Thursday, October 12, 2006

Deconstructing Cover Girls

cool or completely creepy? http://www.portraitprofessional.com/content/gallery.html
how cover girls get retouched http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/ad/retouch/index.html -
As is this film of a woman turned into a makeup ad.
http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.ca/bblank.asp?id=6895

Then look at this movie about the beauty our girls should know they have.
http://www.dove.ca/doveselfesteemfund/tv_ad_video_high
-thx2 web405

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Venice Arts Council News

I have added a mailing list signup to our Venice Arts Council Homepage,
so you may send your friends there directly to sign up.

http://www.veniceartscouncil.org/lists

beyond baroque
826la workshops for kids.
carnivale
sponto +7dudley cinema + documental
prt - the 60's
electric lodge
letter from danny moynahan
Ray Bradbury & Ray Harryhausen at Every Picture Tells A Story
3 Artwalks/Gallery nights in LA from Artscene
18th street gallery videos

Country Joe, Mort Sahl, Roy Zimmerman at McCabes
parlor performances

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5 October, Thursday - 6:30 PM
POET'S PEACE WALK

Please gather at Beyond Baroque at 6:30 PM sharp for a walk through Venice, back to Beyond Baroque, followed by a reading. Presented in collaboration with Peace is Every Step.

6 October, Friday - 7:30 PM
KEVIN PATRICK SULLIVAN and LANDIS EVERSON
KEVIN PATRICK SULLIVAN has published in ArtLife, Hummingbird, and Solo . His book is First Sight (Mille Grazie). He is co-founder of the San Luis Obispo Poetry festival and a former Poet Laureate. LANDIS EVERSON was a member of the San Francisco Renaissance with Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, William Everson, and Robin Blaser. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Locus Solus, Kenyon Review, New Republic, Chicago Review, Jacket, Fence, and others. His Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 is forthcoming from Graywolf.

7 October, Saturday - 7:30 PM
HONORING RICK LUPERT and COBALT CAFE SERIES & PROJECT ROOM Display of COBALT BROADSIDES and POEMS
Hosted by G . MURRAY THOMAS (publisher of Next... Magazine) and AMELIE FRANK (BB Board member), Beyond Baroque celebrates institutions and people that have made extensive contributions to poetry in Southern California. Our inaugural spotlight will shine on the COBALT POETS. One of LA's longest-running continuous series, the Cobalt Poets Series is hosted by RICK LUPERT Tuesday nights at Cobalt Cafe in Canoga Park. Featuring, in the Project Room, Cobalt poetry broadsheets (designed by Lupert), the Group Poem (an audience-generated "exquisite corpse"), plus surprises! Special features BRENDAN CONSTANTINE and MICHAEL C FORD ; RON DVORKIN to read the work of Cobalt regulars ; KEITH NILES and JAMIE ASAE FITZGERALD to represent the Valley Contemporary Poets Cobalt Series; and five randomly chosen Cobalters reading their work.

14 October, Saturday - 7:30 PM
ROB LIPTON and ILYA KAMINSKY
ROB LIPTON is author of A Complex Bravery (Marick). He is director of literary arts at the Berkeley Art Center and was a longtime member of BB's Wednesday Poetry Workshop. His work has appeared in the Texas Observer, Parthenon West, and King Log . Rob is an activist and member of Jewish Voices for Peace. ILYA KAMINSKY is author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo), named "best poetry collection of 2005" by ForeWord Magazine. The book has won the Whiting Writers Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters's Metcalf Award, Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine and the Dorset Prize.

20 October, Friday - 7:30 PM
HARRY NORTHUP and FRIENDS
Celebrate the 17th anniversary of one of L.A.'s best indigenous small presses, Cahuenga Press, with publication of the press's 15th book, Red Snow Fence , by HARRY NORTHUP . Poet and critic Lewis MacAdams said of Northup's book, "The primary values in these poems are integrity and craft." Northup will be joined by fellow poet-members of the press : JAMES CUSHING ( Undercurrent Blues ), PHOEBE MACADAMS ( Livelihood ), & HOLLY PRADO ( These Mirrors Prove It ).

21 October, Saturday - 7:30 PM
ROGER TAUS and CLEMENS STARCK
ROGER TAUS
's books include gasoline djinny and other poems (Split Shift), If You Ask Me Where I've Been (Igneus), Poems from the Combat Zone (Tao Anarchy), and Trophies of the Sun (El Corno Emplumado). His poems have appeared in House Organ, Pavement Saw, Third Rail, The Unrealist, Left Curve, On the Bus, and rara avis. CLEMENS STARCK 's works include Traveling Incognito (Wood Works), China Basin (Story Line), Oregon poetry book of the year Journeyman's Wages (Story Line), and Studying Russian on Company Time (Silverfish Review). Starck has worked as a carpenter and construction foreman. He was a Witter Bynner fellow in 1998.

22 October, Sunday - 7 PM
POETS BEYOND THE HALF SHELL
Come celebrates American Library Association's Reading Week with words spoken by AZURE ANTOINNETE, PAUL KOENIG, TERRY STEVENS and BRENDA YATES , songs by ANDREA LOUISE . Open reading sign up at 6:30, 2-poem/3-minute limit. Hosted by Carlye Archibeque and Richard Modiano.

27 October, Friday - 7:30 PM
Counter-histories with BRUCE BEGOUT and JEFF BIGGERS
BRUCE BEGOUT is a philosopher and author of several books on America and the standardization of our existence, among them a philosophical essay on Las Vegas, Zeropolis: The Experience of Las Vegas ( Reaktion Books). He is currently working on a book about Los Angeles. JEFF BIGGERS is winner of the American Book Award and Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism. He is author of In the Sierra Madre: A Travel Memoir, based on a one-year sojourn in a Raramuri (Tarahumara) village in Mexico's Copper Canyon, investigating the likes of Antonin Artaud, B. Traven, Eisenstein, Geronimo, and Pancho Villa. His previous work is The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture and Enlightenment to America , highlighting figures such as Nina Simone, the folklife centers that birthed the civil rights movement, the poet Don West, and more.

