by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA on September 1, 2010
Sonya Fe and Margaret Garcia opening at Avenue 50 Studio in Highpark Park
The Dead Need To Be Fed – Sonya Fe
Woman in Red – Margaret Garcia
The Avenue 50 Studio is proud to present Sonya Fe and Margaret Garcia in an exhibition of recent paintings. We are honored to host two powerful artists as our participation in Latino Heritage Month for the City of Los Angeles and in Northeast LA’s Second Saturday Art Night.
Sonya Fe: Sonya’s large scale works in oil, wax and copal are composed of earth tones, soothing to the eye, yet whose content shakes you out of your normal comfort zone. Fe is an exuberant person with a large personality.
Margaret Garcia: A painter with fiery brush strokes and colors just as aggressive, Garcia’s images are as potent as the artist herself.
Each artist delves into personal struggles matched by tremendous strength of will. This is an exhibition you will not want to miss. Opening night reception: Saturday, September 11, 7-10 pm
September 11 through October 3, 2010
Avenue 50 Studio, Inc. a 501(c)(3) non-profit art gallery 131 North Avenue 50 Highland Park, CA 90042 323-258-1435 www.avenue50studio.com
TONIGHT, THURSDAY AUGUST 26 at Heritage Square Museum 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031-1530
Mark this date: Thursday evening, August 26, 5pm to 8pm. Please invite your friends, family and neighbors.
From Heritage Square Museum: On August 26, the Susie Hansen Latin Band returns to us for what promises to be an unforgettable performance. Electric violinist Susie Hansen plays fiery Latin Jazz and Salsa, creating music that brings audiences to their feet, dancing in the aisles. Susie and her Los Angeles-based band have been acclaimed by many critics, such as Phil Elwood from the San Francisco Examiner who describes them this way: “It’s a sizzling, swinging Salsa band. Hansen can solo as if her bow was afire. The whole room was jumpin’ for joy.” Mark Holston wrote in JAZZIZ Magazine that Susie Hansen’s “violin speaks the language of Latin Jazz with total fluency.”
A long-time favorite in Los Angeles, Susie and her band play 175-200 live performances per year, including such events as the Playboy Jazz Festival, Fiesta Broadway, San Jose Jazz Festival, LA Salsa Festival and Newport Beach Jazz Festival. She has toured nationally with her band, and has appeared with such big names as Tito Puente. For more information on Susie Hansen, go to http://www.susiehansen.com/.
Opening for the Susie Hansen Latin Band will be local favorite blues band Blue Metro. Learn all about Blue Metro on their website at http://www.bluemetro.net/.
by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA on August 24, 2010
Mark this date: Thursday evening, August 26, 5pm to 8pm. Please invite your friends, family and neighbors.
From Heritage Square Museum: On August 26, the Susie Hansen Latin Band returns to us for what promises to be an unforgettable performance. Electric violinist Susie Hansen plays fiery Latin Jazz and Salsa, creating music that brings audiences to their feet, dancing in the aisles. Susie and her Los Angeles-based band have been acclaimed by many critics, such as Phil Elwood from the San Francisco Examiner who describes them this way: “It’s a sizzling, swinging Salsa band. Hansen can solo as if her bow was afire. The whole room was jumpin’ for joy.” Mark Holston wrote in JAZZIZ Magazine that Susie Hansen’s “violin speaks the language of Latin Jazz with total fluency.”
A long-time favorite in Los Angeles, Susie and her band play 175-200 live performances per year, including such events as the Playboy Jazz Festival, Fiesta Broadway, San Jose Jazz Festival, LA Salsa Festival and Newport Beach Jazz Festival. She has toured nationally with her band, and has appeared with such big names as Tito Puente. For more information on Susie Hansen, go to http://www.susiehansen.com/.
Opening for the Susie Hansen Latin Band will be local favorite blues band Blue Metro. Learn all about Blue Metro on their website at http://www.bluemetro.net/.
Heritage Square Museum is located at 3800 Homer Street Los Angeles, CA 90031-1530
Here’s the dark side of Facebook PLACES. It just went live on Wednesday last week — so the Bartman decided to give it a whirl.
I was celebrating a killer July sales month so I decided to have a dinner party and I invited some of my younger friends in their 30′s. All of them iPad, iPhone, or Droid toting, digitally connected REALTOR colleagues.
We headed over to Blue Corn Cafe off Jefferson and I-25 for blue margaritas.
The wait staff had arranged a large, long table for all of us. when 90% of our group had arrived I had announced I had checked them in on Facebook Places as they arrived to I could inform the rest of the group.
Foursquare lets you check in and tagging people with GPS like check-in programs like Foursquare and now Facebook Places isn’t a bad thing, right? Well… as I learned today (Sunday) it depends on who you talk to. Because it CAN be a huge violation of your Privacy.
Here’s what happened.
