tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-309799812024-03-07T19:40:22.561-08:00Save The Boom!!!A grassroots effort to save the historic Boom Boom Room and Coast Inn in Laguna Beach, California.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-72014608707023830922010-02-05T10:00:00.000-08:002010-02-05T10:03:15.225-08:00Message From Bill Clinton From Haiti<a title="http://e.clintonfoundation.org/t?r=" c="1961198&l=" ctl="2DC966A:058C06ED4ED2D11AA26AA8695D81C59F2DF81CE5191D20B0&" href="http://e.clintonfoundation.org/t?r=1925&c=1961198&l=56657&ctl=2DC966A:058C06ED4ED2D11AA26AA8695D81C59F2DF81CE5191D20B0&" target="_blank"></a>Flying into Port-au-Prince for the second time since the earthquake -- I was pleased to see continued signs of an expanding relief effort.<br /><br />Today, I'll help my team deliver the emergency supplies we brought with us on our plane.<br /><br />Donation by donation, it's the generosity of people like you that is keeping this relief effort going. And your continued dedication is what will make sure the Haitian people have the tools and supplies they need to rebuild.<br /><br />I am so grateful that you have responded to this devastating crisis. As you read this, work is underway to deliver meals, set up temporary shelters, and restore access to health services for earthquake survivors.<br /><br />I'm proud that today we were able to deliver laptops, generators, plastic sheeting, protein bars, and 1,900 lbs of medical supplies.<br /><br />And it's not going to stop there. Long after the television crews have gone and emergency response teams have returned to their home countries, I can promise you the Clinton Foundation will remain committed to Haiti's long-term rebuilding and recovery.<br /><br />We will work with reputable organizations, the Haitian government, and most importantly the people of Haiti to ensure that they are empowered to create more opportunities for jobs, education, and health care than existed the day before this tragedy occurred.<br /><br />There is a Haitian proverb, "Men anpil chay pa lou," which translates as "Many hands lighten the load."<br /><br />It's going to take a lot of help and a long time, but I know that together you and I can lighten the load that the Haitian people have carried on their own for far too long.<br /><br />Thank you for being part of that work with me today. I'll continue to be in touch as our work continues here in Port-au-Prince and beyond. Bill Clinton<br /><br />PS. Only with your continued generosity will we be able to sustain these efforts. Please make a donation of any size today: <a style="COLOR: #005790" title="http://e.clintonfoundation.org/t?r=" c="1961198&l=" ctl="2DC9669:058C06ED4ED2D11AA26AA8695D81C59F2DF81CE5191D20B0&" href="http://e.clintonfoundation.org/t?r=1925&c=1961198&l=56657&ctl=2DC9669:058C06ED4ED2D11AA26AA8695D81C59F2DF81CE5191D20B0&" target="_blank">www.clintonfoundation.org/haitiearthquake</a>Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-70470707269823438662009-09-02T00:09:00.000-07:002009-09-02T01:51:34.995-07:00"Saving the Boom" Premieres in Laguna Beach - Club BounceWell, the Premiere of John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Keitel's</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">extraordinary</span> "Saving the Boom" was the social event of the summer. Sponsored by the incredible <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Laguna</span> Beach Film Society under the leadership of Joanne Story and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Keiko</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Beatie</span> it was a wonderful evening.<br /><br />The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">pre-</span>party was at Wells Fargo Bank in the party room on the 3rd floor with wonderful food, wine and an ocean view not to be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">believed</span>.<br /><br />Then then everyone marched over to the theater and filled it up. There were over 300 people at the premiere. The crowd laughed, cried and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">thoroughly</span> enjoyed John's documentary. Many of the stars of the movie were there. After the screening there was a quick Q & A with the film's producer, John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Keitel</span>, the Narrator, Andrew Reynolds and Fred <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Karger</span>, who is still hard at work SAVING the BOOM!!!<br /><br />Then lots of the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">party goers</span> walked the couple hundred feet around the corner to the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">after party</span> at the Marine Room. Owner Kelly Boyd was there to greet the guests. Kelly had a major role in the documentary as well. Mayor Boyd was having a busy night with all that was going on downtown that night.<br /><br />Here are photos form the Premiere and the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">screening</span> held last Thursday at Club Bounce, the fun gay bar right across <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">PCH</span> from the old Boom. Owner James Nelson screened "Saving the Boom" for the folks who missed the Premier. It was a very fun night.<br /><br />See lots of pictures below.<br /><br />Remember the Boom has two For Sale signs in the windows. It's <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">just</span> waiting for the right buyer to come along. Please spread the word, and let's SAVE the BOOM!!! and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Laguna's</span> gay <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">heritage</span> along with it.<br /><br />Thank you and scroll down to see the fun photos:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApW7RCcpqrLgNe6AWpjRgBTboMQfvG6VVlsTsLnytAJ1ABQI5IugAHLJiVtOvf-GcbpwbMTSMu8-_6IEdb5wh70OtzuCxEjPCu4u2P29jCjC-TaDng3piv2Uk9jAmiTP7BQdC/s1600-h/IMG_1257.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376778340656978322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApW7RCcpqrLgNe6AWpjRgBTboMQfvG6VVlsTsLnytAJ1ABQI5IugAHLJiVtOvf-GcbpwbMTSMu8-_6IEdb5wh70OtzuCxEjPCu4u2P29jCjC-TaDng3piv2Uk9jAmiTP7BQdC/s320/IMG_1257.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a>Jeannie looking gorgeous with her daughter, son-in-law and her adorable <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">granddaughter</span>!</p><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ9bATaUOFJgpBJZiMAuOVsZlMP_RehhboOABtyswFC1vayApGMahQ1A0lQCwfN0jZzNP5IjGp9LMjAwFh9TU9fSdlyzAmTqjpPE5e0wdIwmpbToh167qjfoOAcnG8W3i_9PW_/s1600-h/IMG_1266.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376778253776806482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ9bATaUOFJgpBJZiMAuOVsZlMP_RehhboOABtyswFC1vayApGMahQ1A0lQCwfN0jZzNP5IjGp9LMjAwFh9TU9fSdlyzAmTqjpPE5e0wdIwmpbToh167qjfoOAcnG8W3i_9PW_/s320/IMG_1266.JPG" border="0" /></a> The wine was a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">flowin</span>'. Thanks, guys!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBZVtj-i4yss93sDOhcpl9CVwCbaCVLXgZJVBqwxuP__9AZ3PpVl-E9PQwdOVN83IWzNBr2xNiV1wADZB2dbqPliVcZSG84fA3H8nqOmzYxCr3ubDPjwFqzBx1PMdRCcY1ShL/s1600-h/IMG_1268.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376778103822093874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBZVtj-i4yss93sDOhcpl9CVwCbaCVLXgZJVBqwxuP__9AZ3PpVl-E9PQwdOVN83IWzNBr2xNiV1wADZB2dbqPliVcZSG84fA3H8nqOmzYxCr3ubDPjwFqzBx1PMdRCcY1ShL/s320/IMG_1268.JPG" border="0" /></a>Peter, John, Andrew R., Andrew R., Michael and John Wooden<br /><div></div><div></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT0AaS6cD9_fYjS0CbbU7c5mQ7jhDgeTNiEGMrPr1v566euQQ1fZPsdBWuuAelj2Hgj28F-Dq4ns0l7TT7q2Y4S-CMzpWEhjeVUb97JpMMtg2WzIL2HeHcF37gygF1fKsBP8zo/s1600-h/IMG_1259.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376777815197118818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT0AaS6cD9_fYjS0CbbU7c5mQ7jhDgeTNiEGMrPr1v566euQQ1fZPsdBWuuAelj2Hgj28F-Dq4ns0l7TT7q2Y4S-CMzpWEhjeVUb97JpMMtg2WzIL2HeHcF37gygF1fKsBP8zo/s320/IMG_1259.JPG" border="0" /></a>Movie star and longtime <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Laguna</span> resident, Tom <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Panno</span> on the left<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGbk8rz9dLh6DGfP_glviHuaJy_Lwb1ISnR56gEeV0lxLIcJxgRtxKyyl3EmPvOTYHAC272dLiRCSwVmGlOABhMqvzveE7lmL_7pTMNf6LsBb06Rk_Q9GfKcON07239EAALKmb/s1600-h/IMG_1260.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376777727038007122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGbk8rz9dLh6DGfP_glviHuaJy_Lwb1ISnR56gEeV0lxLIcJxgRtxKyyl3EmPvOTYHAC272dLiRCSwVmGlOABhMqvzveE7lmL_7pTMNf6LsBb06Rk_Q9GfKcON07239EAALKmb/s320/IMG_1260.JPG" border="0" /></a><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Yay</span>, Violet was there. She's in the movie and was sensational! Former Boom server.</div><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmgBCRE5Of10ftv1Tgy3chjyBEDf4borujBcW2IJlkqK1xnjPuocihTk02H89JdnP1bUjAJ4V0cIUPMvP-KrocNyp93hhonkTAtZCQ49UzEH2gkexz9aPTAjAiRlDaT6n-zpU/s1600-h/IMG_1262.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376777530473245298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmgBCRE5Of10ftv1Tgy3chjyBEDf4borujBcW2IJlkqK1xnjPuocihTk02H89JdnP1bUjAJ4V0cIUPMvP-KrocNyp93hhonkTAtZCQ49UzEH2gkexz9aPTAjAiRlDaT6n-zpU/s320/IMG_1262.JPG" border="0" /></a> <div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div>The Narrator, Andrew, Edie, John and Steve buying some raffle tickets.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbwg_kRyCr_tbQ9rerobRd0DHKBCl03K9DfglRneQIMk9WEbtHiyGnRlTsmRIGDI7RctvdqCL4rxTIkKlMvlfTGkGULm0gRt8ksOaBf46D8WAuOFlgypUVphI7xhAAQf9lXtVN/s1600-h/IMG_1273.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376777326127633874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbwg_kRyCr_tbQ9rerobRd0DHKBCl03K9DfglRneQIMk9WEbtHiyGnRlTsmRIGDI7RctvdqCL4rxTIkKlMvlfTGkGULm0gRt8ksOaBf46D8WAuOFlgypUVphI7xhAAQf9lXtVN/s320/IMG_1273.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Keiko</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Beatie</span> giving a short lecture on the films playing. She put the whole night together. Thank you, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Keiko</span>!!! It was magnificent.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6pZRCQSMyslKdjtOfQm6ln5FaiQXmKCMZZ7wRmHRCZXmkg9iGSTKm1SD-6MjAg8Iudp4H_1507Ojanx5fwQI6OR1rp7Tg1vftzqqSNQmLgRm9scd9Br9_zGk8GSJ2simqwwFA/s1600-h/IMG_1264.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376776949675929394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 229px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6pZRCQSMyslKdjtOfQm6ln5FaiQXmKCMZZ7wRmHRCZXmkg9iGSTKm1SD-6MjAg8Iudp4H_1507Ojanx5fwQI6OR1rp7Tg1vftzqqSNQmLgRm9scd9Br9_zGk8GSJ2simqwwFA/s320/IMG_1264.JPG" border="0" /></a>SAVE the BOOM!!! Treasurer and "Saving the Boom" star, Shane Miller with good friends Diane and Jay Foster in from Denver for the Premiere<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvUr_aOBzYHzBknVfAFcn_j2bs7cff9Saf6M2__-RpaWnad8u8OTKieoYwTJZ6XSmcABiCkv2jwgBIgfqiioFbG6EkWmMUcJCEZlNhyVVpFoUrxhnz_f1_xlNEG871kqoOzZk/s1600-h/IMG_1277.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376776770019376482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvUr_aOBzYHzBknVfAFcn_j2bs7cff9Saf6M2__-RpaWnad8u8OTKieoYwTJZ6XSmcABiCkv2jwgBIgfqiioFbG6EkWmMUcJCEZlNhyVVpFoUrxhnz_f1_xlNEG871kqoOzZk/s320/IMG_1277.JPG" border="0" /></a> Film Society members are all ears listening to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Keiko</span> explain the night's films.<br /><br /><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gWoAylYQ2tuI-DpjBcy_iKFL126sKM_g2Ft5UDhbN194yeJFWI62tSjzqIwLhJMtmKwtg_WUxqhrzWCwgGgnr05JBlhFTevVk9aFLA-6evpQua4pys6ZPp6lr5pT8WuJNBfF/s1600-h/IMG_1298.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376776237519068082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gWoAylYQ2tuI-DpjBcy_iKFL126sKM_g2Ft5UDhbN194yeJFWI62tSjzqIwLhJMtmKwtg_WUxqhrzWCwgGgnr05JBlhFTevVk9aFLA-6evpQua4pys6ZPp6lr5pT8WuJNBfF/s320/IMG_1298.JPG" border="0" /></a>Fred out front. "Saving the Boom" and "Harry Potter". A great double bill!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVOn2fZMWR-NQIus7qSTv7Uovai5MHh7zk4S3bTRCLGTCGneLroU-EUsbQzE6X-10EquDPMA3Vbv2NexUi6HeqgZpcD7_PHXYouXvwDMt1ibf_uRwTP9mc9ojFYqZDtGYCWoiE/s1600-h/IMG_1299.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376776072924212466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVOn2fZMWR-NQIus7qSTv7Uovai5MHh7zk4S3bTRCLGTCGneLroU-EUsbQzE6X-10EquDPMA3Vbv2NexUi6HeqgZpcD7_PHXYouXvwDMt1ibf_uRwTP9mc9ojFYqZDtGYCWoiE/s320/IMG_1299.JPG" border="0" /></a>The theater was full -- 300 + people!!!<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNGU8QXyK7YG7fW4H_Uyz-0HkZiJMGixcLbeOSZdEZNjTXnbJBYzDxmMRt0D0dPC5e6eLkQnbFegVWQxN1dSs4z_lmJLRWB3auhlxpj8S6REbEA_YVrT87xBa6uupTcS-php4-/s1600-h/IMG_1300.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376775773588700434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNGU8QXyK7YG7fW4H_Uyz-0HkZiJMGixcLbeOSZdEZNjTXnbJBYzDxmMRt0D0dPC5e6eLkQnbFegVWQxN1dSs4z_lmJLRWB3auhlxpj8S6REbEA_YVrT87xBa6uupTcS-php4-/s320/IMG_1300.JPG" border="0" /></a>The boys in the balcony<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeKF6_lygWSpfumE_OGS42W8sJYmvtDVDMD-oo9vgbcwFCgQUhp9NgS7YEM6BFOYpKGflYgldIIYBEK9YIy3Yp3IGudWc7GnPK2-qIWG9QlFA7QWy0CPh4ZIoq1pxt9nAvsuhg/s1600-h/IMG_1312.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376775503957792786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeKF6_lygWSpfumE_OGS42W8sJYmvtDVDMD-oo9vgbcwFCgQUhp9NgS7YEM6BFOYpKGflYgldIIYBEK9YIy3Yp3IGudWc7GnPK2-qIWG9QlFA7QWy0CPh4ZIoq1pxt9nAvsuhg/s320/IMG_1312.JPG" border="0" /></a> The marquis is coming down. What a night!!!<br /></div><div> </div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">After Party</span> at the Marine Room</span></strong></div><div><br /> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7AtGvohydvC-l04csIBJz9mTAm9o-DEEqLHakfn00gix0s_okeIPnGNJSwOPmdiqcNCawC0yMdp9me73__1hGQWGguEFxvGX7yRG1iStioj-v3TBWvPl2PdsK-rLXxM41SY2S/s1600-h/IMG_1315.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376773372743651458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7AtGvohydvC-l04csIBJz9mTAm9o-DEEqLHakfn00gix0s_okeIPnGNJSwOPmdiqcNCawC0yMdp9me73__1hGQWGguEFxvGX7yRG1iStioj-v3TBWvPl2PdsK-rLXxM41SY2S/s320/IMG_1315.JPG" border="0" /></a>Fred and SAVE the BOOM!!! donor Peter Montgomery<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4p1Fgn-p1wj8nqGLDaxXig6_Pp9alLPnSaRTRW_X1Z93pNI8mTYiKKtjzyWJmFFeUcqOCa-8OWh0rV2AMiX0WNQ4ERLQtRynrTc8mvIOeGPTJqTtXDTDEfa3aEB-QziAVebEz/s1600-h/IMG_1316.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376772907089581762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4p1Fgn-p1wj8nqGLDaxXig6_Pp9alLPnSaRTRW_X1Z93pNI8mTYiKKtjzyWJmFFeUcqOCa-8OWh0rV2AMiX0WNQ4ERLQtRynrTc8mvIOeGPTJqTtXDTDEfa3aEB-QziAVebEz/s320/IMG_1316.JPG" border="0" /></a> Andrew who just moved back to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Laguna</span> and Russell <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">visiting</span> from Cody, Wyoming<br /><div><br /><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg397NHffGHpbfpOsilQ3IwhU1wRohxJfhot6WTQacxrD1Zj0NKtgcjVsej6ZBuHdLhTFPsqalX_9iSkJ_-YesALIFt7TRPG_5owDZE_wQnB6heAC1SJTJP7RbqT8NdwpfD9k72/s1600-h/IMG_1317.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376768313253339362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg397NHffGHpbfpOsilQ3IwhU1wRohxJfhot6WTQacxrD1Zj0NKtgcjVsej6ZBuHdLhTFPsqalX_9iSkJ_-YesALIFt7TRPG_5owDZE_wQnB6heAC1SJTJP7RbqT8NdwpfD9k72/s320/IMG_1317.JPG" border="0" /></a> John and Neal at the Post Party </div><br /><div align="center"><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Laguna</span> Beach Screening at Club Bounce, Thursday, August 27, 2009</span></strong></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW8v0z_Rw_2Rvkj_CU_QWLB7SuowJH-Y_J1M6HfVAdW1-vF9rXy74qSku546sVmwdgJc4RT8zHJC4S8rhyphenhyphenAj0OuI3_4IJR_07SynHnp-R1aFcVfXYvkj6w3k6Z8WPhswIzloPB/s1600-h/IMG_5412.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376766185952808530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW8v0z_Rw_2Rvkj_CU_QWLB7SuowJH-Y_J1M6HfVAdW1-vF9rXy74qSku546sVmwdgJc4RT8zHJC4S8rhyphenhyphenAj0OuI3_4IJR_07SynHnp-R1aFcVfXYvkj6w3k6Z8WPhswIzloPB/s320/IMG_5412.JPG" border="0" /></a> The DJ spinning away. Everyone was dancing.<br /></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBPPKgxg-P7CxgxHpuYI-mTXRJQPZUW4cDfC1osDe7zVBywFb6dxFAAZizDfEUO9d4H_zASmgOXJhM9euktYuNSsGgD2zab0nwaMcTUBMW4BXCnynDxKhEJuBmoJqAs-UQF_F/s1600-h/IMG_5405.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376765983623118594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKBPPKgxg-P7CxgxHpuYI-mTXRJQPZUW4cDfC1osDe7zVBywFb6dxFAAZizDfEUO9d4H_zASmgOXJhM9euktYuNSsGgD2zab0nwaMcTUBMW4BXCnynDxKhEJuBmoJqAs-UQF_F/s320/IMG_5405.JPG" border="0" /></a>SAVE the BOOM!!! Calendar Models; January Joe and February Ray -in from Boston<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXcbxl6jg-9b2cAEdc23KR9fsShp2F0CZE7osnowvTXLw_BT2tY1tKNiGcl6X7EQ9dygykMkB1WLhvV8qGE4qB-lRdT_d0qkkwytyQ5hbcqU4J8yTehziuQ9KxrCPgV_YNcpi/s1600-h/IMG_5400.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376765702493966530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXcbxl6jg-9b2cAEdc23KR9fsShp2F0CZE7osnowvTXLw_BT2tY1tKNiGcl6X7EQ9dygykMkB1WLhvV8qGE4qB-lRdT_d0qkkwytyQ5hbcqU4J8yTehziuQ9KxrCPgV_YNcpi/s320/IMG_5400.JPG" border="0" /></a>Fred, Dan, Joe and Film Maker John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Keitel</span><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8NO1dnUh_4TL7ku1Grm4deC_emXyb5UbM7ZesP5chOIeWPbRUCd55urBnfZaJ5oeVQ-IMh_pmWf5dEwBY-Deq2wNzMor-nPQuN9KOBzAWKB7dgIxYJmmvKubYzSpyZdApRa3/s1600-h/IMG_5403.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376765254728140146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8NO1dnUh_4TL7ku1Grm4deC_emXyb5UbM7ZesP5chOIeWPbRUCd55urBnfZaJ5oeVQ-IMh_pmWf5dEwBY-Deq2wNzMor-nPQuN9KOBzAWKB7dgIxYJmmvKubYzSpyZdApRa3/s320/IMG_5403.JPG" border="0" /></a>Michael visiting from Vienna loved the movie -- thumbs up!<br /></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17JvAKUnlkVdFI1KpoEVpWh9O9Bwa8LrF9e3JxfhF-TvGX7yT2zDpk3JHGvVfQAvBxpZ_hoVYy0KmCU7r7dA43AG2De6iZqFTr16L-MN4D0PqBi315rHZVT7AxMwyBTZOS-nD/s1600-h/IMG_5406.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376765008978586690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17JvAKUnlkVdFI1KpoEVpWh9O9Bwa8LrF9e3JxfhF-TvGX7yT2zDpk3JHGvVfQAvBxpZ_hoVYy0KmCU7r7dA43AG2De6iZqFTr16L-MN4D0PqBi315rHZVT7AxMwyBTZOS-nD/s320/IMG_5406.JPG" border="0" /></a>Justin and Bounce Manager and Bartender, Michael<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU29ZVFLTF__3Nda1jQe91vU4zZnRC9uGlQ-xCIF1UGWq43FLItJODx8oXcwhnxp7I8pjOjFQ6Bw91GVRFMacZ9Kxa9yO3XZEmwHu6hdEVf7y-VTmi2IG_ziCFch1cFLs-wunJ/s1600-h/IMG_5413.