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Free VIP Day passes to our full days film screenings available to all whom register for this free event with Gerry Fialka, The list of films screening will be available as the films are selected to screen, updates to film blocks screening at the festival social media pages, and website:

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Nov 7th. Sat "Film Fest La & L.A. LIVE" presents FILM CAN'T KILL YOU BUT WHY TAKE A CHANCE from 3:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. at Regal Cinemas 1000 W Olympic Blvd, LA CA 90015, Info: 310-306-7330 Laughtears.com Free workshop and day passes sponsored by BigHouse-la.com Paramedia ecologist Gerry Fialka's fun interactive workshop explore cinema's hidden psychic effects via Marshall McLuhan's Menippean satirized percepts: "We shape our tools, then they shape us." and “The Balinese have no word for art, they do everything as well as they can.” and "How about technologies as the collective unconscious and art as the collective unconsciousness?" Delve deep into Live Cinema, Neurocinema and the metaleptic heart of movies. Read the OtherZine article: sticks-and-stones-may-break-your-bones-but-film-will-never-hurt-you.Gerry Fialka has been praised by the LA Times as "the multi-media Renaissance man." The La Weekly proclaimed him "a cultural revolutionary." His new book Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation, with a foreword by David James will be published soon. His new feature The Brother Side of the Wake (BroSide) is the experimental documentary about the people of Venice, California. It probes the cliché: "Is the journey more important than the destination?" Watch the preview on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBj0UdpFEWo

Laughtears Press is proud to announce the new book,

Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation

by Gerry Fialka, Edited by Rachael Kerr, Foreword by David James.Publication date: SoonContact: Gerry Fialka

310.307.7330

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Compelling interviews with notables in avant-garde cinema offer insights into moving image art--its creative processes, formative influences, and hidden psychic effects. Through interviews with George Manupelli, Chick Strand, Tom Gunning, Lynne Sachs, Jay Rosenblatt, Martha Colburn, Evan Meaney, Mike Hoolboom, Robert Nelson, and Nina Menkes,

Strange Questions

links powerful personal stories with the contemporary media-scape.

Questions addressed in this collection include:

What role does the audience play in the creative process?

Can art-making be egoless?

Is perception reality?

What is the role of intention in the creative process?

What counts as storytelling? Are experimental filmmakers telling stories a different way or doing something completely different?

What was the motive of the cave artists?

What is more important: conviction or compromise?

Is ambition based more on fear or joy?

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Accolades from award-winning experimental filmmakers:

"Fialka is a damn good interviewer. His questions are sometimes so precise that it tickles and sometimes so grand and thought provoking that one feels on the edge of a new spiritual awareness." --Lynne Sachs

"Fialka asks unexpected Questions about important Ideas, eliciting Answers that can surprise even those doing the answering. My Interview with him taught me something about myself; it was a Gift." --David Gatten"Fialka's was the funniest interview I have ever had. He has developed a very wise way of triggering thoughts in the interviewee." --Leighton Pierce"Fialka's interview had me buzzing inside with thoughts and memories that his engaging questions set in motion. Super stimulation." --Larry Gottheim"I thank Gerry Fialka so much. I really enjoyed his interview with me, especially his unjaded joie de vivre, hearty laugh, and endless pursuit of knowledge sparked by social curiosity." --Phil Solomon."Gerry Fialka is a master interviewer. Working out of his natural sympathies and his erudition, Gerry cannily and cheerfully guides his interviewees along a path of Socratic inquiry that goes far deeper than the average Q & A and possibly deeper than the interviewee thought himself/herself capable of going. With Gerry at the helm, the journey really is about the destination and not just the journeying." --Fred Worden"Fialka is a meteor shower in the contemporary media arts discourse. He's blowing my mind." -- Craig Baldwin

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Gerry Fialka, artist, writer, and para-media ecologist, lectures on experimental film, avant-garde art, and subversive social media at NYU, USC, UCLA, Cal Arts and MIT. He has been called "the multi-media Renaissance man" by the

Los Angeles Times

and "a cultural revolutionary" by the

LA Weekly.

Fialka's interviews have been published in books by Mike Kelley and Sylvere Lotringer. They have been heard on Pacifica KPFK radio, and have appeared in magazines:

Canyon Cinema, OtherZine, CineSource,

Artillery,

AMASS magazine, LA Jazz Scene, Jazz News,

Bird, Flipside, Venice BeachHead.

"Gerry Fialka is Los Angeles' preeminent underground film curator." - Robin Menken, CinemaWithoutBorders

Rachael Kerr is a filmmaker, writer, and researcher. She is a 2017 graduate of the University of Michigan Department of Screen Arts and Cultures. As a student she collaborated on the feature documentary

The Big House

, now slated for theatrical release in Japan. In Winter 2017, Rachael was part of a UM course taught be Terri Sarris and supported by the University's Bicentennial Committee, which explored the AAFF's long relationship to the University.

