinning extravaganza at BB. Cotter has been working for the past five years writing about the first twenty-five years, developing the work in BB's Tuesday Creative Non-fiction workshop. She's a graduate of the Pasadena Playhouse, a long time Venice resident and civic activist, and has been called "the Deviant Diva of Venice."
For immediate release Contact: Gerry Fialka 310-306-7330
SUZY WILLIAMS and HER SOLID SENDERS plays LIVE MUSIC - jazz & jump blues - Monday August 20 at TEMPLE BAR, 1026 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, 310-393-660, templebarlive.com, doors open at 8:00pm (two sets at 8:30 and 9:30 & qopm). Admission is $10. Celebrate being alive with Suzy & her swinging 8 piece band evoking the rockin' dance music of Louis Jordan, and the release of Suzy & The Jtones new ten inch record/cd (available from Dave Jones rhumbabeatnik@yahoo.com). For more info: 310-306-7330 visit: www.muralista.org/suzy
"Williams' energy must be seen to be believed...a natural performer." - Robert Palmer, The New York Times
"Suzy's voice is vibrant and lusty...great gusto and bold emotion." - Nat Hentoff
The LA Weekly deemed Suzy Williams "LA's diva deluxe" LA City Beat declared "local joy Suzy Williams"
Suzy's SOLID SENDERS Band include Brad Kay on piano, Kahlil Sabbagh on drums and vibes, Charles Burns on sax, Dave Jones on bass, Dan Weinstein on trombone, Corey Gemm on trumpet and more TBA.
Visit: Suzy's website for HiRes Stills and see Suzy Williams and Her Senders on youtube.com
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WED, Aug 15. PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA ('06, 71m) at 9pm -Chris Meltzer and Jeff Springer cover the historical, economic, political, and environmental issues that face the sea, and offer up an offbeat portrait of the eccentric and individualistic people who populate its shores. Hair-raising and hilarious, part history lesson, part cautionary tale and part portrait of one of the strangest communities ever seen, this is the American Dream gone as stinky as a dead carp. "Coaxing equal parts affection and revulsion while illuminating a little corner of California" -SF Guardian. John Waters narrates. Filmmakers will be present. Plus: DESERT DREAMERS ('06, 54m) at 8pm -Frank Suffert's life affirming portrait of Mojave Desert's eccentrics(artists, UFO seekers, Miracle makers and a burlesque dancer) following their dreams of freedom. Plus live music 6:30pm: PAUL LITTERAL, master trumpeter who's played with the Rolling Stones, Tom Waits & Robert Plant.
WED, Aug 29. ROGER BEEBE: EXPERIMENTS, DOCUMENTS, WISECRACKS - Beebe's films have been deemed "goofy, startling and important"..."implicitly and explicitly evoking the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand & Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs capture the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America." Including S A V E ('06, 5m) a riddle posed in the form of architecture. (ROCK/HARD PLACE) ('05, 6m) why do postcards of Morro Bay avoid the nearby gargantuan power plant with 3 towering smoke stacks? THE STRIP MALL TRILOGY ('01, 9m) Beebe's super-8mm symphony liberates color, sound and form from the sprawling consumerist landscape of postmodern America. Beebe's honest visual poetry transforms ugliness into beauty, and busts apart the mind-controlling code of relentlessly commercial space and reconfigures it into a landscape of beautiful color and form. FAMOUS IRISH AMERICANS ('03, 8m) a hyperflat exploration of race and the limits of binary thought. Plus live music 7pm: MOSES CAMPBELL, aspiring teenage musicians with vibrant originals.
Documental: shows films at the Unurban Coffeehouse, 3301 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, 310-315-0056, free admission from 6-10pm on Mondays. Info: 310-306-7330 www.myspace.com/sevendudleycinema
MONDAY, Aug 20. I PITY THE FOOL ('07, 85m) Director Brent Coughenour (in person) explores present day Detroit, Michigan. As a city dismantles itself, clues to its past resurface. Collections of scraps sifted by gleaners from rubble - "an archeology of unanswered questions combine to tell a surrogate narrative filled with missing pieces and forgotten motives, old letters, photographs, and home movies. Fractured moments occurring on one summer day, maybe two, echo events from thirty years earlier. Plus: NIGHT FLIGHT ('06, 9m) Coughenour's experimental take on female voices communicating with an unknown listener. Messages sent in code. Plus more experimental films from 6-8pm.
aug 26 live comedy at sponto -
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electric lodge 1416 Electric Ave (310) 306-1854
Ensemble Studio Theatre-The LA Project presents
365 PLAYS/365 DAYS
July 28 – Saturday, 8 pm - No charge
EST-LA takes their turn presenting seven of Suzan-Lori Parks’ “one play a day” pieces.
