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Here are some brief highlights from LAVA's calendar – visit http://lavatransforms.org for full details and new additions. We hope you can joinus for some of these Visionary-hosted events.

*FRIDAY, JUNE 4 *

Late Night At Musso & Frank
Each Friday and Saturday night from 9:30pm untilclosing, Visionary Jordan Jones transforms his family's venerable Hollywood restaurant into a cool retreat echoing with the strains of classic jazz vocals with the spotlight on the mixological talents of legendary barkeep Rueben Rueda, who poured for Bukowski among other luminaries. Musso and Frank Grill, Hollywood, 9:30 p.m.
http://lavatransforms.org/musso50710

*SATURDAY, JUNE 5 *

The Visionaries of Esotouric host The Weird West Adams crime bus tour.
On this guided tour through the Beverly Hills of the early 20th Century, Crime Bus passengers thrill as Jazz Age bootleggers run amok, marvel at the Krazy Kafitz family's litany of murder-suicides, attempted husband slayings, Byzantine estate battles and mad bombings, visit the shortest street in LosAngeles, discover which fabulous mansion was once transformed into a functioning whiskey factory using every room in the house, and stroll the haunted paths of Rosedale Cemetery, site of notable burials and odd graveside crimes. Featured players include drunken ice cream men, the most famous dwarf in Hollywood, mass suicide ringleader Reverend Jim Jones, wacky millionaires who can't control their automobiles, human mole bank robbers, comically inept fumigators, kids trapped in tar pits, and dozens of other unusual and fascinating denizens of early Los Angeles. $58, departs from West Adams,12pm, info
http://lavatransforms.org/westadams0610

Late Night At Musso & Frank, see previous listing
http://lavatransforms.org/musso50710

*SUNDAY, JUNE 6

*Outpost Cup - Futbol Day - Soccer, Art and Music at Vista Hermosa Park.
LAVA Visionary Anthea Raymond MCs the first Outpost Cup, a fundraiser to support Outpost’s next cycle of residencies that will bring six South American artists and collectives to Los Angeles over the next two years. Teams of artists, neighborhood and work groups, competitive players, parents vs. kids, and other categories will compete on the pitch for soccer/futbol/futebol/football glory, along with live music, a variety of performance artists and other performers, food and drink from local restaurants and food trucks and more. Free, just west of Downtown, 10am. There's still time to get involved, so check out the link for more details
http://lavatransforms.org/outpostcup

* FRIDAY, JUNE 11 *

Late Night At Musso & Frank, see previous listing.
http://lavatransforms.org/musso50710

* SATURDAY, JUNE 12 *

The Visionaries of Esotouric host Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice, a downtown double feature history tour, exploring the lost lore of the historic core.
The Hotel Horrors portion is a true crime and oddities tour featuring some of the wildest, weirdest, goriest and most memorable happenings in historic hotels like the Alexandria, Rosslyn, Barclay and Cecil. The Main Street Vice portion is a social history tour celebrating the ribald, racy, raunchy old promenade where the better people simply did not travel, bu kicks were had by all who did. Burlesque babes and dirty picture parlors, mummified western outlaws and old time tattoo parlors, wax museums and pawn brokers, "professors" offering sex lectures and magazine peddlers with nudie Marilyn Monroe calendars under the counter, sophisticated steak houses and nickel donut dives -- these were the pleasures and the people to be found along Main during the first half of the 20th century. Climb aboard for a time travel journey back to the downtown that's not there anymore, and the surprising amount of gems that survive. $58, departs from the Arts District in Downtown LA, 12pm. Info
http://lavatransforms.org/hotelhorrors0610

Late Night At Musso & Frank, see previous listing.
http://lavatransforms.org/musso50710

* SUNDAY, JUNE 13 *

Maja's Magic School: Witches, Ladies of the Beasts
Maja D'Aoust, the White Witch of Los Angeles, hosts a new metaphysical lecture series held on the second Sunday of each month in the historic Annie Besant Lodge in Beachwood Canyon. Maja is the librarian at Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society, where she lectured for four years, the co-author of "The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction is One Of Seven Hermetic Laws, Here are the Other Six" and hostess of the Maja's Mysteries series of Esotouric bus adventures. The theme of tonight's lecture is: Witches, Ladies of the Beasts. $5, Besant Lodge, Hollywood, 6pm. Info
http://lavatransforms.org/maja0610

Spirits with Spirits: The Aztec Hotel
GHOULA meets for cocktails in haunted places on the 13th of each month. “SPIRITS with SPIRITS” is a casual gathering of regional ghost hunters and those that just like ghost stories. Open to all, from the curious skeptic to the passionate phantom pursuer. Make friends, and toast a ghost! Let's put the “Boo!” back into “booze.” All those who attend will receive a free G.H.O.U.L.A. button. If you already have one, please wear it so others can find you. This month's meeting will be held at the historic (and haunted) Aztec Hotel, one of the iconic roadside attractions of old Route 66. In addition to its place in Southern California's car culture, it is also said to have been (over the decades) a brothel, a speak-easy, a gambling den, a mobster hangout, and a half-wayhouse. The management has agreed to give attendees tours of haunted room 120, where an actress (or possibly a prostitute) died when her head cracked open on the radiator during the throws of passion. In addition, there will be themed live entertainment in the bar, and some other spooky surprises. Aztec Hotel, Monrovia, 8pm. Info
http://lavatransforms.org/spiritsjune10

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