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376764683207944386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU29ZVFLTF__3Nda1jQe91vU4zZnRC9uGlQ-xCIF1UGWq43FLItJODx8oXcwhnxp7I8pjOjFQ6Bw91GVRFMacZ9Kxa9yO3XZEmwHu6hdEVf7y-VTmi2IG_ziCFch1cFLs-wunJ/s320/IMG_5413.JPG" border="0" /></a>Cody, Dianna and Teddy (former Boom Bartender) celebrating </div><div> </div><div>Thanks to one and all for helping with the film, supporting our effort and turning out to see John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Keitel's</span> wonderful film</div><div> </div><div align="left">Best regards,</div><div> </div><div align="left">Fred <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Karger</span></div><div align="left">Founder <a href="http://www.savetheboom.com/">www.savetheboom.com</a><br /><br /></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div>Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-79949291666967057362009-07-11T13:34:00.000-07:002009-07-11T13:43:37.377-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;">LAGUNA BEACH PREMIER SETPARTY PREMIER PARTY<br /><br />LAGUNA BEACH, CA -- John Keitel's highly praised documentary "</span><a href="http://current.com/items/88880536_saving-the-boom.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;">Saving the Boom</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">." will have its Laguna Beach Premier this Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm. The film that has packed theaters in Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Palm Springs, Long Beach and recently in Tel Aviv, Israel will finally be shown in the town where the story is set. The screening is sponsored by the Laguna Beach Film Society, which has monthly showings of important films on the third Thursday of each month.<br /><br />"Saving the Boom" is part of a local filmmaker's night, and will be feted at a pre-premier reception in the Community Room of Wells Fargo Bank, 260 Ocean Avenue from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. Then we'll walk the block to the Laguna South Coast Cinemas, 162 South Coast Highway for the 7:00 pm premier. Then everyone will head around the corner to the famous Marine Room Tavern,<br />214 Ocean Avenue for a short Q & A and drinks! We are trying to SAVE a bar after all.<br /><br />Ads ran yesterday (see below) -- sponsored by </span><a href="http://savetheboom.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">SAVE the BOOM!!!</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> -- inviting everyone in Laguna Beach to come see this wonderful story of the herculean all volunteer effort to save the historic Coast Inn and Boom Boom Room and Laguna's gay and lesbian life along with it. The film features over 40 Laguna residents, spanning at least three generations. It's funny, emotional, fast paced and sexy.<br /><br />John Keitel has directed, produced and edited many award winning documentaries and will be present for all the festivities.<br /><br />6:00 to 7:00 pm Reception and Movie $20.00 / Movie only $15.00</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAwNRYjkHZ8oBwaXdwNciHWcssgz-RDYyMCxfQ1qT6GmDdIJjdzbnbgKdSEl0P0ov0uQKsNDrO6KsGmr_NHwszt4-9DTC-eGl8W_27BTr0MgUt3kagV18n9R27wUJA9ba3SS1F/s1600-h/Saving+the+Boom+Ad+10.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357305503969551826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 179px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAwNRYjkHZ8oBwaXdwNciHWcssgz-RDYyMCxfQ1qT6GmDdIJjdzbnbgKdSEl0P0ov0uQKsNDrO6KsGmr_NHwszt4-9DTC-eGl8W_27BTr0MgUt3kagV18n9R27wUJA9ba3SS1F/s320/Saving+the+Boom+Ad+10.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:arial;">And check out the wonderful story about the Premier and SAVE the BOOM!!! by Daniella Walsh in this week's Laguna Beach Independent: </span><a href="http://www.lagunabeachindependent.com/news/2009/0710/arts_ent/024.html%20"><span style="font-family:arial;">CLICK HERE</span></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The Boom Lives On, at Least in Film</span></strong><br /><strong>Saving the Boom is more than mere nostalgia.</strong><br /><div><div>By Daniella Walsh</div><div><br />The only thing that now decorates the once fabled Boom-Boom Room is a For Sale sign. But, even though shuttered, it lives on in the minds of countless gay and straight revelers who partied there as a gay community symbol, something akin to the Stone Wall Inn, only in a happier context. Here, people pretty much danced and drank the night away without having to worry about the law, those who enforce it and gay bashers who persist in perverting it. </div><div><br />"The Boom was a wonderful place," recalled Laguna Beach resident Fred Karger, "It was the closest thing we had to a gay community center. It's now empty, and we want it back," said Karger, who optimistically still labors to re-open one of Laguna's main attractions for the gay tourist trade, which had fallen off but is, with the opening of new gayfriendly restaurants, on the rebound. </div><div><br />On Thursday, the Laguna Film Society will show "Saving the Boom," a John Keitel documentary chronicling the efforts of Karger and others who still endeavor to revive what was for many a home away from home. </div><div><br />The film premiered at the Los Angeles Outfest, played to packed houses at the Newport Beach Film Festival and the Long Beach Q Film Festival, and ran at the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Israel last month. "I flew out to that and even did a major interview for a major radio station," said Karger, whose efforts to save the Boom from closure pushed him further out.<br /></div><div>Before that, although openly gay, Karger he supported gay causes behind the scenes but never publicly. </div><div><br />"This was a great breakthrough for me, at age 59," he said. Former Laguna Beach mayor Bob Gentry, the nation's first openly gay elected official, was a cherished mentor and role model. Gentry co-chaired the Save the Boom campaign and is featured prominently in the movie.<br />Having stepped into public limelight anyway, Karger then charged into campaigning against passage of Prop. 8 and now for its repeal. "I did everything to make proponents of Prop.8 think twice," he said, including exposing the son of the Boom and adjoining Coast Inn owner Steven Udvar-Hazy as a $1000 contributor to Prop. 8 proponents. </div><div><br />The Boom closed in 2007 after an 18-month wrangle to keep it open. Since then, the price for the building package has fluctuated and so have its owner's fortunes. He reportedly dropped from being the 79th wealthiest person in 2007, to 288th now, in part because a sizable chunk of his wealth was in stock of now government-owned AIG. Shares that peaked in the $70s has sunk to under $2 per share. </div><div><br />Karger still harbors hope Hazy will unload the compound for a good price. "Hazy paid too much but perhaps it would help all of us if he sold it to us for a good price or if he were to donate the buildings to the city," Karger said. "We could put up a special trust and he could make a lot of points by helping us," he added. "I hope he'll do the right thing." </div><div><br />John Keitel's documentary: Saving the Boom Boom will play on Thursday, July 16 at the South Coast Cinema, 162 Pacific Coast Highway. Tickets at the door: $15 Free for Laguna Film Society members. Call: 949- 494-8971x201</div></div>Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-72107697258991907362009-06-05T21:20:00.000-07:002009-06-05T21:21:49.100-07:00<div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"> Steven Udvar-Hazy’s Wealth Drops 82% <br /> Falls to #49 in Los Angeles<br /> Boom & Coast Inn Owner May Be Ready to Sell?!</span></strong><br /> </span><a href="http://www.labusinessjournal.com/article.asp?aID=56833801.9952509.1782105.8205639.2493489.686&page=1"></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Link: <br /></span><a href="http://www.labusinessjournal.com/article.asp?aID=56833801.9952509.1782105.8205639.2493489.686&page=1"><span style="font-family:arial;">Los Angeles Business Journal</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Lots of the super rich billionaires and centimillionaires in Los Angeles have lost fortunes in the last year as a result of the deepest economic downturn since the great depression. Among the worst hit is the owner of the historic Boom Boom Room and landmark Coast Inn built in 1927.<br /><br />Steven Udvar-Hazy bought the building nearly 4 years ago, and put the property up for sale two years. The signs are up in the windows were they have been since Memorial Weekend 2007.<br /><br />As you know, the Boom was rented out last fall to the Laguna Beach Democratic Club, and they held several highly successful fund-raisers there. The Boom was packed and fun just like the good old days before it closed Labor Day Weekend 2007.<br /><br />As the sign says, contact Joe Smith at Monarch Beach Realty. Make them an offer: 949-489-1100 Let’s get the Boom back open soon!<br /><br />Business Assistance Committee <br />Laguna Beach, like all cities is suffering from a drop of revenue. One reason for that is due to the loss of the Boom. It’s not just the loss of sales tax from the club and bed tax from the 24 hotel rooms, but Laguna Beach is far less a gay and lesbian destination resort than it was for over 60 years.<br /><br />Now that the wonderful </span><a href="http://www.markslaguna.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">Marks Restaurant</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> has reopened in the Canyon, the gay community is starting to come back. As we approach the busy summer season, we desperately need an anchor bar to really bring back the well-heeled gay travelers that stay in hotels, eat in our restaurants and spend lots of money around town. The gay and lesbian travel market is now a $70 billion a year industry to those who go after it. This revenue source would greatly help Laguna recover from the slowdown, and a brand new reopened Boom Boom Room and Coast Inn would really help.<br /><br />“</span><a href="http://current.com/items/88880536_saving-the-boom.htm"><span style="font-family:arial;">SAVING THE BOOM</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">” Documentary in 3 Film Festivals!<br /><br />Two weeks ago lots of Lagunans and other film goers made it to the screening of John Keitel’s incredible film at the </span><a href="http://newportbeach.bside.com/2009/films/savingtheboom_newportbeach2009;jsessionid=FB53D96052896E66CDC0D771A9208564"><span style="font-family:arial;">Newport Beach Film Festival</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. The 35 minute documentary is about the LGBT history of Laguna Beach, and our efforts to SAVE the BOOM!!! “Saving the Boom” also played last Saturday to a packed house at the </span><a href="http://www.meetup.com/Q-Film-Festival/"><span style="font-family:arial;">Long Beach Q Film Festival</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">. And next, THE INTERNATIOANL PREMIERE of “SAVING THE BOOM” will be at the </span><a href="http://www.tlvfest.com/index.php?lang=en"><span style="font-family:arial;">TEL AVIV Gay and Lesbian Film Festival</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 25th. <br /><br />We are in discussions with the </span><a href="http://www.lagunaartmuseum.org/Councils.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">Laguna Beach Film Society</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> to set up a screening as a part of their monthly program (a lot closer than Tel Aviv). We will keep you posted on that.<br />Thank you all for all your help and support as we work to SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!!<br />Best regards,<br /><br />Fred Karger<br /></span><a href="http://savetheboom.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">www.SAVEtheBOOM.com</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">949-494-4750</span> </div>Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-38031569186573304462009-04-26T20:19:00.000-07:002009-04-26T22:03:35.693-07:00"Saving the Boom" -- News Coverage<span style="font-family:arial;">I wanted to share two incredible stories from Friday’s Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot with you. The first is by Ashley Breeding, who wrote a wonderful piece about the history of Laguna’s landmark Boom Boom Room and the new documentary “Saving the Boom.” “Saving the Boom” will screen this Tuesday, April 28th at 2:00 pm in Newport Beach at the Newport Beach Film Festival. For tickets and information go to: </span><a href="http://newportbeach.bside.com/2009/films/ashortgayla_newportbeach2009"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://newportbeach.bside.com/2009/films/ashortgayla_newportbeach2009</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The second story is by filmmaker extraordinaire, John Keitel. It’s a First Person essay about his coming out, his relationship with his mother and the historical significance of Laguna Beach and the Boom. Both of these are must reads.<br /><br />The stories are below in their entirety, and I have also included the links. Please forward to your email list for your friends to enjoy<br />Thank you and we hope to see you at the screening on Tuesday!<br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot</span><br /></span></strong>Friday, April 24, 2009</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.coastlinepilot.com/articles/2009/04/24/entertainment/cpt-boomfilm042409.txt"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;"><strong>Battle of the Boom Room</strong></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Filmmaker John Keitel sits in the Garden of Love and Peace below the Coast Inn and the former Boom Boom Room. Keitel's movie, "Saving the Boom," documents the campaign to save the legendary gay bar as well as the adjacent Coast Inn and garden.<br />New documentary on campaign to save iconic gay nightclub will be shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />By Ashley Breeding<br /><br />For filmmaker John Keitel, the Boom Boom Room was more than a gay hangout: It was a place of community, and the battle to save it is personal.<br /><br />The second screening of Keitel’s “Saving the Boom,” a 2008 film documentary about efforts to keep the iconic gay bar — and the gay community in Laguna Beach — alive, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Edwards Island 4 cinema during the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival.<br /><br />The film premiered last summer at Outfest, a popular gay and lesbian film festival in Los Angeles. Since that time, Keitel the film’s producer and a former Laguna resident, has updated the film with additional footage, which we will be viewed for the first time next week.<br /><br />Although the Boom closed on Labor Day of 2007, despite immense efforts to keep it open, Keitel said the film still conveys an important message to this day.<br /><br />“My objective was not just to save the Boom, but to make a film about a place that played a significant role in people’s lives, including my own, and to touch those people,” he said. “So little is known about gay history, so this gave me an opportunity to talk with people in the gay and lesbian community about their own stories, and to see what history is there and how we should honor it.”<br /><br />The documentary follows Save the Boom leader Fred Karger and his volunteer group during their year-and-a-half effort to raise awareness and prevent the Boom from closing its doors after 60 years of service.<br /><br />Interviews include those with former Laguna mayor Bob Gentry — one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S. — who’s served as a role model to so many who followed him, and current city council member and Boom supporter, Kelly Boyd, now the city’s mayor.<br /><br />The establishment, originally named The South Seas, was purchased by business tycoon Steven Udvar-Hazy (ranked by Forbes in 2009 as the world’s 305th richest person), who planned to turn the corner building on South Coast Highway and Mountain Road into a boutique hotel and five-star restaurant.<br /><br />Keitel and his crew document Save the Boom’s civil rights movement, through their march on Century City and upon Udvar-Hazy, collection of petitions to present to city council, and even to the movie premiere of “Ocean’s Thirteen,” where they protested to Brad Pitt and George Clooney, who had been rumored to be silent partners of Hazy’s and the Boom.<br /><br />Perhaps the most exciting part of the documentary is the casting of “The Men of Laguna Beach” calendar, which showcased the city’s 20 hottest men and was used to raise funds for the cause. Celebrities and Boom-goers like Nicole and Heather Tom also partook.<br /><br />Former Coastline Pilot reporter Josh Aden tried out and made the top 10.<br /><br />Karger said he is thankful to Keitel, a longtime friend, for making his cause the focus of one of his projects.<br /><br />“It brings attention to the cause, which is still going,” he said. “Through this documentary, you can see [our] passion behind it, as well as the need for a gay and lesbian place to socialize.<br /><br />“It wasn’t just a bar to us, but a community center, where we could go and be accepted. We’re not giving up until we get it back.<br /><br />”Keitel said the film was also a way for him to honor what Laguna meant to him, particularly the Garden of Peace and Love, where his own mother’s ashes were scattered, and where those of so many who were struck by the AIDS crisis were laid to rest.<br /><br />His other documentary, “Prodigal Sons,” which tells the emotional and touching story of a transsexual named Kim, will also premiere at the festival on Monday.<br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><a href="http://www.coastlinepilot.com/articles/2009/04/24/entertainment/cpt-boomsidebar042409.txt"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">FIRST PERSON:</span></strong></a></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Remembering Mom, honoring the Boom<br />By John Keitel<br /><br />The first time I visited Laguna Beach was during spring break freshman year. It was 1983, and I had come west from Chicago for college. I was with my very straight, very “SoCal” roommate and best friend from Pasadena, and we were on our way to visit his high school girlfriend at her parents’ beach house.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The moment we swung off the 405 onto Laguna Canyon Road in his yellow pickup, I knew I was somewhere special. It was still a two-lane road back then that skirted strawberry fields and ponds close enough to touch, and the record winter rains of that January had given way to emerald hills that swayed in the late March breeze. As I looked out at the Pacific from their living room perched on the bluff above West Street beach, I had no idea just how important to me this place would become.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Four-hundred miles away in Palo Alto, the news that year of Robert Gentry’s election in Laguna Beach as one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials seeped into my fraternity boy consciousness and gave me a sense of hope and possibility that I hadn’t realized I lacked.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">When I returned to pursue my master’s at USC film school in 1988, Laguna became my weekend destination of choice, and its gay heart — the Boom — the iconic bar of my youth.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Like so many others, I found love, friendship and acceptance among the sandy, tattered pool tables and rambling open-air rooms. I even met one of my first boyfriends there and with him made my first feature film. The name we chose for our production company was Boom Pictures.