01/09/11 on 710 ESPN Radio SoCal Experience with LaFern Cusack.
Marco Aiello is the type of artist that can't be defined. Still, whether he is singing commercial jingles like the "Hello Good Buy" Beatles cover for the immensely successful Target campaign, recording, singing and touring with his own original music, portraying drug dealers or serial killers for dramatic television shows such as "Criminal Minds" or portraying hilarious characters like "Festus" for the hit comedy "Victorious" - you can't help but notice the thread that connects all his work: an authentic presence and voice. He thinks of himself as a student of the arts and strives to be a great artist - like those who came before who practiced being formless and available to be moved by the mysterious creative intelligence that exists within every human being. www.myspace.com/marcoaiello
Check out Marco this summer in the film TRANSIENTS. TRANSIENTS depicts the encounter between two artists who meet at an arts festival: Sandrine (Teal Sherer), an environmental artist whose perceptions of art and nature have been greatly affected by a recent disability, and Sal (Douglas Ridloff), a deaf musician whose personal battles frequently collide with those around him. The film explores issues of ability, communication, identity, and trust as the characters confront truths about themselves and each other.
If you would like information on restoring arts in public schools you can check out: Arts in Education Aid Council which mission is to restore a complete arts education program to the public schools of the San Fernando Valley by developing and implementing curriculum, and supporting and celebrating activities and events, in art, music, dance, and theatre for all students. Arts in Education Aid Council will always remain independent of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).
01/09/11 on 710 ESPN Radio SoCal Experience with LaFern Cusack.
Good Luck, Mr. Gorski, Allegra Huston and Gary Houston. LaFern Cusack speaks with Allegra Huston and Gary Houston about "Good Luck, Mr. Gorski" A short film about the benefits of moon travel for those on earth. "When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, he said, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” He also said a lot of other things. He was up there for a few hours. http://goodluckmrgorski.com/ Photo left credit: Allegra Huston on http://www.allegrahuston.comALLEGRA HUSTON - writer/producer. Allegra’s book Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found, published by Simon & Schuster (US) and Bloomsbury (UK) in 2009, made the bestseller lists of the San Francisco Chronicle and the Denver Post. She is co-director of Imaginative Storm writing workshops and teaches screenwriting for the Arvon Foundation in the UK and the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has written six feature scripts, sold a treatment of Kipling’s Just So Stories to Elton John’s Rocket Pictures for Disney, and was for two years Acquisition and Development Consultant at Pathé Pictures in London.
From the jacket of Love Child: When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterwards, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke—the legendary film director John Huston—with the words, “This is your father.”
Forgiveness Through Writing is an 8-week course which takes you through a process of forgiving yourself, your family, your friends, and your fate, by playing in the imagination. http://allegrahuston.com/
GARY HOUSTON was a Chicago Sun-Times features editor and writer who increasingly became lured by work on stage and screen. He worked with LaFern Cusack in the play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," produced by Chicago's Goodman Theater, and he was last onstage as an Alfred Hitchcock-like character in the thriller "Panic" at Peninsula Players in Door County, Wisconsin. Filmgoers may recognize him from "Fargo" as the irate car customer complaining to William H. Macy about the rust-proofing he hadn't agreed to pay for, or from "Proof" giving a eulogy for Anthony Hopkins, or from the very start of 2009's "Watchmen" as the real-life TV commentator John McLaughlin of The McLaughlin Group. He is not related to Allegra Huston though he likes to think he is. Only an O stands between them. Gary Houston Photo left credit: Gary Houston as Mr. Gorski on http://www.goodluckmrgorski.com
01/09/11 on 710 ESPN Radio SoCal Experience with LaFern Cusack.
Emmy Award Winning Actor, Keith David, Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration and "The Cape." LaFern Cusack speaks with Actor Keith David about Martin Luther King, Jr., and his new series THE CAPE. Actor Keith David is serving as Master of Ceremonies, 6th Annual Culver City’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at the Senior Center from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Culver City will recognize the achievements of Dr. King, our Nobel Prize winning civil rights leader on his birthday. This day of honor will be commemorated by a full-day of festivities. Everyone is invited! Featured screening of award-winning documentary Freedom Riders dramatically captures the journey of the civil rights movement that changed America forever by filmmaker Stanley Nelson. Free Admission and Refreshments! Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Avenue, Culver City, CA 90230 http://www.culvercity.org/Articles/AnnualMLKDayCelebration.aspx
David is prepped for his return to network television via NBC's 2-hour premiere of "The Cape," airing Sunday, January 9th, 9/8c. *Airs regularly Mondays at 9/8c. Keith stars as Max Milani, the ringleader of a circus gang of bank robbers who mentors Vince Faraday and trains him to be The Cape. As Max Malini, Keith is trying to hold together his team of bank robbers that don’t believe in Vince, "The Cape."
