F E B R U A R Y   2 9 ,   2 0 0 8 Dumb Angel Film Block and King Kukulele Taix French Restaurant (Lounge) 1911 West Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA Friday, 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Join Dumb Angel co-editor Brian Chidester and beachcomber comedian King Kukulele for a night of videos, music and ballyhoo. Chidester will start the evening by playing several rare video clips of '50s and '60s exotica-, surf- and beatnik-related material. King Kukulele will follow with his mixture of comedy and exotic ukulele tunes. The last Friday of each month Taix French Restaurant holds its Tiki Night. This is not one to be missed. Clips to be shown: [1] The Exotic Art of Lewis Van Dercar (shorty documentary about a '50s Miami sculpture, dealing in exotic nudes and tiki-related carvings) [2] Pagan Love (Hawaiian strip-tease nickelodean) [3] Exotic Fire Dance (burlesque routine) [4] Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger's incredible 1949 Hollywood snapshot) [5] Clip from Untamed Youth (Mamie Van Doren sings her 1957 song "Rolling Stone," written by Les Baxter and Lenny Adelson) [6] Something Else (1969 Balboa, CA episode, featuring "You've Been on My Mind" by Linda Ronstadt, and the Bob Banas Dancers doing a zany routine to "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head")

	F E B R U A R Y   2 5 ,   2 0 0 8 New Jan & Dean feature: Dumb Angel contributor Mark A. Moore has posted: A Chronology of Jan & Dean with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, 1962-1966 A new preview of Moore's forthcoming book project . . . a Jan Berry / Jan & Dean Sessionography.

	F E B R U A R Y   2 3 ,   2 0 0 8 Dumb Angel co-editors Brian Chidester and Domenic Priore will present their slideshow of the '50s and '60s coffeehouse scene in Los Angeles Saturday, February 23rd. The event takes place at a private party in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. Keep an eye out for the next public presentation of this slideshow coming March 24th, in conjunction with the Los Angeles Conservancy Modcom Division.

	F E B R U A R Y   2 2 ,   2 0 0 8 New Book by Dumb Angel Co-Editors on Pre-Sale Brian Chidester and Domenic Priore, co-editors of Dumb Angel magazine have completed a new book titled Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom (Santa Monica Press). The release date for the book is June 1st, 2008. Amazon.com is taking pre-orders for the book now at nearly 50% off the cover price.

	F E B R U A R Y   9 ,   2 0 0 8 Beatnik Beach and Riot on Sunset Strip Slideshows Saturday, February 9, 2008 10:00 a.m. Los Angeles Public Library, Atrium Theatre 630 W. 5th Street Los Angeles, CA 90071 (213) 228-7000 This Saturday morning, the Los Angeles Public Library (Downtown L.A.) and the Culinary Historians of Southern California will present Brian Chidester and Domenic Priore, with two slideshows in the Atrium Theatre series. "Beatnik Beach" covers the Beat Generation coffeehouses, folk music venues and jazz nightclubs of the Greater Los Angeles area between 1956 and 1966. "Sunset Strip '66" covers the outgrowth of that -- the teenage nightclubs that the Byrds, Love, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, Frank Zappa's Mothers and many others broke out of. Check out the insides (and exteriors) of all the spots you wish you could've gone to (swear) like the Venice West Cafe, Shelly's Manne-Hole, It's Boss, the Trip, Pandora's Box, the Hullabaloo, the Ash Grove, the Insomniac, plus the Lighthouse and Whisky a Go Go when they mattered. The slideshows start at 10:30 a.m., and the event is free. Parking is one dollar on Saturdays, enter the library's parking lot on Flower Street.

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