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LA Art Show Returns With Rita Ora Hosting.

 By Laura Medina

The celebration was hosted by international pop star Rita Ora in conjunction with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® for a celebration of art and charitable components and exhilaration continued throughout the weekend, heightened by a surprise visit from Arnold Schwarzenegger. 

The event kicked off with a visit from Mayor Eric Garcetti, celebrating both the return of the show and the 50th anniversary of the Los Angeles Convention Center, followed by a successful opening night complete with red carpet. 

The LA Art Show wrapped a socially distanced special summer edition of the fair with half the attendance but doubling their sales! Being among the first events to return live - galleries, art dealers, curators, collectors and art lovers masked up and made their way to Los Angeles Convention Center this past weekend to surround themselves with arts and culture. 

It's Not the Roaring Twenties; Get Your Disco Groove on with Niles Rodger's DiscOasis in South Coast Botanical Gardens, Good Times for a Good Cause, "We Are Family" Foundation.

 By Laura Medina

Sensing the world needs to let loose and celebrate life that now includes diversity and inclusivity,  legendary Chic member and producer, Nile Rodgers, with help from old pal, Madonna, he picked the spacious but under-appreciated, lush gem of South Coast Botanical Gardens in Torrance/Rolling Hills Estates/Palo Verdes, just below LAX, to host his dream roller disco rink for the whole month of August then it disappears on Labor Day.

His DiscOasis is an oasis of good times, giving anyone and everyone the creative release to fly "your freak flag." In this day and age, it's no longer "freak."  It's the unique real you in the rainbow spectrum.

DiscOasis is a magical theme park where guests are greeted by performers representing the Hippie Sixties, Seventies Disco, and "Like a Virgin" Madonna Eigthties.

Then, this magical theme park greets them...

Breathing in the open, fresh air and the space for freedom to get your boogie down, with letting it all out and loose and hanging, getting your boogie down as exercise. The happies of the Seventies are back.

Every Sunday night is fun night, Those are the nights that legendary DJs play guest host DJs.  This night was the legendary DJ, Grandmaster Flash.

Convinced by his friend, Nile Rodgers, Grandmaster Flash flew the overnight red eye, landed in LA at 6:30 am then spent the whole day Sunday just get Angelenos to shake their booties for just one night then he's jump back on 11:30pm overnight flight back to NYC.

In one night, in three, non-stop, hand-raising, fist-pumping hours, Grandmaster Flash played his Eighties classics, mixed in with Guns N' Roses and the White Stripes!

There's more to DiscOasis than legendary DJs.

DiscOasis has their roller-skating dance troupe that do classic Disco Waltz dancing.

Ah, the golden age of disco.

There's more to DiscOasis than a dream of a roller rink and a flashing concert stage.

There's a souvenir merchandise tent.  Always two food trucks. Two bars. An vintage video arcade. A VIP area and yes, restrooms.

Even Sunday nights are DJ nights, Tuesday to Saturday nights are great date nights. Get an hint.

Remember, there's "oasis" in it's name for a reason.

Like a disco mirage, it's meant to be temporary.

By Labor Day, all this will be a memory.

If there's anything that quarantine taught us, is to never take any moment for granted.

With Andy Warhol Photo Party, this scribe is having a Seventies/Eighties moment.

In Olympic Spirit, Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles & Soon to be Ambassador to India, There for Angel City Sports and How He Brought the Summer Olympics Back to the City of Angels 2028.

 By Laura Medina

Back at his alma mater, Harvard-Westlake, Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti talked how Harvard-

Westlake and the 1984 Summer Olympics made a big impression on him.

"My parents took me to the 1984 Olympics."

It was because of this, that Angel City Sports held their disabled sports festival at the mayor's old stomping grounds.

Garcetti, a proud Los Angeleno wants to bring the spirit of the Los Angeles Olympics, in just a variety of nationalities and ethnicities all together but to make the City of Angels, sports-friendly to disabled jocks.

He talked how Boston, the original winner of 2028, realized they didn't have facilities, the infrastructure, the money or the time to be up to Olympic level.  But, he won the bid because Los Angeles already have the infrastructure, hosting the Olympics in 1932 and 1984.  10th Street was renamed Olympic Boulevard because of this.

They have experience, the money and the energy with pride and history to revamp facilities and build new ones.

Summer Olympics 2028 is LA28.

When he says these, this is his last few, remaining days as the Mayor of Los Angeles, before he embarks on his new journey as the US Ambassador to India in a few weeks and months.

Roller Disco-ing to Grandmaster Flash at DiscOasis

Grandmaster Flash at DiscOasis

SMALL TOWN NEWS: KPVM PAHRUMP on HBO & HBO Max TONIGHT @ 9 PM ET/PT

 By Laura Medina

SMALL TOWN NEWS: KPVM PAHRUMP provides an entertaining glimpse into a scrappy, hardworking local news broadcaster looking to expand into a bigger market during challenging times. With warmth and humor, the series celebrates the can-do spirit, community pride and political diversity among the station’s charismatic and often humorous employees.

Only 95 independently owned news stations still exist in the United States; KPVM in Pahrump, Nevada, 62 miles west of Las Vegas is one of them. Owned and operated by Vernon Van Winkle, known as “Vern,” and his wife Ronda, a singer/songwriter,  KPVM provides a look at what it takes to report the news in a small desert town with a population of over 37,000. SMALL TOWN NEWS: KPVM PAHRUMP features the heart of Pahrump’s news gathering machine including long-time devoted news director, Deanna, who along with co-anchor Eunette, and reporter Missey, produce and deliver the local nightly news with a small crew from and to the community.  Missey’s husband, John, joins the team as KPVM’s fun-loving weatherman and up and coming sales associate.