28 October, Saturday - 7:30 PM
JACKSON WHEELER and ELLEN
JACKSON WHEELER
is author of Swimming Past Iceland (Mille Grazie) and A Near Country: Poems of Loss, with Glenna Luschei and David Oliveira (Solo). He co-edited SOLO: A Journal of Poetry for a decade. His work has appeared in kayak, St. Andrews Review, Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner and Cider Press Review. ellen has published in the Los Angeles Times, Artlife , Slant, Mudfish, Lynx Eye, ACM, Spillway, Coe Review , etc. Her work has been included in So Luminous the Wildflowers, (Tebot Bach) and was profiled in the LA Times in 2004. Her works include the chapbook Reverse Kiss (Main Street Rag) and The Gynecic Papers (Conflux).

29 October, Sunday - 7 PM
POETS BEYOND A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT: The Modern Underbelly of Poetry
Come celebrate Halloween a little early. Featuring IRIS BERRY, MICHELLE BITTING ABRAMS, MICHAEL C. FORD, CECE PERI and BETH RUSCIO . Open reading sign up at 6:30, 2-poem/3-minute limit. Hosted by Carlye Archibeque and Richard Modiano.

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Roll Out the Catwalk
Taught by Tami Mnoian and Lien Ta
Ages 9-13
Thursday, 10/26
Time: 6-8pm

Fashion week hits 826LA! In this workshop you’ll participate in all aspects of staging an ultra-faaaaabulous fashion show. Duties will include modeling, styling, fashion photography, and writing. You’ll choose what task you’d like to perform and then write about it afterward. Did you like it? Hate it? Is fashion totally superficial? In the words of Coco Chanel, “Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

It’s Rocket Science! Yes, Rocket Science!

Taught by Mike Jamoom
Limited to 12 students, ages 8-11
Saturday, 10/28
Time: 12:30 - 3:00pm

They say that the fastest way to a person’s heart is through rocket propulsion. With rocket scientist Mike Jamoom, you too can design a spaceship as well as plan and execute an actual mission. Students will learn what it takes to travel beyond the orbit of their home planet. Schematics! Checklists! Captain’s logs! Emergency landing protocol! Even rocket scientists take time out for a little writing. Survive the trip and write about space vacations gone wrong, crash landings on Titan, or space romps with your Alien friends.

Sign Up Online »

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ALL WORKSHOPS
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Coming October 28, 2006 ~ Noon to 10:00 p.m.
at Windward Circle in Venice.


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Sponto Gallery - 7 Dudley Cinema - Documental

DAVID & ROSELYN play LIVE MUSIC on Sat, Oct 21, 8:00pm at SPONTO Gallery, 7 Dudley Ave, Venice, 310-306-7330. Free admission (but donations are strongly suggested to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief). David & Roselyn, who have been singing blues, jazz, gospel and whatever else strikes their fancy for decades on the streets and in the clubs of New Orleans, make a one-night return to their longtime summer haunt of Venice Beach as part of their cross-country Katrina Relief tour. If you don't know their work, you can visit their webpage at http://www.davidandroselyn.com, or just show up on Oct. 21.
Please note the following upcoming events info for:
7 Dudley Cinema - Venice ongoing film series www.81x.com/7dudley/cinema
DOCUMENTAL - Santa Monica ongoing film series unurban.com
Suzy Williams - live music events: Oct 13 muralista.org/suzy
Sponto Gallery - art, poetry and music events: Oct 21, Dec 16, Jan 27
MESS- live interview series: Phil Proctor Nov 30
PXL THIS Film Festival - toy camera screenings: Nov 18 indiespace.com/pxlthis
Marshall McLuhan-FINNEGANS WAKE Reading Club jesgrew.org/wake/
and more
See and hear Gerry Fialka's new HOW TO MAKE A YOUTUBE VIDEO THAT IS NOT A YOUTUBE VIDEO on youtube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSN4aX-YIEQ#GU5U2spHI_4

See and hear SUZY WILLIAMS on youtube.com
and see photos of her latest show on flickr.com

Thank You, Gerry Fialka 2427 1/2 Glyndon Av, Venice CA 90291
310-306-7330 pfsuzy@aol.com
7 DUDLEY CINEMA shows the following films at SPONTO Gallery, 7 Dudley Ave, Venice, 310-306-7330, free admission, 8:00pm, www.81x.com/7dudley/cinema Come early - seating is limited & 7pm pre-shows

***URPOMES - Sponto's "kNOw rules" poetry-spoken word series 7pm on 4th Tuesdays, win $50 for your poem***
WED, Oct 18. LEIMERT PARK: THE STORY OF A VILLAGE IN SOUTH CENTRAL ('05, 88m) Jeannette Lindsay's intimate and compelling documentary articulates and celebrates the profound struggles and deep spirit of the extraordinary artists and musicians who transformed a few blocks of modest storefronts in South Central Los Angeles into a vibrant and inspiring cultural oasis. Especially focussing on the ex-homeless Richard Fulton, whose coffeehouse Fifth Street Dick’s became a gathering spot for the community, and ultimately sparked a remarkable underground renaissance of African-American art and culture. With Dwight Trible, Lady Walquer Vereen, Kamau Daáood, John Outterbridge, Billy Higgins & Horace Tapscott. "An unmissable feast" -LA Weekly. 7pm LIVE MUSIC pre-show: Master percussionist TAUMBU storytells the Roots of the Drum, Part I.
SUNDAY, Oct 22. FILMS MADE IN VENICE - Harry Medved, co-author of Hollywood Escapes, will show clips of films made in Venice from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. He’ll then lead a walking tour of Venice in film from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30. See and visit the locations where everyone from Orson Welles to Steve Martin, Sarah Jessica Parker to Peter Sellers made movies in this famous beachtown. Plus horror film locations for Halloween. "Immensely readable… Hollywood Escapes encourages us to leave the couch or the theater or even the city behind in search of parks and piers, lakes and reservoirs, islands and canyons, cafes and hotels we've previously only encountered on film.” -Anthony Miller, LA City Beat.
WED, Oct 25. FORBIDDEN ZONE ('80, 74m) Richard Elfman, the founder of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo-Boingo, screens his Venice-made outlandish musical fantasy with bro Danny as a Cab Calloway-Cheshire Cat devil, the Kipper Kids, Herve Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell and more. "The Citizen Kane of Underground Movies" -Film Threat. 7pm: Gerry Fialka interviews Richard Elfman. 6pm live music: Venetian Bluesmama Joy Rippel.

