'08 Silver Lake Calendar: April

It began in April ...first Martin...then Bobby two months after... then the bloody un-Democratic Convention ...a few minutes ago ...those under 45: have NO idea...what 1968 was like...most Boomers aren't over it yet... oh~when~will ~they~ev-er learn... young men~ev-ery~one...gone~to grave-yards ~ev-ery one... oh~ when~will~they ~ev-er learn...what Would the country be, if they had lived...the saddest words ever spoken "...what might have been..."
--instead of: the toadies for oil, raping national resources....using up blood, treasure --everyone's future...Nation's trees -parks -mountain tops -Guard -good will...expanding government, debt ...engorging pockets... using fear to steal rights --and power, illegally... why couldn't First Baseball: get thrown out --in the other direction.... If you object to those views: All that is necessary for evil to flourish is for good people to remain silent. Bullies: interpret it as weakness, compliance. Hey: What did You do today --to quell the bully-boys' disarray? Well, it's spring --they can't Can't take that A~way --Can't stay --forever, they have to Get Out one day. Suck-fest won't be going on Next Spring!




pril Calendar - Silver Lake: this month a change. Instead of all at once, Calendar will be posted one week at a time. --More timely, not so much work, all at once, for the author, maybe easier on you; plan accordingly and Bon Appetite/April!

April ...Formal Month for Poetry ...funny, always think of winter as best month for that....

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1 Tuesday
~ Fools: get their own holiday, all day

~ Art Class
AM ~ Registration: Barnsdall Junior Arts Center Spring 2008: Classes for children 7 to 17, Hollywood Blvd just west of Vermont, arrive early for best choice, pdf details: http://www.culturela.org/classes/JAC_Spring_08.pdf

~ Youth & Families
7 PM - Adjourn 8:00 PM ~ SLNC Committee Meeting: kite festival -Bike Day -New business -Outreach for March -Announcements, SLNC Office, 2898 Rowena Avenue, Suite 101, Los Angeles, CA 90039 -You don't have to bring a youth or a family

~ Talk
7:00 PM ~ Discussion: "The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature" by author Jonathan Rosen,
NY TIMES and NEW YORKER essayist, with environmental writer Jennifer Price, ALOUD Series, Central Library, 5Th & Flower Streets, Mark Taper Auditorium, LA, Parking, underground & lit: $1. with library card & validation details - Reservation




2 Wednesday
~You've waited all year...finally, it's here: National Peanut Butter & Jelly Day, today, chomp a few, to celebrate.

~ Film Project
ANNOUNCEMENT - Youth Film Festival: open to 19 & under; submit film -vhs -dvd -mini dv, up to :30 long, to the fourth annual Echo Park Film Center festival; admission will be on a first-come, first-served basis, no charge; Deadline: April 21, 2008; festival program will be announced May 1, 2008. Details and application

~ Department of What's Happ'n
7:00 PM - 9:45 PM ~ SLNC Governing Board Meeting: All the community business that's fit to say in mixed company and you're invited; find out what's going on, speak to your region reps/entire board --on agenda or any Silver Lake-related item via speaker sign-up card, near front door, Micheltorena Street Elementary School Auditorium, 1511 Micheltorena Street x Sunset, park: lot (leave street to neighbors) agenda




4 Friday
~ Puter
10:30 AM - Hate mysteries? ~ Intro to Computers: Class starts at the very beginning and covers basics of using a computer and the Internet, Edendale Library, 2011 W. Sunset Blvd x Alvarado, Los Angeles 90026 (213) 207-3000 --Can't get it together in time - on a week day? Go: Saturday Apr 26

~ Market
PM - Farmer's Market - SEE: Sidebar - Echo Park




5 Saturday
~ Decorate
10 am to Noon ~ Parkman Avenue Neighbors: Unite! Cowabunga --we got control! --Whudda thunk it! Wear your house slippers, bring day's first cuppa, if you want, and come to: Triangle --where Parkman meets Silver Lake Blvd --naked, boring --up for beautification --ready & waiting for: metamorphose! Brainstorming Session #1 of turning the lump into a thing of beauty; Parks & Green Space committee will help develop "Parkman Triangle" (--it has a name!) Step one: what to do with it? Drop-off for old sofas: not on! Think! and send R S V P: Team Liason Ara Babaian Email: ara.babaian@gmail.com - Parks & Green Space Co-Chairs Ricardo Accorsi, Janet Cunningham Email: parks@silverlakenc.org

