Broadcast live at 8:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday, March 9th, 2012, our hosts from The Tom Coston Show with Red Rosie performed the old-time radio detective drama, "Pat Novack, For Hire". Take a listen
The Tom Coston Show
Tom Coston shamelessly runs the Pasadena Doo Dah Parade and is a founder of Light Bringer Project, a nonprofit arts organization that produces the Pasadena Chalk Festival and many unique arts education programs in our public schools. He is a community activist who can be found in many high and low places trying to make good things happen. He also makes a helluva good martini. (I also say that shamelessly)
Red Rosie is the celebrated queen of the 2011 Pasadena Doo Dah Parade. Yet, a senior in high school, she wooed the judges with her unique rendition of “The Man Upstairs” by Kay Starr. And she did so while transforming herself from sweet parochial school girl into Wonder Woman! Red Rosie loves to read, watch The Graduate, ride public transportation and co-anchor Poo-Bah Radio. She hates night time. She’s every bit as adorable as Audrey Hepburn and demonstrates savant tendencies.
Wes Bondville, who’s on our Arts & Culture Beat and Bio+med and Tech Report, can be found wherever a unique arts or performing event is taking place. Besides being an urban adventurer and public transportation enthusiast, Wes is also an inventor who holds a doctoral degree from Caltech. He has lived many places in the world, including Australia and his homeland of Malaysia. And, Ironically for a Caltech PhD., Wes prefers a simple lifestyle, free from cell phones. That makes him the perfect person to report on technology, too!
Jim Marrin at our "National Desk" aka "Those Damn Republicans", a long-time advocate for preservation in the Pasadena community. He was a founder of Pasadena Heritage which is dedicated to preserving the historical fabric and integrity of our cityscape and landmark buildings. Jim is also a highly respected graphic designer who has taught at Art Center College of Design and Valley College. He founded the Friends of the Castle Green and is actively involved in restoration projects to preserve the century-old multi-residential dwelling.
Bruce Litz, Pasadena based cartoonist, illustrator and visual anthropologist, drew the cartoon strip "Dr. Duck." It ran in every free, once-a-week paper to spring up in Pasadena since 1979 and from 1984 to 1986 in the Pasadena Weekly. He was art director, illustrator and sketch artist for the Firesign Theatre. From 1997-2007 his strip, "Capt. Eddie's Tattoo Adventure Comix" ran in the tattoo magazine Skin&Ink, where he worked as reporter, columnist, illustrator and interviewer.
Dianne Patrizzi aka Intergarlictica, Princess Hahamongna Cowabungna, Miss Havisham, Mary Kathleen O'Looney, fake poet and blogger. She was born in Pomona, California and ran away from the LA County Fair at 17 to join Pasadena friends Cal Tech, PCC, and the ghosts of the unholy trinity: Jack Parsons, Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard in midnight skinny dipping and fimmaking at Zorthian's Ranch. The usual things have happened to her since; marriage, babies, selling out as an artist to become a corporate slave in big time advertising. To mitigate bad karma points she's collected over the years, Dianne is now a local natural refuge and water conservation activist.
Rick Potts is an improviser and instrument maker who has been on the musical fringe of Los Angeles the last 30 years.
A home-made sound scientist and founding member of the L.A. Free Music Society (L.A.F.M.S.) he has played in the groups Le Forte Four, Solid Eye, Dinosaurs with Horns and Airway to name a few. He produces sounds which are unique, alarming and funny with custom hinge-neck guitars, musical saw, synths, samplers and random objects along with sideways eccentric rhythms that are topped with doctored thrift store vinyl.
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Reception on Sunday, May 20th, 2-4pm.
Art Center College of Design, South Campus
950 S. Raymond St., Pasadena, CA
For several months, Kelly (in charge of Light Bringers special projects) worked with Paddy (Light Bringer’s manager) to develop a Room 13 “Toolkit.” It’s a comprehensive document that has everything you could ever want and need to know about Room 13. The goal of the Toolkit is to act as a reference guide for those seeking to start their own Room 13 creative studio. We had 13 contacts eagerly waiting for the Toolkit to be completed. It is exciting to see the program grow so rapidly throughout North America!
Room 13 creative studios are bustling with young artists at John Muir High School in Pasadena, Eliot Middle School in Altadena and Foshay Learning Center in South Los Angeles. The initiative is part of an international network of 93 student-run studios begun in 1994 in Coal, Scotland. Over the past several years, Light Bringer Project launched these first studios in America in our own community. Each Room 13 operates in its own independent space located on the school campus, and utilizes an Artist-in-Residence who supports the students’ creative expression, technical know-how and personal and creative growth. Each studio creates a business model to help sustain the studio practice by providing for some of the arts and non-arts materials, special projects and activities.
The L.A. Futures Academy is a work-based learning program that serves public high school students of Los Angeles County. The program partners with underserved schools and major creative companies to prepare students for success in college and career. It does so by strengthening skills and motivation through professional mentorships, job role exposure and student-driven public service projects. Since it was inaugurated in 2000, the L.A. Futures Academy has served hundreds of upper-level high school students and now incorporates John Muir High School, Dorsey High School, James Foshay Learning Center and Long Beach Polytechnic High School. In a specially-designed college-level model, John Muir High School will be partnered with Art Center College of Design’s Advertising Department this Spring!
The Room 13 initiative has spread to virtually every hemisphere, including Europe, India, South Africa, Asia, and other locations. Introduced to North America by Light Bringer Project in 2008, start-up Room 13 studios are now sprouting up in such diverse areas as Boone, North Carolina, Dillsboro, Indiana, New York City and, even, Canada. In summer of 2011, Light Bringer Project president Tom Coston was appointed to the board of trustees of Room 13 International.
The annual Pasadena Chalk Festival, recipient of the 2010 Guinness World Record as the largest public art event of its kind, celebrates its 20th benchmark year on Father’s Day Weekend June 16th and 17th at Paseo Colorado. Each year tens of thousands of spectators enjoy the annual festival free of charge. This year’s event will also expand at the Convention Center, celebrate long-time veteran artists and include a special Friday evening concert launch. And over 600 visual artists from all over Southern California will gather to create spectacular murals on the pavement reflecting every genre of painting!
Poo-Bah News
Broadcast on the 30th of December of 2011 on the Tom Coston Show with Red Rosie (the Host-less edition), discussion of domain names and the boycott of Godaddy over their support of SOPA.
Update: Contact Congress, and stop the PROTECT IP Act, now!
Update: SOPA & PIPA have been pulled, for now.