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May 3, 2013

Cinco de Mayo: Cinco Fiestas

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Drinking with skulls....

Party with skulls….

Go Go’ers, in the City of Angels, Cinco de Mayo is a weekend not a day.

Here’s where to celebrate early and strong.

TE’KILA

It’s always a party at Te’Kila‘s courtyard location on Hollywood but they’re kicking off the Cinco celebration early this weekend with tequila shot specials and extended Happy Hours (4:00 to 8:00 p.m.) starting on Friday.  The fun ramps up on Sunday with free gifts, guest appearances, live mariachi, and a pinata smash.

The latter refers to the pinata, not you.

TE’KILA — Fri, May 3 – Sun, May 5; 11am – 2pm – 6541 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 90028 
https://www.facebook.com/TekilaHollywood

RUSH STREET

If Cinco de Mayo is a fave drinking holiday and brunch is your favorite meal of the week, double down at Rush Street  with an all-day, two story/two bar/two lounge/two patio bash.

Drinking at gunpoint..

Party at gunpoint (not really)….

Get your drink (and food) on starting at  10:30 am with an endless $20 Micheladas & “Bloody Maria” bar, move on to afternoon Dos Equis drafts and Coronas specials plus free tequila samples (while they last), get serious with Margarita specials at dinner, and finish your Cinco de Drinko on the roof with Dos Equis pitchers specials and a Beer Pong and dance party until close.

And just in case you like to mix kids and 25 kinds of tequila, dinner is free to tykes under twelve.

Your call.

RUSH STREET – Sun, May 5; 10:30 am – 1:30 pm – 9546 Washington Boulevard, Culver City 90232  
https://www.facebook.com/RushStreetCulverCity
  For reservations, call 310.837.9546..

TORTILLA REPUBLIC

If you like to drink and donate al fresco, head to WeHo on Sunday where Tortilla Republic is throwing their first ever Grande Cinco de Mayo Block Party , which will benefit Project Angel Food.

Margarita Pitchers, tons of tacos, a Top 40 Mariachi band, and  DJ’s Dan Knapp + Aaron Elvis are enough to make it a party but trust Tortilla Republic to innovate with a Pinata Pit.

You don’t want any of that pinata loot to get away….

TORTILLA REPUBLIC — Sun, May 5, 2-7pm; Donations: $10 GA/$20 – 616 N Robertson Blvd, WeHo 90069

Advance tix here: 
http://tortillarepublic.com/west-hollywood-california/grande-cinco-de-mayo-block-party/

LAS PERLAS

When it comes to Cinco de Mayo, you don’t need bells and whistles (or sombreros and mariachis).  All you ask for  is top shelf tequilas, the best street tacos, and a great space to consume them.

Party with Los Lobos....

Party with Los Lobos….

Natch, Las Perlas has you covered with $7  Herradura Blanco & Herradura Reposado shots, $6 Palomas, Batangas, and El Jimador Margaritas, $5 El Jimador Tequila shots and tortilla-wrapped goodness from Julio Arenas.

It’s good to be a purist.

LAS PERLAS – Sun, May 5, 4pm – midnight; 21+ - 107 E 6th St, DTLA 90014  
http://213nightlife.com/cinco-de-mayo-w-las-perlas?id=May%205th,%202013

KCRW’S 2ND ANNUAL CINCO DE MAYO FESTIVAL WITH LOS LOBOS

If it’s all about the music, head to the Greek Theater, which is kicking off their 2013 season with KCRW’s 2nd Annual Cinco de Mayo Festival featuring Los Lobos with Robert Randolph and special guests Grammy and Latin Grammy-nominated Kinky and jazz group El Chicano, which has garnered five gold records.

The beers may be pricier but with a lineup like this, who cares?

KCRW’S 2ND ANNUAL CINCO DE MAYO FESTIVAL WITH LOS LOBOS – Sun, May 5 @ 6:30 PM; $25-$69.50 — 2700 N Vermont, LA 90027 
http://www.greektheatrela.com/index.asp

Ready?  U Know U Want 2 Go Go….
 

April 16, 2013

How to Celebrate National Poetry Month

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Lips that touch whisky,,,,

Lips that touch whisky,,,,

April is National Poetry Month.

Of course, Whisky & Poetry Salon is celebrating in style with “guerilla fighter of poets” Brendan Constantine in attendance.