For Immediate Release
Contact: Gerry Fialka 310-306-7330 pfsuzy@aol.com
& Pam Stollings 310-315-0056 www.unurban.com
DOCUMENTAL shows films at the Unurban Coffeehouse, 3301 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, 310-315-0056, free admission from 6-10pm on Mondays (once a month on the second or third Monday). Details follow:

Monday, October 16 - LOOSE CHANGE 2ND EDITION ('05, 80m) at 8pm- Dylan Avery's provocative and thought-provoking investigation on 9/11 filled with many questions that the mainstream media does not ask. Essential viewing. Read the August Vanity Fair article on this courageous political researcher whose compelling film has been seen for free by over 10 million internet viewers. 6pm=more 9/11 films, 7pm= exclusive 70 minute videotaped interview with Dylan Avery, who was featured on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now Pacifica radio show on 9-11, and in the 9-11 issue of TIME magazine.

THE BACKBONERS will perform music on Friday, Oct 13 at 8pm at Genghis Cohen Cantina, 740 N. Fairfax Ave, West Hollywood, 323-653-0640. $10 admission, more info:310-306-7330

THE BACKBONERS (Suzy Williams, Bill Burnett, Kahlil Sabbagh and Ginger Smith) play original songs by Bill Burnett inspired by great vocal groups like The Mamas & The Papas, as well as some exciting covers. THE BACKBONERS' fresh harmonies and stellar arrangements reinvent the summer of love magic. With recent live performances from Santa Monica, California to Swans Island, Maine, The BACKBONERS retrieve the spirit of inspired and inspiring music many grew up with. Check out their new CD "Spine" at www.billburnett.com. Also visit: www.muralista.org/suzy (new link to HEAR SUZY SING with KAHLIL, too) and www.gingerandkahlil.com

SUZY WILLIAMS also sings JAZZ every third Sunday from 1-5pm at the Moose Lodge, 1600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica 310-809-2118...and often appears with BRAD KAY, who plays every Sunday at the UNURBAN Cafe, 3301 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica 2-5pm, free admission.


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PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE

THE 60s
by Trish Soodik

Special $10 Preview Performances
Sept. 9, 14, 15 - 8pm; Sept 10 - 3pm

THE CAST: Mariette Hartley - Steve Vinovich
Jerry Sroka - Dana Dewes - Kevin Rahm
Austin Highsmith - Samantha Thomson
Neil McGowan - William Lithgow

Directed by Paul Linke

Thurs-Fri-Sat 8 pm; Sun 3 pm
703 Venice Blvd., Venice (4 blocks west of Lincoln)


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BLUE MOMENTS

October 6 - 7 – Friday - Saturday, 8 pm (installation, followed by performance) - $18, $15 students

Blue Moments is a dance/installation which explores the question:
What is a magical or bizarre moment in your life?

For the last year the Space and Movement Exchange has recorded answers to this question and we present these stories in visual and movement forms. Come join us, to listen, see and share your own story.

Choreographer: Nicole Clarke
Performers: Libby Buchanan, Courtney Crocker, Kim Davagian, and Eliza Pfister
Set and Installation: Nicole Clarke and Shiva Mandell

For reservations: call (310) 584-7727

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Sarah Elgart and Electric Lodge present a world premiere performance:

BOUND

October 13 - 15 – Friday - Saturday, 8:00 pm; Sunday, 7:00 pm - $15, $12 students/seniors

Acclaimed choreographer/director Sarah Elgart returns to the Lodge with a new solo conceptual work featuring live music by provocative ambient violin/cello duo “Telematique.”

For reservations: call (310) 823-0710, press 2#

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Electric Lodge and Body Weather Laboratory present:

WILLIAM FAULKNER DANCE PROJECT: CADDY! CADDY! CADDY!

October 20 - 22 – Friday - Saturday, 8:00 pm; Sunday, 5:00 pm - $15, $12 students/seniors

Danced by Oguri and Honeysuckle Dance Troupe with sound score by Feltlike with Paul Chavez. This production made possible in part by a grant from the Dance: Creation to Performance program of the James Irvine Foundation.

For reservations: call (310) 823-0710, press 4#

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BEST/WORST

apartment A Theatre Company


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>From Danny Moynahan: Boss Man of the Superbroke Brass and Tin and String Marching Band Ensemble, a big hit at the AK Fest, here to loosen the sphincter of the world.

Dear friends,

I have a dream.

I have a dream that all bullies will get a taste of their own
medicine…and be cured.

I have a dream that all God's children will learn how to play nice,
play fair, and embrace one another's uniqueness.

I have a dream that imagination and creativity will one day be more
sought after and coveted than the dollar bill.

I have a dream that one day all politicians will view lying as a sign
of weakness and will therefore discover telling the truth as one of
their primary means of gaining power.

I have a dream that one day each of us will wake up to the superhero
within and that we will live our lives out of a spirit of truth,
justice, and compassion for all, including those who don't look like
us and don't think like us. That includes trees and animals, too! It
wouldn't be out of the ordinary then to see people walking to work, to
church, or to the grocery store in their capes and masks. Only when
our teachers and bosses and politicians had earned their capes and
masks and were wearing them would we be expected to take them
seriously. (these superheroes have a manifesto that I can really get
behind: http://www.myspace.com/superbroke)

I have a dream that one day we will take the half trillion tax dollars
currently dedicated to annual 'defense' spending and redistribute it
to address poverty, health care, and education needs. (Ben Cohen
breaks it down for us: http://www.truemajority.com/oreos)

I have a dream that one day torture will again be made illegal in this country.

I have a dream that one day our government will again have checks and balances.

I have a dream that everyone on planet Earth will be allowed to dream
out loud like this without fear of being locked up, or that if we do
get locked up for dreaming out loud we will once again have the right
of habeas corpus. (I'm going to miss that habeas corpus.)

Some of my friends will say, "Keep dreaming!!!" My answer to them
is……."okay."
What are some of your dreams? I want to invite you to dream out loud
with us on Sunday night at the very cozy and couchy Synergy Café
Lounge. Richard, Austin and I will provide some groovy music to dream
by.
So dream big. Chime in. Stand up and be counted. I hope to see you Sunday!

