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LATE ADDITION...
11:45 am SATURDAY film screening at the Egyptian in Hollywood, followed by a pool party, 3-7 pm in Silver Lake with the film's director! See event listings.
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NEWLY-ADDED events appear in the listings with "LATE ADDITION" tags up-top. Plus, we have this timely news link:
Thursday was "World Vegan Day." Why should you care?
An informative article effectively answers that. It's about health and taking responsibility for the environment, titled, "4 Vegan Knowledge Bombs to Drop on ‘World Vegan Day.’" It's in today's L.A. Progressive, at:
https://www.laprogressive.com/world-vegan-day/kk
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Previous late-added, up-front material:
October 31 quick addition...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
We're sharing "Werewolves of London," the Warren Zevon classic, in the "Lone Wolf Video Version":
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iaaqdD0EXr8
Yeah, all music vids are a little goofy, but the music is timelessly fun, and the Hollywood scenes are cute, with the "W.Wolf" and "Z.Vonne" neon signs.
Rhino Records sent us that link, and the following, too:
"SPOOKTACULAR STREAMING: HALLOWEEN MONSTER HITS"
Tracks include Eagles' "Witchy Woman," Alice Cooper's "Feed My Frankenstein," Duran Duran's "Hungry Like The Wolf," and lots more. Get your monster mashed for a free 4 hours and 59 minutes, altogether. If you have the Spotify app, or your device is infested with Facebook, it's at:
https://open.spotify.com/user/topsify/playlist/3sPPu2lk1yoHpP98H9haFO?si=31P1bSp7QT-WLEjovkwwMA
Since we block tracking cookies in all our devices, we can't join you in that listening experience. Being haunted by cyber stalkers isn't our idea of a happy haunting. If you don't share our values about that part, then go enjoy.
Either way, we'll see ya for the actual, not virtual, Trick or Treating!
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And remember to keep the kids in masks that have safe visibility for crossing streets.
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The following is
the Oct 30 edition
as originally published.
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This edition brings you one feature story and the EVENTS happening this week.
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Our latest big NEWS EDITION, published Oct 27, includes our expose that includes a look at (and what to look for when you watch) tonight's part-two of the "Frontline" examination of Facebook. That's the previous edition. Scroll down, or use the bar at left, or the URL below to go back to that one. It's at:
https://www.acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2018/10/news-edition-for-late-october-2018.html
OR, for our expose feature on Facebook, by itself in the "L.A. Progressive," go to:
https://www.laprogressive.com/pbs-examines-facebook/
If you missed part one of the PBS revelations about Facebook, both parts re-run in a two-hour block on Wednesday, 5-7 pm on the PBS WORLD channel.
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NOW, here's Today's fresh content -- our fresh feature story, and the events happening Tuesday, Wednesday, and on through Sunday.
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# 1 news feature...
WHEN DRAMA TURNED TO PANIC: " WAR OF THE WORLDS," OCTOBER 30, 1938, AND NOW
It was just after 8 pm on the east coast, and millions of Americans nationwide were twisting their tuner dials to CBS Radio. It was time for the usual evening of entertainment that dominated the culture of the time.
Those who had their radio on the broadcast right at the hour heard the brief, one-sentence intro that they were about to be treated to a special broadcast for Hallloween -- an unusual dramatization of H.G. Wells' classic "The War of the Worlds."
But those who were lingering elsewhere as one of the regular and popular shows was ending on a different station didn't hear that little intro. Same for those who just hadn't turned-on the radio in time for the tubes to warm-up and bring it to life when the show started.
Missing that quick announcement was consequential. When they got to CBS a minute later, they thought they were hearing the usual fare -- what the announcer said it was -- a broadcast of live Big Band music, a performance from a ballroom.
Then, precisely as scripted to be performed by 23-year-old Orson Welles and his cast of "Mercury Theater on the Air," the debut of their theatrical-production-for-radio briefly interrupted the band's performance.
It was the first of several live "news" announcements that quickly went from "reporting" that a meteor or unknown object had crashed in New Jersey, to a growing number of unknown objects landing, to the objects having hatches that were unscrewing, to...
Today we would call it "fake news," or "getting pranked," depending on your perceptions. At the time, most listeners understood that they were listening to a radio drama. Though, being the first thing of its kind, it was effective and at least somewhat unnerving to nearly everyone.
Thousands of others were plunged into abject panic, convinced that America was under a deadly attack by invaders from Mars.
Don't be too harsh on them -- just look at how Fox News and exploiting politicians foment fear portraying "the migrant caravan" as an alien invasion.
Back to 1938. As the "live remote news" cutaways continued, voices were cut-off as "reporters on the scene" began to get fried by death rays. Listener panic ensued. Telephone switchboards were jammed. Calls could not get through, which heightened the disorientation and fed the fear, as we would say today, "virally."
Keep in mind, in 1938, the best efforts of the New Deal still had not ended the Great Depression and found new opportunities for refugees from the Dust Bowl. Plus, America's schoolchildren were collecting "Pennies for China" to feed starving refugees in Asia because a brutally murderous Japanese invasion was underway there. And Nazi expansionism, book-burnings, repressions, persecutions, and deportations of minorities to concentration camps were already bringing terrifying news from Europe. Even as the German-American Bunde was advocating fascism and spreading antisemitism and scapegoatist hatred in America.
So it isn't hard to understand that a radio broadcast -- like nothing anyone had ever heard, and in a very scary era -- could become a phenomenon of mass hysteria.
That's not all. Without intending to, it provided the prototype for how the most important mass media can be used to produce the mass reaction of an entire population.
Yes, "The War of the Worlds" showed the way to the most effective tool of political manipulation ever devised. It would lead us to Nixon's ominous-looking five-o'clock shadow in his TV debate with Kennedy, to LBJ's infamous "daisy" ad with the little girl and the nuclear mushroom cloud. To all the internet memes that feed polarized tribalism and continue to manufacture fear based on wild extrapolations and Halloween fantasies. To social media fomenting and exploiting those fears to produce group opinions in algorithm-built echo chambers.
As we watch the new two-part "Frontline" examination this week of media misuse by Facebook, it's wise and worthwhile to get a little context. (See our # 6 feature story in the last edition.)
The PBS series, "American Experience," took a fascinating look back at what started the debate over use and misuse of the media -- Orson Welles and his "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast. It features interviews with film director and cinema historian Peter Bogdanovich, plus Welles' daughter Chris Welles Feder, and others with interesting information and takes on what happened.
It even includes a trove of letters sent to Orson Welles by an alternately admiring and furious public. "War of the Worlds" on "American Experience," true to its publicity, "explores how the wunderkind's ingenious use of radio struck fear into an already anxious nation."
The show was made in 2013, 75 years after the radio broadcast. Now five years after that, nothing could be more relevant to us. Welles' radio theatre brought demands for the first legislation to regulate broadcasting, and the calls ranged from content oversight to pre-air vetting to draconian control of every word that could be uttered.
Now, we debate regulation to stop theft of privacy and reign-in hate speech and its role in causing violence. How society responded in 1938, and how monied interests manipulated the response to cement their control and protect their profits is fully relevant to us. The exploitation of the internet, from tracking cookies and insidiously invasive spyware by social media, to the profitability of spreading dangerous hate, are just the new iterations.
And the question of protecting artistic freedom and freedom of speech and of the press are fundamentally the same today as what Welles faced.
You can see the VERY worthwhile three-minute "Making War of the Worlds" at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/worlds-making/
"War of the Worlds" has a page with other fun options on the "American Experience" site, at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/worlds/
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EVENTS, CONCERTS, CLUB GIGS, HALLOWEEN STUFF, HAPPENING THIS WEEK
Chronologically, by day and start time.
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Tuesday...
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Tue, Oct 30:
7 pm-9 pm - "SONGWRITERS SERENADE" with a four artist lineup plus performing host JC HYKE has a usical Halloween theme tonight at Matt Denny's Ale House Restaurant & Bar, 145 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA 91006
* No cover. Venue has full menu and full bar.
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Tue, Oct 30:
7:30 pm - JOAN BAEZ plays Humphrey's Concerts By The Bay, 2241 Shelter Island Drive, San Diego, CA 92106; 619-523-1010
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Tue, Oct 30:
8 pm - ERIC HUTCHINSON, the critically acclaimed and platinum-selling artist, makes a stop in Los Angeles at The Troubadour in WeHo.
* He's out there on his cross-country "Modern Happiness" tour with his band, The Believers.
* Tix, $25, at: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/mobile/index/1704679
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Tue, Oct 30:
9:30 pm - ABBY & THE MYTH play Seventy7Lounge, 3842 Main St, Culver City, CA 90232
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Wednesday...
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LATE ADDITION...
Wed, Oct 31, EXHIBIT OPENING:
"LOST AT SEA: THE EXPLORATIONS OF DR. ROBERT BALLARD" opens aboard the BATTLESHIP IOWA, docked as a museum in San Pedro, at 250 S Harbor Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90731
* “Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?” – Dr. Robert Ballard, discoverer of the wreck of RMS TITANIC.
* New exhibit opens Oct 31, 2018; some previews were made during "Fleet Week."
* It includes the "Lost at Sea" gallery, "Alpha Romeo Tango (ART)" art gallery, and ship tour expansion to include the USS Iowa's on-board laundry, barbershop, and brig.
* Battleship IOWA Museum launches “Lost at Sea: The Explorations of Dr. Robert Ballard”. Ballard is known the world over for his discovery of the final resting place of the Titanic; yet, he has quested for and found many more vessels whose origins date over the past 2,000 years. Their common fate was that they have been claimed by our oceans and seas. Many lie undisturbed as what Ballard calls “undersea museums,” and they are now revealed to visitors aboard the historic USS IOWA.
* This retrospective is a showcase for the museum to highlight many of the world’s most historically noted underwater wrecks, found by the explorer.
* “Lost at Sea: The Explorations of Dr. Robert Ballard” was made possible by a generous grant from the Confidence Foundation and is sponsored by Dr. Robert Ballard, Port of Los Angeles, Ocean Exploration Trust, and AltaSea.
* The "Lost at Sea" exhibit is included with General Admission to the Battleship IOWA. Museum ticket office opens daily at 10 am and the last tour ticket is sold at 4 pm. Ticket prices at the box office are $19.95 for ages 12–61. Youth tickets, age 5 – 11, are $11.95. Senior admission (62 and over) are $9.95. Children under age 5 are free. General admission for the military (active, retired and U.S. armed forces) on all days other than Nov. 11 are $14.95.
* Tix and more info: https://pacificbattleship.com
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Wed, Oct 31:
7 pm - ALICE WALLACE, plus ANDREW DELANEY, play the Americana "Wine & Song" concert series hosted by Brad Colerick at the Blue Guitar room at Arroyo Seco Golf Course, 1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena, CA.
* ALICE WALLACE has been a top Guide artist-to-watch since we first saw her perform at a festival on a mountainside stage at 7,000 ft.
* Adjacent to the Blue Guitar is the Arroyo Seco Grill which has food, wine, and full bar.
* Tix, www.deepmix.com
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Thursday...
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Thu, Nov 1:
7 pm - "THE MUSIC OF ELTON JOHN: The First Decade" featuring Rick Bagby & The Honky Cats, at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236; more at: www.coffeegallery.com/showsat.htm
* Just LOOK at this band's LINE-UP: THE HONKY CATS are making their premier at this show, and they are a phenomenal ensemble: bassist Chad Watson (Charlie Rich, Janis Ian, Delaney Bramlett); Lead guitarist Al Bonhomme, a Musicians Institute Alumni, voted "Guitarist of the Year" by the California Country Music Association in 1988, he specializes in Country, Fingerpicking and Acoustic Styles, Roots Music and Americana; Drummer Owen Goldman is a nationally-known drummer as dynamic as he is creative. He currently works with Robbie Krieger of The Doors.
* RICK BAGBY & THE HONKY CATS… will re-create the best of that historic decade of hits and songs that have been a soundtrack for our lives over the years: "Your Song," "Love Song," "Tiny Dancer," "Levon," "Rocket Man," "Crocodile Rock," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Candle in the Wind," and Bennie and the Jets," and more.
* Tix, $20.
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Thu, Nov 1, FILM SCREENING:
7 pm - "SNEAKERS" (1992) screens for "POPCORN & POLITICS: A MIDTERMS MOVIE NIGHT" presented by the Los Angeles Times at the Ahrya Fine Arts Movie Theatre, 8556 Wilshire Bl, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.
* Post-screening conversation with "Sneakers" superfans
Roxane Gay and Ben Loory, hosted by Mariel Garza
of the L.A. Times.
* The Times tells us, "We know — politics these days are enough to make anyone an escapist. We have a solution: Join the Los Angeles Times for a unique screening of the timeless 1992 hit “Sneakers,” followed by a conversation with two of its biggest fans, acclaimed writers
Roxane Gay and Ben Loory.
* The Times’ Mariel Garza will facilitate the chat and also show you how to make a plan for those empty boxes on your midterm ballot.
* Tix, $20, at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/popcorn-politics-a-midterms-movie-night-featuring-sneakers-tickets-51490460353
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Thu, Nov 1:
8 pm - JOAN BAEZ plays the Arlington Theater at US Santa Barbara, 1317 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805-963-4408
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Friday...
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Fri, Nov 2, FESTIVAL:
"MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS" opens Friday, through the weekend, at Camp de Benneville Pines, 41750 Jenks Lake Rd West, Angelus Oaks, California 92305
* Acoustic Folk Music weekend with Severine Browne
* Info: uucamp@aol.com
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Fri-Sun, Nov 2-4, CONFERENCE:
10 am-6:30 pm - "HACKADAY SUPERCONFERENCE" at Los Angeles College of Music, 370 S Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA 91105;
* Billed as "the greatest gathering of hardware hackers, builders, engineers and enthusiasts in the world."
* Hundreds of engineers and engineering enthusiasts gather for organized talks and workshops along with the extemporaneous challenges, conversations, and discovery.
* Tix & info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackaday-superconference-2018-tickets-47386813234
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Fri, Nov 2-Thu, Nov 8, FILM SCREENING:
7 pm - "THE WAR AT HOME" returns to Los Angeles at the Nuart Theater, 11272 Santa Monica Bl, West L.A., CA
* It's the new 4K Restoration of the Oscar-nominated feature documentary about the 1960s/'70s antiwar movement.
* Michael Moore tweeted about the film earlier this month:
https://twitter.com/mmflint/status/1050788655072235520
* Ed Pearl, founder of L.A.'s legendary music venue, The Ash Grove, says, "I strongly endorse this film and the film maker."
* The film's trailer, "War at Home 2018 Film Trailer," is at:
https://vimeo.com/293481200
* OPENING NIGHT EVENT, Nov 2, 7 pm: Brett Morgen (Director of “Jane”) moderates Q&As with co-Directors Glenn Silber & Barry Alexander Brown.
* Other screenings Fri & Sat, 11/2-11/3: Noon, 2:20 pm, 4:40 pm, 7 pm, 9:45 pm. Screenings Sun-Thu, 11/4-11-8: 12:30, 2:50 pm, 5:10 pm, 7:30 pm, 9:45 pm.
* Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, the powerful and moving 1979 feature "The War at Home" uses the ten-year history of antiwar resistance in one American town, Madison, Wisconsin, as a microcosm of the national Antiwar Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.
* The film traces the movement as it grew from a small core of activists to a mass resistance that ultimately helped bring down two powerful U.S. Presidents and end the U.S. war in Vietnam.
* Stereotype-busting interviews with student activists, police, Vietnam vets and others illuminate a trove of rare archival film, from the earliest antiwar protest in 1963 to the violent confrontation against the Dow Chemical Co., producers of napalm, in 1967; to the bombing of the Army Math Research Center in 1970; to the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973.
* This vital work of politically-charged non-fiction is newly restored in 4K (by IndieCollect) and re-released now, as timely today as it was nearly 40 years ago, ready to inspire and energize a new generation.
* Produced and directed by Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown (editor of Spike Lee’s
"BlacKkKlansman" and "Do the Right Thing").
* Venue is Handicap Accessible, Hard of Hearing equipped.
* TIX: https://www.landmarktheatres.com/los-angeles/nuart-theatre/film-info/the-war-at-home
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Fri, Nov 2:
7:30 pm - CLIVE CARROLL plays the first of 3 shows at different venues for the "Lord Of The Strings Concert Series," this one at the Dana Point Community House, 24642 San Juan St, Dana Point, CA 92629
* Tix for any of the shows, all their venues: 949-244-6656
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Fri, Nov 2:
8 pm - "CASUAL FRIDAYS WITH THE L.A. PHIL" brings The Los Angeles Philharmonic and organist Cameron Carpenter performing together, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Av, Los Angeles, CA 90012
* THIS EPITOMIZES THE GUIDE'S DEFINITION OF "ACCESSIBLE CLASSICAL MUSIC."
* Come early beginning at 6:30 pm to enjoy complimentary drinks, spectacular views and more, then head over to the "Upbeat Live" pre-concert talk in BP Hall (select nights only).
* "Upbeat Live" is FREE to ticket holders, one hour before the concert. It's an informative and engaging way to learn about the music before the concert. Renowed musicologists take you through music theory, guided listening and the program's historical and cultural context. Plus, interviews with guests and members of the LA Phil, and you can participate in Q & A.
* Can't attend, or running late? Dial 605-475-4333 and enter access code 184648 to listen on your way to the Hall. (No charge except what your phone plan charges you; area code 605 is South Dakota)
* Post-concert after-party included with your ticket: hang out with orchestra members.
* Enjoy complimentary tastings of the "LA Phil 100 Brut IPA," a special beer brewed by Los Angeles Ale Works to celebrate the LA Phil’s Centennial.
* Listen FREE to past "Upbeat Live" programs; scroll down: https://www.laphil.com/concerts-and-events/tickets-and-packages/upbeat-live/
* Tix start at $20, at https://www.laphil.com/casualfridays/
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Fri, Nov 2:
8 pm - JAMES INTVELD brings his legendary country-blues-Americana guitar, tonight only, to the Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA 91006; 626-447-9349; www.arcadiabluesclub.com
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Fri, Nov 2:
8 pm - "WOMEN WHO FOLKING ROCK…with ED TREE" at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236; more at: www.coffeegallery.com/showsat.htm
* Singer-songwriters Janet Croteau, Aireene Espiritu, and Britta Lee Shain, with producer, engineer, guitarist Ed Tree, are a formidable grouping.
* Ed's songs have been recorded by a number of chart-topping artists, including Spencer Davis and Lacy J. Dalton. Steve Kolander and others and have taken his songs to the Country Top 40 charts.
* Ed has produced more than 150 CDs in the Americana, AAA, Blues, Folk, and Country categories, including two top-five Billboard Blues Chart CDs, and two #1 singles on the European Country Charts, and he's won a "DIY Producer of the Year" award. Ed has recorded and/or toured with Spencer Davis, Rita Coolidge, Juice Newton, Al Stewart, Dusty Springfield and Booker T. Jones, and shared the stage with Jimmy Buffet, Aaron Neville and Bonnie Bramlett. He also played on the "Grand Ole Opry" with his band The Bum Steers. Ed sometimes surfaces locally as a member of the songwriter collective Tall Men Group.
* Tix, $20.
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Fri, Nov 2:
8 pm - JEFFREY FOUCAULT plus DUSTY HEART play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Saturday...
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Sat, Nov 3, FESTIVAL:
"MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS" opens Friday, runs through the weekend, at Camp de Benneville Pines, 41750 Jenks Lake Rd West, Angelus Oaks, California 92305
* Acoustic Folk Music weekend with Severine Browne
* Info: uucamp@aol.com
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Saturdays, Nov 3 through Dec 8, HALLOWEEN:
DIA WE LOS MUERTOS EXHIBITION: "Remembrance, the Faces and Places" at the Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90065
* The Autry, who runs things here, calls this "A Mt. Washington Pop-up Exhibit."
* The Arroyo Arts Collective asks local artists to explore a deepened understanding of Halloween, Día de los Muertos, and international rituals associated with how we grieve, how we continue to love, and how we go on in the face of loss.
* Opening day features a yarn flower workshop and an opening reception.
* Info: www.theautry.org
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Sat, Nov 3; first big weekend for new exhibit...
Repeated listing from Oct 31, EXHIBIT OPENING:
"LOST AT SEA: THE EXPLORATIONS OF DR. ROBERT BALLARD" opens aboard the BATTLESHIP IOWA, docked as a museum in San Pedro, at 250 S Harbor Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90731
* “Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?” – Dr. Robert Ballard, discoverer of the wreck of RMS TITANIC.
* New exhibit opens Oct 31, 2018; some previews were made during "Fleet Week."
* It includes the "Lost at Sea" gallery, "Alpha Romeo Tango (ART)" art gallery, and ship tour expansion to include the USS Iowa's on-board laundry, barbershop, and brig.
* Battleship IOWA Museum launches “Lost at Sea: The Explorations of Dr. Robert Ballard”. Ballard is known the world over for his discovery of the final resting place of the Titanic; yet, he has quested for and found many more vessels whose origins date over the past 2,000 years. Their common fate was that they have been claimed by our oceans and seas. Many lie undisturbed as what Ballard calls “undersea museums,” and they are now revealed to visitors aboard the historic USS IOWA.
* This retrospective is a showcase for the museum to highlight many of the world’s most historically noted underwater wrecks, found by the explorer.
* “Lost at Sea: The Explorations of Dr. Robert Ballard” was made possible by a generous grant from the Confidence Foundation and is sponsored by Dr. Robert Ballard, Port of Los Angeles, Ocean Exploration Trust, and AltaSea.
* The "Lost at Sea" exhibit is included with General Admission to the Battleship IOWA. Museum ticket office opens daily at 10 am and the last tour ticket is sold at 4 pm. Ticket prices at the box office are $19.95 for ages 12–61. Youth tickets, age 5 – 11, are $11.95. Senior admission (62 and over) are $9.95. Children under age 5 are free. General admission for the military (active, retired and U.S. armed forces) on all days other than Nov. 11 are $14.95.
* Tix and more info: https://pacificbattleship.com
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Sat, Nov 3, FILM SCREENING & PARTY:
11:45 am - "THE SONG OF SWAY LAKE" in a "bonus big screen presentation" with the director at the Egyptian Theatre, on Hollywoood Bl, Hollywood, CA.
* Attendees at film screening are invited to a 3-7 pm pool party in Silver Lake with "Sway Lake" director ARI GOLD.
* He also created a project "to get a message, from the heart, to the Koch brothers, to please stop destroying our planet."
* Watch Ari Gold's environment video at: www.DearKoch.com
* Tix for the film/party at theatre door, or at www.swaylake.com/see
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Sat, Nov 3:
2 pm - "JIM & ANNE CURRY perform the songs of JOHN DENVER" at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236; more at: www.coffeegallery.com/showsat.htm
* Tix, $18.
* SOLD OUT. EVEN THEIR MATINEES SELL OUT.
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Sat, Nov 3:
4 pm - LAS CAFETERAS play the California Center For The Arts, Lyric Court, 340 N Escondido Bl, Escondido, CA 92025; 800-988-4253
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Sat, Nov 3:
7 pm - THE HONEY WHISKEY TRIO at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236; more at: www.coffeegallery.com/showsat.htm
* This national-award-winning women's trio returns with explorations of harmony in folk, bluegrass and any melody that catches the ear. Through their powerful, yet sweet harmonies, body percussion, haunting melodies and vitality on stage, Honey Whiskey Trio captivates audiences.
* These storytellers in song found their roots in vocal jazz, and this foundation gives Honey Whiskey Trio flexibility.
* Venue impresario Bob Stage cautions, "Don’t let them get into a realm where we cannot afford them before you experience them at The Coffee Gallery Backstage…very up close. These are vocal phenoms and they put on a very fine stage show."
* The Honeys have headlined the "Los Angeles A Cappella Festival," the "SheSings Festival," the "South Eastern Minnesota A Cappella Festival," and they've been showcase artists at FAR-West. They have also performed at the Broad Stage, the "Rogue Valley Roots Festival," the "Long Beach Folk Revival Festival," the Grand Annex, "TedX Temecula," and the Shedd Institute for the Arts, and even opened for the Manhattan Transfer.
* Called “One of the most talented vocal harmony groups performing today” by John Neal, Harmony Sweepstakes executive producer, The Honey Whiskey Trio is a group you don’t want to miss experiencing live.
* Tix, $20.
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Sat, Nov 3:
7 pm - THE HEALERS bring their jazzy blues, tonight only, to the Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA 91006; 626-447-9349; www.arcadiabluesclub.com
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Sat, Nov 3:
7 pm - CLIVE CARROLL plays the 2nd of 3 shows at different venues for the "Lord Of The Strings Concert Series," this one at the Mission Viejo Civic Center, 100 Civic Center Dr, Mission Viejo, CA 92691
* Tix for any of the shows, all their venues: 949-244-6656
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Sat, Nov 3:
8 pm - SULTANS OF STRING play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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Sat, Nov 3:
8 pm - RICK SHEA & THE LOSIN’ END play Four Friends Gallery, 1414 E Thousand Oaks Bl, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
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Sat, Nov 3:
8-11 pm - KEN O'MALLEY & FRIENDS bring authentic and original Irish music and acoustic multi-instrumental prowess, with Ken's fine vocals, to the Tam O'Shanter, 2980 Los Feliz Bl. LA 90039; www.lawrysonline.com/tam-oshanter/
* Full menu and full bar in the pub area of this charming Scottish themed restaurant, part of the Lawry's family that has been an L.A. landmark since 1922.
* No cover, all ages.
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Sat, Nov 3:
10 pm - CLINTON DAVIS plays the Black Cat Bar, 4246 University Av, San Diego, CA 92105; 619-280-5834
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Sunday...
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Sun, Nov 4, FESTIVAL:
"MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS" opens Friday, runs through the weekend, at Camp de Benneville Pines, 41750 Jenks Lake Rd West, Angelus Oaks, California 92305
* Acoustic Folk Music weekend with Severine Browne
* Info: uucamp@aol.com
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Sun, Nov 4:
2 pm - "Symphonic Suite for Healing" at the Warner Grand, 434 W 6th St, San Pedro, CA 90731; www.grandvision.org
* Acclaimed pianist Mike Garson has worked with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Corgan, Free Flight and The Smashing Pumpkins, and is one of the most sought after session musicians working today.
* Garson's "Symphonic Suite for Healing" is written in collaboration with medical patients in partnership with brain surgeon Dr. Christopher Duma of the Foundation for Neuroscience, Stroke and Recovery.
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Sun, Nov 4, HALLOWEEN SHOW:
3 pm - "SAMHAIN" THE ANNUAL IRISH-CELTIC HALLOWEEN SHOW returns, produced by CELTIC RHYTHMS.
* LOCATION HAS CHANGED. Venue is now The Hudson Theatre Mainstage, 6539 Santa Monica Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90038
* (Was to have been at MacLeod's Ale Brewery in Van Nuys. ALSO NOTE there is only a 3 pm show on today's closing day; no 7 pm show.)
* With a cast of top-rated Southern Cal based touring Irish and Celtic musicians and dancers, this is always one of the very best autumn events.
* Finally! The proper kind of venue that this wonderful production deserves!
* Parking: There is ample street parking. Valet for $7 is also available beginning one hour before the show.
* Cafe: The Hudson Lobby has a full-scale espresso bar that sells food and beverages, including beer and wine.
* It's a Celtic Halloween extravaganza with a full Irish band and Irish dancers, "interspersed with ghastly tales from the Celtic netherworlds."
* Ticket sales at the door are cash only, but tend to sell-out early.
* General seating only; Preferred Seats are sold-out.
* More info at: www.Celtic-Rhythms.com/Samhain
* Tickets at: www.Celtic-Rhythms.com/Samhain-Tickets
* Runs:
• Sun, Oct 28, 3 pm & 7 pm
• Sun, Nov 4, 3 pm only (NO 7 pm show).
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* Pronounced "Sau-in," like sauerkraut, it's the musically-powered tale and celebration of what became "All-Hallows-Eve," and then Halloween in our time.
* Note change to a total of three shows over the two days.
* Information and tickets at: https://celtic-rhythms.com/samhain-tickets
or 818-939-4313.
* Buy early for the best seats.
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Sun, Nov 4:
3 pm - CLIVE CARROLL plays the final of 3 shows at different venues for the "Lord Of The Strings Concert Series," this one at the
LCA Wine at SOCO Center, 3303 Hyland Av, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.
* Tix for any of the shows, all their venues: 949-244-6656
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Sun, Nov 4:
7 pm - "GROUP SINGING WITH FOLK LUMINARIES" in a special concert featuring Annie Patterson and Peter Blood, the editors of the landmark folk song collections, "Rise up Singing," and more recently, "Rise Again." Venue is the Santa Monica Friends Meeting, 1440 Harvard St, Santa Monica.
* Their beloved songbook are a pair of spiral-bound large-format books filled with hundreds of familiar songs and are designed to get us all together, singing songs in our living rooms, or wherever we gather.
* The books contain lyrics and chords, but no musical notation. They feature everything from old traditional songs to modern singer-songwriter originals.
* Annie and Peter will lead the singing and you can either borrow or purchase the songbooks.
* More at: https://www.riseupandsing.org/events/singalong-concert-santa-monica
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Sun, Nov 4:
8 pm - LAWRENCE LEBO plus KEN EMERSON, & JIM "KIMO" WEST, play a wonderful triple-bill in the famous concert hall in back of McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA 90405; 310-828-4497
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FURTHER ON DOWN THE ROAD...
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A few new items are especially notable:
LATE ADDITION...