On Thursday, April 18th, Literary Libations and Whisky Ambassador Johnnie “TheScot” Mundell will ply you with whisky in exchange for your words (plus $25).

Whether you’ve been spiffing up a sonnet or just want to bask in the glow of candlelight, alcohol, and the spoken word, bring a poem, original or not, to a 1920′s loft in Downtown L.A.

Read your poem against the backdrop of the Downtown skyline.

Get a flight of fine single malt whiskies in return.

Using your inside voice has never been so much fun.

WHISKY & POETRY SALON – Thurs, April 18, 7-10pm; DOOR CLOSE @ 7:30 PM; $25 + a poem – B Black Penthouse,546 South Los Angeles St, DTLA 90013  Tickets here: 
http://whiskyandpoetrysalon.eventbrite.com/

NOTE: Event is capped at 30 and is almost sold out.  No tickets will be available at the door!

 

February 18, 2013

Whisky & Poetry Salon

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Lips tht touch whisky,,,,

Lips that touch whisky,,,,

On February 21, 1925, The New Yorker published its first issue.

We think that’s the perfect excuse for a Whisky & Poetry Salon.

On February 21, 2013, Literary Libations and Johnnie “The Scot” Mundell will ply you with whisky in exchange for your words (plus $25)

Bring a poem — it doesn’t have to be yours — to B. Black Penthouse in Downtown L.A.

Read it in a candlelit circle of fellow aficionados.

Get a flight of fine single malt whiskies in return.

Listen to Adrian Wyatt, recent Literary Death Match poet!

We can’t think of a better way to celebrate literary history.

WHISKY & POETRY SALON – Thurs, Feb 21; 7 pm (doors open); 7:30 start – 10pm; $25 + a poem – B. Black Penthouse, 546 South Los Angeles St, DTLA 90013

Event is capped at 30.  Final event details will only be sent to ticket holders. 
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5350018048

 

February 11, 2013

Take Me to the Mardi Gras

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This is you at Sassafras Fat Tuesday. You know dat right.

At Sassafras Saloon on Fat Tuesday, one of these can be you.

On Fat Tuesday, you may be stuck by the beach in L.A. instead of cruisin’ the canals and bayous of LA but that doesn’t mean you can’t shake your tail feathers, cher.

Laissez les bon temps rouler and hope you get the baby in the King cake!

Second Line on Sunset

Ms. Go Go knows you’ll want to get an early start on the Sazeracs but just in case you need another  inducement to call in sick after lunch, the Big Easy’s own Dirty Dozen Brass Band will be jazzing up Amoeba Music‘s annual Fat Tuesday fete.

The DDBB, which started as a church youth group way back in the Seventies and grew to prominence as once of New Orleans’ most beloved bands, will be sharing UCLA’s Royce Hall stage with fellow Crescent City native Allen Toussaint on Tuesday evening.  But you can hear the band mid-afternoon for free…right before Amoeba’s infamous Second Line Parade on Sunset Boulevard.

Time to buff the beads and fluff up the feathers, boys and girls.

You’ll want to shore up your personal Mardi Gras soundtrack collection, too; on February 12, a portion of the proceeds at all Amoeba stores will benefit relief efforts in New Orleans as well as Tipitina’s Foundation and the New Orleans Musicians Clinic.  And if you sign up for Amoeba’s newsletter in-store on 2/12, you’ll get a chance to win free concert tix.

Way to keep the party going, Big Chiefs.

Second Line on Sunset

Second Line on Sunset

DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND & AMOEBA’s SECOND LINE PARADE — Tues, Feb 12, 1pm; FREE — Amoeba Music, 6400 W Sunset Blvd, LA 90028   323.245.6400 
http://www.amoeba.com

Party at a Plantation

You take an appropriately freewheeling approach to Mardi Gras.  Of course.  But if your list for mayhem and merriment includes…
1) $5 Albitas (Mardi Gras Bock, Oyster Stout, Vanilla Double Bock)
2) Cocktail specials
3) Cajun appetizers
4) Juicy Beaute Burlesque (for free)
5) Muffuletta Brass Band (for free)
6) a reconstructed Southern plantation house to play in
7) for free

…then you will want to roll your bon temps at Sassafras Saloon, which is celebrating its first Fat Tuesday in Los Angeles with a no pre-ticket/no cover bash in Hollywood.  The combination of “Southern root inspired” cocktails and demented granny-meets-faded antebellum glory decor, complete with dripping vines, balcony stage, and a taxidermied Masonic bear,  heighten the feeling that a gator could stroll in any time.