If you can't make it on Sunday please feel free to dream out loud in a
reply to this e-mail. I'll add it to the interactive mailing
list/dreambook myself and we will be grateful to know that part of
you.

Have a great week!
love,
Danny

Danny Moynahan-keyboards, vocals
Richard Fultineer-drums, vocals
Austin Nicholsen-bass, vocals

Synergy Café Lounge
4455 Overland Ave.
Culver City, 90230

Sunday October 8th, 8:00 sharp-ish
no cover
no age-limit
no corkage fee (bring your own…)

more big dreaming here:
http://www.freewillastrology.com/beauty/beauty.main142.shtml
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Tuesday, Oct. 10, 4- 7 PM Ray BRADBURY & Ray HARRYHAUSEN in PERSON! Every Picture Tells A Story is proud to continue its relationship with classic author Ray Bradbury and special-effects genius Ray Harryhausen.  The two old friends return to the gallery to introduce and sign their new books and new limited edition art prints.  Ray Bradbury will be signing a NEW print from his fabled Halloween Tree paintings, as well as his  new books, "Farewell Summer" and "The Homecoming." Ray Harryhausen will be signing his new limited edition print, “The Battle of the Cyclops”, the latest in our Ray Harryhausen Collection, as well as his  books,  "An Animated Life" and "The Art of Ray Harryhausen." 
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY is located at 1311-C Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90403. Our phone is (310) 451-2700. The gallery is open Mon-Sat, 10 AM-6 PM, Sunday, 11 AM-5 PM and 24/7 on the web.
For more events, art and books visit:  www.everypicture.com
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BREWERY ARTWALK
Saturday and Sunday October 7, 8, 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.
2100 N. Main Street, (5 Freeway at Main Street), Lincoln Heights, CA 90031
Directions & More Info:
323-342-0717
E-mail,BreweryArtwalk@yahoo.com
Web site,http://www.breweryartwalk.com
Please direct e-mail inquiries about the exhibition to the gallery’s address (above); DO NOT use “Reply” button, it will send to ArtScene.
To view formatted version of this announcement online:
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Brewery Artwalk, October 7 and 8

What: The Brewery Artwalk, a FREE weekend of Open Artist Studios at the Brewery Arts Colony.

Who: Over 100 Artists, Painters, Sculptors, and Designers open the doors of their art studios to the public.

When: Saturday & Sunday, October 7 & 8, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Where: The Brewery Arts Colony, at the 5 Freeway and North Main Street, Downtown L.A. (2100 N. Main St, L.A. CA 90031)

The world's largest Art Colony is located in Downtown L.A.! The Brewery is an Artist Studio Loft complex converted from the industrial buildings of a brewery and bottling plant. It is now home to over 300 artists and arts-related businesses.

The Brewery Artwalk is FREE and open to the public! If you are looking to give the gift of original fine art the Artwalk is the place for quality art at studio prices, all in a great setting in which to spend an afternoon. Come to the Brewery Artwalk!

The Brewery is located at the Main Street exit off of the 5 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles.

Directions & More Info: http://www.breweryartwalk.com. Free admission - Free parking (courtesy of UPS)

The Brewery Artwalk Association,
A California Non-Profit Association
2100 N. Main St. #A9 Los Angeles, CA 90031

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GALLERY NIGHT OUT ON THE MIRACLE MILE
Friday, October 6, 2006, 6-10pm

PRESENTED BY
MID CITY WEST COMMUNITY COUNCIL
Contact: Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran
323.965.2705, fax 323.852.1407
E-mail, info@midcitywest.org
Web site, http://www.midcitywest.org
Please direct e-mail inquiries about the exhibition to the gallery’s address (above); DO NOT use “Reply” button, it will send to ArtScene.
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GALLERY NIGHT OUT ON THE MIRACLE MILE ON OCTOBER 6th PRESENTED BY MID CITY WEST COMMUNITY COUNCIL RETURNS NEXT WEEK

Los Angeles – Based on the tremendous success in April and July, The Mid City West Community Council will again present a Gallery Night Out along Wilshire Blvd and La Brea Avenue, on Friday, October 6, 2006 from 6 pm to 10 pm. This Friday evening event will be a highlight of the 4th Annual TarFest, a local festival of film, music and art on the Miracle Mile, October 5-8.

More than twenty art galleries will once again open their doors as free shuttle busses make a continuous loop stopping at participating galleries.

An opening event will be held at 6pm at the “Wilshire Newsstand” at the corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Detroit. Honored guests will be present and buses will depart from that location. Appetizers will be served by Panini Restaurant.

A map of the galleries and bus stops will be available at each gallery and also on the community group's web site, http://www.midcitywest.org. Visitors are encouraged to pick up the shuttle every 20 minutes from 6-9:30pm at participating galleries which will have curbside balloons marking each stop.

The Gallery Night Out event continues to fill the streets with art lovers, including 4th District Councilmember Tom La Bonge. He stated “This is the kind of event which invigorates the community and brings culture to everyone”.

The Mid City West Community Council anticipates another successful event with many participating galleries.

For more information, call Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran, 323.965.2705

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L2kontemporary
post industrial art for the post industrial age
990 N. Hill St. #205, Los Angeles 90012-1753
(626) 319-3661, Fax (323) 225-1282
E-mail, l2kontemporary@sbcglobal.net
Web site, http://www.l2kontemporary.com
Thursday – Saturday, 12-6pm; or by appointment
Please direct e-mail inquiries about the exhibition to the gallery’s address (above); DO NOT use “Reply” button, it will send to ArtScene.
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Scharff’s collages from India and Nepal glow with the radiant colors of those dynamic cultures. They resonate with the commercial ‘street’ images, the flamboyance of saturated reds, oranges and blues, and the visual vibrancy of daily life. They are poetic icons of reverence to that life and the cultures in which she has explored, walked and worked.

Gathering the discarded petals of street life, she has synthesized these waste scraps into bright, compressed compositions, miniature memorials to the cultures she has encountered. She has said that “I have a need to connect with the world as a larger whole.” Margi Scharff’s work and her extraordinary experiences are unique to her. They glow with universality.