David E. James has written or edited a dozen books on avant-garde cinema and other forms of non-commodity culture, especially in Los Angeles. His latest publication is

Rock ‘N’ Film: Cinema’s Dance With Popular Music

(2016). His films have screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles Filmforum, and Canyon Cinema in San Francisco.

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SoonSunday 7pm at Beyond Baroque

681 Venice Blvd Venice CA

FREE Admission

MOM - Movie Or Manuscript on Mother's Day -

Celebrate the publication of Gerry Fialka's new book

Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation

http://laughtears.com/strange-questions.html

and

his new feature film

The Brother Side of the Wake (test screening). Facebook=

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VIEW Youtube Clips=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhspvI86Z8

&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vso1cEAUYRs

LilyCat Radio Show - Gerry talks about both book and film -

https://archive.org/details/20180225LilycatGerry

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Upcoming volumes in the

Strange Questions

book series:

Experimental Film as Conversation, Continued.

This volume includes interviews with filmmakersDavid Gatten, Frank Mouris, P. Adams Sitney, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Bill Brand, Pip Chodoov, Craig Baldwin, Bill Morrison, Braden King, Naomi Uman, John Smith, Patrick Turrant, Madison Brookshire, Tony Gault, Bill Daniel, Vera Brunner Sung, Alexandra Cuesta, Tooth, Fred Worden, Mark Street, Leslie Raymond, Jason Jay Stevens, Ben Russell, Bryan Konefsky, Owen Land, Peter Rose, Alfonzo Alvarez, Jesse Lerner, Terri Sarris, Chris McNamara, Oren Goldenberg, Jesse Drew, Roger Bebe, Jon Jost, Betsy Bromberg, Thom Anderson and more.

Michigan Aesthetics as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with Mike Kelley, George Clinton, Sam Green, Jack Epps Jr, Grace Lee Boggs, Marshall Crenshaw, Ari Weinzweig (Zingerman's), Steve 'Muruga' Booker, John Sinclair, and Mary Jane Shoultz.

Venice Aesthetics as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with

Venice artists

Rip Cronk, Earl Newman, and Carol Fondiller.

Art as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with artists William Pope.L, Alexis Smith, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, George Herms, Doug Harvey, Winston Smith, and Robert Branaman.

Poetry as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with poets Amiri Baraka, SA Griffin, Suzanne Lummis, ruth weiss, Linda Albertano, Les Plesko, Harry Northrup, and David Meltzer.

Political Activism

as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with political activists Grace Lee Boggs, Tom Hayden, Haskell Wexler, Bill Ayers, Skip Blumberg, Jon Rappoport, Lila Garrett, and Marcy Winograd.

Jazz as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with musicians Horace Silver, Jon Hendricks, Annie Ross, Oscar Brown Jr, Hadda Brooks, David Amram, Perry Robinson, Theo Sanders, and jazz writers Kirk Silsbee and Greg Burk.

Literature as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with writers Eric McLuhan, John Bishop, Chris Kraus, Kristine McKenna, Janet Fitch, Brad Schreiber, and Johanna Drucker.

Comedy as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with comedians Paul Krassner, Ric Overton, Paul Provenza, David Misch, Roy Zimmerman, Wes Skoop Nisker, Lady Lord Buckley, and Darryl Henriques.

Rock N' Roll as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with musicians Mac Rebennack (aka Dr John), Pamela Des Barres, Steve Vai, Van Dyke Parks, Barry Smolin, Bruce Langhorn, Jeff Mosier, Roger Steffans, Paul Zollo, Billy Vera, Del Casher, Baby Gramps and John French.

Avant Garde Music as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with musicians DJ Spooky, Carl Stone, Patrick Gleeson, David Ocker, Blue Gene Tyranny, Frank Pahl, and Veronika Krausas.

Documentary Film as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with documentary filmmakers Ondi Timoner, Marina Goldovskaya, Rodney Ascher, Jay Weidner, Tiffany Shlain, Mary Jordan, William Farley, Chris Felver, Chris Metzler, Stan Warnow, and Jon Alloway.

Performance Art as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with performance artists Ann Magnuson, Heather Woodbury, Gordon Winiemko, Joseph Keckler, Mark Pauline, and Ed Holmes (aka Bishop Joey).

Dance as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with dancers Simon Forti and Rudy Perez.

Hollywood as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with Hollywood people James Harris, Orson Bean, Timothy A. Carey, Mews Small, Abraham Polonsky, Jeremy Kagan, Jay Cassidy, Steve DeJarnatt, and Steve Fife.

Animation as Conversation.

This volume includes interviews with animators Bruce Bickford, Karl Krogstad,and Gary Schwartz.

