I'll be doing two half-hour sets on Saturday night at a new-depression
themed party/festival at the A+D Museum, 5900 Wilshire Blvd. (across
from LACMA): On the hooverville (plaza) mainstage from 8:30-9 and then
on the plaza sidestage from 9:30-10 too. The mainstage is a
"stop-and-look" situation and the sidestage is more atmospheric for
passerby (unless it's way packed with people, in which case there'll
probably be a stop-and-look crowd in both locations).

It'll be a huge party with stellar people-watching in an atmosphere of
depression-era decadence, including sexy flappers, tons of booze, and
electronica DJs. Here's how the organizers describe it:

Inspired by the similarity of the economic crisis of 2008 to the
Market Crash of 1929, artists will seek to immerse our merrymakers in
the excess of the privileged elite and the grit of bohemian urchins below.

In the ballroom our fatcat partygoers will dance and celebrate in
luxury while sipping fine beverages, watching burlesque beauties tease
them to the awesome grooves of ANACRON, and reveling in decadence and
excess. Outside on the plaza, partygoers will slum it with Hooverville
tramps and bum cigarettes from Vaudeville acts as they listen to a
junkyard band. All around them will be performance environments from
dozens of LA's most innovative companies. The evening culminates in a
dynamic ballroom finale where past and present collide in a mash-up
not to be missed. All Angelinos are invited to discover their inner
tycoon amidst the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression.


Where: at the A+D Museum, 5900 Wilshire Blvd. (across from LACMA)
Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008 8pm-2am. $20 admission, $10 open bar access