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| FILM BUFFS - JUST IN TIME for HOLIDAY GIFTS THIS SEASON |
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Live auction of movie costumes and props. This Saturday starting at 11am.
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'Tis the season to entertain, shop, see a Nutcracker, ice skate, throw snowballs at the beach. There's holiday events, entertainment and activities all over town. Visit the Eye Spy LA Holiday Guide for the latest updates. |
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THIS WEEK in L.A.
 SNOW: this weekend in Downtown L.A. - really - at Pershing Square's free Downtown On Ice Winter Holiday Festival - Saturday & Sunday from 11am - 6pm. Who knows maybe the weather will save the Pershing Square snow elves the trouble of making it - it certainly feels cold enough. The free Winter Concert Series also kicks off Thursday and Friday evenings from 8 - 10pm. And, of course, ice skating (only 6 bucks).
ART: Peter Schulberg and the Eco-LogicalART Gallery invite you to celebrate the holidays by helping them unwrap a seven hundred square foot gift to the skyline of Los Angeles. TAKING IT ALL OFF FOR... ART/5 will feature a "live" curtain drop at 7 pm on December 12, 2009 to reveal "Facing LA". Hand painted on recycled billboard vinyl by artists Lynsey McEwan, Kayla Silber and Nick "The Gusz" Miller, the 14' x 48' triptych will be installed directly above Eco-LA. Once unveiled "Facing LA" will be seen over 35,000 times daily. A gallery show also includes art created from up-cycled media, 'green" accessories in the Eco-LA "Recovery Room", art welding by Derek McDonald, holiday libations-- and live music from DJ Peddy.
LIGHT: parades of lights and sounds on the waterfront and elsewhere continues this weekend: with boat parades at Marina Del Rey, King Harbor in Redondo Beach, and Newport Harbor - check out the Eye Spy LA Holiday Guide for the latest updates.
MORE, MUCH MORE ... more recommendations and all the details on the Eye Spy LA Calendar.
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FOOD FIGHT AT BIG LOTS by Nancy Mills
This is my best Big Lots story yet. A classic. Right up there with the time I set my sister on fire. Drove my Camero through my parents' garage. Kissed my first boyfriend on the lips. A classic, I tell you, a classic.
Here is what happened. I was standing in Big Lots with "the regulars" - the same downtown cast of characters I see on most days. The Indian woman who covers her face with a sari, the black guy who wears a different plaid shirt with a different pair of plaid pants that don't match - ever, the older Chinese guy who holds his pants up with suspenders down to his knees, and the wheelchair lady, who spends most days knocking down boxes.
The regulars. That's us.
Well, I was standing in my favorite aisle, where the condiments are. I LOVE CONDIMENTS. Reading the label of a pickle jar, minding my own business. When, I hear this guy in the next aisle say loudly, "Woman, you are an idiot. You don't know how to shop. Buy those potato chips, or I'm going to kill you." "Harry, watch your words, Harry, I know what I am doing." I hear this woman say. Then Harry says, "Don't you tell me to watch my words, you stupid fool, you don't know anything about nothin'!"
That was it, I had my cell phone out, and I was calling the abused woman's hotline. What a jerk! How dare he talk to her that way? The Indian woman had whipped out her cell phone too. We were both busy punching numbers - not very quietly. And that is when Harry took action... Read the FULL STORY
editor's note: ever wonder what it's like living downtown? Local writer Nancy Mills blogs about her adventures living the "loft" life in Downtown L.A. THIS SUNDAY - December 13th, her blog moves from the page to the stage at the Company of Angels Theatre. Followed by a Hot Dog & Champagne holiday after party. Get the details at talesofdowntown.com |
THIS WEEK in DANCE
by Kelly Hargraves
 If you like rough and tumble, roll and rumble go to L.A. Contemporary Dance Company in "FIGHT OR FLIGHT" featuring the world premiere of choreography by Scott Hislop, Kate Hutter and Adam Parson with performances by Arletta Anderson, Genevieve Carson, Devin Fulton, Jamila Glass, Natalie Hurter, Kate Hutter, Marcelo de sa Martins, Melissa Schade, Drea Sobke, Erik Speth, Tiffany Sweat and Kevin Williamson. These three eclectic LA choreographers bring to life a myriad of characters faced with challenges, choices and even threats forcing them to go with their gut and act on instinct. The suspense builds through the dancers' dynamic physicality, alternative and world music, and integrated video.
Or, as I've heard some of my Facebook dance friends mumble lately, perhaps Western Contemporary Dance getting you down with all it's reckless or pedestrian movement or navel gazing? Craving something, traditionally structured, classical and cultural? And I am not talking Ballet. But, instead look East -not only east of La Brea, you westsiders, but East as in Classical Indian Kathak dance at Sunday's performance of Mehfil-e at the Fountain Theatre. Kathak is the colorful, dramatic dance form from Northern India characterized by lightening fast footwork and pirouettes, rhythmic interplay, and nuanced, graceful movements. The dancers featured this month include Seibi Lee, a senior disciple of Pandit Chitresh Das, and Rina Mehta, director of the Southern California branch of the Chhandam School.
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MAY COMPANY CHRISTMAS, SOUTH LOS ANGELES, CA, 1949 by Charles Phoenix
 Gleaming silver stars hang from frizzly-foiled canes fixed to stylish streetlamps towering above signs, signals, bus benches and painted curbs. Is this an obstacle course or an intersection? There is no traffic; no flag and the sidewalks are deserted. It's Sunday and the store is closed.
Architecturally speaking, this is what happens when a streamline modern ocean liner of the '30s and the famous flying wing of the '40s have a baby. Less, of course, the potted vines sprouting over the trio of terraces. As if passing motorists don't have enough to look at and out for already, MAY CO is clearly spelled out twice in golden metal-framed yellow neon readable at any speed...
Find out more about this architectural landmark - get the big picture and read the FULL STORY | |
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