Thu, Nov 8:
7 pm - "COMICS & CULTURE: Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, and Michael Silverblatt" -- New Yorker magazine covers, Pulitzer Prize winner, & NPR radio host, in a FREE program in the "Visions and Voices" series in Bovard Auditorium at USC, 3551 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
* Visions and Voices presents an evening with the woman responsible for selecting the iconic covers of The New Yorker, Françoise Mouly, and her husband, the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman (Maus).
* The two are in conversation with NPR radio host Michael Silverblatt, for a discussion of art, politics, and the subversive responsibilities of artists and media makers to respond to timely issues through culture and creativity.
* “Françoise Mouly is one of the most influential editors in comics and illustration of the last thirty years.”—Guernica Magazine.
* “Mouly considers how a simple drawing can cut through the torrent of images that we see every day and elegantly capture the feeling (and the sensibility) of a moment in time.”—TED Talks.
* “Perhaps more than any other single artist, Spiegelman has energized the range of emotional possibility in comics.”—San Francisco Weekly.
* “Maus won a Pulitzer in 1992, a landmark event in the history of the medium — its sheer power forced the mainstream world to take comics seriously.”—TIME Magazine.
* FREE with reserved free tickets, at:
http://crue.usc.edu/visionevents/rsvp/makeReservation_2.php?event_id=1297430&RSVPEvtCode=38
* Get on their email list at: visionsandvoices@usc.edu
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POSTPONED; new date TBA (See text in listing):
Thu, Nov 8:
7:30 pm - AMERICA, the iconic platinum-selling group, plays the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Bl, T.O., CA 91362.
*** POSTPONED on the morning of Nov 8, "to respect the victims and the entire Thousand Oaks community in light of last night's tragic shooting." A statement issued by the band's Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell says they "are shocked by the news and want to send their deepest sympathies to the families, relatives and friends of those who lost their lives and were injured."
(The Guide's original write-up follows.)
* Among the first at the intersection of what would become Americana music, these guys got way out in front.
* They have six certified gold and/or platinum albums, most recently with "History" hitting four million in sales.
* The Guide caught them a few years back at a concert in Pershing Square with an audience inclusive of plenty of younger fans. It was clear, these guys can still bring it, and their music is vibrant, transcending eras.
* Having been inducted into the Vocal Hall of Fame in 2006, their album that year, "Here & Now," saw the band collaborate with a new generation of artists including Ryan Adams, Ben Kweller, Jim James, and others.
* Their career achievements encompass a Grammy Award as "Best New Artist" of 1972; seven albums produced by Sir George Martin; and a 2012 Star on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame."
* The band's lead singers, songwriters and guitarists Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, continue to make new music and tour non-stop with 100 shows a year.
* Next year begins the start of their 50th anniversary.
* The "Wall Street Journal" did the star-treatment interview with Dewey and Gerry on July 17th, discussing the evolution of the classic song, in Marc Meyers' recurring "Anatomy of a Song" feature. (Read it at: https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-the-journey-to-a-horse-with-no-name-1531748082 )
* AMERICA has influenced generations of musicians with their distinctive brand of acoustic-driven, harmony-rich rock, mixed with pop smarts, in soul-searching classic songs that reflected the times they were living in. Those songs still resonate today.
* Their huge radio success in the '70s and early '80s often overshadowed their lyrical depth. Think of the questing "Horse With No Name" (with its environmental message at the end); the frank romantic politics of "Sister Golden Hair"; the war paranoia of "Sandman" (written in part from conversations with returning airmen from Vietnam); and the cautionary life advice of "Don't Cross The River."
* Tix now on-sale, at:
www.los-angeles-theatre.com/theaters/thousand-oaks-civic-arts-plaza/america.php
Or, https://www1.ticketmaster.com/civic-arts-plaza-presents-america-thousand-oaks-california-11-08-2018/event/0B00548CDBFB451A
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Nov 11; FESTIVAL:
"END OF WW I CENTENNIAL, & ANNUAL VETERANS APPRECIATION DAY" aboard the BATTLESHIP IOWA, docked as a museum in San Pedro, at 250 S Harbor Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90731.
* Veterans Appreciations 2018 events are an annual FESTIVAL aboard the Battleship IOWA Museum on Veterans Day Sun, Nov 11th at 10 am.
* Co-hosted by Black Knight Patrol and Bob Hope USO.
* This family-friendly event includes a variety of fun experiences for everyone to enjoy, including:
• SPECIAL EVENT: "Centennial Anniversary of the End of World War I" (on the original Nov 11 "Armistice Day") honoring San Pedro’s Veteran Heroes with a plaque and unveiling of a new memorial.
• Admission on board to the museum is Free for active, retired and reserve military.
• Live bands and DJ.
• Free food sponsored by Black Knight Patrol.
• Vintage vehicles.
• 5" gun salute at 11 am on 11-11 to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I (Active battle ended at 11 am on November 11, 1918); that portion sponsored by the American Legion.
* Tix and more info: https://pacificbattleship.com
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Nov 11, STAGE PLAY / BENEFIT:
2 pm - "KINDERTRANSPORT" stars Jane Kaszmerek at the Wallis Annenberg Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA.
* It's the story of Jewish children being given-up by their parents to get them out of Nazi Germany after the infamous Kristallnacht, on the eve of the Holocaust.
* Benefit for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
* She first performed her role in this play in N.Y. in 1994. Subsequently, she did it for radio's "L.A. Theatreworks."
* This is a one-time opportunity to see her in this powerful play.
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EVERYTHING ELSE...
We published a "look ahead," with events into December and next year, at the bottom of a previous edition. It's at:
https://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2018/10/music-news-action-in-venues-this-week.html
Go catch it there! It'll have to do until we add a bunch more in our next update.
But we are repeating our recent TICKET ALERTS For some just-announced 2019 shows, because you might've missed 'em where they ran:
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TICKET ALERTS...
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Thu, Jan 24:
8 pm - The Branford Marsalis Quartet brings its signature jazz to the Soraya, formerly the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center / CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330; 818-677-8800; www.valleyperformingartscenter.org
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Feb 1-Mar 5, will run every Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun:
8 pm - "FOR PIANO AND HARPO," at the Garry Marshall Theatre, formerly the Falcon Theatre, 4252 Riverside Dr, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-955-8101; www.falcontheatre.com
* Tix on Sale Jan 4.
* Tix, $32-$45, will be available Jan 4, at: https://www.garrymarshalltheatre.org/
* A Laugh Then Think Production, written by & starring Dan Castellaneta. Directed by Stefan Novinski. The plot (from LA Weekly): "Oscar Levant, the brilliant, witty, pill-popping concert pianist, wakes up to find himself in the Psych Ward of Mt. Sinai Hospital. His past collides with his present, as he grapples with his demons to save his marriage and his sanity. It’s a nightmarish, and sometimes hilarious journey, from addiction to redemption, as he verbally jousts with Jack Paar, is haunted by the genius of George Gershwin, and moves in with his only friend, Harpo Marx."
* Tix for current shows: https://ci.ovationtix.com/19
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Thu, Mar 28, world music:
8 pm - Red Baraat "Festival of Colors" Celebrating the Hindu at the Soraya, formerly the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center / CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330; 818-677-8800; www.valleyperformingartscenter.org
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Saturday, October 27, 2018
NEWS EDITION for late October 2018.
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LATE UPDATE, Monday morning: this edition's news item # 6, the expose of Facebook's predatory business model and how it damages democracy and erases privacy, is our main feature story. It is TIMELY, before tonight's two-part "Frontline" airs nationwide on PBS. We have replaced our as-published version of the story with the later version that ran in Monday morning's "L.A. Progressive." If you read it at their link, you'll get the art and a larger-font, for a nicely-titled read.
IT ALSO LETS YOU FORWARD A LINK TO JUST THAT ONE FEATURE STORY! Or just stick around and scroll-down in this edition.
Link is:
https://www.laprogressive.com/pbs-examines-facebook/
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EVENTS for the weekend and beyond are in a separate edition, also published today (Oct 27, 2018).
Here's the NEWS ("The News of the non-Trumpcentric universe" (c) 2018)
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First, the Guide stands with our fellow citizens of our nation and the world in joining in sorrow and mourning with the American Jewish community following the killing this morning of eleven worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. Never, when such a thing happens, can we allow ourselves to say, "Another one. Another gun nut filled with hatred and intolerance, with extremist ideas, another one, has committed a massacre of the innocent." Because making it generic numbs us to what it is, numbs us to the horror, numbs us to the shock and bewilderment of survivors and the families and loved ones of the dead. And we must never allow ourselves to become conditioned that "this happens." It need not happen, if we will force our politicians to listen to the high school students who survived Parkland. It is a national disgrace that our politics are accepting of gun lobby money and responsive to the desire of weapons manufacturers to maximize their sales, even to dangerously intolerant extremists, regardless of the impact on citizens and society.
LATE ADDITION...
Sun, Oct 28:
2 pm - "INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY MARCH FOR PITTSBURGH" begins from Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills. All are welcome to attend this march, organized in the wake of Saturday's massacre at the Jewish temple in Pittsburgh.
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# 1 news item...
15th ANNUAL "IAMA" -- INTERNATIONAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC AWARDS -- NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES
We've told you about this one in previous years. With a November 9th deadline to enter this year, you can't dawdle.
IAMA is a big deal, sponsored by D’Addario Strings, New Music Weekly, Loggins Promotion, Airplay Access, Aspri Reverb, Sirius XM Radio, Acoustic Café Radio Show, Bandzoogle, MixButton, MusicGateway.com, Kari Estrin Management & Consulting, Sonicbids, and USA Songwriting Competition.
Entering IAMA can get you recognized as a musician / performing artist and for your music.
There are many awards categories, including Best Male Artist, Best Female Artist, Best Group, and more.
Winning artists appear on a compilation CD circulated within the music industry and for broadcast and web radio airplay -- allowing the contest to assert "Winning artists will receive radio airplay," as well as "Gain music industry exposure."
It's easy to enter online or by mail.
Those who enter promptly can still get featured among their "Artists of the Month."
Online entries can be made with your mp3 file, OR with the URL of something you've already posted to YouTube or SoundCloud. That can be done at:
https://online.songwriting.net/iama
Full info, including how to enter by mail, and more, is at:
https://inacoustic.com/enter-here/
DEADLINE: Enter by November 9th or earlier.
We'll bring you word on who wins the 15th annual IAMA -- International Acoustic Music Awards. But why be a spectator? If you're a music-maker seeking a broader audience, why not enter?
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# 2 news item...
NEW ACOUSTIC RADIO PODCAST EPISODE JUST RELEASED BY IAMA
Featuring recent and past winners of IAMA -- the International Acoustic Music Awards -- podcast includes performances by Kevin Fisher, Bertie Higgins, Meghan Trainor, Tom Chapin, Mermaids Exist, and more. That newest music podcast has just been released by IAMA. (See the news feature above if you don't know what IAMA is.)
You can listen to -- or download -- the radio program and hear the award-winning performances by all these artists and bands, at:
https://inacoustic.com/iama-2018-podcast/
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# 3 news item...
"GLOBAL RECORDING ARTISTS" INTEGRATES SOCIAL MEDIA IN A CROSS-PLATFORM GROUP
The concept of "being on a label" has gone through so many evolutions and revolutions that many artists find it irrelevant to their careers. Still, others lament the crushing amounts of time required to sustain all those logistics and non-creative details and boring business aspects.
That's opened the door to an octopus of "services" that often prove to be more tentacle than service, from online music listening and distribution to tour and booking support.
Enter Global Recording Artists and its alter-ego, GRAgroup. At least part of their concept is distribution of cross-platform e-newsletters and promo to fans, journalists, and generally within the industry. Get something from them and you'll see graphics with blurbs and links to Facebook, Twitter, or other places where their artists have music available.
A good place to dip in for a sample is:
https://globalrecordingartists.fanbridge.com/campaigns/show.php?id=1480559&src=facebook
Now, you already know that we, at the Guide, are NOT advocates for the social media giants because of their invasive spyware and wholly predatory practices that sustain business models that make them richer than God. That said, we do recognize that most people have no problem joining the lemmings for the interaction they find beneficial, so we do not ignore that aspect of music presences in the cyber realm.
Global Recording Artists web presence enables multi-artist areas that provide cross-platform musical bazaars, which you can narrow with selectable genre categories.
A "new releases" page includes links, for example, for new CDs by John York and Maria Muldaur.
That's at:
http://www.gragroup.com/index.html
Of course, things eventually direct you to pages that allow you to hear and purchase individual CDs.
Examples of the latter range broadly, and include:
Merrell Fankhauser's "Flying To Machupicchu" at:
http://www.gragroup.com/fankhauser.html
Yes, there are folk artists and bands. There are also categories for easy listening, internation, accent records, and spoken word and books.
The full stable of artists and bands in the "folk and rock" category (they combine them) includes:
Allright Family Band
Anton Tsygankov
Big Brother & The Holding Co
Bill Mumy
Breath of Fire
Buffy Ford Stewart
Chris Darrow
Craig Caffall
Crawfish of Love
Dave Getz
David Peel and the Lower East Side
Djin Aquarian
Duncan Faure
Father Yod And The Sprit of 76
Flanelhed
Frost
Gail Muldrow
Hangmans Daughter
J. Jaffe
Jerry Burgan
John York
Karl Green Band
Ken Petersen
Kim Fowley
Linda Imperial
Maria Muldaur
Merrell Fankhauser
Nirvana
Normal Bean Band
Patrick Campbell-Lyons
Peter Daltrey
Redline
Sal Valentino
Sky Sunlight Saxon
The Seeds
The Standells
Sleepyard
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Sweet Jam
Tamarind
Tim Garon
Vigilance
We Five
Yahowha 13
It's a fun place to poke around, and you can sign-up for their free newsletter that brings those clickable oases of music across the spectrum of social media sites.
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# 4 news item...
ANN WILSON TO GUEST DJ ON SIRIUS XM'S "TOM PETTY RADIO"
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Her version of Petty's "LUNA" is released as latest track from her "Immortal" album, which has already produced two top-ten hits
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You probably know we've often celebrated the pivotal ACOUSTIC role of HEART. That's the ostensibly rock band led by sisters ANN & NANCY WILSON, since way back in the pre-disco seventies. Anyone who has no idea what we're talking about, hit YouTube or mom's old stack of vinyl for tracks from "Dreamboat Annie." Your musical world will expand exponentially beyond the acoustic "Stairway to Heaven" and James Taylor's and Linda Ronstadt's acoustic chart-toppers of that period.
Point is, music is a continuum, and the best artists are constantly seeking either perfection within their genre or new avenues of expression, or both. Along the way, their own celebrations of the influences of other artists is fulfilling for everyone, artist and fan alike.
In stepping-in to guest DJ on "Tom Petty Radio," ANN WILSON brings more than serendipitous timing to release her cover of Tom Petty's "Luna." It's the newest song from her critically acclaimed "IMMORTAL" album (on BMG), and she'll play the track alongside some of her favorite Petty songs, like "Room at the Top" and "A Woman in Love," among others.
