GIGA GRANADA HILLS

Your humble Granada Hills blogger has, I confess, no local news to report today. So instead I'll post this video, which has nothing whatsoever to do with Granada Hills save for its general awesomeness. Thanks, Boing Boing !

I've been wishing for a while now that Granada Hills would have a farmer's market we could call our very own, and now we will! This Friday evening, from 5-9pm at the Granada Hills Masonic Center on Rinaldi (near Hayvenhurst), the Granada Hills Farmer's Market will have its debut. And unlike the April-October market at the Northridge Fashion Center, market manager Ric Alfafara plans to make this a year-round Friday night event. Alfafara, who also co-manages the Van Nuys and Sylmar Farmer's Markets, says, "Everybody's been talking about it, friends who live in Granada Hills have been saying we need a market out here. And so I talked to the Freemasons (who sponsor the market), and they said that they want to get involved with the community, they want to get the community up and strong. "It's a certified farmers market, and a family festival too. We'll have jumpers, kids' rides, entertainment," Alfafara said. In addition to farmers from ou...

This Friday night, hilltop dining concern The Odyssey Restaurant will play host to a concert featuring more-than-one-hit wonders Evelyn "Champagne" King and Zapp. No expense was spared for the show's vigorous publicity campaign, in which promoters stapled rainbow-hued signs on every nearby freeway onramp and even mentioned the show on MySpace, which is a world wide web site on the Internet. With its magnificent vista and prosaic menu, The Odyssey is better known for bar mitzvahs than for funk, but GigaGranadaHills has high hopes this might be the start of a new trend. Today Zapp; perhaps tomorrow, the P-Funk All Stars reunion show! It could happen! Are you reading this, George ? Metallic jumpsuits match the metallic talkbox sound in this video of Zapp in their heyday, before frontman Roger Troutman and his brother Larry died in a murder-suicide. Brother Terry Troutman now fronts the band. Evelyn "Champagne" King is best known for "Love Come Down...

On Saturday, July 24th at 8:00pm, Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council is hosting the first ever Granada Hills Movie Night , and they're asking the public to choose from five family-friendly films for the free event, which will be held at Petit Park. And the nominees are: The Sandlot Happy Feet E.T. Finding Nemo The Incredibles You may be thinking to yourself right now: " Why, I simply adore The Sandlot , (or E.T., or Happy Feet, or Finding Nemo) and I think I shall vote to have that film chosen for the screening!" Yet in this particular instance, thinking for yourself is actually highly overrated, as well as inappropriate and simply unnecessary. The proper procedure is to visit surveymonkey.com , and click the radio button next to The Incredibles , which is clearly the best choice for this historic event. The Sandlot ? I'm afraid not. Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central sums it up: "Playing like a particularly sickening distillation between A Christmas ...

It's not our responsibility, therefore our actions will have no impact. That's essentially the conclusion of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIC) released by Metropolitan Water District this week on the construction of the Jensen Solids Handling Facility Project, which will result in the closure of the Balboa Youth Sports Complex baseball and soccer fields before the end of 2010. The report concludes that "There are no impacts to recreation resulting from this project" because "Providing park and recreational facilities for local communities in the City of Los Angeles is not the financial or institutional responsibility of Metropolitan and is not a required or feasible mitigation for Metropolitan for this project." Although the report acknowledges that "loss of the recreational and social opportunities provided by the ball fields due to expiration of the lease would result in a significant inconvenience to residents through the loss of...