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Scarlett Letter
An hilarious special take on The Producers, Burlesque style, performs at Bordello on Sunday. The night is Hosted by Scarlett Letter and Chris Beyond and featuring some of the best Burlesque performances in the business: Lili Von Schtupp, Kitten DeVille, Scarlett Letter, Vixen Violette, Bobbie Burlesque, Penny Star JR, Lux LaCroix, Bunny Bravo, and Rubie Fox. There are guest performances by Red Snapper and Creekbird.
The Burlesque Producers
Sunday, August 3rd. Doors open at 9pm. Tickets: $10
Bordello - 901 East First Street - Map
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Shanghai
The brilliant and evocative Shanghai Restoration Project performs at The Viper Room on August 5th. SRP blend music and cultural genres from old 1930’s Shanghai jazz bands and Eastern instruments to the Western sounds of electronic and hip-hop.
New York based SRP Producer Dave Liang showcases the new SRP 24-track compilation album for an exclusive one night show in LA to coincide with the opening of the Beijing Olympics the following Saturday. Dave Liang’s work has featured in advertising campaigns for Kenzo Parfums and in films such as “Red Door,” (Winner TreBeCa Film Festival ’05).
SRP’s last album, “Story of the City,” featured artists who have worked with talents such as, Moby, Kanye West, Wynton Marsalis, Erykah Badu, and Cirque du Soleil and reached the top 40 Electronic Albums in iTunes this year in the US, France, Germany, Japan, and Canada.
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Twelve months on and still baking strong, Lark Cake Shop in Silver Lake has built a strong reputation and loyal following since its inception one year ago. Customers are drawn to the spacious and sun bright lounge and the huge candy blue wall showcasing sweet treats and cake paraphernalia. Dainty, dare I say it; non-American-mega-size cup cakes line the display case. Try the carrot cake made with fresh carrots or the lemon white chocolate cup cake, a melt-in-the-mouth white cake sponge with lemon curd filling and white chocolate Italian butter cream icing. The presentation is a bit rough around the edges but the cakes are delicious. 3337 W. Sunset Blvd. (323-667-2968; larkcakeshop.com).
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When I was asked to check out a new monthly speakeasy at Crane’s Hollywood Tavern on North El Centre Avenue, I envisioned dark rooms where male punters in hats and sharp suits, snatched bourbon by candlelight with their female companions, kitted out in knee-length figure hugging dresses.When I arrived the bar was dark but it was also empty. I followed the sound of mesmerizing accordion, singing the unmistakable charm of eastern European folk music at the back of the bar and outside. Here’s where the party was. Two young guys on accordion and horn played like their lives depended on it while a few dozen people watched and admired.
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The dulcet infectious lyrics of the Wet Spots, “Do You Take it in the Ass,” are Lili VonSchtupp’s cue to start the show. Dressed in a black slip which leaves little to the imagination, Lili takes to the stage, bends to the floor with her ass facing the crowd, and points her finger. The music disappears and Lili faces the audience. She welcomes the crowd, simultaneously sounding off a dozen or so expletives, just, as she says, to get them off her chest. She’s now ready to start the show. This is Monday Night Tease, Los Angeles longest running weekly Burlesque show at the 3 Clubs on Santa Monica and Vine. 3 Clubs is a two roomed joint with a long bar in one room, where a sliding door takes you into the second room. Here you will find plenty of comfy couches in swanky booths, spacious tables, an elevated stage, and generous bar.
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Hollywood Megamansions. The real-estate market might be in the dog’s ass for most of us, but for the mega rich who are not affected by the economic kaboom, there’s plenty of Megamansions. There are dozens of new construction sights littered around LA where 20-40-60,000 square feet, palace-like mansions are dotting the hillsides. There’s no tightening of belts for the mega rich and no down time for the lesser rich builders either. In Beverley Hills, for instance, a 32,000 square foot beaux-arts mansion, sheathed in Portuguese limestone and adorned with gold-plated doorknobs, is just one the new properties still under construction. With all this money to spend, why not build a bigger home, plate the doorknobs in gold, why don’t yah.
Some say its Hollywood ego; one must have the 80-seat home cinema and the Olympic size swimming pool, set on a little ‘ME’ island. But you know what? More power to them. After all, you can’t take it with you. So let’s take a look at who is buying what!
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Gleaming from their first live show in the USA, at Tuesday’s KCRW’s Morning Becomes Electric, CIAM’s follow-up show at Tangier on Wednesday showcased a litany of intelligent rock songs taken from their album, Anonymous. For a band comprising of London based architects, CIAM thus made sense of it all with a multi-sensual and polished display.
