- Map of parking lots in the area, from Parkopedia
- Article on new meters installed in the area last fall
- Who says you have to drive? Use Google maps for transit options to the party.
See you at the party!
If you're an Angeleno, I know you're planning ahead for parking at the party on Saturday night. The Echo Park Film Center doesn't have its own parking lot, so I went googling for some info on parking in the neighborhood, and here's what I found:
See you at the party!
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UPDATE: Thanks to all the tweeps and commenters who reminded me about lit blogs I'd forgotten and introduced me to new ones: The Rumpus Paris Review Daily Like Fire Three Guys One Book Sea Giraffe Moby Lives Se Enseña Aquí? Who else should be on this list? Thought I'd celebrate Follow Friday this week by sharing a little link love. Here's a list of literary blogs from around the web - big and small, hyperkinetic and chill, corporate and indie. If you love to read, there's something here for you (in no particular order):
Maud Newton La Bloga The Elegant Variation Bread and Bread The Literary Saloon Jacket Copy The Kenyon Review Blog HTML Giant Pen America Blog A Commonplace Blog The Reading Experience 2.0 Bookslut Elisa Readerville Harriett The Mumpsimus Give A Fig Sentences Galley Cat Paper Cuts The LitBlog Co-op Diary of a Heretic The Millions American Fiction Notes Gently Read Literature Old Hag Ready Steady Book Arts and Letters Daily Neil Gaiman's Journal Bookstore People Counterbalance Curious Pages If that doesn't give you enough literary stimulation to last you the next ten minutes, I don't know what will. Just in case you can't get enough of the cool Echo Park vibe, or if you want to hang out with me and some other literary-minded folks after The Streetwise Cycle book launch party... ...join us after the book launch at the El Prado Bar for the unofficial official afterparty! Why the El Prado?
Composer Bruce Bennett is currently working on a piece of music to accompany The Streetwise Cycle. I'm delighted that I'll be able to use a piece of his music at the party to accompany moving images and text associated with the book. Bruce is an active performer of improvised music, and as a composer, his works have been played by a wide range of groups and artists, including the Arditti String Quartet, the Avenue Winds, the Berkeley Symphony, Del Sol String Quartet, Earplay, Tom Dambly and Michael Zbyszynski. Bruce's interests and activities include compositions and improvisations for live, interactive, electroacoustic music; conducting; the free-atonal music of the Second Viennese School; the music of the post-World War II European avant-garde; contemporary American and European avant-garde; and the Frankfurt School, particularly Adorno's writings on aesthetics and mass culture.
Listen to his work or read more at Bruce's website. Update #2: Don't worry if you missed the interview. You can hear it online right here. Update! Indymedia On Air has been moved to 8:30 pm today. Listen in tonight! Here's a quick preview of my interview with author Terry Wolverton about independent literature. In this clip, she talks about how changes in the corporate structure of publishing has changed our literary culture. Listen to the full interview on Monday, March 14 at 2:30 pm on KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara, or online at kpfk.org. You'll also get to hear from Terry at the Streetwise book launch party. Hope to see you there! The Streetwise Cycle is a proud DIY, independent book by an independent author. It's also part of a larger "indie lit" movement of authors, publishers and booksellers who are doing an end-run around the big New York publishing houses to sell our books directly to our readers. I've invited author Terry Wolverton to the book launch party to talk a bit about indie lit: What it is, Why it matters, and How readers can get involved. When it comes to literature, Terry has just about done it all. She's the author of eight books, including poetry, novels, nonfiction and a novel-in-poems. Her new novel, Stealing Angel, will be published later this year. She's also edited 14 literary anthologies. Terry spent 13 years at the Woman's Building as an artist, student, teacher and Executive Director. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center in LA, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. She also is an Associate Faculty Mentor in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
If you care about books, whether you're a writer or reader, you'll want to hear what Terry has to say. I didn't pick them because their band name is a punctuation mark - that's just a literary bonus. Ampersand will be busking live outside the Echo Park Film Center before the program begins. Ampersand is Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran. They met in the winter of 2006, as students at San Francisco State University, at an open mic night. Tran's songwriting is influenced by pop and folk. Garcia's vocal styles are based in jazz and the blues. It all comes together to create Ampersand’s cheerfully soulful "city folk" sound.
Ampersand's music ranges across themes and styles, and they always strive to make good-hearted, positive music. Their music is a hybrid of different influences and inspirations, reflecting their diverse musical and cultural backgrounds. Get a preview of Ampersand's music on MySpace, follow them on Twitter and become their best friends on Facebook. Or come hear them at the party on March 26! I spent this weekend on the streets of LA with my handy H2 recorder, creating Streetwise Cycle audio clips for Broadcastr. It's a new social media site that allows you to post audio stories and pin them to a map. You might think of it as "place-based podcasting." On Saturday I drove to each location where a Streetwise story takes place and recorded a brief chat about that place and its story, then read an excerpt. That only took four and a half hours. For example, click here to listen to the story titled Shelter, recorded outside the Iglesia Roca de Salvacion in East LA. To explore Broadcastr, jump over to the site and zoom in on the map to anywhere in the world you're interested in. Well, it's still mostly the US right now. You can search topics, cities or author names.
Broadcastr is still in beta, so the bells and whistles don't all fully work. Still, it's a fun site where you can listen and learn a little more about the places around you. More details on the publication party:
Saturday, March 26 Doors open at 7:30 pm Program begins at 8 pm Echo Park Film Center 1200 N Alvarado (@Sunset) I'll be reading from the book and signing copies. We'll also have buskers, video, original music and art inspired by the book, and a few words about the importance of independent literature in our modern era. Plus a little food and wine! You can RSVP for the party right here on Facebook. Anything else you need to know? |
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