Parlor Performance Update! Chopin Feast! * Jay Leonhart returns! Comedy Fundraisers * Discounts! * Fun Book Events & More!

Parlor Performance Mid-February Update Entertaining Ideas from the Historical to the Hysterical!   RSVP & Info: Jeannine Frank * (310) 471-3979 * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com     IN A NUTSHELL! (details in multi-colored boxes below)   Up Next @ Steinway Hall...    ** Sunday, March 1 @ 2 & 7pm  * World renowned pianist Lincoln Mayorga's brithday tribute to Chopin! *$30 / $25 (w/ RSVP by Feb. 26) *   ** Sunday, March 28 at 5pm * World's wittiest bass player Jay Leonhart delivers his hilarious BASS LESSON! $25 / $20 (1st 20 people to RSVP)   Here, There, Everywhere!    * Save the date -- Sat., March 28 at the new Broad Stage in Santa Monica!   Guardians of the Jewish Home for the Aging COMEDY FUNDRAISER & GALA RECEPTION!!  Parlor favorites Ray Jessel and Andy Kindler will be featured along with comedians Sarge and Shawn Palefsky. Full details at www.laguardians.com or call (310) 479-2468. Tell them you heard about it here!    * Hank Rosenfeld's hilarious new book on Irv Brecher, The Wicked Wit of the West!  Hank speaks & signs around town (Palisades Village Books, Chevalier's, & Bev. Hills Forum in mid-March & April. Schedule in next update! Info/ laughs/ great reviews at: http://www.benyehudapress.com/catalog/rosenfeld-gfj/blurbs.html     * Singing in the Rain Forest!  Singing Darwinian Scholar Richard Milner (Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert and Darwin's Universe, UC Press) was featured in last week's NY Times Science Section -- special Darwin issue! Watch him sing Darwin's praises all over NY! Easy links to NY Times feature & video: www.darwinlive.com. Milner brings Darwin to LA May 3-9. Stay tuned as much is planned!!    New Parlor Classifieds...   (see yellow box below!)  Beautiful 3 bedroom duplex for rent & more!      Parlor Discounts available as needed!  Out of work or simply can't spend the money now? Please let me know and I'll discount tickets as needed. If you can pay full price or bring a group, thank you for your continued support.      Info & RSVP: Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com or (310) 471-3979     Parlor Performances @ Steinway Hall presents CHOPIN AND THE PIANO with pianist Lincoln Mayorga Sunday, March 1 @ 2 & 7pm * $30 ($25 thru Feb. 23)   Celebrate Frederic Chopin's 199th birthday with world renowned pianist Lincoln Mayorga who will talk about the composer's life and play all of his twenty-four Preludes, the Grande Polonaise in A flat, the Scherzo in C sharp minor and selected mazurkas, etudes, and waltzes. This is a musical feast of Chopin's intensely romantic, dramatic, and highly original music for the piano, the first of a number of programs Mayorga will perform during the composer's bi-centennial year in 2010.   About Lincoln Mayorga... Equally versatile and virtuosic regardless of musical genre, pianist and composer Lincoln Mayorga has enjoyed one of the busiest studio careers in Hollywood. He was the staff pianist for Walt Disney Studios, and as accompanist, arranger, and conductor, he has recorded with such artists as Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Frank Zappa, and Quincy Jones. He is co-founder of the renowned audiophile record label Sheffield Lab, for which he has produced recordings by a range of artists, from Harry James and his band to Erich Leinsdorf and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His concert tours have taken his diverse 18th to 21st century repertoire to more than two hundred cities across the United States, Canada, Europe and Russia.   Steinway Hall @ Fields Pianos * 12121 W. Pico Bl. (1 door w. of Bundy * Level P2)  Park free in lot! * RSVP to Jeannine Frank * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com    Sunday, March 29 @ 5pm * $25/$20 with RSVP by March 20 World's Wittiest Bass Player JAY LEONHART's THE BASS LESSON   Jay has performed at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center -- but you don't need to hop a plane to spend a little time with this funny and charming musical virtuoso. Take advantage of Jay's limited geographic desirability. Please tell friends- they'll owe you after!!   "Add Leonhart to the small, very exclusive list of jazz humorists...  ...in the upper echelon of a group that includes Oscar Brown Jr., Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough..." Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times   "If you could stuff Dave Frishberg, Mose Allison, and Jon Hendricks into a blender, out would come Jay Leonhart." Harvey Siders, Jazz Times Magazine.   Leonhart is surely the world's most humorous and original bass player/songwriter/  singer. The show begins attempting simply to give the audience its bass lesson, but once Leonhart senses that maybe the audience is not so devoted to bass viol studies, his "lesson" quickly and skillfully turns into a series of funny and touching songs and vignettes about life, with or without a bass violin in tow. Songs are original and totally unique to Leonhart--from an airplane trip with Leonard Bernstein, to an anxiety attack over a delayed flight carrying him to his first gig with Mel Torme, to a hilarious musical moment with drummer Louie Bellson and more -- beautifully crafted and performed. The show becomes a lesson in life, with a charming, funny performance by a master  musician.   Leonhart was born in Baltimore in 1940 and began studying piano and percussion at the Peabody School of Music at age six. He played many different instruments on his way to choosing the bass violin at the age of 13. After studies at the Berklee School of Music, Jay headed for New York where he hoped to play some good music and earn a living as a bass player. He's more than done both. Now after countless recordings and performances with many of the great jazz musicians and singers of the twentieth century -- from Mel Torme, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, and Peggy Lee to James Taylor, Tom Paxton, Peter, Paul & Mary and Sting -- Jay has become one of the most sought-after musicians in the world.