--Mac McCloud

“Each time I go to a new place --each time I begin a new work--I have to begin with a trust--a trust in the process of making art and a trust in life itself.”
--Margi Scharff, 2002
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Downtown Art Walk
Second Thursday of Every Month
October, 2006 Art Walk:
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 12 - 9 pm
(some locations close at 8 pm, see details on Art Walk map)

Contact: Bert Green
213-624-6212
E-mail, downtownartwalk@bgfa.us
Web site, http://www.downtownartwalk.com
Please direct e-mail inquiries about the exhibition to the gallery’s address (above); DO NOT use “Reply” button, it will send to ArtScene.
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The Downtown Art Walk is a free, self-guided tour of the many art exhibition venues in Downtown Los Angeles - commercial art galleries, museums, and non-profit arts venues. Public information and a printable map of the Downtown Art Walk are available at http://www.downtownartwalk.com.

Participants in the Downtown Art Walk are the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles Public Library, Grey Goose, L.A. Artcore Center, 2nd Street Cigars and Gallery, de Soto, M. J. Higgins, bank, Crewest, The Regent Galleries, Pharmaka, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, El Nopal Press, Bert Green Fine Art, INMO Gallery, Niche.LA/Lounge 441, Kristi Engle Gallery, Art Murmur Gallery, 626 Gallery, Gallery 727, The Hive Gallery, Infusion Gallery, IMG-81, Museum of Neon Art (MONA), and the Downtown Art Gallery.

Visitors are encouraged to arrive by public transit, as the Art Walk is easily accessible by the Red, Gold, and Blue line trains which run until midnight, and the area is well served by the DASH bus system until 6:30 pm. Parking is plentiful in the areas many paid lots and garages, at meters on the street until 4 pm, and free after 6 pm on most streets.

The Downtown Art Walk is sponsored by Pete's Cafe & Bar at 4th & Main Streets, and 213 Ventures' Golden Gopher and Broadway Bar. The Downtown Art Walk is a program of the non-profit Gallery Row Organization.

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Parlor Performances

WHO & WHAT...  * Jay Leonhart's hilariously hip musical comedy THE BASS LESSON  WHEN & WHERE...  * Wed. Oct. 25 * Coffee Gallery * 2029 N. Lake * Altadena * $20 * (626) 398-7917 * www.coffeegallery.com  * Thu. Oct. 26 @ 8pm * Steinway Hall * 12121 W. Pico Bl. (under Fields Pianos - level P2) in West L.A. * $25 * RSVP: jeannine@frankentertainment or (310) 471-3979 -------------------------- OCTOBER 10, 2006   Tuesday   11 AM TO 3 PM Ballona Creek Watershed Greenway Free Bus Tour & Nature Hike http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saveballona/ -------------------------- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/fcc-chairman-martin-hears_b_30912.html?view=print  FCC Chairman Martin Hears Overwhelming Public Opposition to Big Media  A standing-room only crowd of more than 500 Angelenos packed into USC's Davidson Conference Center today to speak out against media consolidation. -------------------------- http://www.latimes.com/business/la-100506johnson,0,3972238.story?coll=la-home-headlines Times Publisher Johnson Is Asked to Resign -------------------------- Greetings all you myspacers, you rockers, you lovemakers, you heart-breakers, you fast-track takers...you internet radio wave makers...  This Just In:  Thursday October 12th @ 11:00pm., you are cordially invited to The Viper Room, in West Hollywood, CA. 8852 Sunset Blvd., to experience a whole new sound with my new and improved trio. Cover only $7 Would love to see all of your faces in the audience that night. It is going to be a BLAST!   Get there early to enjoy some other fine melodius combustions. Perhaps we can do a bit of dancing before my show. And a huge thankyou to all of you for your support and your love and light.  Vessy Mink  LSL www.vessy.com ------------------------------ 
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Friday, September 29, 2006

2nd ANNUAL ECHO PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL

ECHO PARK LAKE, LOS ANGELES, CA
(1020 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca. 90026 )

Saturday Sept. 30th & Sunday Oct. 1st
10am-8pm

A FREE concert featuring an All-Echo Park line-up of musicians and
ensembles including:

James Lumb aka Electric SkyChurch
Future Pigeon
Mezklah
Why?Things Burn
Listing Ship
Atomic Sherpas
Dreaming Ferns
Downbeats
Puttanesca
Visions of Hildegard
and more . . .

Echo Park is one of the oldest neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Located
about two miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Echo Park is an
incredibly diverse and culturally rich neighborhood that is more than a
century old. Neighborhood landmarks include its namesake Echo Park Lake
, Angelus Temple , Elysian Park and Victorian-era Angelino Heights . In
the past, many musicians thrived here including Marilyn Horn, and Art
Pepper. Rumor has it that Woody Guthrie and even Neil Young once lived
in the Echo Park hills.

Today, many musicians, visual artists and poets live in this "poor man's
Laurel Canyon" and the Music Festival is an opportunity for community
members to come out and sit by Echo Park Lake, enjoy a picnic and a live
performance by many of the bands who make their homes and create music
here.

Organized by violinist and EP resident, Varoujan Nalbandian, the
Festival has the support of local businesses and community groups
including the Echo Park Improvement Association, the Greater Echo Park
Elysian Neighborhood Council, Department of Recreation and Parks,
Council Member Eric Garcetti's office and the LA Alternative Press
(which is the exclusive media sponsor.)

Please visit www.echoparkmusicfestival.com for more info.

Monday, September 25, 2006

Friday, September 22, 2006

Thursday, September 21, 2006

The History Book




The History Book on Google Books

—WANTED— Posters on Immigration

The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) is updating its Immigration exhibition No Human Being Is Illegal! Posters on the Myths and Realities of the Immigrant Experience, last displayed in Los Angeles in 1999. CSPG is asking artists, organizations and activists for poster donations to renovate this exhibition and help it circulate in Los Angeles as soon as possible.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...” The disparity between the eloquent promise on the Statue of Liberty and the increasing attacks directed against immigrants is enormous. Whether against the Irish or Chinese in the nineteenth century, the Japanese interned in the 1940s, or Mexicans, Central Americans and Middle Easterners now, discrimination based on race, class, language, and culture has unfortunately been consistent. The 21st century now brings us both legal attempts to criminalize immigrants—in HR 4437, and vigilante attempts to thwart and punish—as with the Minute Men. But we have also recently seen the largest demonstrations in U.S. history, as millions of immigrants and their supporters have taken to the streets to show solidarity. No Human Being is Illegal is an exhibition about discrimination and prejudice, but it is also about hope, commitment and determination. It is reclaiming the power of art to communicate and inspire people to act to make a difference.