For LA’s participants in the “365 Plays/365 Days” project, visit www.365inla.com/participants.html
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Electric Lodge presents
THE GREEN PIECE
August 10-11 - Friday-Saturday, 8 pm - $10 general, $5 students
Electric Lodge presents the first in a series of multidisciplinary performance events exploring our relationship to our environment. Check back here for further details after 7/31.
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Shakti Dance Company presents
STREE KATHA
August 17-19 – Friday at 8 pm; Saturday-Sunday at 7 pm - $25 general, $18 students w/ID.
Three tragic heroines from the Ramayana—their untold stories in original choreography by Mythili Prakash.
For reservations, call 310-823-0710, press 2#
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THE BROAD HUMOR FILM FESTIVAL
August 24-26 - Friday, 7 pm; Saturday-Sunday, 12 noon
Women write. Women direct. Everybody laughs. Visit www.broadhumor.com for more details.
Fridays on Abbot Kinney Bl.
Equator will be having live music from 8 - 10pm. We'll try and get a
little tip-bar (wine/beer) going as well...
Philip Fracassi Equator Books
1103 Abbot Kinney Blvd Venice, CA 90291
ph 310-399-5544
P.S. In Honor of our 3 Year Anniversary (and our store's facelift)
Equator Books is offering All Books and Vinyl Records for
30% Off through August 6
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Celebrate the Cuban Revolution! with an indoor/outdoor party
Friday, July 27 Starting at 7:30 pm
2944 16th Street, Santa Monica (from Lincoln Blvd., go east on Marine,
to 16th St., turn left)
SEE: ¡Salud! a new film on Cuban health care
HEAR: Cuban music
DRINK: Mojitos - the drink of Cuba
TASTE: Cuban snacks by way of California
THINK: What we can learn from Cuba
SAY: ¡Hasta La Victoria, Siempre!
PAY: Nothing, Nada (donations accepted)
CLICK: 26th of July and Cuba
Sponsored by the Venice Peace & Freedom Party 310-399-2215
pfp@freevenice.org www.venicepeaceandfreedom.org www.californiasocialist.org
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This is from Tibby Rothman
Good Morning, friends,
Tony Alva grew up in and around a So Cal ghetto that came to be known as Dogtown;
Venice local Erik Joule grew up in the south of France with hippy parents.
Alva made fame, young and fast, rocketing out of a swimming pool on a skateboard and
into the freedom of the sky; Joule began his working life in an unglamorous Gap
stockroom. Today, he's the Senior Vice President of Merchandising and Design at
Quiksilver. And Alva—Alva is Alva. "The organic evolution of Abbot Kinney—it's like
putting arsenic on granola," he recently quipped, but he was also serious.
This weekend Alva and Joule speak on a panel about Venice, gentrification, and us—
Venetians—then and now. And where we're going to. Saturday, July 28 from 12:30 p.m. –
2:30 pm at the QuikSilverEdition Mission 1621 Abbot Kinney Blvd. (in the space above
Stronghold, the jean company, brainchild of local Michael Cassel)
Don't expect the cliché. Mr. Alva is rarely given the credit for the global and historical view
that he puts together. And we'll be asking him why he placed his new store in the heart of
Little Ethiopia as well as throw-backs to the days he lived in a Venice garage. While Joule,
the executive, holds unimpeachable street creds as a Venice patriot and talks in terms that
demonstrate his sojourns to India, "The only thing we have is the ability to connect. To
reach out to one another," he says.
Alva and Joule, along with their fellow panelist, designer Elizabeth Paige Smith, promise to
give the "Venice-is-changing-topic" a fresh spin. Smith, whose sculptural furniture work
has been showcased by LACMA, recently launched a gallery on Abbot Kinney—where she's
continued Venice's tradition of bringing together the artistic community while at the same
time finding a way in new Venice.
Drop by the QuikSilverEdition Mission site at: [url=http://
www.quiksilvereditionmission.org/?p=62] to give Adam over at the Mission a headcount
for lunch.
See you there.
tibby rothman
alleged editor, venicepaper
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Comics "Stand Up" for Peace and Freedom-
Paul Krassner, Rick Overton, Larry Hankin, Charlie Hill, Gary Gordon
Also featuring- James Tripp, Robin Roberts, Wil B, and Donna Janosik
Pre-show reception with the Eric Ahlberg trio & refreshments, 6pm
Sunday August 5th, 7:00 pm
@ The Powerhouse Theatre
3116 2nd St. Santa Monica
$15 -- benefits the Peace and Freedom Party
For info 310-568-9622
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On August 11, 2007 between Noon and 5pm the Oakwood Community is having a picnic and BBQ Cook-off at the Oakwood Recreation Center. People will come from all over our community and break bread together. This will be a day when our diversity will shine like so many different precious, brilliant gems as we are united in enjoying good fun, good food, and our ties to our neighborhood. One of Oakwood's greatest strengths has been all of the variety we bring to Venice. Let's celebrate it and each other.