~Market
AM - Farmer's Market - SEE: Sidebar - Silver Lake

~ Art Class
AM ~ Registration: Barnsdall Art Center Spring 2008 Classes –ceramics, painting, illustration, drawing, jewelry, weaving, more, Vermont x Hollywood Blvds, details: http://www.culturela.org/classes/BAC_Spring_08.pdf

~ Oceans of Art
11:00 AM – 6 PM - April 5 & 6 ~Brewery Art Walk: the old brewery, in industrial downtown, converted to lofts, artist studios open to view cutting edge art & parking free http://www.breweryartwalk.com/generalinfo.html

~ Teen Matinee
2:00 PM ~ Film: Free Saturday afternoon movie and refreshments served, Echo Park Library, 1410 W. Temple Street LA 90026 Contact: Wendy (213)250-7808

~ Cocktails & Auction
7:00 pm - 11:30pm ~ Back In Black: SIJCC Silent Auction & Cocktail Party, Amazing Raffles, Music, Food, Drink and Fun, for Silver lake Independent Jewish Community Center, Tickets: 25.00 a person, Dress: simple/creative black; Valet or street parking available, Call 323.663.2255 or email rshavit@sijcc.net with questions - website: http://www.sijcc.net/first.html

~ Film
PM ~ American Cinematheque: Egyptian Theater, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood http://www.americancinematheque.com/indexegyptian.html




6 Sunday
~ Girl Fun
1:00 PM ~ Open House: bring a friend for a guided tour of camp and Register for summer camp - HOLLYWOODLAND GIRLS' CAMP, 3200 Canyon Drive Hollywood, CA 90068 Phone: (323) 467-7193 -Fax: (323) 957-4526 -Email: CAMP.HOLLYWOODLAND@LACITY.ORG - Map of the camp in PDF: http://www.laparks.org/dos/camps/pdf/map_girl.PDF


Except for 40th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr's. murder in Memphis, a Silver Lake daVine week, enjoy....





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'08 Silver Lake Calendar: MARCH II

March


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Confirm ALL --Dates -Times -Availability

14 Friday
~ Market
3:00 PM - Fresh veggies, fruit, bread - Echo Park Farmer's Market - SEE: Sidebar

15 Saturday
~Market
AM - SEE Sidebar - Silver Lake Farmer's Market

~ Dump
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM ~ Useless, still-useful: computers --TVs --electronic toys, this is the day --dump all, safely. Recycling Day in Los Angeles, fundraiser coordinated by eWaste Disposal. Drop off: Hubbard College parking lot, 320 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles (323) 805-4000



17 Monday
~ Green Up! St. Patrick's Day
6:00 AM --through Friday!(lol) Bring something green, besides cash, best hang-over recipe and sense of humor --You're Irish today --in honor of Saint Patrick. All over downtown: streets will be crammed with revelers, fire fighters, double-decker bus and marchers, for lunch-time Parade. Some pubs will have $1 Stout - corned beef & cabbage, $2 Guinness --Irish Stew --bag pipes (--aren't those Scottish???) and general merry-making. If you don't like silliness --can't get looong lunch --seat on the double-decker --or sense of humor, then at least wear something green so you don't get pinched (-people still pinch, right?) --and bring bike -skateboard -or horse to navigate around the newly-Irish, who most certainly will be blocking streets day/night! (In San Francisco: it's a national holiday --Christmas-New Year's combo--Everyone clogs sidewalks, streets!) Check in with your favorite watering hole, for start time when the line begins or See DOWNTOWN NEWS: lists some of the revelry


BEFORE drinking all day: Assemble cab -train -bus fare, a designated driver, and/or a Plan B, e.g., a hotel room --DO NOT get into your car. --No, you are NOT special/cannot drive well after drinking. --The SEVEN major smash-ups --and dead people, on my street, all involving drunk drivers, are proof, if you need it.

18 Tuesday
~ Hike
7:00 PM - The Sierra Club Angeles Chapter: evening hike in Griffith Park, meet Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round; every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Hikes vary from slow to strenuous. (818) 637-2542 Website: angeles.sierraclub.org/griffith/index.asp

19 Wednesday
~ Nothing
AM to PM ~ Political Action: NO Business as Usual. To end the wars: No work, No School, buy NOTHING! LA-ANSWER (213) 251-1025

~ Yoga
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM ~ Programs designed for 50+ crowd, taught by Susan Quon, $4. Silver Lake Seniors Yoga Class, Silver Lake Recreation Center, 1850 West Silver Lake Drive, Silver Lake, Wednesdays, Stephanie Vendig, President (323) 667-3043

~ Meeting
12:00 AM - 3:30 PM ~ Silver Lake Senior Club General Meeting and lunch: learn about the new Griffith Park Adult Community Center on Riverside Drive, at Friendship Auditorium. Lunch $2.00 at the door, RSVP: E-mail vendig@sbcglobal.net