The concept of "IMMORTAL" is poignant. It features 10 musically diverse tracks that pay tribute to some of Ann's influences and friends -- specifically, to those who've recently passed. All are easily among those whose music poignantly lives on for all of us.
Other highlights from the album include the Eagles' "Life In The Fast Lane," in honor of Glenn Frey, and Cream's "Politician," in honor of Jack Bruce, both of which made the Top Ten of the Mediabase "Classic Rock Tracks" chart.
Ann tells us, "'Luna' is perhaps my favorite Petty song; it's simple, romantic and aching."
She continues, more descriptively:
"The words say, 'Luna come to me tonight...I am a prisoner.' Speaking directly to the moon, as romantics will, there is a desire to be free in the moon's metaphysical power. 'Free' from what or whom? Though it's only reflected light, the soul of the moon has inspired countless lovers, dreamers and existentialists for time immemorial. This song is a classic and I have reimagined it in a sultry, unhurried, southern mood with Warren Haynes on guitar as the voice of the moon."
You'll get several chances to catch Ann's guest DJ session. That's especially good news, since it premieres Monday, November 5 at 5 am (Pacific). It gets its first repeat that day at 1 pm (PT).
All broadcasts are on SiriusXM's "Tom Petty Radio" via satellite on channel 31 and through the SiriusXM app on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online.
The guest DJ session will rebroadcast throughout the week on SiriusXM's "Tom Petty Radio," the channel that musically celebrates that artist's legendary career, including his solos and collaborations as well as music from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
Here are all the repeat times, US Pacific Time (watch for changes from Daylight to Standard time when that kicks-in):
Mon, Nov 5, 5 am & 1 pm
Tue, Nov 6, 7 am & 5 pm
Wed, Nov 7, 7 pm
Thu, Nov 8, 9 am
Fri, Nov 9, Noon & 10 pm
Sat, Nov 10, 10 am
Sun, Nov 11, 3 pm
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# 5 news item...SCIENCE CORNER...
LONG STREAMING CLOUD ON MARS -- WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
We've all come to understand that "Major Tom" is no longer David Bowie's everyman astronaut. These days it's a robot. Cold, inhuman, but able to awkwardly and slowly -- ever so slowly -- perform some good science and send back evidence of distant discoveries.
The latest?
A 1500 km-long cloud is streaming westward from atop a 20-km-high Martian volcano. That's wholly unexpected on a planet that's had almost no atmosphere for millions of years.
To be properly impressed, go have a look at Europe's ESA "Mars Express" image, released Oct. 25th. It's just one in a series the spacecraft has sent back as it nears the Red Planet:
http://m.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2018/10/elongated_cloud_on_mars/17836348-1-eng-GB/Elongated_cloud_on_Mars_article_mob.jpg
Since Sep. 13 2018, the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on board ESA’s "Mars Express" has been observing the evolution of this curious cloud formation. It appears regularly in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet’s equator.
In units you know, that 20 km mountain is 65,600+ feet high, more than twice as high as Mt. Everest. The cloud, as seen in today's VMC image (taken Oct. 10) is the obvious and prominent white, elongated feature.
The 1,500 km-long cloud measures 932 miles.
For all you wannabe Martian geographers, a view of the region with human-applied labels is provided by ESA at:
http://m.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/10/Elongated_cloud_on_Mars_annotated
Nearby Olympus Mons, barely visible in the shadow of night, is the largest and highest volcano in the Solar System. All these more-o-less conical peaks are in the Tharsis region. It's home to all the giant volcanoes on Mars -- sort of like the volcano-dotted US Pacific Northwest on steroids. Mountains on Mars can get so big because the planet is a third the size of Earth, so it has lesser gravity.
It's our planet's gravity that restricts Earth's mountains to a maximum of about 30,000 ft. They're simply squashed back down by gravity if tectonic forces try to make them higher. Thus, Mt. Everest is 29,029 ft. high and can't grow much more -- despite the colossal collision of India with the bottom of Asia that continues to ripple things upward from ancient sea floors into the high Himalyas, in the biggest fender-bender imaginable.
Okay, all that tectonic tutelage is fine. To think, tours of the highest peaks on two planets without leaving the comfy chair. But tagging along for a ride to Mars would be much better. Wanna go? (Virtually, anyway.)
You can play Major Tom and follow the development of this big Martian cloud by keeping up with the daily images sent from the Visual Monitoring Camera on Mars Express. Your ticket to ride is at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/esa_marswebcam/
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OUR FEATURE THIS WEEK
*** Saturday's original edition has been replaced by the version that ran in Monday morning's "L.A. Progressive." If you read it at their link, you'll get the art and a larger-font, for a nicely-titled read. Or, since you're here, stick around. Text content is the same.
Link is: https://www.laprogressive.com/pbs-examines-facebook/
PBS EXAMINES FACEBOOK, MONDAY & TUESDAY NIGHTS -- TIME FOR A HARD LOOK
By Larry Wines
A two-part PBS "Frontline" examination, "The Facebook Dilemma," will examine the growing gulf between the richest web predators, their widespread exploitation of everyone and everything, and public perception and expectation of privacy and democracy. Part 1 airs Monday, 9-10 pm, and Part 2 follows Tuesday, 10-11 pm. In L.A., both will be on KOCE, aka PBS SoCal.
But just where will they go with this?
The story of Facebook began as a way to engage in interactive email with several people at once. As its capability expanded beyond that, it left MySpace in the digital dust. In no time, its popularity increased exponentially. At first, it seemed the theoretical monetary worth of social media was consistent with previous tech bubbles, and the only worry was it would collapse and you'd lose your circle of "friends" you had never actually met.
It expanded beyond anything anyone imagined. It became powerful. Powerful in ways that defied the ability of its vast population of users to accept. Everyone was on Facebook, and no one was ready to see anything malevolent about it. That empowered it all the more.
But power brings hubris. Being drunk on power ultimately brings a painful hangover of hubris.
Facebook experienced that in a dramatic economic fall that followed a shocking revelation about its predatory business model. Yet, almost immediately, it seemed all was forgotten, even forgiven, about that fall from grace. It spoke to a less quantifiable power wielded by the social media giant.
IS REGULATION COMING?
It remains to be seen if fits and starts of Congressional calls for accountability will reestablish privacy. If you've heard the questions posed in hearings when the heads of tech giants have testified, you know what boobs our lawmakers are when it comes to even a basic ability to comprehend the capability of the internet.
Given what we know about Facebook, that should raise acute concern whether the cyber age will inflict its profitable paradigm of predictive analytics on every aspect of our lives, structuring every scrap of news to produce a desired outcome.
Silicon Valley execs publicly brag about knowing what you want before you know you want it. Sometimes they add the boast of being able to make you believe it was your idea to want (or "need") it in the first place, even when it didn't exist until they created it to make you want it.
From support for the next war to disposable trendy fashion, social media embodies an unholy alliance of Madison Avenue, Wall Street, Silicone Valley, and the military-industrial-cybersecurity complex. It functions to empower those who profit from tastemaking, trendsetting, and building political characterizations. And building support for or opposition to anything where a buck can be made. It often functions amorally to produce trends at the level of slogans and their modern counterpart, social media memes disseminated in cyber echo chambers.
CONSEQUENCES OF A RUNAWAY MONEY MACHINE
Let's do a reality check. The entire premise of where social media has gone is ridiculous. Facebook -- a corporation that makes nothing, in terms of manufacturing or production -- has a theoretical monetary worth that exceeds the biggest manufacturers in the world. So, a web giant based on supplying nothing but addictive echo chambers creates soapboxes and town halls as ethereal constructs. That, in turn, validates individual beliefs that are, most often, half-baked and not dependent on facts. And the dissemination of such garbage is universally accepted as the anxiously anticipated content of undeniably influential "news feeds" of millions of people.
It's "News" that is never subjected to the scrutiny of the most basic tests of journalism. Yet its reach and power to persuade or gain unquestioned acceptance is without match since Guttenberg brought reuseable type to the printing press.
Moreover, that somehow gets the entire world to give our social cyber validator access to all our private information. And how it does that seems to be as simple as manipulating a universal and quite pathetic human need to find validation. If that occurred by reasoned intellectual exchange, a different dialog might be possible. But it's done by having others identify and agree with our sources of frustration, and our visceral impulses for what ought to be done about them, and therein to unleash our half-baked opinions. About everything.
Desire to partake in this phenomenon has been able to keep anyone from noticing (or at least caring) that Facebook is, in effect, a friendly-faced predator. One that, more than any other business in the world, is actively hunting, capturing, and selling everything it knows about you.
Let's be clear about that: installing Facebook in any of your devices introduces an infestation of spyware, and exempts it from being identified by your anti-malware protection program. Installing Facebook gives it access to your non-Facebook email and everything else you read, write, browse, access, create, photograph, manage, share, communicate, or keep in storage. Facebook is the most effective intelligence agency the world has ever seen, and it gives itself real-time updates on all your whims, beliefs, preferences, changing attitudes, outrages du jour, susceptibility to media narratives, characterizations of events, and turns of phrase. It has created wholly unprecedented capability to meticulously analyze your every thought and attitude -- and provides an all-inclusive data set for any in-house or client analyst to know how to influence and change all of them.
It does those things quite purposefully, to profitably enable other predators to exploit all your hidden weaknesses. Often that's to keep your credit cards maxed-out in support of runaway consumerism that mindlessly depletes the planet's resources. All while making itself and its infectious mob of exploiters and predators richer than anyone who actually makes anything.
There's another aspect entirely. It is the ability for individuals with extreme viewpoints to monetize their presences with their rants, even as social media helps them find and build susceptible audience. While enjoying the smokescreen of "somebody else's fault" for the outcome of the 2016 election, Facebook has laughed all the way to the bank about the distraction of the two-dozen overseas purchasers of political ads during the 2016 US election cycle. That small-change focus of attention has protected commercialized social media from scrutiny over the millions of exploitable user accounts marketable for extreme ideology.
Facebook's business model facilitates fact-free zones to house cyber public squares for ignorant intolerance and energizing hate groups; it profitably drives audience to them; and it profitably markets them to its other customers.
DECRYPTING THE MATRIX
We hope these questions will be examined as central topics in the two-part PBS "Frontline" examination, "The Facebook Dilemma." But PBS hasn't been independent since Congress replaced public funding with corporate underwriting. We know that PBS and NPR have long been subject to protectionist vetting of content by current and prospective corporate underwriter-sponsors.
Wherever two hours of "Frontline" goes, all this bears far more scrutiny. Most likely, that will only come from concerted objective, take-no-prisoners, independent journalism.
The voices of journalists who actually are independent are gaining broader audiences across the spectrum of neglected and obfuscated topics. But the cadre of objective fact-miners still have miniscule impact and tiny investigative resources compared to the narratives of corporate mainstream media. And increasingly we see that "independent" may well be a cover for tribal. So every news consumer must look to whose nest is getting feathered and whose ox is getting gored.
I was among the first journalists to research and report an expose on Facebook nearly four years ago, back in 2015. In a two-part piece, I revealed that the social media giant's business model is based on marketing millions of snippets of purloined data and updates from continuously active surveillance -- all surveiled, collected, crunched, baked, distilled and compiled into sophisticated profiles and sold by subscription to myriad forms of corporate predators, political interests, and government "customers."
When I first revealed that Facebook was running a commercial intelligence agency engaged in universal spying on its users, there was immediate push back. Facebook blocked anyone from seeing the pages where the story appeared. They simultaneously banned me from their platform-- which is something I wear as a badge of honor.
DO ADDICTS PROTECT THEIR PUSHER?
That wasn't all. There was unexpected pushback. A large measure of resentment came from those addicted to Facebook. Revealing their cyber opiod was, it seems, regarded as a threat to maintaining their habit. Relatively few found the facts disturbing. Mostly, the hordes responded with either ridicule or resentment -- until Facebook erased all record that any such subject or commentary had ever existed.
Then life went on, disturbance forgotten, for those who check their Facebook pages every nine minutes to verify their validity as chief influencer of their own echo chamber.
We've learned since then that Facebook continually fine-tunes its propensity for addiction. It is cynically insidious. It preys on lizard-brain impulses and the most primal emotions to profitably create reinforcement loops.
They have perfected the message: Go back to Facebook for your fresh dose of validation. Everything else in life may be challenging and require you to tolerate uncooperative presences, annoying entities, disagreeable bosses, banal employees and blabby coworkers, along with unhelpful help-line voices, or people-in-the-way, in general.
But Facebook is always there, instantly ready to receive your rant and provide "friends" for the way you see things. "Friends" you'll never actually meet. But who will tell you you're brilliantly right and especially deserving of "likes!!!" with three exclamation points. "Friends" chosen by metadata analysis to be predisposed to the same half-baked conclusions at the center of your pet peeves.
Facebook provides a universe of "friends" who can be relied upon to tell you how right you are about, well, everything. Which makes you seek, and then need, more of the same fulfilling validation. Continuously.
Little is left to chance -- constantly adjusted research enables the model of addiction to self-correct. It adjusts like a cross between an amoeba and a chameleon, producing the right endorphins for a fierce happiness that needs to be fortified and reinforced by another dose, another Facebook experience.
God help anyone who threatens that. A Facebook addict is no different than any other addict when it comes to protecting the supplier of the euphoric experience.
It seems the unquestionable benevelonce of Big Brother from Orwell's "1984" -- the untouchable but essential presence who is too needed to be impersonal, who must know-all to protect you and keep you happy -- is just a few decades late.
Along the way we have discovered something George Orwell didn't anticipate: vehement tribalism is created and reinforced at the primal level. It's a function of the fragmentation of society into emphatic echo chambers that addictively validate their cyber dwellers as the only ones who can possibly be right, while anyone not in adherence is stupid or evil or both.
Perhaps that should have been predictable, given the crazy loyalties to college and professional sports. It tells a lot -- the easy adoption of the sense of "we" when talking about an athletic team of which the seeming participant is not a member. After all, hasn't the political bandwagon effect been around longer than the tailgate party in the stadium parking lot? And aren't both of them products of the need "to belong" and to see oneself as an essential part, a centrally indispensable figure, in -- something?
Whether playing a role that's truly influential, or indulging one as ethereal and impermanent as morning dew (beyond the hundreds of dollars spent on official team fan swag) people are responsive to and motivated by the fantasy that they are influential and their unique ideas matter. Even if an appropriate metaphor for the uniqueness of their creativity is the forty-dollar team shirt they bought -- with somebody else's name plastered across the back. Or becoming important by plastering a van with stickers to power a social media fantasy world of polarized political heroes and villains and real homemade bombs.
Little in the past year has been fortunate for our society. But there has been a growing presence of sources of disclosure of power-and-money alliances and their corrosive, disruptive, and destructive influences.
Along the way, one disclosure came as an incredible irony -- because it came from Facebook itself, through its own hubris. And we will watch "Frontline" with interest to see how they present this part of the story.