So come out, get to know your neighbors, bring a dish, show off your best recipe and compete in the Cook-off for fantastic prizes, be among the privileged few to taste some of the best BBQ in Venice made by Captain Jerry Johnson and his crew at station 63 (make sure to arrive early), and get to know more about the Venice Neighborhood Council! There will be activities for the kids: a bouncy house, three legged races, wheel barrel races, and other fun games for adults as well. There will be awesome music! With great food, games, music, and people to meet, this is an event for all ages.
Please contact Mindy for volunteer opportunities at oakwoodBBQ@grvn.org and contact Barklie to find out about competing in the Cook-off at oakwoodBBQ@grvn.org. For all general questions write to Caroline at oakwoodBBQ@grvn.org.
Attached please find fliers for the Cook-off and the event itself. I know you care about building unity in the community. Thank you for contributing to that by taking a moment to pass these fliers on!!!
This event is being graciously sponsored by our Venice Neighborhood Council! Special Thanks to Councilman Rosendahl' s office! Thanks to everyone in our Community who makes this event a tremendous success!
In Community, Oakwood Community Picnic and BBQ Cook-off Planning Committee
PS--If you would like to join the planning committee, email Caroline at oakwoodBBQ@grvn.org
It's never too late to have a great day!
"Whenever there is emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old." -Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
Please come to the picnic and compete in the BBQ cook off on 8/11 at Oakwood park. It is a great community event and great food to eat! Be sure to send this invitation to your friends in the neighborhood. Thanks. Be there or be square.
Linda
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Kathy Leonardo
I will be playing this Saturday, for American Cancer's Santa Monica Relay for life.
The Relay takes place on Saturday July 28th John Adams Middle School 2425 16th St., Santa Monica CA 90405. I will be playing at 1:00 pm.
This is my third year playing this event. As always I will be donating all my CD Sales on the day of the event to American Cancer. I will be singing in honor of the memory of my Mom and my Aunt, two great women who were taken from this earth way too soon.
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Howard Zinn’s play, “Marx in Soho”
Jerry Levy has been touring the United States, Canada, and Europe for nearly three years (as Karl Marx) and now he is coming to Venice Beach!
Friday, August 3rd Show begins at 7:30pm, Dinner served 6:30 pm
Imagine all Karl Marx would have to say after one hundred years of just being able to watch...
Howard Zinn’s play, “Marx in Soho” portrays the return of Marx. Embedded in some secular afterlife where intellectuals, artists, and radicals are sent, Marx is given permission by the administrative committee to return to Soho London to have his say. But through a bureaucratic mix–up, he winds up in SOHO in New York. From there the audience is given a rare glimpse of a Marx seldom talked about; Marx the man. The Play offers an entertaining and thorough introduction to a person who knows little about Marx’s life, while also offering valuable insight to students of his ideas.
Author of “ A People’s History of the United States,” Howard Zinn humanizes the man behind the ideas in “Marx In Soho;” casting a divergent light from the totalitarian movements his theories have often been associated with. Responding to the fall of the Soviet Union and the conventional perception that Marx’s ideas are dead, Zinn resurrects this controversial historical figure, embraces democracy and passionately rejects the ideological rigidity of many of his followers with the phrase “I am not a Marxist.” Instead we come to know Marx as a complex character struggling to survive with his family as an impoverished immigrant in London. Marx returns to clear his name and tell us about his life with his wife, daughters, friends and enemies. In poignant, funny, and intimate narrative, Zinn convinces us not only that Marx is not dead but rather his critique of capitalism is more than relevant today.
Howard Zinn’s Marx alone occupies the stage. “Marx has different voices. The actor has to show Marx’s outrage at social injustice, express the pedantic Marx, the vindictive Marx, Marx, the loving family man, Marx as Humorists, and a Marx that can laugh at his enemies”
This one-time Los Angeles performance is a fundraiser. Suggested minimum donations are $15 for the show and $5 for dinner with other amounts gladly accepted. The proceeds will be donated to the Venice Food Not Bombs, which feeds hundreds of hungry and homeless people every week.
