$15
Events on Friday, June 1, 2012
Warner Drive, The Shakers, Kill The Complex, Life Down Here, Lost In Kostko, Picture Me Broken, Wesley Avery, The Grand Finale
6:15pm
Jukebox Heroes presents Best of Reggae/Ska with Los Dispiertos, Ras Rebel & The Bluntest, Pachamama, LA CRUCIAL, Vitalites
8:00pm
$15
Battle For Mayhem Festival with Thrown Into Exile, A Rise Of A Tyrant, Lifeforms, Approaching Darkness, Emissary, Master Destructor, Maleficent Vigor, You Only Live Once
4:00pm
$12
Scott Porter presents Virgil, The Lonely Drunks Club Band, Nations Afire, The Haun Solo Project
7:30pm
$15
Blackboard Jungle Reunion Show with Glamour Punks, Swingin' Thing, DJ Jamie Scrap, Fizzy Bangers & special guests
8:00pm
Nell Freudenberger discusses and signs The Newlyweds
4:00pm
A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America’s most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals, that takes us from the backyards of America to the back alleys and villages of Bangladesh. In The Newlyweds, we follow the story of Amina Mazid, who at age twenty-four moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is an arranged marriage for the twenty-first century: Amina is wooed by—and woos—George Stillman online.
For Amina, George offers a chance for a new life and a different kind of happiness than she might find back home. For George, Amina is a woman who doesn’t play games. But each of them is hiding something: someone from the past they thought they could leave behind. It is only when they put an ocean between them—and Amina returns to Bangladesh—that she and George find out if their secrets will tear them apart, or if they can build a future together.
The Newlyweds is a surprising, suspenseful story about the exhilarations—and real-life complications—of getting, and staying, married. It stretches across continents, generations, and plains of emotion. What has always set Nell Freudenberger apart is the sly, gimlet eye she turns on collisions of all kinds—sexual, cultural, familial. With The Newlyweds, she has found her perfect subject for that vision, and characters to match. She reveals Amina’s heart and mind, capturing both her new American reality and the home she cannot forget, with seamless authenticity, empathy, and grace. At once revelatory and affecting, The Newlyweds is a stunning achievement.
Sunday Seafood Supper
5:00pm
Fisherman Chris Williams from Channel Islands Harbor will be on hand to share information about the local waters, fresh fish and seafood. Chef Jordan Toft will demonstrate how to shuck osyters and filet and prepare a whole fish. As always, a family-style feast will follow the presentation. Dinner also includes an aperitif. Price is $75 per person (minus tax and tip). Reserve your spot at www.theeveleigh.com
Victoria Nelson discusses and signs Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
7:00pm
The Gothic has taken a revolutionary turn in this century. Today’s Gothic has fashioned its monsters and devils into heroes and angels and is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture. Nelson argues that this mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.
Alicia Fusting presents Mystery Schools, Enova, Strikes At One, Joseph George, Manwhich & Potato Salad
7:30pm
$10
Judy Prescott discusses and signs Searching for Cecy: Reflections on Alzheimer's
7:00pm
“Searching For Cecy is a thoughtful read, very much recommended.”
— Midwest Book Review
In beautifully written and illustrated Mom's Choice Gold Award winning tribute, poet Judy Prescott reflects on her mother’s unexpected journey through the tribulations of Alzheimer’s and her own struggle to find peace. Each poem is paired with artwork contributed by members of the Prescott family, visually illuminating the uncertainty that prevails when a loved one braves a devastating illness. Prescott’s poignant and intimate verse offers solace to those facing the challenges of Alzheimer’s today, as well as their family and friends.
Surge presents Skip Dixon, Vim Furor, Orisha Sound, Bankrupt Slut, Pounding Horse Teeth, Caitlin Linney
7:30pm
$15
Thai Jones discusses and signs More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
7:00pm
In the year that saw the start of World War I, the United States was itself on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. “There was blood in the air that year,” a witness later recalled, “there truly was.”
In New York, the year had opened with bright expectations, but 1914 quickly tumbled into disillusionment and violence. For John Purroy Mitchel, the city’s new “boy mayor,” the trouble started in January, when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchist throngs paraded past industrialists’ mansions, and tens of thousands filled Union Square demanding “Bread or Revolution.” Then, on July 4, 1914, a detonation destroyed a seven-story Harlem tenement. It was the largest explosion the city had ever known. Among the dead were three bombmakers; incited by anarchist Alexander Berkman, they had been preparing to dynamite the estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr., son of a plutocratic dynasty and widely vilified for a massacre of his company’s striking workers in Colorado earlier that spring.