HOW FACEBOOK OUTED ITSELF
What finally produced widespread public interest in the hidden and predatory world of Facebook was its own effort to "out" one of its predatory clients. It came not from whistle-blowing to warn the public that someone was stealing your stuff. It came from Facebook yelling that a data thief was not sharing enough of the wealth for the data he got from Facebook.
That became a "limited hang out" disclosure that occasioned a particular kind of press characterization. It escaped mainstream media identification for the real nature and magnitude of what it was.
Facebook slut-shamed Cambridge Analytica. That predator of data / personal information was outed by Facebook for profitably exploiting Facebook users' personal data, beyond what it had paid Facebook to use. It seems the social media behemoth believed the public would take Facebook's side and help it to inflict costly crippling damage on the data-reselling customer it was branding as a freeloader.
Instead, there was a widespread if transitory gasp in response to collective shock of another kind altogether. It was the shock of some of the masses at having been "had," because Facebook had given itself access to all of everyone's private information.
ALL of it.
Just because you gave them the keys to your cyber home, cyber garage, cyber car, cyber storage space, cyber vacation home, cyber little black book and intimate diary, bank records, purchase history, fetishes, favorite positions as verified by your online cameras, everything you buy or peruse online, and all of your non-Facebook email messages, to and from anybody about anything -- it was, by god, an unwarranted invasion.
It was hard to tell which was more unbelievable -- Facebook's expectation that the world would be on their side when then pointed and yelled at the kid that stole their stolen lunch money, or the abject failure of mainstream media to report the full scope and magnitude of Facebook's immeasurable armada filled with pirated treasure.
HOW THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT FUNDED FACEBOOK
I already knew that Facebook was laying claim to a right to profitably exploit anything and everything that is in any way connected to its users. That was from my own reporting nearly four years ago -- the reporting that got my banished from their platform.
Yet with all that's READILY available out there -- starting with Facebook's own claim of proprietary rights in its encyclopedic user agreement -- mainstream media has never reported the most salient information, the stuff that changes the way Facebook should be seen by its user-subject-datamines / marketing-crash-test-dummies / psychologically-conditioned-into-impulsive-consumers-of-anything-anybody-is-determined-to-sell / addicts, and how all this came to be in the first place.
That is the tale of how nerdy Mark Zuckerberg -- the kid who wanted to run a computer hookup operation at Harvard so he could get laid -- was able to go big-time with surveiling, compiling, analyzing, and selling EVERYBODY'S personal information, and in so doing, make himself a gazillionaire. His facilitating benefactor was DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
WHEN GOVERNMENT "PRIVATIZES" ITS FUNCTIONS (AND DESIRES)
That came to pass because the federal government was prohibited in a raft of post-Watergate laws from setting itself up with a massive mainframe computer that could know everything about everybody. Which is exactly why the Defense Department and US intelligence agencies made sure computing went into private, commercial hands. Because nothing prevents government from being a customer of the private sector it sets-up to, you guessed it, know everything about everybody.
Why all this is toxic to democracy and incompatible with individual rights is immediately obvious. Given Facebook's developed capacity to produce public perceptions and make those it influences believe they are leaders with original thoughts, it isn't a reach to know how support for the next war can be built. Or how anyone rich enough to buy everything necessary to galvanize public opinion can become a successful office-seeking politician. Or how any expenditure of public funds can be popularly demanded or denied.
All based on manipulated perceptions.
Right now, Facebook knows more about manipulating individual and group wants and desires, dislikes and revulsions, than any entity in human history.
There is a way to stop this. Since my experience four years ago, I have continued to take particular interest in latter-day efforts to disclose nefarious influences and to stop them.
A WAY TO GET OUR PRIVACY BACK AND STILL BE "SOCIAL"
We can all become advocates for a wholly new structure for Social Media, based on Open Source programming and operated as nonprofit user co-ops. All questions of data mining and availability of any user data, individual factoids or metadata compilations, would be wholly decided by the user co-op itself.
Copyrights on all content would then protect everything from illegal raiders, exploiters and predators. And new laws -- US, EU (which has already taken the lead) and other international bodies -- should proscribe harshly expensive penalties for violators, with cyber-ban "e-death sentences" able to get rid of predators, for good.
Along the way, we must reestablish Net Neutrality to assure equal-opportunity access to all. We must prohibit corporate gatekeepers from running the internet as a toll road that's too expensive for anyone but themselves. And assure they cannot make intrusive access to our devices and data a condition of allowing us to get on the web. Think of that like figuratively demanding to plant a microphone in the car to allow us to get on the information superhighway.
These proposals are consistent with the values of the web as a cross between a post office and a public library. Public access to, with scrupulous protection of, private messaging and information, and universal access to knowledge and information without exploitation. If content providers need to be paid for access to what they provide, that must not allow them to infest us with their monitoring presence, either.
Pretty simplistic solution. Certainly a different vision than the reality we face today.
The two-part PBS "Frontline" examination of Facebook airs over two nights, Monday and Tuesday. Schedule is at the top.
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LATE UPDATE, Monday morning: this edition's news item # 6, the expose of Facebook's predatory business model and how it damages democracy and erases privacy, is our main feature story. It is TIMELY, before tonight's two-part "Frontline" airs nationwide on PBS. We have replaced our as-published version of the story with the later version that ran in Monday morning's "L.A. Progressive." If you read it at their link, you'll get the art and a larger-font, for a nicely-titled read.
IT ALSO LETS YOU FORWARD A LINK TO JUST THAT ONE FEATURE STORY! Or just stick around and scroll-down in this edition.
Link is:
https://www.laprogressive.com/pbs-examines-facebook/
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EVENTS for the weekend and beyond are in a separate edition, also published today (Oct 27, 2018).
Here's the NEWS ("The News of the non-Trumpcentric universe" (c) 2018)
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First, the Guide stands with our fellow citizens of our nation and the world in joining in sorrow and mourning with the American Jewish community following the killing this morning of eleven worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. Never, when such a thing happens, can we allow ourselves to say, "Another one. Another gun nut filled with hatred and intolerance, with extremist ideas, another one, has committed a massacre of the innocent." Because making it generic numbs us to what it is, numbs us to the horror, numbs us to the shock and bewilderment of survivors and the families and loved ones of the dead. And we must never allow ourselves to become conditioned that "this happens." It need not happen, if we will force our politicians to listen to the high school students who survived Parkland. It is a national disgrace that our politics are accepting of gun lobby money and responsive to the desire of weapons manufacturers to maximize their sales, even to dangerously intolerant extremists, regardless of the impact on citizens and society.
LATE ADDITION...
Sun, Oct 28:
2 pm - "INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY MARCH FOR PITTSBURGH" begins from Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills. All are welcome to attend this march, organized in the wake of Saturday's massacre at the Jewish temple in Pittsburgh.
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# 1 news item...
15th ANNUAL "IAMA" -- INTERNATIONAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC AWARDS -- NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES
We've told you about this one in previous years. With a November 9th deadline to enter this year, you can't dawdle.
IAMA is a big deal, sponsored by D’Addario Strings, New Music Weekly, Loggins Promotion, Airplay Access, Aspri Reverb, Sirius XM Radio, Acoustic Café Radio Show, Bandzoogle, MixButton, MusicGateway.com, Kari Estrin Management & Consulting, Sonicbids, and USA Songwriting Competition.
Entering IAMA can get you recognized as a musician / performing artist and for your music.
There are many awards categories, including Best Male Artist, Best Female Artist, Best Group, and more.
Winning artists appear on a compilation CD circulated within the music industry and for broadcast and web radio airplay -- allowing the contest to assert "Winning artists will receive radio airplay," as well as "Gain music industry exposure."
It's easy to enter online or by mail.
Those who enter promptly can still get featured among their "Artists of the Month."
Online entries can be made with your mp3 file, OR with the URL of something you've already posted to YouTube or SoundCloud. That can be done at:
https://online.songwriting.net/iama
Full info, including how to enter by mail, and more, is at:
https://inacoustic.com/enter-here/
DEADLINE: Enter by November 9th or earlier.
We'll bring you word on who wins the 15th annual IAMA -- International Acoustic Music Awards. But why be a spectator? If you're a music-maker seeking a broader audience, why not enter?
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# 2 news item...
NEW ACOUSTIC RADIO PODCAST EPISODE JUST RELEASED BY IAMA
Featuring recent and past winners of IAMA -- the International Acoustic Music Awards -- podcast includes performances by Kevin Fisher, Bertie Higgins, Meghan Trainor, Tom Chapin, Mermaids Exist, and more. That newest music podcast has just been released by IAMA. (See the news feature above if you don't know what IAMA is.)
You can listen to -- or download -- the radio program and hear the award-winning performances by all these artists and bands, at:
https://inacoustic.com/iama-2018-podcast/
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"GLOBAL RECORDING ARTISTS" INTEGRATES SOCIAL MEDIA IN A CROSS-PLATFORM GROUP
The concept of "being on a label" has gone through so many evolutions and revolutions that many artists find it irrelevant to their careers. Still, others lament the crushing amounts of time required to sustain all those logistics and non-creative details and boring business aspects.
That's opened the door to an octopus of "services" that often prove to be more tentacle than service, from online music listening and distribution to tour and booking support.
Enter Global Recording Artists and its alter-ego, GRAgroup. At least part of their concept is distribution of cross-platform e-newsletters and promo to fans, journalists, and generally within the industry. Get something from them and you'll see graphics with blurbs and links to Facebook, Twitter, or other places where their artists have music available.
A good place to dip in for a sample is:
https://globalrecordingartists.fanbridge.com/campaigns/show.php?id=1480559&src=facebook
Now, you already know that we, at the Guide, are NOT advocates for the social media giants because of their invasive spyware and wholly predatory practices that sustain business models that make them richer than God. That said, we do recognize that most people have no problem joining the lemmings for the interaction they find beneficial, so we do not ignore that aspect of music presences in the cyber realm.
Global Recording Artists web presence enables multi-artist areas that provide cross-platform musical bazaars, which you can narrow with selectable genre categories.
A "new releases" page includes links, for example, for new CDs by John York and Maria Muldaur.
That's at:
http://www.gragroup.com/index.html
Of course, things eventually direct you to pages that allow you to hear and purchase individual CDs.
Examples of the latter range broadly, and include:
Merrell Fankhauser's "Flying To Machupicchu" at:
http://www.gragroup.com/fankhauser.html
Yes, there are folk artists and bands. There are also categories for easy listening, internation, accent records, and spoken word and books.
The full stable of artists and bands in the "folk and rock" category (they combine them) includes:
Allright Family Band
Anton Tsygankov
Big Brother & The Holding Co
Bill Mumy
Breath of Fire
Buffy Ford Stewart
Chris Darrow
Craig Caffall
Crawfish of Love
Dave Getz
David Peel and the Lower East Side
Djin Aquarian
Duncan Faure
Father Yod And The Sprit of 76
Flanelhed
Frost
Gail Muldrow
Hangmans Daughter
J. Jaffe
Jerry Burgan
John York
Karl Green Band
Ken Petersen
Kim Fowley
Linda Imperial
Maria Muldaur
Merrell Fankhauser
Nirvana
Normal Bean Band
Patrick Campbell-Lyons
Peter Daltrey
Redline
Sal Valentino
Sky Sunlight Saxon
The Seeds
The Standells
Sleepyard
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Sweet Jam
Tamarind
Tim Garon
Vigilance
We Five
Yahowha 13
It's a fun place to poke around, and you can sign-up for their free newsletter that brings those clickable oases of music across the spectrum of social media sites.
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# 4 news item...
ANN WILSON TO GUEST DJ ON SIRIUS XM'S "TOM PETTY RADIO"
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Her version of Petty's "LUNA" is released as latest track from her "Immortal" album, which has already produced two top-ten hits
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You probably know we've often celebrated the pivotal ACOUSTIC role of HEART. That's the ostensibly rock band led by sisters ANN & NANCY WILSON, since way back in the pre-disco seventies. Anyone who has no idea what we're talking about, hit YouTube or mom's old stack of vinyl for tracks from "Dreamboat Annie." Your musical world will expand exponentially beyond the acoustic "Stairway to Heaven" and James Taylor's and Linda Ronstadt's acoustic chart-toppers of that period.
Point is, music is a continuum, and the best artists are constantly seeking either perfection within their genre or new avenues of expression, or both. Along the way, their own celebrations of the influences of other artists is fulfilling for everyone, artist and fan alike.
In stepping-in to guest DJ on "Tom Petty Radio," ANN WILSON brings more than serendipitous timing to release her cover of Tom Petty's "Luna." It's the newest song from her critically acclaimed "IMMORTAL" album (on BMG), and she'll play the track alongside some of her favorite Petty songs, like "Room at the Top" and "A Woman in Love," among others.
The concept of "IMMORTAL" is poignant. It features 10 musically diverse tracks that pay tribute to some of Ann's influences and friends -- specifically, to those who've recently passed. All are easily among those whose music poignantly lives on for all of us.
Other highlights from the album include the Eagles' "Life In The Fast Lane," in honor of Glenn Frey, and Cream's "Politician," in honor of Jack Bruce, both of which made the Top Ten of the Mediabase "Classic Rock Tracks" chart.
Ann tells us, "'Luna' is perhaps my favorite Petty song; it's simple, romantic and aching."
She continues, more descriptively:
"The words say, 'Luna come to me tonight...I am a prisoner.' Speaking directly to the moon, as romantics will, there is a desire to be free in the moon's metaphysical power. 'Free' from what or whom? Though it's only reflected light, the soul of the moon has inspired countless lovers, dreamers and existentialists for time immemorial. This song is a classic and I have reimagined it in a sultry, unhurried, southern mood with Warren Haynes on guitar as the voice of the moon."
You'll get several chances to catch Ann's guest DJ session. That's especially good news, since it premieres Monday, November 5 at 5 am (Pacific). It gets its first repeat that day at 1 pm (PT).
All broadcasts are on SiriusXM's "Tom Petty Radio" via satellite on channel 31 and through the SiriusXM app on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online.
The guest DJ session will rebroadcast throughout the week on SiriusXM's "Tom Petty Radio," the channel that musically celebrates that artist's legendary career, including his solos and collaborations as well as music from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
Here are all the repeat times, US Pacific Time (watch for changes from Daylight to Standard time when that kicks-in):
Mon, Nov 5, 5 am & 1 pm
Tue, Nov 6, 7 am & 5 pm
Wed, Nov 7, 7 pm
Thu, Nov 8, 9 am
Fri, Nov 9, Noon & 10 pm
Sat, Nov 10, 10 am
Sun, Nov 11, 3 pm
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# 5 news item...SCIENCE CORNER...
LONG STREAMING CLOUD ON MARS -- WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
We've all come to understand that "Major Tom" is no longer David Bowie's everyman astronaut. These days it's a robot. Cold, inhuman, but able to awkwardly and slowly -- ever so slowly -- perform some good science and send back evidence of distant discoveries.