 

FW: Guy Fluffner Memorial Friday 2/27 @ Air Conditioned, 9:30

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: danny moynahan [mailto:dannymoynahan@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:41 AM
Subject: Guy Fluffner Memorial Friday 2/27 @ Air Conditioned, 9:30

 

Nobody dies forever.
–Guy Fluffner

Guy Fluffner Memorial
Friday February 27, 9:30 pm
Air Conditioned Supper Club
625 Lincoln Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
www.airconditionedbar.com

Dear friends,
If you knew Guy Fluffner like I knew Guy Fluffner then that makes two of us. He was truly
one of a kind–or as E. Rodney Jones put it, "a genius talent that has unsurpassed those
of equal quality." We miss him dearly and remember him fondly.

I remember sipping tea with Guy on a cold, crisp day in April 1996. I had tracked him down
in La Paz, Bolivia to get his advice on some big life issues I was facing at the time. That's
when he told me about the Potato Prophecy. He wouldn't go into the details on that first day
of our visit. That wasn't Guy's style. He was thorough and deliberate in just about everything
he did. Rather, he would deliver the prophecy in small, digestible pieces over the course of
my visit so as to make sure I absorbed everything I could from what he was teaching me.
Wow. Great teacher, that Guy.

Unfortunately, that was the last I ever saw of Guy Fluffner. "Nobody dies forever," he told me
as we parted that day. Years later, I'm finally understanding what he meant by that. The more
I talk with other musicians like myself that played under Guy Fluffner's tutelage, the more I realize
how alive he really is in our hearts, in our music, and in the memories we share about the man
we know as Guy Fluffner.

And so, we* invite you to come celebrate with us the music and the memory of Guy Fluffner this
coming Friday at Air Conditioned in Venice.

*Keeping the memory of Guy alive will be:
Richard Fultineer-drums
Austin Nicholsen-bass
John Nau-electric piano
Daniel Krieger-guitar
Irwin-percussion, electronica
Timothy Moynahan-krinklebone
Danny Moynahan-saxophone, flute
www.myspace.com/guyfluffnermemorial

p.s. Regarding the Potato Prophecy: I'm happy to announce that a manuscript of the prophecy
has been found and is currently being translated into English. Woo! From the work that has been
done so far, we can tell it has something to do with food. See you Friday!