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Strange Questions

will cover:More Experimental Film as ConversationMichigan Aesthetics as ConversationVenice, California Aesthetics as Conversation

Art as ConversationPoetry as ConversationPolitical Activism as ConversationJazz as ConversationLiterature as ConversationComedy as ConversationRock 'n' Roll as ConversationAvant-Garde Music as ConversationDocumentary Film as ConversationPerformance Art as ConversationDance as ConversationHollywood as ConversationAnimation as ConversationMedia Ecology as Conversation

Sculpture as ConversationPhotography as ConversationLive Cinema as Conversation

Gaming & Coding: Information Technology as Conversation

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Meet one of our contributing #poets, Linda J. Albertano! You can read her piece "Virtue" on our site. #tribelamagazine #losangeles #losangelespoetry #losangelesart #losangelesculture #losangeleslifestyle #poetry

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Poems: Linda J. Albertano and Her Brother, James AA Stone

VIRTUE by Linda J. Albertano

Virtue rides into town on a convertible Clydesdale. She’s wrapped in blue-and-white stars and is eating an apple concoction. Ah, Virtue! They want you. Your symbols are so succulent! They want to use you for purposes of personal adornment. They want to pin you, wholesome and lovely, to their lapels.

Virtue drinks nothing but water from glaciers and the sap of lacebark pine. Ah, Virtue. You’re deep in danger. Of becoming a dull boy. Everyone knows the most fascinating females are hookers with hearts of gold. They smoke their cheroots and sing in their whiskey tenors. They wear flamingo lipstick and kiss your boyfriend on the mouth.

Virtue goes to a square dance with the cleanest of all the cowboys. Outside, dark-eyed men lurk smelling of rum and rosewater. Ah, Virtue! Don’t let them handle you with their hot hands!

Virtue wears a starched blouse and a pristine pair of gloves to church. A silver cross in the crook of her neck. Virtue is dainty. She kneels at the altar. She swallows the blood and the body of Christ. Ah, Virtue!

At the far end of the road, they’ve masked a sinner and paraded him as you. You! Who are as creamy and innocent as milk. Don’t let them leave you too long in the sun! Don’t let them hang any heretics in your name!

Virtue has blue, blue eyes. And genuine blonde hair. She’s the Virgin Spring. Really. Is that fair? I mean. She never wears gardenia perfume. She doesn’t know how to swing a hammer. But she looks delectable on the couch in any living room. I worry about you, Virtue. Are you tasting the juice of life? Are you afraid to stain the bib of your dress?

Oh, Virtue. Run! Run before they snare you in their pious and hellish nets! Save yourself, Virtue! They want to use you for purposes of narcissism. They want to turn you upside-down and imprison you in their green and glorious gore. Their hounds are howling in the hills! Hide! Be the purloined letter, Virtue. They can’t hurt you if they can’t see you. They can’t see you if you’re everywhere.

Be everywhere, Virtue. Be nowhere. Be something. Be nothing. Hide. Ride out of town on a white Clydesdale. Ah, Virtue. We love your girlish ways!

Don’t ever change.

This post originally published January 20, 2017 and has since been updated.

“TEA, TOAST AND DUCK EGGS, DAD” by James AA Stone

Old Donald McD. tromps through gumbo mud until his shoes weigh twenty pounds apiece to bring the woolies in from pastureland. Quick words—“Get-away-by-far-off-Jock”—send

Scotsman’s dog around the way of Pecker’s Knob, beyond two stubborn waywards at least a dozen yards. He watches Jock hunker on the run, one eye for sheep, another

for the signal wave, a wave the old one knows will bring them straight to the weathered fleece nailed to the pasture gate. “I could’ve sold him once,” says he, “but she’s a long cold

without Mother.” Not so often lately does he mutter, “What’s for breakfast, Katie”?

–Jim Stone ©

Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher

Linda J. Albertano has run the gamut from the political to the ridiculous, unleashing her language on unsuspecting audiences in both the US and Europe. As a poet, she represented Los Angeles at the One World Poetry Festival in Amsterdam, and she’s featured on the Venice Poetry Wall at Windward Ave. with such local notables as Jim Morrison, Viggo Mortensen and Exene Cervenka.

At the LA Theatre Center she presented a full-length work complete with artists, dancers and a 30-piece marching band from South Central LA. Then for the Santa Monica Arts CounciI, she mounted Calisaladia – a condensed history of California — with a large, multi-cultural cast. In the new millennium she studied West African music (kora and bolon) in Guinea, returning to perform for more than a decade at such venues as the Getty, Royce Hall and the Sacred Music Festival with kora virtuoso, Prince Diabate.

Recently she’s been published in Maintenant, a contemporary journal of Dada art and poetry featured in the New York Museum of Modern Art. And she’s been performing experimental works at Beyond Baroque, City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco and Cabaret Revoltaire for the Los Angeles celebration of the centennial of Dada. In the winter months, she’s appeared as Prince Diabate’s accompanist at intimate home concerts in both Pasadena and Venice Beach.

