Ask Your Waiter… blog’o'fun
Although she is based out of Napa, CA, Showy, a writer and vetran of high-end restaurant business has a lot in common with the multitudes of actor/waiters or any semblance thereof, that thrive daily in the Los Angeles restaurant and food service industry. Her newly posted blog ASK YOUR WAITER welcomes the reader from her [...]
West Side hosts Beer Festival
Come all ye’ beer lovers and cultivated brew worthy gourmets. Over at Sony Studios it is going to be mircrobrew mania. Unlimited tastings. Could be fun…
Ukulady and Gabby La La @ Downtown Artwalk
The Ukulady and her amazing pal Gabby La La (formerly of Les Claypool’s touring band and more!) are playing from 6:00-9:30 pm on Thursday night 2/12 at Downtown ArtWalk in Downtown LA! Gabby plays sitar, uke & accordian and is truly astonishingly magically awesome! She lives in Nor.Cal, so it’s a Special Treat to have [...]
Dharma Punx
What is Dharma Punx? you ask. It’s not a band, but the name of a book by Noah Levine and also the name of his grass roots youthfully inspired Zen meditation movement. This man, now 37, has a fascinating story of how he overcame a violent and hate-filled, disillusioned youth by embracing the Buddhist tradition [...]
Random Voices: A Cappella with a Feminine Flair
Click the following link to see a video of them in action: UCLA\’s Random Voices Yesterday I went to a charity event hosted by the Nili Salem and the CharSam Foundation. As an attendee, I was helping their goal to raise $1000 for the CharSam Orphanage in Ghana, West Africa. As performers at the event, [...]
Go-go Dancing at the Hammer Museum
Head over to the Hammer Museum before February 8th to see this re-creation of a 1991 performance/installation art in the museum’s current show “Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Paintings.” This curation is unique because it has six artists presenting their art along side the artwork of artists who have inspired their work . For [...]
Comedic silent films with live music accompaniment!
On Friday January 16th at 8:00pm in downtown LA at the Orpheum Theater, you will be in for a treat to go see Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd in a double feature of two beloved classics. It is $15 dollars to go but if you join Goldstar, you can get tickets for $7.50. Woo hoo. [...]
Vote K-TOWN in the SHOWDOWN at CurbedLA
Ok. Y’alls. It is time for the Curbed LA Curbed Cup 2008 contest where you get to select the best LA neighborhood of the year. Runner’s up are K-Town and Silverlake, and we know who should win, so we need your votes. K-Town is the cool pre-yuppified Silverlake. You may have never even visited this [...]
Santasia- Who wants funny for Christmas?
This annual, AV enhanced, sketch-comedy hilarity is the highlight of many a person’s year here in Los Angeles, specifically North Hollywood. If you don’t already know about it you must go to experience the magic. Six actors create a whirlwind show of amazing physical comedy, pop culture spoofs, and provide the audience with a whole [...]
Pumpkin Cupcakes
It’s the holiday season. Oh My!. I had the lucky chance to taste the Lenya’s Kitchen famous strawberry cupcakes at the BBQ festival a few months ago. These delightful little morsels are about as yummy as they come and, OH MAN, Pumkin is the best flavor. Unlike the giagantic Crumbs cupcakes these babies are actually [...]
Gen Art Fashion Week Kickoff Extravaganza
Last Friday two very brave girls took-on the parking havoc and insanity on Fairfax Ave at the Petersen Automotive Museum caused by the largest event of Fashion week, the Gen Art sponsored Fresh Faces in Fashion gala fashion show. After driving half hour to get there already, it was so insanely backed up that after [...]
Have you heard of the Ukulady?
This lady is a wild and most interesting ukulele playing comedian, puppet master, voice-over actress, MC and more. She has the most unique voice and is a good friend from the Northern California Circus and Performing Arts Camp called Camp Winnarainbow that I attended as a girl. She has a scores of fresh and exciting [...]
