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OK Go Video Release Party TONIGHT
If you’ve been anywhere near the internet this week, you’ve probably seen the new, innovative video from local band OK Go. The group is well-known for its viral one-take creations, most notably “The Treadmill Video,” in which the guys did a fairly complicated routine on four treadmills for their song “Here It Goes Again.” To... »
Update: Walk This Way: Jefferson/Adams Trek Reschedged
With weather.com telling me that there is a 100% chance of rain for March 6 and several TV-based weather folk concurring with that assessment, I’m officially throwing in the towel and canceling Saturday’s planned walk from USC to Baldwin Hills and back and rescheduling it to Saturday March 27. »
Heads-Up About Saturday’s “Walk This Way: Jefferson/Adams”
It was a couple weeks ago when I announced March 6 as the date for the next in my irregular series of long-ass walks — this one about 15 miles from USC to the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook State Park and back via Jefferson and Adams. Today I’m reading reports calling for a 70%... »
PaleyFest 2010 Is Upon Us
I’m a little late in getting this post up, considering the 27th Annual William S. Paley Television Festival (PaleyFest) has already started. You’ve only missed three events, Modern Family and Lost, which were both fantastic and NCIS, which I didn’t attend. There are 10 nights left highlighting such acclaimed shows as Breaking Bad and... »
Help You Can The Pelican
This is the second time in about as many weeks that I’ve been up-close and personal with a dead brown pelican along Ballona Creek. Maybe you’ve heard the big birds — recently de-listed from their endangered status — have been having a really rough time of it through the storms of these last couple... »
Win Tickets to The Bird and The Bee’s Friday Show!!!!
Indie rock slash synthetic pop, with electrically charged guitars and pianos, is all the rage (blame Hot Chip). So is an inexplicably newfound turn-of-the-decade appreciation for Hall & Oates (blame our current fascination with the 1980s and/or Hugh Grant in Music & Lyrics). Mash the two together and you get The Bird and the... »
Win Tickets to See Midlake Next Wednesday!
Not many things come to us from Texas by way of Europe. Angus beefsteak crepes, maybe. Or ten-gallon berets. And then there’s Midlake. Hailing from Denton, Texas — home to other rock notables like Roy Orbison and Bowling for Soup — Midlake initially made their mark on the British and French rock scenes. They’ve been... »
Classic Eats #9: Roscoe’s and Boardner’s!
This Saturday, February 27 will be a Hot Hollywood Night! Your votes have been counted and the winner is Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles with a follow up trip to Boardner’s! Roscoe’s won with 48% of the vote, the other two contenders splitting the rest evenly at about 25% each. Clearly you all are jonesing for... »
Free Coffee At The Open Daily Launch Party Tomorrow Morning
Hey Westsiders: tomorrow (Tuesday, February 23) The Open Daily is celebrating its launch by giving you free coffee and pastries! The Open Daily is a new daily newsletter and blog informing you about all things Westside: Restaurants, politics, family fun, events, history, art, you name it! They want to get to know you so... »
Actor Andrew Koenig Missing Since 2/14 in Vancouver
Andrew Koenig, perhaps best known for his role as “Boner” on Growing Pains in the ’80s is being reported missing by friends. He was last seen on 2/14 in Vancouver. From the comic’s comic blog yesterday: “Andrew Koenig (AK-47, the video guy on “Never Not Funny,” and “Boner” from “Growing Pains”) has been missing for a... »
Jewlicious Festival 6.0
Fellow members of the tribe know there’s never been a better time to be Jewish; it’s among the odd list of things now-sexy, formerly-not (like women over 40, people with glasses, and geeks). Beginning tomorrow and running through Saturday, the Jewlicious Festival at the Alpert JCC in Long Beach promises to be a fantastic... »
Walk This Way: Jefferson/Adams Boulevard
Most folks know me around here because of what’s between my legs. And by that irresistible attention-getter of an opening line I am of course talking about the BICYCLE I so often ride around town. Anyway and ahem, while group bike rides, such as last weekend’s “8 Presidents Ride,” are something I enjoy organizing and... »
SPCALA’s Friends For Life Spring Camp is enrolling now
Occasionally — not as often as I’d like — I do some volunteering with the SPCALA, southern California’s very own Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. I’m a humane education volunteer, which means that I don’t spend as much time cleaning up dog poo as I do interacting with kids. Your feelings... »
Dave McKean Signing and Gallery exhibit!
Amazing mixed media Artist Dave McKean is doing a signing this Friday, followed by a display of new work, opening Saturday. He’s responsible for all of the covers of the comic book Sandman, as well as The Vertigo Tarot. A long time collaborator with author Neil Gaimen, and the director of Mirrormask. He’s seriously one... »
Win A $25 Trader Joe’s Gift Card
I have been shopping at the same Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake for years and somehow never knew about their weekly drawing for a $25 gift card. All you have to do is bring your own bag, or basically not use their paper or disposable bags when you check out, and the cashier will give... »