More Powerful Than Dynamite charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic paternalism converged in that July explosion. Its cast ranges from celebrated figures such as Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclair, and Andrew Carnegie to the fascinating and heretofore little known: Frank Tannenbaum, a homeless teenager who dared to lead his followers into the city’s churches; police inspector Max Schmittberger, too honest for his department and too crooked for everyone else; and Becky Edelsohn, a young anarchist known for her red tights and for spitting in millionaires’ faces. Historian and journalist Thai Jones creates a fascinating portrait of a city on the edge of chaos coming to terms with modernity.
Jan Wallentin discusses and signs Strindberg's Star
7:00pm
“An audacious adventure novel a la Jules Verne steeped in Norse mythology and Nazi esotericism.” (Publishers Weekly)
A multilayered international thrill ride at breakneck pace, reminiscent of The Rule of Four
The Arctic, 1897: Nils Strindberg crashes his hydrogen balloon during the mysterious Andrée Expedition to the North Pole.
Germany, 1942: Gruesome and inexplicable experiments are performed on concentration camp prisoners.
Sweden, present-day: Cave diver Erik Hall finds a dead body wearing an ancient ankh, buried deep in an abandoned mine. Religious symbol expert Don Titelman seeks out Erik to study the ankh—but finds Erik dead. Don is the prime suspect, and soon he’s being chased across Europe to escape a secret society that will do anything to get their hands on the ankh...
In this international bestseller, each of these fascinating strands weaves together to create a mind-blowing cross-genre thriller that includes arctic explorers, a secret railroad network, Norse mythology, Nazis, and ancient symbols—and a shocking secret that’s been hidden for centuries.
Brianna Conroy, Jane Carrey, Dinner and a Suit, Kyss Major, Enjulliet, The Moon Shines
7:15pm
Happy Hour
3:00pm
Enjoy happy hour every day from 3-7 p.m. at the newly opened Pink Taco! Enjoy margaritas and cold beers on their expansive patio or at the indoor bar.
William Carter discusses and signs Causes and Spirits: Photographs from Five Decades
7:00pm
"Watch any mother kneeling beside her toddler, pointing and explaining what they are looking at. Our urge to see, and to connect, starts there." (William Carter)
This book is both an autobiography of William Carter and a study of people. Carter's photographs, beginning in 1960, take the viewer on his travels throughout the world, from home to New York and Kurdistan, from Dublin to Gaza. Whether working as a photojournalist or purely for himself, Carter focuses on the gestures and expressions of people (sometimes charming, sometimes unsettling), and on streets and landscapes that often long for human presence. The subtitle "Photographs from Five Decades" might seem misleading as it implies a "typical" photobook where the sequence of images is primary. For Carter, however, it is the interplay between his photographs and writings that allows him to see into himself and his subjects: indeed he calls himself a "photographer-writer". In Carter's words, his work aims to capture the "hidden implications, eye-blink compositions, odd ironies and happy accidents" of the world.
Badwater (CD release party), The Lonely Drunks Club Band, The Diamond Light, Cruz, Brando's Island
7:30pm
$10 adv, $15 dos
Cast members Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, and Kym Karath sign The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook
3:00pm
It's not an exaggeration to say that The Sound of Music is the most beloved film musical of all time. It has touched more than one generation, as over the years, many parents have shared the magic of this wonderful movie with their children. Seven very special children experienced The Sound of Music firsthand: the seven young actors cast as the von Trapp children. Now, for the first time, they tell their stories about making this celebrated film, from their auditions to rehearsals in Los Angeles to an incredible spring and summer in Salzburg, Austria. What was it like to work with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer? How did they learn the songs and dances for the musical numbers? Who almost drowned when the boat tipped over? What was it like to attend the gala Hollywood premiere? What were their lives like after starring in this legendary movie? And how did they become a family in real life, remaining as close as any brothers and sisters for the last 45 years? The answers are revealed at last and as a bonus, they have collected their never-before-seen own home movie footage on a brand-new DVD. It is included here, along with personal cherished memorabilia, such as letters sent home to their families from Europe, a page from the script with edits written in the margin, and a ticket to the premiere. For anyone who is thrilled by the sight of Julie Andrews spinning around on top of a mountain, or who spontaneously bursts out singing "Do-Re-Mi," this captivating behind-the-scenes inside story is a must read.
