So just couldn’t find the right gown for tonight’s ride? Or you didn’t get a chance to hack it into shape by the time the wedding bells chime tonight at 5pm at City Hall?
Just wear white and you’ll look like a bride. Or put on that bridesmaid’s gown you’ll never wear again and be a bridesmaid. Or just dress up and attend the wedding, the ride and the reception!
Here’s the route for the Brides Ride:
5pm Ventura City Hall Steps,
California Street & Poli
Ride down California Street
530pm Beach Promenade for Photographs
California St & The Sea & Artists Union Gallery
6pm Ride off into the sunset
Cruise the Beach Promenade along the ocean and the Ventura River to Main
615pm Surfrider Foundation Fundraiser at CSUCI Gallery
California St & Main
645pm Laurel Street Galleries
on Laurel at Thompson
715pm WAV
Thompson & Ventura Ave
730pm Bell Arts Factory
432 N. Ventura Ave.
Food & Beer by donations
Riders who want to do a longer route can ride up Ventura Avenue then to midtown:
8pm Sylvia White Gallery for 5 x 5 Performances
Learn how to convert your thrift store prize into a Brides Ride ready fashion statement! It’s easy, it’s fun and it will make you feel oh so special! Once you have your dress and a white sweatshirt, there are only two easy steps to hack your dress into shape–your shape that is.
The 12th Annual Brides of March in San Francisco takes place in 2010 on March 13.
LA will hold a Brides of March as will other major centers of cultural cacophony like Portland and Austin. Or do a Brides of March in a City near you! All you need is another bride and it quickly becomes cacophonous…
A few weeks ago, Rick Bakas from St Supery organized a live twitter tasting about California Cabernets. Tomorrow, March 4 from 5-7pm, he’s hosting a Sauvignon Blanc tasting. To participate, taste and tweet about Sauvignon Blanc wine using the hashtag #sauvblanc so others will be able to track what you’re saying along with everyone else.
In the video above, Rick talks about last month’s tasting and suggests you get a few friends together and a few bottles of wine and tweet, taste, and talk your way through them.
If only the #sauvblanc tasting was next Thursday! I’d have so much more to write about because I am going to a HUGE New Zealand tasting with lots of great Sauv Blancs at Nobu in LA on Tuesday March 9! I hope to get a post up about some of the highlights of the tasting on Wednesday March 10.
Will you be drinking sauvignon blanc with the rest of us tomorrow night? Are YOU on twitter? If you follow me, @artpredator, and @me a message, I’ll be sure to follow you back!
The San BuenaVentura ArtRiders Bicycle & Social Club
requests the honor of your presence forThe Brides of March:
Brides RideFirst Friday
March 5, 2010
5pm nuptials
City Hall, Poli St.
5:30pm Photographs
Ventura Beach & CA St.
6pm FFArtRide
Galleries & Art Studios
730pm Reception
432 N. Ventura Ave.
Bring gifts of cash & your own cup!
Beer: Anacapa Brewery
formal attire requested
RSVP In the comments below or to bikergogal
Please note: the honeymoon is a private affair!
Here’s a link to a previous post of possible 2010 themes with a video of last year’s Brides of March.
Up Next:
Steampunk Rides
FFArtRide April 2 meets 5:30pm Artists Union Gallery
Sunday ArtWalk April 18 meets 1:30pm Artists Union GalleryCome to think of it, that video above is an awesome example of STEAMPUNK aesthetic!
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Malcolm Gladwell Brings OUTLIERS to Santa Barbara 3/10/10
Bestselling non-fiction author Malcolm Gladwell is coming to Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theater Wednesday March 10 to speak about his 2008 book, Outliers: The Story of Success, where he reveals the real – and mostly overlooked – secrets to extraordinary success, suggesting that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like and too little attention to where successful people are from: their culture, family and generation.
For example, in an interview on NPR that I listened to, he attributes the success story of Bill Gates to the fact that, in the 1960s, Bill Gates just happened to attend one of the rare high schools in the United States that not only had a computer hooked up to a mainframe, but to which Gates had access. That time in high school where Gates had the opportunity to program and experiment on a computer gave him a jump ahead of his whole generation when it came to becoming successful in the field of computers. 
Tickets for the event are a hefty $33. Learn more about Malcolm Gladwell and buy tickets here.
As much as I’d love to go hear him speak, with money as tight as it is right now for us with the Big Monkey out for two more months on disability and me on unemployment, I am wondering if the money and time would be better spent buying and reading his book, reading his blog, and listening to his TED talk or other youtubes than driving to Santa Barbara and attending. I could hang around outside the theater beforehand with my finger stuck hopefully in the air like at a Grateful Dead show, and see if anyone has an extra ticket to give me…or maybe I can get in as an usher? Where there’s a will there’s a way I always say.