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">My relationship with Laguna took an unexpected turn in 1991 when my mother followed me from Chicago to Leisure World in Laguna Hills. The youngest of seven children, I had come to California to chart my own course, so at first I was reluctant to embrace what I viewed as my mom’s encroachment. But nearing 70, she had been diagnosed with an emphysema-like disease, and she could no longer take the brutal winters or humid summers.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Over the next decade, my reluctance melted, and Laguna came to mean so much more to me than I could have ever imagined on that day I first encountered it.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Surrounded by the familiarity of my youth, it became my refuge from L.A., and a place I could still be my mom’s baby as her breath grew shorter. Heading out for a Saturday night, I can still hear her asking, “Where you going, honey, the Boom?” Even she was in on it.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">When she passed six days before my 35th birthday, I took solace in being able to be with her, holding her hand as she took her final breath and we said goodbye. I remember sheepishly setting the pine box containing her ashes on the table next to me at the Zinc Cafe for one last meal together before heading north on PCH. I took the long way home that day.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It would be seven years until I saw Laguna again.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Fred Karger was a guy I’d met during my Laguna years. He had grown up in the suburb just next to mine back in Illinois, and we shared a hometown camaraderie.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So when I received his first e-mail blast about the Boom’s sale and imminent closing in June 2006, I gave it a dutiful read. It was slated for redevelopment as a boutique hotel and restaurant. Just what Laguna needed. It was another sad passing, but it had been so long since I’d been down there. And I was determined to keep the past in the past.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">When I bumped into Fred at a party a few days later, I expressed my regrets and wished him luck. But Fred’s not just any guy. In my regrets he heard resignation, and anyone who knows Fred knows that’s not a good answer. Before I knew it, I was heading down the 405 again, camera in tow to document Fred’s efforts to save the Boom. It was Fourth of July weekend, and I was back in Laguna.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The strawberry fields were single-family homes, Laguna Canyon Road a four-lane highway with a towering toll road cutting through the San Joaquin Hills above it.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Quaint oceanfront trailer parks had given way to five-diamond resorts, and the youth-oriented surf culture had become just another set piece for reality TV.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The earthy charms that had made Laguna an oasis of inclusiveness on the Orange County coast had become its main draw, and many people, the gays included, had been priced out of the market.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Armed with an arsenal of strategies honed during a career in politics, Fred succeeded in extending the Boom’s life span by one year. Documentaries have a way of hijacking a filmmaker’s life, and this was no different.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Every time I found myself heading south for another petition drive, protest, or City Council meeting, I secretly cursed Fred and his moxie. His “Men of Laguna Beach Calendar” contest was hatched, I’m convinced, just to keep me hooked.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It worked. Over the weeks that turned into months I found myself rediscovering Laguna. People I had somehow missed my first time around were eager to share their own Boom histories with the audience my camera promised. And places I had been countless times before offered up new surprises.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Nestled on the bluff below the Boom, The Garden of Peace & Love had been there the whole time. I must have passed it a million times on my way to the beach at the foot of Mountain Avenue. But the vagaries of youth blinded me to a lot of things, and the garden was one of them.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Founded by Michele Martinay in the 1980s, it began as an impromptu AIDS memorial. With the ocean surf crashing just beneath it and under the watchful care of Michele, it evolved into a hallowed ground where all Lagunans could memorialize loved ones of any stripe. I realized that my film was no longer just about a bar but about a history and the community that history had launched and nurtured.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It was also inexplicably and inescapably about Mom. The pine box where she resided had become an interesting if macabre conversation piece back home in L.A.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Ironically, her only request had been that she not end up in my closet. For more than eight years, I had been looking for an answer to a question I had been unwilling to ask. In saving the Boom, I found my answer.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">With the bar and dance floor already shuttered for months above us, my siblings and I gathered at the foot of Mountain with our mom one last time. We added her name to those that had come before, painted on rocks and etched in wood, and gave her the ocean view she had always wanted.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">As the breeze carried her away, I caught a glimpse of the boy that I had been. I wondered if he had become the man she had intended. I wondered if Laguna was still the town it wanted to be.</span><br /><br /></span>Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-52688937424631769922009-04-24T00:07:00.000-07:002009-04-24T00:10:27.286-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"> SAVE the BOOM Documentary to Appear<br /> in 2 Upcoming Film Festivals</span></strong><br /><br />LAGUNA BEACH – John Keitel’s well received documentary, “Saving the Boom,” will be shown in 2 premier Southern California Film Festivals.<br /><br />The prestigious Newport Beach Film Festival is the first to host John’s documentary on Tuesday, April 28th at 2:00 pm at the Edwards Island 2 Theater. For tickets and information go to: </span><a title="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=" href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=-1&msgid=0&act=11111&c=302269&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fnewportbeach.bside.com%2F2009%2Ffilms%2Fsavingtheboom_newportbeach2009" destination="http://newportbeach.bside.com/2009/films/savingtheboom_newportbeach2009" c="302269&admin=" msgid="0&act="><span style="font-family:arial;">Newport Beach Film Festival</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> The documentary is reviewed and rated 5 stars!<br /><br />Then on Saturday, night May 8th Saving the Boom" will appear in the Long Beach Q Film Festival. tel. 562-434-4455 or email: </span><a title="mailto:kimw@centerlb.org" href="mailto:kimw@centerlb.org"><span style="font-family:arial;">kimw@centerlb.org</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> for ticket information.<br /><br />"Saving the Boom" premiered last summer at Outfest in Los Angeles, with special celebrity guests, George Clooney and Brad Pitt on the red carpet to kick off the festivities.<br /><br />I you missed it last summer, come to either Newport Beach or Long Beach. You will love this movie! It is the full story off all of our efforts and activities over 1 ½ years to save our landmark bar. If you are not in the film, you will know plenty of people who are. It is a beautifully told story about Laguna and its gay and lesbian life and history.<br /><br />For a sneak preview of Saving the Boom, click on this link: </span><a title="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=" href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=-1&msgid=0&act=11111&c=302269&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fcurrent.com%2Fitems%2F88880536_saving-the-boom.htm" destination="http://current.com/items/88880536_saving-the-boom.htm" c="302269&admin=" msgid="0&act="><span style="font-family:arial;">Current TV</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />John Keitel’s second film in the Newport Festival has been in several other festivals around the world, and has received much critical acclaim, it’s called </span><a title="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=" href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=-1&msgid=0&act=11111&c=302269&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fnewportbeach.bside.com%2F2009%2Ffilms%2Fprodigalsons_newportbeach2009" destination="http://newportbeach.bside.com/2009/films/prodigalsons_newportbeach2009" c="302269&admin=" msgid="0&act="><span style="font-family:arial;">Prodigal Sons.</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> It will appear in Newport Monday, April 27th at 5:30 pm.<br /><br />We hope that you can join us at for these wonderful films.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>There’s a New Gay Restaurant in Laguna Beach --<br />Marks Reopens!!!</strong></span><br /><br />Mark dePalma, a renowned Laguna restaurateur, has just brought back his talent and style to his brand new Mark’s, located in Laguna Canyon. I was just there last night for dinner, and it was incredible and fun, and on a Monday night no less.<br /><br />Excellent food, a full bar, great looking servers and bartenders, it’s the most upbeat place in town. After loosing Woody’s and the Boom, it’s so nice to see Laguna Beach coming back with such a wonderful new addition.<br /><br />Thank you Mark for your tireless work and effort to bring your beautiful and exciting Mark’s Restaurant to Laguna!<br /><br />Mark’s 1st Laguna eatery was a mainstay on PCH for years, and now his new Mark’s will be around for a long time to come.<br /><br />Check it out: 853 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (1/2 mile east of Coast Highway) tel: 949-715-4200 Free parking EVERYWHERE!<br /><br />It’s outstanding!!! Here’s the web site: </span><a title="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=" href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=-1&msgid=0&act=11111&c=302269&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fmarkslaguna.com%2F" destination="http://markslaguna.com/" c="302269&admin=" msgid="0&act="><span style="font-family:arial;">Mark’s</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Boom is Still For Sale….<br /><br />Yes, the 2 For Sale signs are prominently displayed in the windows of the Coast Inn, 1401 S. Coast Highway. Owner, Steven Udvar-Hazy is going on year 2 with his property on the market. The Coast Inn and Boom Boom Room closed their doors on September 4, 2007 after a 61 year run, making it the oldest gay bar in the Western United States. It has been vacant ever since, except for a couple of months last fall when it reopened as the Laguna Beach Democratic Headquarters. Several fund-raising parties were held there, and was it ever packed.<br /><br />If you are interested in purchasing this landmark, ocean front property, call Mr. Udvar-Hazy’s realtor, Joe Smith at Monarch Beach Realty 949-489-1100. Make him an offer. We have heard that Mr. Udvar-Hazy is a motivated seller.<br /><br />Thanks to one and all for all of your help and support as we work to SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!!<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Fred Karger<br /></span><a title="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=" href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=-1&msgid=0&act=11111&c=302269&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fsavetheboom.com%2F" destination="http://savetheboom.com/" c="302269&admin=" msgid="0&act="><span style="font-family:arial;">www.SAVEtheBOOM.com</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">949-494-4750</span>Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-32895576875639942522009-04-23T23:53:00.000-07:002009-04-24T00:01:01.761-07:00SAVE the BOOM!!! -- UPDATE<strong>State Could Help SAVE the BOOM!!! And First Anniversary of AIG Demonstration</strong><br /><br />LAGUNA BEACH, CA – Please read Cindy Frazier’s excellent front page column (below) from this week’s Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot on what’s happening in our efforts to SAVE the BOOM!!! There is a state fund, </span><a href="http://www.ibank.ca.gov/"><span style="font-family:arial;">California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) </span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">whose “mission is to finance public infrastructure and private development that promote economic growth, revitalize communities and enhance quality of life for Californians.” Sounds like bringing back the gay and lesbian community to Laguna Beach might qualify us for some assistance.<br /><br />We will keep you posted on our efforts.<br /></span><a href="http://www.coastlinepilot.com/"></a><br /><a href="http://www.coastlinepilot.com/articles/2009/04/06/blogs_and_columns/lumberyard_logs/cpt-canyontocove040309.txt"><span style="font-family:arial;">FROM CANYON TO COVE:Dream of a new ‘Boom’ still alive</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">By Cindy Frazier<br />Friday, April 3, 2009<br /><br />Laguna’s gay activist Fred Karger may be entitled to a little “schadenfreude” — translation, enjoyment of another’s misfortune — in the AIG mess.That’s because Karger’s nemesis, Steven Udvar-Hazy, is a major shareholder at AIG and his airplane leasing division — formerly the proverbial “cash cow” of the company — is now cash poor and may be going begging to stay in business.And Karger has a deal for him: make some quick bucks by selling the Coast Inn and Boom Boom Room.Karger has been fighting to save the iconic — now shuttered — gay bar where Rock Hudson hung out with other celebrities in the closeted ’50s and ’60s. The bar was around since the 1920s and is believed to have been the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the state, if not west of the Mississippi.Udvar-Hazy purchased the site and Coast Liquor, with its Gay Mart nearby, as well as a residential property, a couple of years ago when the real estate market was over-the-top. </span><p></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">The Boom Boom Room — already on its last legs — was closed a year later, and the last major piece of Laguna’s historic gay area went bye-bye. You can find most of it relocated to the desert at Palm Springs — where the famed Dinah Shore lesbian confab swings into high gear this weekend — but it’s just not the same as the ocean-breeze-filled Boom.Apparently, Udvar-Hazy has set his sights on purging Laguna of its gay identity: He closed the Boom, never opened anything else there, announced that his plans for the property will definitely NOT include a bar or restaurant — and to add insult to injury his son donated $1,000 to the campaign for Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban.At some point, Udvar-Hazy put the property back on the market after a meeting with city officials didn’t end with support for some ambitious redevelopment plan. </span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">Karger says he brought Udvar-Hazy well-qualified — translation: well-heeled — suitors willing to fork over enough to buy the place outright. But the bazillionaire (or former bazillionaire) hemmed and hawed and eventually declined to sell to these parties — who promised to reopen the Boom as a gay establishment.One thing (fighting to save the Boom) led to another (fighting the same-sex marriage initiative), and Karger, a “retired” Republican political consultant, is now leading the charge against the Mormon Church’s support for Proposition 8. Somehow, Karger got hold of some secret high-level Mormon documents and is in the process of blowing the lid off what he sees as a possible conspiracy by the church to secretly buy the election in violation of Fair Political Practices Commission rules. “Mormongate,” as the affair is being called due to its “deep throat” characters, is a twisted tale of coverups and religious zealotry that will make a good read when it can be reported.</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">But I digress.Plans for a beautiful restoration of the historic Coast Inn are slowly wending their way through the city bureaucracy. They were sent back for revisions in October and there’s no telling when the plans will be approved.Enter Karger with a new, and improbable, funding source: the State of California.The resourceful Karger has discovered a pot of money dispensed under the jurisdiction of the secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing. The California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank has millions sitting around waiting for worthy projects, including historic restorations, to benefit communities.</span><span style="font-family:arial;">And why not use some of it to benefit Laguna’s gay community and restore the city’s preeminence as a gay resort?</span></p><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;">He’s already made contact with the secretary, who indicated interest, and if he can get city officials on board, the Coast Inn and Boom Boom Room could be restored using the very plans now in the process of revision. Of course, there would be one caveat: a gay bar would be part of the project.The Boom could revitalize a neglected but lucrative segment of the visitor population to Laguna Beach, which was snubbed last summer by our own Conference and Visitors Bureau, which declined to promote the city as a same-sex wedding destination despite the obvious benefits.A gay and lesbian cultural center in Laguna Beach would provide a way station for visitors and keep the historic culture of the city intact, and there’s no better place for it than the Boom Boom Room.“Dinah” west, anyone?<br /><br /><strong>One Year Since AIG Demonstration in Los Angeles</strong></span></p><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;">It seems like no one had heard of AIG just a year ago, as several dozen of us made our way up to Los Angeles for our noon-time demonstration to seek AIG’s help to SAVE the BOOM!!! We delivered a letter to then AIG Chairman of the Board, Martin Sullivan asking his help to get Steven Udvar-Hazy to donate or greatly reduce his asking price of the historic Coast Inn and the Boom Boom Room which was closed on September 3, 2007. Mr. Udvar-Hazy purchased the property in 2005 and heads the International Lease Finance division of AIG. We created a lot of excitement in Century City that day and received a lot of news coverage. We even got a nice letter from AIG that you can read below.</span></p><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/03/one-more-boom-f.