SMART GALS PRODUCTIONS: The Speakeasy

Sunday, September 25th
(& the last Sunday of Every Month)

8:00 until 10:00 in the evening
Mt. Hollywood Underground
4607 Prospect Avenue
(Underneath Mt. Hollywood Church in Silverlake,
corner of Prospect and Rodney, one block North of Hollywood Blvd. and one block east of Vermont Ave.... Enter on Rodney.)

Gents and Dames welcomed with equal regard!
Admission:
$7.00 (general)
$5.00 (members)
Bookmarks $10.00*, purchased seperately.

Passwords & such:
310.572.7347
www.smartgals.org

Mix, mingle, swoon, shine, speakeasy!

*Keeping this all on the QT, we don't sell booze, but we do sell
bookmarks. Do I make myself mysterious enough here?
We don't sell booze, but we do sell bookmarks.

Pack $15.00 for a full night. And hush!

The Evangenitals

More on The Evangenitals:

The Evangenitals were once a fictitious band - a fib on a phony website born to amuse ourselves and maybe a few friends. On a whim, founders Juli Crockett, Lisa Dee, and Brett Lyda (who all work at the same sex toy company in L.A.) brought the ghost to life and debuted a handful of "hillbilly truck-stop lullabies" for Arlo's open mic at the infamous Mr T's Bowl. The crowd response was fanatical and the path was now clear. Remarkably, in just a few short months The Evangenitals have emerged as bonified headliners, packing houses and making converts, young and old, every inch of the way. The addition of bassist Jeff "gimme some sugar" Jones ratified the divine balance of Evangender- two dudes, two singing chicks, 3 nylon-string guitars, and a whole lotta loving! Juli is an undefeated professional boxer & ordained minister, Lisa Dee a trained opera singer, Jeff Jones a skateboarding ping pong master, and Brett... well, we call him Mr. Fantastic. Ladies and Gents... this is the goodness. www.evangenitals.com

Drown your end of summer sorrows with a night of creative entertainment at the Speakeasy. Never before have these engaging talents been brought together in the same basement. And, I believe it is safe to bet that they will never converge again. The Evangenitals will open and close the night with their magical songs. John Albert will read from his addictively readable memoir, Wrecking Crew. Jennifer New, author of Drawing from Life, will discuss the creation of this stunning book. Drawing From Life contributor, Jenny Keller is the evening’s bookmark artist.

Cookies and lemonade will be served, she said knowingly.

Password is “Dear Diary, today I met a Griffith Park Pirate.”

More on John Albert:
John Albert co-founded the semi-legendary cross-dressing band Christian Death and also enjoyed a stint as the drummer in Bad Religion. He lives in Los Angeles and has contributed to L.A. Weekly, Hustler, and BlackBook among others. He won the Best of the West Journalism Best Sports Writing Award in 2000, for the L.A. Weekly article from which Wrecking Crew derived. The film rights to Wrecking Crew have recently been optioned by Paramount Pictures for a second time.

More on Jennifer New:
Jennifer New is a writer, educator, and mother of two who lives in Iowa. She currently has six journals in motion, one of which is usually lost at any given moment. For an extesive bio, and more on her latest book, Drawing From Life, please visit her web site www.jennifernew.com.

More on Drawing From Life:
Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few entries, and fewer still manage to create diaries whose insight and visual beauty can inspire anyone but their authors. Drawing from Life: The Journal As Art is an exploration of these exceptions books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs.

Jennifer New takes readers on a spirited tour into the private worlds of journal keepers‹an architect, a traveler, a film director, an archeologist, a foodie, a songwriter, a quiltmaker, a gardener, a Scrabble fanatic, a cyclist, and a volcanologist, to name just a few‹illustrating a broad range of journaling styles and techniques that in the end show how each of us can go about documenting our everyday lives. Excerpts from journals by such artists as Maira Kalman, Steven Holl, David Byrne, and Mike Figgis give us a peek at how creative souls observe, reflect, and explore.

For those who already keep a journal, Drawing from Life will be an inspiration. For those who have always wanted to (or tried and failed) it might just be the motivation needed to get past that first week.

More on Jenny Keller:

Jenny Keller was raised in the mountains of southern California and was inspired by her artist mother and scientist father in choosing a career in scientific illustration. In addition to freelance work, she teaches in and coordinates the Science Illustration program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In spite of (or perhaps because of) the detail-work involved in scientific rendering, her favorite art form is the spontaneous sketch. She has enjoyed keeping sketch-journals for decades; what started out as adolescent musings written in code and illuminated with dragons evolved into an illustrated journal of nature observations, which eventually turned into working studies for science illustration projects. Now she sketches for work, pleasure and sustenance and can’t imagine her life without a journal in hand. Her finished work has appeared in Scientific American and National Geographic magazines, and in numerous books, including The Undressed Art, Why We Draw (by Peter Steinhart, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004); and Dolphin Days (by Kenneth S. Norris, W. W. Norton, 1991) – which won the John Burroughs Award for best book of the year in natural history. She also illustrates marine subjects for the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Jenny Keller can be reached through the Science Illustration program at:
www.ucsc-extension.edu/scienceillustration or at her office at 831.427.6656.