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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 cafe 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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Chef Erin Marroquin’s passion for herbs and spices is reflected not only in his superb cuisine but in the name he gave to his restaurant: Aroma.
Aroma opened its doors in 2005 in Silver Lake, a part of Los Angeles which was economically viable for a chef who admits to spending any money he earned. The same year the Los Angeles Times proclaimed it number one in the best new restaurants category. Since that article, according to Chef Edin, his restaurant has been packed on Fridays and Saturdays.
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April 24th, 2008 Written by: Ginger · 1 Comment
El Cholo is a go-to restaurant for firsts. It was here that nachos were invented. Yes, I know what you are saying: “Doesn’t every Mexican restaurant stake their claim on the nachos and margaritas?” Well, here it happens to be true.
In 1959, staff member Carmen Rocha joined the El Cholo team and brought with her, from her hometown in San Antonio, the dish she named “nachos.” They also have a claim to margaritas. Not the actual invention of, but the world’s largest user of Cuervo 1800 Tequila, so they say.
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April 23rd, 2008 Written by: Ginger · 1 Comment
If you missed your trip to Paris this year, all is not lost because L’Artisan du Chocolate in Silver Lake creates a unique French chocolate experience. Their truffles are made from the finest chocolate shipped from France and developed in the traditional French way on the premises. The husband and wife team of Christian Alexandre and Whajung Park create and design award winning truffles which are unique in flavor and presentation.
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Soot Bull Jeep â Natural Charcoal B.B.Q. HouseKorean B.B.Q.
I’ve been a vegetarian for more years than I can remember and coming from the “if I have to cook it myself, why am I paying for the privilege,” school of thought, you might say that my virginal entrance into the Zagat rated Soot Bull Jeep’s Natural Charcoal B.B.Q. House doors would spell disaster.
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