LA Concert Calendar: September 19 - 25

LA Concert Calendar: September 19 – 25

Recommended Show of the Week: Antony and the Johnsons @ Vista. OK, so he’s a fat cross-dresser who sings experimental cabaret songs about becoming a girl one day. But the guy can sing. Two weeks ago Antony’s I Am a Bird Now was awarded the Mercury Award for best album of the year by a British or Irish act beating out Coldplay, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs and MIA. Thursday at the Vista Theatre.

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Photo Op: Pinch Me Cheaply

Photo Op: Pinch Me Cheaply

It is not only possible but very probable that you will get pinched at Peking Palace, 717 N. Broadway, lest you ask the clerk for assistance while bagging live female blue crabs at a very reasonable $3.98 /lb. Hey let’s face it if somebody were to pick me up to eat me I’d pinch like a madman myself.

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Oasis, Hollywood Bowl, 9/12/05

Oasis, Hollywood Bowl, 9/12/05

Before I comment on Oasis’ Monday night show at the Hollywood Bowl, I should mention that while I am discerning music listener, when it comes to Oasis I am distinctly a fan.

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Bill DeMarco Rates the Top 50 Starbucks in LA: This Week: #18

Bill DeMarco Rates the Top 50 Starbucks in LA: This Week: #18

#18: the Starbucks in the shopping center at Hollywood & Highland

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Beck Quasi-Secret Show Friday

Beck Quasi-Secret Show Friday

Get ya tix now…this just in from the Beck mailing list:

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