Genius. Why Nike is still killing the game.

On Saturday, July 31st: Civil Clothing in Junction with our good friends at the Crosby bring you Birds of a Feather, a party commemorating our Fall 2010 Season Launch.

Birds of Feather is an event that brings together all of us celebrating art, good music, and dope vibes.
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We’ll be bumpin 90s, Hip hop, Funk and soul, Dub, and a variety of tastes from our multi-talented sound selectors that get the dance floor poppin.

Come have a drink with us and vibe out with us for good times.

Music Selections for the Evening Provided by:
YAKUZA YUKI (ROULETTE / SHANGRI-LA / JAM CITY)
http://twitter.com/yakuza_yuki

UNCOVENTIONAL SCIENCE ( TOKEN RECLUSE/ FUNKY SOLE)

http://www.tokenrecluse.com/

http://www.myspace.com/funkysole

DJ MARK MARCELO( MINDZ ALIKE/ VICTORY NIGHTLIFE)
http://dj.markmarcelo.com/
http://twitter.com/markmarcelo

In addition: Free clothing giveaways of Civil with be going on through the night!!!

All going down @ The Crosby.

(21+) FREE ENTRANCE & FREE TEE SHIRTS GIVE AWAY TO LADIES & GENTS.

The Crosby
400 N. Broadway
Santa Ana, CA 92701

http://www.thisisthecrosby.com/

Civil Clothing LA

http://www.civilclothing.com/

Mike Giant’s career is the result of genuine curiosity and decades of drawing for five hours a day. He’s been—and remains—a world-class graffiti writer, tattooist and illustrator with his REBEL8 line. He’s made zines, skateboard designs, animations, prints, collages and stacks of interesting artist and company collaborations. He travels all over the world, rides his bikes, practices mindfulness, smokes a gang of weed, and is a fully tattooed goofball that one can bring to dinner parties.

Whether a page drawn in a friend’s black book amid collected signatures of other graffiti writers, or the large-scale works he hangs in galleries, Mike Giant’s drawings will fool you, even up close. The cleanliness, razor edges and solid blacks of the images all come from a Sharpie and Mike’s surgeon-steady hand, but look like they were printed. “In some ways, I took a lot of pride in that,” Mike explains. “As the graphic world has become more fixated on vector graphics, I think I wanted to show that I could replicate the same results by hand, thereby usurping the notion that computers are somehow ‘better,’ which I think is bullshit.”

Partial text thanks to Swindle.

The Visuals say enough so I don’t have too, perfectly complimenting the sonar pleasures.

In the car…

Stopped to get food…Met The King.

Arriving…

Lobby.

Admiring the view…

Dinner included a White Sangria with Red Bull…

and some hanging Shrimp : )

and another White Sangria with Red Bull…

…and another.

Woke up in the morning and headed down to the buffet…

Saw this shirt on the way to buffet. who remembers Big Dogs…LOL

: ) Yesss!

Found Andrew out side on a random Motorcycle…

Till next time… See yaaa!

However like most places, I insist you go for for lunch due to the lower prices, smaller crowds and more “bang for your buck”.

Toast with Artisanal cheese, both of cows milk candied pecans and organic honey.

Under “Unusual”.
This is an appetizer consisting of fresh, warm dungeness crab with avocado salad, cream, warm chipotle mayo, served with rich mango sorbet. Going into this course, I had a preconceived notion that the sorbet’s sweetness would be odd and cloying. Yet the richness and tropical flavor of the sorbet added the perfect bit of acid and sweetness needed to balance out the rich, meatiness of the fresh dungness meat with avocado. Being a chef is all about balancing flavors, with the multitude of components. You had spicy- jalapeno, salty- avocado, crab shell, umami-(earth flavor) Crab meat – sweet and tart- mango sorbet. The sorbet had the slight touch needed to take a good, solid dish to the exceptional level.

TAGINE OF MERGUEZ / NOUVELLE CALEDONIE SHRIMP / ROCK SHRIMP- chermoula, raisins, lemon confit, almonds, harissa, mint emulsion, apricot, medjool dates, ras el hanout spice

PS- Ras el Hanout is a Moroccan spice mixture rumoured to contain a Spanish fly. For you Top Chef fans, remember when Richard used Ras el Hanout to smoke crabcakes in a plastic bag to win his round over a very good chef.

This was a amazingly complex course, with a positively intriguing interaction between sweet and earth savory. I really appreciated the rich gameness of the earth flavors, the staple substantiation of the two kinds of shrimp, while the mint really helped uplift this very aggressively flavored dish. In fact, the whole amalgamation reminded myself of award-winning chili. What I liked about this dish, it had familiar flavors in the cumen and arabic spice blend but it was reworked in a new way as so to introduce me to a completely unique dish! Well done.

After my first trip, I had to go back.

FARM TARTE (La Querica)- Fennel pollen, speck ham, coppa salami, guanciale, lardo, Di Stefano burrata, wild roquette, huile d’olive d’Espagne

Amazingly there are four types of pork in this tarte which resembles more of an upper crust NY pizza than a savory tart. We’re talking guanciale (unsmoked jowl bacon),speck (juniper-smoked ham), coppa (neck/shoulder Neapolitan-Italian cold cut (salume) made from pork shoulder or neck, and dry-cured whole), and lardo (cured backfat). This cured meats come from La Quercia, one of the most renowned names in cured meats here in the US, so how could I resist this tart, made with no less than four types of pork? The play on the hint of creamy burrata cheese, bitter rocket was enhanced and balanced by the soulful, savory, yet briny salume. The crust was divine, too.

Foie gras with Torchon and pineapple- I truly enjoyed this dish although some people say other wise. The pineapple brings a lovely sense of tart, yet sweet tropical flavor that balances out the richness of the foie gras. Although some would opt for some more traditional food pairings, I tend to disagree.

Secret courses. Can you guess?

Featuring:

Delicious Vinyl
Joy Rich
Civil Clothing LA
Rojas
Dime Piece
L.A. RAP!
213 Jump Street
Mindy Lebrock”Electrocute”
Hello Drama jewelery
Beat Swapmeet
Barracuda
Dim Mak
Miss Mars
+more tba

B-boys, Super air bouncers, and a lounge section.

Artists from Delicious Vinyl as will be in the house.

This  going to be a on going event through out the summer time. The first installation will be on 6/13/10 (this Sunday) and starts @ 2pm; ends @ 8pm.

Featuring:

Summer Street Sale this Sunday, June 13th. Fashion, music, art galore!!!
With special guest Dj sets, drinks, dancing and shopping shopping shopping!!

There will be a Bouncer to jump around in, ice cream truck, gourmet organic food truck, cotton candy, snow cones as well as all the fashion for your summer wardrobe. “vintage and new”

This is a free event!
spread the word and come join us!!!

New video from Alpha pup artist “Take”.

“LA’s beat-centric Alpha Pup label recently added a new producer to its ranks with the melodic sub-loving styles of Take and his debut full-length, Only Mountain. Taken from said debut, “Incredibright” is a bit of a beguiling title for this slice of wobbling dubstep. The reverberated piano flourishes and plinking synth melodies, uh, brighten up the track, but—for the most part—Take’s mid-album jam is ruled by crunchy space trash and woozily sinister low-frequency sounds.”