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