Roughly occurring at the same time as the more well-known and more celebrated French Nouvelle Vague (or New Wave), another group of frequently collaborative film-makers were grouped together under the moniker "Rive Gauche," named after Paris' artsy side. These film-makers (Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Jean Cayrol, Henri Colpi, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet,) applied to film the concepts which … Continue reading Rive Gauche
Heritage Day at the Heritage Square Museum
This past Sunday at the Heritage Square Museum in Highland Park it was L.A. Heritage Day, which I checked out, accompanied by the always scintillating Ngoc Nguyen. The Heritage Square Museum is a "living museum" made up of some Victorian buildings saved from impending demolition that was begun in the 1960s. All the homes were … Continue reading Heritage Day at the Heritage Square Museum
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California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Rosemead, Today’s Small Town America
This installment of California Fool's Gold takes us to Rosemead. To vote for another Los Angeles neighborhood, vote here. To vote for a Los Angeles County Community, vote here. Pendersleigh & Sons' Official Map of Rosemead EARLY HISTORY First, a bit of background on the City of Rosemead. As is proving to be true of everywhere … Continue reading California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Rosemead, Today’s Small Town America
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Los Angeles Revival House Calendar For March
New Beverly, silent movie theater, nuart, Egyptian, Aero, Billy Wilder Theater ***** Eric Brightwell is an adventurer, writer, rambler, explorer, cartographer, and guerrilla gardener who is always seeking writing, speaking, traveling, and art opportunities — or salaried work. He is not interested in writing advertorials, clickbait, listicles, or other 21st century variations of spam. Brightwell’s written work … Continue reading Los Angeles Revival House Calendar For March
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Crime & The City Solution and Simon Bonney — Criminally Underrated
CRIME & THE CITY SOLUTION Crime & the City Solution 31 December, 1977 (image source: Phil Turnbull) It seems that almost from their inception the band Crime & The City Solution they were cursed to never be spoken of without a mention of famous Australian Nick Cave. It's really no one's fault. They were part … Continue reading Crime & The City Solution and Simon Bonney — Criminally Underrated
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The Lemonade Diet — Master Cleanse Miracle or Dangerous Snakeoil?
The Master Cleanse diet was developed in 1941 by Stanley Burroughs. It calls for the practitioner to starve his or herself except for a concoction of lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maple syrup. At night you're to take a laxative tea and saltwater which, through a top-down enema, is said to remove toxins from the … Continue reading The Lemonade Diet — Master Cleanse Miracle or Dangerous Snakeoil?
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Happy Valentine’s Day
It's Valentines Day. Pshaw! A Hallmark Holiday, you say. Singles Awareness Day, another jokes. I guess every holiday has its Scrooge. I have my Ngoc-Thu. My friend Nick Pinto would gripe about Valentine's, Christmas or (especially) 4/20. He doesn't need holidays to legislate his behavior. And yet his love of Halloween never once carried … Continue reading Happy Valentine’s Day
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Dancicals! A Concept Whose Time Has Arrived
Last year on Amoeba Hollywood's mezzanine there was a serious debate about possible new sections: Sports movies, Christian movies, Tween movies, Women's Pictures, Edwardian Movies, Midwesterns, &c. Most were shot down as stupid, unattractive and inadvisable. One that didn't get the official OK and yet sprang up anyway was "Dancicals." In musicals (dancicals' aging sibling), … Continue reading Dancicals! A Concept Whose Time Has Arrived
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Music Biographies — Turk
In the 2000s, Amoeba Music enlisted an army of writers and data entry people to work on an ambitious website that was meant to be a sort of combination of Allmusic, Apple Music, Discogs, Wikipedia, and more. Despite investing a tremendous amount of time, labor and money, the site, as envisioned, never got off the ground. In 2020 — without so … Continue reading Music Biographies — Turk
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New Zealand Day or, Happy Waitangi Day
Happy New Zealand Day! The Haast's Eagle, the largest bird of prey (until extinction) attacking a flightless moa (also extinct) The islands that make up what today is known as New Zealand were, for centuries, uninhabited by people. Due to isolation, the islands hosted many distinct creatures and were dominated by large birds. There … Continue reading New Zealand Day or, Happy Waitangi Day
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