2nd Wheel, Juke Kartel, Elvis Monroe, Charlie Played Cello (record release show)
7:30pm
$10 adv, $15 dos
Skumbag Records presents Psychobilly Night with Los Creepers, Black Rose Phantoms, Low Class, Black Monday
9:00pm
$12.50 adv, $15 dos
Mike Kindel presents After, Circuit Assassins, Fly Radio, The Hush, Delta Rose
7:30pm
$10
Group Event in support of Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting Out of Death
7:00pm
Featuring Victoria Zackheim, Leon Whiteson, Aviva Layton,Jenny Rough, Richard McKenzie, and Amy Ferris
Exit Laughing is more than a collection of twenty-four personal stories, written by some of our country's finest authors, on the subject of death and humor. It's a reminder that all of us approach death in very different ways. Whether we face our death or the death of a loved one with fear, sorrow, joy, or confusion, and whether or not we believe in an afterlife, we cannot deny that death happens. Exit Laughing reminds us that in death there is a place for humor.
Ellen Sussman writes of flying home her mother's body and watching her mother's burial wardrobe spill out on the baggage carousel. Kathi Kamen Goldmark regales us with memories of playing the kazoo at Jessica Mitford's funeral. Broadway and television actor Richard McKenzie shares the riotous story of a funeral procession led by a lost hearse. Bonnie Garvin writes about her parents' double suicide attempt (and yes, it's funny!). Joshua Braff recalls a death in an upstairs bedroom during his childhood, Roadrunner cartoons included. L.A. Law star and author Michael Tucker describes his last visit with his dying friend, Cleavon Little, and how they said goodbye. International bestselling novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard writes about her husband's untimely death, and how his three best friends ended up held in a psychiatric hospital after the wake. These stories, along with seventeen other memorable essays, constitute a book whose purpose is to remind readers that when dealing with illness, dying, and death, there is an important place for laugh-out-loud humor.
Dayle Gloria presents The Public Trust, Van Marter Project, The Stanleys, Sanguin/Drake
8:00pm
$10
Surge presents Rockimera, Dave Edery, The Glombies, Inside The Black, There Be Lions, Hudson Henry
7:30pm
$15
An Evening with Collective Soul performing Dosage and other hits
8:00pm
$29.50 adv, $32.50 dos
Owen Egerton discusses & signs The Book of Harold: The Illegitimate Son of God with an introduction by author, Amelia Gray
7:00pm
The Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. The titular and sometimes exasperating hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a middle-aged suburbanite living a lonely if typical modern life in the outskirts of Houston, Texas. His world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him.
Blake Waterson, Harold's closest friend and narrator of the novel, is as skeptical as anyone of this disheveled and disconcertingly bawdy Savior and yet this would-be Judas is compelled to follow Harold on his two-hundred mile walking journey to Austin with a mismatched group of equally puzzled disciples. On the road, this motley crew of witnesses to the holy get to experience misguided converts, violent possums, and the ungrateful recipients of off-kilter healings. They also discover the inherent paradoxes, absurdities, and dangers of spirituality, as they learn that saviors may not have all the answers, and humanity is just as bizarre and beautiful as the beliefs we hold.
Joel Stein discusses & signs Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity
7:00pm
The smudge looked suspiciously penis-like. The doctor confirmed: "That's the baby's penis!" which caused not celebration, but panic. Joel pictured having to go camping and fix a car and use a hammer and throw a football and watch professionals throw footballs and figure out whether to be sad or happy about the results of said football throwing.
So begins his quest to confront his effete nature whether he likes it or not (he doesn't), by doing a twenty-four-hour shift with L.A. firefighters, going hunting, rebuilding a house, driving a Lamborghini, enduring three days of boot camp with the U.S. Army, day-trading with $100,000, and going into the ring with UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture. Seeking help from a panel of experts, including his manly father-in-law, Boy Scouts, former NFL star Warren Sapp, former MLB All-Star Shawn Green, Adam Carolla, and a pit bull named Hercules, he expects to learn that masculinity is defined not by the size of his muscles, but by the size of his heart (also, technically, a muscle). This is not at all what he learns.