Westside Progressives: afternoon of politically-edged comedy and music at the Bakery Feb 21

Special Pricing: $10 Donation
2009 Fundraiser

Hey, We All Need a Good Laugh!  So, Forget the Cosmic Craziness & Just Show Up!

 

Special Pricing: $10 Donation Suggested, No One Turned Away 

 

Join those non-partisan push-backs of Westside Progressives for an afternoon of politically-edged comedy and music at Los Angeles' pre-eminent performance venue, the Jazz Bakery.

 

Get your laugh back on track with Bay Area satirist Darryl Henriques (described as an 'amalgam of Lenny Bruce, Paul Krassner and Robin Williams' by the SF Chronicle) and stand-up wit Betsy Salkind (writer on the RoseAnne Show and 'The Squirrel Lady' on Jay Leno's Tonight Show). Vocalist Lauri  Reimer and singer/songwriter/keyboard master Alfred Johnson will get us in the mood for Fat Tuesday with a set of blues, R&B and Cajun Soul! We have invited Los Angeles City and LAUSD primary candidates to meet with us before, after and during intermission. Plus! Admission includes light refreshments and raffle tickets for great swag!   

 

Yes, it will be a great event. But beyond that, your support for this once-a-year event will help WP work on behalf of progressive candidates, host community forums and rattle official cages. WP is committed to taking the Progressive Agenda deeper and further into mainstream territory in 2009. 

 

    

Seating Limited

  

To Take Advantage of this Special Offer, or to Purchase Tickets at Door, Please RSVP  (310) 772-0639

 

Saturday February 21, 2009

1:00 - 3:30 PM (doors open for mingling at 12:30)

 

Jazz Bakery 3233 Helms Avenue, LA 90034

(Street Parking or nearby lots)

 

 

Lillian Laskin

 

The 11th Hour

..has produced a movie - the 11 th hour.
If you are concerned about our planet, this
movie will confirm your concerns. If you still
need some info about what are the problems
AND solutions - please watch the movie !
http://www.thestumblingblock.com/FramePages/11thHour.html

Parlor Performance Mid-Winter Update! Chopin's Birthday Feast! Singin' in the Rain Forest w/ Darwin! Comedy benefit & More!

 