KEITH DAVID is a 30-year veteran actor of stage and screen and is best known for his roles in such films as “Crash,” “There’s Something About Mary,” “ Barbershop” and “Men at Work” and “Death at a Funeral.” He also starred as King in Oliver Stone’s “Platoon.” David is equally well known for his voice-over career, primarily his Emmy-winning work as the narrator of Ken Burns’ documentaries,” The War,” and “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.” Other narration credits include the BBC documentary, “World War II: Behind Closed Doors, and most recently, Doctor Facilier in Walt Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog.” David currently stars as the criminal illusionist Max Malini in the upcoming NBC pilot series The Cape. http://keithdavid.com/
01/02/11 on 710 ESPN Radio SoCal Experience with LaFern Cusack.
Axis Evolving Healing Studio and L.A. Center for Positive Change-Chris Rails-Sietz and Johnny Seitz. LaFern Cusack speaks autism, stroke and the Amazon with Chris Rails-Sietz and Johnny Seitz.Chris Rials-Seitz has a Master's in Psychology, is an ordained minister, and has continued studies with Michael Harner at the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. Aside from a private practice, Chris devotes much of her time partnering at a community based Non-Profit counseling service. Chris lives a life committed to serving the community by creating effective communication, balance and healing.
Johnny Seitz http://www.biotyping.com/ began life as a severely symptomatic autistic child; head banging, tantrums, face-blind and mind-blind. He is today, a successfully married adult. Johnny Seitz is a personal trainer and a life coach. He runs a studio in Culver City, a part of Los Angeles, where he works with a wide variety of different individuals. With his unique understanding of the human potential Johnny transforms lives. L.A.
The Healing Power of Sound: Life is pure frequency, light and vibration! In a Healing Sound Session you will feel physically feel the vibrations and frequencies resonating throughout your body, harmonizing you to your core in a way like never before.
Stroke and Physical injury Recovery: Clients gain hope and a new understanding and relationship with what once was perceived as limitations. The muscles can be individually reconnected and strengthened but ultimately it is the cohesive intent of the mind that must direct the body toward results based upon desire to achieve a goal. Fluid balanced movement is an act greater than the sum of the individual muscles being asked to function. See info on website about work with Dick Clark. http://www.biotyping.com/
Family and Couples: You will artfully and playfully work though limiting family dynamics using physical play and movement and to gain new understanding and communication skills in partnerships and family relationships. Learning to be “team” in physical games leads to real change in the dynamics of a family.
Matrix Energetics: Chris has always worked “out of the box”! Come marinate yourself in your own life’s dreams and goals as you attune to it with Matrix Energetics and all of the other frequency based work that you get to play in at AXIS EVOLVING.
Center for Positive Change is a multidisciplinary, non-profit organization that is committed to promoting holistic healing and empowerment for individuals, families, and communities. It is our belief that through building authentic, collaborative relationships that change can be inspired. We will strive to provide compassionate quality mental health care through education, training and service. For more info: http://lacenterforpositivechange.org/
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| 12/26/10:710 ESPN Radio SoCal Experience: LaFern Cusack speaks PARKOUR with David Thompson, Jonathan Velasquez and Alex Borblikov and how they used the art to save lives. Photo ID L-R: Jonathan Velasquez, David Thompson and Alex Borblikov. For more information: http://www.wfpf.com/ |
Alex Borblikov and Jonathan Velasquez Flip for Parkour!
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| 12/26/10: 710 ESPN Radio SoCal Experience with LaFern Cusack: LaFern Cusack speaks PARKOUR with David Thompson, Jonathan Velasquez and Alex Borblikov and how they used the art to save lives. The World Freerunning & Parkour Federation is dedicated to the safe and respectful advancement of the Parkour Movement throughout the world. For more information: http://www.wfpf.com/  |
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