Salient Sunday: Debbie Zeitman’s encore of “Before they Go” – Linda J. Albertano in her studio, see the Photo Exhibit at Wabi-Sabi

Three thought-provoking poems by Jim Stone on Montana, Love, Cowboys, Tequila, and the Tango

Three Rooms Press and Beyond Baroque Present LA DADA: Performance and new book release with Linda J. Albertano, S.A. Griffin and more…

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http://tribelamagazine.com/meet-poet-playwright-novelist-ruskingrouptheatres-librarygirl-susanhayden/ TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles Upon meeting the vivid, lovely and spirited Susan Hayden, you’d doubt that the word “shy” existed anywhere in her lexicon. Yet it dwells in her internal complexity, a kind of haunting vulnerability that ultimately cements your trust in her generous warmth. #Allartallthetime #Arttoday #Librarygirlpresents #Lindajalbertano #Tribelamagazine

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Poet, playwright and Ruskin Group Theatre's Library Girl SUSAN HAYDEN with introduction by Linda J. Albertano

Upon meeting the vivid, lovely and spirited Susan Hayden, you’d doubt that the word “shy” existed anywhere in her lexicon. Yet it dwells in her internal complexity, a kind of haunting vulnerability that ultimately cements your trust in her generous warmth. It was the sudden loss of her husband that made her resourceful and stretched her in new directions enveloping many a creative soul who ventured into her orbit. It’s no surprise that she’s an admirer of Gertrude Stein, for Susan Hayden is a poet, playwright and a born salonista, building a congenial family around the events she’s produced. As “Library Girl” she’s sponsored monthly readings at the Ruskin Group Theatre for nearly a decade now.

No wonder the Santa Monica Arts Commission presented her with the Bruria Finkel / Artist in the Community Award!

Her poem, “Zig-Zag Lady” demonstrate the multitudes that lie within us. It illuminates our own conflicts and contradictions. In recognizing ourselves in her very personal expression of grief, hope, regret and transcendence, we are once again touched by her passion… the desire to bring us together, beyond the digital, to experience our common humanity, person-to-person, to warm our hands and hearts together at an entirely live event! And for that, we are grateful. — Linda J. Albertano

ZIG ZAG LADY

by Susan Hayden

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. – JR Cash

I learned from Johnny Cash that wearing black is never wrong; wore it long before I was a widow, and expected to.

I learned to live in the mouth of joy While in the arc of grief, With a deep belief in co-existence.

Johnny taught me hope’s persistence; how to perfect a numb, encumbered smile while shining, while crumbling.

His was an inner-swagger, an open shield, which showed me how to yield when push came to shove- To rise above temptation, or pretend to.

I’ve been a celibate whore, a wayward monk- and every possible swear-word in between.

“Lean in,” Cash would say, if he were a Buddhist yogi But he was just another Christian sinner

And Faith is elastic: swaying me to the swordfight, the promise of flickering light, if only I tried harder.

Even as The Man In Black Repelled me With infidelity and plagiarism- I pedestalized him,

Identified with his redemption And humanity; his double message like a smashed mirror,

Rear-view and showing me How clear and fragmented, How strong and shattered I really am

I learned from Johnny Cash That I could love you like an olde tyme country singer; conviction-based,

laced with gospels from his mother’s hymn book- “Where the Soul of Man Never Dies” “In The Garden”

“When He Reached Down His Hand For Me” “Soft and Tenderly” “In The Sweet By-and-By” “Just As I Am”

But our time was short as Modern Country- a three minute feel-good, feel-bad song overladen with adjectives, an explosive chorus, a redundant verse.

How I curse myself for turning us into That sheared, haunting ballad we would both play out, forcing you to doubt my integrity

Perhaps, if you knew I was a lot like Johnny Cash, two people in one body – cut in half We could hold the ornamental staff

Together, Balance the right with the cruel As no one is a fool here,

and never far from how you dreamed us into being- back when there was everything to lose, and nothing.

Susan Hayden / June 2017

Souvenirs and Evidence

by Susan Hayden

The Search and Rescue crew handed me the bag

like a forgotten sandwich. I held it for days;

a Zip-Loc of belongings: his taxi wallet, damp

from melted snow with twelve, crisp hundred dollar bills,

weekend cash to pay for my 45th birthday.

His red bandanna covered in rocks and ice,

smelling of sweat and torn mountain skin.

Our son’s fifth grade picture in his wallet:

Hazel eyes, pirate t-shirt, gypsy hair;

face staring back at me with that “I am safe” look.

And then the goggles, still foggy,

still defrosting from a long night and buried.

I held the bag for days; it was the last of him.

Later, when people came to pay their respects,

to tell me how “He was in a better place,”

“He died doing what he loved”

only the ache remained,

like heart surgery without anesthesia.

I would share the bag and its contents

with anyone who was interested.

A friend put her arm around me and said:

“You don’t have to worry anymore. All the things

you were afraid of have already happened to you.”