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">Los Angeles Times</span></a></p><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/boom-bar-hazy-2009940-karger-aig"><span style="font-family:arial;">Orange County Register</span></a></p><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://www.lagunabeachindependent.com/news/2008/0404/news/071.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">Laguna Beach Independent</span></a></p><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://www.ktla.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">KTLA Television</span></a></p><br /><p align="left"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS191530+28-Mar-2008+PRN20080328"><span style="font-family:arial;">Reuters News Service</span></a></p>Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-13737193496576527542008-10-30T00:49:00.000-07:002008-10-30T14:47:10.272-07:00The Boom Boom Room Is Back<strong><br />No on Prop 8 Fund-Raiser Fills the House!!!</strong><br /><br />LAGUNA BEACH – If you were lucky enough to be at the gay landmark Boom Boom Room last Saturday night for the Halloween Party and Fun(d)-raiser for No on 8, you know all about it. If not, there are lots of pictures below of all you missed. It was just like the good old days, packed, fun and just what the doctor ordered. Thousands of dollars were raised, the speeches were short and the incredible dj spun til closing. <br /><br />Special thanks go out to Laguna Beach Democratic Club Headquarters Manager and Party Chair Audrey Prosser, who ran the party like a well oiled machine, Event Promoter Glen Kasper who made this the party of the year, and all the volunteers who decorated, bartended, kept running out to buy more supplies – literally the dozens of people who worked so hard to make this event such a huge success. Let’s keep the Boom open for more special events instead of the empty storefront that it has been for over a year. It’s good for the ecconomey and good for Laguna.<br /><br />Lots of people came in from San Diego, LA, Long Beach and even Palm Springs for the fund-raiser. It was so great to see so many Boom regulars. It definitely reinvigorated me to continue our campaign to SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!!!<br /><br />Here are lots of photos from last Saturday for your viewing pleasure: <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dtCZnUiLhVd0_mfYsNv_NGbdRG-tEfd09FRay92lvuoSuHrh0Sjevh0u004Qj8vIqpim6O7G7jA4ZcWe4wpCbJyJWPpnv-L9wW8UAF8Lim5s87sFzT2343s61hNdoGSZXS0l/s1600-h/IMG_0902.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dtCZnUiLhVd0_mfYsNv_NGbdRG-tEfd09FRay92lvuoSuHrh0Sjevh0u004Qj8vIqpim6O7G7jA4ZcWe4wpCbJyJWPpnv-L9wW8UAF8Lim5s87sFzT2343s61hNdoGSZXS0l/s320/IMG_0902.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263063107355900114" /></a> <br />Audrey and Harpo Marx<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3GYiqA0wVkFDcMj_1oPhuxRdu0Wm8tKv-rGqzWn5XviA3Ykjmkl0tpazlZTF44VTgqbsPFWsg9rC5k_JcUZuTIUMoebPKKZrSHNiy1Y4TSb58N8DrhfbgYh3Yxoyk2cwMmuG/s1600-h/IMG_0911.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3GYiqA0wVkFDcMj_1oPhuxRdu0Wm8tKv-rGqzWn5XviA3Ykjmkl0tpazlZTF44VTgqbsPFWsg9rC5k_JcUZuTIUMoebPKKZrSHNiy1Y4TSb58N8DrhfbgYh3Yxoyk2cwMmuG/s320/IMG_0911.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263040983301395026" /></a><br />Volunteer Bartenders Ryan, Steve and Reid<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxj5p-gczkcI9Yh8LdCdm7i1j1i0Z-Nahv2Qmrs4PfSDKcCRmf-6xzKfHCT0fLJy3sdedwPSxAnRw5oF3Y-FWCO7JNnJ-6KaD8mPWGSr5z2s_vGTN1qcsVQXMKzTrk2MMNsEt/s1600-h/IMG_0921.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxj5p-gczkcI9Yh8LdCdm7i1j1i0Z-Nahv2Qmrs4PfSDKcCRmf-6xzKfHCT0fLJy3sdedwPSxAnRw5oF3Y-FWCO7JNnJ-6KaD8mPWGSr5z2s_vGTN1qcsVQXMKzTrk2MMNsEt/s320/IMG_0921.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263044211178438082" /></a> <br />Father Fred with Sarah Palin and John McCain<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCFq_sO-ztjELWnmBVnJnUO2FkcAWVhM3OnJrT7So12RHq3hLqgHmtpuP4l4aDZv2caimuEZJ0sEYqPgVXk41VNgS_qw2Agdtn7kdlsg5ii3KgTVBcLezs8cSN11APBJkNknfQ/s1600-h/IMG_0926.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCFq_sO-ztjELWnmBVnJnUO2FkcAWVhM3OnJrT7So12RHq3hLqgHmtpuP4l4aDZv2caimuEZJ0sEYqPgVXk41VNgS_qw2Agdtn7kdlsg5ii3KgTVBcLezs8cSN11APBJkNknfQ/s320/IMG_0926.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263062255393495554" /></a><br />Even the Boom Dancers Were Back at the Boom!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65u_6c2FgblS0ozmNZnQ4BUYDtUD_ZDdBIc0xKFl2KYCn-39sqsauvDOgntpsF4ZI_5NdiYcruX-1du9vIewUM2nt6ojcVcECzrW-UudcbH1CWGycuHSV5KHrty09qP08CiDH/s1600-h/IMG_0929.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65u_6c2FgblS0ozmNZnQ4BUYDtUD_ZDdBIc0xKFl2KYCn-39sqsauvDOgntpsF4ZI_5NdiYcruX-1du9vIewUM2nt6ojcVcECzrW-UudcbH1CWGycuHSV5KHrty09qP08CiDH/s320/IMG_0929.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263060723155701058" /></a><br />Andrew and Friends Making Mary!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZpiK0WcvuCtGKNNsZemrYYcvV2sv3vBVbHu21b3TglPlQly3aRa9TrrcOVrSmp8Q2UCvexaelEgbWPYyQHLCS6-Z9kL_RR0fRcxzupbecFFYXt86xZZSDKlDXu0HzttRNGqw/s1600-h/IMG_0904.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZpiK0WcvuCtGKNNsZemrYYcvV2sv3vBVbHu21b3TglPlQly3aRa9TrrcOVrSmp8Q2UCvexaelEgbWPYyQHLCS6-Z9kL_RR0fRcxzupbecFFYXt86xZZSDKlDXu0HzttRNGqw/s320/IMG_0904.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263060129195366082" /></a> <br />Joe the Plumber (Glen) On Break with Save the Boom Treasurer & Fighter Pilot Shane <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjVvvCGz-dVcAyyjLEqZ2FBglCOneGj18Nse9lEPj2DNQmrS-_IdgKzNwPyxlXhLqvp8JiuU2Ops2oqD3EmcY3UqO9SAFl9JFLUofwOq6SSeWXENIl_jY4G_oyexJIMeNeVmo/s1600-h/IMG_0955.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwjVvvCGz-dVcAyyjLEqZ2FBglCOneGj18Nse9lEPj2DNQmrS-_IdgKzNwPyxlXhLqvp8JiuU2Ops2oqD3EmcY3UqO9SAFl9JFLUofwOq6SSeWXENIl_jY4G_oyexJIMeNeVmo/s320/IMG_0955.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263059434552697410" /></a> <br />And the Winners Are, Missy and Dede Devine<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUfsfSYypS6-1a6hoEFnhFicT9aIHgualUqeSElVCv_4oer7TVzXg97A1EJjzLjyxTldBv56wvGNkJJKq5xu2O_8zE9v1ETM4Ok7DcR4UiaH5eRkWEyixbOGFz2kf7kZj1iMvu/s1600-h/IMG_0930.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUfsfSYypS6-1a6hoEFnhFicT9aIHgualUqeSElVCv_4oer7TVzXg97A1EJjzLjyxTldBv56wvGNkJJKq5xu2O_8zE9v1ETM4Ok7DcR4UiaH5eRkWEyixbOGFz2kf7kZj1iMvu/s320/IMG_0930.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263050659112413986" /></a> <br />Jeremy and Phil Back at the Boom!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvXVsc6vcmBZ04yWyvg7bV79LPbj9yRagJb1yy1FqFazYBCe3ZsZDNLi_O8Yv4dRxaka0iWoczz7GJamzBdtF1bSB8-8ZNA7UEXapAAQ_daA1tC9tJyFgqu9ZiuEXmMpwxTxQ/s1600-h/IMG_0940.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUvXVsc6vcmBZ04yWyvg7bV79LPbj9yRagJb1yy1FqFazYBCe3ZsZDNLi_O8Yv4dRxaka0iWoczz7GJamzBdtF1bSB8-8ZNA7UEXapAAQ_daA1tC9tJyFgqu9ZiuEXmMpwxTxQ/s320/IMG_0940.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263066462964602274" /></a><br />Incredible Decorations Were Everywhere. Thank you Glen and Company!!!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrHRiJ9GfP3rurppu8t_TPjECl9zndn3N87P9xW6fBCi1BIfTXAByJq6evG6VHtQmTDGKEEPT6bqDmpNK2CeuHe2uq5252174uYzVJQe_kv8oFa2rAbeh8PxvFyeQK-pMl8cc/s1600-h/IMG_0943.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrHRiJ9GfP3rurppu8t_TPjECl9zndn3N87P9xW6fBCi1BIfTXAByJq6evG6VHtQmTDGKEEPT6bqDmpNK2CeuHe2uq5252174uYzVJQe_kv8oFa2rAbeh8PxvFyeQK-pMl8cc/s320/IMG_0943.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263052404252096018" /></a> <br />Steve and Ryan Toasting the Night<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0A1cCAiM6u2CbjEYqI7W_filmfdoz_sgsUoa3be2eNblpoQolgFOXjyC1wCg39JaQG9wj5BOQDW1zFuhUJpi02laGBqd1uDVuAJl_Za4OlOs4WEgwK_TjkaH64gGffxuKuI4Y/s1600-h/IMG_0958.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0A1cCAiM6u2CbjEYqI7W_filmfdoz_sgsUoa3be2eNblpoQolgFOXjyC1wCg39JaQG9wj5BOQDW1zFuhUJpi02laGBqd1uDVuAJl_Za4OlOs4WEgwK_TjkaH64gGffxuKuI4Y/s320/IMG_0958.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263064094574826002" /></a><br />Two Cute Cats!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyXS6fB45vj4DIYSTKB5gul8XHR7S90BCoIXu6u4NC4_EtdqajR-iAYWYXB74GH_YylFQTRGuYnjswIgzC2HMHUVMM1nyt5dXrq-ZoLmN25nCFf3jk4b9lLujc-2Jf51JFrqjP/s1600-h/IMG_0959.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyXS6fB45vj4DIYSTKB5gul8XHR7S90BCoIXu6u4NC4_EtdqajR-iAYWYXB74GH_YylFQTRGuYnjswIgzC2HMHUVMM1nyt5dXrq-ZoLmN25nCFf3jk4b9lLujc-2Jf51JFrqjP/s320/IMG_0959.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263045916951283186" /></a> <br />Hmmmm, King Kong Meets Another Monster<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9yL_hu6Fxl2aS9Bbkx2yRKYoMRQzSIuTcsO3YO6mG_6IMPpqP0sN28zP6pi8rwYINntU648Xyifr0PTOd4Gp_LEdAQCjfTy46e11WaYTA2GXWmiCSGSfjuViGc1QOhoBYWy3j/s1600-h/IMG_0960.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9yL_hu6Fxl2aS9Bbkx2yRKYoMRQzSIuTcsO3YO6mG_6IMPpqP0sN28zP6pi8rwYINntU648Xyifr0PTOd4Gp_LEdAQCjfTy46e11WaYTA2GXWmiCSGSfjuViGc1QOhoBYWy3j/s320/IMG_0960.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263045107070897106" /></a> <br />Evan and Steve Bringing Home the Soda<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0L1mnRSCUOhUKTFRr6f1a-45Tgh2P_aX7xOUuXhyphenhyphenk5ABGtTj5AZav-6lg3XEh8RTAsprAUX9geaYyoREgQF50I9sfn4EPt7kKDDcgMJYlZmLHkIygQKKZTkMTUXTTzjyjmkwC/s1600-h/IMG_0949.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0L1mnRSCUOhUKTFRr6f1a-45Tgh2P_aX7xOUuXhyphenhyphenk5ABGtTj5AZav-6lg3XEh8RTAsprAUX9geaYyoREgQF50I9sfn4EPt7kKDDcgMJYlZmLHkIygQKKZTkMTUXTTzjyjmkwC/s320/IMG_0949.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263040441386477394" /></a> <br />It Got Pretty HOT at the Boom as the Night Wore on for the Men and Women Behind the Bar<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOt03iXgcSIfaylw8H_iJuWuqJUVIOMlJoYr_Mj2gNfpjCD8hyJgS6jvbX_cfJPZGerSzWILnUn6w0-xsk0-rEDZlYgSU5Q7I8_bGej8vMDqRVKj2dB_WB-wBBmtdknnWczsVd/s1600-h/IMG_0950.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOt03iXgcSIfaylw8H_iJuWuqJUVIOMlJoYr_Mj2gNfpjCD8hyJgS6jvbX_cfJPZGerSzWILnUn6w0-xsk0-rEDZlYgSU5Q7I8_bGej8vMDqRVKj2dB_WB-wBBmtdknnWczsVd/s320/IMG_0950.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263039563328209490" /></a><br />Patrick Took a Break From Putting Out Fires to Help Keep the Mood Festive<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUsNcRpxnlYs4lz4FhrJe_fLuSuCK1Q0N5OZsHI2CnXww1ECyskk80h_zeq_MbJ6doLWjBFHvO7l2yBLfSAGPrVz1VmYw7FS5vINlfl8z58kdypmxfr7HdKb5g4-z-lvF7zHCV/s1600-h/IMG_0965.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUsNcRpxnlYs4lz4FhrJe_fLuSuCK1Q0N5OZsHI2CnXww1ECyskk80h_zeq_MbJ6doLWjBFHvO7l2yBLfSAGPrVz1VmYw7FS5vINlfl8z58kdypmxfr7HdKb5g4-z-lvF7zHCV/s320/IMG_0965.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262854792110416146" /></a><br />Even Though the Owners Took the Rainbow Flag off the Roof, It’s Proudly Flying Back at the Boom Again!!!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBIfdHLc7Wc_1ZhS0fUTXIUpQJs5aQ6UNgu7fVN3PLR3k6bviYotanRmU_jY4cAW2-qOXQdqG7u8HYs3ZXV1eDqNBTCDPw_HdGzZQZDoLWVZImbbwbk8QNcW5t1qUNeBPd5psC/s1600-h/IMG_0966.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBIfdHLc7Wc_1ZhS0fUTXIUpQJs5aQ6UNgu7fVN3PLR3k6bviYotanRmU_jY4cAW2-qOXQdqG7u8HYs3ZXV1eDqNBTCDPw_HdGzZQZDoLWVZImbbwbk8QNcW5t1qUNeBPd5psC/s320/IMG_0966.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262854309262688146" /></a><br />AJ and Chris Came in for the Party. Wait, Where’s Chris??<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVbq08aal3IiZztm8fav2hS5T_U662rRcLIiuzA8Nwb5T2TdXwz6kXCD455Pv7-F0G-Q5ab_rB2sHQaLQUSa7pkK5qLy1UUOpruHVAnJAnN42LdfuoXCoZ9svWGeNFeVdIhJt/s1600-h/IMG_0947.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXVbq08aal3IiZztm8fav2hS5T_U662rRcLIiuzA8Nwb5T2TdXwz6kXCD455Pv7-F0G-Q5ab_rB2sHQaLQUSa7pkK5qLy1UUOpruHVAnJAnN42LdfuoXCoZ9svWGeNFeVdIhJt/s320/IMG_0947.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262853460148068834" /></a><br />The Girls Were Out in Force. She’s a Good Witch!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwWNZOZuARj-7RkpB09eE05lC7M6efBpPw4WtmtK3iNo6V0_wNp8xIbwS3UfoA5XE2O-on7wGzLMgV9e-ycnQkaMv2G3WtI-bKNbXMp0iApghUCYBnWy9mO93_A-o9UWfxUR6/s1600-h/IMG_0934.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwWNZOZuARj-7RkpB09eE05lC7M6efBpPw4WtmtK3iNo6V0_wNp8xIbwS3UfoA5XE2O-on7wGzLMgV9e-ycnQkaMv2G3WtI-bKNbXMp0iApghUCYBnWy9mO93_A-o9UWfxUR6/s320/IMG_0934.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262852787612205650" /></a><br />Now That’s Scary! <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiPuj0u3fE_zqhd2K36DD3CTt3VgY0qqRUbvT3AAkmFssGjQzGnUINr67SeiPSPzwZUreT1wU9tYzG5NFKqo36emKJC28Gfx5NkSUEuKeGK-nnKK3Pj1syo5FIZZOiiXue5VU/s1600-h/IMG_0908.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiPuj0u3fE_zqhd2K36DD3CTt3VgY0qqRUbvT3AAkmFssGjQzGnUINr67SeiPSPzwZUreT1wU9tYzG5NFKqo36emKJC28Gfx5NkSUEuKeGK-nnKK3Pj1syo5FIZZOiiXue5VU/s320/IMG_0908.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262855547317623474" /></a><br />Josh is Not Wearing a Costume, but Was Very Popular None-the-less…..<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1zP5cqBjR6tbHA0wSmzD1EgVdnubQVDz5RIaYfnFn-pcH8z98Py1pQbaOkYMhGNNQt_SNTwecco4phYHzlQY0-gJfA3dN6pRIYfhVPGNRJGHLwboMtmqOHLp7atv0dGRBLZSv/s1600-h/IMG_0903.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1zP5cqBjR6tbHA0wSmzD1EgVdnubQVDz5RIaYfnFn-pcH8z98Py1pQbaOkYMhGNNQt_SNTwecco4phYHzlQY0-gJfA3dN6pRIYfhVPGNRJGHLwboMtmqOHLp7atv0dGRBLZSv/s320/IMG_0903.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262851568540662466" /></a><br />And the Boom-Spangled Banner, Was So Gallantly Streaming<br /><br /><strong>Well Be Back! SAVE the BOOM—Forever!!!</strong><br /><br />-- the end --Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-66778041857806218872008-10-22T19:44:00.000-07:002008-10-22T19:45:36.536-07:00Halloween Party at the Boom Boom Room -- 2008<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFaLlOi4Tkki-1cYeahn7KbqMiU7Fslv7ZLSmOehGg6Y9u2hGrjJzQUX3Kp7T_UkYr1vDIW98FyA4dqX7Z6p24cpUMK-VS9dTf06TdTZYS6-Z-v6yt5HvEaeVCb22ceVYN3Zx/s1600-h/BOOMBOOMRISES2mrev.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFaLlOi4Tkki-1cYeahn7KbqMiU7Fslv7ZLSmOehGg6Y9u2hGrjJzQUX3Kp7T_UkYr1vDIW98FyA4dqX7Z6p24cpUMK-VS9dTf06TdTZYS6-Z-v6yt5HvEaeVCb22ceVYN3Zx/s320/BOOMBOOMRISES2mrev.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260174865360341666" /></a>Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-9912461246284698552008-10-12T23:52:00.000-07:002008-10-30T14:48:59.822-07:00Boom Party Weekend Parties Parties PartiesNEWS UPDATE October 13, 2008 Contact: Fred Karger 949-494-4750<br /><br /><strong>Parties at the Boom Boom Room Friday and Saturday Nights<br />Club Bounce (the old Main Street) Packed Both Nights</strong><br /><br />LAGUNA BEACH, CA – Friday’s fund-raiser for No on Prop 8 and another big party at the Boom on Saturday for the Laguna Beach Democratic Club were standing room only and fun, fun, fun. Here are some photos for you to enjoy in case you missed the festivities. <br /><br />Looks like Glen Kasper and Laguna Muse are hosting a No on Prop 8 Halloween fund-raiser at the old Boom through the Democratic Club on Saturday night, October 25th. If you have never been to a Glen Kasper Halloween party, you are in for a treat!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDggUklRxG8_ZsOPnD6S0fkO4OhKEJn1e7WkhzJK50E4k903c_xw6xiMz4FP2IY-JDGv_5FGNheOHyOEjCs9GMUSgACJjPTXlFjauOXvQgRaoIa9zGb_4etMoPcSZ2iOsXLnsn/s1600-h/IMG_4257.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDggUklRxG8_ZsOPnD6S0fkO4OhKEJn1e7WkhzJK50E4k903c_xw6xiMz4FP2IY-JDGv_5FGNheOHyOEjCs9GMUSgACJjPTXlFjauOXvQgRaoIa9zGb_4etMoPcSZ2iOsXLnsn/s320/IMG_4257.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256528695471792178" /></a> Dan and Bobby -- Friday Night Out<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQJZkIHvJtEOnmSJrCr6c1Eow_dxGtdk7SmBBaBnKwsgYW0spo37Kbv4eYRnWL14vOiQotYWyTBlkWH4GggWvJO1dLTqE1xAELlmqMPQZ9xHGLtagHTjpoPvKpms6KysyMuT2K/s1600-h/IMG_4235.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQJZkIHvJtEOnmSJrCr6c1Eow_dxGtdk7SmBBaBnKwsgYW0spo37Kbv4eYRnWL14vOiQotYWyTBlkWH4GggWvJO1dLTqE1xAELlmqMPQZ9xHGLtagHTjpoPvKpms6KysyMuT2K/s320/IMG_4235.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256685153713737698" /></a> Set Her Up Joe, I Mean Julie<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Wq8q0wuXCXdGgDP5uLGVOe6iz7ahSddSnrBa1Ggc6-3NgjYJU86FRmyWW6DRDBJRds9K44ca3z7Mlisrrskf-FpukapTW5sum0jeSYQvs9KKZNfwpiCcuQv4kiD2iUtss4ax/s1600-h/IMG_4256.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Wq8q0wuXCXdGgDP5uLGVOe6iz7ahSddSnrBa1Ggc6-3NgjYJU86FRmyWW6DRDBJRds9K44ca3z7Mlisrrskf-FpukapTW5sum0jeSYQvs9KKZNfwpiCcuQv4kiD2iUtss4ax/s320/IMG_4256.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256685768278611634" /></a> A New Generation Enjoying the Boom<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2H_8IllX9zW9NWzwUVam1IbDaFP8L2WDxDA5VfP3xDXdeqXx0Kt1f3kqMP1cXfCePLKXVa3HJuLtjklHbCfuig1U7Kz_gQ53C8ZhtMlngYCncRKde035jSEuF_tBYqvSH7U2O/s1600-h/IMG_4247.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2H_8IllX9zW9NWzwUVam1IbDaFP8L2WDxDA5VfP3xDXdeqXx0Kt1f3kqMP1cXfCePLKXVa3HJuLtjklHbCfuig1U7Kz_gQ53C8ZhtMlngYCncRKde035jSEuF_tBYqvSH7U2O/s320/IMG_4247.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256686172886815858" /></a> Saturday’s Band, Back at the Boom<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgas5b3t_PhtUYJzgNdJQojtMfmCY65jXdCAdsnR4ZtK2V3JEdgT0wi0lZZQrLSq9je0hZMLqs1lqjGl8XI3T0BmVSGtEDKYsSsdX4krvHKsdUohDgte22HEX0gayG73XWndBsD/s1600-h/IMG_4250.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgas5b3t_PhtUYJzgNdJQojtMfmCY65jXdCAdsnR4ZtK2V3JEdgT0wi0lZZQrLSq9je0hZMLqs1lqjGl8XI3T0BmVSGtEDKYsSsdX4krvHKsdUohDgte22HEX0gayG73XWndBsD/s320/IMG_4250.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256686595389430642" /></a> Big Mike and Little Mike Bartending Across the Street at the Always Fun Club Bounce <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0ou6Qzj62OlQtCrQOp1CGLrV0DaoNyHdrABIhnYmrVg95PhVto18aZI61RQh2URrKKdlqXPNn9JbaE6DXwa4JpeYMxHp_RMJWkLJ02A7Esabqh8xX5p96LDj85pzsvNQDKuZ/s1600-h/IMG_4258.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0ou6Qzj62OlQtCrQOp1CGLrV0DaoNyHdrABIhnYmrVg95PhVto18aZI61RQh2URrKKdlqXPNn9JbaE6DXwa4JpeYMxHp_RMJWkLJ02A7Esabqh8xX5p96LDj85pzsvNQDKuZ/s320/IMG_4258.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256689712582011778" /></a><br />Max and Patrick Taking a Break<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UjHbQM0JCyztc3TxiWiAM-l6yJ5ZQY9yvWhg1G576VWHtE3sAMMrWQw36Y0k-JrtwaHzcIqW754uWyw579q-oqnGL4-VnHxJ4JMs5khy8azw2mnB71FSdSJXb_pZnvBzyGGU/s1600-h/IMG_4253.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UjHbQM0JCyztc3TxiWiAM-l6yJ5ZQY9yvWhg1G576VWHtE3sAMMrWQw36Y0k-JrtwaHzcIqW754uWyw579q-oqnGL4-VnHxJ4JMs5khy8azw2mnB71FSdSJXb_pZnvBzyGGU/s320/IMG_4253.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256690541589965298" /></a><br />The Dance Flor Was Packed<br /><br />If you Haven’t Been Yet, Check it Out! 1460 S. Coaast Hwy.Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-26901809482624398472008-09-17T11:39:00.000-07:002008-10-12T23:48:52.504-07:00Boom Boom Room Reopens<strong>1401 S. Coast Highway is Open for Business</strong><br /><br />LAGUNA BEACH – If you have been driving down the Coast Hwy. lately you would have seen people, lines, the paper off the windows, and the lots of activity. It is not an illusion; it is the new headquarters for the Laguna Beach Democratic Club. Here are some photos to bring back lots of great memories. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8RkgyOyxzd7b_NoQSZut0eR_-9hxcRR4KmGApAZTsYucyAeKcCTHTNadxu9biDxFZpsTN9MZuykllRZ4RQ0SLE5nxBqveMhvC3xltkSi5jUCQQ4UtpVAVgPwqxUz4UJUxGH4/s1600-h/IMG_0598.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8RkgyOyxzd7b_NoQSZut0eR_-9hxcRR4KmGApAZTsYucyAeKcCTHTNadxu9biDxFZpsTN9MZuykllRZ4RQ0SLE5nxBqveMhvC3xltkSi5jUCQQ4UtpVAVgPwqxUz4UJUxGH4/s320/IMG_0598.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256519460160264194" /></a><br />Ahhhhhh, the old place looks good<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3zKIPvjuAno7U_wLqqLOD8yrCILCVZHbj0fxlsbERQ1HkNBm4fb_0XVjTehMBbW9iVQFYfDJ8vkOL7qD_A_eMPK7kwWc68x9Q8aXYJKejhyXFTHn9jBsZuCETud9OAyo5MJi/s1600-h/IMG_0600.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT3zKIPvjuAno7U_wLqqLOD8yrCILCVZHbj0fxlsbERQ1HkNBm4fb_0XVjTehMBbW9iVQFYfDJ8vkOL7qD_A_eMPK7kwWc68x9Q8aXYJKejhyXFTHn9jBsZuCETud9OAyo5MJi/s320/IMG_0600.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256520010274674930" /></a><br />Bartender, or Rather Super Volunteer Lagunan Audrey Prosser Pouring <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGzpfMfgtRTWgzBZ26WFmpjt-YUi7AilozyTefulNOvhDeP9ah-pcyqhJhvZOJZhgeCrtFy3JsTAGdukzhClWpmDTQNZ3FBZrTa-QT2kHpl7VATf1m5DO8dYwkjDgK2DOT_oz/s1600-h/IMG_0605.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGzpfMfgtRTWgzBZ26WFmpjt-YUi7AilozyTefulNOvhDeP9ah-pcyqhJhvZOJZhgeCrtFy3JsTAGdukzhClWpmDTQNZ3FBZrTa-QT2kHpl7VATf1m5DO8dYwkjDgK2DOT_oz/s320/IMG_0605.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256520368314527794" /></a><br />Yeah, the Rainbow Flag is Back!!! Looks Like a No on 8 Sign, too!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcg_1F3VPUII5PmbpIo-n_t5NBHHxhhOpgbGguPh7hYm6eUQSa_w-2aY5Ot5t_elFVi7zUkSGRG_7__pgUVQG-S6a_LKvYnW5joAqkx95_FU1sUVBYrfyyJd5XbB_yHs67pL5X/s1600-h/IMG_0607.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcg_1F3VPUII5PmbpIo-n_t5NBHHxhhOpgbGguPh7hYm6eUQSa_w-2aY5Ot5t_elFVi7zUkSGRG_7__pgUVQG-S6a_LKvYnW5joAqkx95_FU1sUVBYrfyyJd5XbB_yHs67pL5X/s320/IMG_0607.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256521383074819842" /></a><br />Wow, Even the Stage is Back Where the Dreamgirls Used to Perform Every Wednesday Night<br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJncA1nSIRfqOln1-_mi8f6s1xAJN3Y-PWLVGfW4Xgr3CtgUeJShZL0NTZXZNrI7hSRbEiKyDgxRZPEHiQEjVCXYNdamMzyoBdiqYwnxKLrK6VeLelVSwl159X5tsTXqEYLWmX/s1600-h/IMG_0610.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJncA1nSIRfqOln1-_mi8f6s1xAJN3Y-PWLVGfW4Xgr3CtgUeJShZL0NTZXZNrI7hSRbEiKyDgxRZPEHiQEjVCXYNdamMzyoBdiqYwnxKLrK6VeLelVSwl159X5tsTXqEYLWmX/s320/IMG_0610.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256522049309553202" /></a><br />And I Had to Walk Down to -- What is Now One of the Most Famous Gardens in California – (Font Page Stories in both the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times!), Michel Martenay’s Garden of Peace and Love – It Looks So Beautiful. <br /><br />Special thanks to all the volunteers who maintain the Garden and especially to Glen Kasper and everyone at Laguna Muse who spearheaded the drive to restore it.<br /><br />We will keep you posted on what happens next……<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Fred Karger <br />Founder<br />www.savetheboom.com<br />949-494-4750Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-15313363346376210852008-09-09T02:31:00.000-07:002008-09-09T02:33:10.489-07:00dear friends – I am not sure if you saw this incredibly moving story on the front page of Sunday's Los Angeles Times by Susannah Rosenblat, She came to our Saturday cleanup of the garden a few weeks ago that was sponsored by Laguna Muse. The Garden of Peace and Love has been around for two decades, and serves as a memorial to all those who lost their lives to HIV / AIDS. Muse has been organizing many events in Laguna over the summer and has now taken over the responsibility of maintaining the Garden of Peace and Love. Muse also publishes a bi monthly newsletter that you are probably familiar with.<br /><br />I hope that you will take a few minutes to read this heroic story about Michel Martenay and his stuggle with HIV / AIDS, the very disease that he has memoriazed in the garden that he created just below the old Boom Boom Room. <br /> <br />here's the link and the full story is also below:<br /> <br />http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gardener7-2008sep07,0,5206093.story?page=1<br /> <br /><strong> <br />Cultivated for AIDS victims, Laguna Beach garden is missing its keeper</strong><br /> <br />Joe Nygaard waters the Garden of Peace and Love for his neighbor Michel Martenay, who has been tending to the plot on a Laguna Beach bluff for more than 20 years. The groundskeeper is now being cared for at a hospice in Anaheim.<br /><br />The man who tended to a plot that became the resting place of many in the once-thriving gay community is himself fighting the disease.<br /><br />By Susannah Rosenblatt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer <br />September 7, 2008 <br /><br />The small patch of flowers serves as a reminder. It commemorates lives lost and souls remembered. The ashes of 50 or so are scattered or buried there.<br /><br />But the freshly turned topsoil and budding sweet alyssum in the modest garden on the Laguna Beach bluff are deceiving: The gardener is missing.<br /> <br />Michel Martenay nurtured this little spot for more than 20 years, tugging weeds and planting perennials on his own time with his own money. He installed stone cherubs and lined the dirt with heart-shaped rocks gathered from the beach below.<br /><br />Now, the man who cultivated this memorial to those struck down by ailments such as AIDS, which ravaged the city's once-vibrant gay community some two decades ago, is himself battling the disease.<br /><br />"Every time I cry, because I would like to take care of it again, see my garden," Martenay says, his so-blue eyes brimming, his head in his hands. Instead, he spends most days in an Anaheim hospice. The 25 pills he's supposed to swallow every morning make him sick; he sheds pounds from his hollowed-out frame. Unable to work, he worries about money but tries to stay positive about the future.<br />He spends his days feeding the songbirds and chasing cats and pigeons from a birdbath in the hospice courtyard. The fuchsia bougainvillea climbing the iron fence is no substitute for his Garden of Peace and Love.<br /><br /><strong>Finding his calling</strong><br /><br />The native Parisian first visited Laguna Beach more than 25 years ago. He'd broken up with a boyfriend. A neighbor had suggested the pretty city hugged by canyons and waves. He was smitten.<br /><br />Martenay walked everywhere, through town, along the sand. He stumbled upon a forlorn tangle of weeds, rubbish and beer bottles where he was told the ashes of two strangers were buried.<br /><br />"This garden, nobody take care," says Martenay in his thick French accent, puffing on the Marlboro Lights he loves. "I feel sorry for them." Thirty-nine trash bags later, he'd found his calling.<br /><br />"People ask me why I do that. I say, because there is two guys buried there," Martenay says. "I do that with my heart."<br /><br />A landscaper by trade, Martenay would visit the garden in the mornings and evenings, bringing all kinds and colors of donated and purchased flowers.<br /><br />For several years he led a Christmas Eve candlelight vigil, honoring the memory of the dead. It drew crowds: "The people was coming crying, laughing, smoking joints." A heartbroken man bought a cherub statue to honor his dead lover. The garden became a touchstone for those who had lost loved ones, particularly to AIDS.<br /><br />Next door to the former home of the storied gay nightclub the Boom Boom Room, the garden blossomed at the center of Laguna's gay culture.<br /><br /><strong>A treasured spot</strong><br /><br />Former Laguna Beach Mayor Robert Gentry recalls when AIDS first hit the city in the 1980s: "Everybody was scared to death. People were wearing masks." He was ushered into businesses' back rooms when he discussed the disease.<br /><br />"Laguna Beach is different today because of HIV," said Gentry, who was mayor from 1982 to 1994. During that time, he lost his partner to AIDS. Laguna "lost dozens and dozens of community leaders and activists and upstanding citizens, and that changed the city."<br /><br />Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, who also lost a longtime partner to AIDS, considers the garden a "sacred spot." He met his late partner on that very block and used to spend weekends in Laguna's historic gay core.<br /><br />The Garden of Peace and Love, as Martenay dubbed it, "had great significance to many of us who've been through the AIDS epidemic," Rosendahl said. "I would go there and pray literally in my meditative way, and remember people who have passed on.<br /><br />"I'll never overcome it," he said of his loss, one that's shared by many others. "It will always be in my heart forever -- the pain and suffering we went through as a people."<br /> <br />The city recognized how meaningful the patch of blooms had become to the community, gay and straight. People would stop there to reflect, leave mementos, or scatter or bury the ashes of those they'd lost. The city's HIV committee provided access to a city water line to sustain the garden after the Boom would no longer allow use of its water supply.<br /><br />"Michel was doing the city a favor," said Jim Spreine, a former Laguna Beach police chief who chaired the committee. "You know he does this because he loves his fellow man."<br /> <br />Martenay became a fixture, always puttering on that seaside bluff, talking to homeless people wandering by or rich couples meandering down the hill. He was a social maven, a tour guide, a devoted groundskeeper.<br /><br />Eventually, a plaque went up at the garden honoring those afflicted by AIDS. But the gardener says the spot is for everyone, "poor, rich, whatever." With flowers always blooming and constant visitors, Martenay says, those resting there are never alone.<br /><br /><strong>Community effort</strong><br /><br />About five months ago, Martenay grew weak. The 48-year-old found out he, too, had AIDS. He was in and out of the hospital. Visits to the garden tapered off. He was no longer strong enough to haul flats of flowers down the steep stairs or water vigilantly. He moved to Anaheim, where he could receive nursing care; with no car, he was separated from the plot of land he loved.<br /><br />Friends stepped in. Jimmy Graesser's home overlooks the Garden of Peace and Love. He knew how much Martenay would worry about his beloved plants, so Graesser started watering when he could. Another neighbor, Joe Nygaard, pitched in, weeding and watering, clearing out dead stalks.<br /><br />"I've adopted it, it's adopted me," Nygaard said of the spot. Digging in the dirt is "my way of encouraging him not to give up on his life." He treasures the pair of clippers Martenay gave him on a recent trip back; friends bring Martenay to the garden for occasional visits.<br /><br />Community members organized a cleanup effort over the summer, planting dazzling maroon and gold day lilies, white iceberg roses and red geraniums, all to the back beat of the Beatles and the roaring surf. In clearing the soil, they unearthed plastic bags and canisters of ashes, plus a dirt-caked angel and stuffed bear; the discoveries were tucked carefully back underground.<br /><br />"Why let his legacy go down the tubes?" asked John Madison, owner of Madison Square & Garden Cafe in Laguna, sweating with effort, as he helped plant the flowers he'd donated.<br /><br />The community has rallied "to pick up where he left off," longtime Laguna resident Patrick Stanton, 50, said as he cleared out the undergrowth from around a favorite bench. "There's a lot of pain and a lot of tears, also a lot of love and a lot of smiles" in this patch of earth, he said, adding, "It's fitting that it should be beautiful."<br /><br />A Labor Day fundraiser pays for weekly visits from a professional gardener. Another fundraiser and cleanup day, and beautification measures such as new signs, are planned for the fall.<br /><br />And yet, for Martenay, the outpouring of help is bittersweet.<br /><br />"It's very good. I'm very happy," he says wistfully. "But it's too bad -- because it's not me."<br /><br />Instead, he shuffles between bed and chair and courtyard at the hospice, sleeping often and missing his garden. Sometimes, if he stands outside at night, he can see the fireworks at Disneyland.<br /><br />On his nightstand sits a single magenta orchid that just lost its exotic bloom. Lately he's planted mums and begonias in the courtyard outside his room. The two-day effort left him worn out the rest of the week. He hopes to return to Laguna Beach, to the garden, while there's still time.<br /><br />And after that, he has a particular spot in mind: at the foot of one of the garden's little angels, overlooking the sea.<br /><br />-- end --Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-74361537650255857312008-08-10T22:01:00.000-07:002008-08-11T23:27:09.592-07:00Garden of Peace and Love Cleanup<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN4WPzjVB8XaqOop7KAehQmgfybQQTghaRvb1jOR3MIoQeQifd2eJ7mk5geNkjyqPOLMrpFvT2DD72H22iQV_ghO2TqQbpQX8bD49iciFLwrjs4LYhdMksCy54nY31iFghOOCJ/s1600-h/IMG_0240.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN4WPzjVB8XaqOop7KAehQmgfybQQTghaRvb1jOR3MIoQeQifd2eJ7mk5geNkjyqPOLMrpFvT2DD72H22iQV_ghO2TqQbpQX8bD49iciFLwrjs4LYhdMksCy54nY31iFghOOCJ/s320/IMG_0240.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233138958222371650" /></a> On Saturday, August 9th Laguna Muse http://www.lagunamuse.com/ organized a very successful cleanup of the Garden of Peace and Love located on the bluff on the way down to the beach at the end of Mountain Avenue just below the Boom. <br /><br />Michele Martinay started this living memorial to those who have passed away from HIV AIDS, and he has taken care of this special garden for the last 18 years. Now Michele's own battle with the disease has made it no longer possible for him to maintain the garden.<br /><br />So 20 volunteers organized by Laguna Muse founder, Glen Kasper showed up with tools, gloves and a desire to help restore the garden back to the way Michele has kept it for all these years. <br /><br />Jon Madison, owner of Laguna's magnificent Madison Square donated tons of flowers, plants, bushes and trees and all pitched for hours to do Michele proud.<br /> <br />Now MUSE is raising money to hire a gardener to take care of this sacred <br />spot so that it will live on forever. Visit their web site to help out: http://www.lagunamuse.com/<br /><br />Glen tells us that he will also be organizing other cleanups in the near future. <br /><br />Special thanks go out to all the volunteers who gave up a Saturday and to Laguna Beach Mayor Jane Egly who came by to support the effort. It was quite an emotional and fulfilling day!<br /><br />PHOTOS:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yManIJyALik6Hit56Z63xgnaaf6qZpPvCz8WI_H24nC3eoLKoZiN9DnVSpYgdiO4zxoIITdTrDyioyco5l-UpjYPtSXkZjkvpRBYDcOFqyJk3JTNQySEwkBOs_1kg1EVuHJE/s1600-h/IMG_0222.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yManIJyALik6Hit56Z63xgnaaf6qZpPvCz8WI_H24nC3eoLKoZiN9DnVSpYgdiO4zxoIITdTrDyioyco5l-UpjYPtSXkZjkvpRBYDcOFqyJk3JTNQySEwkBOs_1kg1EVuHJE/s320/IMG_0222.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233127931579686994" /></a> Jon Madison (right)of Madison Square flanked by other volunteers<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipiaRx3m8tCJ520JE1hLY17qDoqej9t4xdLmuQoVUHvtuWdpIbBHpuHYbg6nwvsSm5ogay9axHG2ElNAbsZ2B4s3CT52CCvE4d63QBEfg9mrqL9dBwsABjsNdEGMf22koxWR_C/s1600-h/IMG_0224.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipiaRx3m8tCJ520JE1hLY17qDoqej9t4xdLmuQoVUHvtuWdpIbBHpuHYbg6nwvsSm5ogay9axHG2ElNAbsZ2B4s3CT52CCvE4d63QBEfg9mrqL9dBwsABjsNdEGMf22koxWR_C/s320/IMG_0224.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233132081276092578" /></a> Scott Allen, President of the Laguna Beach HIV AIDS Advisory Committee <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUhPnbf7MSqcjqhugoC8Mq193w_aM8HV2-OvjLT8qvcRp-T3x8JaG_6rZuN8y8N5GYdLt3dd0EcHiL5fiwSMJYFiNrCeKil4KWxHBhLaHPgj3-yK_38lvw08OIaBHKqlVF2_I/s1600-h/IMG_0218.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOUhPnbf7MSqcjqhugoC8Mq193w_aM8HV2-OvjLT8qvcRp-T3x8JaG_6rZuN8y8N5GYdLt3dd0EcHiL5fiwSMJYFiNrCeKil4KWxHBhLaHPgj3-yK_38lvw08OIaBHKqlVF2_I/s320/IMG_0218.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233139890225594354" /></a> Steve clearing lots of the weeds and grass that had accumulated <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuyLlefQAhl1yucMHnDDDSB04d34EdQ8LQNbl6yrwNwZGF9uxqI8j_pW1UwMljep8IsP1ckr0ZGCFFKc9ypc2SKJdDMCRLKH2SAgDVQadMLl8EjkjqkHVs6PuEruUI8dkq36x/s1600-h/IMG_0265.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpuyLlefQAhl1yucMHnDDDSB04d34EdQ8LQNbl6yrwNwZGF9uxqI8j_pW1UwMljep8IsP1ckr0ZGCFFKc9ypc2SKJdDMCRLKH2SAgDVQadMLl8EjkjqkHVs6PuEruUI8dkq36x/s320/IMG_0265.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233134505248564242" /></a> Laguna Muse Founder, Glen Kasper at the Cleanup <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxqjux8diHSRzYe-AHcqW4h8U0_fEcFtyV7WWlARL7mFHK8mLK13n7Rl_4-Lprp9DuWcwDdSYaHoPirDBmkwvJwnCfppMcvnimEezFuKyVGbDuVAIJDLWFQUrXZuzk9D4a-57/s1600-h/IMG_0245.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXxqjux8diHSRzYe-AHcqW4h8U0_fEcFtyV7WWlARL7mFHK8mLK13n7Rl_4-Lprp9DuWcwDdSYaHoPirDBmkwvJwnCfppMcvnimEezFuKyVGbDuVAIJDLWFQUrXZuzk9D4a-57/s320/IMG_0245.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233144123242789506" /></a> It takes some water to make a Garden of Peace and Love <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjacF6s6Ba_bUSiqHNJzGGkrsWzs3TlCAAe2SZa66Mbc76y3fNpArmdz7WPSes_o0MPi5E4pSDpxq5xhteIHKfalB37PeTtElOtO3e8FEQ7MspWQo1KOJoMmDEK6uzHfnQ6dr-U/s1600-h/IMG_0272.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjacF6s6Ba_bUSiqHNJzGGkrsWzs3TlCAAe2SZa66Mbc76y3fNpArmdz7WPSes_o0MPi5E4pSDpxq5xhteIHKfalB37PeTtElOtO3e8FEQ7MspWQo1KOJoMmDEK6uzHfnQ6dr-U/s320/IMG_0272.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233136405453829906" /></a> Laguna Beach Mayor Jane Egly came by to thank all the volunteers. Here she is with Laguna resident and Muse writer Andrew Reynolds <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kLBoy24Ol9rrKflaGbGbk1zwxPz8hD5LsxOkr2Va8OG6h3z5evgVttNe-PORH9ugMy3waeJGDIOafWK5CHw9BfWipDBoPwv5aG3x06oD2Ng9jQ0qCWuffHInZ_TajwnzQDyX/s1600-h/IMG_0256.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kLBoy24Ol9rrKflaGbGbk1zwxPz8hD5LsxOkr2Va8OG6h3z5evgVttNe-PORH9ugMy3waeJGDIOafWK5CHw9BfWipDBoPwv5aG3x06oD2Ng9jQ0qCWuffHInZ_TajwnzQDyX/s320/IMG_0256.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233142918700215714" /></a> Looking Good!Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-88433002038334720112008-07-17T23:40:00.000-07:002008-08-11T00:13:15.099-07:00Saving the Boom Hollywood Premiere + No on 8 EndorsementNEWS UPDATE Contact: Fred Karger 949-494-4750 July 25, 2008 <br />BRAD and GEORGE ATTEND SAVING THE BOOM PREMIERE<br /><br />AND LAGUNA BEACH FIRST CITY TO OPPOSE PROPOSITION 8!