Random thoughts on art, technology, stuff, and occasionally Real Estate: May 2009

Eugene Edwards and his Band will appear on Stage One following BombaChante in the mid afternoon slot, Sunday, June 7 at the Lummis Day Festival.

Here's a quote from Edwards' website: "I'd like to be thought of as the guy who reintroduced whatever it was that Springsteen, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello - the post-Dylan songwriters - had. And, like The Clash has shown that if you have just one person standing in front of you, you owe it to them to sweat every bit that you have in your body - I want to be the guy who, if they want to hear one more song, I am ready to give it to them. If they're still standing at the end of a 45-minute set, I feel like I've done something wrong."

The 4th annual Lummis Day will take place at three locations: Lummis Home (poetry and music from 10:30am-noon), Sycamore Grove Park (music, dance, theater and food from12:30pm-7:30pm) and Casa de Adobe (art exhibits, from 1:00pm-6:00pm).

The 4th Annual Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles will be presented on Sunday June 7 by the Autry National Center, the Annenberg Foundation and the neighborhood councils of Northeast Los Angeles (Arroyo Seco, Historic Highland Park, Greater Cypress Park, Eagle Rock, L.A. 32 and Glassell Park.) Media sponsors are KPFK Public Radio 90.7 and Univision KMEX Channel 35. Additional sponsorship is provided by the Highland Park Heritage Trust, Jose Huizar and Council District 14, Ed Reyes and Council District 1, the Department of Recreation and Parks, the Los Angeles County Arts Commisssion, and Poets Writers Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.

On Saturday, May 30th from1:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Franklin's Baseball Field & grounds the Associated Student Body will produce the first community festival organized by students.

The event will feature student entertainment (four bands, Cheer, Dance Team, Drill) , educational exhibits, challenge games, carnival games, Karaoke entertainment, great food, and much much more!!!

Also presented at 2pm, in Room 281, is the Spring Drama Production of Second Class.Student admission is $3 General admission is $5.

We are working along with FHS leadership class, student body, community businesses and organizations, Teen-CPAB, Kiwanis Club, First District Councilmember Ed P. Reyes, and Principle Luis Lopez.

Festival entrance prices are $3.00 at the door, children under 4 free.

All funds raised go back to the ASB at Franklin High School.

The Alternative Country Rock Band I See Hawks In L.A. will appear on Stage One in the mid afternoon slot, Sunday, June 7 at the Lummis Day Festival.

From the Hawks website:

Formed in 1999 by Rob Waller and brothers Paul and Anthony Lacques during a philosophical discussion and rock throwing session on an East Mojave desert trek, I See Hawks In L.A. first gathered on the front porch in Echo Park with beers, wrote their first batch of songs and then sought advice from local country rock guru David Jackson, bassist with John Denver, Dillard and Clark, and EmmyLou Harris.

Jackson set up a few mics and recorded Rob and Paul, adding his own melodic bass lines. This demo turned into featured songs on the Hawks eponymous debut, featuring legendary fiddler Brantley Kearns (Dwight Yoakam, Dave Alvin, Hazel Dickens). The CD established the Hawks signature sound: high lonesome three part harmonies, twang guitar and unadorned acoustic arrangements, with lyrics musing on mortality, whales, and the geography of pre-apocalyptic L.A.

The 4th annual Lummis Day will take place at three locations: Lummis Home (poetry and music from 10:30am-noon), Sycamore Grove Park (music, dance, theater and food from12:30pm-7:30pm) and Casa de Adobe (art exhibits, from 1:00pm-6:00pm).

The 4th Annual Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles will be presented on Sunday June 7 by the Autry National Center, the Annenberg Foundation and the neighborhood councils of Northeast Los Angeles (Arroyo Seco, Historic Highland Park, Greater Cypress Park, Eagle Rock, L.A. 32 and Glassell Park.) Media sponsors are KPFK Public Radio 90.7 and Univision KMEX Channel 35. Additional sponsorship is provided by the Highland Park Heritage Trust, Jose Huizar and Council District 14, Ed Reyes and Council District 1, the Department of Recreation and Parks, the Los Angeles County Arts Commisssion, and Poets Writers Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.

Salsa-jazz band BombaChante will be the first musical artists to be featured on the Sycamore Grove Park bandshell at Lummis Day, Sunday June 7, just after the festival activities get underway at the park at 12:30 pm.

