RESOLUTION REMORSE? This time of year we all think about self improvement. Don't just think about it, check out our Classes & Workshops and Health & Fitness pages for plenty of ideas to get you started learning how to work metal to working out.

• CityRace - Quest for the Keys
• Fitness for Life Dance-a-Thon to Benefit Glendale Women's Shelter
• Beginning Metalsmithing Intensive
• One Day University 

 

• 4th Annual Reel Stories Film Festival
• Triple Feature: Xanadu, Roller Boogie & Skatetown, USA
• Art Clash
• Victory Variety Hour

EYE SPY LA TURNS 10 IN 2013! We are planning big things this year. In the meantime, looking back... I met Charles Phoenix early on, I saw one of his retro slide shows at the Egyptian in Hollywood and was blown away. Shortly after that he became a regular editorial contributor to Eye Spy LA sharing his retro slide of the week for all of these years. I have always thought of him as Mr. LA. As usual he'll have plenty of shows and tours coming up locally starting in February. In the meantime click on the photo or link above to get acquainted with him. 

See all of this week's Editors Picks or view the full Eye Spy LA Calendar 

TIP: you can find events and other things to do near you - you'll find neighborhood and regional calendar links at the bottom of all Eye Spy LA web pages.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Holy Crap! "Dirty Filthy Love Story" is Packed with Laughs by M.R. Hunter

Holy crap! This sweet little ditty, ably directed by Elina de Santos, is packed with laughs-not goodwill chuckles but wipe your eyes from the tears laughter, which is probably the reason why the Sunday evening show was sold-out because even though Mersola's Reservoir Dogs meets a trash-infatuated Bonnie and Clyde isn't high art, it is entertaining and visually ingenious, especially under David Mauer and Hazel Kuang's brilliant scenic mastery. 

Okay, so the set is worth the price of admission, but the unfolding love story between a lonely woman and a hired hand obsessed with junk and the neighbor that threatens to come between them surprisingly draws one in as Mersola continues to raises the stakes in the fatal attraction...

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Happy birthday to these celebrity January Aquarians: Edwin Buzz Aldrin (1/20), Geena Davis (1/21), Guy Fieri (1/22), Tiffani Amber Thiessen (1/23), Mary Lou Retton (1/24), Alicia Keys (1/25), Ellen Degeneres (1/26), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1/27), Elijah Wood (1/28), Oprah Winfrey (1/29), Christian Bale (1/30), Kerry Washington (1/31)

Celebrity February Aquarians: Lisa Marie Presley (2/01), Shakira (2/02), Nathan Lane (2/03), Alice Cooper (2/04), Bobby Brown (2/05), Natalie Cole (2/06), Ashton Kutcher (2/07), John Williams (2/08), Alice Walker (2/09), Brandy Norwood (2/10), Taylor Lautner (2/11), Christina Ricci (2/12), Jerry Springer (2/13), Michael Bloomberg (2/14), Jane Seymour (2/15), Ice T (2/16), Michael Jordan (2/17), John Travolta (2/18)

AQUARIUS - Judge, Juror, Jailor

PISCES - Under Pressure
ARIES - Goals
TAURUS - Fair is Fair
GEMINI - Diplomacy
CANCER - Loose Change
LEO - Come Full Circle
VIRGO - Soar

LIBRA - Doing Time

SCORPIO - Unknown

SAGITTARIUS - Scheming, Plotting, Researching
CAPRICORN - Radiate Confidence 

Start 2013 with a fresh perspective! This is an excellent time to shed old attitudes and habits. Pay close attention to relationships this month and determine whether or not they add or detract to your well-being. Toxic entanglements and emotional vampires should get the boot for good. Reflect on what you learned last year and adapt those experiences in order to avoid making the same mistakes. This is the month when we tend to fall off the resolution wagon, so make a conscious effort to stay the course. Do what you intend to do without excuses or justifications.

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Gee Whiz! Riding the Aerial Tram in Palm Springs by Andrea Kirk

One of the things I've always wanted to do is ride the tram from Palm Springs to the snow covered peaks above. Finally I took a trip with a friend and we had nothing in particular scheduled except fun and relaxation. On the way into town we saw the sign and off we went.

We were so excited. We bought the tickets, got on board, waited for take off admiring all the granite and the views at the bottom. The tram starts going up, we are on our way. We both looked at each other: OMG we forgot we are AFRAID of heights. What were we thinking! What are we doing! We ran to the door... too late. We didn't just leave our fingerprints on the steel handrail, we left impressions...

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Eye Spy LA has been the online Local's Guide to L.A. since 2003. Content is written, edited and maintained by locals and focuses on local and nearby events and the local creative community.

Editorial policy: Eye Spy LA editorials are stories written about places, entertainment and events that we go to. The opinions are those of our editorial staff and the writer of the piece. Calendar listings are ads posted by the people producing events and activities in the local area. Each week we pick and recommend events and other things to do based on our experience or sometimes because they look particularly unusual, unique or in some other way interesting. We do not recommend them based on any fees they may or may not have paid us for advertising.

You'll always find the latest events & activities plus commentary about where we've been at eyespyLA.com - updated daily. 

Andrea Kirk, publisher (editor@eyespyLA.com)

 EYE SPY LA CONTRIBUTORS:

M.R. Hunter - editorial and reviews

Mark Share - reviews

Kelly Hargraves - dance and reviews

Abby Abanes - food adventures

Charles Phoenix - retro slide of the week