Want to know more about him? Here’s the bio from his website: Malcolm Gladwell Read more…
Poetry Coming Up This Week in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles
SATURDAY: Tonight, Saturday February 27, is the last Saturday of the month. And that means it’s time for Friday on Saturday–the poetry series hosted by Friday Lubina at Bell Arts Factory, 432 N. Ventura Avenue. Tonight’s featured poet is Florence Weinberger; an open mic follows. The festivities begin at 7:30pm.
SUNDAY: Big Day for poetry in Santa Barbara! Poet Enid Osborn invites you to come out for these two great readings:
4:00 CROW TALK! at Goleta Valley Community Center, Rm. 2, 5679 Hollister Ave., Free.Featured readers include: Cynthia Anderson, Bettina Barrett, Mary Brown, Marsha de la O, Suzanne Frost, William Gourley, Lois Klein, Noreen Lawlor, Teddy Macker, Enid Osborn, Edwin Shaw, Phil Taggart, and Paul Willis.
7:00 POETS FOR HAITI at Fe Bland Auditorium, SB City College, Cliff Drive, Donations to Haiti Soleil. Click on the image to enlarge for more details.
WEDNESDAY: Dolores Dorantes will travel from Ciudad Juárez, Sesshu Foster will travel from Alhambra and Jen Hofer will travel from Cypress Park to read poems, prose texts, and translations at Otis College of Art & Design this coming Wednesday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Graduate Writing Program Visiting Writers Series, Ahmanson Hall Forum, The Otis Goldsmith Campus, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. 90045
P.S. Any visitor now I’m going to have 190,000 page views on my blog! Will you be #190,000 I wonder?
Guest Post by Ron Wells on Oscar Nominee “Inglourious Basterds”: Not Funny, Quentin
I’ve seen most (all?) of Quentin Tarantino’s films, something that I’m not especially proud of, but people keep telling me what a genius he is, so I seem to keep coming back hoping for something spectacular. “Pulp Fiction” had great dialogue, and “Jackie Brown” was ok, but I’ve always thought the latter owed more to Elmore Leonard than it did Tarantino.
I’ve had a “yoga jones” for a long time now–almost 20 years of regular classes and home practice plus I taught for five years.
And I’ve been a big supporter of Kids Arts since its one of its earliest incarnations at the Livery across from Cafe Voltaire back in 1994. (I know, big sigh: we all miss those Cafe Voltaire days of poetry and music fueled by sunshine, starlight, cafiends and garlic…)
So naturally, an event that combines one of my favorite local groups, Kids Arts, with one of my personal passions, yoga, is “up my alley” so to speak.
And if I can get away on Saturday between 9am and 6pm, you know where you’ll be able to find me: enjoying my second year of attendance at the Yogathon for Kids Arts at Yoga Jones in downtown Ventura across from the Farmers Market on the corner of Santa Clara and Oak. Last year my family and I enjoyed taking classes together on and off during the day, trying out different teachers like Kira Ryder (now I know what everyone raves about her–she’s teaching this year too at 430pm!), and buying lots of great stuff at the silent auction.
This year, they’ve added art and yoga classes from kids from 10-3pm:
KIDS’ TENT SCHEDULE Read more…
And for Dessert: Chai Spice Galette with a 2002 Lillypilly Noble Blend
If I’d known ho
w incredibly wonderful, how complex, how fascinating this Lillypilly 2002 Noble Blend was going to be, I wouldn’t have opened it tonight for Wine Blogging Wednesday #66, hosted by Jennifer Hamilton, The Domestic Goddess who asked us to think about dessert FIRST in her blog post, Your Tenderest Twosome.
I should have suspected it would be outstanding. After all, I bought it at a Grateful Palate Imports Warehouse Sale on the advice of Dan Phillips. I don’t remember how much he charged me for the Lillypilly 2002 Noble Blend he recommended. I do remember thinking it was a little more than I wanted to spend for a 375 ml bottle of a wine I knew nothing about except his recommendation (and at that time, I knew nothing about what his recommendation meant!) My guess is I paid around $15 because if it had been more than $20, I would have said no, and if it was less than $10 I wouldn’t have batted an eye.
But before I discuss the wine, let me address the prompt. Jennifer argues that while most meals end with a dessert and coffee or a dessert wine, the pairing often comes as an after thought, without as much care as the rest of the meal.
Obviously we’ll have to have her over for dinner at our house! We like dessert, we like ports, we like late harvest wines, and recently, I’ve discovered fine sherries and madeiras. Not only are we fond of dessert, but I love to bake and create simple, easy yet memorable desserts.
THE DESSERT and HOW TO MAKE A GALETTE Read more…
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