The line-up features a diverse mix of illustrious jazz greats, next generation leaders and festival favorites, the two-day concert will spotlight the entire genre of jazz with an assortment of world premieres, rare collaborations and highly anticipated artist debuts. They provided the perfect soundtrack for the Press Conference on the tunes 'Yardbird,' 'Birdlike,' 'Confirmation,' 'Like Someone in Love,' and 'I Hear a Rhapsody' to the delight of the attentive crowd.Д¬ommemorating 35 years of extraordinary performances, captivating music and magical moments, Playboy will again present a stellar line-up of talent for the 35th Anniversary Jazz Festival, Saturday, June 15th and Sunday, June 16th, at the renowned Hollywood Bowl. The Jazz Combo featured Heather Rivas - piano, Sarah Kuo - bass, Adrian Cota - drums, Aaron Shaw - saxophones, Kalia Vandever - trombone, and Luca Ferrera on guitar. The talented Los Angeles High School for the Arts Jazz Combo under the direction of Dan Castro entertained the crowd arriving to mingle on the serene, well kept lawn of the Playboy Mansion. The Press Conference was held on a beautiful, picture perfect, sunny Southern California day. This is due to the contigent of international media corp who gathered at the Playboy Mansion, Thursday, Februfor the Playboy Jazz Festival Press Conference. The spotlight continues to shine brightly over Hollywood. I agree, of course, that the list is a bit of a nutritionist's nightmare.35th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival Line-Up Announced Beer and wine appear to be doubly essential. I also like what the 'poem' says about what items are most essential, perhaps most desired, and I rather like that 'card'-greeting card(s), presumably (although playing cards were available in the store-is among the perceived essentials. All the nouns are singular, although 'beer' and 'wine' can work as collective nouns. Then there's the repetition of beer and wine. The order of the words appealed to me a great deal-three single-syllable words followed by a multiple-syllable word. I've kept them in order but arranged them vertically. The words were in white, with a black background, and appeared in a line on the side of the building. It was composed of eight signs, one word each, on the side of a grocery store downtown-I think it's called Helen's. Now that the rant is over, I'll mention a found poem I saw in Portland. At the same time, the shelter has to be safe, not another site of potential abuse. I think people have a right to shelter and basic meals, and I think society has the responsibility of getting them into shelter, maybe even in spite of initial opposition. Also, a huge percentage of people on the street, especially but not exclusively younger ones and women, are targets for all manner of predation and abuse. In most cases, they've been forced to live there, one way or another, or they have mental conditions so genuinely disorienting that they're not good judges of where they ought to live. There is an argument, I guess, for allowing people to live on the street if they want to, but it's not an argument that convinces me. I'd rather see taxes go to that then a lot of other stuff. I'd be in favor of building a lot more shelters and having the police, or another agency, or non-profit groups transport homeless people to the shelters. The police pick up homeless people and take them to a shelter. I'm wary of a state and the State having too much power, but with regard to homelessness, I lean toward Sweden's attitude, which is definitely state-heavy.Д«asically, Sweden sees homelessness as unacceptable. There also seems to be a greater percentage of younger homeless persons-people of high-school age-in Portland.

Maybe Kindle and other devices will eventually undermine even these stores, or maybe paper books will survive somehow.ДЄll big cities have a lot of homeless citizens, but Portland seems to have more than its 'share,' whatever a share is supposed to be. The stores can appeal to their traditional clientele but also sell books online.

So far the Internet and some of the surviving used-book stores seem to experiencing a beautiful friendship. The place isn't quite as magical as it used to be, but it sure seems to be thriving. Predictably, I went to the secular shrine for bibliophiles, Powell's Books-always a good time. This time we stayed a few blocks from the Benson and stopped by, only to find that they'd remodeled the lobby and pretty much gutted the great old immense bar that used to be lined with dark carved wood. Many moons ago, we used to stay at a cavernous old hotel called the Mallory, and then we'd go to the venerable Benson for a drink. We hadn't been to Portland (Oregon) for a while, so we spent a few days there.

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