Susan Hayden, c. 2016

You can reach out to Susan at any of these links: haydenallport@aol.com

Susan Hayden is a poet, playwright, novelist & essayist. For three decades, she has been a fixture in the Los Angeles spoken-word community. Hayden writes about being lost and found, about identity and belonging, and about love, grief and healing. Her plays have been produced at The Met Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s LA WinterFest, South Coast Rep’s Nexus Project, Mark Taper Forum’s Other Voices, Ruskin Group Theatre’s CafePlays, etc. Her novel, Cat Stevens Saved My Life, was a Top 100 Finalist in the Inaugural Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award with Penguin Press. Her fiction has appeared in Storie: All Write, The Black Body, and on Jewish.com.

This year, her story, City of Rocks, a Finalist in the Tara Fellowship for Short Fiction (Heekin Group Foundation) was featured in the online journal, Angels Flight literary west (aflwmag.com). Recently, her work has been published in two anthologies: The bestselling “Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: Los Angeles in the 1970s” (Rare Bird Lit, Nov. 2016) & “I Might Be The Person You Are Talking To: Short Plays From The Los Angeles Underground” (Padua Playwrights Press, July 2015). Hayden is the Creator/Producer & Curator of the monthly, mixed-genre literary series, Library Girl, now in its 9th year at the Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, CA. Hayden donates all proceeds for her show to help sustain the Ruskin Theatre. In 2015, she was presented with the Bruria Finkel/Artist In The Community Award by the Santa Monica Arts Commission for her “significant contributions to the energetic discourse within Santa Monica’s arts community.” Hayden’s proudest achievement has been raising her son, singer-songwriter Mason Summit. She lives in Sunset Park, Santa Monica.

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http://tribelamagazine.com/salient-sunday-debbie-zeitmans-encore-before-they-go-lindajalbertano-studio/ TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles “I call myself a multi-disciplinarian because I love everything that is creative. I studied film at UCLA. I started as a singer/songwriter. And then got into performance art.” #Arttoday #Beforetheygo #Deezeephotography #Ljalbertano #Tribelamagazine

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Salient Sunday: Debbie Zeitman's encore of "Before they Go" – Linda J. Albertano in her studio, see Exhibit at Wabi-Sabi

BEFORE THEY GO, Venice Artists in their studio by Debbie Zeitman

 LINDA J. ALBERTANO

“I call myself a multi-disciplinarian because I love everything that is creative. I studied film at UCLA. I started as a singer/songwriter. And then got into performance art.”

In Venice for over 25 years, Linda moved to LA at age 19 from Colorado and took a job at Disneyland. “I wound up being the Space Girl there. She’s the Alice in Wonderland of Tomorrowland.” She also got to be in some Hollywood films, “just because I was tall” (6’4”) after being rejected for the exact same reason.

After graduating from UCLA Linda realized she didn’t want to work in the film industry. “So I went back to writing songs.” But she was told that her songs didn’t “fit the mold,” insinuating that she wouldn’t make it as a songwriter. Assorted musicians and singers disagreed, and Linda had success with artists like Linda Ronstadt, Taj Mahal, Carolyn Hester, and more recording her songs. Linda cites a quote from Cocteau: “Do what they hate. It’s you.” And she stayed on her path.

Soon Linda’s songs were no longer songs, but evolved into spoken word. Friends did movement behind her. She projected slides and added other elements to her performances, and performed at assorted venues like the Lhasa Club in Hollywood, John Anson Ford Theatre, and LATC.

“At one point I was invited to go on tour with Alice Cooper. Two tours, for a year and a half, all through the US, Canada, and Great Britain. It was an incredible way to see the world, to see the US. We were on a bus and stopped everywhere.”

More and more Linda was asked to read her text in the company of poets. “It was a lot easier than bringing props, making costumes, films, slides, the things I was doing for performing.” She was invited and flown to the One World Poetry Festival with all expenses paid. “I was there with Wanda Coleman. She was my roommate. Exene was there representing LA. Dennis Cooper was there. And I thought, ‘Poetry. That’s where the big money is.’” She punctuates the thought with a smile.

Linda says she’s slowing down “in her dotage,” but still plans performances and stores props in the basement studio she shares with a publisher.

Debbie Zeitman has photographed over 50 Venice Artists and still counting. Fifteen artist portraits and stories are hanging at Wabi Venice (1635 Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice). Her photographic life began as a freelance photographer for the Associated Press covering primarily sports. Now her eyes drift to life’s everyday rich details, whether tiny or grand. She also spends an extraordinary amount of time trying to capture the meaningful expressions of shelter dogs and cats in an attempt to get them to safety and into permanent homes. In addition, Debbie advocates for all animals and lives a vegan lifestyle.

