Immerse yourself in a festive world inspired by Prime Video’s best original TV shows when FYC Fest brings three days of free experiences to three Los Angeles locations from Friday, August 12 through Sunday, August 14.
You can play games of miniature golf themed to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Lucy and Desi, Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Girls, and The Boys Presents: Diabolical, along with a target game inspired by the latter show.
Food trucks inspired by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and other acclaimed Prime Video shows will offer delicious — and free! — bites and drinks.
There will also be custom tote bag-making stations, life-size lawn games (Jenga, Cornhole, Connect 4, and more), plenty of photo ops, live music, a giant paint-by-numbers wall you can help fill in, and more.
“Monday Morning” (1990, MVD Video Rewind) Relentless hazing at the hands of school bully Brandon Hooper drives sensitive new kid Noah (son of Robert) Blake to take his classmates hostage when Hooper tries to threaten him with a gun. Modest teen-angst drama began life as a student film and never quite rises above those limits, though writer-director Don Murphy (the “Transformers” franchise) lends a degree of production polish to the B-movie proceedings. Performances are spotty (especially Hooper), but the presence of Lisa Rinna, Blake Lively’s brother Jason, and “Simpsons” voice actor Karl Wiedergott in the cast, as well as the unfortunately prescient finale, anchored around a school shooting, offers the film’s clearest appeal. MVD’s Collector’s Edition Blu-ray, part of its VHS-faithful Video Rewind series, offers an alternate home video cut, titled “Class of Fear,” a new interview with Murphy and a vintage profile of his career.
Noted Los Angeles musician, composer, and producer Paul Roessler (The Screamers, Nina Hagen, Josie Cotton, Mike Watt and a whole bunch more) has released a deeply moving new album of original material, The Turning of the Bright World, on the Kitten Robot Records label. It is an album in which the artist looks at the world with enough time, depth and compassion to ‘notice it’s turning’, and then has a bit to say about what he sees. It is a beautiful commentary – lyrically, musically and even from the spaces between the words and music. Continue reading →
Artists BigTeef & Greg Mike with SW Founder Terry Guy Hyping the Crowd in Atlanta. Photo credit: Chris House.
Watch local street artists compete to create the most exciting mural while a vibrant throng of onlookers cheers them on. You can join this lively milieu when Secret Walls’ 35-city “Support Your Local Artist” tour stops in LA on August 14.
At this community-minded art celebration, DJs spin while artists are given spray paint, paint brushes, paint rollers, and markers. The clock strikes and the artists have 90 minutes to create a new mural. A group of judges and a decibel meter help determine the winner.
Tiki Oasis 2022 is once again at the elegant mid-century modern beauty, the Town and Country Hotel in Hotel Circle, San Diego, this Wednesday, August 3, through Sunday, August 7, 2022.
Themed a “Trip to the Tropics,” Tiki Oasis is celebrating the Caribbean Islands and their influence on Tiki subculture, and have chosen Kay Tita, founded by David Pierre-Louis in 2010 after the devastating earthquake in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, as the spotlighted non-profit for this year.
The schedule of events features live music, fashion shows, educational seminars, art exhibits, people-watching parades, mind-blowing mixology, poolside hot fun in the sun, and cool cat DJ’s. Into the late evening are dozens of hosted and spirit-sponsored room and “Lanai” parties and “Suite Soirees,” Tiki Oasis curated music, DJ dance parties, more groovy live music, and bodacious and body-positive burlesque.
Noted Los Angeles musician, composer, and producer Paul Roessler (The Screamers, Nina Hagen, Josie Cotton, Mike Watt and a whole bunch more) has released a deeply moving new album of original material, The Turning of the Bright World, on the Kitten Robot Records label. It is an album in which the artist looks at the world with enough time, depth and compassion to ‘notice it’s turning’, and then has a bit to say about what he sees. It is a beautiful commentary – lyrically, musically and even from the spaces between the words and music. 
