Here are the links to the 2011 Harvest Moon Festival Program:

SEGMENT 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W18ofgUSpNE&feature=BFa&list=PL895D8A858F2BCD8C&lf=plpp

SEGMENT 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBYkDGUC7YI&feature=BFa&list=PL895D8A858F2BCD8C&lf=plpp

SEGMENT 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_9sxwFd_7c&feature=BFa&list=PL895D8A858F2BCD8C&lf=plpp

SEGMENT 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C35et_0sJw&feature=BFa&list=PL895D8A858F2BCD8C&lf=plpp

SEGMENT 5:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PPSYPadchQ&feature=autoplay&list=PL895D8A858F2BCD8C&lf=plpp&playnext=1

SEGMENT 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfmfA2AUjTA&feature=BFa&list=PL895D8A858F2BCD8C&lf=plpp

Despite the warm weather, the crowds came out trying to win one of five $500 cash prizes and the brand new 2012 Toyota Camry. Many fans came to the entertainment main stage area to cheer on their favorite musical talents.

I was the Festival Stage Manager for the event and spent many months planning and booked 16 groups, which comprised of local cultural dance troupes, as well as bands and popular YouTube artists. It was a joy working with everyone and seeing all the young talent share their love of music and the arts with the community. It was like a mini-reunion for all the artists (Manny Garcia, Tranley, Dan Matthews from afterschoolspecial, Jennifer Chung, Jason Chen and AJ Rafael). The admiration and love for one another was apparent when they all came to the stage and sang a collab (AJ's song, She Was Mine) as the last song of AJ Rafael's set. It was perfect. 

LA 18 HMF Special Program

if you missed yesterday's festival, make sure you catch the special 1 hour broadcast of the Harvest Moon Festival on LA 18!

The special will feature many of the fun activities and entertainment that took place today. The special will be in Mandarin.

Airdate for the Harvest Moon Festival Special Program:

- LA 18.1 on Friday, September 23 from 5-6pm

- LA 18.8 (LA 18’s 24-hour Mandarin language channel) on Saturday, Sept. 24 from 12-1pm.

LA 18 Harvest Moon Festival

Date:               Sunday, September 18, 2011

Time:               11am – 5pm

Location:         Arcadia County Park (405 S. Santa Anita Ave., Arcadia, CA 91006)

The LA 18 KSCI-TV 16^th Annual Harvest Moon Festival is a free event and takes place on Sunday, September 18^th at Arcadia County Park from 11am to 5pm.

Equivalent to Thanksgiving, the Harvest Moon Festival is a holiday celebrated by many Asian communities and revolves around the family, bountiful food and the full moon. Enjoy a family-filled event with Asian foods, live entertainment, cultural activities, shopping and prize giveaways.

Free Admission

Win a Brand New 2012 Toyota Camry! (Visit the Toyota Booth to fill out a raffle form, submit by 4:30pm)

$500 Cash Giveaway every hour starting at 1pm (Visit the LA 18 Booth to fill out a raffle form, submit by 4:30pm)

Live Entertainment

Food Trucks (Calbi Taco, Dogzilla Hot Dogs, Jogazaki Sushi Burrito, Naanstop, White Rabbit)

Kids Games and Jumpy Inflatables

Themed Pavilions

Festival Performance Line-Up

(All talent & times scheduled to appear, subject to change)

LOCAL TALENT

AJ Rafael                     ~4:30pm

Jason Chen                  ~ 4:03pm

Jennifer Chung            ~ 3:35pm

afterschoolspecial       ~ 2:58pm

Manny Garcia             ~ 1:30pm

Alfa                              ~ 12:55pm

Mahi                            ~ 12:27pm

Tranley                        ~ 12:04pm

Jason Yano                  ~ 11:46am

Ensemble Memo         ~ 11:19am

CULTURAL GROUPS

Awakened Blessing Lion Dance Troupe          ~ 11:02am

Bollywood Step Dance Company                    ~ 12:44pm

Hālau Hula Moani‘a‘ala Anuhea                    ~ 2:03pm

Kim Eung Hwa Korean Dance Academy         ~ 2:43pm

Makoto Taiko                                                  ~ 3:19pm

Vietnamese Traditional Arts Development Organization      ~1:52pm & 2:36pm

EMCEES

Jannelle So

Andy Chang

Arcadia County Park is located at 405 S. Santa Anita Avenue at the corner of Santa Anita Avenue and Huntington Drive. Free parking is available at Santa Anita Racetrack—Must enter through Gate 5. From there, you can take the free shuttle service from Santa Anita Race Track to Arcadia County Park.

For more information, please visit www.la18.tv  or

Harvest Moon Festival Hotline: (310) 442-2712

Contact the Main LA 18 Office: (310) 478-1818

The Mighty Boba Truck—a gourmet food truck that creates delicious Taiwanese food and Boba teas – came to LA 18 for a private event! Delicious lunch set boxes with boba drink!

All LA 18 Employees were excited for some Taiwanese eats and refreshing boba tea drinks to satisfy their palates.

This was our first time ever having a food truck come to the station to cater. We didn’t know what to expect and had to plan accordingly.

Our VP of HR and I set up a useful staggered lunch schedule to prevent any carmageddon-type back up of hungry employees. It worked out great!

Convenient + Delicious Food = Happy Employees, right?

(Flickr photos - http://flic.kr/s/aHsjv...)
Aired on Mandarin Evening News 
Tuesday, 6/21/11 | www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZhSPEuO4V0

Lunch Box Meal Set comes with choice of entrée, rice, veggies and boba tea drink!
Entrée Choices: (pictures attached)
- Buttermilk Popcorn Chicken: bite-sized popcorn chicken (basil and buttermilk batter)
- Island Pork Chops: grilled boneless pork chops with Taiwanese Island flavors
- Taiwanese Sweet Sausage: sweet pork sausage made with Taiwanese spices
- Marinated Tofu Steak: slabs of tofu marinated in sweet soy sauce and grilled to perfection
Drink Choices: (with or without boba) You can also customize the amount of sweetness
- Milk Teas: Milk tea, Milk green tea, Honey milk tea, Honey milk green tea, Almond milk tea
- Refreshing Teas: Black tea, Green tea, Honey black or green tea, Passion fruit black or green tea, Mango black or green tea
- Ask for their flavor of the month!

台灣美食融入美式餐車文化
在聖蓋博谷等華人聚集地區，到處都可以吃到台灣料理，不過現在有兩位來自台灣的柏克萊加大高材生，特別發揮創意，將台灣小吃融入美式餐車文化，打造一台專賣台灣美食的餐車­，讓台灣美食走出華人社區，征服更多老饕的胃，今天這輛帶著獨特風味的台灣美食餐車，來到了位於西洛杉磯的洛城18台，接下來透過我們的鏡頭，帶您看看另一種形式的「台式­美食」行銷方式。

For more mighty info - www.mightyboba.com

The 405 Freeway is one of the major freeways used in LA and residents are already planning their getaway plan to escape and avoid the traffic congestion all together. While those who decide to stay in the area, restaurants and businesses are already lining up their Carmageddon-themed drink specials and heavily discounted entrees, with hopes locals will ride this out together over a delicious meal and merry drinks.

Metro and Metrolink recently announced their planned transit services during the closure weekend - July 16-17, 2011. Metro will provide free rides on the Metro Red/Purple Line subway, as well as on the Metro Orange Line and select bus lines during the closure weekend to further spur transit trips between the San Fernando Valley and downtown Los Angeles. Valley residents are encouraged to park at available park & ride lots at North Hollywood, Van Nuys, Sepulveda, Balboa, Reseda, Pierce College and Canoga Stations, that together offer more than 4,000 parking spaces, and ride Metro to reach their destinations. Walking, bicycling or taking transit to access stations is also encouraged.

The Metro Board gave the CEO authority to offer additional free fares on the Metro Bus and Rail system, particularly for Westside and other needed service areas.

Metro will also add a total of 61 buses to normal Saturday and Sunday schedules for eight major bus lines and up to 16 buses to protect late night and owl services serving key San Fernando Valley/Westside routes to accommodate increased travel times. Both the Metro Red and Purple Lines will operate weekday peak period service levels, or approximately every 10 minutes all weekend, with six and four car trains, respectively. The Metro Green Line will also run every 10 minutes throughout the weekend.

Metro will closely monitor traffic congestion on all routes in the I-405 construction area and will make needed adjustments to bus service based on the current traffic conditions. Transit patrons should, however, anticipate longer trip times to reach their destinations and plan accordingly.

Metrolink will supplement its current weekend schedule by offering seven round-trips on its Ventura County Line and nine additional trips on its Antelope Valley Line during the closure weekend. Metrolink will also offer its $10 Weekend Pass, which enables passengers to ride any Metrolink train, as many times as they would like between Friday night at 7pm and Sunday night at 11:50pm for one low rate.

More information on Metrolink service and affordable ticketing options can be found at metrolinktrains.com.

For additional information on Metro bus schedules, visit metro.net.

For more information about the 405 freeway closure visit metro.net/405.

Free Service

Remember, to brace yourselves this weekend!! Between word-of-mouth public awareness, residents traveling out of town and taking subsidized Metro transporation fare, I'm hoping this weekend won't be the defined 'Carmageddon.' As for me, I'm planning to go out of town. :)

The Mulholland Dr Bridge will be the third bridge demolished and reconstructed to accommodate the widening of the I-405 freeway and to add a northbound high-occupancy vehicle lane through the Sepulveda Pass. The Mulholland Dr Bridge is scheduled to be demolished and reconstructed after the Skirball Center Dr Bridge. When completed, the expanded, Mulholland Center Dr Bridge will be widened by approximately 10 feet and will be designed to the latest seismic standards.

Demolition activities will take place over the July 16-17 weekend for 53 consecutive hours, resulting in the full freeway closure of the I-405 freeway in the Sepulveda Pass. The Mulholland Dr Bridge will also be closed that weekend. Some intermittent closures of the Mulholland Dr Bridge will occur during the preparation for bridge demolition and bridge reconstruction. Access will always be provided for emergency responders.

