This past weekend, the Green Apple Festival (MySpace), billed as "America's Largest Earth Day Celebration," was held in eight cities across the country (with the exception of Washington D.C., which was reportedly rained out), including here in Los Angeles. Performing live music on Sunday at the Santa Monica Pier were the Frequency (MySpace), School of Rock Hollywood All-Stars, Escalera (MySpace), Juliette and the Licks (MySpace), Ziggy Marley (MySpace), and Taj Majal (MySpace). Actress Amy......

HIM - "Passion's Killing Floor" Lydia Lunch @ Largo HIM, Bleeding Through @ Orpheum The Roots, Erykah Badu, Keb Mo, Taj Mahal, Cory Chisel @ The Wiltern Film School, Division Day, Eulogies @ Echoplex Annuals, Manchester Orchestra @ Troubadour Jeff Buckley Tribute @ Key Club The Goo Goo Dolls @ Best Buy - West LA Monsters Are Waiting, Sabertooth Tiger, So So So, Aztlan Underground @ The Scene......

Beyonce - "Crazy in Love" Buddy Guy, Dr. John, Taj Mahal, Koko Taylor, others @ Long Beach Blues Festival Beyonce @ Honda Center Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Echoplex The Minus 5 @ Spaceland Brandi Shearer, Rachel Canter @ Tangier Youngstuff, Natty G @ The Echo Knux, Ynez, The Alchemist Element, Red Light Drive @ The Troubadour......

The Long Beach Blues Festival On Saturday and Sunday, Sept 1st and 2nd, the Long Beach Blues Festival at Cal State Long Beach will celebrate its 28th year. The Juke Joint stage provides music between sets on the main stage. Although event producer, station KKJZ 88.1 FM, is now operated by Global Jazz, Inc. they are continuing the tradition. Music starts at 10:15am and ends at 6pm. On Saturday, the lineup includes Buddy Guy, Dr.......

If these warm, muggy days and nights have inspired in you a craving for the spicy culinary catharsis that only a tandoori oven can provide, Salomi in North Hollywood might just be your cup of chai. Tucked away on the corner of Magnolia and Lankershim, it's an above-average takeout joint masquerading as a fine-dining experience: red velvet curtains line the walls, and sparkly chandeliers tinkle above your head as you take a deep swallow......

One of our deep-pocketed lawyer friends was in town this week, visiting from New York, where he actually manages to make payments on an apartment in the East Village - people are capable of that? How is that possible? Well, apparently it takes advanced degrees in mathematics and law, as well as a sixty-hour work week. We'll take our humble (but spacious!) apartment in North Hollywood anyday, thank you very much. Anyway, that was......

Have you ever sat around and tried to name the 7 Wonders of the World? What about figuring out if you've been to any of them? Chances are you haven't as it seems that 6 of them are no longer in existence. (The only remaining are the pyramids in Egypt.) Which are gone? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus,......

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Blood Brothers @ Hollywood Palladium Donna Summer @ Fairplex Pomona Carlos Guitarlos @ Liquid Kitty Mojave 3 @ McCabe's Taj Mahal @ Vault 350 Adamski @ John Anson Ford The Trashies, The Mormons, The Guilty Hearts @ The Scene Polus, Mezzanine Owls, Benny Strange @ Spaceland photo by godknows via Buzznet......

Matthew & Gunnar Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band @ Cerritos Center Snow Patrol @ Wiltern Sheryl Crow, John Mayer @ Verizon Wireless Drop Dead Genius, Minutes 'til Midnight, Slow Motion Reign @ Viper Room Medeski Martin & Wood @ Henry Fonda Cibelle, Chris Pierce, Shane @ Tangier Curumin, Honeycut, Tommy Guerrero @ Knitting Factory Taj Mahal @ Malibu Inn P.F. Sloan @ Largo Margaret Cho, Venus de Mille, Renee du Jour @ Safari......