The latest?
A 1500 km-long cloud is streaming westward from atop a 20-km-high Martian volcano. That's wholly unexpected on a planet that's had almost no atmosphere for millions of years.
To be properly impressed, go have a look at Europe's ESA "Mars Express" image, released Oct. 25th. It's just one in a series the spacecraft has sent back as it nears the Red Planet:
http://m.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2018/10/elongated_cloud_on_mars/17836348-1-eng-GB/Elongated_cloud_on_Mars_article_mob.jpg
Since Sep. 13 2018, the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on board ESA’s "Mars Express" has been observing the evolution of this curious cloud formation. It appears regularly in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet’s equator.
In units you know, that 20 km mountain is 65,600+ feet high, more than twice as high as Mt. Everest. The cloud, as seen in today's VMC image (taken Oct. 10) is the obvious and prominent white, elongated feature.
The 1,500 km-long cloud measures 932 miles.
For all you wannabe Martian geographers, a view of the region with human-applied labels is provided by ESA at:
http://m.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/10/Elongated_cloud_on_Mars_annotated
Nearby Olympus Mons, barely visible in the shadow of night, is the largest and highest volcano in the Solar System. All these more-o-less conical peaks are in the Tharsis region. It's home to all the giant volcanoes on Mars -- sort of like the volcano-dotted US Pacific Northwest on steroids. Mountains on Mars can get so big because the planet is a third the size of Earth, so it has lesser gravity.
It's our planet's gravity that restricts Earth's mountains to a maximum of about 30,000 ft. They're simply squashed back down by gravity if tectonic forces try to make them higher. Thus, Mt. Everest is 29,029 ft. high and can't grow much more -- despite the colossal collision of India with the bottom of Asia that continues to ripple things upward from ancient sea floors into the high Himalyas, in the biggest fender-bender imaginable.
Okay, all that tectonic tutelage is fine. To think, tours of the highest peaks on two planets without leaving the comfy chair. But tagging along for a ride to Mars would be much better. Wanna go? (Virtually, anyway.)
You can play Major Tom and follow the development of this big Martian cloud by keeping up with the daily images sent from the Visual Monitoring Camera on Mars Express. Your ticket to ride is at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/esa_marswebcam/
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*** Saturday's original edition has been replaced by the version that ran in Monday morning's "L.A. Progressive." If you read it at their link, you'll get the art and a larger-font, for a nicely-titled read. Or, since you're here, stick around. Text content is the same.
Link is: https://www.laprogressive.com/pbs-examines-facebook/
PBS EXAMINES FACEBOOK, MONDAY & TUESDAY NIGHTS -- TIME FOR A HARD LOOK
By Larry Wines
A two-part PBS "Frontline" examination, "The Facebook Dilemma," will examine the growing gulf between the richest web predators, their widespread exploitation of everyone and everything, and public perception and expectation of privacy and democracy. Part 1 airs Monday, 9-10 pm, and Part 2 follows Tuesday, 10-11 pm. In L.A., both will be on KOCE, aka PBS SoCal.
But just where will they go with this?
The story of Facebook began as a way to engage in interactive email with several people at once. As its capability expanded beyond that, it left MySpace in the digital dust. In no time, its popularity increased exponentially. At first, it seemed the theoretical monetary worth of social media was consistent with previous tech bubbles, and the only worry was it would collapse and you'd lose your circle of "friends" you had never actually met.
It expanded beyond anything anyone imagined. It became powerful. Powerful in ways that defied the ability of its vast population of users to accept. Everyone was on Facebook, and no one was ready to see anything malevolent about it. That empowered it all the more.
But power brings hubris. Being drunk on power ultimately brings a painful hangover of hubris.
Facebook experienced that in a dramatic economic fall that followed a shocking revelation about its predatory business model. Yet, almost immediately, it seemed all was forgotten, even forgiven, about that fall from grace. It spoke to a less quantifiable power wielded by the social media giant.
IS REGULATION COMING?
It remains to be seen if fits and starts of Congressional calls for accountability will reestablish privacy. If you've heard the questions posed in hearings when the heads of tech giants have testified, you know what boobs our lawmakers are when it comes to even a basic ability to comprehend the capability of the internet.
Given what we know about Facebook, that should raise acute concern whether the cyber age will inflict its profitable paradigm of predictive analytics on every aspect of our lives, structuring every scrap of news to produce a desired outcome.
Silicon Valley execs publicly brag about knowing what you want before you know you want it. Sometimes they add the boast of being able to make you believe it was your idea to want (or "need") it in the first place, even when it didn't exist until they created it to make you want it.
From support for the next war to disposable trendy fashion, social media embodies an unholy alliance of Madison Avenue, Wall Street, Silicone Valley, and the military-industrial-cybersecurity complex. It functions to empower those who profit from tastemaking, trendsetting, and building political characterizations. And building support for or opposition to anything where a buck can be made. It often functions amorally to produce trends at the level of slogans and their modern counterpart, social media memes disseminated in cyber echo chambers.
CONSEQUENCES OF A RUNAWAY MONEY MACHINE
Let's do a reality check. The entire premise of where social media has gone is ridiculous. Facebook -- a corporation that makes nothing, in terms of manufacturing or production -- has a theoretical monetary worth that exceeds the biggest manufacturers in the world. So, a web giant based on supplying nothing but addictive echo chambers creates soapboxes and town halls as ethereal constructs. That, in turn, validates individual beliefs that are, most often, half-baked and not dependent on facts. And the dissemination of such garbage is universally accepted as the anxiously anticipated content of undeniably influential "news feeds" of millions of people.
It's "News" that is never subjected to the scrutiny of the most basic tests of journalism. Yet its reach and power to persuade or gain unquestioned acceptance is without match since Guttenberg brought reuseable type to the printing press.
Moreover, that somehow gets the entire world to give our social cyber validator access to all our private information. And how it does that seems to be as simple as manipulating a universal and quite pathetic human need to find validation. If that occurred by reasoned intellectual exchange, a different dialog might be possible. But it's done by having others identify and agree with our sources of frustration, and our visceral impulses for what ought to be done about them, and therein to unleash our half-baked opinions. About everything.
Desire to partake in this phenomenon has been able to keep anyone from noticing (or at least caring) that Facebook is, in effect, a friendly-faced predator. One that, more than any other business in the world, is actively hunting, capturing, and selling everything it knows about you.
Let's be clear about that: installing Facebook in any of your devices introduces an infestation of spyware, and exempts it from being identified by your anti-malware protection program. Installing Facebook gives it access to your non-Facebook email and everything else you read, write, browse, access, create, photograph, manage, share, communicate, or keep in storage. Facebook is the most effective intelligence agency the world has ever seen, and it gives itself real-time updates on all your whims, beliefs, preferences, changing attitudes, outrages du jour, susceptibility to media narratives, characterizations of events, and turns of phrase. It has created wholly unprecedented capability to meticulously analyze your every thought and attitude -- and provides an all-inclusive data set for any in-house or client analyst to know how to influence and change all of them.
It does those things quite purposefully, to profitably enable other predators to exploit all your hidden weaknesses. Often that's to keep your credit cards maxed-out in support of runaway consumerism that mindlessly depletes the planet's resources. All while making itself and its infectious mob of exploiters and predators richer than anyone who actually makes anything.
There's another aspect entirely. It is the ability for individuals with extreme viewpoints to monetize their presences with their rants, even as social media helps them find and build susceptible audience. While enjoying the smokescreen of "somebody else's fault" for the outcome of the 2016 election, Facebook has laughed all the way to the bank about the distraction of the two-dozen overseas purchasers of political ads during the 2016 US election cycle. That small-change focus of attention has protected commercialized social media from scrutiny over the millions of exploitable user accounts marketable for extreme ideology.
Facebook's business model facilitates fact-free zones to house cyber public squares for ignorant intolerance and energizing hate groups; it profitably drives audience to them; and it profitably markets them to its other customers.
DECRYPTING THE MATRIX
We hope these questions will be examined as central topics in the two-part PBS "Frontline" examination, "The Facebook Dilemma." But PBS hasn't been independent since Congress replaced public funding with corporate underwriting. We know that PBS and NPR have long been subject to protectionist vetting of content by current and prospective corporate underwriter-sponsors.
Wherever two hours of "Frontline" goes, all this bears far more scrutiny. Most likely, that will only come from concerted objective, take-no-prisoners, independent journalism.
The voices of journalists who actually are independent are gaining broader audiences across the spectrum of neglected and obfuscated topics. But the cadre of objective fact-miners still have miniscule impact and tiny investigative resources compared to the narratives of corporate mainstream media. And increasingly we see that "independent" may well be a cover for tribal. So every news consumer must look to whose nest is getting feathered and whose ox is getting gored.
I was among the first journalists to research and report an expose on Facebook nearly four years ago, back in 2015. In a two-part piece, I revealed that the social media giant's business model is based on marketing millions of snippets of purloined data and updates from continuously active surveillance -- all surveiled, collected, crunched, baked, distilled and compiled into sophisticated profiles and sold by subscription to myriad forms of corporate predators, political interests, and government "customers."
When I first revealed that Facebook was running a commercial intelligence agency engaged in universal spying on its users, there was immediate push back. Facebook blocked anyone from seeing the pages where the story appeared. They simultaneously banned me from their platform-- which is something I wear as a badge of honor.
DO ADDICTS PROTECT THEIR PUSHER?
That wasn't all. There was unexpected pushback. A large measure of resentment came from those addicted to Facebook. Revealing their cyber opiod was, it seems, regarded as a threat to maintaining their habit. Relatively few found the facts disturbing. Mostly, the hordes responded with either ridicule or resentment -- until Facebook erased all record that any such subject or commentary had ever existed.
Then life went on, disturbance forgotten, for those who check their Facebook pages every nine minutes to verify their validity as chief influencer of their own echo chamber.
We've learned since then that Facebook continually fine-tunes its propensity for addiction. It is cynically insidious. It preys on lizard-brain impulses and the most primal emotions to profitably create reinforcement loops.
They have perfected the message: Go back to Facebook for your fresh dose of validation. Everything else in life may be challenging and require you to tolerate uncooperative presences, annoying entities, disagreeable bosses, banal employees and blabby coworkers, along with unhelpful help-line voices, or people-in-the-way, in general.
But Facebook is always there, instantly ready to receive your rant and provide "friends" for the way you see things. "Friends" you'll never actually meet. But who will tell you you're brilliantly right and especially deserving of "likes!!!" with three exclamation points. "Friends" chosen by metadata analysis to be predisposed to the same half-baked conclusions at the center of your pet peeves.
Facebook provides a universe of "friends" who can be relied upon to tell you how right you are about, well, everything. Which makes you seek, and then need, more of the same fulfilling validation. Continuously.
Little is left to chance -- constantly adjusted research enables the model of addiction to self-correct. It adjusts like a cross between an amoeba and a chameleon, producing the right endorphins for a fierce happiness that needs to be fortified and reinforced by another dose, another Facebook experience.
God help anyone who threatens that. A Facebook addict is no different than any other addict when it comes to protecting the supplier of the euphoric experience.
It seems the unquestionable benevelonce of Big Brother from Orwell's "1984" -- the untouchable but essential presence who is too needed to be impersonal, who must know-all to protect you and keep you happy -- is just a few decades late.
Along the way we have discovered something George Orwell didn't anticipate: vehement tribalism is created and reinforced at the primal level. It's a function of the fragmentation of society into emphatic echo chambers that addictively validate their cyber dwellers as the only ones who can possibly be right, while anyone not in adherence is stupid or evil or both.
Perhaps that should have been predictable, given the crazy loyalties to college and professional sports. It tells a lot -- the easy adoption of the sense of "we" when talking about an athletic team of which the seeming participant is not a member. After all, hasn't the political bandwagon effect been around longer than the tailgate party in the stadium parking lot? And aren't both of them products of the need "to belong" and to see oneself as an essential part, a centrally indispensable figure, in -- something?
Whether playing a role that's truly influential, or indulging one as ethereal and impermanent as morning dew (beyond the hundreds of dollars spent on official team fan swag) people are responsive to and motivated by the fantasy that they are influential and their unique ideas matter. Even if an appropriate metaphor for the uniqueness of their creativity is the forty-dollar team shirt they bought -- with somebody else's name plastered across the back. Or becoming important by plastering a van with stickers to power a social media fantasy world of polarized political heroes and villains and real homemade bombs.
Little in the past year has been fortunate for our society. But there has been a growing presence of sources of disclosure of power-and-money alliances and their corrosive, disruptive, and destructive influences.
Along the way, one disclosure came as an incredible irony -- because it came from Facebook itself, through its own hubris. And we will watch "Frontline" with interest to see how they present this part of the story.
HOW FACEBOOK OUTED ITSELF
What finally produced widespread public interest in the hidden and predatory world of Facebook was its own effort to "out" one of its predatory clients. It came not from whistle-blowing to warn the public that someone was stealing your stuff. It came from Facebook yelling that a data thief was not sharing enough of the wealth for the data he got from Facebook.
That became a "limited hang out" disclosure that occasioned a particular kind of press characterization. It escaped mainstream media identification for the real nature and magnitude of what it was.
Facebook slut-shamed Cambridge Analytica. That predator of data / personal information was outed by Facebook for profitably exploiting Facebook users' personal data, beyond what it had paid Facebook to use. It seems the social media behemoth believed the public would take Facebook's side and help it to inflict costly crippling damage on the data-reselling customer it was branding as a freeloader.
Instead, there was a widespread if transitory gasp in response to collective shock of another kind altogether. It was the shock of some of the masses at having been "had," because Facebook had given itself access to all of everyone's private information.
ALL of it.
Just because you gave them the keys to your cyber home, cyber garage, cyber car, cyber storage space, cyber vacation home, cyber little black book and intimate diary, bank records, purchase history, fetishes, favorite positions as verified by your online cameras, everything you buy or peruse online, and all of your non-Facebook email messages, to and from anybody about anything -- it was, by god, an unwarranted invasion.
It was hard to tell which was more unbelievable -- Facebook's expectation that the world would be on their side when then pointed and yelled at the kid that stole their stolen lunch money, or the abject failure of mainstream media to report the full scope and magnitude of Facebook's immeasurable armada filled with pirated treasure.
HOW THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT FUNDED FACEBOOK
I already knew that Facebook was laying claim to a right to profitably exploit anything and everything that is in any way connected to its users. That was from my own reporting nearly four years ago -- the reporting that got my banished from their platform.
Yet with all that's READILY available out there -- starting with Facebook's own claim of proprietary rights in its encyclopedic user agreement -- mainstream media has never reported the most salient information, the stuff that changes the way Facebook should be seen by its user-subject-datamines / marketing-crash-test-dummies / psychologically-conditioned-into-impulsive-consumers-of-anything-anybody-is-determined-to-sell / addicts, and how all this came to be in the first place.