To follow the Venice Artists project on instagram, click here: https://www.instagram.com/beforetheygo/

View Zeitman’s other projects at these links: http://deezeephotography.com https://www.instagram.com/deezeephotography/

Here are a few BEFORE THEY GO previews of Debbie Zeitman’s Artist-of-the-Week at TribeLA Magazine

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http://tribelamagazine.com/art-today-10-23-17-venice-artists-spaces-debbie-zeitman-acrostic-interview-starts-today/

http://tribelamagazine.com/art-today-10-22-17-before-they-go-debbie-zeitman-meet-venice-artist-judy-nimtz/

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SETH CRIPE: The taste of LOLA Wines quality, a blend of Napa and Europe - Part 3 TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles ##Lolawines #Finewines #Hughjohnsonwine #NapaValley

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SETH CRIPE: The taste of LOLA Wines quality, a blend of Napa and Europe - Part 3

Seth Cripe overlooking his Vineyards

By Frank Lutz

I met Seth Cripe several years ago, when I tasted his extraordinary 2010 Russian River Pinot Noir. Wines made from the Pinot Noir grape, the grape of Burgundy, France are known to be of a medium-body with a soft and pleasing taste, often with subtle flavors of fruit. But in 2012 when I tasted LOLA’s 2010 Russian River Pinot, the memory bank in my tasting sensors went right back to the wines of France. This young wine had great body for a Pinot, not thin, no aura of light around the edges of the liquid in the glass as I held it up to a window, and a soft, well-developed color. It had a flavor free of tannic overload, but soft with a touch of fruit and a hint of flowers. My criticism of West Coast Pinots has often been that they are thin and need to age. But after my glass of the 2010 Russian River, I was hooked on LOLA Wines.

Since 2012 I have tasted many of the LOLA Wines, both red and white. It is clear that Cripe learned a lot about winemaking in Europe, as his Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Riesling wines, all reflect the flavor balances, subtleties and nuances of the finest European wines. Cripe has managed to make a LOLA Pinot Noir that not only has great flavor, but also has body and density for a medium-bodied class of wines. Cripe and his LOLA vineyards also make a dry Riesling in the German style, not sweet as some Rieslings tend to be, and a Chardonnay that, thankfully, is dry like the fine Chablis wines from France rather than being too sweet and buttery. According to Cripe, vintners have been working with and making varietals like Burgundy with Pinot Noir, Chablis with Chardonnay, and Germany with Riesling for hundreds or even thousands of years.

“I don’t have the ego to think that I’m going to change anything about all the knowledge and trials and errors that have preceded me. I just take what they’ve refined and try to apply it to our grapes and terroir here in California. It’s really the grapes, vineyards and surrounding terroir that are the stars in finished wine. I’m just a caretaker and encourager, a champion of nature and what it can showcase in its wine.”

Cripe’s “balance” philosophy is clearly in play. When I asked about his 2010 Russian River Pinot and his 2014 Artisanal Pinot, both in my opinion should be award winners, Cripe stated, “These wines are great because of the vintages and years where everything was in balance somewhat more than other years. 2010 was a great year for me personally as well the grapes. There was a better balance in acid and mature tannin structure in these years also which makes for better, more vibrant and age worthy wines.” His new release, the 2016 North Coast Pinot Noir, is a spectacular wine, despite being so young!

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LOLA wines can be found at prestigious wine stores such as Wally’s on Westwood Blvd. in Los Angeles as well as in 30 other states. “It’s nice to have people who have been around so long and are so respected in the industry championing our wines” adds Cripe. Other places to find LOLA wines are Zachy’s in NY, Le Cirque in NYC (former home of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain) various Hillstones restaurants, Les Halles in NYC, ABC Wines in Florida and, if you happen to be at the Danish consulate in NYC, Copenhagen or Oslo you’ll also find LOLA. “The ambassador is a huge LOLA fan!” Cripe says with a smile. Locally, LOLA can be found in the Venice Beach area at Oscar’s, Venice Beach Wines, Venice Ale House, or in Beverly Hills at The Grill in the Alley.

What’s the future look like for LOLA wines? Cripe says, “We’re continuing to grow and fly the flag for quality, handmade wine with soul and authenticity, as well as a company with a passion for showcasing and making wines that reflect the regions where they come from in a responsible assimilating way. I’ve also started releasing a series of raw artisanal wines that are made as nature intended. As for sales, we’re exporting to Singapore now and as well Northern Europe and hope to get going in Japan and China.”

Napa Valley is a region known for its extraordinary and wonderful wines. Seth Cripe and his LOLA vineyards maintain this standard with their superb craftsmanship and high quality wines that make the Napa Valley vintners the best in the world.

For more about LOLA wines, visit their website at: http://lolawines.com http://instagram.com/lolawines http://twitter.com/lolawines http://facebook.com/lolawines

LOLA is distributed in 30 states throughout the U.S. It is sold in many prestigious and acclaimed restaurants and retail stores. Here are a few retail stores where you can find LOLA Wines in California:

55 Degree Wine

All Things Olive

California Wine and Cheese

Cheese Cave

Dan’s Wine Shop

Silverlake Wine

The Black Cat

The Wine Bottega

Wine Closet

Los Angeles Wine Company

Wally’s Wine Warehouse

Contact LOLA Wines at this link to find a store near YOU!

