In what looks to be shaping up like a classic public, city vs. corporate, private enterprise showdown, Pershing Square kicked off their Winter 2009 Downtown on Ice program yesterday Thursday, November 19, 2009 and will continue through Monday, January 18, 2010.
Meanwhile, over at the LA Live megaplex, the LA Kings Holiday on Ice program is set to begin on December 3, running through the end of December.
Pershing Square rink admission is $6 with $2 skate rentals; the LA Live rink is a $10 admission which includes a one-hour skate rental.
The Pershing Square program will feature a full series of weekly concerts, highlighted by a performance by Dramarama on Thursday 12/3.
Customs officials say they got a surprise when they found 316,000 glass bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments at the Los Angeles harbor.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday that agents found the highly decorated drug pipes in 860 boxes shipped from China. The cargo, estimated to be worth more than $2.6 million, had been described as glass figures and Christmas ornaments.
Surely there’s some hacky joke to be found in this story, involving Santa Claus, chimneys, smoke and possibly Bill Clinton. Get ON IT, Jay’s staff of 25 writers.
Our heartiest congratulations go out to the following LA bands:
After Midnight Project
Atreyu
Evan Taubenfeld
In This Moment
Mozella
Nathen Maxwell & the Original Bunny Gang
Nations Afire
Resident Hero
Runner Runner
The Parson Red Heads
These are the newly announced LA-based winners of Taco Bell’s 2009 “Feed The Beat” contest. All of These LA bands will be receiving $500 in Taco Bell Bucks to feed them on their upcoming tours.
We know this isn’t Berkeley, but where’s the good old fashion protest mass arrest? Only eight students were arrested at the UC Regents meeting at UCLA. That’s a pretty weak showing considering the Regents may raise student fees over a whopping 30%–or $2,500–next year according to LAT blogman Larry Gordon who’s on the scene at UCLA.
The festival, which was to have featured Bad Religion, Suicidal Tendancies and many others, this Saturday, November 21, has been postponed and will be rescheduled for “early 2010.”
“As organizers, we are committed to presenting only the finest event possible for this important movement. Due to ongoing economic challenges, we decided our best option was to move the event to a later date to insure these standards are maintained for the benefit of our important, loyal audience.”
Refunds are available for those who have already purchased tickets via their point of purchase.
Following up on covering The Velvet Underground & Nico and Songs of Leonard Cohen, Beck’s Record Club takes on Skip Spence’s classic Oar along with Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell. The first fruit from the sessions, album opener “Little Hands,” is up on Vimeo now:
1) Them Crooked Vultures (Grohl, J.P.J., Homme & co.) will perform tonight, Monday, November 16 @ The Roxy.
2) Tickets @ the door, night of show, non-transferable, no ins-&-outs.
2a) No lineups before 2 pm.
3) Doors @ 8:30.
4) 2 hours of drinking.
5) Them Crooked Vultures @ 10:30.
Julian Plenti
(Paul Banks of Interpol)
w/ I’m In You
Thursday, November 19
El Rey Theater Info
THIS WEEK’S TICKET GIVEAWAYSRambling Boy: Charlie Haden
Family & Friends
w/ The Haden triplets, Josh Haden, Sam Bush, Dan Tyminski & Jerry Douglas
& Special Guest Jack Black
Tuesday, November 17
Walt Disney Concert Hall Info | [ENTER TO WIN]
Royksopp
w/ Jon Hopkins
Wednesday, November 18
Club Nokia Info
[ENTER TO WIN]
Snoop Dogg
w/ DJ Quik and Nipsey Hussle
Thursday, November 19
Club Nokia Info
[ENTER TO WIN]
Eureka! West Coast, Left Coast
Festival Opening Event with
Kronos Quartet, Terry Riley, Matmos, & Mike Einziger
Saturday, November 21
Walt Disney Concert Hall Info | [ENTER TO WIN]
Peter Bjorn & John
w/ El Pedro Del Mar
Saturday, November 21
Club Nokia Info
[ENTER TO WIN]
The Juan MacLean DJ Set
w/ Parallels
Saturday, November 21
Echoplex Info
[ENTER TO WIN]
Julian Casablancas
w/ The Strange Boys & The Growlers
Friday, November 20 | Palace Theater November Residency through 11/27 Info | [ENTER TO WIN]
Three days in advance of Monday’s Los Angeles premiere screening of the highly anticipated, cumbersomely titled The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the Westwood Village Fox theater, a line of fans camping out in hopes of red carpet bleacher seats has begun. The obsessive, predominantly female fans, known as TwilightHeads, number about 100 as of press time, and have a line of full of folding chairs, sleeping bags, board games, Elmer’s glue, glitter, posterboards, battered books and laptops dotting Le Conte Avenue. The head of the line is anchored by some kind of Twilight sukkot, the ironic religious connotations of which, in this context, fairly appropriate given these fans’ fervor. While security is on hand, the many unintentionally homeless denizens of Westwood Village can be counted on to keep them company over the next three nights.
St. Vincent will pass Lykke Li for #1 all-time number of devoted photo galleries of a female artist on Losanjealous when Sung covers this show in February.
In what looks to be shaping up like a classic public, city vs. corporate, private enterprise showdown, Pershing Square kicked off their Winter 2009 Downtown on Ice program yesterday Thursday, November 19, 2009 and will continue through Monday, January 18, 2010.
HEADS UP
HEADS UP
HEADS UP
And on the lighter side, from the 
Our heartiest congratulations go out to the following LA bands:
The festival, which was to have featured Bad Religion, Suicidal Tendancies and many others, this Saturday, November 21, has been postponed and will be rescheduled for “early 2010.”
HEADS UP
1) 
Night One, Sat 12/12: 
Julian Plenti
Rambling Boy: Charlie Haden 
Royksopp
Snoop Dogg
Eureka! West Coast, Left Coast 
Peter Bjorn & John
The Juan MacLean DJ Set
HEADS UP
