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Sun, August 3, 2008, 7:30 am

Mar Vista Farmers’ Market

Family, West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Mar Vista Farmers Market
Venue: Grand View @ Venice Blvd.  Between Centinela and Inglewood

Mar Vista Farmers’ Market on Grand View - Organic fruits and vegetables and delectable prepared food.  Crepes, Omelettes, Empanadas, Latkes, BBQ, Cakes, artisan bread, and so much ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 8:45 am - 2:00 pm

Solstice Canyon Including Sostomo Trail and Dear Valley Loop

Singles, Malibu
Organizations/Sponsors: MOSAIC Outdoors Club of Greater LA
Venue: Solstice Canyon

Please join us on a 6.5 mile round trip hike in Solstice Canyon, in the Santa Monica Mountains. We will enjoy some of the best ocean views in the Santa Monica Mountains as we hike along the Rising Sun Trail through chaparral and coastal sage scrub to the west ridge of Solstice Canyon to the ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 9:00 am

Picturing the Process: Landscape Through Time and Space

Arts & Entertainment, San Diego
Organizations/Sponsors: Museum of Photographic Art
Venue: Museum of Photographic Art

Since its invention in 1839, the unique power of photography has been utilized to record, report, and inform. Representing selections from the museum’s comprehensive Permanent Collection, Picturing the Process is an endeavor of the Education Department to present an evolution of the landscape ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 9:00 am

Humanitas: Images of India by Fredric Roberts

Arts & Entertainment, San Diego
Organizations/Sponsors: Museum of Photographic Arts
Venue: Museum of Photographic Arts

Roberts pictures various people from India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Bhutan, Thailand, and China as they go about their lives selling water or herding camels. Simultaneously, this exhibition illuminates the quiet corners that often don’t have witnesses, such as people in prayer or a mother and child. The ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Canals of Venice Walk & Brunch

Singles, Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Social Circle - Stephen S. Wise Temple
Venue: Baja Cantina Restaurant

Social Circle (ages 45-65ish) What better way to meet new and interesting singles than to stroll among the wonderfully scenic paths along the canals in the Venice area?  A delightful brunch at a nearby restaurant follows the walk with plenty of time to shmooze with new and old friends. Meet ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Debi Derry Berry

Kids, San Fernando Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Venue: The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum

Peter Alsop’s Kids Koncerts presents Debi Derryberry.  Best known as the voice of Jimmy Neutron, Debi is a singer, songwriter, actress, animal rescue activist and mom who brings us her eclectic musical blend of rock, country, blues, jazz and ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Marla Fields/Yoella Razili at LA Artcore

Arts & Entertainment, Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: LA Artcore
Venue: LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts

New abstract artwork by Marla Fields and Yoella Razili on View Aug. 3-30, 2008. Reception: Aug. 3, 2008 3-5 P.M. Marla Fields work consists of scraping and hollowing out layers of paper until there is momentary contentment in a surface that calls to her. Yoella Razili is a post minimalist who ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

The Tragical Comedy of Mr. Punch

Arts & Entertainment, Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Rogue Artists Ensemble
Venue: Bootleg Theater

Rogue Artists Ensemble re-opens its world premiere production of “The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch” ("a feast for the senses” - Daily Variety) adapted for the stage from the graphic novel by Neil Gaiman (Stardust) and Dave McKean. “Mr. Punch” is a dark fable in which the ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 4:00 pm - 6:15 pm

The Boychick Affair-The Bar Mitzvah of Harry Boychick

Arts & Entertainment, Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: boychick productions
Venue: The Hayworth Theater

come eat, dance sing and shmooze with the cast of the interactive hit show The Boychick Affair, now in its seventh month. A MUST SEE-L.A. Times HYSTERICAL-L.A. WEEKLY perfect for families. sunday at two . ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 5:00 pm

South Bay Jewish Singles - Dinner

Singles, South Bay
Organizations/Sponsors: South Bay Jewish Singles
Venue: Coco’s Restaurnat

Dinner and socializing for singles ready to meet their Beshert - age 39 to 58 in the South ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Beverly Hills International Music Festival

Arts & Entertainment, Beverly Hills
Organizations/Sponsors: Beverly Hills International Music Festival
Venue: Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church

Series of eight evening concerts at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church featuring world class classical musicians ranging from chamber, choral, to orchestral music.  For detailed program see: ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 12:00 pm

Alice in One-Hit-Wonderland 2: Through the Looking Glass

Arts & Entertainment, Burbank
Organizations/Sponsors: Falcon Theatre
Venue: Falcon Theatre

The Falcon Theatre is thrilled to welcome its good friends the TROUBADOUR THEATER COMPANY in Alice in One-Hit-Wonderland 2: Through the Looking Glass, the new musical parody of the classic children’s tale by Lewis Carroll, under the direction of Matt Walker. Alice 2 is a continuation from last ...

Sun, August 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 1:00 pm

THE ACCOMPLICES

Arts & Entertainment, Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: The Fountain Theatre
Venue: The Fountain Theatre

What the U.S. government and American Jews did - and didn’t - do to help Jews fleeing the Nazis is the subject of “The Accomplices”, the Drama Desk Award-nominated new play by former New York Times political reporter Bernard Weinraub at The Fountain Theatre in Hollywood. The Accomplices is based ...

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