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Wake Up With The Waves

Santa Monica Pier legend Michael Cladis sings to children at the Santa Monica Pier during "Wake Up With The Waves" on Saturday, September 17, 2011. The children's interactive concert series are held every Saturday morning at 9AM through October 29, 2011.

 

Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 11:43AM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Senior & Family Arts Festival: A Celebration of Life 

Bruce Fox leads a drum circle at Palisades Park during the Senior Arts Foundation and the City of Santa Monica’s  4th Annual Senior & Family Arts Festival: A Celebration of Life on Saturday, September 17, 2011. The free festival had an intergenerational focus, providing interactive arts activities for people of all ages. Celebration of Live recognizes older adults’ life-changing experiences in and through the arts, and highlights the creative leadership contributions of adults 50 plus.

Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 04:31PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Tony Sousa Car Show 

A person looks at a vintage Mustang during the Los Angeles Shelby American Automobile Club's 7th Annual Tony Sousa Car Show at the Santa Monica Pier on Saturday, September 17, 2011. The show was open to all Shelby, Cobra, Mustang and Ford cars. Featured cars included various classic Mustangs, as well as newer models belonging to club members.

Posted on Monday, September 19, 2011 at 05:04PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz in | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

FARMAGEDDON

Rawesome muralist Carole De Cruz creates a FARMAGEDDON movie poster in chalk on the sidewalk at Ocean Avenue on Saturday, September 17, 2011. Farmageddon is a documentary about the escalating fight for food rights in America. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why. Farmageddon exposes the battle over food rights in America. Farmer's and consumers start food co-ops and buying clubs or homesteads, and then are shut down by the government in the name of food safety.

The chalk art mural was sponsored by Real Food Rights. Real Food Rights is a movement to protect your right to choose real, unprocessed foods including raw milk and other unpasteurized and non-irradiated fresh foods.

Real Food Rights believes everyone has the right to choose to eat real food, defined as nutrient-dense, enzyme-rich, fresh living raw foods–including raw milk and other dairy like raw butter and yogurt that hasn’t been pasteurized and homogenized, natural raw honey that hasn’t been heated and filtered, and fresh raw almonds that haven’t been irradiated.

Real Food Rights believes in the freedom to contract directly with independent farmers to steward ownership of herds and crops in order to meet community standards of excellence. We exercise the right to obtain food that was grown or made by people we know and have direct relationships with.

Real Food Rights believes the right to choose the food we eat, including raw living food, and the right to choose the source of our food, is a fundamental liberty protected by the Right to Privacy clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. No state or federal or county agency or corporate lobby has the authority to violate this fundamental right.

Real Food Rights believes the FDA has a longstanding conflict of interest with the multi-billion dollar commercial food industry, including the commercial dairy industry, whose focus on mass production, profit, and long shelf life has mass-produced ‘dead’ food, including ‘dead’ milk, with little functional nutritional value, and that has contributed to the obesity, asthma, and allergies epidemics.

Real Food Rights believes that commercial food mass-produced on factory farms must have different standards to guarantee food safety than small independent farms contracting herd shares to private food clubs who are held personally responsible for quality assurance and freshness by the members of such clubs. We believe that pasteurizing commercial milk can cover up many poor practices on factory dairy farms. We don’t recommend that anyone eat commercial, factory-raised, hybridized dairy products raw.

Real Food Rights believes the Real Food Rights movement is part of the Green Movement toward a new sustainable economy, because eating fresh living quality foods grown on local small farms feeds sustainable local economies.

Real Food Rights mission is to protect your right to choose real, unprocessed foods including raw milk and other unpasteurized and non-irradiated fresh foods.

Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 06:23AM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz in | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

JENGA® XXL™ Elimination Tournament


JENGA® XXL(TM) Elimination Tournament - Images by Fabian Lewkowicz

Competitors play in the JENGA® XXL™ Elimination Tournament at the Third Street Promenade on Saturday, September 17th, 2011, The new -- and only officially authorized -- giant JENGA® game, known as JENGA® XXL™, was introduced in this world premier launch.

JENGA® is a game of physical and mental skill. Built on the simple premise of stacking blocks, JENGA® engages players of all ages, across all cultures. Players take turns to remove a block from a tower and balance it on top, creating a taller and increasingly unstable structure as the game progresses. The last player to keep the tower standing wins!

JENGA®’s universal appeal stems from its elegant simplicity. To date, enthusiasts throughout the world have purchased over 50 million JENGA® games. That’s equal to two billion-seven-hundred million (2.7 billion) JENGA® blocks!

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Good Food Festival and Street Fair

Pastry Chef from Spago Sherry Yard, (left) with Pastry chef Sally Camacho, demonstrate how to make apple strudel during the Good Food Festival and Street Fair at Santa Monica High School on Saturday, September 17, 2011.

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Coastal Cleanup Day

Arian Davoudian, 20, and Fay Baradi, 21, pick up trash during Heal the Bay’s Coastal Cleanup Day at Santa Monica beach on Saturday, September 17, 2011.

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Park(ing) Day 

Carolyn Gibson (left) and Gina Goodhill sit on a coach in a metered parking space which was transformed into a temporary public park on Main Street during the annual worldwide celebration known as Park(ing) Day on Friday, September 16, 2011. The temporary public park was hosted by Global Green USA on Main Street. PARK(ing) Day is an annual, worldwide event where artists, activists, and citizens independently (but simultaneously) turn metered parking spots into "PARK(ing)" spaces: temporary public parks and other spaces for people to enjoy. PARK(ing) Day is a non-commercial project, intended to promote creativity, civic engagement, critical thinking, unscripted social interactions, generosity and play.

Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 12:01AM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint