Sometimes "C" can be short for "Culinary Delight".
Sometimes "C" can also be short for "Diarrhea". Oh and also short for "fucking stupid Justin. stupid."
When will this war on my bowels end, China?!
March 2007 Archives
May 23 - The Orpheum Theater
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
Special guests Eva Marie Saint and Patricia Hitchcock will be interviewed by filmmaker Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile), schedules permitting. Legendary organist Bob Mitchell performs on the Orpheum's original Mighty Wurlitzer organ before the show.
May 30 - The Los Angeles Theater
ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)
Film critic/historian Leonard Maltin hosts the evening that includes an on-stage fashion show featuring the glamorous work of legendary costume designer Edith Head, who won an Oscar for her work on Roman Holiday.
June 6 - The Orpheum Theater
FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1926)
The acclaimed Robert Israel Orchestra accompanies the feature, preceded by a screening of the beautiful and unusual 1920s short film "Moonland", with live organ accompaniment.
June 13 - The Los Angeles Theater
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
It's Oscar Night at LRS hosted by Randy Haberkamp, Director of Education Programs at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The evening includes short films from the Academy's archive, and a rare plaster Oscar statuette from the wartime years on display in the lobby.
June 20 - The Anson Ford Theater
LA BALANDRA ISABEL (1949)
(The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon) Actor Wilmer Valderrama will host the evening (schedule permitting). Live musical performance by the PAWS Music Afro-Cuban Folkore Ensemble in the Ford's intimate gardens from 7:00 7:45 p.m. Bring a picnic basket, relax, and enjoy the music before the screening. Food and drink allowed in the amphitheatre.
June 27 - The Alex Theater
SCARFACE (1932)
Popular swing band Mora’s Modern Rhythmists performs tunes of the 1930s featuring music by Gus Arnheim. Also on the program is the Hearst Metrotone News from December 24, 1932.
They do say the higher the hair the closer to god... :P
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Ultra Lux Salon & Lounge
1312 Aviation Blvd. Suite #101
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
12pm-6pm
$10 per person
$5 per Car (Driver Only)
Bands:
-Big Sandy & The Flyrite Boys
-The Hellzaboppers
-DJ Renegade Rob
Vendors:
-Gasoline
-Sneaky Tiki (Clothing & Jewelry)
-Dave Sanchez (Tattoo Artist)
-Tres Noir (Sunglasses)
-Bettie B' Dangerous (Swim Wear)
On January 29th or maybe 30th, 2007, Barflies.net the website turned 8 years old! Wahoo!
The music website that could has just gotten bigger and better:
* New Design for easier reading and viewing!
* New Blogs! Art / Design, DIY, the Geek Life, Life, Style, Upcoming in addition to Bowling, Music, and the SoCal Calendar.
* New contributors: Welcome to Kyle, Jessa, the Cublicle Gangsta, JKat, and Secret Asian Man!
Give us a week or two to work out the bits and bobs, then add the new Barflies.net 4.0 to your feed reader.
Funny, a few months back I was trying to find a list of the bands that played Viva 2004 (or '05 or so). I searched and searched with no luck and alllllmost gave up... until I finally hit a page that had the lineup listed. It was mine. That I posted here on Barflies.
With that said, the 10th Anniversary is too big for me to bother typing. So at the risk of screwing over my future self... I give you:
a link
:P
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The Rockabilly Party Weekend!
April 5-8, 2007
Viva Las Vegas 10 will take place at:
The Gold Coast Hotel & Casino
4000 W. Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV 89103
Showrooms open until 7am Friday - Sunday
Ballrooms open until 4am Thursday - Sunday
Other events scheduled at this year's VLV:
#VLV Shifters car show
# Tiki Pool Party
# Lucky Wristband Number Draw
# Burlesque Competition
# Miss Wolff's Jiving Dance School
# The Viva Las Vegas Jiving Competition
# The Charles Phoenix Vintage Slide Show
# Rockabilly Hall of Fame 10th Anniversary Show
# World Famous Artist Vince Ray will be present for autographsFree VLV 10 CD!
# Viva Las Vegas Art Show hosted by 8 Ball featuring rtwork by: Bosko; Sunny Buick; Dave Burke; Kirsten Easthope; Ewik; Doug Horne; Munktiki; David Perry; Lisa Petrucci; Mark "Atomos" Pilar; Sara Ray; Keith Weesner; Derek Yaniger; Mr. G; Makoto; Grimb; Wish; Jet Wrench; Fudemae; Dale Sizer; more TBA
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Now that it's Daylight Saving Time, the clock in my truck is correct again. If only there were awards for such laziness. Sigh.
Check out this Japanese fusion restaurant that just opened on La Cienega: http://www.tokyotable.com/
The pricing is decent, the service is fast, and the food is delicious! I give it five stars.
Polynesian pop-themed sideshow freaks? oh my,,,,
March 11, 2007
6 PM
$12 - $27
Safari Sam's
www.safari-sams.com
For more info, see: Freakshow Deluxe
There are some things you come to expect from your family and from your hometown. When I go home to Riverside, for example, I expect that my grandmother will complain incessantly about her gardener, but she'll never fire him. My grandmother has employed this gardener for the better part of 20 years, and not once have I ever heard her express pleasure with his work. He broke the sprinklers; he said he fixed the leak, but he didn't, he overcharged her for this and that...My grandmother, mind you, is not one of those cranky old ladies who does nothing but sit around and bitch all day. She's a firecracker, and the mantra of her life is "Keep a happy heart." She writes it on almost every card and letter she sends me, and reminds me of it every time we talk on the phone. So when my grandmother complains that her gardener is doing a lousy job, I take it to mean that her gardener is doing a lousy job. And although she's threatened to fire him, she never does. What makes even less sense to me, though, is that about five years after my grandmother hired this particular gardener (and began her two decades of complaining about him), my parents hired him, too. I must have been about thirteen at the time, and even then, I remember thinking, "Why?" And sure enough, soon my parents started expressing dissatisfaction with his work. "I told him it was too early to prune the roses, but he did anyway," was my mother's first complaint. It's not clear to me what my parents expected from this man.
Another expectation that I have from Riverside is that the service at Farmer Boys' will leave much to be desired. It's one of a handful of restaurants within a mile of my parents' house, and while it's a chain, it's not a super-huge chain, and it cooks food to order. When you're in the mood for a quick meal, when your other options are Del Taco and Jack in the Box, you can see how the sandwiches at Farmer Boys' are awfully appealing. Unfortunately, the service is terrible, but like my grandmother's gardener, we can't seem to stop giving this restaurant our money. When my girlfriends from high school fill out those ridiculous "high school" surveys on myspace (okay, I'm guilty of the occasional myspace bulletin, too), when the question about "off-campus lunch" comes up, they all seem to mention Farmer Boys' as our most frequented restaurant. My father and his friends also enjoy meeting there for breakfast on weekend mornings, despite that their orders constantly get mixed up, and that the staff always seems cranky. My dad's best friend once even got into a shouting match with the cashier over something ridiculous. The last time my mom and I went there, they forgot part of our order, but after so many years, we'd come to expect it, and weren't really bothered by it.
But something happened recently that has me both delighted and concerned. I'd gone home to visit last weekend With my work schedule, "weekends" consist of Thursdays and Fridays, which doesn't bode too well for my social schedule, but works great for running errands, like, say, closing checking accounts, which was my mission last Friday. I'd opened a checking account at this particular bank while I was still going to junior college in Riverside, and thought that having a bank that was open on Saturdays would be quite convenient. It was a small bank, with branches only in Riverside, but I liked the personal attention I got. The tellers knew my name, and always asked how school or work was going, until I started going to school in Orange County. By this time, the bank had been bought out by a slightly larger bank and no longer had "Saturday hours," so I was forced to ask my sister to make deposits for me. They were always a little suspicious of my sister, since her ID didn't identify her as Victoria Pepper, but they never could figure out the harm in letting her deposit money in my account.
I was growing frustrated with ATM fees charged not only by the machine, but also by this bank, when something much more inconvenient than lack of omnipresence happened. After my roommate moved to Oklahoma with a girl he'd met on myspace less than six months prior, I was forced to find a new apartment. I found a super-cheap apartment on craigslist and wanted to secure it right away. But the landlord would accept money orders or cash only for the $650 deposit. Since I couldn't withdraw more than $200 a day from the ATM, I'd have to go to one of the branches to withdraw the money in person. I thought I'd just go online and find out where the nearest branch was, and hope there was one near the valley. I found the website for this bank, and to my horror, saw that it was ENTIRELY IN SPANISH.