Janice Bremec Blum, editor

Please drink Responsibly

Linda Albertano

Wine aficionado Frank Lutz lives in Venice Beach, CA. He was educated in universities in the USA and Europe, in philosophy and European languages. He has travelled the world, and holds a Commercial pilot’s license, as well as instructor’s ratings. Frank has been in the health and nutrition industry since 1980, and has a great appreciation for companies that make natural, unadulterated food and beverage products. Email Frank at frankalutz@gmail.com

    Part 1 and 2 of Seth Cripe’s story on the origins and authenticity of LOLA Wines…

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LOLA VINEYARDS: Seth Cripe with Chapoutier, Mondavi, and Sur Lucero in Rhone Valley, France – Part 2 TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles #Lolawines #Mondavi #Rhonevalleyvineyards

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LOLA VINEYARDS: Seth Cripe with Chapoutier, Mondavi, and Sur Lucero in Rhone Valley, France – Part 2

Seth with (l-r) Max Chapoutier, Carlo Mondavi, and Phil Holbrook at La Chapelle vineyards in the Rhone Valley, France

By Frank Lutz

The LOLA vineyards are located in Napa Valley near the Russian River Valley, and near the town of Calistoga at the north end of Napa Valley. Often cool and with foggy mornings, this area is an exceptional environment for gentle ripening of the grapes throughout the summer, producing well-balanced and fruit-driven wines. From Seth Cripe’s early training with the Caymus vineyards to his European excursions, he understands all of the components that work together to create an excellent glass of fine wine and he brings that to his LOLA vineyards. “I would go to Europe in the winters for 3 or 4 months to work with producers on various aspects of the craft. Like mechanical farming, of which France is the technological leader, wine styles, farming techniques, bringing different clones back to plant in new coastal areas of California.”

Indeed, his talent has earned him the support of some great wine houses in Europe, where he has special guest status with such famous vintners as Dujac and the Seysses family in Burgundy, and Chapoutier Hermitage in the Rhone Valley. (See photos above and below.)

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Cripe’s success in the wine industry can be attributed to his philosophy, it’s all about balance. “In certain times, great and amazing things come from straying far away to either side of that balance line, creating progression, but ultimately what lasts is that center line and, more often than not, keeping close to that line honors all that comes before us.” The LOLA wines are a testament to Cripe’s philosophy where he finds the balance between climate, soil, varietal, man and nature. It is the essence of the LOLA label.

“I try to encourage and assist the grapes and wines to be a true reflection of what it is from that particular vintage and growing season. It’s all connected, me and my energy alongside the grapes and processes throughout, until it is in the drinker’s glass.”

Today LOLA is not only a thriving collection of vineyards, but has expanded into a tasting room and a B&B run by none other than Cripe’s mom, Nancy. “Our property in Calistoga is so great! I’m really proud of it. The thought is to have an old-world wine house as is in the Mosel and parts of France where people can come stay, enjoy the wine country lifestyle, food, as well as be a part of what we do and our philosophy of life and wine at LOLA. And my mom is the perfect hostess.” With three guest suites on the property, a tasting room, and various garden sitting areas for tasting and relaxing, the LOLA experience is about showing the connection between humans and the surrounding natural products. You can also schedule private tastings where a LOLA wine will be paired with specific cheeses from local producers.

It’s Seth Cripe’s dedication to the craft of winemaking and his innate love of wine that finds its way into every bottle. “To me, it’s always the human factor, everybody paying close attention to their part of the job. We are a team, and I am part of the team. We can’t control the weather, or the soil, or a plant infestation of some kind, but we can control how we do our jobs to make good wine.”  (to be continued in part 3 – the extraordinary taste of LOLA wines)

For more about LOLA wines, visit their website at: http://lolawines.com; http://instagram.com/lolawines http://twitter.com/lolawines http://facebook.com/lolawines

Part 3 of this extraordinary story will continue next week. Janice Bremec Blum, editor

Photo by Linda Albertano

Wine aficionado Frank Lutz lives in Venice Beach, CA. He was educated in universities in the USA and Europe, in philosophy and European languages. He has travelled the world, and holds a Commercial pilot’s license, as well as instructor’s ratings. Frank has been in the health and nutrition industry since 1980, and has a great appreciation for companies that make natural, unadulterated food and beverage products. Email Frank at frankalutz@gmail.com

    If you missed Part 1 of Seth Cripe’s LOLA wine story, click link below:

http://tribelamagazine.com/venice-beach-vintner-seth-cripe-tells-us-robert-mondavi-also-made-impact-passion-napa-valley-great-wine-part-1/

LOLA is distributed in 30 states throughout the U.S. It is sold in many prestigious and acclaimed restaurants and retail stores. Here are a few retail stores where you can find LOLA Wines in California:

55 Degree Wine

All Things Olive

California Wine and Cheese

Cheese Cave

Dan’s Wine Shop

Silverlake Wine

The Black Cat

The Wine Bottega

Wine Closet

Los Angeles Wine Company

Wally’s Wine Warehouse

Contact LOLA Wines at this link to find a store near YOU!