Here are the I-405 freeway closure boundaries for the July 16-17 weekend:

• Northbound I-405: 10-mile closure between I-10 and U.S. 101
• Southbound I-405: 4-mile closure between U.S. 101 and Getty Center Drive Ramps

On Friday, July 15, ramps along the 10 mile closure will begin to be shut down as early as 7 p.m., and closure of freeway lanes will begin at 10 p.m. to ensure full freeway closure by midnight. The closure will continue until 5 a.m. Monday morning, July 18. Ramps and connectors will be reopened by 6 a.m.

Completed Mulholland Bridge, South View

Sepulveda Bl is intended as an alternate route for local resident access only. Sepulveda Bl will not have the capacity to accommodate both local and diverted freeway traffic. Those using Sepulveda Bl should expect extreme congestion and lengthy delays. Motorists should instead use alternate regional freeway routes to completely bypass the Sepulveda Pass.

Severe traffic conditions are anticipated in local and regional areas during the weekend of the full freeway closure. Detour maps will be available to reroute local traffic through the area.  Also alternative regional freeway routes will be available to encourage the traveling public to avoid this area completely during the weekend of the bridge demolition. 

To reduce the impacts on local traffic flow, the Mulholland Dr Bridge demolition and reconstruction will be conducted in two separate phases. The southern half of the bridge will be demolished first, followed by approximately 11 months of south side bridge reconstruction. Upon completion, the northern side of the bridge will be demolished and rebuilt in the same manner.

During reconstruction, the Mulholland Dr Bridge will accommodate one lane of traffic in each direction. The new traffic configurations for the Mulholland Dr Bridge will go into effect in mid-July 2011. Implementing these new traffic configurations and isolating the work zone will help the contractor prepare for demolition. The contractor will be:

• Surveying the existing bridge's condition
• Removing false deck from inside the bridge
• Installing temporary traffic signals and signs and street lighting
• Surveying and protecting existing utilities
• Setting up construction yards
• Developing detour routes for emergency vehicles

The I-405 project website will have the latest updates regarding construction work.

For a Television Entertainment News or Feature—Harry Chang, April Kuan, Sheau-Yun Song, Su Li and Josh Chiang are nominated for their story on “The Real Bruce Lee.” They will be up against George Pennachio’s piece, among others.

For Television Talk / Public Affairs – Jannelle So is nominated for her story on “Surviving human trafficking, sexual assault, death conviction.” Some KCET stories are also nominated in the same category.

Winners will be announced at The Los Angeles Press Club 53^rd Annual Journalism Dinner on Sunday, June 26, 2011, at The Biltmore Millennium Hotel. Best of luck to our LA 18 Journalists!

Concert:               7 pm
Location:              Pasadena Civic Auditorium (300 E. Green Street, Pasadena, CA 91101-2308)

Thousand Hearts Benefit Concert: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Aid Project

Thousand Hearts is a multi-cultural, multi-generational benefit concert for the survivors of the earthquake / tsunami in Japan scheduled for Saturday, April 23, 2011 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

100% of net proceeds will go directly to the hardest hit areas in the Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures to assist with the ongoing relief efforts and to help the people of Japan recover and rebuild their lives.

Produced by Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Aid Project (JETAP), an organization consisting of community leaders and producers with experience producing live music events

Performing Artists
- Hiroshima - 2010 Grammy-nominated (Best Pop Instrumental Album) jazz group using traditional Japanese instruments
- Quest Crew - Winner of MTV's America's Best Dance Crew Season 3 and featured on American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance?
- Paul Dateh and Ken Belcher - hip hop violinist/vocalist and guitarist who has toured nationally and internationally and garnered millions of YouTube views

Celebrities / Hosts & MCs
- Lou Diamond Phillips - Courage Under Fire, Young Guns, La Bamba
- Mark Dacascos - Iron Chef America, Hawaii Five-O, Brotherhood of the Wolf
- Briana Evigan - Sorority Row, Step Up 2: The Streets
- Julia Ling - Chuck, E.R., Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Presenting Sponsor – Toyota

Platinum Sponsor – LA 18 KSCI-TV

For more information:

www.thousandhearts.org

www.facebook.com/thousandhearts

www.twitter.com/thousand_hearts

Email: info@thousandhearts.org

Tel: (626) 888-1543

The multi-lingual program will broadcast in the following languages:
- Japanese from 4:00 – 4:30pm and hosted by United Television Broadcast host Miyuki Inoue.
- Tagalog from 4:30 to 5:00pm and hosted by “Kababayan LA’s” Jannelle So.
- Korean from 5:00 to 5:30pm and by hosted by “Primetime News” anchor, Jean Yoo.
- Mandarin from 5:30 to 6:00pm and hosted by “Evening News” anchors Harry Chang and Christine Chiang.

The special will direct viewers to organized relief fundraising efforts currently underway by the International American Red Cross, UNICEF and the International Medical Corps.