Criteria for posters CSPG collects:
1). It must be produced in multiples such as silkscreen, offset, stencil, litho, digital output etc.
2). The poster must have overt political content.

If you would like to to donate posters, please contact:
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
8124 West Third Street, Suite 211
Los Angeles, CA 90048-4039
tel: 323.653.4662 • fax: 323.653.6991
email: cspg@politicalgraphics.org

With more than 50,000 posters, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has the largest collection of post World War II posters in the U.S. Through traveling exhibitions, online photo albums, internships, and volunteer opportunities, CSPG is reclaiming the power of art to educate, agitate and inspire action.

Subvertisements— Using Ads & Logos for Protest


Subvertisements— Using Ads & Logos for Protest
Submissions due by December 15, 2006

Subvertisements will feature posters that use well-known logos and advertising imagery to tackle ongoing struggles for social change at home and abroad.

For more information contact CSPG:
323.653.4662
cspg@politicalgraphics.org

Art shown above: iRaq,Forkscrew Graphics, Silkscreen, 2004, Los Angeles, California

This exhibition is funded in part by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

STAN’S CAFE, “OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Skirball Cultural Center presents
STAN’S CAFE, “OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD”
September 26–October 1, 2006

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90049 (Exit Skirball Center Drive off the 405)
(310) 440-4500, fax (310) 440-4595
Contact: Stacy Lieberman (310) 440-4578, or Mia Carino (310) 440-4544
Email, communications@skirball.org
Web site, http://www.skirball.org
Please direct e-mail inquiries about the exhibition to the gallery’s address (above); DO NOT use “Reply” button, it will send to ArtScene.
To view formatted version of this announcement online:
http://artscenecal.com/Announcements/0906/Skirball0906b.html


Stan’s Cafe, performance stillsof "Of All the People in All the World" by Ed Dimsdale

Acclaimed performance installation will use 5½ tons of rice to illustrate human life

Los Angeles—Of All the People in All the World, by British theater company Stan’s Cafe, will open at the Skirball Cultural Center on September 26 for a one-week limited engagement as part of the troupe’s first U.S. tour. It will remain on view through October 1, 2006. In this deeply affecting work of art, five artists, all dressed in factory uniforms, will measure grains of rice to quantify statistics about human life. At their disposal will be 11,000 lbs. of the staple food—the weight of 300 million grains of rice, one grain for every person in the United States. The performers will place the rice into labeled piles portraying wide-ranging truths, from the most serious historical and contemporary facts and figures—the U.S. prison population, the civilian deaths in wars around the world in the last 10 years, the number of Tibetans living in exile today, for example—to such pop-culture trivia as the headcount at Charles and Camilla’s wedding or the thousands of “American Idol” auditions last season. The statistics represented will be changed continually over the course of the work’s six-day run at the Skirball, creating a shifting landscape of rice inside the gallery where it will be staged.

During Of All the People in All the World, visitors will be encouraged to converse with the performers, share their own stories and discuss the demographics to which they may belong. Occasionally, the artists will measure statistics suggested by visitors on the spot. To complement the work’s exhibition at the Skirball, Stan’s Cafe will also lead four interactive workshops for local elementary and middle-school students as part of the Skirball’s school outreach initiative. Participating youths will research statistics, build mounds of rice to illustrate their findings and regard the discrete grains of rice that represent themselves in the context of the millions of others on display.

“Our aim in producing this work is to capture a picture of the world in all of its vastness and mystery as well as its everyday ordinariness,” explained Stan’s Cafe artistic director, James Yarker. “It links today with yesterday, big moments in history with personal memories, great successes of the human race alongside its terrible failures and the challenges it continues to face.”

Since its premiere at the Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry, England in May 2003, Of All the People in the World has toured throughout the United Kingdom and has traveled to Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain and Ireland. The German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung praised the work, remarking that “the knowledge gained is astonishing.” Of All the People in the World will make its U.S. premiere September 8 through 17, 2006, at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s annual Time-Based Festival.

Stan’s Cafe’s performance is presented at the Skirball between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish High Holy Days that mark the Jewish New Year and are known as the Days of Awe, a time of reflection for Jewish people around the world.

“We hope Of All the People in All the World will inspire visitors from the diverse communities of Los Angeles to reflect on our small, purposeful roles in an ever-expanding global society,” added Jordan Peimer, Director of Programs at the Skirball. “Some of the statistics portrayed are dismal and shocking, others playful and celebratory. These intriguing—and surprisingly beautiful—piles of rice make tangible the myriad connections among people, communities and cultures.”

At the Skirball, Of All the People in All the World will be performed by Amanda Hadingue, Charlotte Goodwin, Heather Burton, Karen Stafford and Craig Stephens, who is also associate artistic director of Stan’s Cafe. The 11,000 lbs. of rice used in the work will be recycled for animal feed when the performance is completed.

Based in Birmingham, England, Stan’s Cafe is one of Britain’s most groundbreaking theater companies today. Its members are primarily theater practitioners, working under Yarker’s artistic direction. Their unusual name, pronounced “Stan’s Kaff,” takes after the name of the café where Yarker and co-founder Graeme Rose agreed to form the company in 1991. Stan’s Cafe’s oeuvre encompasses a broad range of media, including screen-based art, theater, radio and site-specific performances requiring extensive audience participation. Most recently, the company completed Home of the Wriggler, a production powered by stationary bicycles pedaled by the cast members themselves.

Of All the People in All the World will be open during regular museum hours (see below for details); regular admission applies. Admission will be free on Sunday, October 1, as part of the citywide “Museums Free-for-All” during which day visitors will be welcomed to museums across Los Angeles at no charge. Admission to Of All the People in All the World will also be free on Thursday, September 28, as all Skirball exhibitions are free to the public every Thursday. Of All the People in the World is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Rwanda/After, Darfur/Now: Photographs by Michal Ronnen Safdie, on view through October 1, 2006.

PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM THE BRITISH COUNCIL USA.

