From UCLA, ALOUD, CSULB & MOCA
Just because it's a gray, drizzly Monday morning in Southern California, here's a few items to look ahead to for a brighter week, especially among the region's chattering classes.
On Tuesday, the folks in Westwood return to the scene of what's the state of the art in Do It Yourself video, examining the viral cultural phenomenon, some of its prime examples, and, yes, even bringing in some of its suddenly well-known practitioners, such as Matt Harding, that guy who danced around the planet and into his 15 minutes of fame. If Harding's hoofing gets those feet itchy, head downtown Thursday night to join Heffington and the Eastsiders in an 'enagement party,' an 'environment' designed to get participants to get up dance and, yes, maybe even be videotaped.
For the more serious minded, on Wednesday night the folks in Long Beach look farther south than usual to examine the point-counterpoint on what the planned expansion of the Panama Canal will mean to local ports. Will the 2014 opening of the bigger, deeper, better waterway cut into business at the multibillion-dollar facilities in Los Angeles and Long Beach? The session's free and open to the public. And on Thursday night, the always wonderful Jack Miles, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and thinker now resident in Irvine, will chat with philosopher and author Kawme Anthony Appiah about honor codes and moral revolutions in a free session downtown (reservations required).
