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18 PASADENA WEEKLY | <strong>09.13.18</strong>
• ARTS • YESTERDAY’S NEWS THE SHELTERS, LAS CAFETERAS, BLACK JOE LEWIS, THE DIP, DUSTBOWL REVIVAL AND MORE BRING VINTAGE SOUNDS AND STYLES UP TO DATE AT SANTA ANITA PARK SATURDAY P.21 FROM CHAOS TO ‘COMPLETE’ AUTHOR GLEN DAVID GOLD TELLS OF HIS UNIQUELY DICKENSIAN FORMATIVE YEARS IN ‘I WILL BE COMPLETE’ BY CARL KOZLOWSKI FILM | THEATER | BOOKS | MUSIC | COMMUNITY | LISTINGS GOOD VIBES VINTAGEVIBE PRESENTS 13 ECLECTIC BANDS IN A DAYLONG MUSIC FESTIVAL SATURDAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK P.24 The adage that truth is stranger than fiction certainly applies to the extremely colorful life of author Glen David Gold, who attained worldwide smash-hit success with his 2001 debut novel “Carter Beats the Devil” and its 2009 follow-up, “Sunnyside.”. Those two works of historical fiction — with “Carter” based loosely on the life of underrated master magician Charles Joseph Carter and “Sunnyside” imagining an alternate history for Charlie Chaplin’s rise to Hollywood stardom — have been translated into 14 languages and continue to sell. Yet Gold’s own Dickensian childhood, with his father disappearing after his parents divorced when he was young and then finding himself abandoned in San Francisco when his mom abruptly moved to New York City when he was 12, forms the basis of what might be his most riveting work yet: the memoir “I Will Be Complete.” Gold will be discussing and signing “Complete” at 7 p.m. Monday at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena. “The reason I decided to do it now is I tried to tell people my life stories as fiction and no one would believe them,” explains Gold. “I kept running into people with weird-ass stories themselves, or made things happen for themselves that were outside the realms of CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 SWEET AND SOUR ‘WHITE BOY RICK’ AND ‘PEPPERMINT’ OFFER VASTLY DIFFERENT TAKES ON THE URBAN CRIME GENRE P.27 GET YOUR OWN... BY JOHN SOLLENBERGER DIGITAL INSIGHT Conscientious Projector presents the documentary “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet against Democracy,” based on the book by Robert McChesney, exploring threat that telecom and tech monopolies pose to Internet freedom and American democracy, screening at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday, Sept. 13 at Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Free. Call (818) 517-8878 or visit conscientiousprojector.wordpress.com. PHOTO 411 Crowell Public Library offers a free digital photography class by commercial photographer George Simian from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at 1890 Huntington Drive, San Marino. Free. Call (626) 300-0777 or visit crowellpubliclibrary.org. CLASSIC FLICK Descanso Gardens screens the film “Chinatown” (1974), starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, at 7 p.m. Sunday at 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada Flintridge. Free, but visit descansogardens.org to register. Call (818) 949-4200. STORIES IN DRAG Vroman’s Bookstore presents Drag Queen Story Hour featuring LA’s most glittering, magical drag queens reading quirky, progressive children’s books at 3 p.m. Sunday at 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Call (626) 449-5320 or visit vromansbookstore.com. <strong>09.13.18</strong> | PASADENA WEEKLY 19
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