LA Downtown outdoor skate rink

Aron's Records to close

My favorite "local" record store. Always less crowded then Amoeba, I came across some great find's at Aron's...guess I'm headed to the closeout sale.

A Cornfield in the City

Thriving Ivory

Extreme guiltiness on display here. Funny hearing Dr. Silverman shout towards the lead singer of Thriving Ivory: "You look really pretty tonight." Another top shelf performance from Ella Mar.

Cheney answers liberals

"Some of the most irresponsible comments have, of course, come from politicians who actually voted in favor of authorizing force against Saddam Hussein. These are elected officials who had access to the intelligence, and were free to draw their own conclusions."

Philly Kindergartner Found With Heroin

...the school sent a letter home to parents.

Florida tested ‘Celestial Drops’ to see if they warded off citrus canker

"Researchers worked with a rabbi and a cardiologist to test ‘Celestial Drops,' promoted as a canker inhibitor because of its ‘improved fractal design,' ‘infinite levels of order,' and ‘high energy and low entropy.'"

Ella Mar

Viper Room. Free show. 7pm. 11/16/05.

U2 stars stage impromptu gig in Miami

The guitarist and singer were seen on South Beach Miami singing 'In A Little While' by a lifeguard tower...

Cream

The show, the trio's first on U.S. soil in more than 3½ decades, was trumpeted as a mega-event...

How to cheer up a nursing home? Install a bar

DUBLIN, Ireland - A nursing home in Ireland has hit on a cheering way to keep up the spirits of its elderly patients -- by providing its own pub...

Home Prices Show Big Increases in Summer

Orlando has the second biggest increase, a gain of 44.8 percent...

Robert Wells

If anyone wondered why I titled this blog, "Guilty", look no further then Robert Wells. What is he guilty of you ask? The following:

--Starting his show with a 10 minute video flashback-recreation of his childhood piano lessons.
--Name dropping Sweden's royal family (Sweden has a royal family?).
--Introducing his backup singers as "the vocalettes".
--Playing a song inspired by his trip to The Great Wall of China over a severely dated computer graphic video of The Great Wall of China.
--Reminiscing of the Chinese peoples love of "lock and loll".
--Bringing out guest vocalists that include Sweden's Peter Jorback who apparently stars in the London stage version of The Witches of Eastwick (who knew?) and 2003 American Idol winner Ruben Studdard.
--Performing "Bohemian Rhapsody". For Lesli, this was the most surreal point of the evening. Complete with a lip synced recreation of the original Queen video and choreographed head banging by "the vocalettes" (ala Wayne's World).
--A VIP party with no open bar.

Things I did enjoy beside Ruben:
--Being mistaken for someone at the William Morris Agency.
--Hanging out with Ken ( and his AmEx blackcard with 24hr on call concierge).
--Being introduced (in Swedish) to the band by our apologetic host as the "greatest guitar player in the United States."

Just another bizarre night here in Los Angeles.

Hurra Torpedo

Couldn't make it to The Roxy. Speechless, once again.