Check out Rodney Atkins headlining the “Concerts In Your Car” Saturday, August 8th at 8 p.m. at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. For tickets and info visit concertsinyourcar.com. This segment aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News, Tuesday, August 4, 2020.
Watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EurURwyV8Yw
VENTURA, Calif. — The days of catching a show and watching your favorite band perform live may seem impossible since large gatherings are not allowed. But there may be a temporary answer to fill your concert needs: drive-in concerts.
Los Angeles’s mid-20th century culture was defined by drive-in attractions. In the 1950s, there was the popular Gilmore Drive-In, now The Grove, while the Van Nuys Drive-In Theatre was recreated for Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.
In the COVID-19 era, The Concerts in Your Car series at the Ventura County Fairgrounds recently hosted a drive-in concert which featured Los Angeles rock bands Fishbone and Ozomatli. The cost to attend a drive-in concert at the Fairgrounds costs $99 per car, and 500 cars were allowed at the venue.
Some families, wearing face masks, climbed on the roof of their cars to get a better view, while others stayed in and ate pizza as they enjoyed the performance over a well-synched FM radio signal. Concertgoers even honked their approval at the end of songs, all while following social distancing rules.
Full article here: https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/la-times-today/2020/08/04/drive-in-concerts-bringing-new-hope-for-live-music
Decades after it was shot, and just in time for the 2020 presidential election, indie film “Chief Zabu” is set to be released August 7 on streaming channels Vudu, Amazon, Google and Apple iTunes. The socio-political comedy was inspired in part by a real estate mogul named Donald Trump, who in mid-Eighties New York City already had earned a reputation for an outsized ego and political designs.
The long, circuitous route of the film begins well before 1986 when creative hyphenates Zack Norman (comic, writer, director, producer, actor) and Neil Cohen (writer, director, producer, illustrator) wrote a screenplay after Zack attended a meeting for private investors hosted by the political leadership of a newly constituted nation applying for United Nations membership. “Every hustler and huckster in New York at the time was at this meeting,” recalls Zack, “not to mention Hollywood celebrities like Warren Beatty and Elizabeth Taylor. Afterward, when Zack told Neil all about it, Neil said, “I think we have an idea here for a script.”
Full article here: https://www.moviedebuts.com/16455/just-in-time-for-the-election-a-political-satire-inspired-by-donald-trump-chief-zabu-launches-on-vod-august-7th.html
LOS ANGELES, July 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Decades after it was shot, and just in time for the 2020 presidential election, indie film “Chief Zabu” is set to be released August 7 on streaming channels Vudu, Amazon, Google and Apple iTunes. The socio-political comedy was inspired in part by a real estate mogul named Donald Trump, who in mid-Eighties New York City already had earned a reputation for an outsized ego and political designs.
Full article here: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/just-in-time-for-the-election-a-political-satire-inspired-by-donald-trump-chief-zabu-launches-on-vod-august-7th-301102757.html
Concerts in Your Car: Noise Pollution, tribute to AC/DC, 7:30 p.m. July 30 ($19 and up); Sublime, 5:30 and 9:30 p.m. Aug. 7 ($99 and up); Rodney Atkins, with Ross Ellis, 8 p.m. Aug. 8 ($99 and up); Jimmy Messina & Friends, 8 p.m. Aug. 17-20 ($15 and up); Fitz and the Tantrums, 8 p.m. Aug. 29 ($59 and up); Music of the Knights, 8 p.m. Sept. 7-9 ($15 and up). Check website for rules. Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura. www.concertsinyourcar.com
Full article here: https://www.dailynews.com/2020/07/30/things-to-do-online-and-in-person-in-the-san-fernando-valley-and-la-area-july-30-aug-6/
My Friend’s Place has created a virtual gala model to replace their annual “Ending Youth Homelessness” gala, which was cancelled due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Recognizing the importance of keeping all in our community safe and healthy during this especially trying time, this year’s virtual event, “My Friend’s Place Summer Festival,” will expand the reach of a single in-person event, into a multi-day series of online events. The festival kicks off on Sunday, August 9, 2020, with “Standing Together: A Virtual Concert” benefiting youth experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. The festival will close with “A Night United,” hosted by “Grey’s Anatomy” star and My Friend’s Place champion, Giacomo Gianniotti, on Thursday, August 13th. Tickets and more information for the My Friend’s Place Summer Festival are available now on the organization’s website, myfriendsplace.org.
Full article here: https://www.looktothestars.org/news/19840-my-friends-place-launches-star-studded-virtual-festival-to-support-homeless-youth