Look at those...feathers.

Look at those…feathers.

If one does, toss him some beads and buy him a drink.

MARDI GRAS @ SASSAFRAS SALOON — Tues, Feb 12, 7pm – 2am; 21+ — Sassafras Saloon, 1233 No Vine St, LA 90038

Keeping the Faith with Little Faith

Here’s what Ms. Go Go fave Little Faith has to say about their upcoming Fat Tuesday gig at Joe’s Great American Bar.

“We found our horn section hanging out on the corner of Canal St. and Chartres trying to pick up some funeral gigs, so we hauled ‘em back here to play Mardi Gras with us.  Shoulder to shoulder and back to back, singin’ jockamo fi na ye.”

Ms. Go Go couldn’t have said it better herself.

Given Little Faith’s can’t-sit-still gospel/second line spirit, the addition of Mardi Gras horns, and Joe’s standard, Tuesday night dance party policy, this is where you want to be  to sweat, shake and second line before you repent during Lent.

As Professor Longhair says in Big Chief: “Me whole tribe is havin’ fun/We gonna dance ’til mornin’ come.”

Raise your hands high with Little Faith.

Raise your hands high with Little Faith.

Oh yeah.

LITTLE FAITH MARDI GRAS PARTY —  Tues, Feb 12, 9pm – midnight — Joe’s Great American, 4311 W. Magnolia, Burbank, 91505.  818.729.0805.  
http://joesgreatbar.com/
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Ready?  U Know U Want 2 Go Go….

 

December 29, 2012

More New Year’s Eve and Some New Year’s Day Too

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Suevecita....

Suevecita, por favor….

Always on the hunt for high life, Ms. Go Go presents more options for New Year’s revelry.  Here’s a second slate of fun and sin.

Go Go’ers, pick your poison.

New Year’s Eve Noir

Dying to drag out your zoot suit or unleash your inner femme fatale?  Grab some of the extremely limited tix for the Golden Stag “L.A. Noir” NYE Party at the gorgeous Park Plaza Hotel.  The USO Ballroom swings with an 18-piece orchestra, the L.A. Noir stage gets steamy with sultry torch singers, the 52nd Airwing Patio keeps flyboys and hometown honeys chill under the stars, and the Vendetta breaks with the period for a Prohibition-era ballroom bash.

Giggle water most definitely available.

GOLDEN STAG “L.A. NOIR” NYE PARTY – Mon, Dec 31 @ 9pm – 2am. $50-$1500; 21+ — Park Plaza Hotel, 607  South Park View St, LA 90057.  For tix and info: 
http://www.goldenstagnye.com/tickets

Bet on 2013 at the L.A. Brewing Company

Bet on 2013 at the L.A. Brewing Company

Black and White and Red All Over….

High rollers who think New Year’s ain’t nothin’ without courtin’ Lady Luck will want to make tracks for Broadway.  The L.A. Brewing Company is throwing a Prohibition-style Black and White Party with gambling tables and the city’s earliest NYE kickoff: a 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. burlesque dinner show.  The evening also features DJ’s, a live band, and a balloon countdown.

But really, they had you at burlesque

LOS ANGELES BREWING COMPANY BLACK AND WHITE PARTY –Mon, Dec 31, 6pm-3am. $25; 21+ – Los Angeles Brewing Company, 750 So Broadway, DTLA 90014

To reserve VIP tables for dinner and bottle service, call 562.688.4636.

For tix: http://www.flavorus.com/event/NEW-YEARS-PROHIBITION-EVENT/150071

When You Haven’t Had Enough New Year’s

Here’s a New Year’s option for the following:

1) Proles who worked the New Year’s Eve night shift.

Dance at Dawn.

Dance at Dawn.

2) Night owls who only need four hours sleep.

3) Those who had to escort a wealthy grandma to a sedate. country club NYE do.

4) Energizer Bunnies in human form

Hit up the first party of 2013 at 6:00 a.m. with Beats, Bloodies & Brunch.  Launched by San Francisco DJs, the after-party has migrated south as all good things do.  Enjoy bottomless bloody marys and mimosas, breakfast catered by Brian Vaccarella (voted by Food and Wine Magazine as one of L.A.’s six best new chefs), and some of L.A.’s best beats masters.  The party lasts until 3:00  p.m.

