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KCRW Presents RADIOACTIVE 4.11.09

March 18, 2009

RadioActive

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RadioActive: A Dance Party for KCRW
Saturday, April 11

The Legendary Park Plaza Hotel
Los Angeles

For one night only and for the first time ever, KCRW DJs team up in a live venue in support of the station.

On Saturday, April 11, KCRW will host RadioActive, a Spring dance party featuring the station’s own skilled selectors at The Legendary Park Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, a beautiful space that is not normally open to the public.

All of our DJs are immersed in the live music scene and this is a chance to rally their considerable talents and fans for the station they all call home. We rarely come together in one place at one time and the staggeringly beautiful Park Plaza is the best place to do it,” said KCRW Music Director and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic Jason Bentley.

The venue will feature four unique, themed rooms:

Dub House Disco Ballroom
Jason Bentley, Raul Campos, Liza Richardson, Jason Eldredge

Neo-Soul Streetbeat Sound System
Garth Trinidad, Jeremy Sole, Anthony Valadez, Mathieu Schreyer, Aaron Byrd

World Folktronic Jazz Lounge
Henry Rollins, Anne Litt, Mario Cotto, Eric J. Lawrence, Jason Kramer

Grand Voodoo Salon
Tom Schnabel, Dan Wilcox, Gary Calamar, Michael Barnes

For information and to purchase tickets visit: kcrw.com/radioactive

Doesn’t this look like FUN?? All my fav DJs spinning tunes to dance to–outside my living room? Let me know if you’re going!

What’s in store for Wine Blogging Wednesday

March 18, 2009

wbw-newTwo questions: Where do you cellar your wine? And what should I drink?

I am fortunate that my grandfather built a wine cellar into the hillside of his house, the floor made from water-washed Japanese stones used as ballast in a ship almost a hundred years ago.

He enjoyed his wine, but it didn’t take anything too exotic to please him–he drank chianti by the jug, the more unusual or interesting wines in the cellar supplied by friends. One day I will inventory what’s there and see if any of it is drinkable, much less valuable for more than a conversation or two.

Conveniently for me, my grandfather’s nearly empty wine cellar is less than a mile from my house as the crow flies, Read more…

GO Green? Comment by 3/20 to get better bus & bike routes!

March 17, 2009

Got something to say about bike and bus routes? If you live in Ventura CountyVancouver Bus with Bike Rack, your comments must reach the Ventura County Transportation Commission no later than Friday, March 20 if you want to influence how your transit tax dollars will be spent. Send a letter or a video!

Call attention to bike riding by the simple act of riding your bike! Join us April 3 for the next ArtRide–it’s the Bunny Hop

Not from around here? Find out how your local transportation distributes funds and get involved! Use VCCOOL’s efforts as a model! The bus pictured at left is in Vancouver and I found it on a site about cycling and transit in Toronto.

This action alert can also be read on line.

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VCCool Action Alert                                                                                    March 17, 2009


Dear Friends,

Where should we spend our transportation dollars in 2009/2010? If you  support public transportation, safe bicycle routs, and other “clean” transit like trains in Ventura County

Click Here Today and Send in Your Comments! Read more…

168 hours a week: how to GO GREEN & be happy with the time you have

March 17, 2009

220px-clock_in_kings_crossPeople who get the most out of their time tend to focus on their “core competencies” — the things they do best at home and work, and that other people cannot do as well; they ignore, minimize or outsource most other things.

People who are satisfied with how much time they have focus at work on high-impact projects that get them where they wish to be going. At home they focus on nurturing loved ones — and less on housework.

In your personal life, do you focus on what makes life better: exercise, sleep, hobbies, volunteering, connecting with friends, family, community etc?  Or do you find yourself spending time on activities that disconnect you from friends and family like watching TV which don’t correlate with happiness?

This spring, Read more…

GMO Loopholes: GO Green & protect agriculture now –comments close 3/17

March 17, 2009

Phil McGrathFood Democracy Now writes, “If you care about the environment, human health and sustainable and organic farms: It’s time to act! Write to the USDA in these final 24 hours (before March 17!) to close the loopholes regulating genetically-engineered (GE) crops, also referred to as genetically modified organisms (GMOs).” Otherwise organic farmers like Phil McGrath of McGrath Family Farms which is hosting a spring celebration March 21, will face even more challenges in keeping their crops certified and  free from GMOs.