Chameleon Conductor with LA Velvet, Thunder From Heaven, Right The Stars
8:00pm
$12.50 adv, $15 dos
Happy Hour
4:00pm
www.thesunsetstrip.com/happyhour
BLT Steak
5-7 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday “5 at 5” menu featuring five food items, specialty cocktail, draught beer and red/white wine for $5.
BOA Steakhouse
5-7 p.m. $6 glasses of wine and select cocktails. Specially priced appetizers, including fennel dusted calamari, ahi tacos and mini Kobe beef corn dogs.
Cabo Cantina
All drinks are priced two-for-one from 4-8 p.m. and during “late night” 10 p.m.-close, seven days a week!
Carneys
4:30-7 p.m. daily. $1.50 domestic beer and a daily food special.
Coney Dog LA
3-7. Hot dogs are two for the price of one. Daily 16 oz. craft beer for $3.50.
The Den
5-7 p.m. seven days a week. Half-priced drinks and small food plates.
Isla Cantina
11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Monday - Friday, and 4 - 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Two-for-one priced drinks, daily specials and a discounted appetizer menu.
The London Bar
5-7 p.m. $5 cocktails, appetizers and valet parking.
Night + Market
6-8 p.m. $5 food menu. $3 Thai beer, select $6 cocktails and $11 carafes of house red or white wine.
Pi On Sunset
5-7 p.m. $4 glasses of Lebanese wine and $3 specialty Lebanese beers. Half-off select appetizers.
Rainbow
11 a.m.–7 p.m. $3 domestic beers, $3.50 import beers and $4 well drinks.
Red Rock
5-7 p.m. half-priced drinks and $6 food menu. Late night happy hour from midnight to 1 a.m. that includes $4 draft beer, $4 well drinks and a $6 food menu.
RH Bar at Andaz
WineDown Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m. Select glasses of wine and cocktails are $7. RH Bar also features a $7 dining menu and DJs.
Saddle Ranch
4-6:30 p.m. Half-priced all drinks and appetizers, including specialty carafes.
Sunset Trocadero
6-8 p.m., seven days a week. All appetizers and drinks are half-priced, including specialty martinis, champagne, bottles of wine.
Alan Greenberg discusses & signs Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of Heart of Glass
7:00pm
When Alan Greenberg first showed up at Werner Herzog’s Munich home at age twenty-four, he was, according to the director, the first outsider to seek him and recognize his greatness. At the end of their first evening together, Herzog urged Greenberg to work with him on his film Heart of Glass —and everything thereafter. He clinched his plea by assuring the young American, “On the outside we’ll look like gangsters, but on the inside we’ll wear the gowns of priests.”
Every Night the Trees Disappear is an intimate chronicle of how this visionary filmmaker directed a masterwork. Greenberg’s observations, interwoven with Herzog’s original screenplay, elucidate just how unusual Herzog’s filmmaking methods could be. By hypnotizing his actors before shooting each scene, Herzog led his crew into a veritable cinematic netherworld, resulting in one of the most haunting movies ever made.Rather than a conventional, journalistic account of how a director makes a movie, Every Night the Trees Disappear instead presents a unique vision with the feel of a novel—intimate, penetrating, and filled with mystery.
Summer Metal Onslaught 1 feat. Divine Era, Cry Wolf, Hardly Dangerous, Sledge Leather, Slaves Against the Machine
7:00pm
Doors @ 7:00. Ages 18+. $15.
The Cartunes, PK, Riot In Rhythm, Cozy, Cody Jasper, Monroe, Directors of Photography
7:15pm
Sharyn Winters discusses & signs The Pure Cure: A Complete Guide to Freeing Your Life From Dangerous Toxins
4:00pm
The human race has invented nearly every toxin imaginable. In our food, there are chemicals that kill pests, make foods ripen faster and grow bigger, and lengthen shelf life. In our clothing, chemicals make fabrics soft, keep them from wrinkling, make them fire retardant and resistant to stains, and keep them from collecting static. In our kitchens and bathrooms, chemicals create suds, remove grease, stiffen our hair, make our skin feel smooth, stop us from perspiring, change our hair color, lengthen our lashes, and make us smell good.
Unfortunately, many of these chemicals, designed to improve and simplify our lives, cause birth defects, hyperactivity, learning disabilities, attention deficit, early puberty, and developmental problems—to name a few.
