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This Wednesday, March 19th, 2014 from 9pm until midnight (or later!) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Hemp Truthy Bracelets
$2 Processing fee, please
$4 Drink Special “The Lyla” Put a spring in your heels, it’s for reals!

This week’s hippy treat for you and yours is a handsome and rugged bracelet and letter beads that come with the kit that spell “truth.” But don’t worry, we’ll have OTHER letters for you to use, so that you can say other things, like”

• ALIVE
• BOOBS
• MACHO
• SALLY
• TOOTS
• TOXIC
• ZESTY
• IDEAS

It’s weavy beady fun, and Craft Lieutenant, Elaine Walker, will be steering the craft ship this week, I heard rumor that Lieutenant Vero may also be there. These Lieutenants are very sassy, so be on your best behavior. I’m in Brooklyn, NY where it is 34 degrees, in proximity to perfect  pizza and tasty hot coffee. I shall return next week to do the photo cube waltz with you. In the meantime, don’t miss these bracelets, you’ll feel like you’re at summer camp… in spring!

See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain

www.crafthead.com
www.akbarsilverlake.com

This Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 from 9pm until 12 (or later!) it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Shamrock wreath, shamrock necklace, shamrock pin.
Processing fee: $2 donation requested, thank you!
Drink Special: $4 The Lyla: Beauty outside, Beast Inside!
Special Filmstrip Screening: The Lavendar Leprachaun at 10:30 pm! (6.5 minutes)

If you detest shamrocks, then I am sorry to say, this may not be the CraftNight for you.
If you ARE into trifolium pratense, then woohoo! Come on down and get your crafts!
We’re right on the cusp of St. Patrick’s Day, this CraftNight gives you the opportunity to bedeck your surroundings and your person with a bevy of trinkets that sum up the “wearin’ o’ the green.”
To be clear, I’m talkin’ SHAMROCK, not FOUR LEAF CLOVER. We don’t just throw around four leaf clovers like they’re on discount at the five and dime. You’ve got to have serious luck to find a four leaf clover, it’s a game of chance, but I have heard that if you really want to up your odds, you should root around in a patch of trefolium repens (white clover.) And if you party hearty with the masses at Akbar on the 17th, just make sure if someone passes out and you draw incriminating things on their face, that you use a green marker. We are professionals around here, after all.

In addition to the evening’s CraftNight festivities, at 10:30pm I’m breaking out a very special rare filmstrip called The Lavender Leprechaun made many moons ago by the Walt Disney Educational Media Company. This 6 1/2 minute gem was created in 1975 and features a very interesting message that still resonates today. It is perhaps a thinly disguised nod to situations stewing and brewing in a society slowly beginning to accept certain concepts. While presented in a habitually tame and glossy way, there is an inkling that it could, either consciously or not, offer a wee bit of reassurance to those in class feeling “different.”

See you at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain

YOUR CITY, YOUR ESCAPADES…

UNTIL March 29th >>> Over 40 Robert Mapplethorpe works up at OHWOW to see for free.

ANYTIME >>> Hike to the Backside of the famous Hollywood Sign!

MARCH 12th [before or after CraftNight, of course] >>> Pantsuit Power Hour at The Must, with prizes and pretty pantsuits galore!

MARCH 13th – 28th >>> PaleyFest 2014 Panel discussions and actors from shows such as Lost, Madmen, Veep, American Horror Story and More… 

FRIDAY March 14th >>> Aero Theater presents The Master in 70mm at 7:30pm

SATURDAY March 15th >>> Double Feature at Cinefamily: Drinking Buddies/Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 5pm

SUNDAY March 16th >>> L.A. Guild of Puppetry’s Big Green Puppetzilla Puppet Slam • Bootleg Theater • 6:30pm

THIS WEDNESDAY MARCH 5th, 2014 from 9pm until midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Paint a Pot, Plant a Seed
Processing Fee: $2 donation please
Drink Special: The Lyla >>> $4 of fun! (yes, that photo is of Doris Day on a steamroller) 

Pardon my Garden, the rain stormed in here, whirled everything around and suddenly it’s March. The days are about to get longer, the sun shall soon return to what it was doing before it was interrupted by a ton of raindrops. That’s when I saw all the little terra cotta pots on a shelf and knew immediately what we’d be doing this week.
I have a couple of terra cotta pot sizes, I’ve got small and smaller, cute as the dickens, suitable for covering in plastic gems, googly eyes, felt scraps, yarn, you name it. The ever popular colorful acrylic paint will also be here, and remember planter sticks? Those are those thingies you stick in the dirt next to your plant so you don’t forget what you planted. They’re made out of wood, also suitable for customizing in the manner you desire. 

