Cabaret hybrid L.A. style

My pal and fierce dancer/choreographer/aerialist Miss Liza Rose is part of this urban slick jazz cabaret with dames called the Toledo show down in Santa Monica on sunday nights. Somehow when downtown comes to L.A. it gets cleaner and better dressed. I have always thought live music was the shit in L.A.... the bands are tighter, the chicks/dudes are tighter...everyone is bright and clean and slick -- even at the loft parties downtown. In NYC live music so erratic and often screechingly bad or just ill produced with condoms stuck to the bottom of your feet and you go like WHY? Why did I pay 10 bucks for this loud shadowy shit? So as much as I bitch about how everything takes five millions years in l.a. and no one goes out, and the only difference between rich people and poor here is how nice their TV's are.... I gotta hand it to the live musicians and performers. They're cookin' . And usually color coordinated.