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Community Walk with HSFC and the Silver Lake Jubilee Sat Sept. 4th, 9am

COMMUNITY HEALTH WALK

When: Saturday, September 4th, 9am

What: Let’s walk with a friendly Neighborhood Guide! New route each time.

Why: Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic preventative health measure and community building from LAAAA, hosts of the Silver Lake Jubilee

Where: Silver Lake Farmers Market Fountain, Sunset Blvd. between Griffith Park Blvd & Edgecliffe Dr. Look for the “Silver Lake Jubilee” T-shirts.

Support or become a Sponsor and for more information contact:

Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic

Jamie Crooke

3324 W. Sunset Blvd.

323.660.2400

www.hsfreeclinic.org

Los Angeles Arts and Athletics Alliance (LAAAA)

Charles Renn

323.362.6665

silverlakejubilee@gmail.com

facebook.com/silverlakejubilee

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Serenade Sunset at Mi Alma Garden in the Sunset Junction, August 28th, ALL AGES

What: Serenade Sunset

When: Saturday, August 28th, 6-10p

Where: 4016 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90029, Neighborhood: Silver Lake

Everyone attending the Sunset Junction this weekend please be safe, responsible, courteous and have tons of fun.

Next weekend enjoy a beautiful sunset at Mi Alma Garden on Saturday evening, August 28th for Serenade Sunset. The evening will consist of music from Downtown/Union, Miniature Houses & i hate you just kidding with the molossus presenting literature by Mathew Timmons and Harold Abramowitz. Click here for Facebook event details.

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826la's Spelling Bee for Cheaters fundraiser and event

826la's Spelling Bee 2010Our neighborhood after-school and literary non-profit 826la are back at it! Follow this link to support your favorite Spelling Bee team, like;

Diane Argon(Glee)

The Best-Speler’s

or The Tori Spellings.

 If you’d rather put your friends and family on the spot(for a donation), send them the link or even start your own team! All funds go directly to 826la and their programs :)

This is one of 826la’s largest fundraisers of the year and can use your support. You can find out more about 826la here and how to volunteer.

826la’s: A Spelling Bee for Cheaters

August 14th, 2010, 2pm

Lincoln High School

1501 California Ave.

Santa Monica, CA

90403

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Silver Lake Jubilee's Neighborhood Haiku project presented by Molossus!

Many of you wrote haiku at the Silver Lake Jubilee, and we’re glad to announce our first (of two) winners of a $20 gift certificate to Skylight Books!

One of my favorites is about our frequent helicopter fly-overs, by Ryan, who “just moved to Highland Park from Mississippi”:

Steel choppers above

Modern prehistoric birds

Watching over me

Ian wrote another haiku about airborne vehicles:

They make me fly high.

Who doesn’t want to fly high?

Silver Lake Jetpacks!

His inspiration is simple: “I like haikus and jetpacks.” Jubilee participant Abel wrote a more intimate haiku for his unborn son:

When I father child,

His name: Thuglonious Crunk,

We will rock this town.

In his accompanying paragraph he eloquently writes, “I will live vicariously through my unborn son. He will be everything I am not. Get ready, prepare yourself, because he will be the real deal.” Here’s hoping young Thuglonious might someday write a better haiku…

We also received a rather prophetic haiku, written by Susan, no doubt by one of the many crowded around the food truck televisions to watch the Lakers in the playoffs:

L.A. loves Lakers.

Bryant, Bynum, and Gasol.

Bringing home the ring!

One recurring theme, no doubt because of the Next Step Moustachios sold at the Molosus/Jubilee Booth in the Literary Village, was the abundance of mustaches, real and fake. This example is by Ian:

Ray Bans, mustaches

Real + fake are everywhere

At the Jubilee

Another, which describes the Silver Lake Jubilee well, by Derek:

Fifty-two food trucks on a tongue

The tongue is a street named Myra

Buy a tee shirt and stain it with food

And perhaps the most eloquent of our haiku describing the event itself is by Liz, who is our first winner of the Neighborhood Haiku Contest, for her attention to imagery, reference to the season, and, of course, the neighborhood.

Jacaranda trees

Leave lavender snowflakes

On Hoover Street Cars

We also received many haiku about Silver Lake, Echo Park, and other Los Angeles neighborhoods. From Erin, a former West-sider:

New to Silver Lake

Micheltorena, tough hill

My glutes thank me daily

Allison recalls her observations from Sunset Junction coffee shop patios:

dogs ride in strollers

people pass on bicycles

on Sunset at dusk

And Robert, our only “professional drunkard,” recounts the time his watch stopped on the stumble home:

Between the Red Lion and the Cha

one could see it,

the center of the universe

Not everything in Silver Lake is coffee or drinking, moustaches or sunglasses, as Vince writes in his four-line haiku:

Star twinks at blue heron

Nesting in eucalyptus

As I stroll by

Along Silver Lake.

Stay tuned for more haiku from the Silver Lake Jubilee’s Neighborhood Haiku Contest, and be sure to read more about literature at Jubilee partner Molossus!

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Record Release/Free live performance of Bowery Beasts, Saturday 6/26 at Origami Vinyl at 7pm

This Saturday, Bowery Beasts celebrate the release of “Baby Sister” on orange, 7-inch vinyl with a free live performance at Origami Vinyl at 7pm, RSVP here.
Then, on Tuesday the 29th, come see Bowery Beasts open for Australia’s Tame Impala at Silverlake Lounge at 7pm sharp (Tame Impala at 8). Tame Impala just got off tour with MGMT, and have a killer album out on Modular Records called Innerspeaker. Get tickets now, as the late show has already sold out.
Bowery Beasts links:
Myspace
You Tube
Website

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