That is the tale of how nerdy Mark Zuckerberg -- the kid who wanted to run a computer hookup operation at Harvard so he could get laid -- was able to go big-time with surveiling, compiling, analyzing, and selling EVERYBODY'S personal information, and in so doing, make himself a gazillionaire. His facilitating benefactor was DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
WHEN GOVERNMENT "PRIVATIZES" ITS FUNCTIONS (AND DESIRES)
That came to pass because the federal government was prohibited in a raft of post-Watergate laws from setting itself up with a massive mainframe computer that could know everything about everybody. Which is exactly why the Defense Department and US intelligence agencies made sure computing went into private, commercial hands. Because nothing prevents government from being a customer of the private sector it sets-up to, you guessed it, know everything about everybody.
Why all this is toxic to democracy and incompatible with individual rights is immediately obvious. Given Facebook's developed capacity to produce public perceptions and make those it influences believe they are leaders with original thoughts, it isn't a reach to know how support for the next war can be built. Or how anyone rich enough to buy everything necessary to galvanize public opinion can become a successful office-seeking politician. Or how any expenditure of public funds can be popularly demanded or denied.
All based on manipulated perceptions.
Right now, Facebook knows more about manipulating individual and group wants and desires, dislikes and revulsions, than any entity in human history.
There is a way to stop this. Since my experience four years ago, I have continued to take particular interest in latter-day efforts to disclose nefarious influences and to stop them.
A WAY TO GET OUR PRIVACY BACK AND STILL BE "SOCIAL"
We can all become advocates for a wholly new structure for Social Media, based on Open Source programming and operated as nonprofit user co-ops. All questions of data mining and availability of any user data, individual factoids or metadata compilations, would be wholly decided by the user co-op itself.
Copyrights on all content would then protect everything from illegal raiders, exploiters and predators. And new laws -- US, EU (which has already taken the lead) and other international bodies -- should proscribe harshly expensive penalties for violators, with cyber-ban "e-death sentences" able to get rid of predators, for good.
Along the way, we must reestablish Net Neutrality to assure equal-opportunity access to all. We must prohibit corporate gatekeepers from running the internet as a toll road that's too expensive for anyone but themselves. And assure they cannot make intrusive access to our devices and data a condition of allowing us to get on the web. Think of that like figuratively demanding to plant a microphone in the car to allow us to get on the information superhighway.
These proposals are consistent with the values of the web as a cross between a post office and a public library. Public access to, with scrupulous protection of, private messaging and information, and universal access to knowledge and information without exploitation. If content providers need to be paid for access to what they provide, that must not allow them to infest us with their monitoring presence, either.
Pretty simplistic solution. Certainly a different vision than the reality we face today.
The two-part PBS "Frontline" examination of Facebook airs over two nights, Monday and Tuesday. Schedule is at the top.
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Events -- Music & HALLOWEEN. Oct 27 2018 edition
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First, the Guide stands with our fellow citizens of our nation and the world in joining in sorrow and mourning with the American Jewish community following the killing this morning of eleven worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. Never, when such a thing happens, can we allow ourselves to say, "Another one. Another gun nut filled with hatred and intolerance, with extremist ideas, another one, has committed a massacre of the innocent." Because making it generic numbs us to what it is, numbs us to the horror, numbs us to the shock and bewilderment of survivors and the families and loved ones of the dead. And we must never allow ourselves to become conditioned that "this happens." It need not happen, if we will force our politicians to listen to the high school students who survived Parkland. It is a national disgrace that our politics are accepting of gun lobby money and responsive to the desire of weapons manufacturers to maximize their sales, even to dangerously intolerant extremists, regardless of the impact on citizens and society.
LATE ADDITION...
Sun, Oct 28:
2 pm - "INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY MARCH FOR PITTSBURGH" begins from Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills. All are welcome to attend this march, organized in the wake of Saturday's massacre at the Jewish temple in Pittsburgh.
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Sat, Oct 27:
1 pm-4 pm - "Gallery Chat: Gene Autry and the Autry Museum" is a one-time special event at the Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA 90027 (across from the L.A. Zoo).
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Sat, Oct 27:
2 pm "ROCK THE VOTE" MATINEE at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236; more at: www.coffeegallery.com/showsat.htm
* SOLD-OUT. Call for the waiting list.
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Sat, Oct 27:
8 pm - RUTHIE FOSTER plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe's Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA.
* In the tightknit musical community of Austin, Texas, it’s tough to get away with posturing. You either bring it, or you don’t. If you do, word gets around.
* And one day, if you're RUTHIE FOSTER, you find yourself duetting with Bonnie Raitt, or standing onstage with the Allman Brothers at New York’s Beacon Theater, and trading verses with Susan Tedeschi.
* You might even wind up getting nominated for a "Best Blues Album" Grammy — three times in a row. And those nominations would be in addition to your seven "Blues Music Awards," three "Austin Music Awards," the "Grand Prix du Disque" award from the Académie Charles-Cros in France, a "Living Blues Critics’ Award" for "Female Blues Artist of the Year," and the title of an “inspiring American Artist” as a United States Artists 2018 Fellow.
* Even in the storied scene of Austin, there’s only one Austinite with that résumé: Ruthie Foster. Described by Rolling Stone as “pure magic to watch and hear,” her vocal talent was elevated in worship services at her community church.
* Drawing influence from legendary acts like Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin, Foster developed a unique sound unable to be contained within a single genre. That uniqueness echoes a common theme in Ruthie’s life and career - marching to the beat of her own drum.
* Tix at www.mccabes.com
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Sat, Oct 27:
8 pm - SHAWN JONES BAND, plus the Bobby Bluehouse Band with various special guests, play the already underway "Winter Blues Series" Fridays & Saturdays at the Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA.
* Fun venue has good food with generous portions (two can share), plus a full bar with drink specials, and pool tables with friendly games. Plenty of seating and room to dance.
* Two stages, one at each end of the roomy club, keep the music continuous when bands change.
* Adv tickets at a substantial discount for all concerts at the venue, at: http://arcadiabluesclub.eventbrite.com
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Sat, Oct 27:
8 pm - "The Springsteen Experience" at the Grand Annex, 434 W 6th St, San Pedro, CA 90731; www.grandvision.org
* This tribute band show offers "A wild ride through The Boss' brilliant musical catalog with Josh Schreiber’s acclaimed tribute show."
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Sat, Oct 27, HALLOWEEN SHOW:
8 pm-11 pm - MARCH FOURTH, the delightfully eclectic marching band on stilts / stage act, plays the "HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST" night at Discovery Ventura, 1888 E Thompson Bl, Ventura, CA 93001
* Costume Contest has a $300 cash prize.
* Tix: $16 adv, $20 day of show if any remain; https://nightout.com/events/march-forth-marching-band-at-discovery-ventura/tickets
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Sat, Oct 27, HALLOWEEN SHOW:
8 pm-11 pm - ANDY & RENEE & HARD RAIN play the Halloween Party at The Lemonade Stand, 24100 Narbonne Av, Suites 102-104, Lomita, CA 90717; 310-294-0810.
* Costume Contest, "Spooky Snacks," cash bar, great music from the South Bay's top award-winning band (roots, Dylan tribute, originals, more). Doors at 7:30.
* Tix, $25, at: www.andyandrenee.com
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Sat, Oct 27, HALLLOWEEN -- MUSICAL THEATRE:
8 pm-10 pm - "DRACULA: THE MUSICAL" presented by Palmdale Repertory Theatre at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St E, Palmdale, California 93550
* And now for something completely different. The classic horror tale set to song and dance: It’s Mel Brooks meets Gilbert & Sullivan meets Monty Python.
* Story line: Dracula is after Mina, and people don’t grasp that she’s in danger until Van Helsing arrives. Everyone must rescue Mina when she’s abducted by Dracula and whisked to his castle.
* "This delightful classic horror tale spoof is an unparalleled romp from start to finish."
* Book, music and lyrics by Rick Abbot.
* Tix at: www.tickets.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?e=c98df4f2b9099a6713cbc6712b94bc7b&t=tix&vqitq=c1e70ecd-b2f4-4688-8267-8db6f06
* Runs Fri-Sat-Sun, Oct 19-20-21, and Fri-Sat-Sun, 26-27-28. 8 pm Fri & Sat, 2 pm Sun.
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Sat, Oct 27; worldish music:
8 pm - SERGIO MENDES with Ana Tijoux’s Roja y Negro, plays The Soraya, formerly the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center / CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330; 818-677-8800; www.valleyperformingartscenter.org
Tix, $39-$86.
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Sat, Oct 27, HALLOWEEN SHOW:
9 pm - "The Rocky Horror Hipster Show" brings FREE standup to Three Clubs Cocktail Lounge, 1123 Vine St, Hollywood, CA 90038; 323-462-6441; www.threeclubs.com
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LATE ADDITION...
Sun, Oct 28:
2 pm - "INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY MARCH FOR PITTSBURGH" begins from Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills. All are welcome to attend this march, organized in the wake of Saturday's massacre at the Jewish temple in Pittsburgh.
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Sun, Oct 28, HALLOWEEN -- MUSICAL THEATRE:
2 pm-4 pm - "DRACULA: THE MUSICAL" presented by Palmdale Repertory Theatre at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St E, Palmdale, California 93550
* See full write-up on Sat, Oct 27, 8 pm.
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Sun, Oct 28 & Nov 4, HALLOWEEN SHOW:
3 pm & 7 pm - "SAMHAIN -- A CELTIC HALLOWEEN" THE ANNUAL IRISH-CELTIC HALLOWEEN SHOW returns, produced by CELTIC RHYTHMS
( Was previously advertised at MacLeod's Ale Brewery in Van Nuys)
* With a cast of top-rated Southern Cal based touring Irish and Celtic musicians and dancers, this is always one of the very best autumn events.
* LOCATION HAS CHANGED. Venue is now The Hudson Theatre Mainstage, 6539 Santa Monica Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90038
* Finally! The proper kind of venue that this wonderful production deserves!
* Parking: There is ample street parking. Valet for $7 is also available beginning one hour before the show.
* Cafe: The Hudson Lobby has a full-scale espresso bar that sells food and beverages, including beer and wine.
* It's a Celtic Halloween extravaganza with a full Irish band and Irish dancers, "interspersed with ghastly tales from the Celtic netherworlds."
* Ticket sales at the door are cash only, but tend to sell-out early.
* General seating only; Preferred Seats are sold-out.
* More info at: www.Celtic-Rhythms.com/Samhain
* Tickets at: www.Celtic-Rhythms.com/Samhain-Tickets
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• Sun, Oct 28, 3 pm & 7 pm
• Sun, Nov 4, 3 pm only (NO 7 pm show).
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* Pronounced "Sau-in," like sauerkraut, it's the musically-powered tale and celebration of what became "All-Hallows-Eve," and then Halloween in our time.
* NOTE change from planned 4 to a total of three shows over the two days.
* Information and tickets at: https://celtic-rhythms.com/samhain-tickets
or 818-939-4313.
* Buy early for the best seats.
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Sun, Oct 28, FESTIVAL for HALLOWEEN:
3 pm-9 pm - 7th annual "San Pedro's Dia de los Muertos Festival" is a street festival with two stages of live music at 398 W 6th St, in downtown San Pedro, CA
* The Grammy-winning MARIACHI DIVAS headline.
* The streets come alive with traditional art, vendors, activities for kids, and food and drink.
* Produced by the San Pedro Historic Waterfront Business Improvement District with live music and dance presented by Grand Vision.
* Lineup:
• Mariachi Divas
• Kotolan
• Salt Petal
* Tix are FREE online, at: www.sanpedrodayofthedead.com
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Sun, Oct 28:
8 pm - ELIZA GILKYSON & NINA GERBER play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe's Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA.
* ELIZA GILKYSON is a 2-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and activist who has become one of the most respected musicians in Folk, Roots and Americana circles.
* Eliza has appeared on NPR, "Austin City Limits," "Mountain Stage," "etown," Sirius/XM, Air America Radio, more.
* She has toured worldwide as a solo artist and in support of Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Dan Fogelberg.
* NINA GERBER has a unique ability to completely free herself within an eclectic range of styles. Presented with folk, country, bluegrass, rock, or blues, she is able to fall into leads which have rare reverence for the true feeling of a song, always emphasizing taste over technical display. She seeks to express through her hands, rather than gain attention, and it is this integrity which makes her expressions worth intent listening.
* Tix at: www.mccabes.com
___
POST-WEEKEND EVENTS COMING SOON -- SOME ARE ALREADY IN THE OCT 15 EDITION, AVAILABLE IN THE CONTENTS BAR AT LEFT, OR BY SCROLLING DOWN, DEPENDING ON YOUR BROWSER AND / OR DEVICE.
Some TICKET ALERTS, new Oct 26, are in the section just below.
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TICKET ALERTS...
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A few 2019 concerts just went on sale. Act if you're interested in the best seats for any of the following.
Thu, Jan 24:
8 pm - The Branford Marsalis Quartet brings its signature jazz to the Soraya, formerly the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center / CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330; 818-677-8800; www.valleyperformingartscenter.org
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Feb 1-Mar 5, will run every Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun:
8 pm - "FOR PIANO AND HARPO," at the Garry Marshall Theatre, formerly the Falcon Theatre, 4252 Riverside Dr, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-955-8101; www.falcontheatre.com
* Tix on Sale Jan 4.
* Tix, $32-$45, will be available Jan 4, at: https://www.garrymarshalltheatre.org/
* A Laugh Then Think Production, written by & starring Dan Castellaneta. Directed by Stefan Novinski. The plot (from LA Weekly): "Oscar Levant, the brilliant, witty, pill-popping concert pianist, wakes up to find himself in the Psych Ward of Mt. Sinai Hospital. His past collides with his present, as he grapples with his demons to save his marriage and his sanity. It’s a nightmarish, and sometimes hilarious journey, from addiction to redemption, as he verbally jousts with Jack Paar, is haunted by the genius of George Gershwin, and moves in with his only friend, Harpo Marx."
* Tix for current shows: https://ci.ovationtix.com/19
___
Thu, Mar 28, world music:
8 pm - Red Baraat "Festival of Colors" Celebrating the Hindu at the Soraya, formerly the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center / CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330; 818-677-8800; www.valleyperformingartscenter.org
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THIS ONE IS LAAAAATE. Y'see, we got caught-up in that 18-inning World Series game 3 that went 7 hours and 20 minutes from 5 pm Friday until after midnight, Saturday morning. Longest pre-season baseball game in history. And the DODGERS WON! So we didn't get things ready to go here.
Can't say it won't happen again. There is Game 4 on Saturday, and Game 5 on Sunday. And we might decide not to do as we say, and go see live performances by talented artists, instead of being sedentary and watching athletes on TV. Call it full disclosure, even when It's embarrassing.
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LEGALESE, CONTACTING US, 'N SUCH...
Boilerplate? Where's the main pressure gauge? And the firebox?