Tell the USDA that the loopholes regarding GE crops must be closed and to suspend approval of additional GE crops until truly independent, peer-reviewed testing can be performed.

While supporters claim this technology is safe, thorough testing was never completed before GE crops/GMOs were introduced into our food chain. Already more than 60 percent of packaged foods sold in U.S. supermarkets contain genetically-engineered food that American consumers unknowingly eat everyday.

Not only is this a great concern for consumer health, but also for family farmers who must pay exorbitant technology fees for the GE seed, and for the environment and sustainable and organic farmers whose crops can become contaminated due to GE drift.

If you care about food safety, it’s time to make your concern about GE food known! The USDA is accepting public comments on a proposed rule about GE until the close of business March 17th. Read more…

Another Poem from Guantanamo: My Heart Was Wounded by the Strangeness

March 16, 2009

My Heart Was Wounded by the Strangeness
by Abdulla Majid Al Noaimi, The Captive of Dignity

This is a poem I have written about my brother and friend Salman al Khalifa at the Guantanamo prison, poemsafter a long separation between us. The Americans were keen on keeping us apart. Four months later, he sent verbal greetings with the brothers, in which he said, “May peace, God’s Mercy and Blessings be upon you. I miss you a great deal and I’m trying to write a poem for you.” I felt guilty about this.  Will he write a poem for me when he is no poet, while I, who claim to be a poet, have written nothing for him?

I then said, “If he writes a poem for me before I write a poem for him, I deserve to be scoffed at until the Day of Judgement.” So I set out to write, but could not concentrate on the poem. I put writing aside and turned to memorizing the Qu’ran. But then I could not concentrate on the Qu’ran because my mind was occupied by the poem. With my mind divided, time began to pass. And then I was inspired:

My heart was wounded by the strangeness.
Now poetry has rolled up his sleeves, showing a long arm.

Time passes. The hands of the clock deceive us.
Time is precious and the minutes are limited. Read more…

Celebrate SPRING! McGrath Family Organic Farms & CSA Reopens w/a party 3/21!

March 15, 2009

In one week, on Friday, March 20 at 4:44am Pacific Time, SPRING arrives on the Northern Hemisphere! That means that days will finally be longer than the nights up here while the nights will be longer than the days for our friends Down Under (Hi Paul!)

One way to celebrate is to gather up local foods and make a springtime feast! For us, THE place to go for organic produce (when the Farmers Market is closed!) is the McGrath Family Organic Farms, located just off the 101 freeway near Camarillo, conveniently located for those heading north out of LA for the weekend!

This is a real honest to goodness farmstand featuring what’s fresh and what’s growing on the fields nearby, and they’re celebrating spring with the grandest or re-openings on the second full day of spring, Saturday March 21, with live music on a solar powered stage and lots of local culinary finds ready to delight the locavore in YOU! Read more…

Last Chance for CA Spiny Lobsters this Winter!

March 14, 2009

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We’re on our way this morning to the Ventura Harbor Fish Market to pick up one last lobster this season: the season closes on Wednesday so this is the last day  fisher folk can bring their catch including tuna and shrimp to sell directly to customers who get there early enough!

According to the State of California, recreational lobster season Read more…

Google Voice Transforms Your Phones–with a new uni-number & free calls!

March 13, 2009

cell-phones-on-planesImagine–one unified number for all your phones and a program which turns your voice mails into text! Almost like having your phones read your mind!

and from any phone if you dial your google voice number calls in the US are FREE! Calls to international locations are practically free. What happens to Skype and others like it? Google Voice has a mouth and will be gobbling up its competitors.

And what about Google knowing all our business? (What’s different?)

Google Voice grew out of Grand Central which Google gobbled a few years ago and has regurgitated it as Google Voice. According to David Pogue Read more…

Dead Weather: Will there be wind & water?

March 12, 2009

When I set sail
Will there be enough wind?

Will there be enough water
When my ship comes in?

from the song “Horehound” by Dead Weather

Fast forward 30 years from The Knack’s “My Sharona” and Bruce Springsteen’s masterful “The River” (1980) and you’ll land at the feet of Jack White of the White Stripes Read more…

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