OPEN HOUSE: 1823 Gillette Crescent, South Pasadena

OPEN HOUSE, Saturday, July 25, 2009, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

1823 Gillette Crescent, South Pasadena, Reduced to: $550,000. Situated on a quiet, tree-lined street, this exquisitely renovated Spanish style home features 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, new central heat and air, gleaming refinished hardwood floors, and large basement storage area. The kitchen features new granite counters and new cabinetry. Newly landscaped front yard; small easy-care back yard. Subject to lender approval of short pay off.

Spam, yes, but rather poetic, don’t you think?

By now, all of AR is buzzing about last night's comment spam attacks.

But, hey, some of these are actually kind of interesting:  Poetic, philosophical, if you will. 

And since the comments made it past the AR CAPTCHA challenge (the funky fruit word), I imagine it is human-generated comment spam (as opposed to computer-generated)

Here's Lorelle on Human Generated Comment Spam http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/battling-comment-spam-human-versus-human/

You know, I can visualize how it might be playing out in some third world countries:  An unemployed person landing a job as a comment-poster for a few dollars a day.  And those few dollars feed his whole family, and everyone is so proud of him for becoming a "computer expert".... sigh.....

My samples:   

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(p.s.  Am I getting points for all these spam comments, I hope :-)  !! )

New York Times Writes About Highland Park

New York Times calls Highland Park "A New Culture District"

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/travel/12surfacing.html?emc=eta1

But what amuses me is they put it under their "Travel" tab.  Right up there with Tuscany and Buenos Aires.   Who'da thunk it?  :-)

Bastille Day at Cafe Beaujolais

Bastille Day at Cafe Beaujolais

Good food, plenty of wine....  An Eagle Rock tradition...

The staff sings. OK, it's dark, but listen to their voices!

Good friend and associate, Pat Barr, poses by the facilities.

Cafe Beaujolais is located at 1712 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles (Eagle Rock), CA 90041

(323) 255-5111

Old L A Farmers Market, in Highland Park Every Tuesday

Friend, we hope to see you today at the Old L.A. Farmers Market-Highland Park's local farmers market. We're open every Tuesday, from 3 to 7 p.m.

Support your local economy by coming to the farmers market, talking to the farmers, talking to the craftspeople, and meeting your neighbors.

Be sure to come and bring the whole family and all your neighbors. We're located on Ave. 58 between Figueroa and Marmion Way, every Tuesday, year-round.

Have a seat, enjoy a tamale, chat with your neighbors, and get your fresh produce for the week. You'll also find used books, and lots of crafts.

Are these hard times worrying you? What better way to work our way through this than to network with neighbors, and find ways to cooperate to do things. Come meet your neighbors at the market!

(Parking is readily available in the city lot to the west, and elsewhere.) All the farmers are located on Avenue 58.

Avenue 50 Studio: Reception July 5

Closing reception for the 3rd Zone Exhibit at Avenue 50 Studio and 100 Faces at the Annex:  Sunday, July 5, 2009 from 2-4 pm

The 3rd Zone is a space and place corralled by the Tijuana-San Diego border - the busiest and most utilized land crossing in the world.  In 2005 over 18 million vehicles and 50 million people entered the 3rd Zone.  The occupants of the Zone are a mix of people living in Tijuana, San Diego County and Los Angeles County.

Please join us, along with the artists of the 3rd Zone for a closing discussion, with poetry from Beverly LaFontaine and Actress Beebe Smith

Refreshments will be served

Special Thanks to:  Chris & James Cook; Luis Ituarte, artist; Carolyn Williams; Alex & Jaylene Moseley; Rebecca S. Rojas, Ph.D; and COFAC

Avenue 50 Studio, Inc.
a 501(c)(3) non-profit art gallery
131 North Avenue 50
Highland Park, CA  90042
323-258-1435

http://www.avenue50studio.com

Friends of Southwest Museum: A Victory June 30

As he walked across the country from Cincinnati to Los Angeles in 1884 and 1885, Charles Lummis, learned of the plight of Native Americans, and he became determined to raise the public's awareness of Native American life and culture.

In 1907 he began planning the Southwest Museum, which opened seven years later, in 1914.

In recent years, however, the museum struggled financially. Its directors agreed in 2003 to merge with the Autry Museum in Griffith Park,  an agreement that was to include the Autry making needed repairs to the Southwest Museum structures and  the Autry underwriting the smaller museum's operating costs of more than $100,000 a month.

