We write to update you on LAVA’s quarterly Salon series at Musso & Frank.
We’re pleased to share a short film about the debut Salon in January, which featured the writer Dan Fante. The film was made by Jeremy Kasten, who is one of our LAVA Visionaries and a very interesting filmmaker in his own right. We hope you love it!
The next Salon will be Monday, April 30, on the theme of DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS: RAYMOND CHANDLER’S UNDERWORLD. Our featured speaker is John Buntin, whose true crime history “L.A. Noir” is currently being developed as a TNT pilot. Come discover the real, and fascinating, Los Angeles characters who informed the novelist’s world view, the gangsters, politicians (and gangster-politicians!) whose outsized personalities and flagrantly bad behavior inspired Chandler’s mysteries. We’ll also look at the good guys, from high profile civic crusaders to the little-known Los Angeles policeman who we believe was the real-life model for Philip Marlowe.
We hope you can join us for an evening celebrating one of our greatest noir novelists, and the incredible city that inspired him.
Reservations for the April Salon are being accepted at the restaurant, and we’re expecting this event to sell out in advance. More info is at the link below:
We hope to see you at the Salon on April 30, but you’re most welcome to check out LAVA’s other interesting events, which are briefly excerpted below.
Please visit the LAVA website, Twitter or Facebook page (links below), or sign up for the main LAVA Flows email newsletter at the LAVA site for regular updates on events other than the Salon at Musso & Frank.
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,...
In the 1930s and 1940s, Fayard and Harold Nicholas, two high flying siblings from Philadelphia, took America by storm with their tap dancing prowess and transformed the landcape of popular...
INTO THE ZONE (ITZ) follows the evolution of Cacophonists from the San Francisco Suicide Club in 1977, the exploits of the SF Cacophony (1986), their nexus creating the Burning Man Festival to Los...
Adrienne Crew will host a short walking tour of F. Scott Fitzgerald's (West) Hollywood and the places that were significant to him at the end of the writer's life. The tour will begin at the corner...
Intersection of Sunset Blvd & N Crescent Heights Blvd
It's time once more to learn staple draping with Fashion on the Fly!
Staple draping is a fun, fast and effective technique for creating anything made of material. And I mean anything, from...
Writer and social historian Joan Renner explores the dark side of Southern California in a presentation focusing on crime photos from the Herald-Examiner collection, with material drawn from two...
Adrienne Crew will host a short walking tour of F. Scott Fitzgerald's (West) Hollywood and the places that were significant to him at the end of the writer's life. The tour will begin at the corner...
Intersection of Sunset Blvd & N Crescent Heights Blvd
Join LAVA for our revived free monthly Sunday Salon series. We return to South Broadway, to the mezzanine of Les Noces du Figaro, which was recently opened by the family behind Figaro...
"[This tour is] a poetic journey full of rare insight into the life of a man who's come to represent the ghettoized contingency of the City of Angels.” - Tanja M. Laden, Flavorpill
"Haunts of a...
To purchase a ticket for this special event, click here. If you'd like to be contacted when another crime lab tour and lecture are scheduled, subscribe to LAVA's occasional Crime Lab Newsletter...
The Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center (Cal State L.A.)
Southern California 1931: Amongst the burgeoning urban sprawl built atop bulldozed orange groves and the bitter realization that you can’t eat the sunshine, recent emigré James M. Cain found a...
"This bus tour... has established itself as an L.A. classic." -The Los Angeles Times
The Black Dahlia murder in 1947 is the most compelling unsolved crime Los Angeles has ever known. What Jack the...
This provocative Esotouric bus adventure begins downtown and works its way south through Vernon, Bell Gardens, Santa Fe Springs and Downey, and through the past two centuries, exploring off-the-...
Presented by Jeff Schwartz (Director, Chuck Boyd Photo Collection)
Photographer Chuck Boyd was embedded in the Los Angeles rock & roll scene of the 1960s. A professional photographer, he left...
Bungalows. Crime. Hollywood. Blondes. Vets. Smog. Death.
This was Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, which resonated under deft and melancholy fits from his writer’s bow.
Join us as we go down the mean...
