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Pencil This In: Celebrating 7" Records at Family, Cookin' It Up at Royal/T, Jenny McCarthy Booksigning at the Grove
Touchable Sound: A book that celebrates 7" record covers.
BOOKS
Family Bookstore holds the launch of the book, Touchable Sound: 7" Records from America, tonight at 7 pm. There will be a slide show of 7"s with commentary and discussion by all three book editors--Mike Treff, Brian Roettinger, Diego Hadis, plus Britt Brown of Not Not Fun Records and Justin Pearson of Three One G Records.
ART TALK
There’s a special event tonight as part of the Angel City Jazz Festival tonight at Royal/T. Cookin’ It Up features interactive improvisations in music, dance and food with Paul Canales and Kelsey Bergstrom of Oliveto Restaurant in Oakland, dancer Oguri, and musicians Myra Melford - piano, Mark Dresser - bass, Alex Cline - percussion, Nels Cline - guitars, Jeff Gauthier - violin, and Yuka Honda - electronics and sampling. Two seatings at 7 pm and 9 pm. Tickets: $65.