FEBRUARY FIRSTS
First Friday at the Natural History Museum. A chance to spend your Friday happy hour drinking with dinosaurs. Drinks and dinner are available starting at 5:00. Join a custom gallery tour led by an NHM curator at 5:30. Discussions begin at 6:30. KCRW 89.9FM provides the DJs all evening and music entertainment starting around 8:00. The party is free with museum admission ($9). Traffic warning: Avoid Exposition and Vermont - closed due to Metro Expo Line construction.
First Friday at MONA (The Museum of Neon Art) Cryptonight and the Museum of Neon Art present Tom McNalley's trio featuring longstanding cohort Michael Vlatkovich on trombone, Rich West on drums, and performing all new music.
First County Fair of the year - Riverside National Date Festival Feb 12 - 21. This annual event comes just in time to find a perfect "date" for Valentine's Day.
NEW CONTEST: I went to the opening night of GravityWorks at Cinespace and liked it so much that I've arranged to give away a pair of tickets to one of their upcoming shows in February.
LAST CHANCE: win free tickets to Charles Phoenix's Retro Slide Show of Southern California at Descanso Gardens.
Win tickets to Lucent L'Amour 2010 for the annual Valentine's Day love fest.
Details on the Ticket Offer page. MORE coming, stay tuned.
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OUTSIDE THE BOX [INSIDE] THE FORD:
BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA
Review by M.R. Hunter
 What does a man in a chicken suit, a giant bowling pin, a rooster and a kitchen whisk all have in common? Everything and nothing in the LA premiere of Charles Mee's zany collage-montage tribute to the late modern artist, Robert Rauschenberg at [Inside] the Ford.
Inspired by Rauschenberg, Mee conceives a play not bound by conventional Aristotelian unities, but channels the absurdist and radical approach of the artist's innovative spirit.
Where else can one find a Roller Girl (Breeze Braunschweig) gliding by on retro-styled skates, while a man dressed in a chicken suit crosses the stage?
Q: Why did the chicken cross the playground?
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HOW I ALMOST KILLED MY NEIGHBOR - WITH SPAGHETTI Tales of Downtown by Nancy Mills
When I first moved in, it was very important for me to meet as many of my fellow loft neighbors as possible. I wanted them to know me and vice versa. It just felt so "lofty" and fun and bohemian. Plus, if you really must know, I wanted to see the inside of their lofts and hear their stories.
So what better way to get to know them than to invite them over for dinner? And, since I love to cook and entertain, voila, a meal it was!
One of the first neighbors I met was Christophe. I literally bumped into Christophe in the parking garage - I was carrying bags of things, and we tumbled into one another getting in and out of the elevator. "Bonjour," he said. "Hi, I'm Nancy. I just moved in, I love it here, can I see your loft?" I said in record speed... |
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PEE-WEE WANNABE, NEW ORLEANS, LA, 1957 by Charles Phoenix
A man posing between a beautiful bongo drum and colorful display of plastic wrapped jazz albums predicts the Pee-Wee Herman look. Strike a pose there is nothing to it! That gray glen plaid suit over a white shirt finished with a red bow tie is in no uncertain terms an AMERICANA classic of the highest order. And so is Pee-Wee.
Speaking of... I went to see his new live "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" show here in LA the other night... |
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