Tuesdays, July 11, 18, & 25. The Gardenia’s OPEN MIKE, with Keri Kelsey, host. Starting at 8:30 p.m., Keri Kelsey hosts a Singers’ Open Mike Night---the best in town, soon to celebrate its twenty-third anniversary. Sign-up, libations, and noshing begin at 7 p.m.
Sun., July 23, at 7:30 p.m. JOHN CICCOLINI parties down for his birthday. Nominated for an LA Weekly Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for his cabaret show, “Frank Sinatra F#@ked Up My Life,” Mr. Ciccolini, the consummate entertainer, has also guest-starred on Raising Hope, Castle, No Ordinary Family, Dexter, Justified, ER, The Sitter, Dirty Sexy...
Sat., July 22. JEUDI. This “vintage-style chanteuse,” Jeudi Cornejo Brealey, comes by her passions naturally, as the daughter of a suave, storytelling Costa Rican tuna pole-fisherman father and a stylish Mexican American mother who competed in USO swing dance contests while working in an airplane factory by day. Encouraged by her family to explore the...