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THE SUN SHINES ON PALMS AND WESTSIDE VILLAGE
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OUR COLORFUL PAST
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OUR COLORFUL PRESENT
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OUR BRIGHT FUTURE
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MAPS
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PHOTOGRAPHS
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AREA GROUPS
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Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch
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CITYWIDE ISSUES
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Cultural Activities in Palms, California, U.S.A.
You don't have to drive anywhere else in Los Angeles to
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From "The Best of L.A.," Los Angeles magazine, August 2006
L.A. HISTORY WEB SITE
There's no shortage of Web sites for brushing up on L.A.'s past, and no telling how many yawns most of them have induced. But LOS ANGELES IN THE 1900S brings the first decade of the 20th century to vivid life with its quirky resource: articles from defunct newspapers such as the Los Angeles Express and the Los Angeles Examiner.
The sprawling site is best navigated by the amusing “If you were living in L.A. a Hundred Years Ago” page, which informs us that a population-starved Venice paid families to have babies there, and that Griffith J. Griffith (of Griffith Park fame) was charged with trying to murder his wife.
A half-noir, half-cracked sense of humor pervades the idiosyncratic site, created by George Garrigues, who was an L.A. Times reporter in the ’50s and ’60s.
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THURSDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ ENLIVENS P.O. AREA
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| Joe Banks does double horn duty on Aug. 25, 2005, during the regular Thursday afternoon sidewalk gig just south of the Palms post office.
Jazz musicians give a lively concert each week. They're organized by Greg Jones, who runs a mailing service at 3763 Motor Ave..
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The Actors' Gang has become the resident company at the Ivy Substation, a coveted 99-seat venue [in Palms's Media Park] operated by the Culver City Redevelopment Agency.
 The Gang was selected from a field of 14 applicants. The Hollywood-based group, led by artistic director Tim Robbins, had been searching for new quarters because of an anticipated hike in rent at its home on Santa Monica Boulevard. The rent at the Ivy is $3,000 a month, down from the Gang's previous $5,100 a month, but the troupe will have to share the space with Culver City arts grant winners on dates that are equivalent to one-third of a year.
The address is 9070 Venice Blvd., Palms, at the corner of Culver Blvd. (310) 838-4264.
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COLORFUL INSTALLATION SURROUNDS A PALMS CORNER
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This installation, Syncopation, by Los Angeles artist Ed Massey, was installed in early December 2004 on the northwest corner of Hughes Ave. and Washington Blvd., in Palms, opposite the Kirk Douglas Theater.
Massey was the artist who oversaw the wrapping of the oil well at Beverly Hills High School with panels of fabric.
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Theater
It’s the Palms community’s little secret:
the fact that you can see some of the best theater in L.A. right here in Palms. |
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TWO LIGHTS STUDIO THEATER
The workshop performances of the acting and directing classes taught by artistic director Judith Weston are presented in a nondescript building just steps away from Woodbine Park on Motor Avenue.
Entry is free, although a $10 donation is suggested.
Go here for Weston’s philosophy of theater and information on the performances.
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2ND STORY STUDIO
THEATER
Just across the street from Two Lights, at 3447 Motor Ave., another fine school presents regular workshop performances by its actor-students.
Pay what you want to get in. The performances are often followed by group discussions over glasses of wine with the actors.
The studio is under the direction of husband-wife team Scott Paulin and Wendy Phillips.
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Three small museums grace our neighborhood and environs.
One of them is world-famous for being, well, odd.
Another draws a small but appreciative group of old-timers who remember when bread and cakes were delivered door to door by the Helms Bakery trucks.
That latter museum of course features a real Helms truck and other souvenirs of Los Angeles’ past. It’s at 8800 Venice Blvd., not really in Palms but close enough to be reachable.
More info on the Helms Museum.
One other museum is really a sendup (almost a caricature) of all the dull and falsely egotistical museums you have ever seen.|And it has nothing to do with prehistory.
It’s the Museum of Jurassic Technology at 9341 Venice Blvd. You have to experience it to believe it. (But you’d better not believe all of it.)
Click on these Jurassic museum references for more dope on this unusual place.
Next door to the Jurassic is the Center for Land Use Interpretation. It is truly unusual; it has featured such things as a video made from a camera stuck on the head of a cow. But it has a serious mission; in fact, it is more of a research institute than a museum.
The San Gabriel's highs and lows
at the Center for Land Use Interpretation
A review by David Pagel in the Calendar section
of the Los Angeles Times
July 7, 2006
Art often chronicles life's ups and downs. The Center for Land Use Interpretation avoids such existential roller-coaster rides, preferring more objective presentations. A new exhibition takes viewers on an evenhanded tour of the San Gabriel Mountains, visiting 11 of the highest points along the range's crest and 11 of the lowest points at its base.
"Dissipation and Disintegration: Antenna Sites and Debris Basins in the San Gabriel Mountains," produced by the center, is a digital video that runs about 20 minutes. It's looped, and the story it tells is cyclical, so it doesn't matter where you begin.
Each segment starts with a blank screen and title identifying the location, such as Johnstone Peak, Sunset Ridge and Mt. Disappointment, or Big Dalton, Fair Oaks and West Ravine Debris Basin. Then it quickly cuts to a wide or a tightly cropped view of the site.
The camera never pans or zooms, but instead provides a fixed point of view. This allows viewers to see single pine needles rustling in the wind or spindly antennas swaying gracefully.
Sometimes several views of one location are shown. This breaks the video's easy rhythm, and you find yourself wishing that the center's staff had edited more decisively, selecting the best view and sticking with it.
Each segment includes ambient sounds recorded on location or samplings of transmissions from the antennas. Blowing wind, gushing water, chirping birds and croaking frogs play off of police transmissions, weather reports, pop songs, amateur broadcasts and the screeches and squawks of digital technology.
No two peaks or basins look alike. Loop Canyon appears to be a futuristic heliport. Santa Anita resembles a survivalist's bunker, surrounded by chain link and razor wire. Haines Debris Basin could be mistaken for a mountain lake. And Lincoln Debris Basin looks like a monstrous golf course that has been abandoned to the elements.
"Dissipation and Disintegration" draws no conclusions about the complicated interface between nature and culture. Instead, it draws visitors into the picture, leaving us to ponder our place in it all.
Center for Land Use Interpretation, 9331 Venice Blvd., Palms, (310) 839-5722, through Aug. 27. Open Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays. www.clui.org.
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Mann’s Culver Plaza, 9919 Washington Blvd., at Dunn Drive, has five screens. Its lobby features artwork highlighting important events in the history of motion pictures.
Click here to see the current attractions, but be sure to verify the date when you get to that page.
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OTHER PAGES
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HOME PAGE
Background of The Palms-Village Sun
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CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
Thursday afternoon jazz livens post office area
Actors Gang is resident theater company at the Ivy Station
Colorful art installation covers two sides of a Washington Blvd. building
Theaters and museums in and near Palms
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DINING OUT
Indonesian, Mexican, Ethiopian, Indian, Chinese —
you name it; we got it
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CULVER CITY
Link takes you to the Culver City home page
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