LA Weekly Detour Festival Annouces Line-Up

2nd Annual
LA Weekly Detour Music Festival

Bloc Party / Justice / Satellite Party / Kinky / Comedians of Comedy / Turbonegro
Teddybears / Moving Units / The Raveonettes / Shout Out Louds / Autolux / Celebrity Skin
The Aliens / The Aggrolites / Busy P / DJ Mehdi / SebastiAn Kavinsky
So Me / Noisettes / Cool Kids / The Deadly Syndrome / Scissors for Lefty / Johnossi
Augie March / Nico Vega / Franki Chan / Travis Keller / Bruce Perdew

Saturday, October 6
Main & 1st DOWNTOWN
(gates at 12 NOON)
4 STAGES / 20+ BANDS
DJ's / local art and more!

Tickets $35.50 Each
(With portion of the proceeds benefiting Tree People)
Tickets on sale NOW
through all Ticketmaster locations.
BUY TICKETS HERE

All Ages Welcome / Rain or Shine / Line Up Subject to Change

Twenty Percent of Americans Can't Find the U.S. on a Map

A recent poll shows that an astounding twenty percent of Americans cannot find the United States on a map. Miss Teen U.S.A. from South Carolina tries to explain why.
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Salon Elleven Debuts

News Brief

The South Park condominium complex Elleven has a new ground floor tenant.
[LA Downtown News]

Nokia to Host Music Awards

News Brief

On Sunday, Nov. 18, L.A. Live's new Nokia Theatre will host the 2007 American Music Awards, the first awards show and broadcast to take place in [LA Downtown News]

Alma Guillermoprieto, “How to be Mexican: A Musical Instructional Manual”

Tuesday, August 28, 7pm at BP Hall in Walt Disney Concert Hall

[Zócalo and The Music Center Present]

Alma Guillermoprieto, “How to be Mexican: A Musical Instructional Manual”

The brilliant writer (The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books) and MacArthur “Genius Award” recipient Alma Guillermoprieto visits Zócalo to explore the importance of music and song in transmitting the spirit of Mexicanness. In a fascinating multimedia lecture, Guillermoprieto uses contemporary Mexican music to illuminate evolving notions of Mexican national identity. By exploring iconic lyrics and film clips that have been considered typically Mexican--both in Mexico and abroad--Guillermoprieto examines the very idea of mexicanidad.

he return of BOTANICA afterhours || August 25th

Saturday night to Sunday morning- August 25th 2007
2:30am - 6:30am || $5 all night
Hardwood Dancefloor || Fat Sound || Dress To Sweat || at Sabor, Downtown LA

deep afterhours house sounds by
Wayne Lyons & Lars Behrenroth

located at


SABOR <- click for directions
847 S Union Ave
Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90017

LA Opera Opens September 8 with Beethoven's Fidelio

LA 2007/'08 season opens Saturday September 8 with Beethoven's Fidelio at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown LA. It is followed by Verdi's Requiem on September 9th.
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Here's the excerpt from the [LA Opera] website...

Beethoven's Fidelio
True love's fidelity triumphs over tyranny.

Music Director James Conlon opens LA Opera's season with Beethoven's Fidelio, a celebration of humanity's desire for freedom and justice. More than 200 years after its premiere, this drama of wrongful imprisonment and the triumph of true love remains as relevant as ever.

Unjustly incarcerated by a ruthless oppressor, Florestan languishes in a secret prison, held without charge or trial. His wife Leonore, desperate to find him and willing to die if she must, adopts the disguise of a young man - Fidelio - and becomes the jailer's assistant, hoping to free her beloved husband.

This astonishingly forceful contemporary production resonates with edge-of-your-seat excitement and matchless music, complete with stunning arias, inspiring choruses, two of the most famous quartets in all of opera, and exuberant orchestral writing.

Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi

Intensely dramatic in nature, Giuseppe Verdi's transcendent Requiem is a heartfelt rumination on life and death, singing of faith, doubt, heaven and hell with breathtaking beauty and thrilling suspense. Plácido Domingo conducts the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and the Los Angeles Opera Chorus - prepared by Grant Gershon in his debut season as Chorus Master - in the Company's first ever presentation of the transcendent Requiem. The impressive quartet of world-class vocalists includes Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, American mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, and in their Company debuts, German tenor Jonas Kaufmann and German bass René Pape.

Mexican Paletas, A Cure For This Heat

I don't know if anyone read their [LA Times food section] today, but there was an article on Mexican paletas, which are the best icecreams ever--they either are made with water (like a popsicle) or with milk and they are full of fresh fruit. One of the featured ice cream stores is right downtown--Paleteria La Michoacana at 306 W. 7th between Broadway and Hill.So I ran over right away and bought a bunch. And I'm here to tell you they are incredible. And in really interesting Mexican flavors like mamey, guanabana, tuna (cactus fruit) as well as more conventional flavors. Do yourselves a favor in this heat and go try one--let me know what you think.