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Cherry Glazerr
Photo by: Angela Ratzlaff

Walking into The Warehouse in El Monte, a make-shift music venue of what looked and smelled like an after-school community youth center, flashbacks of summer camps and Sunday school infiltrated the thought processes of many. The music and beachy vibes, however, quickly washed away any horrid, awkward youth camp memories.

The venue hosted a Beach Blowout on Friday night, welcoming teens, tweens, adults and everyone in between to jump into some serious surf rock action. While the turnout wasn’t as good as the last Warehouse show, which took place in March, the kids still had fun, dancing and bopping beach balls with each other.

Cherry Glazerr
Photo by: Angela Ratzlaff

Some of the featured bands included Cherry Glazerr, a girl-driven surf-pop group who sing songs about lipstick and french fries. The teen queens, who look like a hybrid of The Runaways and the sisters from “The Virgin Suicides,” call back on 1960s melodies and simplified rhythms. Their thrift shop outfits and bright red lips add an extra layer of sweetness over their doo-wopp tracks.

The Lolcats
Photo by: Angela Ratzlaff

Another Los Angeles group, The Lolcats, pulled out some twang guitar and fuzzed vocals, made possible by a neato phone-receiver microphone — a fine example of do-it-yourself practices.

Vaguess
Photo by: Angela Ratzlaff

Orange County’s Vaguess had their debut performance as a group, and, while dressed in kimonos and Japanese headbands, they hammered out blues-soaked punk jams that won the tweenies over.

The next Warehouse show will be on Friday, June 14, and it will feature groups like The Garden, Pookie and the Poodlez and The Ugly Kids.

Lights! Camera! Beach Formal Fashion!

It was fashion’s night out at the KX 93.5 FM Casino Night last weekend. At first, I was impressed with the big effort most attendees put into embracing the dress code for the gala, but when I got a better glance, I spotted very awful fashion felonies being committed. 

While the Laguna Beach elite stood out in haute couture, others just kind of stood there in casual tropical attire. Some outfits I instantly fell in love with, but others I would just rather forget I ever saw. It seems that some guests took the entire beach formal concept way too literally. As in half formal, half swimwear. Although I must admit KX 93.5 Program Director Tyler Russell pulled off what I call the “Seth Cohen Look” quite well by combining a Hugo Boss blazer, shirt and tie with a pair of grey pair of swim trunks, and brown sandals. Oh, Tyler! Summer Roberts would have been proud! (Yes, I’m making a reference to THE OC).

As for me, I decided to sport what I like to call the “A Sunday In The New York Hamptons Look.” If you’ve, seen Gossip Girl or Sex And The City, you know what I’m talking about. Anyway, I wore a white vintage Valentino jacket over a white Brooks Brothers shirt, and white Banana Republic pants. Yes, it was all white. Even the top siders I stole from my dad. I felt pretty confident, except for the fact that I didn’t get my shirt ironed (Oops!). But I guess that was my way of incorporating a beach touch into my  outfit, along with my mermaid-themed necklace by Marc Jacobs.

I was a big fan of Kimberly O’Brien Young’s Dolce & Gabbana black cocktail dress. She looked flawless, and her hair was fenomenal. She really looked like a barbie doll as she flaunted hergolden bangs and layered straight hair. When I approched her and asked her what she was wearing, she was a bit shy and said she wasn’t sure what “beach formal” meant, and so she decided to go black because it was appropriate, and let’s face it —black goes with anything! Indeed she was definitely one of the best dressed of the evening, as well as Laguna Beach socialite Sarah Koops Vanderveen, who wore a green dress with tropical pink and orange tropical patterns, with what seemed to be Jimmy Choo high heels. Pure elegance!

Seriously, though, fashionistas. What does beach formal fashion mean to you? Please, tell me. I promise I won’t judge. 

XOXO, L.