| September 20, 2008 |
In 2004 Democrats lost Nevada by 2%. Prevent this repeat performance by calling identified Obama supporters in Nevada to make sure they get to the polls on Election Day. Bring a charged cell phone and head over to one of the many local cafés with temporary phone banks, including Kaldi Coffee in Atwater Village, The Trails in Los Feliz and Café Tropical in Silver Lake. Volunteers will be on hand to train newcomers as well as calm nerves about Pallin possibly being in the White House.
Saturday, September 20th Phone Bank Schedule:
Kaldi Coffee, Atwater Village: 1:30pm-3:30pm
The Trails, Los Feliz, 10am-1pm
Café Tropical, Silver Lake: 1pm-4pm
There are MANY phone banks all over L.A. The above listed are just a few. To see a complete listing of phone bank locations visit: my.barackobama.com/page/event/search_simple
OBAMA WEBSITE: www.barackobama.com
Accompanied by Philip Glass’s sweeping and haunting orchestral score, the cinematic meditation known as “Koyaanisqatsi” celebrates its 25th anniversary screening. Taken from the Hopi word meaning “life out of balance,” “Koyaanisqatsi” is a wordless gaze at the discord between technology and the environment. Unfortunately director Godfrey Reggio’s message that “we don’t live with nature any longer, we live off of it” is still quite timely. 1982, MGM, 86 min.
If having their shows described as “a sweeping, one-way ticket to the Italian vampire western of your dreams” wasn’t enough, the Crooked Cowboy and the Freshwater Indians are blowing out their usual eclectic “countryrock” performance with a 40-piece orchestra at the Echoplex. Featuring special guests from such bands as Ariel Pink and I See Hawks in LA, the apocalyptic two-steppers promise a passionate sound adventure for the price of “half a glass of wine at a hotel.”
From meeting America’s preeminent fortune cookie writer Donald Lau (who eventually had writer’s block) to discovering small family-run fortune cookie bakeries in Kyoto, author Jennifer 8. Lee (The Fortune Cookie Chronicles) and director Derek Shimoda (Killing the Chinese Cookie) have traveled the world to uncover the truth about this elusive cookie. Join Lee and Shimoda as they swap stories about following the fortune cookie trail and how 19th-century Japan appears to be the key to the puzzle.
Artists, designers and activists are putting their quarters in the meter and transforming parking spaces into temporary public parks. Park(ing) Day LA has organized a one-day citywide greening of those dreary asphalt spots that define so much of our car-centric lives. Teams will create personalized landscapes, i.e. “Shakespeare in the Park(ing),” with lawn chairs, moss, potted plants and other greenery. To celebrate the wonders of these ephemeral parks, the A+D Architecture and Design Museum will host an Open Air After Party outfitted with a virtual garden, antioxidant cocktails and the tunes of DJ Garth Trinidad.