BombaChante is a collaboration of top musicians from the Northeast L.A. and East L.A. areas. Veterans of the Chicano music scene, BombaChante was formed in 2003 and is led by Ernesto Molina, formerly of East LA Sabor Factory and fronted by lead vocalist Gabriel Gonzalez, formerly of Quetzal. BombaChante's concert is sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

The 4th annual Lummis Day will take place at three locations: Lummis Home (poetry and music from 10:30am-noon), Sycamore Grove Park (music, dance, theater and food from12:30pm-7:30pm) and Casa de Adobe (art exhibits, from 1:00pm-6:00pm).

The 4th Annual Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles will be presented on Sunday June 7 by the Autry National Center, the Annenberg Foundation and the neighborhood councils of Northeast Los Angeles (Arroyo Seco, Historic Highland Park, Greater Cypress Park, Eagle Rock, L.A. 32 and Glassell Park.)  Media sponsors are KPFK Public Radio 90.7 and Univision KMEX Channel 35. Additional sponsorship is provided by the Highland Park Heritage Trust, Jose Huizar and Council District 14, Ed Reyes and Council District 1, the Department of Recreation and Parks, the Los Angeles County Arts Commisssion, and Poets Writers Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.   

Villa Sombrero, the Highland Park Mexican restaurant with the supersize margaritas on York shut its doors last summer.

The restaurant's original owner, Felipe Nunez - who sold the name and business, but not the property twenty years ago reclaimed the space and re-opened his own restaurant - Felipe's.

It has taken some time, but the liquor license was finally issued, and the supersize Margaritas are back.  Outdoor dining tables have been added.   And Felipe is gradually building up the menu items, and lowering some of the menu prices.

For anyone that dropped in earlier this year, before the liquor license was issued, please go back and give Felipe's another try.

The staff is friendly and attentive.  The service is fantastic.  The fajitas are excellent.

Jesse delivers a platter of sizzling fajitas. 

Felipe's Restaurant is located at 6101 York Blvd., Highland Park, 90042.  Telephone:  323.478.1652.

Someone forwarded this to me in an email, and I liked it so much, I thought I'd share it here. 

But I think I would want to increase the individual amount to $2mil, elsewise the folks that bought around here during the boom might not have much money left over afterwards :-)

Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America's economy.

Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. - Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered - Auto
Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing
Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress and their constituents pay their taxes...

Did you ever create a new WordPress blog, and before you got around to (<g>) activating a comment captcha plugin and/or a word filter plugin you got bombarded with spam comments?

If you have used WordPress's delete all function, you know that "all" means only "all the comments listed on that screen view".  WordPress displays 20 comments per screen view; so if you have a few hundred spam comments, you are going to be repeatedly clicking "delete all" for a good 40 minutes or so.

There is an easier way.  It involves deleting the comments through your hosting account control panel.

Tan Kian Ann from Singapore describes how to do it here along with all the necessary screen shots.  You do need to feel comfortable messing around with your database ... but it is not that difficult!

(http://www.blogopreneur.com/2009/04/08/mass-delete-pending-comments-from-wordpress/)

I cleaned up the spam comments on a number of my blogs yesterday, and installed the anti-spam plugins.  This morning all is quiet and serene.

WordPress Mu 2.7.1 was released a few months ago,  I finally got around to upgrading my various Mu blogfarm communities just a few days ago.

AND Glory Hallelejah!!!  Although I will need to update all of my tutorial screen shots to the new interface (the Mu interface now matches the WordPress single user interface) .... although I have ~that~ chore ahead of me ... 2.7.1 is great!!

Most importantly, Mu's flash image uploader seems to have learned some manners!!!  It has performed without a hitch on each combination of ‘puter/browser on which I have tested it!!!

WOOOT!!!!!

The link to this story came in Susan Weed's Wise Woman newsletter.  Susan is a healer and an herbalist ... a Follower of the Old Ways ...

Anyway, the real estate twist made me smile

Go here to read the story  http://www.susunweed.com/An_herbalist_6.htm

Have you ever used GoDaddy's domain name backorder service?

I did for the first time a few months ago. 

I often register the silly phrases that flutter through my mind as domain names, you never know when you might want to build a web site.  Anyway, the domain name I wanted to register that day was taken,

I thought why not click the backorder link?

And I'll be darned, I received an email the other day that the prior owner of that particular name did not renew and now it was all mine.  :-)