Rise and shine, L.A. babies.

BEATS, BLOODIES & BRUNCH — Tues, Jan 1, 6am – 3pm.  $10-$20; 21+ — Stage 22, 2111 Bellevue Ave, LA 90057. 
http://www.takebackthenightproductions.com/

Go Go’ers, have fun and be safe on New Year’s  with the Metro’s Overnight 24-hour rail service on all lines.

Go here for specific information:


http://www.metro.net/service/advisories/update/special/24/

Ready?  U Know U Want 2 Go Go….

Happy 2013 from Ms. Go Go!

Happy 2013 from Ms. Go Go!

 

December 26, 2012

Go Go Here: NYE 2013 – The Edison’s Cabaret Ball, Midnight in Venice, and the Cleopatra Ball

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Kick up your heels over continued existence....

Whee! We made it!

You survived Christmas AND the Mayan apocalypse.

Good job.

Pack away the canned foods and escape route map and celebrate the coming millennium (or just 2013) at one of the following fab New Year’s Eve parties.

Bonus: no need to coordinate your evening wear with your gas mask.

Swankin’ It at a Speakeasy

Kick up your heels over your continued existence at Midnight in Venice: the NYE bash at the Del Monte Speakeasy in Venice.  Put on your dancing shoes and eat (yum food), drink (crafted cocktails and punch), and make merry (with the rootin’ tootin’  Dustbowl Revival) at this original speakeasy by the sea.

It’s great to be alive.

MIDNIGHT IN VENICE — Mon, Dec 31; 8pm – 2am. $30 – $40; 21+ — Del Monte Speakeasy at the Townhouse, 52 Windward Ave, Venice, 90291.

For tix, table reservations etc. go to 
http://townhousevenice.com/#/nye/4571963135

Break on through to the other side at the Edison's Cabaret Ball 2013

Break on through to the other side at the Edison’s Cabaret Ball 2013

New Year’s Eve with the Green Fairy

What better place to celebrate the passage of time than at the gorgeous Edison: a steampunk fever dream and cocktail palace?  Highlights of their New Year’s Eve 2013 Cabaret Ball: performances by Eccentriques, surprises from the Green Fairy for those who dress for the occasion  (so swank it up, sheiks and shebas) a midnight toast, and assorted festivities.

THE EDISON NYE CABARET BALL — Mon, Dec 31 @ 8pm. $100/21+ – The Edison,108 W 2nd St, 90012. For tix, table reservations, etc. go to: 
https://www.edisondowntown.com/tickets/index.php?eventid=1214

Walk Like an Egyptian

An Egyptian hieroglyphic light show may seem an uncomfortable reminder of that squeaky close brush with Yucatan doomsday.  Luckily, the five bars, red carpet atmosphere of the Egyptian Theater, suggested Cleopatra-and-Pharoah attire, and go go dancers will help offset any lingering, narrowly averted trauma.

Nefertiti here....

Nefertiti here….

Go Go dancers help offset most things.

3RD ANNUAL CLEOPATRA BALL — Mon, Dec 31; 9pm – 2am. $95-$1975; 21+ — Egyptian Theater, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 90028. 
http://cleopatrasball.com/

Go Go’ers, have fun and be safe on New Year’s Eve with the Metro’s Overnight 24-hour rail service on all lines.

Go here for specific information:


http://www.metro.net/service/advisories/update/special/24/

Ready? U Know U Want 2 Go Go….

 

December 12, 2012

Go Go Here: Literary Death Match and an Apocalyptic Christmas

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Serial killer as poetry judge.

If words could kill….

It’s 12-12-12 but the significance of today’s date…whatever it  is… is pretty much overshadowed by the imminence of Baby Jesus’s birthday and the end of the world, whichever comes first.

Seriously, who can think about gumdrops and wise guys men when the world as we know it may soon cease to exist?

The solution?  Mid-week  merriment of the raucous, the literate, and the doomed.

Pick two or more.

Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones….

Words may not kill but hopefully, they knock you for a loop.  For a literary wallop to distract you from Doomsday, head over to Florentine Gardens tonight for Literary Death Match – the reading event that Adrian Todd Zuniga has taken all over the world in a stealthy attempt to revitalize interest in literature.

