All City Records continues their wonderful LA 10 x 10″ series, this time featuring Carlos Nino, Gaby Hernandez and GB (Gifted and Blessed).  The duo and GB, highlight’s some of Los Angeles’s best kept secrets.  Nino is one of LA’s musical driving forces, organizer, producer, arranger, composer, and DJ.  →

Breeyn McCarney is a slip of girl with a dry sense of humour. On her Facebook, she describes herself as a dressmaker who is ridiculous of sorts.

A recent graduate from the prestigious Central St. Martins, McCarney returned to her hometown of Toronto with a distinguished design sense. →

A Screening of 10 Short Films
Synchronicity Space-Los Angeles, CA
06/26/10

Come and celebrate General Delight’s first birthday with the screening of 10 short films featuring interactive elements (Hint-Phantom of the Opera sing-a-long).  Some of the short films include, but are not limited to… A lascivious magician that makes husbands disappear and then beds their wives (gasp!), the awkward moments after an inter-racial swingers party,Paula Deen facing off against the Busch Bean’s Golden Retriever →

The Festival of Awesome Unaired TV Pilots!
Cinefamily Theater-Los Angeles, CA
06/29/10

We are square in the middle of a television Renaissance. Eccentric, highly unique hits like “Arrested Development,”30 Rock” and “The Sarah Silverman Program” would’ve been unthinkable ten years ago, but thanks to the savvy palate of today’s more adventurous viewer, we’re in a Golden Era. →

“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable.”

-Ernst Fischer

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is proud to present Bless This Mess, an exhibition by artist/curator David Kasprzak. This exhibition includes drawings, photo-assemblages, sculpture, and collected ephemera which illustrates the destruction and decay of materials and ideologies. Bless This Mess examines the role and importance of destruction in art and →

Cinefamily is known for their in-person tributes to have the man or woman of the night join in on the celebration. This time, Oscar-winning animator, acclaimed cartoonist and dedicated jazz historian Gene Deitch will be at the Cinefamily for an in-person tribute led by cartoon historian Jerry Beck. One of the most influential men from the golden age of toonery, Deitch produced tons of shorts for a wide variety of studios including Columbia, Fox, MGM and Paramount. →

The Present Perfect with Art21 is a live and online event that brings artists and the public together in a creative process like never before from 8:00 to 9:30 P.M. (EST) on June 23 on PBS. A live audience at 92 Street Y Tribeca in New York City will be joined by a national online audience at video.pbs.org/live/. From recent interactive museum exhibitions to “happenings” on Youtube, the act of performance has become a renewed, powerful force in art and culture, impacting artists and the general public in numerous ways. Art21 Managing Director Eve Moros Ortega says, “With The →

Cemetery Screening of the Classic, Body Snatchers
Hollywood Forever Cemetery – LA, CA
6/19/10

Suspenseful, action packed, and downright scary, Invasion is one of the great horror-sci fi classics!!! Strange pods from space land on earth and start to take the form of human beings. A small town doctor tries to fend off the alien invasion, as friends and family are replaced by emotionless pod people. Both a horror movie and an allegory for individuality and freedom →

NAO BUSTAMANTE AS CELIA CRUZ
Baer Ridgway Exhibitions (in the Lower Level) – SF, CA
6/19 – 7/14/10

Watch Nao Bustamante reenact the death scene of famed salsa dancer, Celia Cruz.  The opening reception is this Saturday, June 19, from 4 to 7pm.  In Nao’s words: “In 2003, I joined thousands of other pilgrims at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home at Madison Avenue and 81st Street in Manhattan to see the queen of salsa, Celia Cruz, lie in state. The image of Celia on her post-mortem tour burned into my mind. →