The Hump Readings featuring Clint Margrave and Anna Badua
This second installment of The Hump Readings Poetry Series is Wednesday, August 18 featuring TRAffIK Contributors Clint Margrave and Anna Badua!
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Location:
Borders Downtown Long Beach at The Pike
101 S. Pine Ave.
THIS SATURDAY – L.A. CRAFT EXPERIENCE
“LA, It’s Time to Get Crafty!” LA Craft Experience is LA’s newest outdoor market located in historic Chinatown’s Central Plaza and features unique vendors from all over Los Angeles. The show includes designers, crafters and artists selling unique, handmade, original and hard-to-find items. LA Craft Experience (“LACE”) debuts on August 14th and 28th from 5 p.m. to midnight alongside Chinatown Summer Nights. After August, LACE occurs the second Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Each market includes a rotating selection of juried-in vendors, hands-on crafts demonstrations, free giveaways for event goers and selected DJs and bands to rock the crowd all day long.
Dates: LACE runs in conjunction with Chinatown Summer Nights on August 14th & 28th from 5 p.m. to midnight. After August, LACE occurs the second Saturday of each month beginning on Oct. 9, 2010 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. All events are at Chinatown’s Central Plaza: 947 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, 90012. Admission to Chinatown Summer Nights and LA Craft Experience is always free. Bike and car valet available during Chinatown Summer Nights and street parking and plenty of event parking available for all markets.
Visit www.laceevent.com or www.chinatownsummernights.com for more info.
The Sun Always Rises: How to Stay Indoors This Summer
Don’t be fooled by the smell of barbecue in the air, the popping lids of iced cold beer, and all the smiling people in trunks and bikinis riding bicycles. The source of their pleasure is a scorching gaseous star emitting cancerous UV rays that want to kill them. If anything, stage a revolt this summer: Stay indoors. Defy the sun by opening all the windows and finding a good book to read.
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Sure, in this age of the e-reader, a whole library can be taken with you wherever you go, including to all those sunny outdoor places, but have you ever tried to get sand out of a Kindle? Me neither, but it doesn’t sound like a lot of fun. Plus, there are crowds to contend with. You’re better off in the comfort of your own home. Why throw rent away? The truth is, with the right reading material it won’t matter. Let books take you where you want to go. And why not start at the top with Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Sure it’s over six hundred pages of dense reading, but relax, you’ve got all summer! If you don’t read it now when will you ever? Plus, it’s an adventure story. Takes place on the high seas. Perfect for the season. And quit whining about difficult reading, you’re an adult now, time to put the Harry Potter down.
Okay, maybe you’ve just got something against whales (hmm…I’m telling you, you may want to check this book out!). Maybe, you get seasick easily, or I don’t know, something else, like it’s not quite the tale you’re looking for. (more…)
WHERE WE’RE HEADED: TOMORROW NIGHT!
Tomorrow Night (Friday June 4th, 2010) is the Issue 2 Release for Beggars and Cheeseburgers (www.beggarsandcheeseburgers.com)
Beggars & Cheeseburgers is a quarterly art/poetry magazine that is focused on print media. Poetry, short stories, photography, painting, etc.
TRAffIK contributors Anna Badua and Clint Margrave are among the talent included in this issue.
East to West – From a Church of Rock ‘n’ Roll to the Hotel Cafe
Every night of the week you can find a million things to do, even on a weeknight…especially on a weeknight. Tonight is no different. Out of those millions of things to go to here’s where you might catch us tonight:
Hotel Cafe for Vermont based, singer-songwriter Kris Gruen (cover $8)
Gruen’s new album, “Part Of It All,” is set for release in the next month via Mother’s West. This record was produced by Charles Newman, who recently co-produced the new Magnetic Fields album, “Realism”, as well as our friend AM’s “Future Sons and Daughters.” While recording in both New York City and Los Angeles Gruen was able to collaborate and record with some great musicians and friends, including drummer Butch Norton (The Eels, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Wainright), bassist Sebastian Steinberg (Soul Coughing, Dixie Chicks), Nashville’s Jason Goforth on lapsteel, and drummer Nick Brown from New York City’s The Dig.
Tonight he shares the stage with Nina Storey.
and…
Old Towne Pub for Mike TV’s Church of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Cover $3)
A weekly event happening every Thursday at the Old Towne Pub (66 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103). Tonight the ever elusive Wormstew (whom you may recall Eric Summer spotlighted a few months ago) will be performing along with The Power Cords, Underwater City People, Get Set Go (speaking of Eric Summer you can catch him on Viola with Get Set Go), as well as an end of night All Band Jam (where else can you catch Indie Rockers/Power-Poppers/Mod Revivalists embarking on impromptu covers of 2 Live Crew’s “Me So Horny?“)
OUT IN TRAFFIK – St. Felix One Year Anniversary (Fri. & Sat.)
If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, this Friday (August 14th) and/or Saturday (August 15th) St. Felix in West Hollywood is celebrating it’s 1 Year Anniversary! This is one of our favorite places to hang as we adore the owners and staff. Their fruit infused tequila, Sangria, and Kobe Beef Sliders are addicting.
Lady Di, Amanda Jones, and I among with many other friends will be putting in an appearance on Saturday night.
St. Felix is located at:
8945 Santa Monica Blvd. (at Robertson)
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 275-4428
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