Although you read Ms. Go Go so obvs, you’re already ahead of the game.

Each of the two matches — held in a boxing ring! – has three celebrity judges the likes of Michael C. Hall, Tig Notaro, and Moby.  Four published writers, such as novelist Simon Rich, comedian/author DC Pierson, and poet Adrian Wyatt (the latter featured at Ms. Go Go’s recent, fab Whisky & Poetry Salon), will read their most exciting work and, if chosen, will advance to the final level by the wisecracking judges.

If the world ends tomorrow, you’ll be laughing all the way to the bomb shelter.

LITERARY DEATH MATCH — Wed, Dec 12; doors @ 7:30; Show 1 @ 8:30P/Show 2 @ 9:30P.  21+/$20 for both shows — Florentine Gardens, 5951 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 90028. http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/

Silent Night....

Silent Night….

Survival Rations and Santa Claus

Go Go’ers, do you know how to kiss under the mistletoe…

…while wearing a gas mask?

And what’s super-fun to combine with caroling from door to door?  How about researching your “urban escape” from a dying city with disaster experts?

Or — tricky you — use the caroling as part of the escape…?

This is the kind of useful information you’ll get at the Mindshare Apocalyptic Christmas Party where experts offer the inside scoop on everything from survival training to those troublemaker Mayans. The disaster bash will also feature gas mask photos and  complimentary food, beer, and wine.  Plus, because it’s gonna be dog-eat-dog at the End of Days, you can check out  workshops on packing a “Go Bag” (Note: not the same as a “To Go” bag), picking locks, and picking pockets.

Sadly, no workshops on how to ambush the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

MINDSHARE APOCALYPTIC CHRISTMAS PARTY — Thurs, Dec 13;  7 – 11pm.  $35-$40/21+ —  The Hub Los Angeles, 830 Traction Ave - 3A (up purple stairs at back of parking lot), DTLA 90013 for tix & info: http://mindshare.eventbrite.com/

Ready?  U Know U Want 2 Go Go….

Go Go’ers, stay tuned for more fun this week with The Weekend Go Go!

 

December 4, 2012

The Weekend Go Go: Eagle Rock Comedy Fest, Pancakes & Booze, Lucky Art Show,

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Why did the chicken cross the Eagle Rock?

Why did the chicken cross the Eagle Rock?

Oh.  Hey there, December…and all that you are:

1. Best month of the year for candle sales.

2. Last month of 2o12.

3. Last month of forever (TBD).

Yeah, there’s some other stuff happening too….  Fa la la may or may not be involved.

Either way, you’re prepared.

Laffs in Mayberry

It’s the start of the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.  Already, you’re feeling broke and stressed.  (Damn you, Black Friday and Cyber Monday….)  The antidote for both?  The 3rd Annual Eagle Rock Comedy Festival: three nights of FREE comedy at yum eateries all over Eagle Rock: the Mayberry of L.A.

Don’t expect Opie.

Do expect 175 comedians and sketch groups to tickle your funny bone Thursday, December 6th through Saturday, December 8th at half a dozen venues including Colombo’s Italian Steakhouse (Home of super-strong martinis; yeah, baby), Dave’s Chillin’ ‘n Grillin’ (hipster fave sandwich spot); and The Capri (featured on Kitchen Nightmare and the only place in Southern California to get La Montanera-style pizza).

You’ll want to keep your strength up to laff it up.

The fest, produced by 25 year comedy veteran Bobbie Oliver and Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, has all kinds of fun  – and FREE — extras open to the public: a comedy video shorts program,  an improv jam, a live podcast, stand-up and improv workshops, a meditation workshop, open mics,  and a post-festival Wrap Party Show at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank on Sunday, December 9th.

And check out this great pre-festival bonus: a Women in Comedy Roundtable (WIC), which features a heavyweight lineup of female producers, writers, talent managers, and talent including Kelly Carlin (Host of Waking from the America Dream; also, George’s kid) and Beth Lapides (UnCabaret).

Did Ms. Go Go mention that it’s free, all free?  Go Go’ers, you can’t afford not to go….

3RD ANNUAL EAGLE ROCK COMEDY FESTIVAL — Wed, Dec 5 – Sun, Dec 9; for schedule, locations and more info, go to 
http://www.eaglerockcomedyfestival.com/Home.html

There won't really be a guy with four arms at the Pancakes and Booze Show.