Needless to say, I neither speak nor read Spanish.
I called the local Riverside branch, and asked (in English) if they had any branches in LA, specifically, in the Valley. The nearest one was in San Fernando. My boss graciously allowed me the time off of work to make the trip up there, where, as you can probably guess, I was the only white person in sight. When I arrived at the bank, the signs were all in Spanish, and the teller was talking to the only other customer there in Spanish. Fortunately, when she saw me, she figured she'd better speak in English. I made the withdrawal, put the deposit down, and decided that it was probably time to take advantage of Washington Mutual's free checking accounts. I opened one in July.
Since then, I've been holding two checking and two savings accounts, and last weekend, I decided that it was time to only keep one checking account. I arrived at the Riverside branch, prepared to be given an argument as to why I should keep my checking account. Sure enough, when I explained that I spent a lot of time in LA, which didn't have a lot of this bank's branches, I was told, "We have a lot of branches in LA."
Clearly, this was not a woman who's ever had to live in Los Angeles. Four or five branches in LA does not constitute "a lot." When the nearest branch is twenty miles away, and takes an hour to get there, looking at other options makes a lot of sense. But I tempered the blow by reminding her that I'd be keeping my savings account there.
Following this, it was time to eat, and I was prepared for lousy service but nice, fresh food at Farmer Boys.' You can only imagine my shock and surprise when the cashiers were more than cordial, my order was correct and complete, the waitress volunteered to refill my drink, twice asked if everything was all right, and before I could throw away my trash, a waiter offered to take care of it for me. In telling my story to my parents, recalled similar recent experiences. It seems that Farmer Boys' has stepped up to the plate.
So now I'm wondering if maybe my grandmother will be getting a new gardener.
This Saturday, March 3, Santa Anita is presenting a "micro-brew fest" sponsored by KROQ and featuring a weenie total of about 12 breweries. 12? Lame. I don't go to a beer fest unless they've got like 50 micros representin'. But hey, all in attendance receive a free jockey-lamp. So it's not a total loss.
Saturday, March 10th - Two Shows: 1:30 and 3:00 p.m.
Bullocks Wilshire (now Southwestern Law School)
3050 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90010
$35 per person ADSLA member (membership must be current)
$45 per person non-ADSLA member
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Fabulous Vintage Fashion Show at the World Famous Bullocks Wilshire Building! Saturday, March 10th! Two Showings!
Once again the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles is offering its members and friends the opportunity to experience first-hand the glory of High Art Deco Style - - this time at the iconic Bullocks Wilshire Building.
Join us for an afternoon of fun vintage fashion in an unparalleled setting as 30 Years of Pin-up: 1927-1957 comes alive! With 80 vintage garments and live piano accompaniment presented in the exquisite environment of the Louis XVI Salon at Bullocks Wilshire, just as it would have been during the department store's heyday of the 1930s. And collectors take note: A selection of these delightfully evocative garments will be available for purchase following the show. The show will also include some vintage movie costumes previously worn by Ava Gardner, Ginger Rogers, Ann Miller, Esther Williams and Julie Andrews plus many more! It will certainly be an afternoon to remember!
Restored and now occupied by Southwestern this Art Deco gem of a building is not open to the general public, and seating is limited, so you will need to act fast!
Tickets available via Paypal. Ticket purchase deadline: Thursday, March 8th, 5:00 p.m.;
Telephone: Please call 310-659-3326 and leave your name, how many tickets, show time, credit card number, and most importantly, your telephone number. Ticket purchase deadline: Thursday, March 8th, 5:00 p.m.;
Regular mail. Make check payable to ADSLA and mail to PO Box 972; Hollywood, CA 90078. Please make sure you tell us how many tickets, show time, and your telephone number. Ticket purchase deadline: Monday, March 5th, 5:00 p.m.
Parking is $6.00 in the Southwestern Law School parking lot, located behind the Bullocks Wilshire Building at Wilshire Place and Seventh Street. There is also metered parking in the area, please read signs carefully.
No tickets will be mailed. Your name will be on a list
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For More Info: Art Deco Society of Los Angeles Events Page
