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Stories has books, coffee, baked goods, a lovely patio, cool stuff you didn’t realize you needed and soon an L.A. Record rack woooooo!
Its the perfect way to spend an afternoon and to do your holiday shopping!

Check em out at 1716 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026 (right next to the Echo) or online at www.storiesla.com.

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Urgent news via WFMU about folk singer Odetta, who is in critical condition in a New York hospital now but is fighting through to make it to perform at the Obama inauguration in January. We wish her absolutely the best and are posting this because it includes an address where you can send Odetta a card or note. Please send her good wishes!

Dear Friends of Odetta,
On behalf of Odetta’s adopted daughter Michelle Esrick and her niece Jan Ford (in California), I would like to share with you - Odetta’s large extended family of brothers and sisters - the current health crisis in her life. On Saturday, she went into Lenox Hill Hospital for a check-up and IV nourishment. However, on Sunday evening she went into kidney failure, and we were told that the next 24 hours would determine if she would survive.

Odetta2 Miraculously, she made it through that emergency, but is still listed in critical condition. I was on the road when she went in the hospital and rushed back on Sunday. Jan and I are thankful that Michelle was here and has been by Odetta’s side every moment of this ordeal.

Odetta believes she is going to sing at Obama’s Inauguration, and I believe that is the reason she is still alive. She has a big poster of Barack Obama taped on the wall across from her bed. Her old heart has already outperformed and lasted far beyond the expectations of the heart specialists who treated her in January-March 2007 when she had her last health crisis while touring out West. Now compounded with the kidney failure, the doctors at the hospital are trying to do everything possible to stabilize her system and prevent the weakening of her other organs. They have her on dialysis now to rid the body of the toxic poisons that have built up, and it seems to be slowly working. She is sleeping a lot, but after a dialysis treatment and some food, she is coherent and talking. She is not in pain. We are told that she will be in the ICU Unit for at least another week, and that we’ll just have to wait and see after that.

All of you are well aware of Odetta’s indomitable spirit. Accordingly, I wouldn’t bet against her singing for Barack in January! If you would like to send a card, I know that she would love to hear from you (address of the hospital is below).

Ms. Odetta Gordon
Room # 719, 7th Floor ICU Unit
LENOX HILL HOSPITAL
100 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10021

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Big week for Cameron from Magic Lantern. First their debut CD-R gets vinyl issue and now he will be playing his first-ever solo set as Sun Araw tomorrow at Echo Curio! A note from him below…

HEY FRIENDS

just a reminder, tomorrow is the first SUN ARAW show with fantastic Brooklyn band WOODS and killer San Diego surfin’ shredder WAVVES, and LA’s own rumblemonks ROBEDOOR…it’ll be cassette party of the century, sunset-heads.

ECHO CURIO, $5, 9:30pm

Also a reminder, MAGIC LANTERN “MAGIC LANTERN” LP (reissue) is now available from WOODSIST (Jeremy of WOODS’ killer imprint) on gloriously remastered black vinyl for maximum psych-attack. Pick it up.

Echo Curio is located at 1519 Sunset Blvd. kind of up and across from Gold Room if you haven’t been. If you aren’t overwhelmed by the explosion of good shows tomorrow maybe you can stop by! This will also be an all-ages show!

Stream: SoundDowntown Public Service Announcement

L.A. RECORD is a bit overwhelmed by the size and scope of this weekend’s SoundDowntown fest—this is basically SXSW in Santa Ana except the shows won’t be clogged up by weirdos sporting dozens of neck laminates. Advance tickets are still only $10 and the shows are a mix of all-ages and 21+. More info at the SoundDowntown site and schedule and set times below. (more…)

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