<br /><br />LAGUNA BEACH – It’s been quite a couple of weeks. Last Tuesday, the Laguna Invasion of LA took place with several dozen Lagunans, who stared in the movie, coming up to Hollywood to see the World Premiere of John Keitel’s Saving the Boom documentary at the Outfest Film Festival. And there were two surprise guests at the Premiere, Brad (Pitt) and George (Clooney) who arrived on the red carpet and posed for photos with Premiere guests. Brad had flown in from Nice, where just days earlier Angelina had given birth to their twins. And George flew in from the set of his new fall comedy for HBO “The Fall of Bob.” He had gained 40 lbs for his new role and looked a little different.<br /><br />The stars loved John’s movie and who knows; maybe they will buy the Coast Inn and SAVE the BOOM!!! once and for all. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4uzlsyTJEe1cmIve8mQD5g-r2gwzeTjq88au8xP8Ap1ho1wBD1aZ7F8qasIhlvTxhh0A1aB3JR5lcWUYC40t7hHJKJP0A5ezQ7Co00oFO2_OH7VVBGOCQRP2Fze1PRHjdyK5M/s1600-h/IMG_0168.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4uzlsyTJEe1cmIve8mQD5g-r2gwzeTjq88au8xP8Ap1ho1wBD1aZ7F8qasIhlvTxhh0A1aB3JR5lcWUYC40t7hHJKJP0A5ezQ7Co00oFO2_OH7VVBGOCQRP2Fze1PRHjdyK5M/s320/IMG_0168.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233148950309601666" /></a> Brad, John, Fred and George at the Director’s Guild Theater last week for the World Premier of John Keitel’s Saving the Boom Documentary<br /><br />Here some more pictures from that amazing night. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLMhktaTqJPhErTq9untI5D03B7hcNjGnrcHZX0ucltweOKqzajd_mxt-x4xAy2_gGlgWlkyKc5l5KYNbDtvo0b2zVU7dAU74KlVoV4XmLTz2Flq1M9SmLa2op-7Oq-6U1fpO/s1600-h/IMG_0174.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVLMhktaTqJPhErTq9untI5D03B7hcNjGnrcHZX0ucltweOKqzajd_mxt-x4xAy2_gGlgWlkyKc5l5KYNbDtvo0b2zVU7dAU74KlVoV4XmLTz2Flq1M9SmLa2op-7Oq-6U1fpO/s320/IMG_0174.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233149611163671842" /></a> Lagunans Andrew, Michael (Mr. March) and Eric with the stars <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLBsub0r-E5ooq4bJTxnUcZf0QHEFvqGhQnD_rdRiaNQDNvXGgTtlhhzCMz_tj3rIPzhyphenhyphen5uBjV4_0zYyiwNCYCIYbXRN5TD6xyYiBQ2Y2P_l1tfEt9M5umpmw83jPBd0DRIWjK/s1600-h/IMG_0165.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLBsub0r-E5ooq4bJTxnUcZf0QHEFvqGhQnD_rdRiaNQDNvXGgTtlhhzCMz_tj3rIPzhyphenhyphen5uBjV4_0zYyiwNCYCIYbXRN5TD6xyYiBQ2Y2P_l1tfEt9M5umpmw83jPBd0DRIWjK/s320/IMG_0165.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233151590717616818" /></a> Calendar Model Russ (Mr. June) and Chris Meeting Brad and George <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZDEZ59DzepsmVl-I-yTIheb_WzLu5_EpeeIKu9Aj3gUj12pJUGyF3NnCC_8aF8ud9jEzaNJZ7gXnNZHzUXv4PIMLXK7jDY-l_B0G1ToAMx68RrSxLlMlO2xr0yKk_KnM4qZd/s1600-h/IMG_0180.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZDEZ59DzepsmVl-I-yTIheb_WzLu5_EpeeIKu9Aj3gUj12pJUGyF3NnCC_8aF8ud9jEzaNJZ7gXnNZHzUXv4PIMLXK7jDY-l_B0G1ToAMx68RrSxLlMlO2xr0yKk_KnM4qZd/s320/IMG_0180.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233152455408553890" /></a> Calendar Model Mr. February Gustavo Made the trip up from the OC pictured with world renowned bagpiper Lorne Cousin from our AIG Demonstration in Century City on April 1st<br /><br />AND THEN THE AFTER PARY AT FALCON <br />Where guests were greeted by four searchlights in front and several hundred people celebrated the success of John Keitel’s Documentary <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEewX4jAPrCNy4Lg9b8Xa5lsgV_OtrObqmIY7j2k73uNI5DFiM00w9qhKAvWKgXlTODdzk7Bk7q_I8iXGLusfKx46xRoCusFXS5rB_r9Nd1k126ug_H2ajT8PSyBCVa_se3u-n/s1600-h/IMG_4106.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEewX4jAPrCNy4Lg9b8Xa5lsgV_OtrObqmIY7j2k73uNI5DFiM00w9qhKAvWKgXlTODdzk7Bk7q_I8iXGLusfKx46xRoCusFXS5rB_r9Nd1k126ug_H2ajT8PSyBCVa_se3u-n/s320/IMG_4106.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233153080181775506" /></a> Save the Boom Treasurer Shane, with Gustavo, Russ, Carlos and Calendar Contestant Coordinator Brian <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcSo-OrgGIy1XsRbn-4bstA06M6Ag1ulUjFZNoJxbBGc87ZG28bMx4AvCOdaDUz5R2omW30EDqIcffBZUZeavi8UdWB7caw1j-SOtvA-I-yGdM47YZ_91wQM2ir0X8QSzZUzM/s1600-h/IMG_4113.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcSo-OrgGIy1XsRbn-4bstA06M6Ag1ulUjFZNoJxbBGc87ZG28bMx4AvCOdaDUz5R2omW30EDqIcffBZUZeavi8UdWB7caw1j-SOtvA-I-yGdM47YZ_91wQM2ir0X8QSzZUzM/s320/IMG_4113.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233153410005990370" /></a> Filmmaker Extraordinaire John Keitel and his family at Falcon<br />It was a very fun and exciting night and special thanks go out to our sponsors, Skyy Vodka, Red Bull and Out Magazine. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVK2sS1UIOJqK7lASXCs7MByQExs372byxGssA1zh4ncXyJNVKpYV1Z67IuvEQJ35h-w9VBMAsm-WLWru2Xn53Y9o44P1s6XFaKhBYjiMxcIFiu2LPGYc1tdUqDNnrEPP5Q8_6/s1600-h/IMG_4123.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVK2sS1UIOJqK7lASXCs7MByQExs372byxGssA1zh4ncXyJNVKpYV1Z67IuvEQJ35h-w9VBMAsm-WLWru2Xn53Y9o44P1s6XFaKhBYjiMxcIFiu2LPGYc1tdUqDNnrEPP5Q8_6/s320/IMG_4123.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233153663919767906" /></a> Film stars Ryan and Ty with Save the Boom Founder Fred Karger<br /><br /><strong>LAGUNA BEACH BECOMES FIRST CITY TO OPPOSE PROPOSITION ON NOVEMBER BALLOT</strong><br />After very emotional testimony and Council comments, the Laguna Beach City Council unamamously voted to oppose the anti gay marriage constitutional amendment -- Proposition 8 on the November ballot. Many residents testified and many more witnessed history being made as Mayor Jane Egly, Mayor Pro Tem Cheryl, Kinsman, and Council Members Elizabeth Pearson, Toni Iseman and Kelly Boyd all listened, discussed and lead the state by being the first city in California to formally oppose Proposition 8. <br /><br />Here are links to the news coverage by Susannah Rosenblatt for the LA Times and Kelli Hart for the Orange County Register. And an excellent editorial also from the LA Times:<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-marriage24-2008jul24,0,4080471.story<br />http://www.ocregister.com/articles/council-members-proposition-2102086-opposition-audience<br /> <br />http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/07/first-for-gay-m.html<br /><br />For everyone attending Tuesday’s City Council Meeting, it was a night that we will never forget.<br /><br />A heartfelt thanks goes out to our outstanding City Council. They are leading the way for equality and making lives better through their action and their words.<br /><br />We will keep you posted on our ongoing efforts to SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!!!<br /><br />Thanks to one and all!Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-49556884860216518942008-07-11T01:18:00.000-07:002008-07-11T01:25:54.727-07:00NEWS UPDATE July 9, 2008 Contact: Fred Karger 949-494-4750<br /><br />Record Numbers Flock to Laguna Beach<br /><br />Over the Fourth Weekend (Photos up Soon)<br /><br />LAGUNA BEACH – There were record numbers of gays and lesbians at West Street Beach and throughout Laguna over the three day holiday weekend. It was the first July 4th without the Boom Boom Room in 61 years, but Laguna was busy with parties, parties and more parties to fill the void. Promoter Extraordinaire Will Gorges put on his annual IndepenDance at two incredible venues. Friday night was Club W, at the Woman’s Club and Saturday night at the amazing event space seven degrees in Laguna Canyon.<br /><br />Thanks go out to some of the many party hosts: Jack Corwin, Brad Harvey, Peter Montgomery and Michael Scales & Tom Panno and Tony Maquet. And Glen Kasper staged the first fun(d) raiser for his non profit Laguna Muse http://www.lagunamuse.com/ on Thursday night to kickoff the weekend at his beautiful home – see pics. Muse staged a fashion show and musical review all MC’d By Miss Dede Devine on a specially built stage over Glen’s swimming pool. There was a Scotch Tasting sponsored by Glenfiddich, a vodka bar sponsored by xzo Vodka, great decorations, food and a very fun crowd.<br /><br />Czech in Here – holding up a copy of the new Laguna Muse<br /><br />Models at Glen’s Party --- the “Revue”<br /><br />Art Gallery owner Diana, Mr. March, Michael, his<br /><br />boyfriend Andrew and Save the Boom treasurer Shane<br /><br />Here are some other pictures from the weekend of fun in Laguna Beach<br /><br />Colton (right) and Warren (left) at Brad Harvey's Party <br /><br />Twin Bartenders Craig (left) and Greg (right) at Peter & Michael’s on the Fourth<br /><br />Here I am at Marisa and Steve Robbins New House. Wow! <br /><br />Loving the Ocean View at 5 Camel Point<br /><br />Super Model and 30 year Laguna resident Scott at Tom and Tony’s<br /><br /> One Sad Note<br /> <br />After 61 years of gay history, the owner and operators of the Boom Boom Room and the Coast Inn removed the rainbow flag from the spot where it has flown for decades. The stars and stripes are flying but the gay rainbow flag is gone. <br /><br />Several phone calls to management to find out what happened went unreturned. We hope that it will be back soon, but I have heard that because they are renting out the rooms they did not want the flag to remain. <br /><br />We are hopeful that a buyer will come in and buy the Boom and Coast Inn and make it the most beautiful gay destination hotel and club in the U.S. Then the rainbow flag can fly proudly over our landmark Boom Boom Room again<br /><br /> <br /> <strong> end6</strong>Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-52874807892458251432008-06-25T21:25:00.000-07:002008-06-25T21:58:56.236-07:00For Immediate Release June 16, 2008 Contact: Fred Karger 949-494-4750<br />“Saving the Boom” Tickets Go On Sale Today<br />World Premier Set for Tuesday, July 15th<br /><br />HOLLYWOOD, CA – John Keitel’s amazing documentary, “Saving the Boom” will be having its World Premier at Outfest, the prestigious Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. The Premier will take place at the Directors Guild Theater (DGA) Two, 7920 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood 90046 The DGA Theatre Complex is recognized throughout the entertainment industry as one of the preeminent screening and film premiere facilities in the United States. There will be plenty of parking directly below the theater. <br /><br />“Saving the Boom” will begin at 7:15 pm (see flyer below) and runs 32 minutes, and is in the short documentary category. Following “Saving the Boom,” Academy Award winning director, Debra Chasnoff’s North American Premier of “It’s STILL Elementary” (48 minutes) will screen. So it will be quite a night. <br /><br />THEN at 9:30 pm there will be a “Saving the Boom” Premier After Party at Beige at the trendy Falcon Restaurant and Bar, 7213 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood 90046 (1/2 mile east of the Directors Guild Theater) between Fairfax and LaBrea. <br /><br />Lots more information on the After Party will be coming out soon. <br /><br />Tickets for the Premier go on sale today, Monday, June 16th at 11:00 am. Tickets are $12 each. To order: call 213-480-7065 or email boxoffice@outfest.org or go to: http://www.outfest.org/tixSYS/2008/filmguide/title-detail.php?AlphaRange=SS&ShowShorts=&ShowPast <br /><br />The ticket order will say it's for "It's STILL Elementary," but your ticket purchase will include "Saving the Boom" as well!<br /><br />The theater is going to sell out, so order yours today!<br /><br />Come show your support for the historic Boom Boom Room and Coast Inn, and have a fun, emotional and entertaining evening.<br /><br />Any questions, call me at 949-494-4750<br /><br />See you at the movies!<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Fred Karger, Founder <br />www.savetheboom.com <br />World Premiere<br /><br />Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:15 pm<br /><br />Directors Guild, Theater 2<br /><br />7920 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90046<br /><br />IN COLLABORATION WITH: FAMILY SERVICES PROGRAM, LAGLC<br /><br />Directed By: John Keitel <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNLE58jIUEcU7-ofdb-RvGzslXNkIdyZ6E6E4t53i9HvRZ4m-4zIK9sJH2GPfB-y_uN7J6tFJMuSO0ca_0soT615PNphNQ3nK0t252PGlI9P7NcIxr3OMUycfmj6ZZp82CjtDh/s1600-h/IMG_1970.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNLE58jIUEcU7-ofdb-RvGzslXNkIdyZ6E6E4t53i9HvRZ4m-4zIK9sJH2GPfB-y_uN7J6tFJMuSO0ca_0soT615PNphNQ3nK0t252PGlI9P7NcIxr3OMUycfmj6ZZp82CjtDh/s320/IMG_1970.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216047155996118866" /></a><br />The true story of the fight to save the oldest gay bar in the Western United States, the landmark Boom Boom Room in Laguna Beach, CA<br /><br />For ticketing information, please phone 213-480-7065 or email boxoffice@outfest.orgBlog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-58631763959976525022008-06-07T02:13:00.000-07:002008-06-07T02:20:17.046-07:00Memorial Weekend a Sell Out in Laguna BeachNews Update June 2, 2008 Contact: Fred Karger 949-494-4750 <br />The Beach, Club Bounce and Parties Galore<br /><br />Laguna Beach, CA – Despite weather forecasts of doom and gloom, the sun shined bright last weekend in Laguna. The town was packed with visitors from all over California and the world. There were lots of house parties and Club Bounce (1460 S. Coast Hwy. across from the old Boom 949-494-0056) was at capacity every night. Mike Boone, Shaun Rosendahl, Chad Hudson, Jack Corwin and Jordan Kyle and several others had big parties over the 3 day weekend. <br /><br />Laguna Muse<br /><br />Plans are underway for lots of activities during the summer of ’08. For up to the minute news and information (and more great photos) go to Laguna Beach resident, Glen Kasper’s newsletter on line: http://web.mac.com/gkasper/Site/Muse_Welcome/Muse_Welcome.html <br />Check it out early and often. Thank you Glen and team for putting this incredible newsletter together and for all the activities and events that you are planning this summer.<br /><br />Going, Going Gone! <br /><br />The for sale signs (2) are still up and there are reports that interested buyers are looking at the Coast Inn and the Boom Boom Room. The real estate market has slowed down and commercial lenders tell us that financing is more difficult than it was a year a go when Mr. Udvar-Hazy first put the property up for sale. So make him an offer, buy the building, remodel it and get ready for a grand reopening. The New Boom could be the finest gay resort destination in the world. Ocean front in magnificent Laguna Beach.<br /><br />Operation Post Card a Success<br /><br />Our main volunteer activity over the last 4 months was to flood Coast Inn and Boom Boom Room owner, Steven Udvar-Hazy’s Century City office with hundreds of yellow SAVE the BOOM!!! post cards. The cards asked him to drastically lower his asking price or consider donating the building to the gay community. We sent him at least 1500 post cards! Thanks to all who participated in this grass roots effort. Mr. Udvar-Hazy did his first sit down interview with a reporter on this subject, and there has been discussions with his representatives re bringing back the historic Boom Boom Room as a gay bar and hotel like it had been for 61 years until it closed last September.<br /><br />Apollo Theater<br /><br />I recently had the privilege of visiting and touring the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem while in New York. It had fallen on hard times and was about to close. It was saved, restored and this beautiful theater reopened for all to enjoy. They are currently undertaking a $95 million capital campaign to expand and further renovate this property. We will have more to report on this in the near future. By the way there are three bars (one on each floor) in the Apollo.<br /><br />That’s our News Update. Thank you for your continued support and help as we work to SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!!<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Fred Karger<br />Founder<br />www.savetheboom.comBlog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-75316975323428272512008-05-26T20:20:00.000-07:002008-05-26T22:24:12.582-07:00Memorial Weekend 2008Parties, The Beach, Parites, Parties, Parties The sky's cleared and the Laguna was packed with men and women from all over the world this past weekend. Check out all the photos. Special thanks to party hosts Jordan Kyle, Mike Boone, Shaun Rosendahl, Chad Hudson, Glen Kasper, Will Gorges, Jack Corwin and all the others who hosted during this fun weekend in beautiful Laguna Beach. It was very strange with no Boom Boom Room. This was the first summer kickoff weekend in 61 years without it. But Marks Restaurant is reopening in the Canyon in 2 to 3 weeks and lots going on on the SAVE the BOOM!!! front. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfv76uXzYc6RHEkJONHjF3WkqNicVv_Q4BwAiig-mYVAJQxOjDxKJdwIpjSeXNZYvglpkl_HyM05q5KKTLEzdaFf7jdb2w3OlNwOuTNdV2HaVF28GXOHzDGBZ19NITO0qtYQD/s1600-h/IMG_3822.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfv76uXzYc6RHEkJONHjF3WkqNicVv_Q4BwAiig-mYVAJQxOjDxKJdwIpjSeXNZYvglpkl_HyM05q5KKTLEzdaFf7jdb2w3OlNwOuTNdV2HaVF28GXOHzDGBZ19NITO0qtYQD/s320/IMG_3822.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204908536403080130" /></a> Calendar Model Cover Guy, Caleb <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUgoZwnJh7s7gFsfskT7FmMZz_hO-OGnromDATQPtHBss0qLV5qyYEZ8r2p313ekSEbiaGggYD0Ltl8_0WGi2_Ln0VGjQgR7Sxwnq-Nf_E9Rp7rXPixysT0i14lDS7cwS4dUD/s1600-h/IMG_3824.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUgoZwnJh7s7gFsfskT7FmMZz_hO-OGnromDATQPtHBss0qLV5qyYEZ8r2p313ekSEbiaGggYD0Ltl8_0WGi2_Ln0VGjQgR7Sxwnq-Nf_E9Rp7rXPixysT0i14lDS7cwS4dUD/s320/IMG_3824.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204911517110383570" /></a> SAVE the BOOM!!! Treasurer, Shane (right) and Friends <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3kB0I7NFwsF76uBkLQ-xj5vYomPGJopezglnpledkGFYscJ6GOKWccgxSvo4fk4FtBU-a9yhT-dLMJhXqAFk0PBbUGyxMLLqSfmKZQrrlH_wtFvWSIVbq0qtIue-UKYtoJAaR/s1600-h/IMG_3837.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3kB0I7NFwsF76uBkLQ-xj5vYomPGJopezglnpledkGFYscJ6GOKWccgxSvo4fk4FtBU-a9yhT-dLMJhXqAFk0PBbUGyxMLLqSfmKZQrrlH_wtFvWSIVbq0qtIue-UKYtoJAaR/s320/IMG_3837.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204912616622011362" /></a> Andrew, Shane and Birthday Boy Jordan <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguM_8os-rAQkze8F9alWYVZSABUBpIci3TAXrlShsccPVfoCWU1BpyWO1Q59Ihi8FW4-lwzO9qHijBKeFm_SWGRXnaHDlmVdyCb2Us6gjKuPTG80fCgv_14xfJIsVEpGF7DCbG/s1600-h/IMG_3841.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguM_8os-rAQkze8F9alWYVZSABUBpIci3TAXrlShsccPVfoCWU1BpyWO1Q59Ihi8FW4-lwzO9qHijBKeFm_SWGRXnaHDlmVdyCb2Us6gjKuPTG80fCgv_14xfJIsVEpGF7DCbG/s320/IMG_3841.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204912985989198834" /></a> Ryan and Rich Celebrating <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFRVMSzaay4HKPimCj26M55G3MzlLJ-Zi3_KiJmhGg-tL4lKypiRVG1CtT5R6CY0SIf6SPu083vps0s7SJ-MFcepZ4Xp7v7lzfu0kPZ14XGhF0EmI4BBTCJHCEVKzOIuVGIgtF/s1600-h/IMG_3847.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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Stephanie Brings on the Masterpiece <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoccZdGDdwQGEj_vtCbsYe0l6c_SsfNgL5jN83tcHfyNpsz79FLRNt7vJh0v56kbx6jIsZ9jy1yoQm-lsqI3-DSLSY-MjpeU5rMkcSHRZo1ik8cLC_wpBihDnnooKV4VKircyz/s1600-h/IMG_3854.