The Chardi Kala Jatha in LA !!??!!
For those of you wondering who or what the Chardi Kala Jatha is, I will let you know right now that they are not terrorists, or religious fanatics. The word that describes them best would be “Inspirational”. “Chardi Kala” in Punjabi(A language of India, one of the 27) means “High Spirits” and “Jatha” means “Band” [...]
High Trek Adventures
So the buzz this week in LA is super-cool. It’s High Trek Adventures, the urban race/adventure game that pits all your trivial pursuit knowledge, mental maps of the city and a good working knowledge of the public transportation system in your city against other random strangers who’ve decided to participate. The winning team gets $400 [...]
Election Night Par-har-har-har-tay!
The buzz this week in LA is most obviously the elections. Do you know where your place of polling is? Do you know how you’re going to vote on EVERYTHING!?!?!?! Because if you don’t, you need to get on it! This is your city, state, and country, and if you don’t have your say, you have [...]
We Empower: The 2008 California Women’s Conference
I’ve had a full day to digest all the information and events surrounding my attendance of the 2008 California Women’s Conference, and I’m still in awe.
14,000 women attended the event–which sold out in 3 hours!– championed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver.
Thanks to CVS Pharmacy, I was able to attend this [...]
Gene Simmons…….Reads?
The buzz in LA is Gene Simmons reading from his new book, “Ladies of the Night.” It takes place July 8 at 7pm and it’s free at Borders in Westwood. This post could be rife with “Gene Simmons reads!?!?!!?” jokes, but he’s proved himself to be a smart, strategic, and generally with-it type of guy, so that shenaniganery [...]
Co-opportunity Community Greening Class July 16th
Wednesday, June 16th, 7:00pm to 8:30 pm. At the Santa Monica Synagogue located at 1448 18th Street (18th and Broadway).
This free event is the next of a series of green classes being held by the Santa Monica healthy grocery, The Co-Opportunity. It focuses on a giving people a firsthand look into [...]
Body Worlds 3
Body Worlds 3 Exhibit
The buzz today in LA is the Body Worlds 3 exhibit going on now across the street from the USC campus at the California ScienCenter. The exhibit is organized according to the major systems of the body. For example, the nervous system, the digestive system, the reproductive system, and the [...]
Citybeat’s remake
The Buzz in LA today is about the redesign and relaunch of LA Citybeat.
Five years in, CityBeat plans to relaunch this week with a new design, logo and lineup of columns and features. The most notable addition is that content from Wonkette, the Washington politics website formerly owned by Gawker, will run in print each [...]
Hilarity….or the American Way?
There is a HI-LA-RI-ous new website in town called Plant Hiltron.com. Planet Hiltron is the brainchild of a brilliant, if brainwashed expert Photoshopper obsessed and/or intrigued by the intersection of celebrity culture, American archetypes and mediocrity, and pseudo-profound, low brow art.
Recognize that fine, foxy thang in the picture above? That’s Mrs. Pam Anderson, the elementary school [...]
USC Ranked as a ‘Dream College’
A new Princeton Review survey lists USC at # 9 on the top 10 dream colleges, as ranked by college applicants.
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Here’s the full list, from a survey of approximately 9,000 students:
Harvard
Stanford
Princeton
New York University
Yale
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
USC
UCLA
