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In This Issue
WIGWAM DRIVE BY
DADDYO DIES WELL
NEDERLANDS DANS
COPENHAGEN
Eyestology
STEAMPUNK FOOLERY
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Not everything happens on the weekend.

RARE BIRDS, HIDDEN GEMS, TASTY DANCES, LAWN BOWLING... 

 

DTLA BIKESBut first a word or two about the really big event this weekend - the second CICLAVIA open street Sunday. A rare chance to stand in the middle of the road in Downtown L.A. without getting run over. Who knows what you might see or discover from this vantage point. Bike, walk, skate along more than 7 miles of closed streets downtown from MacArthur Park to the Civic Center from 10am - 3pm. You can also join Greenpeace and the Sierra Club for the Roll Against Coal bike parade at City Hall at 11am. If you need some wheels or just like to look at them, we stumbled upon D.T.L.A. Bikes a couple of months ago.  Colorful masterpieces created by store owner Rodney Masjedi and a large test track in the basement make this a go to spot for bicycle enthusiasts.  You can create your own rolling work of art there too.

FRIDAY: Travel back in time to the 1940's at the Film Noir Festival at the Egyptian in Hollywood.

SATURDAY: Seek out the Hidden Gems of Downtown L.A. on a scavenger hunt. Get a Taste of Dance ($1 per lesson) at the Music Center. If your single and looking for a very unusual way to meet other singles go Network Lawn Bowling in Pasadena. You'll find rare birds, real and imagined, at the opening reception of the Arroyo Artists "For The Birds" installation at the Audubon Center at Debs Park.

FAMILY/KIDS: BubbleFest XV opens this weekend at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana.

 

LOOKING BACK & AHEAD

  

 

 

Next Thursday is the monthly Downtown L.A. Art Walk. Eye Spy LA went to last month's event. If you haven't been or haven't been lately check out our video. The photo above shows the "crowd" at Main and 5th about 5 years ago. Click the photo to see what a difference a few years makes. The LA Center for Digital Art (lacda) just recently moved to the space seen in this photo. 

 

PLAN AHEAD ALERT!  There are some events that you simply cannot wait until the last minute to decide to go.  LAST REMAINING SEATS, the LA Conservancy's annual screenings of classic movies in classic movie palaces, is one of them. It sells out every year.  This year's screenings take place on Wednesdays May 25 through June 29.  Tickets  are now on sale for members.  Tickets will go on sale to the public on April 13th. 

 

There's  more of course, 

 

Get all of this week's picks and the details here or, if you prefer some psychic advice before you make any moves, scroll below for Cici's Eyestrology forecast for the coming week.

 

 

WIGWAM DRIVE BY, 1957 by Charles Phoenix 

  
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Cement tepee-shaped motel rooms seen from a rolled-down driver's side window glisten in the rain-soaked sky blue blacktop.

 

This is not any 'ol motel. Oh no! Wigwam Village is Southern California's most precious and famous Route 66 landmark.  

  
Read the FULL STORY and get the big picture.

 

 

DADDYO DIES WELL @THE ELECTRIC LODGE  by Ali Tobia  

DADDYO 
Magic lives in DADDYO DIES WELL, the Padua Playwrights production at the Electric Lodge Theater in Venice. The play delights with delicious themes of the occult, the adventurous, the tragic, and the uplifting. The acting touches your core being and the play as a whole inspires an enchantment with the complex nature of human beings and life as we know it.
 
This play rocks! 
  
Read the FULL REVIEW.

 

NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER 1 @ THE MUSIC CENTER

by Kelly Hargraves

 

NDT 1

It is tempting to comment on Crystal Pite's NDT 1 piece "The Second Person" by just reprinting my recent notes on her UCLA Live show. In LA's programming lexicon, we are often allowed to compare and contrast, as shows are booked in seemingly thematic waves.

The NDT piece amplifies Pite's "us against them" theme-one man/woman against the crowd. Her style is still a song like version of solo and chorus interchanged. The same liquid, sequential movement that allows for endless flow. The superb movers of NDT a sight to behold. Their joints are hinges, like puppets that allow for counter-intuitive movement sequences that are refreshingly surprising.

 

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BIG IDEAS IN A TINY SPACE - "COPENHAGEN" AT THE ATTIC THEATRE

by Mark Share

 

COPENHAGEN

With Japan's ongoing nuclear meltdown radiating into our consciousness, the turmoil among last-century's physicists over the ethics of using their brilliance for practical applications - especially nuclear weapons - strongly resonates in the new production of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen, which won the 2000 Tony award for best play. The play is an intense and prolix battle of wits and self-justification principally between Neils Bohr (with some interjections by his wife) and Bohr's mentee Werner Heisenberg, which takes place in a multiplicity of times and recursive revisiting of what was said and what was meant at a meeting at Bohr's home in Copenhagen in 1941...

 

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CHOCOLATE AFTERNOON TEA AT THE LANGHAM By Abby Abanes 

 

TEA SANDWICHES

One evening I was online, not doing anything in particular, until across my twitterfeed, I saw a tweet from @tarametblog flash by about a Chocolate Afternoon Tea that she experienced at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena. I was soon scrolling down until I came to her message and it included a link to her blog write-up. Upon reading it, I was hooked and thanks to Tara and the Langham, my guest and I were hosted for this wonderful chocolate experience.

 

After we were seated, we were given the menu so that we knew what to look forward to and after perusing a selection of teas, I opted for the Mayan Truffle Tea while my friend went for the Chocolate Mint Truffle. While we were waiting for our sandwiches to arrive, we were each offered a complimentary glass of champagne.

 

3 tiers of tastiness arrived and those 3 tiers included the scones and sandwiches. One thing to mention is that each sandwich had an essence of chocolate. It was all about subtlety and not big flavors.

 

 

TEA CHOCOLATE

 

 

Where were the sweets you may ask? I'll get to those later, trust me... 

 

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EYESTROLOGY: THIS WEEK'S EVENT FORECAST

by Cici Psy-Chic

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Happy birthday to these celebrity Aries: Patricia Arquette (04/08), Dennis Quaid (04/09), Mandy Moore (04/10), Vincent Gallo (04/11), Claire Danes (04/12), Rick Schroder (04/13), Adrien Brody (04/14).

ARIES - Anger Management
TAURUS - Got Your Back
GEMINI - Expectations
CANCER - Get in Touch
LEO - Sightsee
VIRGO - Out of Sorts
LIBRA - Multitasking
SCORPIO - Live Wire
SAGITTARIUS - Down Memory Lane
CAPRICORN - Chicken Little
AQUARIUS - No More Screens
PISCES - Bite Your Tongue
 

This will be a tumultuous week with miscommunications and mixed signals everywhere we turn. Don't take anything too much to heart and thicken your skins. Give those close to you a lot of leeway, even if they come off as bossy or insensitive. Watch what you say and how you say it. 

 

READ YOUR FULL FORECAST for this week.

 

 

 APRIL FOOLERYROGUE ARTISTS ENSEMBLE: FOOLS FEST STEAMPUNK STYLE  

by M.R. Hunter 

 

It was a fool's paradise at the April Fools' Day Fool Fest presented by the incomparable Rogue Artists Ensemble. Spectators rubbed shoulders with giant noses, potato heads, a dancing bear and otherworldly creations as well as sidestepping a stilt walker alongside head-banging sock puppets to the live music of The Peculiar Pretzelmen and scintillating burlesque dances.
  
Read the FULL STORY & view the video 

 

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