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MARX IN SOHO, info@levyarts.com, http://www.levyarts.com
Venice Food Not Bombs, venicesantamonicafnb@fastmail.fm, http://www.FoodNotBombs.wetnostril.net
KPFK 90.7 FM is a Media Sponsor, http://www.kpfk.org/
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Broadway is coming to Los Angeles, FINALLY. Complete with an intermission of tasty beverages and book signings.
The Drums Inside Your Chest
August 4, doors open 7 show at 8
The Brentwood theatre is located BEHIND the Wadsworth theatre, in Westwood.
11301 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90073
If you are tired of the usual 4 things to do in L.A. than come check out this evening of some of the most talented and revolutionary writers and performers in America today. PLUS, a portion of the proceeds go to the American Heart Association! After the show, you can buy merchandise and meet the performers.
Host, Magician ROB ZABRECKY
One of the 3 members of “The Unholy Trio” at the infamous Magic Castle in Hollywood. One of the funniest, darkest magic shows I have ever seen. He is the lead Vocalist for cult band Possum Dixon. He will read your mind and saw it in half. Don’t believe me? Check out his serious face at:
www.robzabrecky.com
AMBER TAMBLYN I think you know enough about me. But incase you don’t, I kind of invented Public Storage. I’ve still got some rooms left, if you need to drop your shit off. Emotional baggage and whatever other clichés your carrying around. I love you. www.myspace.com/ambertamblyn
BUDDY WAKEFIELD He is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion (2004 and 2005) and has been featured on NPR, the BBC, and HBO's Def Poetry Jam. In 2004 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals then successfully defended that title at the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2005 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship title again. Really, do I need to go on? He also has an album out called “Run On Anything”. It will give you a heart on. Ani Difranco has played back up guitar and vocals for him. Ya know? Ya. www.buddywakefield.com
JEFFREY MCDANIEL Jeffrey is 1 of my 2 favorite poets of all time. He has 3 books, “Alibi School” (Manic D, 1995), “The Forgiveness Parade” (Manic D, 1998), and “The Splinter Factory” (Manic D, 2002). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including, Best American Poetry and New (American) Poets. He was the recipient of an NEA Fellowship. He is a Professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. And he has a new book coming out, “The Endarkenment” on University of Pittsburgh Press, which I have to say, is a hail storm of brilliance. If anything, do yourself a favor and come see this man live.
http://myspace.com/jeffreymcdaniel
DERRICK BROWN Derrick is a former paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne, gondolier, magician, and fired weatherman. He now travels the world and performs his written work. The Brando of Love Poetry. He’s written several books including “Born In the Year Of The Butterfly Knife”. He most recently opened for the COLD WAR KIDS on their European tour. A documentary is coming out about him, “You Belong Everywhere”. He’s won tons of awards. Rolling Stone Magazine called him “The Darker, deeper side of Jude Law”. Another mind blowing performer.
www.brownpoetry.com & www.writebloody.com
BEAU SIA Beau is a Chinese-American poet from Oklahoma City. He has been featured in the award-winning film Slam and the documentary Slam Nation. As an author, Beau wrote the poetry book, “A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge.” A few of the anthologies his work appears in include, Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Why Freedom Matters, and Spoken Word Revolution. Beau has two spoken word CD's, “Attack! Attack! Go!” and “Dope and Wack.” He was a recipient of the California Arts Council Writer-in-Residence grant for Youth Speaks in 2001-2002, and was the lead artist for the Creative Work Fund. Beau has appeared on all seasons of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry," and has also performed on ESPN's 2000 Winter X-Games, Showtime! at The Apollo, and the 2003 Tony Awards. His one man show, "Fish Out of Water" won the 2004 Jury Prize for Best Alternative Show at the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen, Colorado. So much to say about this guy. He also wears kewl glasses. http://myspace.com/iambeausia
MINDY NETTIFFEE Mindy lives in Good ol’ Long Beach, CA. Her poem "Metal Detectors and Other Important Thresholds" was a nominee for the Pushcart Prize. She has a book out called “Sleepyhead Assassins”, which has more quotes from famous authors on the back than you can shake a lipstick at. She was once described as “Honey on Burnt toast”. Sexy and smooth, Mindy’s voice and words send shock waves through the system. She once wrote a Cyrano-letter for me, to a boy who broke my heart. It’s framed on my wall. Next to the presidential looking portrait of Oprah.
http://www.thecultofmindy.com/
BUCKY SINISTER Bucky is a simple man. He’s tattooed all over, and loves bunnies. Hailing from San Francisco, Bucky is a legend in the American Poetry world. He learned to write from poets who dressed like bums but spoke like kings. He has a new book out called, “All Blacked Out And Nowhere To Go”, which is, an incredible piece of sidewalk shadows collected over the last several years. Think Charles Bukowski, but with a big, beautiful faint-worthy heart.
www.buckysinister.com
That’s pretty much it. Oh, how do you get your tickets??
