MUSIC IN THE ZOO, JAZZ ON THE LAWN
& A FEAST OF FESTIVALS
Tons of Crawfish land in Long Beach this weekend at the popular annual Crawfish Festival held at the Rainbow Lagoon. Also in Long Beach on Saturday you can sustain our future with funk at the Funk Fest on Pine.
Head to the L.A. Zoo tonight for the 3rd evening of Music in the Zoo - Local Scene Night with the Happy Hollows, Slang Chickens and others.
On Sunday take a picnic and a beach chair to the lawn in front of Santa Monica City Hall for some free Jazz on the Lawn. Parking is free too.
FOR THE KIDS: The 25th Annual Children's Festival of the Arts at Paramount - free in Hollywood. Free entertainment in Culver City as the Actor's Gang presents Katie the Curst both Saturday and Sunday.
ELSEWHERE:
Free tatts at CaFAM on Wilshire
Koffeehouse Music at the Ford Amphitheatre
Cloris Leachman in Rancho Cucamonga
Andy Warhol films at the Egyptian in Hollywood
There's more, much more...
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BAD MOVIE KARMA OR WHATEVER
 by Nancy Mills
It is definitely payback time. Non-issue. In fact, it might even be karma. As in, don't you mess with me - you, you, you schmuck.
In January of this year, I was in my PJ's minding my own business when I was lit up like a Christmas tree in my loft. No movie director or producer came by to ask me if it was okay. They just did it. Flashed this huge, humongous spotlight on my windows and started shooting late at night.
It turns out they were shooting the movie Dinner for Schmucks, a re-make of a popular French comedy. And as I predicted then - wayyyy before its current summer release - what with a title like that - and a director like that - this movie would probably go straight to DVD...
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