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Tasteful & Illuminating Events This Weekend 

 

If you're in the mood for a party, you are in luck.

 

GLOWParty Italian style at the Feast of San Gennaro in Hollywood. Samba the night away at the annual Brazilian Summer Festival at the Ford, celebrate all that is Rocky Horror with fellow fans at the Rocky Horror Picture Show 35th Anniversary Convention downtown, top shelf chefs and wineries will show you an Epicurean good time at the 28th annual American Food & Wine Festival on the Universal Studios backlot, or beat the heat and head to Santa Monica to bask in the Glow at this massive biannual art event on the beach. Another illuminating art event, AUTUMN LIGHTS LA 2010, showcases Los Angeles and International artists presenting various forms of performances, sculptures, installations, projections utilizing the medium of light at Pershing Square Downtown on Saturday from 7pm - 1am. 

 

MORE FESTIVITIES:

The annual Abbot Kinney Festival is always popular - Sunday 10am-6pm in Venice. If you feel like a bit of a drive this weekend head to the Silverado Country Fair or if you haven't been yet, the L.A. County Fair. If you missed the lobster festivals earlier this month in Long Beach and San Pedro, or even if you didn't, Redondo Beach will be serving up steak with the lobster at the Surf & Turf Lobster Festival. If you go on Sunday you can also visit the Rods, Rides & Relics Car Show.

 

This is a very busy weekend! You'll find lots more on the Eye Spy LA Calendar.

 

--Andrea Kirk ([email protected])

 
Charles PhoenixSTREETCAR SANDWICH, LA HARBOR, 1957 by Charles Phoenix

 

Dozens of tri-toned Los Angeles City Streetcars sit cast aside and stacked tri-hi on Terminal Island. The most modern metropolis in the world simply has no more need for these old-fashioned and out-of-date people movers. They have no local stops left. They've done their duty and paid their dues. Their days in LaLaland are over...  Get the BIG PICTURE

FRACTUREKELLY HARGRAVES - MOVING THROUGH SPACES
By Kelly Hargraves
  

Since I started periodically writing on Eyespyla, I have titled my entries "This Week in Dance." Now, however, it occurs to me that this is not an accurate title. First, I rarely get a chance to write weekly, and some events have already passed, so they aren't really "this" or "weekly." And, recently, I have to say, they aren't even easily classified as "dance." I know I risk sounding really old here, but dance has evolved into such an all encompassing, textual, visual, video, musical medium, that "dance" just doesn't seem to fit.

 

So what is it I should call it then? This Week on Stage? This Week that Moves? Moving through Stages? What I would really like to call it is "Fervor" because that's why I spend so much time going to see performance. I want to feel some sort of evocation, or kinesthesia while watching people on stage. To watching people move. But, sometimes, they don't even move. So, what then? I ask your opinions on what you would call what we see on stages....

 

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE COFFEEHOUSE: BOURGEOIS PIG
by M.R. Hunter

 

The Bourgeois PigFor me, a coffee shop must have two qualities: good coffee, of course, and good atmosphere. Considering I can brew at home a mean cup o' Joe at a fraction of the cost, there has to be something exceptional to a coffee place to warrant the inflated price (recent rise in coffee bean shortage not withstanding).

 

If Seattle is the home of Starbucks, then Los Angeles is the city that drinks it. L.A. is brimming over with coffee joints, which are about as numerous as unsold screenplays here. Like screenplays, not all of them deserve the green light, but a few do deserve the equivalent of an Oscar-or at least a Golden Bean Award... 

 

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EYESTROLOGYEYESTROLOGY: THIS WEEK'S EVENT FORECAST
by Cici Psy-Chic

Happy birthday to these celebrity Libras: Nia Vardalos (09/24), Will Smith (09/25), Linda Hamilton (09/26), Avril Lavigne (09/27), Naomi Watts (09/28), Bryant Gumbel (09/29), Eric Stoltz (09/30).


It was a busy summer, but plan for a fall slowdown Angelenos. This is an ideal week for spending quality time with family and friends. Don't just stay at home and stare at the walls-enjoy the beautiful weather with short jaunts around your hood or take a long drive on the PCH.


Gaze at the ske at DOUBLE DELIGHT SUNSET & MOONRISE at Vista Hermosa Natural Park. Try a tasting at the 8th Annual VIVA EL TEQUILA.

 

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JUSTICE AT LAST IN NEW DOCUMENTARY NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM by M.R. Hunter


NESHOBAThe little town of Philadelphia in Neshoba County, Mississippi hasn't been the same since the brutal murder of three civil rights workers by the hands of reputed KKK members in 1964. Following the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old Baptist preacher and accused instigator of the killings, award-winning filmmakers Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano's solid but sensitive documentary sheds insight on the local perspective and the long overdue justice that still haunts this town and its people...  Read the FULL STORY

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Have a GREAT Weekend!
-- Andrea Kirk ([email protected])