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| Bringing Arts and Culture to Life in Santa Monica |
August 23, 2007 |
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On this final weekend of Jazz on the Lawn, Maggie Palomo will create a tropical storm on the lawn in front of City Hall Sunday afternoon when her sizzling salsa hits Santa Monica's cool ocean breezes. Elsewhere there's wondrous visual art at the Robert Berman Gallery, chamber music at the Library, a look at the changing face of Santa Monica at Highways, even more Hitchcockian treats at the Aero and, of course, roof-blowing rock and roll on the Pier tonight.
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| Tropical Tempest Hits City Hall | |
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Maggie Palomo – Hot Salsa Mama Jazz on the Lawn 5:00 pm Santa Monica City Hall 1685 Main Street This Sunday’s concert features our own hometown salsa queen Maggie Palomo. Maggie’s unique blend of Cuban rhythms will hit you like a double shot of espresso and next thing you know you’ll be dancing in the grass with the Emotion in Motion Kids Dance Company who will demonstrate the wonders of Cha Cha, Conga and Salsa! |
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| Free parking is available after 4:00 pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium at 1855 Main Street and on the streets surrounding City Hall. And you can support the Virginia Avenue Park Teen Center by buying water, soft drinks and other treats from our local teens. | |
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The Holmes Brothers Entertainment Weekly says, "The Holmes Brothers are juke-joint vets with a brazenly borderless view of American music." When they take the stage tonight infusing roadhouse rock with gospel fervor and harmonies they’ll blow the roof off the Santa Monica Pier. Well, actually the Pier doesn't have a roof but if it did have one, the Holmes Brothers would totally blow it away. Opening for them is Carrie Rodriguez whose roots in Austin, Texas lend absolute authenticity to the amazing way she plays a fiddle. |
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OUTFLOW OUTFLOW presents local and multicultural artists with a collection of personal and public oral histories from the Santa Monica community. The night’s work will highlight and explore the Santa Monica community's shifting racial and cultural identity. Artists participating in this project include Joy Anderson, Jessica Gudiel, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Mitsu Salmon and Kristina Wong. OUTFLOW is supported with a Community Arts Grant provided by the Santa Monica Arts Commission. |
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Alfred
Hitchcock Double Features The Aero Theatre and American Cinematheque present another weekend of Alfred Hitchcock double features on Friday and Saturday. They’ll start off the series with that endearing tale of motherly love Psycho - possibly the most influential chiller ever made - followed by Spellbound with Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck and dream sequences by Salvador Dali. On Saturday it’s Rear Window, which as Roger Ebert said “is not so much like watching a movie as like….well, spying on your neighbors.” They wrap it up with an enchantingly macabre comedy, The Trouble With Harry, starring a terribly young Shirley MacLaine. |
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Bright Light Chamber Players 2:00 pm Saturday, August 25 Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium Santa Monica Main Library  601 Santa Monica Boulevard 310/458.8600 The Bright Light Chamber Players return with a fresh-as-a-cool-breeze concert of chamber music. in the Santa Monica Public Library’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium. The program will include newly composed piece for string quartet with saxophone by Scott Detweiller, along with chamber music classics. Seating is limited and on a first arrival basis and free tickets available one hour before event. |
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Jason Peters It’s the Robert Berman Gallery that has the bucket. In fact, they’ve got a whole bunch of buckets and you’ve got to visit the gallery and experience the magic that is paileontology before it closes next week. Using nothing more than a few simple materials – buckets, screws, wire and light – Peters turns a room of the gallery into an alternate universe. I was by there this afternoon and you simply cannot imagine what it’s like without being there. This is Peters’ first solo show in California but I’m sure we’ll all be seeing a lot more from this fascinating young artist! |
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 And on a final note, the producers of 90404 Changing would like everyone to know that this filmed slice of Santa Monica history is for sale on their website: www.90404changing.com There’s quite a buzz going on about this film that describes the fairly recent history of Santa Monica’s Pico Neighborhood and here’s your chance to buy your own DVD copy and see what everyone is talking about! |
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