John Walsh on Cirque du Soleil Closing

By John Walsh, HollywoodHighlands.org 

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL closes tonight in Hollywood:Lays $100 Million Egg: The Largest in Show Biz history!

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! THE CURTAIN COLLAPSES ON CIRQUE DU SOLEIL IN LOS ANGELES!!!

HOLLYWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVISTS' PREDICTION PROVEN ACCURATE!

IRIS is the most costly flop in theatrical history! News reports indicate CIRQUE DU SOLEIL is now laying off 400 employees at Corporate Headquarters in Montreal due to a ripple effect!

Read the LA CURBED story from August 5, 2009 the day after The L.A City Council disastrously approved the deal that sent thirty million Obama Stimulus dollars down the Kodak theater rat hole!

Mayor Villarigosa and currently Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti were the chief Angels behind that Deal With the Devil costing American Taxpayers $30 MILLION!

THE MAYOR OF L.A. PREDICTED THAT IRIS, THE MEGA SHOW WITH A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR PRICE TAG,WOULD RUN FOR TEN YEARS!

POOR "IRIS" DIDN'T EVEN LAST ON HOLLYWOOD BLVD. FOR THREE YEARS!

Walter Moore and the Electoral Math of City Council Victories

Ron Kaye video of Walter Moore speaking at the SLAP! Meeting in Glassell Park on Saturday.  If the citizens of LA are determined enough to make a change in our government and elect someone other than Ed Reyes, Richard Alarcón, Jan Perry, Bill Rosendahl, Eric Garcetti, or Janice Hahn to the City Council, the numbers required are not at all staggering.

Incredibly, the number of voters who vote in a City Council race at best couldn't fill up half of Dodger Stadium; at worse 6th District Council Member Tony Cardenas' about 3600 votes would barely be a sellout for the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

Mayor Sam's Hot Sheet for Wednesday

Cirque Du Soleil has signed a multi-year agreement to stage a new Hollywood themed show at the Kodak Theater. This agreement makes the exotic Canadian circus troupe the only other tenant at the struggling venue along with the Academy Awards. No event waivers though please. Of course Mayor V showed up at the photo op today; take a look at a weird ass photo of the Mayor and a "friend" from the LA Times via Franklin Avenue.

If you're part of the NIMBY, CAVE and/or BANANA movements this place sounds like utopia for granola loving liberals like you - a blogger lives in some unnamed city where Wal-Mart (mis-spelled Wallmart) is illegal, there's a Trader Joe's where one can sign petitions and developers who would build low-income housing are just not welcome.

If a department store put out a sign that said "No Wetback Documents Allowed" when it came to applying for credit there would be a firestorm. So why is it no one is disturbed by the actions of a furniture store near Washington, D.C. that is advertising "Credito sin papeles de gringo?" Racism is racism and both comments are equally offensive.

If you're thinking of deep frying your turkey, the LAFD suggests you think twice. Not only is it not that healthy, unless you have the right equipment, enough open space and know what you're doing its really dangerous. Every year we hear stories of someone who burns down their garage trying to cook their holiday bird in a vat of boiling oil. By the way, I like the way the LAFD is going about this - warning and educating people rather than the usual nanny state tactic of banning it.