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoccZdGDdwQGEj_vtCbsYe0l6c_SsfNgL5jN83tcHfyNpsz79FLRNt7vJh0v56kbx6jIsZ9jy1yoQm-lsqI3-DSLSY-MjpeU5rMkcSHRZo1ik8cLC_wpBihDnnooKV4VKircyz/s320/IMG_3854.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204917813532439650" /></a> Good Job Jordan. Now Let Them Eat Cake! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYB0FYLckXYQAR8HPoqAsAS9UIZGWT0_lb3m50nh3OszIvHJwQ-VSOT0pGriY6iCmjELKRkO_1G1Zf4gNRDGpfx6PrQrITWugu8BhYyyZrknVT3LSk03FjECPKIEhaiq_yBHgh/s1600-h/IMG_3869.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYB0FYLckXYQAR8HPoqAsAS9UIZGWT0_lb3m50nh3OszIvHJwQ-VSOT0pGriY6iCmjELKRkO_1G1Zf4gNRDGpfx6PrQrITWugu8BhYyyZrknVT3LSk03FjECPKIEhaiq_yBHgh/s320/IMG_3869.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204919342540797042" /></a> Bartending at Jack's Monday Beach Party <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGBn9-8Sew4uQh5eaeiMLmWYzzsMCSL-S-VYW8ikQVGh-2jhq60VHfZTWWJn6i7NMEMcc6iT4Rphb8apfsautGh7vIMkwfnA-eSdl6eTa9HIJ0VznAuEWHKGKH8PQtQ0-nr9VN/s1600-h/IMG_3874.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGBn9-8Sew4uQh5eaeiMLmWYzzsMCSL-S-VYW8ikQVGh-2jhq60VHfZTWWJn6i7NMEMcc6iT4Rphb8apfsautGh7vIMkwfnA-eSdl6eTa9HIJ0VznAuEWHKGKH8PQtQ0-nr9VN/s320/IMG_3874.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204920008260727938" /></a> Leor and John on the Most Beautiful Day of the Year <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQaG9EaJdj6eis_muwYfCOOxvr6uFWO9p_DwLDjCgntXtn-9uIurQukUhqkrhF9o5EopQs1klQOUu4jwRjOHVh0Q-pFhrVvzkE356Nq-L-ynTjSjXOFB0Sfs1wqoKyqG4ZsEY/s1600-h/IMG_3875.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQaG9EaJdj6eis_muwYfCOOxvr6uFWO9p_DwLDjCgntXtn-9uIurQukUhqkrhF9o5EopQs1klQOUu4jwRjOHVh0Q-pFhrVvzkE356Nq-L-ynTjSjXOFB0Sfs1wqoKyqG4ZsEY/s320/IMG_3875.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204920454937326738" /></a> Justin, Preston, Rich and Ryan Soaking Up the Sun and Margaritas <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOb5xLm-otdhQnlli4qOF0irIAvbCVn44I8mvsfbLOygEkXJMH4LVDln7sHiKXGo3f34sMqsaqRyGUW8Jwy6QQnNURrJoOOGBKmvc3afj7bJS-xayB1mSySQ6iB-5BdNK8F8MV/s1600-h/IMG_3871.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOb5xLm-otdhQnlli4qOF0irIAvbCVn44I8mvsfbLOygEkXJMH4LVDln7sHiKXGo3f34sMqsaqRyGUW8Jwy6QQnNURrJoOOGBKmvc3afj7bJS-xayB1mSySQ6iB-5BdNK8F8MV/s320/IMG_3871.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204921176491832482" /></a> Peter and Dede Making Their Entrance <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz7VxVyJVg4ay90BLKUl3p8k8HBxIewlLdLCjnXa_hNw0ePJVlnnNYBIysrCu4Co7sMTwPk9Cp35v3kasWvfCoJRs1QJ3JYYBM9I5IpdcqnT9K_3oItiSl84Fyj2gtRsUuy46x/s1600-h/IMG_3883.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz7VxVyJVg4ay90BLKUl3p8k8HBxIewlLdLCjnXa_hNw0ePJVlnnNYBIysrCu4Co7sMTwPk9Cp35v3kasWvfCoJRs1QJ3JYYBM9I5IpdcqnT9K_3oItiSl84Fyj2gtRsUuy46x/s320/IMG_3883.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204921850801697970" /></a> Host Jack and GuestsBlog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-15804811167279209762008-05-10T14:14:00.000-07:002008-05-10T14:15:31.697-07:00NEWS UPDATE May 9, 2008 Contact: Fred Karger 949-494-4750<br /><br />“Saving the Boom” Documentary Accepted at Outfest<br />26 Minute Film Will Screen In LA in July<br /><br />LOS ANGELES – John Keitel’s amazing documentary, “Saving the Boom” was invited to join many other exceptional films at the 2008 Outfest http://www.outfest.org/ <br /><br />Outfest is in its 26th year, and is the largest and most prestigious of any Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in the world. John Keitel received a letter yesterday form the programming Committee. Below is a portion of the letter:<br /><br />Dear John:<br /><br />It is our pleasure to invite SAVING THE BOOM to Outfest 2008: The <br />26th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The festival will be <br />held July 9-21, 2008 at the Directors' Guild of America in West <br />Hollywood and selected theaters throughout Los Angeles.<br /><br />Our 26th anniversary, Outfest 2008 promises to be the biggest and <br />most exciting festival in our history. Outfest is unique among LGBT <br />film festivals for the high quality programming we offer, the <br />outstanding press coverage we attract, and our sensational parties <br />and receptions, which connect filmmakers with motion picture industry <br />professionals. We have been proud to premiere an extraordinary <br />selection of films over the years, including C.R.A.Z.Y., SHOW ME <br />LOVE, LAW OF DESIRE, FIRE, THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, AIMEE & JAGUAR, and <br />HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. OUTFEST additionally features a juried <br />competition with awards for excellence in narrative and documentary <br />filmmaking.<br /><br />After we receive your Confirmation Form, you will receive additional <br />information regarding your participation in Outfest 2008. At the end <br />of May, you will be contacted by Filmmaker Hospitality. Included in <br />this correspondence will be procedures for attending the festival <br />(obtaining tickets, accreditations, etc.).<br /><br />We are thrilled to present your work at Outfest 2008. <br /><br />Best Regards,<br /><br />Kimberly Yutani<br />Director of Programming<br /><br />Matt Anderson<br />Shorts Programmer<br /><br />Lisa Kettle<br />Programming Department Manager<br /><br />To see the short version of John’s film - it’s easy. Just go to Current TV’s web site. They have been nice enough to post the mini doc for all to see. It has already received thousands of views. Feel free to leave a comment after you view this fun, emotional and sexy short film: http://current.com/items/88880536_saving_the_boom<br /><br />NPR’s -- The California Report<br /><br />Last month we were unable to access the wonderful story on SAVE the BOOM!!! produced by Stacey Vanek – Smith for National Public Radio. A longer version ran throughout California one week before it ran nationally. We now have the link to take you there. It is an excellent piece that aired on April 18, 2008 on all PBS / NPR radio stations California. It ran on “Marketplace” nationwide one week later on April 25, 2008. Here is the link to California Report:<br /><br />http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R804181630/e<br /><br />Thank you for your help and support as we work to SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!!Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-53760627912998864542008-04-29T01:41:00.000-07:002008-04-29T01:43:05.234-07:00News Update April 27, 2008 Contact: Fred Karger 949-494-4750<br /><br />NPR’s “Marketplace” Covers SAVE the BOOM!!!<br />Also on NPR’s “California Report”<br /><br />Below is the link to and the coverage that we received Friday on “Marketplace” hosted by Kai Ryssdal on NPR: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/25/gay_bars/ Check out the streaming audio on their web site.<br /><br />This is our first national radio coverage, and we have received calls and emails from all over the county from people who heard the report. Thank you Stacey Vanek--Smith who came to Laguna to do this story.<br /><br />The previous Friday, April 18th the segment also ran throughout California on the “California Report.”<br /><br />“Men of Laguna Calendar” on Gayborhoodtv.com<br /><br />If you haven’t checked out and then posted a comment on our new mini documentary short film by John Keitel, please do. It is incredible and a mere 6 minutes long. It was produced out of hours and hours of coverage of the Men of Laguna Beach Calendar Contest, and it serves as our pilot for the reality show that we will pitch. Thanks to the amazing brand new portal on gayborhoodtv.com you can watch it from your very own computer, iPhone, iPod or iTooth: http://www.gayborhood.tv/lgbtube.cfm?view=video&id=376<br />It is currently the Most Watched video with over 1750 views! So check it out and forward the link around to your friends. Thank you!<br /><br /> Marketplace <br />TEXT OF STORY Friday, April 25, 2008<br />KAI RYSSDAL: At this point in the recession, or slowdown, or whatever you want to call it, you're probably familiar with the term "business cycle." Business and businesses have life cycles just like everything else. Demand creates new opportunities, and then when that demand dries up businesses die.<br />Every year, Fortune Magazine releases a list of 10 businesses it thinks are facing extinction. Some of this year's casualties? Record stores, crop dusting and telemarketing. Oh, and gay bars, too. That one caught our eye because gay business in general is booming.<br />Stacey Vanek Smith has more.<br />________________________________________<br />STACEY VANEK-SMITH: It's a busy weekend night at a gay bar in Los Angeles. . . <br />Actor Jason Dottley says gay bars don't just cater to a gay clientele anymore. The scene has become a lot more mixed.<br />Jason Dottley: It's an indication of open-mindedness. I think it's a sign of progress.<br />But that progress has a left some older gay bars sounding like this . . . [sound of ocean waves crashing].<br />The Boom Boom Room opened in Laguna Beach in 1947. It used to be a favorite hangout of Rock Hudson's. But today the windows of the white, art-deco facade are papered over.<br />Fred Karger started coming here in 1973.<br />Fred Karger: It's a magical place. It had a little, kind of loungey bar, and it had pool tables. They'd have this wonderful cabaret show on Wednesday nights.<br />The new owner plans to tear down the Boom Boom Room and build a luxury hotel.<br />Gay bars all over the country have met similar fates: New York's Roxy, The Avalon in Boston, The Pendulum in San Francisco. But here's the weird thing: Gay business is booming. Gay spending power in the U.S. is worth an estimated $750 billion.<br />So why are gay bars having so much trouble? Marketing expert Jerry McHugh says part of it is generational.<br />Jerry McHugh: Generation X people and Generation Y people are less concerned about gay-exclusive socialization, and they're more interested in a more-diverse environment.<br />McHugh says for gay boomers, bars used to function like community centers.<br />McHugh: When I came out it was the early 90s, and it was really helpful to go to these places.<br />Boston Globe writer Robert David Sullivan says a few years ago he noticed the number of gay bars in Boston had been cut in half. He says it was strange because they had been such a cornerstone of the gay social scene.<br />Robert David Sullivan: It was sort of structured that you could meet people that way, and you could say things and not censor yourself.<br />Sullivan says today young, gay men and women use the Internet, not bars, to meet people. And the older generation has graduated from late-night bar hopping to a mellow meal out.<br />Of course, a lot of gay bars aren't disappearing, they're just becoming more mixed. Take The Abbey in West Hollywood. It's an institution on L.A.'s gay scene. But on a weekday afternoon, there are as many straight neighborhood families as there are single gay men. Owner David Cooley says the gay-bar business model worked 10 years ago, but not anymore.<br />David Cooley: If you would say to me, "David, let's open up a gay bar." I wouldn't be investing.<br />Cooley is investing in gay-friendly bars. He's opening an Abbey in Chicago and plans to expand to other cities. He says all of the spots will be mixed -- that's where the future is.<br />Cooley: Once in a while, I'll get a customer say: "The Abbey's becoming so straight." And my response is: "Isn't that wonderful? Isn't that what we've been working for all these years?"<br />Bar owners George Butler and Randall Lambright disagree. They own the Savoy Orlando and Paradise Orlando in Florida. Butler says a mixed scene might work in places like New York and San Francisco, but in most of the country, the need for gay bars still exists.<br />GEORGE BUTLER: I don't think we're quite at the point where the gay clientele is comfortable sitting in a chain restaurant or bar where they can still hold hands or kiss.<br />Co-owner Randall Lambright says many of the older gay bars have closed because they just don't meet the high standards of gay customers anymore.<br />Randall Lambright: I can remember when gay bars were basically back-alley -- dark and not very inviting. And I think the clubs that are around are definitely more upscale.<br />Lambright says if the quality's there, the market for gay bars is still strong. He says the demand for exclusively gay spots hasn't gone away, it's just evolved.Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-90889512922208577892008-04-16T11:47:00.000-07:002008-04-16T12:01:20.930-07:00NEWS UPDATE April 14, 2008 Contact: Fred Karger 949-494-4750<br /><br />Wait Until You See This Video!!!<br />Another Incredible Short, From Filmmaker John Keitel<br />http://www.gayborhood.tv/lgbtube.cfm <br /><br />Well, Great News! Many of you followed the Men of Laguna Beach Calendar Contest from the open casting last summer, to the launch parties and calendar signings throughout the fall. Well, our incredible Documentarian, John Keitel and his team at Shelter Productions have done a 6 minute film called “Men of Laguna Calendar.” <br /><br />It was made as the pilot for a reality show that we have been pitching for the 2009 Calendar Contest. We have been very fortunate to have another angel out there in cyberspace. Thank you, Jeff Keirns! Jeff is an independent producer for the brand new web network Gayborhood TV. They have posted the “Men of Laguna Calendar” on their web network. Simply click on this link to view John’s short video: http://www.gayborhood.tv/lgbtube.cfm?view=video&id=376<br />or go to Gayborhood’s site: http://www.gayborhood.tv/lgbtube.cfm You will see the Men of Laguna Calendar on their home page. Just click Men of Laguna there under featured videos, latest videos or most watched – it’s everywhere. You will get to see this incredible 6 minute film. <br /><br />It has already gotten over 1000 views and lots of positive reviews (feel free to leave a review after you see it). If you missed the open casting last summer, you will get to see it, as well as some of the photo shoots and all 12 of the great looking Calendar Guys doing their thing. <br /><br />Gayborhood TV was just launched April 1st by Stiletto Entertainment http://www.stilettoentertainment.com/ Stiletto produced MTV Networks / Logo Series "Jacob & Joshua: Nemesis Rising and are leaders in entertainment, financial management, theatrical production, television production, music publishing, e-commerce and internet services and international tour management and bookings.<br /><br />If you still haven’t taken the 10 minutes to see John’s other short called, “Saving the Boom,” it is a must see. Go to Current TV and you will laugh, cry and love this film! Click on this link: http://current.com/items/88880536_saving_the_boom<br /><br />For Sale Signs Still Up<br /><br />Just checked again this morning and there are still two for sale signs up in the window of the Boom Boom Room. Interested parties are asked to call Joe Smith at Monarch Bay Realty 949-489-1100. Make them and offer and remodel this incredible property and watch the business soar. The New Boom, right on the Pacific Ocean, could be the finest gay destination property in the world. And you will help preserve the over 100 years of gay and lesbian history in Laguna Beach.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgteceiRtfSBPgi3iHNgdaX6cipAkcuKdO4UCYWhmIKKYNR1Zwfc5v6vM_zPvGWLZVIW7IcCQ9niOiU2k_3LM8J5sluIgpcXVH3hxewLn6GEgtkjZk6he2Rv-l1CgWiR2CWpapu/s1600-h/IMG_3392.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgteceiRtfSBPgi3iHNgdaX6cipAkcuKdO4UCYWhmIKKYNR1Zwfc5v6vM_zPvGWLZVIW7IcCQ9niOiU2k_3LM8J5sluIgpcXVH3hxewLn6GEgtkjZk6he2Rv-l1CgWiR2CWpapu/s320/IMG_3392.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189917662248609250" /></a>Taken Monday, April 14, 2008<br /><br />Check out our Blog, lots of new photos up: http://savetheboom.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Thank you very much for your interest and support as we work to SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!!<br /><br />Operation Post Card<br /><br />We are pleased to report that as of today we have sent in 1,200 of our yellow post cards to Coast Inn and Boom Boom Room owner, Steven Udvar-Hazy. Thanks to all those who have helped make this campaign such a success. We are asking Mr. Udvar-Hazy to help us SAVE the BOOM!!! by reducing his asking price or donating the property to the gay community. If you would like to help on Operation Post Card, please call 949-494-4750 or email savetheboom@aol.com. Thank you for your help!<br /><br />In the News<br /><br />Here are some more links to some of national and financial news coverage that SAVE the BOOM!!! received from our demonstration to appeal to Martin J. Sullivan, President and CEO of American International Group (NYSE: AIG)<br /><br /><br />MSN.com http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=PR&Date=20080204&ID=8136876&Symbol=AIG<br /><br />AOL Money News http://money.aol.com/news/articles/qp/pr/_a/los-angeles-demonstration-set-at-aig/rfid86611602<br /><br />-- end --Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-55688610781471863052008-04-10T21:23:00.001-07:002008-04-16T12:54:54.660-07:00The Making of the DocumentaryThe Making of "Saving the Boom" PHOTOS<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEielXLs5lMiO_gu8DK1kCFIHkEftburkKai4FgnwX9MGgLlPHFYRh5dSjCpZo3n2nByRst8u-_ZuCxeIzmKw7EHh2v8wgs-eFofDwsOZWFX4QYyb62d268IHYbI2ZH1MkGiAUfo/s1600-h/IMG_2658.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEielXLs5lMiO_gu8DK1kCFIHkEftburkKai4FgnwX9MGgLlPHFYRh5dSjCpZo3n2nByRst8u-_ZuCxeIzmKw7EHh2v8wgs-eFofDwsOZWFX4QYyb62d268IHYbI2ZH1MkGiAUfo/s320/IMG_2658.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189562343899178434" /></a><br />John at the Boom on Closing Night <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpgFi9LQ0y-Ss_dr5e2ggFh7SEMEKbGEhIWwOwluSq_eIZIwui_yuVls6Zz3F5Dpz7cPbDxGl2z9Zy6O9PthEONrcJdyhkpC_9JjTqHzNY2lf76cyr1HwSn_u9EiUI6m79YPKA/s1600-h/IMG_2130.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpgFi9LQ0y-Ss_dr5e2ggFh7SEMEKbGEhIWwOwluSq_eIZIwui_yuVls6Zz3F5Dpz7cPbDxGl2z9Zy6O9PthEONrcJdyhkpC_9JjTqHzNY2lf76cyr1HwSn_u9EiUI6m79YPKA/s320/IMG_2130.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189565745513276882" /></a> Filming the Open Casting for the Men of Laguna Beach Calendar Contest <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFxKBop9S_YjTky1rXtgkvIv3pDDDrWNPNLpyKM4m3LIEul4fLlmB-jhRIUUVrw_ktPlxjYBU1gcEJH5kTO3KN3bO8Ydz6RGoeyoKl1ZDprgmjzTfRE12XHkO6t3uVhtm7Q8tC/s1600-h/IMG_2184.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFxKBop9S_YjTky1rXtgkvIv3pDDDrWNPNLpyKM4m3LIEul4fLlmB-jhRIUUVrw_ktPlxjYBU1gcEJH5kTO3KN3bO8Ydz6RGoeyoKl1ZDprgmjzTfRE12XHkO6t3uVhtm7Q8tC/s320/IMG_2184.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189922631525770738" /></a> Calendar Cover Model Caleb's Photo Shoot <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13VS49A1KU0Jju41r9wzwBxgXG9gsmQkhPGz2q1GZYiyyjK0DVH42xrQE-3Jktdkfh7gpLe4SiyVqc_MuY4wUn0zTPys_i9UR3EzjmuFEhrcBYUscJiPQnKVCFrKmsINNfRys/s1600-h/005_20.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi13VS49A1KU0Jju41r9wzwBxgXG9gsmQkhPGz2q1GZYiyyjK0DVH42xrQE-3Jktdkfh7gpLe4SiyVqc_MuY4wUn0zTPys_i9UR3EzjmuFEhrcBYUscJiPQnKVCFrKmsINNfRys/s320/005_20.