20 Thursday
~ Spring
--First Day!

~ Community Up-date
7:00 PM ~ Silver Lake Improvement Assoc: past year, current events, legislation, issues - Tom LaBonge - Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles City Council reps - Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Cathedral, cafeteria, 650 Micheltorena Street, between Bellevue - Marathon, Silver Lake. Fair warning: they have confirmed appearance, but each has cancelled in the past; it's a good event either way, and if they cancel, again, you can still hear what's been happening and meet neighbors. Questions: Genelle Levin, president: genelle521@yahoo.com website

~Sundown: Purim

21 Friday
~ Purim
Jewish, holy day holiday

~ Good Friday
Catholic. Tradition: Friday preceding Easter businesses close for the afternoon, or Christian employees given the afternoon off to attend church. --Now? Who knows.... Well: Wall Street will take Day off.

~ Farmer's Market
3:00 PM ~ Echo Park Farmer's Market - SEE SIDEBAR

22 Saturday
~ Farmer's Market
AM - SEE : Silver Lake Farmer's Market --Sidebar

~ Hunt
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM ~ Spring Egg Hunt: crafts, prizes, bunny visit for the 1 - 13 crowd, but parents may attend --if they're well-behaved, Bellevue Recreation Center 826 Lucile Avenue x Marathon, SL 90026 Contact: Nicole Bernal (323) 664-2468

~ Impeachment
2:00 PM - Meeting: Peace Center, 8124 West Third Street, #216, LA (310) 497-7255

~ Film
7 PM ~ BENEFIT SCREENING: "Black Gold" - international coffee trade, multinational corporations' rising profits and increasingly impoverished communities that produce it; Disscussion of neoliberal policies and active alternatives hosted by www.cafeparalavidadigna.com to follow, $5. at Echo Park Fim Center, 1200 N. Alvarado Street x Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90026 213-484-8846 details

23 Sunday
~ Easter
Christian, holy day. Though a religious day, many businesses, shops, markets, stores close for the day. Christian parents of young children: like to hide colored decorated eggs for them to hunt.


26 Wednesday
~ Budget
7:00 PM ~ Meeting: Neighborhood Council receives money, from the City, every year. --Thoughts on how it could/should be spent? Save up: to Finally buy a DASH bus? --Pay off everyone's DWP bill for a month? --Begin replacing the modern ugly light standards with the old beautiful originals? Fix up the Dog Park? --Plant tulips, curbside, each region its own color? --Throw huge July 4Th pizza party, with fireworks, in the Meadow? --Create a Kitten Park? --New Year's Day brunch --in one street of every NC region? --Plant Jacaranda trees --the rest of the way around SL borders? --Declare SL a bird sanctuary/safe heaven --buy bunch of birdbaths? Show up and add your $.02 --4th Wednesdays, Budget & Finance Committee, SLNC office, 2898 Rowena, SL
27 - 30 Thursday
~ Ballet
Tchaikovsky's masterpiece Swan Lake, American Ballet Theatre, five performances with a different Odette-Odile and Prince Siegfried each time, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave. (213) 972-0711 musiccenter.org
28 Friday
~ Farmer's Market
3:00 PM - Fresh veggies, fruit, bread - Echo Park Farmer's Market - SEE: Sidebar

~ Book - Bite
7:30 PM ~ Author New York Times reporter JENNIFER 8. LEE: discusses behind-the-scenes cultural history of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food" through culinary, social and cultural history —the origins of the customary after-Chinese-dinner treat; relationship between Jews and Chinese food, a biography of the real General Tso, factoids and tidbits on identity, immigration and nutrition; indentured servitude of illegal immigrant chefs in a blend of sociology and history; includes: a bite of Chinese something; Publishers Weekly rates it: a winner, $24.99 hardcover; Location: Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, across from the Post Office, Los Feliz 90027

29 Saturday
~ Market
AM - SEE Sidebar - Silver Lake Farmer's Market

~ Entrepreneur
12:00 - 3:00 PM "Start a Home Based Business," presented by Mike Rounds, CASHING IN ON YOUR GREAT IDEAS™ SERIES presented by Inventors Workshop International Educational Foundation and Los Angeles Public Library, Business, Economics and Science, Technology & Patents Departments - FREE; Parking: 524 S. Flower Street garage, $1. Saturdays with library card and library validation (get card same day: bring two ID & mail with your residence address, e.g. DWP, Gas Co bill)

~ Impeachment
2:00 PM ~ Meeting: Peace Center, 8124 West Third Street, #216, Los Angeles (310) 497-7255

