LA Friday Coffee

Next Coffee: Marie et Cie – North Hollywood, Fri Sept 9 @ 7pm

dewelch — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:22:08 +0000

Friday, September 9, 2011 from 7pm – 9pm

11704 Riverside Drive Valley Village, CA 91607 [Map]

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Coffee and Casual Conversation

This is NOT a technology event, although we sometimes talk tech, as the mood strikes us. We talk about books, movies, pet peeves, TV, coffee, wine — whatever strikes our fancy! (SMILE)

Marie et Cie has food, gelato, coffee and more.

Join us on the patio!

Next Meeting: FREE Shakespeare in Griffith Park

dewelch — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:12:59 +0000

Friday, August 26, 2011 from 7pm – 10pm

The Old Zoo, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA [Map]

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Coffee and Casual Conversation

This is NOT a technology event, although we sometimes talk tech, as the mood strikes us. We talk about books, movies, pet peeves, TV, coffee, wine — whatever strikes our fancy! (SMILE)

Join us at this FREE outdoors performance of Love’s Labor Lost by the Independent Shakespeare Company.

Bring your own chairs, food and drink. Dress warmly – the park can get quite cold at night.

Complete information and directions are available on the Independent Shakespeare Company’s web site at http://www.independentshakespeare.com/

Call 818-804-5049 if you need help locating us the evening of the event.

Next Coffee: Original LA Farmer’s Market – July 1, 630pm

dewelch — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:06:14 +0000

Friday, July 1, 2011 from 630pm – 9pm

Farmers Market Fairfax and 3rd Street Los Angeles, CA

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Coffee and Casual Conversation

This is NOT a technology event, although we sometimes talk tech, as the mood strikes us. We talk about books, movies, pet peeves, TV, coffee, wine — whatever strikes our fancy! (SMILE)

We are back at one of our favorite haunts, the Farmers Market on Fairfax. We will be meeting either in the East Patio, or if it is cold, in the indoor seating areas just upstairs from there. The stairs leading to the seating area are on the North side of the patio.

Call 818-804-5049 if you need help locating us the evening of the event.

Photos: LA Friday Coffee at the Farmers Market

dewelch — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:52:18 +0000

Here are a few photos from our most recent LA Friday Coffee held at the Farmers Market at 3rd and Fairfax. This historical location is always a big hit with folks and we ended up with a nice-sized crowd for the evening. We ended up staying a little later than usual with a short walk through The Grove and some book shopping at Barnes and Noble.

You can find larger versions of these photos in my Flickr feed to the right —–>

LA Friday Coffee at the Original Farmer’s Market

dewelch — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:26:03 +0000

Friday, April 1, 2011 from 7pm – 9pm

Farmers Market
Fairfax and 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA

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Coffee and Casual Conversation

This is NOT a technology event, although we sometimes talk tech, as the mood strikes us. We talk about books, movies, pet peeves, TV, coffee, wine — whatever strikes our fancy! (SMILE)

We are back at one of our favorite haunts, the Farmers Market on Fairfax. We will be meeting either in the West Patio, or if it is cold, in the indoor seating areas just upstairs from there. The stairs leading to the seating area are on the North side of the patio.

Call 818-804-5049 if you need help locating us the evening of the event.

Next Coffee: Norton Simon Museum Free Evening

dewelch — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:26:17 +0000

Join LA Friday Coffee for coffee and casual conversation at Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena on February 4, 2011. On the first Friday of the month the museum offers free admission from 6p-9p.

Meet in the cafe, which is inside the interior courtyard immediately across the front entrance.

Where: Norton Simon Museum , 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA

When: 6 pm, February 4, 2011

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Next Coffee: Sweetharts in Sherman Oaks

dewelch — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:19:45 +0000

Join LA Friday Coffee for coffee and casual conversation at Sweetharts in Sherman Oaks on January 21, 2011. This is a cute little place, quite different from our typical venues. They have coffee, frozen yogurt, gelato, bakery good and all sorts of old and new candies.

Where: Sweetharts, Sherman Oaks, CA
When: 7 pm, January 21, 2011

* Be aware that Sweetharts is located just off Ventura Blvd, behind the Vitellos Express. Turn south on Woodman and you will see the store and parking immediately on the right.

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Photos: LA Friday Coffee at LACMA

dewelch — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:05:08 +0000

LA Friday Coffee was off to the LA County Museum of Art to catch the last days of the exhibit, Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico. It was a small, yet amazing exhibit including 2 colossal head sculptures that epitomize the Olmec arts. I felt the exhibit was just the right size. You didn’t feel the need to dash from exhibit to exhibit, but could take your time to enjoy each piece and spend a few minutes contemplating the culture that created them.

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I also took 3 panorama pictures with the 360 Panorama iPhone app to give you a feeling of the overall gallery. Click to see each full size.

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First Coffee 2011: LA County Museum of Art – Jan 7, 2011

dewelch — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:08:03 +0000

Join LA Friday Coffee for coffee and casual conversation at the LA County Museum of Art on January 7, 2011. We will be taking advantage of their free admission for LA County Residents after 5 pm. Our main goal for the evening is to take in the Olmec exhibit which closes on January 9, before it goes away.

Where: LA County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd • Los Angeles California 90036
When: 630pm, January 7, 2011

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Meet between the ticket booth and lampposts at the main entrance and then we will hit one of the coffee carts for a little sustenance before hitting the exhibit. If you are coming later, call 818-804-5049 to find out where we are. Most likely we will be in the Olmec exhibit after 7pm, though.

Here is the information on the Olmec exhibit from the LACMA.ORG web site…

Olmec civilization, which began sometime around 1400 BC, was centered in the Gulf Coast states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Olmec architects and artists produced the earliest monumental structures and sculptures in Mexico, including enormous basalt portrait heads of their rulers. The colossal sculptures in the exhibition weigh between 7 and 10 tons each.

The exhibition also includes small-scale jadeite objects that embody the symbolism of sacred and secular authority among the Olmec. Olmec artists were unsurpassed in their ability to work with this extremely hard stone, using elementary tools like chert, water and sand.

Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico, is co-organized by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, LACMA, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and is curated at LACMA by Virginia Fields, senior curator of Arts of the Ancient Americas. The exhibition at LACMA will be the first presentation on the West Coast of the colossal works and precious small-scale sculptures produced by Mexico’s earliest civilization.

Video: LA Friday Coffee at Blizz

dewelch — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:18:20 +0000

A short clip from this week’s LA Friday Coffee