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♪ The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE endeavors to bring you NEWS – and views of interest to artists everywhere – more specifically to musicians and the creative community and music makers and fans of acoustic and Folk-Americana music. That includes both traditional and innovative forms. From the deepest roots to today’s acoustic renaissance, that’s our beat. We provide a wealth of resources, including a HUGE catalog of acoustic-friendly venues (now undergoing a major update), and inside info on FESTIVALS and select performances in Southern California in venues from the monumentally large to the intimately small and cozy. We cover workshops, conferences, and other events for artists and folks in the music industry, and all kinds o’ things in the world of acoustic and Americana and accessible classical music. From washtub bass to musical spoons to oboe to viola to banjo to squeezebox, from Djangostyle to new-fangled-old-time string band music, from sweet Cajun fiddle to bluegrass and pre-bluegrass Appalachian mountain music to all the swamp water roots of the blues and the bright lights of where the music is headed now.
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WEEKEND EVENTS... followed by some TICKET ALERTS for 2019 shows.
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First, the Guide stands with our fellow citizens of our nation and the world in joining in sorrow and mourning with the American Jewish community following the killing this morning of eleven worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. Never, when such a thing happens, can we allow ourselves to say, "Another one. Another gun nut filled with hatred and intolerance, with extremist ideas, another one, has committed a massacre of the innocent." Because making it generic numbs us to what it is, numbs us to the horror, numbs us to the shock and bewilderment of survivors and the families and loved ones of the dead. And we must never allow ourselves to become conditioned that "this happens." It need not happen, if we will force our politicians to listen to the high school students who survived Parkland. It is a national disgrace that our politics are accepting of gun lobby money and responsive to the desire of weapons manufacturers to maximize their sales, even to dangerously intolerant extremists, regardless of the impact on citizens and society.
LATE ADDITION...
Sun, Oct 28:
2 pm - "INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY MARCH FOR PITTSBURGH" begins from Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills. All are welcome to attend this march, organized in the wake of Saturday's massacre at the Jewish temple in Pittsburgh.
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EVENTS are presented chronologically, by day and start time.
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Saturday...
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Sat, Oct 27:
1 pm-4 pm - "Gallery Chat: Gene Autry and the Autry Museum" is a one-time special event at the Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA 90027 (across from the L.A. Zoo).
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Sat, Oct 27:
2 pm "ROCK THE VOTE" MATINEE at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena, CA; reservations by phone only, 10 am-10 pm, 7 days: 626-798-6236; more at: www.coffeegallery.com/showsat.htm
* SOLD-OUT. Call for the waiting list.
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Sat, Oct 27:
8 pm - RUTHIE FOSTER plays the famous concert hall in back of McCabe's Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA.
* In the tightknit musical community of Austin, Texas, it’s tough to get away with posturing. You either bring it, or you don’t. If you do, word gets around.
* And one day, if you're RUTHIE FOSTER, you find yourself duetting with Bonnie Raitt, or standing onstage with the Allman Brothers at New York’s Beacon Theater, and trading verses with Susan Tedeschi.
* You might even wind up getting nominated for a "Best Blues Album" Grammy — three times in a row. And those nominations would be in addition to your seven "Blues Music Awards," three "Austin Music Awards," the "Grand Prix du Disque" award from the Académie Charles-Cros in France, a "Living Blues Critics’ Award" for "Female Blues Artist of the Year," and the title of an “inspiring American Artist” as a United States Artists 2018 Fellow.
* Even in the storied scene of Austin, there’s only one Austinite with that résumé: Ruthie Foster. Described by Rolling Stone as “pure magic to watch and hear,” her vocal talent was elevated in worship services at her community church.
* Drawing influence from legendary acts like Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin, Foster developed a unique sound unable to be contained within a single genre. That uniqueness echoes a common theme in Ruthie’s life and career - marching to the beat of her own drum.
* Tix at www.mccabes.com
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Sat, Oct 27:
8 pm - SHAWN JONES BAND, plus the Bobby Bluehouse Band with various special guests, play the already underway "Winter Blues Series" Fridays & Saturdays at the Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA.
* Fun venue has good food with generous portions (two can share), plus a full bar with drink specials, and pool tables with friendly games. Plenty of seating and room to dance.
* Two stages, one at each end of the roomy club, keep the music continuous when bands change.
* Adv tickets at a substantial discount for all concerts at the venue, at: http://arcadiabluesclub.eventbrite.com
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Sat, Oct 27:
8 pm - "The Springsteen Experience" at the Grand Annex, 434 W 6th St, San Pedro, CA 90731; www.grandvision.org
* This tribute band show offers "A wild ride through The Boss' brilliant musical catalog with Josh Schreiber’s acclaimed tribute show."
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Sat, Oct 27, HALLOWEEN SHOW:
8 pm-11 pm - MARCH FOURTH, the delightfully eclectic marching band on stilts / stage act, plays the "HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST" night at Discovery Ventura, 1888 E Thompson Bl, Ventura, CA 93001
* Costume Contest has a $300 cash prize.
* Tix: $16 adv, $20 day of show if any remain; https://nightout.com/events/march-forth-marching-band-at-discovery-ventura/tickets
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Sat, Oct 27, HALLOWEEN SHOW:
8 pm-11 pm - ANDY & RENEE & HARD RAIN play the Halloween Party at The Lemonade Stand, 24100 Narbonne Av, Suites 102-104, Lomita, CA 90717; 310-294-0810.
* Costume Contest, "Spooky Snacks," cash bar, great music from the South Bay's top award-winning band (roots, Dylan tribute, originals, more). Doors at 7:30.
* Tix, $25, at: www.andyandrenee.com
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Sat, Oct 27, HALLLOWEEN -- MUSICAL THEATRE:
8 pm-10 pm - "DRACULA: THE MUSICAL" presented by Palmdale Repertory Theatre at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St E, Palmdale, California 93550
* And now for something completely different. The classic horror tale set to song and dance: It’s Mel Brooks meets Gilbert & Sullivan meets Monty Python.
* Story line: Dracula is after Mina, and people don’t grasp that she’s in danger until Van Helsing arrives. Everyone must rescue Mina when she’s abducted by Dracula and whisked to his castle.
* "This delightful classic horror tale spoof is an unparalleled romp from start to finish."
* Book, music and lyrics by Rick Abbot.
* Tix at: www.tickets.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?e=c98df4f2b9099a6713cbc6712b94bc7b&t=tix&vqitq=c1e70ecd-b2f4-4688-8267-8db6f06
* Runs Fri-Sat-Sun, Oct 19-20-21, and Fri-Sat-Sun, 26-27-28. 8 pm Fri & Sat, 2 pm Sun.
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Sat, Oct 27; worldish music:
8 pm - SERGIO MENDES with Ana Tijoux’s Roja y Negro, plays The Soraya, formerly the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center / CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330; 818-677-8800; www.valleyperformingartscenter.org
Tix, $39-$86.
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Sat, Oct 27, HALLOWEEN SHOW:
9 pm - "The Rocky Horror Hipster Show" brings FREE standup to Three Clubs Cocktail Lounge, 1123 Vine St, Hollywood, CA 90038; 323-462-6441; www.threeclubs.com
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Sunday...
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LATE ADDITION...
Sun, Oct 28:
2 pm - "INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY MARCH FOR PITTSBURGH" begins from Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills. All are welcome to attend this march, organized in the wake of Saturday's massacre at the Jewish temple in Pittsburgh.
___
Sun, Oct 28, HALLOWEEN -- MUSICAL THEATRE:
2 pm-4 pm - "DRACULA: THE MUSICAL" presented by Palmdale Repertory Theatre at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St E, Palmdale, California 93550
* See full write-up on Sat, Oct 27, 8 pm.
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Sun, Oct 28 & Nov 4, HALLOWEEN SHOW:
3 pm & 7 pm - "SAMHAIN -- A CELTIC HALLOWEEN" THE ANNUAL IRISH-CELTIC HALLOWEEN SHOW returns, produced by CELTIC RHYTHMS
( Was previously advertised at MacLeod's Ale Brewery in Van Nuys)
* With a cast of top-rated Southern Cal based touring Irish and Celtic musicians and dancers, this is always one of the very best autumn events.
* LOCATION HAS CHANGED. Venue is now The Hudson Theatre Mainstage, 6539 Santa Monica Bl, Los Angeles, CA 90038
* Finally! The proper kind of venue that this wonderful production deserves!
* Parking: There is ample street parking. Valet for $7 is also available beginning one hour before the show.
* Cafe: The Hudson Lobby has a full-scale espresso bar that sells food and beverages, including beer and wine.
* It's a Celtic Halloween extravaganza with a full Irish band and Irish dancers, "interspersed with ghastly tales from the Celtic netherworlds."
* Ticket sales at the door are cash only, but tend to sell-out early.
* General seating only; Preferred Seats are sold-out.
* More info at: www.Celtic-Rhythms.com/Samhain
* Tickets at: www.Celtic-Rhythms.com/Samhain-Tickets
* Runs:
• Sun, Oct 28, 3 pm & 7 pm
• Sun, Nov 4, 3 pm only (NO 7 pm show).
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* Pronounced "Sau-in," like sauerkraut, it's the musically-powered tale and celebration of what became "All-Hallows-Eve," and then Halloween in our time.
* NOTE change from planned 4 to a total of three shows over the two days.
* Information and tickets at: https://celtic-rhythms.com/samhain-tickets
or 818-939-4313.
* Buy early for the best seats.
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Sun, Oct 28, FESTIVAL for HALLOWEEN:
3 pm-9 pm - 7th annual "San Pedro's Dia de los Muertos Festival" is a street festival with two stages of live music at 398 W 6th St, in downtown San Pedro, CA
* The Grammy-winning MARIACHI DIVAS headline.
* The streets come alive with traditional art, vendors, activities for kids, and food and drink.
* Produced by the San Pedro Historic Waterfront Business Improvement District with live music and dance presented by Grand Vision.
* Lineup:
• Mariachi Divas
• Kotolan
• Salt Petal
* Tix are FREE online, at: www.sanpedrodayofthedead.com
___
Sun, Oct 28:
8 pm - ELIZA GILKYSON & NINA GERBER play the famous concert hall in back of McCabe's Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, CA.
* ELIZA GILKYSON is a 2-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and activist who has become one of the most respected musicians in Folk, Roots and Americana circles.
* Eliza has appeared on NPR, "Austin City Limits," "Mountain Stage," "etown," Sirius/XM, Air America Radio, more.
* She has toured worldwide as a solo artist and in support of Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Dan Fogelberg.
* NINA GERBER has a unique ability to completely free herself within an eclectic range of styles. Presented with folk, country, bluegrass, rock, or blues, she is able to fall into leads which have rare reverence for the true feeling of a song, always emphasizing taste over technical display. She seeks to express through her hands, rather than gain attention, and it is this integrity which makes her expressions worth intent listening.
* Tix at: www.mccabes.com
___
POST-WEEKEND EVENTS COMING SOON -- SOME ARE ALREADY IN THE OCT 15 EDITION, AVAILABLE IN THE CONTENTS BAR AT LEFT, OR BY SCROLLING DOWN, DEPENDING ON YOUR BROWSER AND / OR DEVICE.
Some TICKET ALERTS, new Oct 26, are in the section just below.
____________________
TICKET ALERTS...
____________________
A few 2019 concerts just went on sale. Act if you're interested in the best seats for any of the following.
Thu, Jan 24:
8 pm - The Branford Marsalis Quartet brings its signature jazz to the Soraya, formerly the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center / CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330; 818-677-8800; www.valleyperformingartscenter.org
___
Feb 1-Mar 5, will run every Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun:
8 pm - "FOR PIANO AND HARPO," at the Garry Marshall Theatre, formerly the Falcon Theatre, 4252 Riverside Dr, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-955-8101; www.falcontheatre.com
* Tix on Sale Jan 4.
* Tix, $32-$45, will be available Jan 4, at: https://www.garrymarshalltheatre.org/
* A Laugh Then Think Production, written by & starring Dan Castellaneta. Directed by Stefan Novinski. The plot (from LA Weekly): "Oscar Levant, the brilliant, witty, pill-popping concert pianist, wakes up to find himself in the Psych Ward of Mt. Sinai Hospital. His past collides with his present, as he grapples with his demons to save his marriage and his sanity. It’s a nightmarish, and sometimes hilarious journey, from addiction to redemption, as he verbally jousts with Jack Paar, is haunted by the genius of George Gershwin, and moves in with his only friend, Harpo Marx."
* Tix for current shows: https://ci.ovationtix.com/19
___
Thu, Mar 28, world music:
8 pm - Red Baraat "Festival of Colors" Celebrating the Hindu at the Soraya, formerly the San Fernando Valley Performing Arts Center / CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91330; 818-677-8800; www.valleyperformingartscenter.org
___
_____
THIS ONE IS LAAAAATE. Y'see, we got caught-up in that 18-inning World Series game 3 that went 7 hours and 20 minutes from 5 pm Friday until after midnight, Saturday morning. Longest pre-season baseball game in history. And the DODGERS WON! So we didn't get things ready to go here.
Can't say it won't happen again. There is Game 4 on Saturday, and Game 5 on Sunday. And we might decide not to do as we say, and go see live performances by talented artists, instead of being sedentary and watching athletes on TV. Call it full disclosure, even when It's embarrassing.
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LEGALESE, CONTACTING US, 'N SUCH...
Boilerplate? Where's the main pressure gauge? And the firebox?
What "boilerplate"? Who came up with that goofy term for the basic essential informational stuff...
________________________________
Direct to the Guide's current editions /
MOBILE-DEVICE-FRIENDLY
editions load quickly at
.
www.acousticamericana.blogspot.com
.
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CONTACT US -- Post Comments / Send Questions / say Howdy at:
Tiedtothetracks (at) Hotmail (dot) com
.
OR USE THE COMMENTS FUNCTION on the Blogspot site.
.
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Entire contents copyright © 2018,
Lawrence Wines & Tied to the Tracks.
All rights reserved.
<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>
.
♪ The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE endeavors to bring you NEWS – and views of interest to artists everywhere – more specifically to musicians and the creative community and music makers and fans of acoustic and Folk-Americana music. That includes both traditional and innovative forms. From the deepest roots to today’s acoustic renaissance, that’s our beat. We provide a wealth of resources, including a HUGE catalog of acoustic-friendly venues (now undergoing a major update), and inside info on FESTIVALS and select performances in Southern California in venues from the monumentally large to the intimately small and cozy. We cover workshops, conferences, and other events for artists and folks in the music industry, and all kinds o’ things in the world of acoustic and Americana and accessible classical music. From washtub bass to musical spoons to oboe to viola to banjo to squeezebox, from Djangostyle to new-fangled-old-time string band music, from sweet Cajun fiddle to bluegrass and pre-bluegrass Appalachian mountain music to all the swamp water roots of the blues and the bright lights of where the music is headed now.
.
The Acoustic Americana Music Guide. Thanks for sittin' a spell. The cyber porch'll be here anytime you come back from the road.
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