~ Music
2:00 PM ~ "Music Unwrapped" Grammy Award-winning musicians present enjoyable interactive learning experience, appealing for all ages, Free, Southwest Chamber Music at National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (opposite Japanese-American National Museum) 111 N. Central Ave. Los Angeles 90012 website

30 Sunday
~ Horses
9:00 AM ~ Equestrian Ride: Griffith Park trails and bbq, all ages, $20. per person, Martinez Arena 5200 Zoo Drive Los Angeles, CA 90027, Contact: Steve Lane (818) 288-0221

~ Literature
5:00 PM ~ To escape Party politics, gas tank gauging, giant conglomerates and other wars: enjoy experimental literature from hearty independent small press publishers; brief readings with authors followed by Q&A with press editors, 12Th year of Small Press Month celebration; Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, across from Post Office, Los Feliz 90027 (323) 660-1175 details
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April 2
~ Classical Music
7:15 PM - All four Bach Suites, Biltmore Hotel, Crystal Ballroom, downtown, Chamber Music in Historic Sites, The da Camera Society details http://dacamera.org/concert_info.php?&products_id=68

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'08 Silver Lake Calendar: March

Winter...arching away...but author's second favorite season: springing early this year... with thrilling flowers, heavenly perfume bright bold stems --is it even possible to have Enough? Spring flowers... so beautiful even biased "reporter" shills' 'coverage' of Primaries...corporate greed...gas tank gouging... sinking shrinking dollar...City Council "reps" riding on public's wheels and gas tab... Mayor gouging the gullible with Prop "S" --for smarmy...DWP milking all of us, for breast 'education' "but only $50 grand" --grand?...recedes...just a back-drop...un-important when focused on the Good Things that Matter... in Silver Lake daVine: no tornado --war --Janjawid --flood...drought...no blocks of homes shredded into toothpicks... writers writing again --bringing back the funny...we still have 99.9% of Griffith Park... Laura Chick, maybe best Controller ever, good neighbors...Farmer's Market...our own Neighborhood Council... and eventually, the City Council "reps" and the Mayor: have to come around, to ask for vote.
Do we have looong memory... and even if you are disheartened by national election candidates: Silver Lake NC needs You...lots of committees, lots to do, lots need your ideas, energy, passion... and lots of good things, interesting things happening this month, some Free !

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Confirm Everything First

2 Sunday
~ Annual Clogging of Streets
3:00 AM to way past 5:00 PM Los Angeles Marathon - All over the place --from downtown west to Hollywood south to/through Hancock Park; don't even Think of parking anywhere close to the route or imagine you can move through that giant circle --unless you're using feet or a bicycle or mental transporting....

4 Tuesday
~ Youth and Families
7:00 PM SLNC Committee Meeting --Kite Festival --Bike Day --MySpace Page --And? The Agenda has space for "New Business" --what do you think would be Good Thing for singles, families, parents & school-age children and teens? --Stress Reduction community pillow fight --Pot Luck Picnic --group hug --once a month pot luck dinner at the Rec Center --a monthly meet to make a craft or a group tag sale to benefit a charity --raise money for community use --or to buy our own DASH? Show up --1st Tuesday, SLNC Office, 2898 Rowena Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90039 and bring your ideas.

5 Wednesday
~ All the Important Stuff
7:00 PM - SLNC General Meeting: Want to hear about DWP plans? --Mayor's Budget, now that he slimmed/ hoodwinked voters into getting them to use their phone --and: ALL Future phone line inventions, slapped with a new 9% tax --not by charter two-thirds, but by simple majority, the money to be spent --how? Oh, you Thought it was FOR Police -library -emergency -park services? Oops, you didn't do your Homework: the money gets tossed into the General pot, for the general takers to take.... Oh the "annual" "audit"? Laura Chick, Controller, still waiting on: "audit" Proof from the last time City Council "reps" jacked up DWP rates --for those mythical 1,000 cops. Mythical? Do YOU know where they are? Oh well. Make the connection: If you Go to the meeting --Talk to the Board --Get involved, they in turn Will pressure City Council...you can also hear about:
-plastic bags in Silver Lake
-what each committee is doing
and even meet the people who represent your slice of Silver Lake
If you want Them to Listen to you: grab a card near the door, sign up. For courtesy: give your Region's rep a heads up via e-mail: Details Micheltorena Street Elementary School, auditorium, 1511 Micheltorena Street x Sunset, Silver Lake, parking: lot Agenda