There won’t really be a guy with six arms at the Pancakes and Booze Art Show.

Flapjacks, Firewater, Painted Flesh and Art

Breakfast.  Your favorite meal of the day.

Liquor.  Your favorite beverage of the day.

Put them together with underground art and painted ladies and you’ve got the Pancakes and Booze Art Show, a two-day, underground-but-open-to-the-public party that is a perfect example of an event that is way, way more than the sum of its parts.

Delicious, sexy, artsy, drunken parts.

In addition to the aforementioned quartet of culinary and other debauchery, there’s live music (a different line-up each night), a stencil art performance (not your kindergarten block letters stencils, yo), a photo booth (to document your painted body…or that of your special new friend), and an art battle.

Who knew the Mayan end-of-the-world include artists duking it out?

PANCAKES AND BOOZE 2102 — Fri, Dec 7 & Sat, Dec 8, 8pm-2am (both nights); $5/21+ — Lot 613, 613 Imperial St, L.A. 90021. 
http://www.facebook.com/events/473354326017490/

Come and get a "lucky buzz"!

Come and get a “lucky buzz”!

Hedge Your Bets for the Future

Speaking of the imminent possible apocalypse, you’re going to want to stockpile good vibes at Future Studio’s Good Luck Show.

Think of it as the karmic equivalent of canned peas.

Artists Nancy Uyemura, Tomo Isoyama, and Amy Inouye promise everyone will get a “lucky buzz” (sans alcohol…but avec Big Fun!) from the love, providence and prosperity they’ll pull in via their interpretation of lucky stars, horseshoes and other symbols of good fortune.

Don’t count on interpretations of lucky underwear.

Write your desperate wants and burning desires on scraps of paper and tie them to a good fortune stick sculpture, shore up serendipity with artist-vibed Lucky Charms (NOT the kind with marshmallows), and kick bad juju to the curb at the “Run Devil Run” station.

Go on…spit in the eye of the hurricane….

GOOD LUCK SHOW — Sat, Dec 8, 7-10pm (runs through 2/2/2103); FREE – Future Studio, 5558 N Figueroa St, LA (Highland Park) 90042.  323.254.4565

NOTE: Future Studio and the Good Luck Show are part of NELAArt.com 2nd Saturday Gallery Night; other Ms. Go Go faves (and great you-know-what shopping destinations) include Leanna Lin’s Wonderland, Cactus Gallery, and Avenue 50 Studio

Ready? U Know U Want 2 Go Go….

 

November 23, 2012

The Go Go Post-Gobble: Epic Hike, Big Movies, Small Saturday

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Go Go’ers, you couldn’t be more thankful that you survived Turkey Day without going into a coma.  (All those relatives.  All that liquor.)

Read on for ways to reward yourself for non-coma, entertain the out-of-town hordes, and have fun while shopping.

The latter: not an oxymoron.

Post-Gobble Gambol

Kick butt post-Turkey Day with Dan Koeppel and an Epic 15-Mile Hike that includes stairways, bridges, streets, sights, and over seven miles of urban dirt trail.

Koeppel, creator of The Big Parade,  assures the faint of heart (or weak of legs) that there’s an easy, mass-transit-assisted “early exit” midway through Friday’s hike, which starts and ends at the Chinatown Metro Gold Line.

Or  keep an eye on the Epic Walk Facebook page for deets about how to join the group along the way; Koeppel notes that he’ll be providing instructions.

In other words, permission to be a cheater….

EPIC 15-MILE HIKE — Fri, Nov 23, 9am – 4:30pm; FREE — Chinatown Metro Station, 901 N Spring St, LA 90012    
http://www.facebook.com/events/504013686283129/

Big Flying Monkeys

If your Thanksgiving is all about the tradition, round up the relatives and check out  great prints of classic movies on big screens courtesy of American Cinematheque.

Sing with Gene Kelly, sigh with Scarlett  O’Hara, and search for a way home with Dorothy at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica and the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.