JP Craft Captain
www.akbarsilverlake.com
www.crafthead.com

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Just Another Boring Week in LOS ANGELES… 

FAT TUESDAY

1. The Original Farmer’s Market is having it’s 25th Mardi Gras Celebration, so much fun! Here’s info and here’s the flyer! 
2. Olvera Street is also having Mardi Gras on Tuesday from 9am to 2pm >>> Brazilian Dancing, kid mask workshops, piñatas!

ASH WEDNESDAY
FREE DAY at the Craft and Folk Museum! They also hold their own CraftNights, go see! Lots of ways to learn new things!

SELF-REALIZATION THURSDAY
Free to the public, the Self-Realization Temple’s Gardens and Lake in Pacific Palisades are open Tues – Saturday

WES ANDERSON FRIDAY
The Grand Budapest Hotel opens March 7th

SHOE BLESSING FOLLOWED BY MEGA-GAYNESS SATURDAY 

1. Ian MacKinnon’s Gay Historgy FEST!  For the first time ever all three parts of The Gay Hist-Orgy series will play together in one incredible evening.
2. If running the marathon… and you want your shoes blessed, go to Our Lady of the Angels and get ’em blessed at noon. $8 parking fee. Sheesh. Walk/Bike/Bus!!!

LA MARATHON  SUNDAY [[[Daylight Saving Time (United States) 2014 begins at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March 9]]]

Watch a ton of people running all over LA! I hear that runners can get a free super sloppy chili cheese dog at mile 5… 

IN THE NEAR FUTURE…  
Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the Nuart starting March 14th for an entire week! 

THIS WEDNESDAY FEB. 26, 2014 from 9pm until midnight, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Mardi Gras Preparedness 
Processing Fee: $2 donation please
Drink Special: $4 Trya Lyla, you’ll kiss the sky-ah! 

Craftnight’s not gonna let you skate by the end of this month without serious Mardi Gras Preparedness!
We are a bar, after all, and we are honor bound to appreciate hedonistic carnivalesque antics at their best (or worst?!?)
Our Tri-color-ops package includes a way to cover your face, commonly known as a “mask” and some beads for wearing and throwing.
If you are lucky, you’ll get a piece of home made King Cake!

Everyone thinks that the end of last year was the time to “let it all hang out and eat whatever” because of the difficult-to-resist culinary assault that comes with the year-end holidays. Following that, your stringent New Years Resolutions were supposed to whip you into shape and your whole personality and workout regime was going to have a complete overhaul.
Well… if that didn’t work out, there is still hope.
Use Fat Tuesday for a reboot. Put on that gem-spandex-fairy outfit, imbibe, dance, drink, use up allll your crazy on March 4th. Then  after the fight’s been partied out of you, brush off your hangover the next day, and then buckle down and get serious for awhile about those goals and aspirations. Or just stop eating fried chicken for 40 days, whatever’s easiest. 

JP Craft Captain
www.akbarsilverlake.com
www.crafthead.com

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MARDI GRAS in LOS ANGELES! 

The Original Farmer’s Market is having it’s 25th Mardi Gras Celebration, so much fun! Here’s info and here’s the flyer! 

Long Beach Mardi Gras looks interesting, whaddya think?  

Amoeba on Hollywood is having it’s Annual Parade and Celebration on Fat Tuesday! 

Club Nokia’s Brazilian Carnaval costs some $$ but it’s nonstop in-your-face dancing, carousing, looks like a good time. 

OTHER VIGOROUS FUN

AMAZING BEAUTIFUL VIEW
FREE! Los Angeles City Hall’s 27th Floor Observation Deck | M-F 9am to 5pm, enter on Spring St. yes, there is a metal detector, just the facts, Ma’am.

SRIRACHA FACTORY TOUR 
FREE! M-F 9am – 3pm | Call (626) 286-8328 to schedule an appointment

TUESDAY FEB 25th OMG The Dalai Lama’s in Town 
A public talk on Non-Violence and the Effects of Compassion in the 21st Century in the afternoon organized by The Lourdes Foundation.

SATURDAY MARCH 1st: 
Akbar hosts’s the 5th Anniversary of Mario Diaz’s FULL FRONTAL DISCO that is 210% recommended for a very good time! [$5 | 21+]