Parlor Performance Mid-Winter Update Entertaining Ideas from the Historical to the Hysterical!     IN A NUTSHELL! (details in multi-colored boxes below)   Up Next @ Steinway Hall... Discounts Extended as needed!  Sunday, March 1 @ 2 & 7pm  * World renowned pianist Lincoln Mayorga's brithday tribute to Chopin! *$30 / $25 (w/ RSVP by Feb. 20)   Singing in the Rain Forest!  Singing Darwin Scholar Richard Milner (Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert and Darwin's Universe, UC Press) is featured in today's NY Times Science Section -- special Darwin issue! See & hear him singing Darwin's praises all over NY (Natural History Museum, Botanical Gardens, Central Park Zoo) on NY Times website! Fun links to videos and more in green box below!   Fundraiser w/ Betsy Salkind & Darryl Henriques for Westside Progressives!   Sat., Feb 21 at Jazz Bakery in Culver City! $35 Tix & Info: (800) 838-3006 or www.BrownBagTickets.com/event/54786      Opportunities for book parties, special events, house parties * Hank Rosenfeld's new book with Irv Brecher, the man who made Groucho funny! Mischief making in progress for bookstores everywhere -- details in next update! Host your own!) Info & laughs: http://www.benyehudapress.com/catalog/rosenfeld-gfj/blurbs.html * Richard Milner's Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A-Z  Richard visits LA in early may to speak, perform and promte the new book from UC PRess! Details below!   Writers Bloc presents Joan Rivers on Feb. 16th! Full details below!     New Parlor Classifieds...    Parlor Discounts available as needed!  Out of work or simply can't spend the money now? Please let me know and I'll discount tickets as needed. If you can pay full price or bring a group, thank you for your continued support. Parlor Performances, now entering year 20 and very possibly LA's longest-running unfunded performing arts series, could not continue without you!      Info & RSVP: Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com or (310) 471-3979     Parlor Performances @ Steinway Hall presents CHOPIN AND THE PIANO with pianist Lincoln Mayorga Sunday, March 1 @ 2 & 7pm * $30 ($25 for next 25 people to RSVP) Joun us for a celebrattion of Frederic Chopin's 199th birthday! Pianist Lincoln Mayorga will talk about the composer's life and play all of his Twenty-four Preludes, the Grande Polonaise in A flat, the Scherzo in C sharp minor and selected mazurkas, etudes, and waltzes.  This is a musical feast of Chopin's intensely romantic, dramatic, and highly original music for the piano, the first of a number of programs Mayorga will perform during the composer's bi-centennial year.   About Lincoln Mayorga... Equally versatile and virtuosic regardless of musical genre, pianist and composer Lincoln Mayorga has enjoyed one of the busiest studio careers in Hollywood. He was the staff pianist for Walt Disney Studios and contributed to the soundtracks of such motion pictures as Chinatown, Pete's Dragon, and Ragtime. His television credits include Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven Dallas, and original scores for Fame. As accompanist, arranger, and conductor, he has recorded with such artists as Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Vikki Carr, Mel Torme, Phil Ochs, Andy Williams, Ernie Freeman, Frank Zappa, and Quincy Jones. He is co-founder of the renowned audiophile record label Sheffield Lab, for which he has produced recordings by a range of artists, from Harry James and his band to Erich Leinsdorf and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His concert tours have taken his diverse 18th to 21st century repertoire to more than two hundred cities across the United States, Canada, Europe and Russia.   Steinway Hall @ Fields Pianos * 12121 W. Pico Bl. (1 door w. of Bundy * Level P2)  Park free in lot! * RSVP to Jeannine Frank * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com    Singin' in the Rain Forest!  NY Times Naturally Selects Richard Milner for Special Darwin Day Issue!  (Printed version of NY Times does not include video links -- so click away here & enjoy!)   Richard Milner, the singing Darwin scholar who has created a new flavor of literate musical theater, is profiled in two articles, and two of his music videos are featured online in today's NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10tier.html?_r=1&ref=science     Click on links within the article to see and hear Richard wax lyrically (and charmingly) on the Darwin family, Evolution, The HMS Beagle, the Scopes Trial, and childhood buddy Stephen Jay Gould! The Times has alo produced two music videos of his witty,wonderful songs, and posted them on the Times website.  http://tinyurl.com/bxks4l     "Somehow," enthuses Times Science News writer John Tierney in his Findings column, "Mr. Milner has turned the shy naturalist into a suavely bemused performer doing patter songs about trilobites, garfish and tortoise shells."   After profiling Milner in his Findings column, Tierney goes on in his TierneyLab section to announce a science song-writing contest with musical Darwin as judge, and a copy of his forthcoming encyclopedia Darwin¹s Universe: Evolution from A to Z (University of California Press) as the first prize. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10tier.html      "Now that Richard Milner has shown the way with his one-man Darwin show," Tierney continues, "perhaps we can start a trend of singing scientists. We'll give a prize to the Lab reader who comes up with the best lyrics to be sung by Charles Darwin or any other scientist, alive or dead." http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/write-a-song-win-a-prize/      At another site http://tinyurl.com/dnzenp  The Times presents a complete version of his amazing song Darwin's Nightmare, filmed at various natural history locations around New York, including the Botanical Garden's remarkable Conservatory in the Bronx. (You can blow this video up to full screen size by clicking on the TV icon.) Gene Kelly was singin' in the rain -- Milner¹s Darwin sings in the rain forest!   Summing up, the Times notes that Milner's creation is "remarkable, amusing enough to keep generating paying gigs at colleges, museums and conferences around the world." Especially during this coming Darwin Bicentennial Year, the Times recommends Milner's thinking person¹s musical as far and away the natural selection!   Touring schedule, bio & much more at www.dawinlive.com     OPPORTUNITIES for GROUPS, HOUSE PARTIES, ORGANIZATIONS!   Interesting Authors & Speakers for Your Consideration...   Hank Rosenfeld's WICKED WIT OF THE WEST: The Last Great Golden Age Screenwriter Shares the Hilarity and Heartaches of Working With Groucho, Garland, Gleason, Burns, Berle, Benny, and many more * Irv Brecher ("the Guy Who Made Groucho Funny") died in November at age 94. Wicket Wit is the product of 6 years of Hank's tagging along with Irv, splitting pastrami sandwiches, and hanging on Irv's every word. The book is just out and Hank welcomes all opportunities to recount the stories and share slides of the funniest man you never heard of! (Groucho & SJ Perlman, when asked whom they found to be the fastest with one-liners, both agreed: George S. Kaufman, Oscar Levant & Irv Brecher! Host a book party in your home! www.benyehudapress.com/catalog/rosenfeld-gfj/index.html       Singing Darwinian Scholar Richard Milner (see above) visits LA in early May to speak and perform. Host a book party for your friends w/ this witty and colorful Darwin enthusiast!  2009 marks Darwin's 200th Birthday, and Richard will sign copies of his new  Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z (UC Press). Much more at www.darwinlive.com    Contact Jeannine @ (310) 476-6735 or Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com for more info!      WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS JOAN RIVERS! Mon., Feb. 16 * 7:00 pm * Writers Guild Theater * 135 S. Doheny Dr., Bev. Hills * $20 cash/check at door. (No credit cards) Rivers, author of two new books, including Men Are Stupid...And They Like Big Boobs and Murder At The Academy Awards(R): A Red Carpet Murder Mystery. Men Are Stupid...And They Like Big Boobs is about plastic surgery, with Rivers' customary personal frankness and hilarious self-deprecating humor. While she routinely kills celebrities for their fashion crimes, she heads into the mystery genre with Murder At The Academy Awards (R). Many of the personalities are pretty recognizable, and even in the throes of solving a murder, her comic voice rings through.   Reservations: http://www.writersblocpresents.com/events/events.htm Unless you hear back, please safely assume that your reservation has been taken.

