Every Body Nose Nothing was a hit! if you were lucky enough to catch the show then you will agree that the show was… unique. Colin O’brian was a mastermind in creating a show that had so much going on you really were left to your own imagination and wits to come up with a story line. No dialog. Just clowns .. and more clowns acting out… emotions? Like I said, its up to you for the interpretation of whats going on. My rendition of what was happening was pretty entertaining. I chose to go with a psychological thriller; think schizophrenia meets bozo the clown mixed with your choice of a hallucinogenic. cARTel has done it again; entertainment and creativity well done!
Hey guys! Jamba Juice is on a roll with their new campaign, “Live Frutifully”. Jamba continues to encourage their customers with healthy and active living with their launch of Fit ‘n Fruitful smoothies. If you’re trying to get more fruit in your diet or a healthy meal replacement on the go, this is a tasty and refreshing alternative. You not only get more vitamins and minerals in each serving but you also get a nice balance of protein and fiber. The smoothies come in three delicious flavors: Berry Blend, Strawberry Raspberry Banana, and Peach Mango. You have to try them!
Jamba is so serious about getting you up and moving that they put on a little event to get some noise going about all the new healthy things that have launched. They invited all us crazy health bloggers to a day of fun exercise accompanied by their healthy steal cut oats for breakfast and their Fit ‘n Fruitful smoothies for an extra boast during our breaks.
Our day began with something pretty much all of us are familiar with: hula hooping! Pamela Crawford lead us in a fitness routine with weighted hula hoops. She definitely made us all feel like a kid again. Find out more about Hoopnotica.
If you love to dance then you would love Rahul Nath’s Bollywood Dancing. It’s like Zumba but Bollywood style instead. I had a blast jumping around attempting to mimic these dance moves. It was right up my alley given my passion for dance. The music is like nothing I’ve worked out to before and Rahul’s energy is infectious. Find out more about Bollywood Dance and Rahul and take a class. You wont regret it!
The most creative new fitness craze award goes to Bill Ninteau as he demonstated his Surf boards on the go. With SurfSET fitness you can get a full body surf inspired workout. Trust me when I say this was a blast! Check out the news coverage and demo. If you look close you may just spot me 
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=8547149
Jamba Juice definitly knows how to throw a fitness party inviting Kirsten Potenza and Cristina Peerenboom to the mix. Get ready to sweat through your crotch with their Pound Rockout Workout. Weighted drum sticks and some rhythm went a long way with this work out. They mixed drummer moves with exercise and let me tell you their 20 minute session should have been first on the list. If you got some aggression to get out your system or just a pound or two that you wouldn’t mind losing, then these girls are worth your time. Check them out here.
Our day ended with some jump roping, parkour and some more dancing. Jamba Juice definitely made a health fitness bloggers heaven out of those 4 hours. We ate, worked out, blogged, worked out, blogged, worked out some more and ate! We were all exhausted but walked away with a smile plastered on our faces.
Jamba Juice has made it their mission to become the leading healthy lifestyle brand offering customers great tasting and differentiated products inside and outside their stores. They’ve given me more than one reason now to head over there when I’m in the mood for a healthy treat. They have really upped their game in healthy options offering fresh greens in your smoothies, a new Weight Burner Boost, and their Probiotic Fruit & Yogurt Blends. If you havnt been by in a while swing by. Your original favorites are still there along with new healthier options.
Happy Mardi Gras! Being a Louisiana native, I always get a craving for King Cake at this time of year. I have tried a few from out here in CA, but they are always pretty different from the real thing: tougher dough texture, skinny, elongated shape, different kind of icing. Still, I’ll take what I can get! Portos in Burbank makes a decent one. Gambino’s Bakery in Louisiana will ship you an AMAZING one.