Extra points for correct number of flying monkeys, my pretty.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, Fri Nov 23 @ 7:30 pm, $7 – $11 — Aero Theater, 1328 Montana Ave,
Santa Monica 90403

GONE WITH THE WIND – Sat, Nov 24 @ 7:30 pm; $7-$11 — Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 90028

THE WIZARD OF OZ — Sun, Nov 25 @ 7:30 pm; $7 – $11 —  Aero Theater, 1328 Montana Ave,
Santa Monica 90403

All that glitters…. Ornaments from Odyssey Imports @ http://www.odyssey-collection.com/odysseycollection/Index.aspx

Think Local, Shop Global

The choice:

1. Risk Death By Shopping at a Big Box Store.

2. Shop small but artful at the Holiday Craft Bazaar.

Join local and international artisans  in the courtyard of the Craft and Folk Art Museum for a wide selection of handcrafted and fairly traded goods including jewelry, knit wear, pottery, stationery and glassware.  Refreshments and live music by SADUBAS enhance your shopping  experience.

Party or pandemonium…your call.

HOLIDAY GLOBAL BAZAAR — Sat, Nov 24; 12-5pm – Craft and Folk Art Museum, 5814 Wilshire Blvd, LA 90036, 323. 937.4230 http://globalbazaar.cafam.org

Ready? U Know U Want 2 Go Go….

 

November 21, 2012

The Go Go – Pre-Gobble: Culver City, Wild Turkey for Charity, Epic Hike, and Classic Movies

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Th  Ms. Go Go prepares for the Annual Turkey Hunt.

Go Go’ers, as you can see by the accompanying photo, Ms. Go Go is poised to capture the elusive gobbler for Turkey Day.

NOTE: Satin bullet bras stun every time.

Stand down, turkey.  Stand down.

Drink Wild Turkey.  Help Others

Doing good?  Great.

Doing good by drinking good bourbon?  Beyond great.

Tonight, your partner-in-philanthropy Seven Grand, with generous sponsor Wild Turkey, is throwing their annual Thanksgiving Eve Party to benefit the Midnight Mission in Downtown L.A.  There will be a signature Wild Turkey Spiced Cranberry Punch Cocktail all night for $6.

It’s sure to help your aim in any turkey hunt.

There’s no charge at the door but each $1 donation gets you a raffle ticket for prizes with all donations going to the LA Midnight Mission for Thanksgiving Dinner.  Also, each glass of punch gets you a raffle ticket so the more you drink the more the Midnight Mission benefits.

It’s good to be a giver.

SEVEN GRAND DTLA & WILD TURKEY THANKSGIVING EVE PARTY — Wed, Nov 21 from 5pm – close; FREE entry/21+ — Seven Grand, 515 W 7th St, DTLA,  213.614. 0737, http://sevengrandbars.com/seven-grand-wild-turkey-thanksgiving-eve-party-11-21-12-5pm-close/

Family Fun with a Side of Adult

The Situation:  Multi-gen out-of-towners clamoring for pre-stuffing fun

The Dilemma: You want a cocktail

The Solution: Culver City’s “Pre-Gobbler” Third Wednesday.

Think of it as the way to do your own thing in the name of togetherness.

Kids, parents, and winter-sports-show-offs will want to bee-line over to Culver City’s new outdoor Holiday Ice Rink, which is offering a  ”2-for-1 Skate Special”;   if you buy two ice rink admissions, general admission or child, you get the lesser of the two free.  Then, mind the stampede and get FREE white hot chocolate (while supplies last; $6 to spike it) at  Culver Hotel — former post-set hang for the Oz Munchkins.

Word has it, Emerald City was a grind.

Fun for adults includes all bottles of wine half-off at the  Bottle Rock and $2 holiday beer tasters from City Tavern.  Rocco’s Tavern has Thanksgiving shots and $4 discounted seasonal beers and Kay ‘n Dave’s Cantina has three-for-two margaritas and $4 pumpkin mezcal shots.

If there wasn’t pumpkin mezcal at the first Thanksgiving, there should have been.

CULVER CITY PRE-GOBBLE THIRD WEDNESDAY - Wed, Nov 21 from 5 pm – 9 pm – Downtown Culver City is located SOUTH  of the 10 Freeway and EAST of the 405, btwn intersection of Culver and Washington Blvds and Dusquene Ave. Info incl parking/Metro Expo: www.downtownculvercity.com

CHECK WITH MS. GO GO on THANKSGIVING DAY for post-Turkey Day fun including an epic walk, epic movies, and intimate shopping.
Ready?  U Know U Want 2 Go Go….
 

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