The LAAA is having its annual Aurora Holiday Art Sale Saturday only 11/21. There is a preview sale that includes complimentary champagne starting at 6pm that will cost you 25 bones. Its free after 7PM but no free booze. (Their flier does get bigger with a click for all the details you could ever want).
The best part of this show is that it is all about affordable art for collectors and exposing them to up-and-coming artists. Artists like my friend Ginger Van Hook who was picked up after the jurists viewed her work at last weekends Inglewood Art Walk.
I’ve just learned from Griffith Park Wayist that two ranger-led hikes to the Hollywood Sign are planned for Thanksgiving weekend, and if I wasn’t going to be in Death Valley climbing sand dunes and biking some bad roads between craters and playas then I most certainly wouldn’t miss such a rare opportunity to do something I did tons of times as a punk growing up in the shadow of the landmark.
Seriously, the last time was maybe 25 years ago, long before they fenced everything in and made it a felony to do so. I’d scramble up from Mulholland Highway with some snacks and perhaps Pink Floyd or some Dvorak on my walkman, and I’d just chill beneath a 50-foot letter of my choosing, marveling at the spectacular views and working out all sorts of bullshit up there on Mt. Lee.
Led by Park Ranger Ernie Ybarra, the four- to six-mile intermediate hikes are scheduled for November 27 and 28, from 8 – 11 a.m. Meet at the Griffith Park Visitor Center next to the Ranger Station at 4730 Crystal Springs Drive (map).
The Leonid Meteor Showers are tonight! In case you missed that, the Leonid Meteor Showers are tonight!! It also happens to be a new moon (i.e., the moon is not visible in the night sky), which means it could be “one of the best Leonid showers in years,” according to NASA. Even cooler: the meteors will appear to be shooting from Mars, due to the happy fact that Mars will be passing by the Leonid radiant right around the time of the shower.
The stars are shooting between midnight and 5am. Unfortunately, we don’t have a dark sky preserve anywhere near us, so a friend suggests that we catch the show at Echo Mountain (a three mile hike at the end of Lake Avenue off the 210 in Pasadena) or the top of Mt. Hollywood in Griffith Park. Any other ideas?
An artist rendering of the November 12-13, 1833 Leonid Meteor Showers, courtesy the Wikipedia Commons.
For those with imaginations that run dark in their romantic tendencies, the brain child of L.A. underground artist Nui Cobaltwill be your dirty cup of tea. Nemesispromises to be an end of the world descent into debauchery and exquisite poignance.
Dance to the sweet strains (Darkwave, New Romantic, Tribal Goth) of your final hours with music spun by DJ Xian and MP3J SARK while partaking of exotic libations. (I hear the coconut martinis are mindblowing.) Also, fans of Gentleman Junkie can expect a chance to own a limited edition CD that can only be procured on this one occasion.
Nemesis debuts on 11/11 and will slither back to life quarterly. Doors open to the Electric Lotus (4656 Franklin Ave) at 10:30 pm. Cover is $5 until 11 pm, after which it becomes $10. Valet parking is available.
A: James Ellroy calls him
“the visual deus ex machina of what has become the most over-scrutinized city on earth.”
Q: Who is Ed Ruscha. Check out the Times Online for more on Ruscha and LA (and David Lynch!)
The third week of the audacious WTF?! Festival is under way. If you weren’t paying attention, you missed out on a couple of movie screenings.
Tonight at the Festival, you can check out Get Lit! – a group of teen poets bringing you classic literature along with their own unruly compositions. It’s at 8 pm tonight at The Actor’s Gang. Pay what you can!
Tomorrow evening Jewell Rae brings her cooking show live to the prison for her Johnny Cash tribute show All Cake, No File. She’s a regular culinary political columnist with the Huffington Post! Backing her up for the night is the tribute band With A Bible And A Gun as well as special guests The Broken Numbers Band. The curtain goes up at 9 pm and it’s $15.
On Halloween night, WTF?! Festival invites you to take a peek into the damn scary world of Christian Halloween horror houses with a screening of Hell House. Stay afterward for a costume party! The movie starts at 8 pm and tickets are $10. Costumes are highly encouraged if not compulsory.
For more information or to see what else is going on with the WTF?! Festival visit the website here.
On Tuesday (tomorrow) night this week, Booze Clues is making its monthly appearance at Agave Tequila House y Cantina (formerly Cuba Libre) in Los Feliz. Sometimes life gets in the way, and I haven’t been able to make it to Booze Clues for a few months, so I’m there tomorrow night. Who’s with me?
MetBlogs teams have won big at Booze Clues in the past. Well, technically we’ve placed somewhere near the middle of the pack, but with fun people, good drinks, and a moderate showing in the contest, aren’t we all really winners? Plus, when the game ends, the games begin. All are welcome to join me across the street at the Dresden Room to see the legendary Marty & Elayne.
We’ll arrive at Agave Tequila House y Cantina about 7:30pm, game starts at 8:00pm. We’ve got a couple of MetBlogs readers and authors already confirmed, but we can always use more brains packed with useless (yet interesting) knowledge. Even if you think you’re not good at trivia contests, come anyway. You never know when you’ll have the one answer the puts the team over the top. Join in and help us dominate the trivia world. Leave a note in the comments to let me know you’re coming, and I’ll make sure we’ve got enough seats reserved for everyone.
… but Ridley Scott’s Alien is the scariest movie of all time!
People seem to be peeing their pants over Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity, and who can blame them for being excited over a movie that’s genuinely scary?
But let’s not forget that 2009 marks the 30th — yes, as in three oh, you dabgum punks — anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Alien, the indisputed monster movie heavyweight champion of the world. To celebrate the occasion, the American Cinematheque is screening a double feature of Alien and it’s inferior-but-pretty-damn-entertaining sequel Aliens (1986) at the Egyptian Theater this Friday at 8:00 p.m..
That’s over four hours of facesucking fun for the entire family!
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For those with imaginations that run dark in their romantic tendencies, the brain child of L.A. underground artist 
The third week of the audacious WTF?! Festival is under way. If you weren’t paying attention, you missed out on a couple of movie screenings.
