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On January 19th, 2014, Martin Luther King smiled upon the step that 8 individuals took in attempt to
fulfill his dream. Pasadena artist Bing Bing led 7 people on a 21-mile trek through some of the nation's…
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I, Michael Taylor (commonly known as Bing Bing or Mistah Wilson), will be walking 21+ miles to End…
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Join CITYstage for a week of free DANCE, MUSIC & THEATRE instruction for teens.
Registration is now open for CITYstage Summer Camp and it's FREE!
Parents - Get the kids out of your hair for a week this summer.
Kids - Get out of the house and learn dance, music and theatre!
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SNAPSHOT: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE INTERRUPTED BY INVASION
“A breathtakingly audacious revelation of Sinnott’s search to find her father . . .
Many aspire to this but few…
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Let me introduce to you one of the treasures of the Los Angeles community and part of the family of Leimert Park: Verbs.
This youngster has made quite an underground impact with his rhymes and his eclectic music tastes. I love his honest and often humorous takes on life in LA, taking public transportation, new found feelings of commitment and the challenges of growing up today, which he lays over smooth beats and sometimes a live band.
But I've gotten…
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A FREE COMMUNITY EVENT THAT GETS FAMILIES OUTSIDE FOR A CHANGE
Featuring performances by well-known musical artists including The Verve Pipe, Randy Kaplan, Hug Trees, Heidi Swedberg, Mike Schmid, David Tobocman and Rhythm Child
Building upon the success of last year's Kids ROCK, The Children's…
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Los Angeles, CA - FREE events in Leimert Park Village in June, 2012. All events are family friendly and are looking for vendors, volunteers and sponsors.
June 9, 10 - The 1st Annual Dynamic Dads Day Celebration and Resource Fair with FREE music, arts & craft vendors, a male fashion show, BBQ cook-off, free haircuts & more. http://www.settheatmosphere.blogspot.com/
June 16, 17 - 3rd Annual…
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THE GOAL: Make Leimert Park Village the "one stop" for all Green news, products, education, etc. for Los Angeles. There isn't one yet and create a self sustaining village than can also be a base for Emergency Response in times of need.
THE MODEL: Oakland, CA Green Organizations and Neighborhood improvement making it the Greenest inner city place in U.S.
WHAT WE HAVE; Free Green Courses on all subjects 3 days a week (and Childrens Afterschool classes),…
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The music business has been and is undergoing crazy changes that is shaking up all the major and small players in the industry. The problem is not the evolution of a different way of manipulating and consuming media but the failure of the player to foresee and yield to these changes.
In studying entrepreneurship last semester, I came across the concept of…
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Co$$ "represents Leimert Park, but not in a strident, flag-waving way. He hasn't tried to ride the skinny jean, jerkin' or hipster bandwagons. He has said that his favorite rapper is Rass Kass, and that makes sense," glows Jeffery Weiss of Pop&Hiss on LATimes.com.
Coss, raised in Carson, will drop a new record June 21's "Before I Awoke." But you can download the "Sleepwalking Mixtape" for free - outtakes and junk that you'll be lucky to have heard -…
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This ode to the tennis shoe is filmed in the coolest store - but where is this store? Do you see the Crenshaw T's? Gotta have one.
But the coolest thing (besides eating cereal and drinking milk out of hi-tops) is namedropping Earlez Grill on Crenshaw and…
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Leimert Park Beat photographer L. Watts was there for the show at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza featuring acclaimed contemporary jazz artist, Rachelle Ferrell and GRAMMY nominated R&B/Soul artist Ledisi at the outdoor stage.
From Jason Lombard of BHCP:
ABOUT Rachelle Ferrell
Pennsylvania native Rachelle Ferrell’s music career began at age six, which many speculate contributed to the “development of…
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LeimertParkBeat.com is not a blog, because it takes more than one person to tell the story of our village. All are invited to share their news, their successes and their concerns with like-mind people - their neighbors.
We had some amazing contributions from citizen journalists, community activists and neighbors. Please thank them! The following are the most visited stories on Leimert Park Beat in 2010.
1. The second Leimert Park African Art and Music Festival…
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16 from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. an extraordinary group of jazz musicians and spoken
word artists will perform at Bryant Temple AME, 2525 W. Vernon Avenue in
Leimert Park, to celebrate Billy Higgins Birthday. Billy Higgins, who passed away in 2001, was a
legendary jazz drummer and visionary community leader. The performance will celebrate Higgins life
and the $20 entry fee will support his legacy by raising funds for the…
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