#Lolawines #Mondavi #Rhonevalleyvineyards

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Exclusive: Seth Cripe – the Venice Beach vintner says, "it was Robert Mondavi, who also made an impact on his passion for Napa Valley and great wine" - part 1 TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles #Caymuswine #Lolawines #Mondavi #Swansonvineyards #Sommelier

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Exclusive: Seth Cripe – the Venice Beach vintner says, "it was Robert Mondavi, who also made an impact on his passion for Napa Valley and great wine" - part 1

Meet Seth Cripe, owner/ winemaker of LOLA Wines Photographed by Ian Flanigan

By Frank Lutz

Wine making is not an easy craft to learn, it’s part science and part art, with passion and instinct all combined with hard work. Many great wines come from family businesses that have been making them for generations, but once in a while a bright new star starts to shine in the industry, someone who has been graced with a lot of innate winemaking talent. Such is the case with the Venice Beach vintner, Seth Cripe, whose winery, grape vines and headquarters/guest house are in Calistoga, Napa Valley.

Originally hailing from Anna Maria Island, in the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida, Cripe grew up with a family of fishermen/women—mom fished too! Just on that beautiful Island is a little historic fishing village founded in the early 1800’s named Cortez, where the Cripe family owns a fish company aptly named Cortez Bottarga. Bottarga is a fish that inhabits the Gulf of Mexico. But for Cripe, there was more to Cortez than just fish; as a young teen, he discovered the grapevines of Cortez and thus his passion for wine began.

At just 13 years old, Cripe took on the job as a dishwasher/busboy at a local, upscale restaurant called Beach Bistro just across the street from his parents’ house on the island. It was at that restaurant that Cripe discovered his love of fine wine. “They had a great wine list for the area and it was there that I started to taste wine and learn more about actual producers and their differences from all over the world.” Cripe’s early discovery of his wine palate was the beginning of great things, even at that young age. While working one night, he met Clarke Swanson (of the Swanson Food family) who had a winery in Oakville of Napa Valley.

“I was 15 when Mr. Swanson came into the restaurant. I was washing dishes that night and after his dinner as they were leaving, I went out to introduce myself. I told him that I was interested in pursuing a career in wine. He was very nice and gave me a business card, said to keep in touch for when I was old enough to come out and work a harvest with them in Napa Valley.” Cripe took Swanson up on his offer and, at just 17 years old with only $1200 in his pocket, he showed up at Swanson’s doorstep ready to embark on a career in wine.

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“Swanson and their winemaker Marco Cappelli were tremendous influences on me. Marco was my mentor and had the most impact overall in my life. I lived with him from ages 17 to 21, and he really encouraged me to keep educating myself, learn different languages, and other life lessons.” After his stint with Swanson, Cripe began to work with Chuck Wagner and Caymus Vineyards. “Chuck Wagner had been like a father figure to me, teaching me a lot about farming and the importance of making high quality wine. I spent most of those years understanding the various nuances of terroir as well all the different clones and rootstocks, how they grow and what their end result is in the finished wine.” Through that relationship, Cripe was introduced to Robert Mondavi, founder of the world-renown Mondavi dynasty of winemakers. Cripe never worked for Mondavi, but it was Mondavi who also made an impact on Cripe in terms of sharing his passion for Napa Valley and great wine. “He always encouraged me to keep working and pushing for passion in the beautiful lifestyle of wine.”

While working for Chuck Wagner at the Caymus Vineyards, Cripe had many opportunities to go to Europe to further his wine education. “Looking back, I think that Europe and France taught me to really understand the nuance of finished wine and its connection to its natural surroundings throughout the growing season and the winemaking process. That’s the beauty of wine is in its differences from year to year, and the why’s and how’s of that, it’s never about the best. It’s the differences, and the reasons why, that make wine so fascinating.”

Working for the Caymus Vineyards for over 8 years gave Cripe not only the know-how, but the confidence to venture out on his own. It was 2008 when Cripe worked his last harvest for Caymus and began working on his own harvest to start LOLA wines.

For more about LOLA wines, visit their website at: http://lolawines.com; http://instagram.com/lolawines http://twitter.com/lolawines http://facebook.com/lolawines

Part 2 of this extraordinary story will continue next week. Janice Bremec Blum, editor

photo by Linda Albertano

Wine aficionado Frank Lutz lives in Venice Beach, CA. He was educated in universities in the USA and Europe, in philosophy and European languages. He has travelled the world, and holds a Commercial pilot’s license, as well as instructor’s ratings. Frank has been in the health and nutrition industry since 1980, and has a great appreciation for companies that make natural, unadulterated food and beverage products. You can email Frank at frankalutz@gmail.com.

#Caymuswine #Lolawines #Mondavi #Swansonvineyards #Sommelier