TOMORROW: Book Signing - "Good Girls Don't" by Patti Hawn

Hello My Intellectual Femmely,

Tomorrow night, first time Author Patti Hawn is going to be signing copies of her new book "Good Girls Don't: A Memoir by Patti Hawn" at Pages: A Bookstore in Manhattan Beach.

I think this one is especially cool.  I share a mutual friend with the author and have heard only rave reviews of her as a woman, and a friend. I can't wait to see what she brings as an Authoress.

Here's a little blurb about the book from the website.

"... A deeply personal first-hand account of what it was like to be trapped in an unwanted pregnancy at the close of an era where home economics took precedence over sex education. It tells the story of the last generation of young women to experience life on the eve of the sexual revolution of the sixties and the passing of legislation legalizing abortion.  It is a unique time in history, foreign to an entire generation of women, that resulted in an incredible number of reunions between birth parents and their children --- 20, 30 and 40 years after."

I come from a family of re-united adoption, and I know how powerful that connection is. I can't wait to hear Ms. Hawn talk about her experiences first hand.  Please come along, and bring an open mind, and an open heart.

Where:
Pages: A Bookstore
904 Manhattan Beach Ave.
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

When:
Friday, Dec. 3rd
6PM - 8PM

xo
LAF
 

This Week: Regina Spektor - Live In London

Hello Feministas!

This is great news, Downtown Indipendent is having a 'One Night Only' Showing of Regina Spektor's concert film "Live In London" tomorrow night! I didn't even know Regina Spektor had a concert film, which makes it especially bad ass.

If you don't know Regina Spektor's music, check it out for sure. She's great. Think Tori Amos, but with comprehensible lyrics.  (No offense, T.)

This is her latest video for "Eet". So good......



The film is directed by music video director, and frequent Regina collaborator, Adria Petty. Check out her website. I'm officially obsessed with her work. (Take a look at the trailer for her Paris Hilton doc. Hot. )

Here's the info for tomorrow night's screening. I'm definitely gonna try to make it, and I hope to see you there!

Where: Downtown Independent
             215 Main St.
             Los Angeles, CA 90012

When: Saturday, November 20th - 11PM

Price: $8!!

See you there!
xo
LAF

THIS WEEK: Art!

Hi Everyone,

Artist Zoe Crosher is opening her exhibit "For Ur Eyes Only: The Unveiling of Michelle DuBois" at the Charlie James Gallery over in the East Side, Chinatown area.

If you haven't heard the history of Michelle duBois (as I hadn't) you must definitely check out Zoe's website. The work is essentially an interpretation of the prolific artifacts of duBois' life. Through much of the 1970's Michelle duBois (alias) chronicled her life as a stewardess, Pacific Rim sex worker and world traveler through many mediums. Until one day, she stopped... That is where Zoe's work comes in.

Here's a little info about Zoe, and her Michelle DuBois work.

"The Unveiling of Michelle duBois opens with the final published photographs in the archive, to which the artist refers as “the last four days and nights in Tokyo.” The West Coast was Oklahoma-native duBois’ last American port of call before setting off for Asia. So it is perhaps fitting that Chung King Road’s Hollywood-ized take on Chinese culture should be the place to unveil duBois’ Oriental escapism. Crosher has fixed in on duBois’ transient obsessions, making pictures of pictures - of obfuscated faces, of repeated shadows in dark black &white doorways, of arched backs, of backs of backs of photographs and backs of necks, of notes taken and rewritten, scanned and scratched, kept and held and returned - all archives within archives through which we are momentarily granted access into one woman’s fantastical worldview and performed sexuality, framed and reframed by a medium disappearing before our eyes." - Charlie James Gallery Website

This sounds so cool! Please check it out, and let me know what you thought!

The Exhibit runs from Oct. 21st - Dec. 4th

Charlie James Gallery
975 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Xo
L.A.F.