The Pure Cure takes readers to a new level of awareness regarding the dangers of the toxins in everyday products and services. Taking a thorough and comprehensive approach, the book guides readers through every room in the house and beyond, identifying problematic toxins and a course of action for eliminating them. The author also points to surprising new areas of concern, makes suggestions for healthy solutions, and provides a lists of products and companies that can offer safer alternatives.
Kate Bornstein discusses & signs A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later To Become the Lovely Lady She Is Today
7:00pm
"A nervy, expansive memoir from a pioneering gender activist."
- Kirkus
“I was born male and now I’ve got medical and government documents that say I’m female—but I don’t call myself a woman, and I know I’m not a man...”
Scientologist, husband and father, tranny, sailor, slave, playwright, dyke, gender outlaw—these are just a few words which have defined Kate Bornstein during her extraordinary life. For the first time, it all comes together in A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Kate Bornstein’s stunningly original memoir that’s set to change lives and enrapture readers.
Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein’s most intimate book yet. With wisdom, wit, and an unwavering resolution to tell the truth (“I must not tell lies”), Bornstein shares her story: from a nice Jewish boy growing up in New Jersey to a strappingly handsome lieutenant of the Church of Scientology’s Sea flagship vessel, and later to 1990s Seattle, where she becomes a rising star in the lesbian community. In between there are wives and lovers, heartbreak and triumph, bridges mended and broken, and a journey of self-discovery that will mesmerize readers.
Sono Vero, Arise Roots, Rian Basilio & The Roosters, Rebel Lionz, Ital Vibes
7:00pm
Hollowbody LA presents Heart String Pistol, Red Again, The Seems, The Cocanuts, Nomi Abadi
7:30pm
$10 adv, $12 dos
Spiders & Snakes, Arson Strike, Rebel Rebel, Willow Wisk, Tramps Like Us, Sexual Stellar
8:00pm
Eddie Campbell discusses and signs 44 Horrible Dates
7:00pm
"Every story is the truth and every truthful moment is a hilarious journey! It's as if you're listening to your best friend at a coffee shop and watching a stand—up take command of the stage. You won't be disappointed as you travel this refreshingly funny road of 'horrible dates!'"
- Debra Wilson, actress/comedian, MADtv
Sandra Kobrin & Gloria Killian present and sign Full Circle: A True Story of Murder, Lies, and Vindication
7:00pm
It began as a robbery. A man dressed as a phone repairman knocked on the door of coin collector Ed Davies. Once inside, the stranger pulled a gun on Ed and his wife, Grace, handcuffed and hogtied the couple and opened the door for his partner. After filling six suitcases with silver and gold coins, they fatally shot Davies in the head twice and his wife once, then fled. Hours later, with a bullet lodged in her head, Grace crawled out to the sidewalk where a neighbor found her.
Eventually the killers were found, tried and convicted of murder. Trying to get a reduced sentence, one told the prosecutor that a third year law student named Gloria Killian was the mastermind of the crime. The prosecutor went after her with zeal, and she was tried, convicted and sent to jail, all the while proclaiming she knew nothing of the crime. While in jail, she began advocating for the humane treatment and release of women in prison.
Ten years later, one of the defense attorneys discovered massive exculpatory evidence, hidden documents, prosecutorial misconduct and perjury. Then Gloria Killian's own fight for freedom began.
Full Circle, tells for the first time, the riveting story of a shocking murder that involves Hells Angels, misguided cops, backroom deals, profound lies and life and death sentences. Relentless, exciting and gripping, this true story shows how a life can be ruined in a split second. Finally, Full Circle makes the terrifying point that what happened to Killian can happen to anyone.
Canto, The Heronie, Spaceship Days, Save Our Souls, Black Magic Driver, Starsix
7:15pm
Vicci Martinez, Jamar Rogers (Of The Voice), Bullet & Snowfox, Beware Of Darkness
7:30pm
$15
Mark Arbeit, George Holz, & Just Loomis present and sign Three Boys From Pasadena: A Tribute to Helmut Newton
7:00pm
Photographers Mark Arbeit, George Holz and Just Loomis met Helmut Newton in the late 1970s when they were his students and studio assistants at the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Over the years, as each of their careers evolved, the boys from Pasadena kept in touch with their mentor, sharing their photography with both him and his wife June. After Newton's death in 2004, June conceived the idea to host an exhibition with Arbeit, Holz and Loomis at the Helmut Newton Foundation, which was mounted in 2009. Through a collection of photographs, letters and memorabilia, Three Boys from Pasadena celebrates three decades of a unique mentorship and friendship, intertwining the boys and their relationship and history with Newton together with their own photography. It features writings by June Newton, Karl Johnson and Dr. Matthias Harder.