For Catholics, the King Cake represents the three kings who brought gifts to the baby Jesus 
during what is called the Epiphany. For this reason, there is traditionally a small plastic baby hidden inside the cake, and whoever finds the baby in their piece is supposed to throw the Mardi Gras party next year. But as a kid, it’s just a fun way of being the winner! …Sadly, I have NEVER, EVER found the baby in my piece. I did get to keep all the ones my brother found and put them in my dollhouse. Lately, some bakeries have been declining to put the baby inside the cake, most likely in fear of choking incidents and lawsuits. (Which is a bit lame considering the baby is usually about an inch long. So unless you’re trying to swallow your piece whole…)
There has been some controversy over Cinefamily’s showing this week of the film, “Michael.” Michael is the story of a pedophile. The film festival favorite has won numerous accolades and is reviewed as being a gripping character study that makes the unthinkable all too real. Here is Hadrian’s response to the criticism:
I got a letter the other day from a concerned, but loyal, patron who wanted to know why we would show MICHAEL–an Austrian art film about a pedophile who keeps a child in his basement–especially in light of horrific current events. Now, as a policy I don’t generally believe that a film’s portrayal of a subject matter is in any way an endorsement, and it’s certainly not with MICHAEL–a film that is as intelligent and tasteful as a film on this subject matter deserves to be. I’m happy to stick to my guns morally, but that’s not the point. I’m not showing Michael as some kind of stance. I’m showing it because it’s great. And it’s not the movie you think it is.
When I’ve spoken with people who haven’t seen it yet, it seems their impression is irrevocably colored by the disturbing subject matter. People either think it’s some kind of provocative, outré, boundary-pushing, “can you handle it”? movie along the lines of ANTI-CHRIST or even HAPPINESS, or just a weird Euro-bummer we’re showing because of its taboo focus. But no. We’re showing MICHAEL because it’s the most assured film debut of the year, and a flat out piece of pure cinema. And without a champion it’s gonna quietly slip into the good night.
Blueberry-Apple Pie
1 pkg.(2 crusts) Marie Callender’s frozen pie crust..(These are just as good as any ‘from scratch’ recipe I have.)
24oz. pkg. fresh bluberries
5 Granny Smith or Pippen apples (peeled,cored, sliced)
2 cups organic sugar
1/3 stick butter
1 cup water
dash nutmeg and cinnamon(to taste)
1/2 lemon(jucied)
Add 1/2 cup water, 1 cup sugar to med. saucepan. Bring to boil while stirring to dissolve sugar. Add blueberries and return to boil then reduce heat to simmer for 8-10 min. remove from heat and let cool.
Add 1/2 cup water, 1 cup sugar,butter, to med. saucepan. Bring to boil while stirring. Add apples lemon juice, nutmeg and cinnamon and return to boil, reduce heat to simmer for 8-10 min. Spread out to cool on baking sheet covered in foil.
Preheat oven to 400. Combine fruits in lrg. bowl, mix, and pour through strainer to seperate fruits from juice/sauce(save this liquid).
Add fruit mix to thawed crust, add juice/sauce to desired level, install thawed top crust and pinch edges together all around perimiter.
Make 5+ slits in top crust w/ knife, sprinkle sugar lightly on surface of top crust and bake on foil covered baking sheet approx. 45 min. or untill done. Allow to cool..Enjoy..One of ‘The Dudes’ favorites..!! Abide..!!
The LA Beat is proud to announce the distinguished lineup for the latest in our series of free all-ages afternoon shows at the Redwood Bar & Gill coming up next Sunday, February 26. Every last Sunday of the month, we’ll be bringing you some of the bands we think you ought to get to know. Here’s what we have on tap this month:
6:00 pm: Mecolodiacs – Formed in 1993 after Steve Moss’ departure from the US forced the breakup of Universal Congress Of, guitarist Joe Baiza and bassist Rafa Gorodetsky have kept their unique brand of Meters-based funk filtered through their Ornette-informed theory of “mecolodics” – alive through two decades and a multitude of drummers (including, briefly, this writer), though current sticksman Wayne Griffin has been firmly in the chair since the late nineties. With the classic trio lineup expanded to a quartet for recent dates, with trumpeter Dan Clucas and star session keyboardist Dan McGough adding to the mayhem, expect a good time in which it won’t be entirely clear whether you need to free your mind so your ass can follow, or the other way around. We recommend freeing both, to make sure you don’t miss anything.
