AIDS Walk 2005 is this Sunday, people. You can still make a donation, join a team, sign up to volunteer or register as an individual walker on the Web site. I signed up with the UCLA team this year, ’cause Bruins care! Register today to join Southern California’s largest AIDS fundraiser. Send the message that…
Category Archives: Los Angeles
2nd Annual Grand Avenue Festival: Culture, Culture, Culture
Another reason to venture to Downtown L.A. Tomorrow is the 2nd Annual Grand Avenue Festival. All the culture you can get for free in the four-city-block stretch between 1st and 4th Streets on Grand. Highlights: — “A Taste of Downtown L.A.” presents low-priced tastes from downtown restaurants Checkers Downtown, Cuidad, Noe and others. — MOCA…
Things to Do When You Get the Mean Reds
Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds? You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat and maybe it’s been raining too long, you’re just sad that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t…
It's Halloween, Girls: Unleash the Sexy Beast
What is it about Halloween that makes women want to dress really racy? Most guys pick their costumes for the laughs and most women pick theirs for the stares. Girls get to be wild, wear things they normally wouldn’t wear, flirt with men they normally wouldn’t attract. I can see how that can be appealing….
The Section Quartet: OK Computer Reinterpeted @ the Echo
by Denise Siegel Billed as the “loudest string quartet on the Planet” for their phenomenal interpretations of iconic rock albums, The Section Quartet will be performing their take on Radiohead’s OK Computer at the Echo on Thursday the 6th at 8pm. I’m so excited! I heard a sample of “Just” and “No Surprises” and they…
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: Dead on Arrival
Let me just preface this review with, I was invited to this movie and had no interest in seeing it. I wasn’t crazy about Nightmare Before Christmas and this just looked like another cartoon targeted at those giggly Goth kids. But I had nothing better to do so… We went to see it at the…
Vintage Vantage Tees: If It's Not Funny, You're Too Sensitive
Funny ha-ha? or funny muhahahaha? Having a so-called double whammy against me as a minority woman with an appreciation for low-brow humor, I have a bipolar reaction to what’s deemed politically incorrect humor: first raucous laughter, immediately followed by a gasp and a, “Heyyy, that’s not funny!” On one hand, I hate how they dubbed…
Bootie L.A.: Where Bowie vs. Britney
Remember those Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercials? “Hey! You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!” “You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!” But in the end, everyone laughed and enjoyed their strange new concoction. Bootie L.A. seems to offer something like that. This Angeleno sister to Bootie SF presents djs who mash up…
Gettin' Down & Dirty in the Dive Bars
Clipped from Davesworld81.com Do you ever get tired of feeling like you have to round up your friends and get dressed up just to get a drink in this town? That’s what dive bars are for–cheap drinks, free popcorn, jukebox not dj, lax dress policy and real-live barflies asleep at the bar. And some even…