National Park(ing) Day Friday 9/19
National Park(ing) Day is tomorrow! Organized by The Trust for Public Land, this is the coolest environmental activism I’ve heard about in a while. All over the country tomorrow people will be taking over parking lot and parking spots and turning them into impromptu Parks for the day. Check out what they are doing in [...]
Los Angeles BBQ Festival
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th from noon to 6:00pm on the Santa Monica Beach adjacent to the Pier will be LA’s hottest down -home exciting and delicious authentic southern Barbecue Festival. Yeah!!!! This event features authentic yummies from Texas, Kansas City and Mississippi and the best pit-masters from LA. Scheduled at the event are Eight [...]
Entertainment & Sports Memorabilia Silent Auction Sept 4th
This event will be located Encino to raise money for The Alzheimer’s Association. The buzz in L.A. today is all about the hot hot hot charity auction next weekend. Items up for bid include: Elvis Presley memorabilia; cartoon cells of Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Fred Flintstone; Al Pacino “Scarface” signed items; collectibles [...]
Sunset Junction Review
So I attended this wild East side event, the Sunset Junction Street Festival, on Saturday the 23rd. I missed the hot-shot bands because I bicycled to the event (no parking headaches) and had to leave before sunset because I don’t have a bike light yet. Ironically I ended up biking home in the dark anyway. [...]
PopSugar.com
The buzz in LA today is about PopSugar.com, a great website devoted to the daily whereabouts and happenings of our celebrity friends who are mostly located in LA. As an exception however, check out this photo of Brad, Maddox and Pax from this morning in Venice, Italy. In relation to other celebrity sites, I find [...]
Goldstar- Your connection to Hot LA Events
The buzz in LA is about Goldstar.com the website that gives you updates and discounts on all sorts of events in Los Angles. Tickets to plays like “Wicked” are discounted almost at 50% the normal price. I love finding things like this because I can never have too many ideas of fun things to do [...]
Tropic Thunder- Ha Ha Funny
The buzz in LA today is that OMG!!! Tropic Thunder is hilarious. Even the title is ridiculous. They have outrageous previews of fictious films to introduce the actors of our movie within a movie. Tropic Thunder is a blatant satire of how in Entertainment biz hot-shots have grossly distorted priorities and perspectives of reality. It [...]
Grit TV… Progressive Online News Talk Show
The buzz in LA is about GRITtv is a new hot online news talk show. Think Jon Stewart but – serious. This is the liberal voice of the news we all wish we could see on mainstream T.V. This is interesting and up to date. Lots on Obama and his potential running mate choices. [...]
Downtown Film Festival LA – Aug 13th-17th
The buzz is all about heading down to the Downtown Film Festival this week & weekend to enjoy the fun filled days and nights that are on the slate. I’m heading to see the Centerpiece Gala Film “Piccadilly” playing Friday the 15th at 8:00pm at the Los Angeles Theater in the Historic Theater District. This [...]
Money Mark Free Performance Aug 12th 10pm-12am
RSVP to attend this concert at Montalbàn, the new hot Nike concept store in Hollywood located at 1615 Vine St. Hollywood CA. This concert is playing tomorrow night to celebrate the new film “Beautiful Losers.” The film will be playing at the Nuart Theater starting August 29th. Tomorrow’s performance is part of the Cinema Tuesdays [...]
NETFLIX Live- Celebrity Band and Screening
SATURDAY August 9th, 7:00PM Okay, so the buzz in LA is this event, “Netflix Live,” which is just about the coolest thing I’ve ever heard of. This Saturday, August 9th at the Autry National Center of American West on the Pine Meadows Lawn Netflix is putting on a FREE show called NETFLIX LIVE. They have [...]
The Puppet Show- Bergamot Station
The buzz in LA today is that the (SSMOA) Santa Monica Museum of Art presents “The Puppet Show” in its main gallery at the Bergamot Station. This show closes this Saturday, August 9th so head on over to check it out. This image above is from the film “Puppet Conference 2003″ by Christian Jankowski. Along [...]
