Taken while out watering a few plants in the front garden.
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You’ve got just 2 nights left to catch Comedy of Errors for free with the Independent Shakespeare Company. We have seen all three shows this summer and had a GREAT time! Check them out before you have to wait for another 6 months!.
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A timelapse video by Colin Rich I spotted via this Gizmodo post – This Most Amazing Time Lapse Shows The Beautiful Life of a City. Watch it full screen, if you can.
NightFall from Colin Rich on Vimeo.
REGISTER FOR CAREERCAMPSCV 2012 TODAY TO INSURE YOUR SPOT!
Our third CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) is happening on July 14th, 2012 and tickets are still available.
We hope to see you there!
Unemployed? Underemployed? New college graduate? Considering new career options?
Join us for CareerCampSCV 2012!
When: Saturday, July 14, 2012 9AM to 3:30PM
Where: 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road Santa Clarita, CA 91355
FREE Admission • FREE Parking
College of the Canyons Career Center presents CareerCampSCV, a FREE hybrid conference/unconference dedicated to helping you build the career you deserve. The day will include scheduled speakers, ad hoc presentations and breakout ses- sions on all aspects of building your career. CareerCamp is FREE for all adults who want to build or improve their career. Space is Limited. Register for FREE today. For more information, a list of scheduled speakers and additional career content.
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This video was originally created for my other blog and podcast, TechnologyIQ, but I think, since it applies directly to the LA Public Library I would post it here as part of my focus on local LA items. — Douglas
A demonstration on how to checkout ebooks from your library for reading on your computer, iPhone, iPad or Kindle reader. Your library’s system may be different, but most of the basics should be very similar to the Los Angeles Public Library site, which I use of this demo. LAPL’s partner, Overdrive e-Media, services many of the larger library systems in the US so you may find the same system at your local library. Ebooks from your library is a great service and I hope this video will help people get more use out of it.
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For the past 3 years we have greatly enjoyed the shows presented by the Independent Shakespeare Company of LA in several different venues about town. Lately they have settled into the Old Zoo in Griffith Park, a lovely venue for an evening of the Bard. Even better, every show is free to all. Bring your own picnic and your own chair and you are set.
The ISC recently started this Summer’s season with a production of The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s later plays. We are planning on seeing this show on July 8 and already have our dates picked for the other 2 shows of the summer, A Midsummer NIght’s Dream and The Comedy of Errors. You can find the full schedule of all shows on the ISCLA web site.
THE WINTER’S TALE
Opening June 28
In Sicilia, all is well. But when King Leontes becomes consumed with jealousy, a misunderstanding spirals into tragedy. Indifferent to the word of the Gods, reason, or natural sentiment, he resigns his wife, son, and unborn child to a dreadful fate.
As the years roll on, however, a very different destiny is evolving in the kingdom of Bohemia. Rustic and wild, it is a place where love prevails and music and humor are rampant. When the two worlds intersect, miracles come to pass.
Shakespeare’s great romance challenges our expectations. It folds time and genre into a unique work of art that reveals the essential, humane nature of the author.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Opening July 5
In a fantastical Athens surrounded by an enchanted wood, the lines between dreaming and waking are deliciously blurred. As the wedding of Duke Theseus to his captured Amazonian bride approaches, a group of tradesmen rehearse a play to celebrate the nuptials. In the shadows alongside them, the King and Queen of the fairies do battle, lovers succumb to magic and each other, and forest spirits seek to unravel the mysteries of the human heart.
This production of Shakespeare’s most intoxicating comedy is staged with athletic abandon and dazzling costumes.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Opening August 2
The Mediterranean Island of Ephesus at the tail end of WWII is a dangerous place. Locked in a battle with neighboring Syracuse, the town is suspicious of strangers. Into this place, two men come to town seeking to find themselves, but inadvertently cut a path of chaos. During the upheaval, love is lost and found, lives are saved, and a community is restored.
A live band and period dancing complete Shakespeare’s most compact and fast-paced comedy.
We stopped by the Altadena Farmer’s Market today and ran across the adjacent Altadena Community Garden. We got a short tour of these amazing gardens and also found that this weekend they will be having their 38th annual Altadena Community Garden Picnic & Resource Fair.
“June 30, 2012 marks the 38th annual Altadena Community Garden Picnic & Resource Fair. The members of the community garden invite the public to join them for a barbeque lunch, self-guided garden tours and a community education and resource fair from 1 to 5PM in the community garden and Loma Alta Park, located at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Palm Street in Altadena. Lunch tickets are available for $8 in advance, $10 at the gate.
Gardeners provide hot and cold foods, many made from locally grown fruits and vegetables. Several gardeners will tend bbq grilles for 24 hours prior to the event, preparing ribs, chicken, beef hot links, veggie burgers and hot dogs for diners. Lemonade and sun tea, as well as sodas and bottled water, will be served, too.
The picnic is located inside the gates of the garden. Tables will be set up and decorated with seasonal flowers. The resource fair will be staged outside the garden gates in the circular roundabout south of the Loma Alta Park tennis courts. Featured events will be garden tours, Altadena Farmers Market, yoga and tennis demonstrations, local botanical gardens, blood pressure screenings, community safety and alert information, plus representatives from Lincoln Avenue Water Company, LA County Sheriff’s and Fire Department and other public and private agencies.”
Here are some pictures I took as we strolled the garden today.
Can’t see the slide show above? View all the photos on Flickr.
Westfield Fashion Square presents
“TASTE OF HISTORY”
in conjunction with
The Museum of the San Fernando Valley
Special Monthly Speaker Series!
Please join us on Thursday, June 28th at Westfield Fashion Square’s NEW Dining Terrace area for the kick-off event with featured presenter and Valley aficionado Tommy Gelinas of Valley Relics!
What: “Taste of History” monthly speaker series
Featured Presenter: Tommy Gelinas, Founder & Curator, Valley Relics will speak on history of restaurants and food of the San Fernando Valley
Date: Thursday, June 28, 2012
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Program
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Q&A & Socializing
Where: Westfield Fashion Square
14006 Riverside Drive
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
www.westfield.com/fashionsquare
Location of Event: 2nd Floor in NEW Dining Terrace – southwest location; not in main food court area, but in dining area opposite of food court.
Cost: FREE!
RSVP: 1-818-347-9665 or email at events@theMuseumSFV.org.
Please leave name, email address and phone number
For complete information, visit the Museum of the San Fernando Valley web site.
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