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New Mythologies at Pharmaka First Downtown Art Walk showing of the Year

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - 04:46

Pharmaka is proud to announce “New Mythologies”

January 8^th – February 28^th 2009

Artist’s reception, January 8^th from 6 to 9 PM

Pharmaka 101 West 5^th Street

Los Angeles, CA 90013

Exhibiting artists - Marina Fortsmann Day, Cheryl Ekstrom, Suzanna Schulten

Margaret Lazzari, Michelle Weinstein , Suzan Woodruff

Curated by Shane Guffogg

Pharmaka is proud to announce the opening of “New Mythologies”, curated by LA artists Shane Guffogg. This exhibition examines how six LA based women artists are creating a new visual mythology. These artists, all independent of each other, create personal and universal images that delve into how the world works from a spiritual, psychological and a scientific view with all levels existing simultaneously. Animal forms find their way into many images. One artist uses the manifestation of human emotions to form into animals, while another combines found animal parts to fabricate humanoid forms. In still another’s work, animals are depicted realistically but exist as a part of a combined reality. The invisible energies that create the natural world are brought into our world through complex lines on paper or pigment on canvas. These six artists give us different views of the world we live in, adding a deeper understanding of the natural while furthering the mythology of the supernatural.

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General Jeff highlighted in the Downtown News

Saturday, January 3, 2009 - 03:41

General Jeff was highlighted in an article in the Downtown News about his involvement in the process of the implementation of the full basketball court at Gladys Park. General Jeff worked with REC and Parks to help get this off the ground. A new basketball court was placed there and there will be new amenities other than the basketball court.

""We want it to be a hotspot for basketball players all around L.A.," said General Jeff, a Skid Row activist and member of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council who helped organize the project. "The court is actually a Christmas present to Skid Row that gives hope to our community."

CNN Heroe to be honored by Mayor Antonio VIllaraigosa

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 23:15

“CNN Heroes” Announces Event to Honor Los Angeles Resident Marie Da Silva
CNN Heroes and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will honor Los Angeles resident Marie Da Silva on Nov. 17 in anticipation of “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute,” launched last year to spotlight ordinary citizens accomplishing extraordinary deeds, and airing on Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT). Da Silva was named a CNN HEROES honoree last month for her work to help educate and feed AIDS orphans in her home country of Malawi. She will be awarded $25,000 - and is eligible for the $100,000 prize that will be bestowed upon the CNN HERO OF THE YEAR later this month. Hosted by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CNN HEROES: AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE will air globally on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español.
This year’s Top 10 CNN Heroes, as selected by the Blue Ribbon Panel, were unveiled by Cooper on CNN’s American Morning last month. The public will select the “CNN Hero of the Year” via voting at the CNN Heroes site at www.CNN.com/Heroes through Wednesday, Nov. 19. At the November gala, CNN will honor the 10 heroes and reveal the CNN Hero of the Year. In its second year, the multiplatform initiative received nearly 4,000 submissions from 75 countries. The inaugural CNN Heroes tribute broadcast in 2007 featured appearances by Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr. and Jimmy Smits, as well as performances by Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow and Wyclef Jean with Norah Jones. In the United States, a cumulative 7.2 million total viewers and nearly 2.9 million P25-54 viewers watched the tribute; millions more watched worldwide.