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Concern Foundation’s 49th Annual Block Party Is A Sizzling Summer Evening
Dulan’s plating funky banana pudding at the Concern Foundation Block Party. All photos by Bob Lee for the LA Beat. A hot ticket in LA for forty-nine years, The Concern Foundation’s Annual Block Party took over the Paramount Studios backlot … Continue reading
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Tiki Oasis 2024 Makes Its Way Out West
Tiki Oasis’ Way Out West, brought to you by hosts Baby Doe & Otto von Stroheim, will be a five-night, four-day live music event this year. Beginning Wednesday, July 31, through Sunday, August 4, 2024, this year’s event at San Diego’s Town & Country … Continue reading
Posted in Attractions, Cocktails, Beer, Wine & Weed, Events, Fashion, Miscellanious, Music
Tagged Al Jardine, Anja & Mike Stax, Astro 138, Baby Doe & Otto von Stroheim, Babzotica, Beach Boys, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, BigTikiDude, Bird Calls, CK Smart, Deke & The Whippersnappers, Dirt Chylde, Dirty Fuse of Greece, Dominic Priore, El Dedo, Eric Musick, Gianni Beatnik, Great Gallaspy, Ixtahulé, James David, Jayna Manoushe, Kate Scratch Fever, Lee Joseph, Lucky Ritz, Mahalo Matt, Manakooras of North Carolina, Mark A: The Suburban Savage, MeduSirena the Fire Eating Mermaid, Mike LaVella, Nuria, Otto, Par Avion, Project: Pimento from San Francisco, Rockin’ Dj Amy Dee, Ruiko Satoya of Japan, Ship Rex, Skipper Josh, Slack Key ‘Ohana of San Diego, Spin Lizzy, Surfer Joe of Italy, Taimane Gardner, Tanoa “Samoa Boy”, The Apemen, The Centuries, The Crawdaddys, The Double Whammys of Las Vegas, The Ogres of San Francisco, The Outta Sites, The Satin Dollz, The Scimitars of Southern California, The Untamed Youth, Tony the Tyger, Tropicana Joe, Venturesmania!
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Pause. Do: Beckett, Justice and “Happy Days” – A Conversation with Actress Monica Horan
On Saturday, June 8, the Independent Shakespeare Company in Atwater Village will feature the final performance (to date) of a remarkable production of Samuel Beckett’s 1961 two-act play “Happy Days.” The production, which is part of the 2024 Samuel Beckett … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Interviews, Theater
Tagged Happy Days, Independent Shakespeare Company, Monica Horan, Phil Rosenthal, Samuel Beckett
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Eno Plays LA? Almost – His AI Assisted Documentary Screens At The Alex
To the best of my knowledge, Brian Eno has appeared in person in LA just a couple of times; at the Roxy Music debut American tour when it hit the Whisky in 1972, and for a lecture he gave at … Continue reading
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Tequila’s Punk Museum Comes to Joshua Tree
Last month, the LA Beat’s own Tequila Mockingbird joined forces with graphic artist, Rolo Castillo, and AI artist and inventor, Phil Bosua, to bring “the past, present, and future of Punk” through the art of AI and the Punk Museum … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Events, Miscellanious, Music
Tagged desert trip, Joshua Tree, L.A. Punk Museum, Library Special Collections Punk Archives, Nina Hagen, Phil Bosua, Punkast, Rollo Castillo, Tales of the American, Taylor Junction, Tequila Mockingbird, Tequila Mockingbird's Punk Museum, UCLA Archives
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LA Opera’s La Traviata Premieres This Weekend – Don’t Miss Rachel Willis-Sorenson
Rachel Willis-Sorenson in the LA Opera production of La Traviata. Photo by Cory Weaver for the LA Opera, used with permission. This weekend sees the LA premiere of a new production of Verdi’s classic opera La Traviata. The miraculous Rachel … Continue reading
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Nite of a 1,000 Slutty Bass Players – My Slutty Valentine at The Echo
A week ago Saturday, we celebrated the birth of one of the greatest men in the history of music – Cliff Burton. Like most, I usually spend the day in both quiet reflection of “what if” and in joyful bliss … Continue reading
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Tagged basic cable programming, Big Fun, Cliff Burton Bass Pedal, Cliff Burton Morley, Dwarves, Los Angeles Music Fest, Marc Diamond, Morley Power Wah Fuzz, My Slutty Valentine, my slutty Valentine 2024, my slutty valentine the echo, Nu Good, Pussy Gillette, Side Eyes, Squid Pisser, The Crudes, The Dwarves, the echo, the echoplex, Useless eaters
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The Jim Irsay Collection Gives L.A. A Rock And Roll History Lesson…With Guitar
L-R Harmonica player Billy Branch, keyboardist Michael Ramos, lead singer Kevin Cronin, guitarists Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Mike Wanchic (hidden) at the Jim Irsay Collection. All photos by Bob Lee for the LA Beat. Jim Irsay, to answer a question … Continue reading
It’s Not You, it’s Capitalism. “Economics of Suffering: Part IV” by Linda Sibio
It’s not often that you get a press release that so completely connects your main interests – wealth disparities and crafts – but I’ll be damned if that didn’t happen. Her name is Linda Sibio, her work is “Economics of … Continue reading
Festive Santa and Krampus Crawls, Stumbles, and Runs Across LA
This weekend and beyond, the winter holiday season truly begins within Greater Los Angeles when the city’s streets fill with both the most wicked and the most festive of revelers, celebrating in a style that can only be found in … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas crawls, krampus, krampus night, krampusnacht, pub crawls, santa crawls, SantaCon
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