Tippy top of 2005

***In NO particular order...
(& excluding Solid PR artists, in case you were wondering, because obviously i love all of them!)
Jamie Lidell – Multiply [Warp]
Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine [Epic / Clean Slate]
Beck – Guero (& Guerolito) [Interscope]
M.I.A. - Arular [XL]
Lungfish – Feral Hymns [Dischord]
Nedelle – From The Lions Mouth [Kill Rock Stars]
Skeletons & The Girl Faced Boys – Git [Ghostly Int’l]
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now [Secretly Canadian]
Devendra Banhart – Cripple Crow [XL]
The Boy Least Likely To – Best Party Ever [Rough Trade]

***Honorable Mentions
Make Believe – Shock of Being [Flameshovel]
Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor [Warner]
Prefuse 73 – Surrounded By Silence [Warp]
Dungen – Stadsvandringar [Astralwerks]
The Books – Lost & Safe [Tom Lab]

New Year's Eve in Los Angeles...

What are you doing New Year's Eve?
THE STANDARD HOTEL in Hollywood is opening up its entire bottom floor for a massive party. The POOL AREA, LOBBY, PURPLE ROOM, THE CACTUS LOUNGE, everything. DJs CHRIS HOLMES and FRANKI CHAN are going to provide the jams. No big bands, no fireworks, no strippers, just a nice atmosphere, a pool, hot tub and your fave DJ's. We're talking low-key for the VIP!
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at celeste@solidpr.com
Hope to see you there!

The party is RSVP ONLY, so be sure to RSVP TO: rsvp@iheartcomix.com

SAT DEC 31ST, 9pm-2am, 21+
The Standard hotel & iheartcomix present:
NEW YEARS EVE BALL
@ THE STANDARD on SUNSET
8300 Sunset BLVD, Hollywood, CA 90069

DJ FRANKI CHAN
DJ CHRIS HOLMES

The entire 1st floor is your playground:
-The Pool
-Cactus Lounge
-Lobby
-Purple Bar



FREE with RSVP / RSVP ONLY: rsvp@iheartcomix.com
iheartcomix.com




For Table & Bottle Service Reservations, contact Kamil at: kamil@standardhotel.com
standardhotel.com

your opinion matters!

From Venus Magazine:

Love shmove! Couples everywhere are crooning over one another -- in jewelry commercials, park benches, you name it. We want to hear from sassy single gals. What do you love about being single? How do you navigate the torrential terrain known as dating, if you even bother? Do you have a "list" of criteria? Tell us your experiences to show the coupled cult that being single isn't so bad after all. E-mail your essay to Jen at jen@venuszine.com. The deadline is January 7, 2006.
Word count is a max of 200.

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on the way down from SF to LA

HELLA @ BOTTOM OF THE HILL (SAN FRANCISCO)

Call for artists - CTA Arts in Transit Program

Sent to me by A.Drea...

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Hey folks,

You may know that part of my day gig is to coordinate the CTA's Art Program. In the next year or so, we will be commissioning major works of public art for 26 newly rehabilitated rail stations in our system, including 18 stations on the Brown Line and 7 on the southern portion of the Red Line. This program is federally funded through our capital program (i.e. is unrelated to operating budget/fare issues etc). Artists will be selected through a competitive, community based process and will represent a variety of media (including 2-dimensional work such as mosaic, sculptural works, and multi-media installations). We have just begun our call for artists, so if you know any qualified public artists (or are secretly one yourself), please spread the word. The projects are extremely high profile and well-paying, and although artists should have some public works on their resume, emerging artists with at least some gallery experience may qualify as well. Artists need not live or work in Chicago.

The application is available at www.cityofchicago.org/publicart (see "Public Art Program - Applications" link). If you'd like a pdf of the application instead, let me know - it's over 2MB. The first deadline to apply is January 20, 2006. The more the merrier, so get the word out (press inquiries back to me, please).

Thanks!
Amy Malick
Facilities Development Coordinator
Chicago Transit Authority
amalick@transitchicago.com

The Little Knittery

Attn: knitters!!!
From my pal Julie!
(You go girl!)

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For those of you who may not know, my knitting shop that I've been getting
ready for the last couple of months will be OPEN this Saturday, December
17th. I have a ton of yarns and even more advice for knitting, crochet, and
beyond. You can check out the website at http://www.thelittleknittery.com.

Hope you come by and visit!

xoxo
Julie Edwards
The Little Knittery

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