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Strap on your guitar, grap your sticks, and step up to that mic because this Presidents Day Weekend, your body will ROCK!!! Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp is going all out this February by bringing you the greats- Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai, Matt Sorum and much much more. Write and Record an origina ...More

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Strap on your guitar, grap your sticks, and step up to that mic because this Presidents Day Weekend, your body will ROCK!!! Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp is going all out this February by bringing you the greats- Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai, Matt Sorum and much much more. Write and Record an original song at a world class recording studio with Led Zepplin's and the Beatle's producer, Eddie Kramer, and take home a professionally produced DVD and mp3 of your final performance. Cruise through the sunset strip jamming with rockstars and performing live at major venues in Hollywood including the Gibson Showroom in Beverly Hills and the legendary Whisky-A-Go-Go. So don't wait to book your flight and reserve your spot because this camp is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to step out of your basement and into the limelight!

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Alex Gilvarry discusses and signs From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel

High fashion and homeland security clash in a masterful debut.

Boyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fr ...More

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Alex Gilvarry discusses and signs From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant: A Novel

High fashion and homeland security clash in a masterful debut.

Boyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fresh out of design school in Manila. With dubious financing and visions of Fashion Week runways, he sets up shop in a Brooklyn toothpick factory, pursuing his goals with monkish devotion (distractions of a voluptuous undergrad not withstanding). But mere weeks after a high-end retail order promises to catapult his (B)oy label to the big time, there's a knock on the door in the middle of the night: the flamboyant ex-Catholic Boyet is brought to Gitmo, handed a Koran, and locked away indefinitely on suspicion of being linked to a terrorist plot. Now, from his 6' x 8' cell, Boy prepares for the trial of his life with this intimate confession, even as his belief in American justice begins to erode.

With a nod to Junot Diaz and a wink to Gary Shteyngart, Alex Gilvarry's first novel explores some of the most serious issues of our time with dark eviscerating wit.

ISBN: 9780670023196
Price: $26.95

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Lecture: Donations Welcome.
For Info: (310) 621-2144 etan@veronicala www.veronicalan Because of the great variety of Buddhist traditions currently practiced, we will review the basic principles whi ...More

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Lecture: Donations Welcome.
For Info: (310) 621-2144 etan@veronicalanebooks.com www.veronicalanebooks.com
Because of the great variety of Buddhist traditions currently practiced, we will review the basic principles which Siddatha Gotama (563 BCE - 480 BCE) himself taught to the order of monks, nuns and laity. This talk presents basic Buddhist concepts derived directly from the canonical discourses (suttas) of the Buddha himself, as translated from the oldest extant Sinhalese manuscripts. We will cover the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, annica (impermanence), annata (non-self), silas (moralities), samadhi (concentration), vipassana (insight), dhamma (doctrine) and nibbana (extinction). Etan Boritzer is the author of "What is God?"