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Event Calendar

November

December

Event List

• Tuesday, Nov. 24 @ 8PM
  
  PEN CENTER USA hosts a conversation with author TC Boyle
  T.C. Boyle is one of those few writers who excel equally well at the novel and the short story. The New York Times, in a review of Boyle’s 2001 collection of short stories, After The Plague, described him as a “writer who can take you anywhere. He is the author of twenty books of fiction and more than 60 short stories. His work has been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel,World's End,which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
  tcboyle.com
  penusa.org
  
  Bar opens at 7PM. Show at 8PM. $10
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• Wednesday, Nov. 25 @ 8PM
  
  Embedded Live (2004)
  Written and directed by Tim Robbins, this film captures the last performances at the Public Theater in N.Y. of the controversial play that satirizes neo conservatives and the mainstream media at the start of the Iraq war. “UNCOMPROMISING. Rowdy and engaging… Briskly amusing, intermittently disturbing…savagely witty…as snarlingly eloquent as a garage rock guitar solo”--LOS ANGELES TIMES
  embeddedlive.com
  
  8PM FREE!!
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• Friday, Nov. 27 @ 9PM
  
  All Cake No File
  A JOHNNY CASH prison tribute cooking show-concert! Jailbreak cakes every night backed up by With a Bible and a Gun, a Johnny Cash tribute band! Jewell Rae (Gilkerson) Jeffers is a Celebrity Chef, Home Economist, and the host of "Tastes Like Home" live cooking show. She is thrilled to cook live for guests of the California state prison system, where she performs her Johnny Cash Tribute Show. Her political culinary blog appears on The Huffington Post.
  eatdrinkordie.com & http://www.myspace.com/withabibleandagun
  
  Bar opens at 7PM. Show at 9PM $15
  ONLY 100 SEATS AVAILABLE!!!
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• Saturday, Nov. 28 @ 8:30PM
  
  HuDost
  HuDOST, a group from Montreal, gathers a rich eclectic blend of Rock, traditional Sufi and eastern European music with, "musical styles as diverse as the jellies in Marco Polo's kitchen cupboard." HuDost has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Canada including extensive tours on the east coast with popular venues such as: Alex Grey's CoSM in NYC, the Salvador Dali Museum, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and many others. Their most recent album "Trapeze" which was released earlier this year and produced by Grammy Award winner Malcolm Burn (Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Kaki King).
  hudost.com
  
  Bar opens at 7PM. Show at 8:30PM

• Saturday, Dec. 5 @ 8:30PM
  
  Tom Morello
  Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine performs w/ SHOOTER JENNINGS! This Grammy Award-winning guitarist is known for his tenure with Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, his acoustic solo act, The Nightwatchman, and his newest group, Street Sweeper Social Club. This outspoken political activist co-founded the Axis of Justice whose purpose is "to build a bridge between fans of music around the world and local political organizations to effectively organize around issues of peace, human rights, and economic justice." Morello is featured as one of the guitarists in Rolling Stone's "The Top 20 New Guitarists" article, and is listed #26 in the article "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
  Tom Morello's Myspace
  
  Bar opens at 7PM. Show at 8:30PM
  $50
  
  ONLY 100 SEATS AVAILABLE!!!
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• Saturday, Dec. 12 @ 8:30PM
  
  JOHN DOE of X
  89.9 KCRW Presents JOHN DOE is a singer, songwriter, actor, poet and bass player who founded of the L.A. punk band X. His musical compositions and performances also include country and folk music. "Doe is the most traditionalist punk you'll ever hear; he calls up blues guitar lines and country conceits in his lyrics to bolster tough, direct arrangements . . ." -- Rolling Stone. Singer/ songwriter, Jill Sobule lets her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a powerful duality. "Sobule's creativity has not faltered in the past 15 years, and she continues to create vivid characters and cinematic scenes"-- BC Music
  xtheband.com
  
  Bar opens at 7PM. Show at 8:30PM
  $25
  
  ONLY 100 SEATS AVAILABLE!!!
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• Saturday, Dec. 19 @ 8PM
  
  The Vox Femina
  The VOX FEMINA choral ensemble sing carols... then we’re ALL going caroling around Culver City! Bundle up and wear your walking shoes. VOX Femina, whose recent concerts have featured Broadway elite such as Rachel York, Susan Egan, and Smithsonian inductee, Florence Henderson have performed at prestigious venues all over LA, recently including The Staples Center. Get into the magic of the holiday spirit with this concert of favorite carols followed by YOU joining in as we go caroling!
  voxfeminala.org
  
  8PM Pay what you can!
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