You can buy them at www.poetrytickets.com.
www.poetrytickets.com/tickets , to be exact. We send the tickets right to your door, or hold them at will call, whichever you prefer. You can also buy tickets the night of the event, but I do recommend buying them NOW and HERE. There is 500 seats which are getting filled quickly, and if you send me your confirmation number for bought tickets, I’ll add you to the VIP AFTER PARTY LIST. Holler.
yours in difference, Amber
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The Co-Op At Pacific Resident Theatre Presents
Stanton's Garage
By Joan Ackerman Directed By Sarah Zinsser
Scenic Design Norman Scott Lighting Design Deena Mullen
Sound Design Keith Stevenson Costume Design Rudi Dillon
The Ensemble:
Ann Bronston, Heleya DeBarros, Lee DeBroux, Andrew Ebert, Linda Lodge, Nick Rogers, Michael Tulin, Jules Wilcox
OPENS August 3rd through August 19, 2007
Thursdays - Saturday 8pm; Sunday at 3:00pm
For Reservations Call
323-460-2508
Suggested $12.00 Donation
707 Venice Blvd, 3 Blocks West of Lincoln
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Parlor Performances @ Steinway Hall continue!
Sunday, August 26 at 7:30pm
Award-winning international travel writer/raconteur Jeff Greenwald
STRANGE TRAVEL SUGGESTIONS:
Stories from Greenwald's global travels, at random, based on the spin of a wheel!
"Intriguing, beguiling ... laugh-out-loud funny." San Francisco Chronicle
Greenwald has traveled extensively through five continents, working as a writer, artist and photographer. In addition he has prepared exhibits, lectures and educational programs for the San Francisco Exploratorium, University of California, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. His stories and essays appear in a variety of publications—including The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. He is Exec. Director of Ethical Traveler, a global community dedicated to exploring the ambassadorial potential of world travel. His award-winning books include Shopping for Buddhas, The Size of the World —a chronicle of his 29,172-mile, around-the-world overland voyage (Globe Pequot, 1995 & Ballantine, 1996)—was a national bestseller, and won the 1995 Lowell Thomas Silver Award. Greenwald’s travel writing is widely anthologized, appearing in The Kindness of Strangers, In Search of Adventure, Salon Wanderlust, and many volumes of the award-winning “Travelers Tales” series. and Scratching the Surface: Impressions of Planet Earth from Hollywood to Shiraz. This critically acclaimed show, an improvised monologue based on his adventures, continues to draw sold-out houses.
Parlor Performances @ Steinway Hall * 12121 W. Pico Bl. (just W. of Bundy under Fields Pianos, level P2) * Free Parking!
$25 at the door * $20 w/ RSVP to (310) 471-3979 or jeannine@frankentertainment.com
More about Jeff Greenwald... In the course of his travels, Greenwald has had the opportunity to participate in a number of unusual projects. In 1979, during his first trip to Asia, he designed urban playgrounds for UNICEF and the Nepal Children’s Organization. Several months later, arriving in Thailand during the Khmer civil war, he served as a volunteer water engineer at Khao-I-Dang—the largest of the Cambodian refugee camps. In the Spring of 1983, he was awarded a Journalism Fellowship by the Rotary International Foundation, and departed for a second trip to Asia. During this 16-month residence he lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, and made excursions to the Himalaya, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Japan, Java and Bali.
His first book, Mr. Raja’s Neighborhood: Letters from Nepal (John Daniel, 1986), is still in print. Shopping for Buddhas, first published by Harper & Row in 1990, was reissued in 1996 by Lonely Planet Publications; the new edition won the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Best Travel Book of 1996. Greenwald divides his time between California and Asia, publishing stories and essays in a variety of publications—including The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Salon.com.
Thank you for featuring, listing and/or reviewing this special event.
To schedule an interview or for more information, please contact Jeannine Frank at (310) 476-6735 or cell (310) 666-9066.
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http://thesummerofloveshow.com is playing a 40 year anniversary party & everyone dressed with the late 60's look will get in free [ $10 cover charge ]
Tell some friends & groove with us. Its our only club gig doing our show in the South Bay this summer.
Big stage & dance floor, lots of couches, patio area, 2nd lower bar area..& of course us!!
Club 705 Hermosa Beach, CA - Clubplanet.com
peace & love Terry
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Eco-junkSanta Monica Pier: patti smith aug 16 los lobos aug 30
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