London’s very own visual art rockers, CIAM, performed their first ever American show at KCRW’s Morning Becomes Electric on Tuesday. The following evening promised an electric multi-media performance at Los Feliz’s Tangier. CIAM debuted their stomping guitar and electronic violin melodies with a projected dazzling display of images and light by some of Europe’s top photographers and designers. It was a solid set taken from their album, Anonymous. Vocalist, Jeff Shapiro’s dark and brooding lyrics and elegant guitar riffs, took the audience on an eclectic journey from guitar rock to ethereal strings. ‘It Takes a Friend’ crawled into the skin with a haunting melody from violinist, Hadar Goldman. Programmer, Farrell London jabbed hypnotic synth into ‘Here I Am’ and ‘Misunderstood.’
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CIAM takes “art-rock” to a new level with innovative U.S. debut performance Tuesday, June 24 on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic,” and at Tangier, Los Angeles, at 9.30PM on Wednesday, June 25.
Los Angeles cutting-edge visual art will meet innovatively experimental music on Tuesday, June 24 when Los Angeles will be host to the first-ever American appearance of the multimedia London art rock group CIAM at KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. Then on Wednesday, June 25th, the multimedia ensemble brings its evocative, provocative perspective to the urban arts world with a rare groundbreaking rock concert and work from Europe’s top photographers and designers for their show at Tangier. CIAM is the five-piece brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Jeff Shapiro and viola/violinist Hadar Goldman, and Shapiro’s former Astrohound bandmate, drummer Chris Hall, programmer/sound architect/guitarist Farrell Lennon and bassist Mark Ferguson.
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June 24th, 2008 Written by: Ginger · 1 Comment
In my quest for finding LA’s “best” Panini, memories of melted cheese, country ham, and juicy tomatoes squashed inside freshly baked ciabatta bread, fill my mind from my gastronomical visits to Italy. There were better memories still, of my favorite all-night Italian café bar, set in the heart of Soho in London. Many a night I’d spent at 5 o’clock in the morning, my legs all danced-out from clubbing, and me sitting at the bar, drinking a cappuccino so thick and frothy, one could turn it upside down as if testing for a meringue’s doneness.
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“Flaunt”
Flaunt: June 21 - July 31 2008
Benefiting the Art Center College of DesignJunc Gallery’s third annual exhibition, ‘Flaunt,’ opens tonight in Silver Lake. As always, Junc Gallery endeavours to exhibit the best of LA’s emerging artists juxtaposed with tried and tested favourites. This year’s event doubles as a benefit for the Art Center College of Design Illustration Scholarship Fund and showcases the various ways in which the current and next generation is reinventing illustration as an art form.
Owner, Mike Kelley opened Junc Gallery four years ago. Junc has been a pioneer in the Silver Lake art scene from exhibiting some of the best young artists early in their careers. With many galleries establishing themselves on the east side, Kelley formed the Silver Lake Gallery Alliance (galleryalliance.com); a partnership of full-time galleries.
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Open arms greet me at the door from the corner house on a quiet leafy street in Silver Lake. Jenny welcomes me with a hug and a smile and her plum-tinted curls bounce around her cheeks. I follow her up the stairs to the lounge area where the dining room is on a split level. We sit at the huge wooden dining table and wait for her sister to arrive. It isn’t long before Heather bounces into the lounge, pushes her long golden hair from her face and takes her seat next to Jenny.
Welcome to Spork Foods and two sisters who want to change the world, week-by-week, with healthy gourmet vegan food, education, and outstanding hospitality.
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Very often, half the fun of viewing an art exhibition is rifling through the goodies at the adjacent gift shop. More likely than not, we purchase a $1 dollar postcard image of a $15,000 dollar work of art. A post card is certainly nothing to get excited about, but at Black Maria Gallery’s offshoot, Under the Table in Atwater Village, it’s not only art lovers who get to appreciate this unique artist store, it’s anyone who loves to buy unique gifts.
Black Maria Gallery opened in 2005 and was soon touted by established gallery owners and artists alike, as a legitimate artist space for new and established artists of a non-mainstream lilt, often called, “low-brow, avante garde, underground or subversive.” Next door to the gallery is Under the Table store. It was here that I spoke to the owner, Zara Zeitountsian. She greeted me with the warmest of smiles and talked about her gift shop and her passion for the “street” art of the east side of LA.
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