5:00 pm: Warm Climate – Seth Kasselman has been producing and performing music under the name Warm Climate since early in the millennium, but in the last two years, the group has taken on a more tactile form. At the Redwood last summer, Kasselman and drummer Caitlin Mitchell set up a compelling, hypnotic wave of psychedelia, dripping with a Barrett-like disregard for compositional form. But a listen through their recent catalog suggests that anything can happen, that angular riff-rock and twisted singer-songwriting may lie just around the corner. Would-be collectors had better prepare to invest in a couple of good cassette players, as much of the group’s output has surfaced on tape labels like Stunned, though enough of it has surfaced online for the curious to get a taste. Live performances aren’t exactly frequent – the band’s played in Scandinavia as often as California for the last year according to their Facebook page – so we’re more than pleased to have them.
4:00 pm: Rat Soup – Beat staffer James Elipolous brought these guys to our attention, a newly minted horn-topped quintet from behind the Orange Curtain. They’ll be making their Redwood debut and promise to set heads to bobbing in short order.
We look forward to a great afternoon of music from some singular Angelenos and hope you can join the party.
The Los Angeles Beat Presents At the Redwood Bar and Grill, 316 W 2nd St, Downtown LA. Free Admission, All Ages admitted. 4pm-7pm every last Sunday of the month.
Last month’s “Morso della Bestia” dinner at Locanda. Chef Gianfranco is carving venison for the “secondo” course. Photo credit: Emanuela Cottu for Locanda del Lago.
Thursday, February 23, Locanda del Lago offers a five-course “bill-to-tail dinner featuring Muscovy duck. Executive Chef Gianfranco Minuz, inspired by rustic Northern Italian favorites, will present a five-course menu highlighting locally sourced produce and the hormone-free ducks of Grimaud Farms, which are known for their lean meat and bold flavor. Courses include delicacies like Housemade Duck Pâté with Pink Lady apple-mustard compote and Roasted Duck Breast with espresso sauce and sautéed Swiss chard.($70 per person with unlimited litros of house red and white wine; $54 per person without wine option; prices not including tax and gratuity). 310.451.3525. Upcoming Morso della Bestia dates and featured “beasts” include: § Thursday, March 29: Virginia sea bass§ Thursday, April 26: Capon chicken
Do you ever watch Iron Chef and wish you could be one of the judges? Tomorrow, February 20, Food GPS presents the inaugural Lamb Showdown. Walter Manzke from upcoming République and Factory Baking Company will battle it out with Zach Pollack & Steve Samson at popular Mexican restaurant, Guelaguetza, in Koreatown. The chefs will produce ”four savory courses featuring American lamb, and two desserts starring sheep’s milk dairy.” Eagle Rock Brewery will be pouring beers for the occasion. 15% of event proceeds benefit the Special Olympics. ($75 per person, all-inclusive, for six courses of lamb and three Eagle Rock Brewery beers). BUY TICKETS
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, and in reaction to the recent passing of the controversial 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, The Actors Gang are bringing back their theatrical production of George Orwell’s 1984 for a limited run, beginning Saturday Feb. 25th. Directed by Tim Robbins and adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan, the play originally ran in 2006 to much critical acclaim.
From the Actors Gang site: “Written in 1948, Orwell envisioned a totalitarian future where love for Big Brother and the State is maintained and controlled at every level, including within the hearts and minds of the people. In this vision of our future, and perhaps our present, human love is the greatest revolutionary act.”
This looks to be terrifying and good. The shows will run at the Ivy Substation in Culver City on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and the tickets range from $15-$25. (I’m not sure if the discount for preview shows mentioned on this flyer is still relevant but you can try it. Previews began last Friday.)
The Ivy Substation
9070 Venice Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
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