I now have more than 1,000 Friends on Facebook. Combined with my friends and colleagues I invited to dinner on Friday, we probably shared more than 17,000 friends/contacts.
As my friends arrived, I checked them into Facebook places without their permission. Informing the rest of the incoming gang where we were and who showed up.
When I informed the group I had added them — 5 out of the 11 were upset. One of my friends was completely torked. He had told his wife a small white lie. He told his better half that he had work to do.
She is an avid user of Facebook. (whoops, my bad! )
So he imagined his wife waiting at home for him at the front door — holding the frying pan to beat him over the head immediately upon his arrival.
Another problem didn’t surface until the next day. My post on Facebook Places showed up in more than 100 newsfeed websites. I never meant to broadcast this to a ton of websites. What the Hell was I thinking?
Ooops. Here I am reading about my dinner party and who I checked in as the arrived at the door. Why does this have to make the news feeds? I had no clue. Suffice it to say, I got a few upset phone calls this weekend. Fortunately, the newsfeeds dump stuff quickly and I personally wrote 11 of them asking them to please clear the news about my party which was now a train wreck that I wanted to forget.
Who’s responsible for this problem? Marrk Zuckerberg, CEO and jerk at large from Facebook. Apparently he just can’t seem to stay out of trouble. In April, Facebook announced the LIKE button feature which violated a lot of people’s security by openly allowing anyone with the skills to hack your personal calendar online and access content you might not want others to have.
What’s WRONG with Check In Networks like Foursquare and new Facebook Places? Plenty of you’ve been stalked on line by thieves.
My checking my friends into Facebook Places sends the clear message to a whole new crop of smart theft rings, I call; DiHeads ( Digital Housebreakers with Droids or DHD’s )
One of my colleagues told me this is a real problem and he showed me a website, PleaseRobMeshowed the darker side of Check in Websites. I invite you to click and visit that site. If you use Twitter, Facebook or Foursquare — this will scare the living daylights out of you. And it needs to wake all of us up — because we have to be careful with what we do online.
Because thieves will watch you and wait for you to leave your home. The process might take weeks or months of stalking. But one day, you go home and you learn sometimes too late, that you need to be more careful with what you post online.
Below is the video on YouTube that shows you how to deactivate the Facebook Places and prevents people from ADDING or letting them Check you in, too.
Tsk. Tsk. I like Facebook.
But it seems that Facebook never really thinks alot about how their new products will affect personal security. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook’s founder/CEO) blindly spends millions of dollars in new products that can harm you.
They screwed up in April on the privacy issues. And now… here we go again.
Below is the YouTube Video that Facebook Places is now under your control.
by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA on August 20, 2010
Most folks know I’ve been in the cheering section for WordPress Mu (mutiple user) since 2008. For me, it has been a great way to create separate sites for staff members, individual properties, particular neighborhoods, etc…. without needing to setup up a separate hosting account for each.
And it got me thinking about our tendency to want to block everything into a time slot.
Maybe we all need a little less “time blocking” and a little more “you do something until you finish it, and that’s the amount of time it takes to do it” kind of thinking …..
Do you have a self-hosted WordPress blog? Do you also use Posterous?
You could, of course, post to Posterous first, and have Posterous autopost the article on to your WordPress site.
But, if, for whatever reason, you prefer to work in WordPress first,POSTERIZE is the plugin in for you. It automatically forwards your WordPress posts to Posterous.
And, from Posterous, you could set the posts to go out in several more directions.
by Cheryl Johnson, Bob Taylor Properties, Inc., Los Angeles, CA on August 17, 2010
This is a rare opportunity to rennovate and restore an absolutely classic StoryBook Style home in Sagamore Park.
This Grande Dame is somewhat faded, but with a lot of cosmetic attention and landscaping could be ready for her close-up! The ocean wave roof is unique and gorgeous... makes the property look like a fairy tale house behind a Sleeping Beauty hedge. From the front door you step into a large living room with a coved ceiling and a wood burning fireplace. Turn left into the formal dining room, also with coved ceiling. Breakfast nook and laundry room are at either end of the kitchen. Three large bedrooms and a bath and a half bath are off a center hall. The private, overgrown yard is lush with greenery, but with some trimming and clearing will be the perfect place to entertain. Or just sit under the arbor and dream about Prince (or Princess) Charming!
4503 W. Avenue 40, Sagamore Park, offered for sale at: $479,900
WHEN: The Second Saturday of Every Month 7:00-10:00p.m. WHERE: Highland Park and surrounding neighborhoods.
NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night is a free self-guided tour of the galleries, non-profits and artist run project spaces located in Northeast Los Angeles (NELA).
NELA has a tradition in the arts that dates back to the early 1900s.
The tradition continues with new spaces opening regularly. NELA is now one of L.A.'s most exciting destinations to view contemporary art.
