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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 from 9pm(ish) until 12(or later) at Akbar,  it’s CRAFTNIGHT!
Project: Medals
$2 Processing Fee
On the Akbar JumboTron: Swimming and Diving finals, crowning of the men’s all-around champion in Gymnastics and Beach Volleyball match involving Team USA
$4 Cosmopolitans: Light the Fire Within!
Special Treat from Craft Lieutenant Vero: Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes

It’s all about champions this week, as we watch athletes from all over the world hurl, propel, splash, paddle, run, flip, flop, twirl, lift, steer, throw, obsess, compete, win and lose in 32 some-odd specialized sports for the next week and a half. We’ll be broadcasting NBC’s feed of glorious Olympic deeds, and we’ll be making medals for ourselves because we are just that awesome. Until we see you at the craft table, here’s some fun Olympic-themed fodder for your day. Gotta have something to talk about while sipping and crafting…

Slate’s Olympic Sap-O-Meter 
Longform’s Olympic Primer
ESPN’s Olympic Nudes 
Huffington Post’s Hot Homosexual Olympic Athletes
Vice’s The Recent Unpleasantness – Olympic Mascots: An Oral History
Boston’s Big Picture – Opening Ceremonies

See You at the Craft Table,

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

TONIGHT! July 25th, 2012 from 9pm (ish) until 12am or later, at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Foam Doorknob Hangers
$2 Processing Fee, Please
$4 Cosmopolitan Drink Special: Lipsmackin’ thirstquenchin’ acetastin’ motivatin’ goodbuzzin’ cooltalkin’ highwalkin’ fastlivin’ evergivin’ coolfizzin’ cosmos!

Veronica and Elaine Craft Lieutenants will lead a rousing bout of foam door hanger crafts, get ready to “say it with foam” as we like to say at CraftNight! Why will I not be joining you? Rehearsals and meetings are in their fever pitch, so at the moment, I don’t have time to cut a sandwich in half, but that’s okay because the torch of CraftNight still burns bright! You will be guided toward the shapes, the glue, the fun, and of course… the cocktails! Suffice it to say, make good use of this exquisite summer, if you’re not by the pool, we’re going to throw you in it.

8,000 THINGS TO DO STARTING RIGHT NOW! 
(THURS-FRI-SAT) Susan Simpson’s Exhibit A at the RedCat Theater Thurs, Fri, Sat part of the New Original Works Festival (I’ll be puppeteering!) is about Silverlake, homosexuality and aliens… you won’t want to miss it.

(THURS) WIG OUT at THREE CLUBS
Wig it on up this Thursday and get your rock musical on with wig-glad effervescence and verve! Jean Natalia, your ever gracious host, will introduce you to a cavalcade of strange and sumptuous performers, something for everyone!

(FRI) Rock out with your Sock out at Akbar’s FUNCTION you bettah brang it grrrrllllzzzzzz! Oh it’s going to be CRAZEH. 

(SUN afternoon)PUPPET FUNDRAISER! Bob Baker’s Preservation and Celebration Extravaganza this Saturday from 4pm until 7pm (I’ll be greeting you at the door!)

(SUN night) TITS-n-STACHE at the AIRLINER with prize giveaways by the Pleasure Chest for ladies and gentlequeers, bands Her Girl Friday and La Muff, there will be a photo booth, art, DJ Lower Furnace and so much more! (I’ll be there back-up singing, dancing and possibly fortune-telling… your destiny awaits…)

TONIGHT! 9(ish) to midnight or later at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!! 

Project: CraftNight Mash-up! 

$2 Processing fee, please

$4 Cosmopolitan drink special (for the summer of YES) 

Hey Hey, it’s a Two-in-One Craft Soiree!
Wednesday July 11th, 2012 at Abkar at 9(ish)pm until 12 or later it’s The Original Weekly CraftNight!
Project: “Peel to Reveal” Summer Sand Art Magnets!
$2 Processing Fee
$4 Signature Cosmopolitan “Ass-Whacker” Drink Special
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Friday July 13th, 2012 at The Skirball Cultural Center from 9pm until 1am it’s Into the Night: Playtime!
CraftNight, Sea Wolf, Geographer, KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez, a museum-wide scavenger hunt, balloon art and strolling puppets, screenings of famed director Jacques Tati’s comedic masterwork Play Time, card and board games—including oversized Jenga and checkers, outdoor hula hooping, experimental arcade games from UCLA’s Game Lab, plus a cash bar featuring specialty cocktails.
$15 General Advance; $20 Day of Show/Door
Ages 21 and up; valid ID required
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The lazy blue of the sky keeps painting itself over the city day after way, sometimes adding a touch of brown to the horizon, other times letting the wind polish it away to a murky depth of twinkling summer stars. This summer seems to be especially summer-like in its glorious insistance, there’s no better excuse to run screaming from the cubicle, socks flying, papers be damned, in search of a sun-kissed sandy beach or a cocktail with a silly lil’ paper umbrella sitting on the rim of the glass.
People who live far away from Los Angeles think its like this all the time. They think your life is like Jack Tripper’s, where you fall off your bicycle in the sand and end up living in a beach side apartment building with two hot roommates and your downstairs neighbor: a goofy, yet friendly, flamboyantly-dressed landlord who fancies himself a ladies’ man that looks a hell of a lot like Don Knotts. The tourists who vacation here think we wear white pants and eat organic strawberries all day. They think we all have swimming pools and know all the movie stars. DON’T LET THEM DOWN!

It’s up to us to continue this charade, it’s your duty as an Angeleno to Come and dance on on our floor…… Take a step that is new….. We’ve a loveable space that needs your face, Three’s company too!

Consider Akbar to be your go-to “Regal Beagle” this summer, see you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain

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TONIGHT! Wednesday July 4th, 2012 from 9 (ish) until 12 (or later) at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Patriotic Turtles
$2 Processing Fee
$4 Cosmopolitans: Yank your Doodle and call it macaroni…

Patriotic turtles are our favorite kind of turtle. No! Not LIVE turtles, silly! It’s a foam craft that uses glue and sparkles and so on, the usual assortment of fabulous adornments!

Won’t you come visit us?

See You at the Craft Table,

JP Craft Captain