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- Film: Documentary
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Darfur Now
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 @ Various locations
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It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many as 450,000 Fur, Zaghawa,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Polyphonic Spree
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
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Tim Delaughter's massive indie ensemble, the Polyphonic Spree, may have moved from the non-denominational church to the front lines (trading in their trademark robes for... View details »
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Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus
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Custo, Nike, Honda, and others have tapped Barcelona-based illustration sensation Catalina Estrada’s super-stylized imagery. Mark Todd, influenced by comic book artist legends like Jack Kirby,... View details »
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Mathieu Briand
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2
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While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things significantly further. A multimedia... View details »
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Bliss
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
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Roberts & Tilton associate director Lindsay Charlwood assumes the role of curator in this group show in the gallery's shared Domestic space. For the... View details »
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Camille Rose Garcia
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
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Los Angeles' own Camille Rose Garcia isn't just part of the hot "lowbrow" urban-art movement — she's a key player. Her self-dubbed "creepy cartoon" illustrations... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Hair
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (8pm) @ The MET Theatre
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Hair's original 1967 production was way ahead of its time, masterfully exploring the sexual revolution, mind-expanding drugs, and opposition to the Vietnam War. This new... View details »
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AFI Fest
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (4am–midnight) @ Various locations
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A must for serious film fans, this year's edition of the American Film Institute's annual festival features 11 days of screenings and movie-related events. Designed... View details »
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Marischa Slusarski
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery
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Marischa Slusarski's paintings would be at home in Bosch's nursery school. Her strange, surreal landscapes — full of hideously adorable babies and creatures cavorting most... View details »
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Overlook the Undergrowth
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery
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Thinkspace ventures into the depths of the forest's terrestrial foliage with Lesley Reppeteaux and Chris Ryniak, two artists whose enchantments include squinting, ghoulish, reptilian creatures... View details »
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Dave Kinsey
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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The theme of unlearning is an essential aspect in BLK/MRKT gallery owner Dave Kinsey's art. As a result, his multi-medium portraits are rife with diverse... View details »
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Immigrant Punk
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery
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There's a lot more to punk than style — after all, safety pins and mohawks were really just window dressing to the movement's underlying ethos.... View details »
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Chris Oatey
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery
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... t1:place w:st="on">Fresh-faced, LA-based multimedia artist Chris Oatey meticulously removes the majority of the detail from photo-based images, creating pattern-based abstractions based on... View details »
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Brendan Monroe: Insides
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery
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Internationally acclaimed, Berkeley-based artist Brendan Monroe returns to Richard Heller Gallery — one of the West Side's premier sources of contemporary art — for Insides,... View details »
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Francis Alÿs
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Hammer Museum
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Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
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Jennifer Faist
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10am–5:30pm) @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery
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Ironically, LA-based Jennifer Faist uses one of the most labor-intensive, obsessive processes imaginable to create serene, harmonious, and even poetic monochromes. After applying, setting, sanding,... View details »
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Sue de Beer
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey
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From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her protagonists appear alternately incandescent,... View details »
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Mark Dutcher
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs
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California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings of multi-colored circles, graffiti-like... View details »
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Kim Dingle
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lightbox Gallery
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Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes may seem the perfect... View details »
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A Great Delicacy
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
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Curator Melissa Levin has gathered six New York-based artists whose work focuses on the nature of consumables. While the duo of Rebecca Veit and Kathryn... View details »
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Anton Henning
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (10am–5:30pm) @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
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Anton Henning's loopy abstractions, painterly portraits, and grandiose furniture are loveable yet curiously familiar. Consuming broad swathes of modernism from Manet to Mondrian to late... View details »
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Iva Gueorguieva
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 @ Pomona College Museum of Art
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Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art. Iva Gueorguieva heeds Hugo's... View details »
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Nicole Eisenman
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
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The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the artist in a crude... View details »
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Soundwaves
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Friday Nov 2, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
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Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct use of music in... View details »