Related exhibition:

RWANDA: AFTER DARFUR: NOW
Photographs by Michal Ronnen Safdie
Through October 1, 2006
$8 General, $6 Seniors and Students
Free to Skirball Members, Children under 12, and Full-Time students on weekdays with valid ID
Includes admission to all exhibitions

Tickets available at the door

This exhibition presents nearly 40 color and black-and-white photographs taken during Michal Ronnen Safdie’s travels to the Central African countries of Rwanda and Chad. In 2002, she focused on the pilot phase of Rwanda’s gacaca tribunals, an emotionally-charged public confessional process meant to resolve the fates of lower-level genocide suspects and help victims learn precisely how their loved ones were murdered. In 2004, she documented the hardships of the refugees displaced from Sudan’s Darfur region living in Bahai, a makeshift camp on the Chadian border; two-thirds of the camp’s 18,000 refugees were women and children, still in shock from the genocide carried out against their families and communities. The exhibition challenges us to look at the aftermath and consequences of cruelty and violence perpetrated by individuals against their neighbors and by governments against their own citizens.

Born in Jerusalem, Ronnen Safdie is author of The Western Wall (1997), a book of photographs with an introduction by Yehuda Amichai, which also took the form of an international traveling exhibition. Her work has been exhibited at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries in New York, Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, and Tel Aviv University Art Gallery. Her photographs are included in museum and private collections, including George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and The Jewish Museum in New York.

THIS EXHIBITION HAS BEEN FULLY SUPPORTED BY SEVEN ANONYMOUS DONORS.

Visiting the Skirball: The Skirball Cultural Center is located at 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (exit Skirball Ctr Dr off the 405). Regular museum hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00–5:00 p.m.; extended hours on Thursdays until 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; closed Mondays. PLEASE NOTE THAT OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD WILL CLOSE ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, AT 3:00 P.M. IN OBSERVANCE OF YOM KIPPUR. Admission to OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN ALL THE WORLD is $8 General, $6 Seniors, and free to children under 12, full-time students, and Skirball Members. It is also free to the general public on Thursday, September 28, and Sunday, October 1. For general information, the public may call (310) 440-4500 or visit <http://www.skirball.org>.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Save Darfur

Stephen Longfellow Fiske

8PM Saturday

Venice folksinger *Stephen Longfellow Fiske* will entertain at the P&F Center, 1720 Main St. He is a long time resident of Venice, and an activist with issues such as the mess on the Ocean Front Walk and Earth Day. He is also the author of "The Art of Peace, and an artist. Check out the rest of the P&F Center Calendar at
www.VenicePeaceandFreedom.org

Venice Music Festival

All Day Sunday

The Venice Music Festival, formerly known as Jazz at Palms Court takes place on the 700 block of Palms Blvd. The morning brunch costs $100, but you can come from 1-6pm for a $20 donation. See all your old friends, meet new ones.
I'll be doing the audio engineering.

Venice Arts Council is having a booth at the VCHC World Music event fundraiser on this
coming Sunday, 17th, Brunch 11am - 1pm, Afternoon Concert 2 - 6pm. To booth
sit you do not need to pay. If you wish to come in
the yard for the event you need to pay at the door.

The Life and Times of Harry Bridges

8PM Tuesday and Wednesday

>From *Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks - The Life and Times of Harry Bridges* - at the Pacific Resident Theater, 703 Venice Blvd. This is a one-person play starring Ian Ruskin as the great longshore labor leader, Harry Bridges. It's particularly timely since Bridges was an immigrant who the government tried more than once to deport. In spite of that, he built the most powerful, and democratic, union of our time.

The Golden Age of Chicano Rock 'n' Roll

7 Dudley Cinema - 8pm

WED, Sept 20. THE RING ('52, 79m) Domenic Priore & Gene Aguilera, authors of the forthcoming book The Golden Age of Chicano Rock 'n' Roll: An East L.A. Visual History, host a very rare screening of this evocative tale set in downtown L.A.'s Bunker Hill district of a young Mexican-American boxer who learns the dirty truth about the fight game. With Art Aragon, a local boxing idol who was the only game in town (pre-Dodgers, Lakers, Rams). Chicano teenagers in the film wear just-post-Pachuco fashions, lookin' very proto-Rock 'n' Roll. Also: rare clips of legendary East LA groups, such as Ritchie Valens ("La Bamba"), Thee Midniters ("Whittier Blvd.") and Cannibal & the Headhunters ("Land of 1000 Dances) at the height of their success, and 20 minute preview of Jon Wilkman's documentary Chicano Rock! 7pm pre-show features poetry reading by Ruben Guevara (Ruben & the Jets), plus a Q&A and CD signing with Little Willie G. and Jimmy Espinoza of Thee Midniters.

Ray Jessel at Parlor Performances

PARLOR PERFORMANCES
presents ON A HUMOROUS NOTE: Evenings with America's
Wittiest Songwriters!
Saturday, September 16 @ 8pm * RAY JESSEL�s "Songs from the Ridiculous to
the Romantic!"

�Ray is the millennium Noel Coward! I love his songs." Michael Feinstein
"...you'd be foolish if you missed Ray when he's performing in your
town." Carl Reiner

The last lyricist to work with Richard Rodgers, Jessel was
co-composer/lyricist of the Broadway Sherlock Holmes musical "BAKER
STREET." His songs are recorded by Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Durante, Sammy
Davis Jr., Michael Feinstein, and others. Making his debut (at 72!) as a
cabaret artist at the Gardenia in 2002, Ray has since performed
throughout North America and has been featured at New York�s Town Hall.
Ray�s CD, �Ray Jessel - The First 70 Years� will be available for
purchase at the show!