 

FW: CEO bailouts? How about the homeowners?

Dear Friend,

1. Share this video 2. Send us your story

If you're a Wall Street executive who drove your firm into the ground and nearly capsized the U.S. economy, it seems like all you have to do these days to get a multibillion dollar bailout from Congress is put your hand out.

But if you're like Guillermo San Pedro, a hardworking truck driver in Los Angeles who fell victim to a predatory loan and is at risk of losing his home, you're on your own.

Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJGTuqciTGo

Eight million people are at risk of losing their homes because Wall Street abandoned responsible lending practices to gain short-term profits. The housing crisis is not just a problem for families facing foreclosure - it's a problem for every homeowner in America. As long as foreclosures persist, home values will keep going down, and everyone loses. No Wall Street bailout will fix that problem.

We're collecting stories from people all over the country who have been hit by the housing crisis so we can show what's really happening on Main Street: while Wall Street takes hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money to pay for lavish executive bonuses and luxurious office furniture, homeowners at risk of foreclosure still aren't getting any relief.

We need your help. Have you been affected by the housing meltdown? Foreclosed on? Underwater? Trapped in a predatory loan? Do you know anyone else whose life has been turned upside down by the collapse of the real estate market? Record your story, or the story of a friend, family member, co-worker, or neighbor, and send it to us. If you have a video camera or webcam, then please send us your video. You can also add your written story along with a photo we can post on our interactive map.

We have gathered almost two dozen videos recorded and sent in by people telling their foreclosure story or a friend's. Here are two of them and check the site for more.

Penny from Texas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpQNpXocJeU

Holly from Florida: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1XpfxJRjs0

Help us tell the stories of families impacted by the housing crisis so we can give them a megaphone louder than Wall Street's. The banks have gotten their handouts; now it's time for working Americans to be put first.

Yours,
Robert Greenwald
and the Brave New Foundation team

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