Straight Line Stich, Blame Shift, Slow Start, Crystal Trap, Nine Wives, The Trims
8:00pm
Under The Covers Sessions featuring Midnight Mirage
8:00pm
The Roxy's Under The Covers Sessions at Andaz West Hollywood. 8-10 p.m.
Event Details: Rona Edwards & Monika Skerbelis present and sign The Complete Filmmaker's Guide to Film Festivals: Your All Access Pass to Launching Your Film on the Festival Circuit
7:00pm
The first step-by-step “How To” guide to film festivals, offering filmmakers a bird’s eye view of what it takes to have a successful festival experience. Practical, hands-on information with examples and exercises to help the filmmaker include: Targeting the right festivals, creating a press kit, promoting and branding your film, promoting and branding yourself, filling out entry forms, creating a logline, and much more.
Warped Tour Finals with Shane Eli, From Here To LA, Random Ninjas, Electric Child
8:00pm
$10
I Will Never Be The Same, The Lonely Drunks Club Band, Battles Tapes, Beat Club
7:30pm
$10 adv, $12 dos
Fracture, In Silence, Society Falls, Angeles, Angel Roze, Native Yit, Some Fear None, Lunar Atlantic
6:15pm
KROQ Locals Only: Oedipus, Stellar Sons & Daughters, Y Luv, MAL, Opus Dai, Naked Walrus, Exrays
7:15pm
Death To All: Celebrating Chuck Schuldiner in Aid of Sweet Relief
8:00pm
$28 adv, $32 dos
Kelly McGarry presents 16 Barz, RNR, Rockett Queens, Hestyn, & Philosophy Of Soul
7:30pm
$10
Ernest Cline presents and signs Ready Player One
7:00pm
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
Free Music Mondays: Stitched Up Heart, Cage 9, The Dark, Tempting Fate, Drop Dead LA + Fashion Show by Amanda Jean Designs
7:00pm
Free
Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer present and sign two titles, My Life as a Mankiewicz: An Insider's Journey through Hollywood and Jack Nicholson: The Early Years
7:00pm
About My Life as a Mankiewicz:
The son of famed director and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve [1950], Guys and Dolls [1955], Cleopatra [1963]) and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz was genuine Hollywood royalty. He grew up in Beverly Hills and New York, spent summers on his dad's film sets, had his first drink with Humphrey Bogart, dined with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, went to the theater with Ava Gardner, and traveled the world writing for Brando, Sinatra, and Connery. Although his family connections led him to show business, Tom "Mank" Mankiewicz forged a career of his own, becoming a renowned screenwriter, director, and producer of acclaimed films and television shows. He wrote screenplays for three James Bond films -- Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) -- and made his directorial debut with the hit TV series Hart to Hart (1979--1984).My Life as a Mankiewicz is a fascinating look at the life of an individual whose creativity and work ethic established him as a member of the Hollywood writing elite.
Mankiewicz details his journey through the inner world of the television and film industries, beginning with his first job as production assistant on The Comancheros (1961), starring John Wayne. My Life as a Mankiewicz illuminates his professional development as a writer and director, detailing his friendships and romantic relationships with some of Hollywood's biggest stars as well as his struggle with alcohol and drugs. With the assistance of Robert Crane, Mankiewicz tells a story of personal achievement and offers an insider's view of the glamorous world of Hollywood during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
About Jack Nicholson: The Early Years :
Originally published as Jack Nicholson: Face to Face in 1975, Jack Nicholson: The Early Years is the first book written about the enigmatic star and the only one to have Nicholson's participation. In 1975 Nicholson was just becoming a household name in spite of having already starred in, written or produced 25 films including classics such as Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), The Last Detail (1973) and Chinatown (1974). To date, Nicholson has been nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won three, has garnered seven Golden Globe awards, and took home the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award at the age of 57.
