Zumba Teazer & Fall Highlights

I am dancing like a maniac beginning to teach at Dans-dansen every Mon & Fri morning and preparing for my big Zumba Teazer debut at The Hub Amsterdam's 3 Year Annivesary Party on 25 Nov 2011.  It is exciting and wonderful and along with showing some Zumba moves I am also going to teach the good people of the The Hub how to make Margaritas, which always help in loosening up the hips!  Interested in having your own private Zumba Party?  Contact California Girl for details! 
(Image Above: Thames River, London 2011)

  FALL HIGHLIGHTS

Guy Garvey

ELBOW @ Heineken Music Hall:  Last night the lead singer of Elbow, Guy Garvey, lit up the stage with his magnanimous charm and incredible voice.  What talent!  He made us laugh, he made us SING!  Elbow is a very talented group of musicians who said they have been  playing music together now for 20 years!  The Dutch went crazy and sang them Happy Birthday first in English and then in Dutch.  He was stunned and impressed and, I think, flabbergasted.  Definitely pick up their new album: "Build a Rocket Boys!" and I personally really love the album "The Seldom Seen Kid" of 2008.  Check it.

Alex Turner singing "505", London O2 2011

 

ARCTIC MONKEYS @ the big O2 in London.  I flew to London a few weekends ago to go see Alex Turner on his own turf.  It was fantastic to be in a crowd of people who could properly sing along (and understand) his lyrics.  Absolutely everyone knew all the words.  What impressed me most, however, was how many parents were there with their kids.  Kids of all ages were happily grooving along with their parents to the Monkeys insane guitar licks!  It was Halloween weekend as well . . . let's just say getting back to the hotel was an adventure replete with drunken ghouls and zombies in the Underground.  Check out their new album, "Suck it and See", which is already being heralded as "album of the year" in some circles.  They are currently touring in the UK and France.

The Unilever Series by Tacita Dean, Tate Modern, London 2011

The TATE MODERN in London was looking a bit dark and daunting at the entrance, all part of setting the stage for "The Unilever Series" by Tacita Dean (above).  It was a Saturday afternoon and very busy at the Tate with lots of Sunday strollers, but what I enjoyed most was viewing Diane Arbus' famous "Portfolio of 10" up close and personal.  I never get tired of her haunting images.  I feel as though she asks more questions than she answers with her photographs.  Definitely worth seeing.

"Identical Twins". Roselle, NJ 1967 by Diane Arbus