Weekender
Joseph Mailander a guy in la • elsewhere • email
Or, how to keep busy on a beautiful winter weekend...Or, what to do when you love both politics and culture....
Friday: The Phil made the big hammer a selling point, at least to the former fishwrap of record, but you don't really need a selling point for Mahler's Sixth Symphony, often called the Tragic. So tonight it'll be Mahler's Sixth which is at the WDCH tonight, tomorrow night, and Sunday afternoon. If you have never seen a Mahler symphony, this is the one to see first; it starts out as a brave march and ends up in what has been described as absolute despair, leaving you craving more of Mahler's complex and often tortured personal journey.
(And this is just my opinion, but: it's possible to find this long symphony on one CD. Why suffer through a noisy cd change when Georg Szell with the Cleveland Orchestra fits it all onto one disque?)
As for this performance, it will certainly be a treat to see Christoph Eschenbach, who has often previously conducted here with the far dinkier, tailored-to-Mozart orchestra, handle the full flush of LA Philharmonic sound, hammer and all. The orchestra always seems to respond very well to him, as enthusiastically as to Simon Rattle.
Saturday: well, Marat/Sade at Knightsbridge Theatre at the north edge of Silver Lake. I saw The Lark most recently at Knightsbridge, a very daring production, and that's what they do there best: daring productions.
Sunday: And finally, remember that line about Valley life south of the boulevard from Mrs. Robinson?
sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
going to the candidate's debate
You Vals could do a lot worse Sunday afternoon than to attend the "Early Look" Candidates Forum for the Democratic side of the 40th Assembly District, sponsored by the Progressive Democrats of America - San Fernando Valley.
It's from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 at the Van Nuys/Sherman Oaks Rec Center, 5040 Van Nuys Blvd. I predict the winner will be the moderator, Ian Masters, who appears on KPFK, the station from which we libs all take our marching orders. So far, the Democratic field includes Dan McCrory, Laurette Healey, Stuart Waldman, Bob Blumenfield and Steven Zeldin.
Website for candidates here:
http://mccroryforassembly.com/
http://electhealey.com/
http://www.stuartwaldman.com/
http://www.bobforassembly.com/
http://www.zeldinforassembly/
The 40th AD is currently represented by Lloyd Levine who is termed out this year, and lamenting as of last Tuesday.
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Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 2/08/2008 01:30:00 PM
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Liberal = Republican on KPFK.
Britain's Prince Andrew formally opened a new supermarket in one of Los Angeles' most notorious districts on Thursday, cutting the ribbon on a store in crime-ridden Compton.
The prince, 47, presided over a ceremony to mark the opening of a grocery store owned by the British supermarket giant Tesco.
"I'm delighted to be able to support Tesco as they expand here in the US," the prince said at the opening.
"By locating stores in areas like Compton, Tesco's Fresh and Easy will help contribute to local job creation in neighborhoods that badly need it."
Compton was ranked the fourth most dangerous district in the US in a 2006 survey, with a murder rate several times higher than the national average, although crime figures are reported to have fallen in 2007.
How soon before that store is tagged?
Last night.
All the clerks speak in a snooty English accent. And they make you bag your own.
Noone believes Stuart can get his ego or ass through the door.
Ahhh, Mahler's sixth... I remember an evening about 15 years ago that I heard the same, but from the intermission forward, as I was still young enough to meet my "date," an androgenous fellow, at the fountain to sneak in. It worked. Alas, he was old enough to know better.
we all should be so willing to bag our own. It's high time we followed suit with the rest of Europe and packed our own brand of canvas.
Yeah, let's move toward snotty lack of service, as if it wasn't bad enough. And not everyone is a lonely loser last last poster -- what about the moms buying for a whole family, with messy milk and juice and veggies and bloody meats running into each other in those nice canvas bags?
That would be a disgusting mess, not to mention fertile ground foe E coli and salmonella, all sorts of bacterial diseases will become common. Watch for the lawsuits.
"milk and juice and veggies and bloody meats running into each other in those nice canvas bags?"
Thats better than not being able to buy inexpensive, wholsome, foorstuffs in Comptom at all.
Nothing against Tesco or its Fresh 'n Easy offering fresh foods and deli items in the hood -- that comment was about the naivity of thinking that just because something sounds PC, like losing all plastic in favor of canvas bags, that it's necessarily good.
If someone can throw a few things in their own bag, like canned and non-messy bagged items, great, it will cut down on bag waste -- but banning bags is dumb, because they also serve a useful sanitary purpose. Nanny states' rules end up being so all or nothing, like Jan's banning fast food in the hood because some won't cook or travel a little further to buy fresh food. If they really cared, they could take the bus. You wanna make comparisons to Europe, try telling a Euro he can't eat and cook food of his choosing because he'd have to get on a bus to the market, so he HAS to eat junk food.
In Europe it's still more common to have sugared soda or "light," which is half and half, not all sugarless and yet people aren't as fat. The Mommy State of Socialist San Fran is banning sugared sodas anywhere.
As for the fast food joints, they all have good salads, yogurts and things that people can choose over greasy stuff. Except Popeyes and KFC, they're all fried artery cloggers -- and you can't even find Popeye's except in low-rent areas, where people demand the stuff. It's about retraining people in how to use what's available, plastic bags or fast foods, not "banning."
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