~ Reading
7:00 PM "The Dancer and the Thief" (El Baile de la Victoria), by prize-winning novelist Antonio Skármeta: exuberant love story against new Chile backdrop free from Pinochet dictatorship but prey to globalization; in conversation with Verónica Cortínez, UCLA Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Free: Los Angeles Public Library, 5th & Flower Streets downtown; Parking: 524 S. Flower Street garage, $1. weekdays after 3:00 p.m. with library card and library validation, buses make the trip and so do bicycles Reservation

7 Friday
~ Arbor Day
- California through March 14 - Activities in California: http://www.arborday.org/states/index.cfm?state=CA
To join Arbor Foundation: $10. will get you reward of: ten trees, wow...they will be appropriate variety for the zip code Join California plans to inspire, manage, plan, plant: trees Los Angeles is an Audubon Tree City. CA tree Forestry & Fire Protection website: winter protection -climate change -clearance ideas

~ Market
3:00 PM ~ Certified Farmer's Market, Echo Park SEE: Sidebar

8 Saturday
~ Market
Certified Farmer's Market, Silver Lake SEE: Sidebar

~ Story Time
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Child Program: "March Monkey Madness" Central Library, 630 W. 5th Street x Flower, Los Angeles, CA 90071 (213) 228-7000; Parking: 524 S. Flower Street garage, $1. Saturdays with library card and library validation, buses make the trip and so do bicycles

9 Sunday
~ Save the Light
To eternal annoyance of Canada--when the Oval Office occupant upped and decided to change the dates --but not even a 'heads up' phone call to government leaders, nevermind asking their opinion--and to this author, who believes: Nature Does Not Make Mistakes --Nature changes the hours of daylight, throughout the year --Man should way not screw with time --yet, it is Time: spring clocks forward --one hour, before climbing between the sheets Saturday night, to prevent eight months of earliness and trouble...oh well. Hey! Since Americans are using up more gas/staying out later --the date-change thing is a bust, could we change it Back to original dates --or Dump 'daylight savings' altogether when we clean out the White House? Thatidb Another thing to look forward to....

11 Tuesday
~ Art
12:00 PM to 8:00 PM ~ I've been going since the first week it opened so I've always known, but maybe you don't: Los Angeles County Museum of Art --2nd Tuesday of every month --FREE, the permanent galleries can be viewed at No Charge, special exhibits and events not included --take children -grandparents -aunts, uncles -students -best friend: Everybody needs to see great art; there is a cafe for meals, coffee, snacks (bit pricey); Parking: 6th Street lot, $7. and street meters, but triple-check street signs for restrictions, lest the City decide/find excuse to possess your vehicle, totally kill the high of seeing great art; for the distrusting/Know D.O.T. well and the Greens: buses go right to it, on Wilshire Blvd and on 6th Street, LACMA 5905 Wilshire LA 90036 - between La Brea & Fairfax - La Brea Tar Pits adjoining.

12 Wednesday
~ Urban Design
7:00 PM SLNC Committee Meeting: they do alot and they could use your help --no one else stands between Affordable housing and developer-loving City Council, who seem hell-bent to turn everything that doesn't move/make money into high-priced condos for the desperately rich; or did you think it was Luck that has kept Starbucks from re-locating on every corner of Silver Lake? e-mail: urbandesign@silverlakenc.org or just show up: SLNC office 2898 Rowena Ave., 2nd Wed's. Have a look at some policies established that make Silver Lake daVine: outlines

15 Saturday
~ Inventing
1:00 - 3:00 PM "Toy and Game Industry: Inventing Fun Opportunities" CASHING IN ON YOUR GREAT IDEAS™ SERIES presented by Inventors Workshop International Educational Foundation and Los Angeles Public Library, Business and Economics and Science, Technology and Patents Departments - FREE; Library: 5th & Flower Streets downtown, Los Angeles; Parking: 524 S. Flower Street garage - $1. Saturdays with library card and library validation (to get a card same day: bring two ID & residence address mail, e.g. DWP, Gas Co bill), buses also work, so do bicycles Reservation

~ Story Time
2:00 PM - 03:00 PM - Child Program: "All Things Green" in honor of St. Patrick's Day; stories, poems, songs and a puppet show about things that are green; 630 W. 5th Street x Flower, Los Angeles CA 90071 (213) 228-7000; Parking: 524 S. Flower Street garage, $1. Saturdays with library card and library validation, buses make the trip and so can bicycles.

~Music - Classical
4:00 PM - Quartet playing: Old & new music on 20 recorders --few inches to six feet tall, in 1900s designed now-reinvented Southern California Institute of Architecture, downtown - Chamber Music in Historic Sites by The da Camera Society - details


Errands? Save a fish --Take: bags TO stores --keep the plastic out of the ocean.








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