STEINWAY HALL @ FIELDS PIANOS * 12121 W. Pico Bl. (one door west of Bundy
on Level P2)
Intimate 100-seat hall � RSVP early! * $25 cash or check at the door! *
Park Free in Building Lot!
To RSVP & for Monthly Calendar call (310) 471-3979 or e-mail
jeannine@frankentertainment.com

"Next Stop, Hollywoodland"

"Next Stop, Hollywoodland"

******* A Voice In The Well Production *******
Wednesday, Sept 20, 2006 at 7:30pm

WARSZAWA PATIO & BAR
1414 Lincoln Bl (& Santa Monica Bl)
Santa Monica 90405

Featuring:
Catherine De Las Casas & Michael Lindsay
present a Woody Allen detective genre spoof: MR BIG
Michael Lindsay returns as 'Sam Spade' and Maire Clerkin
guiles him as 'Brigid O'Shaughnessy' in The Maltese Falcon
William H Bassett reads a Groucho Marx letter to WARNER BROS during their infamous feud over A Night In Casablanca
Bassett returns as the Corporate Honcho who reads the riot act to Lindsay's News Reporter "Howard Beale" in a blistering satirical scene from Paddy Chayevski's classic: Network;
Eric Oleson plays gumshoe 'Philip Marlowe' and Judith Ryskiewicz parries with him as 'Vivian Sternwood,' the role Lauren Bacall made famous in a double entendre scene written by William Faulkner for The Big Sleep;
Poet and Songstress Carmen Vega presents her original work based on her life here on the Edge of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams;
Eric Oleson & Maire Clerkin return as 'Sully' and 'The Ingenue"
in Preston Sturges' classic Sullivan's Travels;
Vinnie Caggiano plays eclectic variations on Henry Mancini music;
Produced & Hosted by Eric Vollmer

Virtual Venice

NEW AT VIRTUAL VENICE
For quick access it's all here on the home page, in the "New" box
http://www.virtualvenice.info/index.htm#new

*** Rubber Tramps of Venice (and elsewhere) celebrating life on the road.
Contest: Tell the webslave about your worst road trip ever, for the chance to
win a copy of Rubber Tramps on DVD

*** Gerald Wiegert and the Vector Supercar

*** Paul Tanck on Venice-related Films

*** "Song of the South": a Fascist Film? by Thomas Pleasure. Remember the 1961
controversy around the Fox Venice showing this?

*** "Alley Trip" new Venice painting by Pat Hartman

*** 25 Years Ago in the Free Venice Beachhead
by Rick Davidson, about the early days of the Peace & Freedom Party and the role
played by John Haag and Anna Haag and numerous other dedicated activists, birth
of the Beachhead, the dreaded Canal Project

*** New page "The Spectre" No. 2, Spring 1962 - apparently an online exclusive.
Transcription of first page editorial by John Haag

*** Questions - a whole lot of us need help remembering stuff from back in the
day, locating lost friends, etc. Answer a question or ask one!

Thank you to everybody who sends in stuff. Eventually it will all wind up in the
right place.

*** Nobody Leaves Venice - 7 new entries for a total of 54

*** 25 Years Ago in Venice
from Call Someplace Paradise and Ghost Town: A Venice California Life

*** Venice Memorabilia - buy this stuff and help keep Virtual Venice going

*** Venice in Books - new entries

*** Venice in Magazines and other ephemeral places - new entries

*** Quotations about Venice - total of 98

*** Venice in Films - 12 new entries for a total of 261

*** Actors, Screenwriters, Directors, Novelists and Journalists Actors etc. who
live or lived in Venice - 11 new entries for a total of 215

*** Actors, Screenwriters, Directors, Novelists and Journalists with
Studio,Office or Hangout in Venice - new entries for a total of 99

*** Theater in Venice, Venice in Theater - new entries

*** Poets Roster - new entries

*** Music in Venice - new entries

*** Venice Links - new entries for a total of 82, sorted into Art, Fun,
Happenings, History, Humans, Issues, Literature, Music, Press

Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media


CORPORATE MEDIA EXPOSED BY A PROGRESSIVE WHO GOT INSIDE



Jeff Cohen In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, Jeff Cohen takes you inside TV news and the conservative biases, timidity and tabloidism that dominate it. Few media critics have been afforded an intimate, on-the-job view of the outlets they condemn, but Cohen -- who founded the media watch group FAIR -- spent years at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. He was a senior producer at MSNBC’s Donahue during the run-up to the Iraq war, and witnessed war-enabling bias and censorship firsthand. He tells all in a biting, humorous paperback taking aim at the entire rightwing hot-air brigade that Cohen saw up close: O'Reilly, Hannity, Buchanan, Novak, Falwell, etc. (Ann Coulter wouldn’t debate him.) The book includes a foreword by Jim Hightower.

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MOLLY IVINS says: "Jeff Cohen's dissection of cable TV news is both irresistibly funny and civically painful. It goes from uproarious anecdotes to those that make you wince."

IF YOU LIKED "OUTFOXED," YOU'LL LOVE CABLE NEWS CONFIDENTIAL.

The book has won praise from Robert Greenwald, Tim Robbins, Studs Terkel,
Bob McChesney
and others.

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AMY GOODMAN: "Read this book and fight for change."

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Protest at Afghan Embassy

LAIndyMedia points out that a group of women from Afghaninjustice.com are planning to don burkas and chain themselves to the Afghan Embassy in Los Angeles to protest Afghan President Hamid Karzai's failure to outlaw burkas, treat women better and provide the free Democratic government he supposedly promised.

SHEPARD FAIREY, “RISE ABOVE”


SHEPARD FAIREY, “RISE ABOVE”
September 16 – October 14, 2006
Opening reception: Saturday, September 16, 8 – 11 pm

Merry Karnowsky Gallery
170 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90036
323.933.4408
E-mail: mkgallery@mindspring.com
Website : http://www.mkgallery.com


Shepard Fairey, “Guns and Roses”, 2006, Mixed Media Unique Collage, 39" x 30".

In Shepard Fairey’s newest exhibition titled Rise Above the artist continues a highly charged visual discourse that attempts to reveal and skewer abuses of power, governmental hypocrisy, and loss of civil liberties. Inspired by one of Fairey’s favorite punk bands, Black Flag, the title refers to lyrics that call for people who are dissatisfied with the system to rise above the problems to provoke change, or work outside of it. “Jealous cowards try to control... rise above, we're gonna rise above”. Peace advocacy and the questioning of power and authority are dominant themes.

The exhibition will feature politically charged screenprint, stencil, and hand collaged mixed media art works which use metaphor, humor, and seductively stylized elements to deliver beautiful, provocative results. The works blur the perceived barriers between propaganda and escapist decoration, political responsibility and humor, all with the intent to stimulate both viscerally and intellectually.