Authors Robert Crane and Christopher Fryer interviewed Nicholson for what began as a thesis for a University of Southern California film class but which quickly morphed into a larger portrait of Nicholson's unique craft. Crane and Fryer conducted their interviews with Nicholson with the intent of showcasing the young star as he saw himself, while also interviewing many of Nicholson's close friends and fellow filmmakers, including Dennis Hopper, Roger Corman, Hal Ashby, Ann-Margret, Robert Evans and Bruce Dern, providing a comprehensive profile of the actor's early years in the industry. The result is a true insider's look at Nicholson not only as a writer, director and actor, but also offers insights into a private man's private life. Jack Nicholson: The Early Years stands as a testament to his incredible success in Hollywood.
Polestock - The World's First and only Karaoke and pole dancing competition. Big cash prizes as seen on TMZ, Howard Stern TV and Playboy TV
7:30pm
$15 adv, $20 at the door
CMA Songwriters series with Kristian Bush from Sugarland, Bill Anderson, Bob DiPiero, Bobby Pinson
8:00pm
$40
Emma McLaughlin & Nicole Krauss present and sign Between You and Me: A Novel
7:00pm
What happens when you are followed by millions... and loved by none?
Twenty-seven-year-old Logan Wade is trying to build a life for herself far from her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma. Until she gets the call that her famous cousin needs a new assistant— an offer she can’t refuse.
Logan hasn’t seen Kelsey in person since their parents separated them as kids; in the meantime, Kelsey Wade has grown into Fortune Magazine’s most powerful celebrity. But their reunion is quickly overshadowed by the toxic dynamic between Kelsey and her parents as Logan discovers that, beneath the glossy façade, the wounds that caused them to be wrenched apart so many years ago have insidiously warped into a show-stopping family business.
As Kelsey tries desperately to break away and grasp at a “real” life, beyond the influence of her parents and managers, she makes one catastrophic misstep after another, and Logan must question if their childhood has left them both too broken to succeed. Logan risks everything to hold on, but when Kelsey unravels in the most horribly public way, Logan finds that she will ultimately have to choose between rescuing the girl she has always protected... and saving herself.
M. Shawn Crahan presents and signs The Apocalyptic Nightmare Journey
7:00pm
M. Shawn Crahan, better known as Clown, is the percussionist and founding member of the Grammy Award winning hard rock band,Slipknot. Crahan is also the art director for Slipknot and directed their DVDs, Disasterpieces, Voliminal: Inside The Nine, Of The (sic), and (sic)nesses: Live at Download. He has been the creative vision behind the band since their inception.
Outside of Slipknot, Crahan has had a few other projects of note, To My Surprise who released one album (executive produced by Rick Rubin) on Roadrunner Records in 2004, as well as the alternative group, Dirty Little Rabbits. Crahan produced, played drums, and wrote in both groups. In 2009, The Dirty Little Rabbits released the EP, Simon, on The End Records, which was followed by their self-titled full length in 2010. Recently, Crahan has been focusing his musical energy on his newest band, The Black Dots of Death. In this latest band Crahan can once again be found behind the drum kit in addition to writing, recording, and producing the band whose debut album, Ever Since We Were Children, hit stores in the spring of 2011.
In addition to producing his own work Crahan has also worked as a producer for several bands including Gizmachi and Dirtfedd as well as serving as an executive producer to bands such as Mudvayne. Crahan has also remixed several songs for artists including; Marilyn Manson, Coheed and Cambria, Mindless Self Indulgence, and Suicide Silence among others.
Away from music, Shawn is very passionate about photography and film. In recent years he has taken to directing Slipknot’s videos, co-directing all four videos for their latest record, 2008’s All Hope Is Gone. Crahan had his first gallery showing in Iowa in 2010, displaying a number of paintings, photographs, and other works of art. He’s been a featured, speaker, performer, and panelist at seminars throughout the country, including South by Southwest.
Never Say Die Tour with Skism, Dodge & Fuski and Skeptiks
9:00pm
$15 adv, $20 adv standing room only, $27.50 dos
Art Show at Mel's Drive-In
6:00pm
Philanthropy meets artistry this June 30th, from 6pm - 10pm as Mel’s Drive-In and Juliana Martinez Art invite you to join them for an exhibition and evening of living art and memories.
Juliana was commissioned to create two custom Gibson Les Paul art guitars for the public art project GuitarTown on The Sunset Strip. Her current guitar, titled "There's Something Happening Here" (in honor of iconic band Buffalo Springfield), is boldly displayed at the Mel’s Drive-In entrance. For a catalog of Juliana's work, and for more information - photos and schedule details - visit www.julianamartinezart.com.
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