But as local activists watched, concern grew that the Autry's long term plan was to remove the priceless collection of artifacts out of the Southwest Museum, and into a newly expanded Griffith Park location, reducing the Southwest to nothing more than meeting rooms.

On June 30, both sides:  Local activists, and Autry supporters met at Los Angeles City Hall for a showdown.

In a surprising development, City Councilman Jose Huizar said it was time for the Autry to reaffirm its commitment to the Southwest by agreeing to attach a legally binding document to a lease agreement the Autry is seeking in order to expand its Griffith Park Autry Museum. 

Thus making the preservation of the Southwest collection at the Southwest Museum a condition of the city's approval of the Autry's expansion plans in Griffith Park.

Good move, Mr. Huizar, thank you.

Follow the links below to read more:

http://www.scottrubel.com/foswm_win_090630.html#

http://egpnews.com/?p=10844

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-autry-southwest2-2009jul02,0,2958556.story  

http://egpnews.com/?p=11061

http://www.friendsofthesouthwestmuseum.com/

The petition:  http://www.petitiononline.com/SWM/petition.html

Buy a Dinner, Get a Dollar

Felipe's Restaurant at 6101 York Blvd. is offering a limited time special.  Starting today each dinner guest at Felipe's will receive a genuine United States Presidential $1 Coin as a token of appreciation.

Please stop in and give Felipe's a try.  The mega-Margaritas are back.  Menu prices have been reduced.  The staff is very attentive, accommodating, and conversational.

Felipe's Restaurant, 6101 York Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90042 -- 323-478-1652

Vintage Basket Sale and Auction at Avenue 50 Studio July 4

 Bert Witt and the late Ellen Witt were avid collectors of Native American as well as Indigenous arts and crafts from countries they visited all over the world.
 
For the first time, more than 100 items from their extensive and distinguished collection will be offered for sale.  Among the vintage baskets there are several Inuit, Navajo, Hopi and African baskets. Other collector's items such as clay pots, mortars, figurines and paintings on cloth will also be available.

Proceeds will benefit the Pho Lai kindergarten in Vietnam, a school dedicated to Ellen Witt, as well as help support operations of the Avenue 50 Studio.

Saturday, July 4, 2009 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm

RSVP:  323/258-1435 to Kathy Gallegos

Avenue 50 Studio, Inc.
a 501(c)(3) non-profit art gallery
131 North Avenue 50
Highland Park, CA  90042
http://www.avenue50studio.com

Sharing a Lummis Day Video

Sharing one of my Lummis Day Videos:

Carlos Guitarlos

Almost five thousand people representing the rainbow of cultures in Northeast L.A gathered for Lummis Day 2009, the 4th celebration of the annual multi-cultural festival, presented by the Autry National Center, the Annenberg Foundation and the neighborhood councils of Northeast L.A.

The Lummis Day Festival was created to celebrate the patchwork of cultures that enriches the city. Artists represented Latino, Tagalog, Native American, Anglo and African-American traditions. Music included blues, rock, banda, salsa, jazz and country. Dance troupes represented Philippine, Mexican, Pacific Island and jazz dance traditions. Poets, painters and culinary artists, all with local connections, added to the Festival's collection of cultures.

Lummis Day takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who joined the L.A. Times as the newspaper's first city editor in 1876. A prolific writer and photographer, Lummis was also one of the city's first librarians, founded the Southwest Museum and helped introduce the concept of multi-culturalism to Southern California.

Twitter/Revolution in Iran

If you want to read tweets from the streets of Iran, the Stimulist says these are the hashtags you want:

#iranelection

#gr88

The article's author also suggests:

Help
 cover
 Iranian 
bloggers. Change 
your 
Twitter
 settings 
so 
that
 your 
location 
is
 TEHRAN 
and 
your 
time 
zone 
is 
GMT
+3.30. 

Security 
forces 
are 
hunting 
for
 bloggers 
using 
location 
and 
timezone 
searches.
 
If 
we 
all 
become
 ‘Iranians,' 
it
 becomes impossible to find them.

Here's a link to the full article:  http://thestimulist.com/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-protest-twitterers/ 

2nd Annual PEACE in the NorthEast March and Resource Fair