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189924916448372226" /></a> Adam and Sarah in Laguna on Location <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSC8skdWpLqPgJnAf-lsJzUltiohyxPhyphenhyphenLwoqRhI7QV7cnvqFCf0QqiQYK9QUZsjfRXsVBtlGPiNOIbQ4ySfPcuqaBKqcw8cPfe3Mz6J_q1e8Xo6aFcl2fqJC5uG0m-J1n3X5/s1600-h/IMG_2029.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrSC8skdWpLqPgJnAf-lsJzUltiohyxPhyphenhyphenLwoqRhI7QV7cnvqFCf0QqiQYK9QUZsjfRXsVBtlGPiNOIbQ4ySfPcuqaBKqcw8cPfe3Mz6J_q1e8Xo6aFcl2fqJC5uG0m-J1n3X5/s320/IMG_2029.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189927433299207698" /></a> Sarah and Adam at the Boom filming dancer, Giovanni <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUWKg9x0mq8_iFJTF7hzQYic-eE8gNSObiphpEpzOTCrYQeQtmTG6TmiZunFMn8mR3HjFiVdJhHgcDeFbeIFF5PvET8MB4a5Wi7Fl-zSbPonQzJvEmy3IfvrwOXMLi9UohBa-7/s1600-h/IMG_2036.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUWKg9x0mq8_iFJTF7hzQYic-eE8gNSObiphpEpzOTCrYQeQtmTG6TmiZunFMn8mR3HjFiVdJhHgcDeFbeIFF5PvET8MB4a5Wi7Fl-zSbPonQzJvEmy3IfvrwOXMLi9UohBa-7/s320/IMG_2036.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189928425436653106" /></a> Out on the Bluff Talking to Laguna Resident, Andrew <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnHj5V0y2YJ8fztVhB6aytwOQoYQ-l9lBFxz06s2PXfy53Csnv7gYsCZXROqURL__LkP9luRHC-_I51156sDZYgTuT-DCCPXMVdGBQrr324JTWjUCwZrBoZ__6GC9iPMVW0jK9/s1600-h/P1010833.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnHj5V0y2YJ8fztVhB6aytwOQoYQ-l9lBFxz06s2PXfy53Csnv7gYsCZXROqURL__LkP9luRHC-_I51156sDZYgTuT-DCCPXMVdGBQrr324JTWjUCwZrBoZ__6GC9iPMVW0jK9/s320/P1010833.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187880000386716130" /></a> Talking to Volunteer Coordinator, Jeff On His Way to Get Those Petitions Signed!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjREdpR1i8IGPN8jKvTwSqPTWGX0kQq60xliA78Xqk-b6nLIrp1NwOpE530CvxnqDnjwx4-3MNcouT4zK_kj6Vxt99xu2-3cSVPQQtpX4iiSC0atJOzFbY4Y7un2KTuYHjCt-RZ/s1600-h/P1010837.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjREdpR1i8IGPN8jKvTwSqPTWGX0kQq60xliA78Xqk-b6nLIrp1NwOpE530CvxnqDnjwx4-3MNcouT4zK_kj6Vxt99xu2-3cSVPQQtpX4iiSC0atJOzFbY4Y7un2KTuYHjCt-RZ/s320/P1010837.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187893714217292274" /></a> The Fun and Crazy Lane Twins(Gary and Larry)in Front of Albertsons<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHlyg_Bob9UNUPlMPx7FRif2VRE_n8EEEhMGD2cBeN6BY0L6hyphenhyphenpgXdo6YnG-tb-HidPD4x0ipD4Rqiury0DAtyU74N3flApHKoVUQlZOtyqPFRZDV2DUOYPgk-qTM9AHdgQR-/s1600-h/IMG_2213.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHlyg_Bob9UNUPlMPx7FRif2VRE_n8EEEhMGD2cBeN6BY0L6hyphenhyphenpgXdo6YnG-tb-HidPD4x0ipD4Rqiury0DAtyU74N3flApHKoVUQlZOtyqPFRZDV2DUOYPgk-qTM9AHdgQR-/s320/IMG_2213.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189930409711543874" /></a>John Inteviewing Los Angeles City Councilman and SAVE the BOOM!!! Co-Chair, Bill Rosendahl in the Garden of Peace and Love Just Below the Coast Inn <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DUDsir6DYj_trzxA-mcpOgXUM8nVIfhSzW628W6JMy5aBmpYl5gd6u13OZ87aSXfBXqHVon5oPg0WTd_2cenCZmxEp4EyeNzpDZuWbxm3UrFm6RdMIQl9TQW2eh_BXHIBFkF/s1600-h/IMG_2074.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-DUDsir6DYj_trzxA-mcpOgXUM8nVIfhSzW628W6JMy5aBmpYl5gd6u13OZ87aSXfBXqHVon5oPg0WTd_2cenCZmxEp4EyeNzpDZuWbxm3UrFm6RdMIQl9TQW2eh_BXHIBFkF/s320/IMG_2074.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189931543582910034" /></a> Talking to former Laguna Beach Mayor and SAVE the BOOM!!! Co-Chair Bob Gentry about the Importance of Laguna's Gay History <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiLFtqgP54tBGCW9hkiA5RhFtGGIhwkXt0wg144WYW8TnbJc7ohqwMddnCLebzMgChtN6pm9laDgRVys_H1eh6GNavd7H6FZoIsczw16-OMZADdiy55-3mP7-GsFLqtQ1earS/s1600-h/IMG_2059.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiLFtqgP54tBGCW9hkiA5RhFtGGIhwkXt0wg144WYW8TnbJc7ohqwMddnCLebzMgChtN6pm9laDgRVys_H1eh6GNavd7H6FZoIsczw16-OMZADdiy55-3mP7-GsFLqtQ1earS/s320/IMG_2059.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187879283127177682" /></a>Super Volunteer and Long Time Lagunan Max Talking About the Petition Drive <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qUGp946xZq9N_VqzK4lRJ8TYc_AQkwjevUbE3SYnMIuv2GaJM7mEXeSIE8gHVtg8_ky7F6G3HVkEMzOwEJ3o8hri4GdmO6hHc43eceBrvhcLz47e0Dcd7KxOKGSijkerpwkt/s1600-h/IMG_2057.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qUGp946xZq9N_VqzK4lRJ8TYc_AQkwjevUbE3SYnMIuv2GaJM7mEXeSIE8gHVtg8_ky7F6G3HVkEMzOwEJ3o8hri4GdmO6hHc43eceBrvhcLz47e0Dcd7KxOKGSijkerpwkt/s320/IMG_2057.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189933300224534114" /></a>Laguna Beach City Councilman and the Owner of the Marine Room Kelly Boyd "Putting on His Mike" <br /><br />Thanks to one and all who helped on the incredible documentary "Saving the Boom. To view the mini-doc, go to this link at current: http://current.com/items/88880536_saving_the_boomBlog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-67305448780186768462008-04-10T20:12:00.000-07:002008-04-10T21:25:58.404-07:00Check Out "Saving the Boom"Mini DOCUMENTARY DONE!!! – “Saving the Boom” is on Current Television / Current.com<br /><br />Here is the Link: http://current.com/items/88880536_saving_the_boom<br /><br />Thank you Film Maker Extraordinaire, John Keitel, amazing Editor Tyler Gillett and their team at Shelter Productions. You have made an absolutely incredible film. It’s fun, very moving and sexy. I wish the world could see your documentary, wait a second, now it can! Special thanks go out to Sarah Evershed, Outreach Associate at Current -- our mini--doc (documentary) is now posted for all to see. Thank you Sarah, who came to Laguna to shoot some of the film, and is a true angel. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTW0qz4H3OF3AhvwTFjRSjR4zDqsnL98oZPYTyfEA3ZEbFwN7vitwQmq3RccvyWmSMy1U5IGoJvYXN86uN2YpDE49-cVAg1VqAfKI09sEnZvgtSlile65fdASJvyh0JMm6cd4g/s1600-h/IMG_2200%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTW0qz4H3OF3AhvwTFjRSjR4zDqsnL98oZPYTyfEA3ZEbFwN7vitwQmq3RccvyWmSMy1U5IGoJvYXN86uN2YpDE49-cVAg1VqAfKI09sEnZvgtSlile65fdASJvyh0JMm6cd4g/s320/IMG_2200%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187831256802873682" /></a> Film Maker, John Keitel (lower right) shooting Photographer, Cris Lapp (upper right) shooting Michael – Mr. March -- for the 2008 Men of Beach Laguna Calendar<br /><br />Please take just a few minutes to view this short documentary and pass the link along to your email lists. Help us spread our story as we work to SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!! http://current.com/items/88880536_saving_the_boom <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKPUSl3_KSSZzi0DRzEzTbeA2aRJVo7KhHi3mXwDHNS-SQ9qz6TayOKkHGhk73oAbUW24OLFT3HYhfISsxHoO6UtmsYzPp1mPKkmgGFm9iodec0Vy_MhbwqWZrKxQRYwejTvo/s1600-h/IMG_2077.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHKPUSl3_KSSZzi0DRzEzTbeA2aRJVo7KhHi3mXwDHNS-SQ9qz6TayOKkHGhk73oAbUW24OLFT3HYhfISsxHoO6UtmsYzPp1mPKkmgGFm9iodec0Vy_MhbwqWZrKxQRYwejTvo/s320/IMG_2077.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187835032079126930" /></a> John filming SAVE the BOOM!!! Treasurer, Shane Miller in downtown Laguna<br /><br />Click on the link: http://current.com/items/88880536_saving_the_boom <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1s0u7tMfb9YE_kvkifdEHtAxsi4LcgsZfjYKBtxn-R9vvGB6V8YRMZCIaeu_sw1B1aaMN9HY8XzNWIu73Lo3Zm70X5GtuJsKP3Y0TUWCBtSGZrluvMELNkM7B6n72OvokuDI/s1600-h/IMG_2061.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1s0u7tMfb9YE_kvkifdEHtAxsi4LcgsZfjYKBtxn-R9vvGB6V8YRMZCIaeu_sw1B1aaMN9HY8XzNWIu73Lo3Zm70X5GtuJsKP3Y0TUWCBtSGZrluvMELNkM7B6n72OvokuDI/s320/IMG_2061.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187835611899711906" /></a> John and Sarah filming outside the Boom <br /><br />And feel free to add a comment just below where you watch the film. Thanks very much. <br /><br />Happy Viewing!<br /><br />Fred Karger<br />Founder<br />www.savetheboom.com<br /><br />Visit our Blog for lot more photos of: “The Making of ‘Saving the Boom’” (lots of apostrophes’)<br /><br />http://savetheboom.blogspot.com/Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-60019456933510644072008-04-09T00:48:00.000-07:002008-04-09T01:03:42.198-07:00We Will Not Give UpNews Update April 6, 2008 Contact: Fred Karger 949-494-4750<br /><br />AIG Demonstration a Huge Success<br />Lots of People, Press, Music and Fun<br />Plea to AIG CEO To Help SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!!<br /><br />Laguna Beach, CA – 35 supporters of SAVE the BOOM!!! from Orange County and Los Angeles descended on the AIG (NYSE: AIG) Tower in Century City on Tuesday, April 1st at our lunch-time demonstration. World famous Bagpiper, Lorne Cousin played to cheers of SAVE the BOOM!!! SAVE the BOOM!!! AIG – SAVE the BOOM!!! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVk-CTh7H-STCpfN_pcGmKPdetF3J2TJTIRaGBP4_f4LIRee7Lh2f6GwB0F9HxNUjmjlwca6eREgeWuEyrPyeIinphyqXks1Bi5YQsbeScfjkwWnYLW1XjVWtq78yFUUmBzFRs/s1600-h/IMG_0029.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVk-CTh7H-STCpfN_pcGmKPdetF3J2TJTIRaGBP4_f4LIRee7Lh2f6GwB0F9HxNUjmjlwca6eREgeWuEyrPyeIinphyqXks1Bi5YQsbeScfjkwWnYLW1XjVWtq78yFUUmBzFRs/s320/IMG_0029.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187153085852809506" /></a><br />Calendar Models Ryan Liddell (July) and Gustavo Marzolla (February) handed out Men of Laguna Beach Calendars to some of the lucky passerby’s on their way to lunch. Other yellow T-shirted men and women gave away Boom Bananas and Tangerines along with flyers and other information on our nearly two year effort to save our landmark bar and hotel. Lots of car horns were honked and thumbs up given to all of us during the hour long demonstration. Over 200 post cards were signed addressed to Boom Boom Room and Coast Inn owner, Steven Udvar-Hazy asking him to drastically reduce the asking prince for the property or consider donating it the gay community. <br /><br />There was great television, radio, newspaper and web coverage of the event. Save the BOOM!!! Founder, Fred Karger even appeared live on the Michael Jackson Radio Show on KGIL – AM 1260 during the 9:00 am hour. Check out the links below for just some of the stories on the demonstration. And be sure and go to our blog for lots of great photos from Tuesday. http://savetheboom.blogspot.com/ <br /><br />Thank you so much to all who turned out for this uplifting and fun demonstration. <br /><br />We have lots more planned, and will keep you posted on our activities to SAVE the BOOM – Forever!!!<br /><br />SAVE the BOOM BLOG: http://savetheboom.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Los Angeles Time Web Site by Robert Green: <http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/03/one-more-boom-f.html><br /><br />KTLA – TV Los Angeles by Bill Smith: http://ktla.trb.com/<br /><br />Orange County Register by Christa Woodall: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/boom-bar-hazy-2009940-karger-aig<br /><br />Laguna Beach Independent: http://www.lagunabeachindependent.com/news/2008/0404/news/071.html<br /><br />KVOA – TV Tucson: http://www.kvoa.com/default.asp<br /><br />Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS191530+28-Mar-2008+PRN20080328<br /><br />-- end --Blog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30979981.post-16686700211408957002008-04-01T22:02:00.000-07:002008-04-02T08:44:12.870-07:00L A Demonstration Big SuccessThanks to one and all who made it up to Los Angeles and our LA friends who came to demonstration at the AIG Tower in Century City today. We had fun and got a lot of attention from the thousands of passerbys who honked their approval, got Men of Laguna Beach Calendars, enjoyed some Boom Bananas, and signed hundreds of post cards to Coast Inn owner Steven Udvar-Hazy. We got some great coverage which will be posted on our blog soon. Here are some of the photos from the lunch-time demonstration. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC6ZBpYd9opsZSl48jkS8F-u8py_pVq1zYefN_E98zJktmfnVst3CFKfB4IZ1sPkkmHkeXW410LOjNUYGwkPtwPEbQjU9OiuxNn4HVYxWDIDaWrNoyQD5yzdP04tNB40GNRIvu/s1600-h/_MG_6816.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC6ZBpYd9opsZSl48jkS8F-u8py_pVq1zYefN_E98zJktmfnVst3CFKfB4IZ1sPkkmHkeXW410LOjNUYGwkPtwPEbQjU9OiuxNn4HVYxWDIDaWrNoyQD5yzdP04tNB40GNRIvu/s320/_MG_6816.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184511947253741618" /></a> Lots of Enthusiastic Demonstrators <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAf90miBLwfLEJVyX52_aAemXkTMVMUo1h0aF_ehZCHjS_IvgCFK-c0Y2kQSVG34oh3fWh03MbwdLSBcwkR_jQDTMj1IvsLOLYMifQb01NBifKgQ_WWexenQSQPMPXzUxgs_1I/s1600-h/_MG_6827.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAf90miBLwfLEJVyX52_aAemXkTMVMUo1h0aF_ehZCHjS_IvgCFK-c0Y2kQSVG34oh3fWh03MbwdLSBcwkR_jQDTMj1IvsLOLYMifQb01NBifKgQ_WWexenQSQPMPXzUxgs_1I/s320/_MG_6827.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184515812724308034" /></a><br />Looking Up at the AIG Tower <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaxDbm10jHGz3NoLmCg7UE3sNi5LCX2P2cUM-TiTknE_C9SS616TJzYIAmolj2gCqw00GKWLfQ4ubz4tV72VlZYu04lkAV_yzZnKAI-T5WTPrv3GC90bVXlw_DsHItHTNZoMx8/s1600-h/IMG_0026.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaxDbm10jHGz3NoLmCg7UE3sNi5LCX2P2cUM-TiTknE_C9SS616TJzYIAmolj2gCqw00GKWLfQ4ubz4tV72VlZYu04lkAV_yzZnKAI-T5WTPrv3GC90bVXlw_DsHItHTNZoMx8/s320/IMG_0026.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184516877876197458" /></a> SAVE the BOOM!!! Treasurer, Shane Miller Seeking Insurance Giant AIG's Help <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikibGocxBjvAOJDIjSfMFvgPKTYZWbrGV0ly2wcMUhEEbL2u2X1X6a3iFoO7PTWyMFkCIB4Mykby8zN3nJppdmw27r7fU-itNCECeDUh6_xysZmFC9QLQJ58PY3basRL9b4U2O/s1600-h/IMG_3358.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikibGocxBjvAOJDIjSfMFvgPKTYZWbrGV0ly2wcMUhEEbL2u2X1X6a3iFoO7PTWyMFkCIB4Mykby8zN3nJppdmw27r7fU-itNCECeDUh6_xysZmFC9QLQJ58PY3basRL9b4U2O/s320/IMG_3358.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184523032564332642" /></a> Billy and Michael Came Out for the Lunch-Time Action <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin8bFlW9Dds6JvclApbB8Zixg9h_vKJURARFL_WaqRnthpMtHd0ZRfi4ItYiri8iQ2egNIxAVP29EMZzHSwUr95M78oiB8uALdsYlNzPS6d2XJ4LIbD4oimDAa6pvxkOXYFGq_/s1600-h/IMG_0028.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin8bFlW9Dds6JvclApbB8Zixg9h_vKJURARFL_WaqRnthpMtHd0ZRfi4ItYiri8iQ2egNIxAVP29EMZzHSwUr95M78oiB8uALdsYlNzPS6d2XJ4LIbD4oimDAa6pvxkOXYFGq_/s320/IMG_0028.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184524183615568002" /></a>Michael Enjoying the Music <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-wka5-F-KSFxNyYXQv6vfsUU_ZwcJ9ZjpRdeEXscwNK-wEEdMAmosuVlGdka3nDkBZ6rUmoWqazDwEjCQqzqL5AdasRQgjMxrFrtwf_CcWVPN1DXGNIezYy7ckYYHWVJnJvl/s1600-h/IMG_0030.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-wka5-F-KSFxNyYXQv6vfsUU_ZwcJ9ZjpRdeEXscwNK-wEEdMAmosuVlGdka3nDkBZ6rUmoWqazDwEjCQqzqL5AdasRQgjMxrFrtwf_CcWVPN1DXGNIezYy7ckYYHWVJnJvl/s320/IMG_0030.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184524956709681314" /></a> The LAPD Was There to Keep the Peace Along With Volunteer Muriel Visiting From Paris<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGMHa8iT0Tox9oFpzEqjlZpAFQbjC27W_q7sdc_odFG7QzlNehy9x2CNGrLLg9EO1oc0WyZ2l6Yzmkc-d1VtWGQMn25QqXFRr-DaClQa3zi-ibwH3aUtAJ4A7ELtu0hEzjI5h/s1600-h/IMG_0029.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGMHa8iT0Tox9oFpzEqjlZpAFQbjC27W_q7sdc_odFG7QzlNehy9x2CNGrLLg9EO1oc0WyZ2l6Yzmkc-d1VtWGQMn25QqXFRr-DaClQa3zi-ibwH3aUtAJ4A7ELtu0hEzjI5h/s320/IMG_0029.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184524686126741650" /></a> Former Boom Cafe Server Violet and Friends <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVK6w_r5ihryLR624aq0NkuejmjP3FcbpSGMCCvCaR_i9kc1RWjtkR5gaQ6wg6_QUupqOPjZ-CPQhyEdQPh0i4ec9O1U-ScIwS_cvGdfY_jUMEg9LLMbGAiGkI-QSCXCAKwIDG/s1600-h/IMG_0031.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVK6w_r5ihryLR624aq0NkuejmjP3FcbpSGMCCvCaR_i9kc1RWjtkR5gaQ6wg6_QUupqOPjZ-CPQhyEdQPh0i4ec9O1U-ScIwS_cvGdfY_jUMEg9LLMbGAiGkI-QSCXCAKwIDG/s320/IMG_0031.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184525244472490162" /></a> SAVE the BOOM!!! Founder Fred Karger and Lorne Cousin Take a Break <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVG06EBHr7SJTyd8Aw0N7K4VFZFSYvuSm2lpnayUKJ38LirIG62YkXgKSlHoOsqp9pKlphvCYJieWwSadzPanJx72qfvc8WZOdTSSjUJ2RmeMlvOUQSRgVJ4llO3kLLjUk4g3e/s1600-h/IMG_0033.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVG06EBHr7SJTyd8Aw0N7K4VFZFSYvuSm2lpnayUKJ38LirIG62YkXgKSlHoOsqp9pKlphvCYJieWwSadzPanJx72qfvc8WZOdTSSjUJ2RmeMlvOUQSRgVJ4llO3kLLjUk4g3e/s320/IMG_0033.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184525742688696514" /></a> Busy Corner <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDWghfpWyLJLJNDnUrO02UyhN1yR-qnFgSkpAyZzdDnrtR8KekkZvSNtoFueEoB-g3WymRqppzKeg9rJVkkpJT3FJSk2-HINd1ZYlvcRNetW3f-ba5CeACKpoDUW1T1c9INC2G/s1600-h/IMG_0037.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDWghfpWyLJLJNDnUrO02UyhN1yR-qnFgSkpAyZzdDnrtR8KekkZvSNtoFueEoB-g3WymRqppzKeg9rJVkkpJT3FJSk2-HINd1ZYlvcRNetW3f-ba5CeACKpoDUW1T1c9INC2G/s320/IMG_0037.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184526146415622354" /></a> Asking AIG's Help <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuT8VgKDleIcgK0ggw6FE9w_2fg4Bg49K9LGVTuJpD5lk_BsV_TrhOPOc7yVHE-QHTPBlouKqcKi8jNIwIFkzX_V8gnI_9vXXhwW1vOmbDtAhYdoXXxHUpXNMZ_XngpStZ-uYb/s1600-h/IMG_3362.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuT8VgKDleIcgK0ggw6FE9w_2fg4Bg49K9LGVTuJpD5lk_BsV_TrhOPOc7yVHE-QHTPBlouKqcKi8jNIwIFkzX_V8gnI_9vXXhwW1vOmbDtAhYdoXXxHUpXNMZ_XngpStZ-uYb/s320/IMG_3362.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184526550142548194" /></a> Madonna's Bagpiper, Lorne Cousin Getting on KTTV - Channel 5 <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-P5afbnqCgKYuusKvM-Mk4ShImu6Pi0y7IaUA2FTclv8KBMae8jJE6e3W2n0cZl4_xFoJRlOTI_hcQl4ZHgUJ90AGFkQNT3urFmJu1G4Fv18ZocmtCexDT8lDdXXiYmRo7HnC/s1600-h/IMG_3368.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-P5afbnqCgKYuusKvM-Mk4ShImu6Pi0y7IaUA2FTclv8KBMae8jJE6e3W2n0cZl4_xFoJRlOTI_hcQl4ZHgUJ90AGFkQNT3urFmJu1G4Fv18ZocmtCexDT8lDdXXiYmRo7HnC/s320/IMG_3368.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184528332553976050" /></a> Men of Laguna Beach Calendar Models Gustavo (February) and Ryan (July) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Gds7A_75tLX_OKje8esZgKS2vYuDXvLt44NB-CkZB5K7_zETHTkJOLMUl-krInkunwxiTH598UwyHr0DP4AudXnl_swuW8QZrE9A80cbx-Tt4OAQ7rMupc1-82yBVStuS7Y-/s1600-h/IMG_3370.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Gds7A_75tLX_OKje8esZgKS2vYuDXvLt44NB-CkZB5K7_zETHTkJOLMUl-krInkunwxiTH598UwyHr0DP4AudXnl_swuW8QZrE9A80cbx-Tt4OAQ7rMupc1-82yBVStuS7Y-/s320/IMG_3370.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184529131417893122" /></a> Lorne & Gustavo <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1tHnMG2rjYDyYc5H131SaDgE9l86MkJ968H68h5V5BYy7rRe-V12ZZ39cKq4OKUcXiAO38Fi9PcvAoesdor2vvI1Bhjn7GTVg4ZtmM4SwKwQDk8FS5l0LixaIYgjLb8OQR8ug/s1600-h/_MG_6872.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1tHnMG2rjYDyYc5H131SaDgE9l86MkJ968H68h5V5BYy7rRe-V12ZZ39cKq4OKUcXiAO38Fi9PcvAoesdor2vvI1Bhjn7GTVg4ZtmM4SwKwQDk8FS5l0LixaIYgjLb8OQR8ug/s320/_MG_6872.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184529535144818962" /></a> Fred With a Bunch of the BOOMERSBlog Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05564425719164220268noreply@blogger.com0