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- Music: Rock/Pop
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CANCELED The Decemberists
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (8pm) @ The Wiltern
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Despite a penchant for more-absurdist-than-thou lyrics and off-kilter instrumentation, neo-prog folksters the Decemberists are actually pretty populist — courting landlords' daughters, barrow boys, and indie-pop... View details »
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The Films of Jean Painlevé
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (7:30pm) @ Aero Theatre
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Anarchist, pseudo-scientist, and experimental filmmaker Jean Painlevé viewed underwater life with a strange, fantastical eye, and his camera gave birth to a unique genre of... View details »
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Glenn Ligon
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (7pm) @ Hammer Museum
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Whether anger, irreverence, or strategy motivates Glenn Ligon's paintings and neon wall-works is open for debate. He grafts racially and sexually charged text onto rarefied... View details »
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$mall ¢hange
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (9pm) @ Zanzibar
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One of the Atlantic coast's most venerated spin swamis, $mall ¢hange lugs his deep crates to the left coast for a night of seriously opiated... View details »
- Art
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Stan's Cafe
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center
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In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of rice, creating a hauntingly... View details »
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Mathieu Briand
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Thursday Nov 29, 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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Clive Barker
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (noon–9pm) @ Bert Green Fine Art
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Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The script he submitted for... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Cry-Baby
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ La Jolla Playhouse
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We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary Baltimorean a household name.... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Hair
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Thursday Nov 29, 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 »
- Film: Documentary
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Darfur Now
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Thursday Nov 29, 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 »
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Catalina Estrada & Mark Todd
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Thursday Nov 29, 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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Giant Robot Biennale
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (9am–5pm) @ Japanese American National Museum
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Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine, galleries in both San... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
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Victor Burgin
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
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The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
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Francis Alÿs
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–9pm) @ 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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Adrià Julià
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART
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A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last year at the Orange... View details »
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Mark Mothersbaugh
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space
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Mark Mothersbaugh, the DEVO diva-turned-soundtrack composer, designs rugs the way David Byrne designs chairs — as humorous objects, not items of sleek chic. Mothersbaugh's idiosyncratic... View details »
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Joan Tucker
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery
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Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism, this Detroit-born, LA-based painter's... View details »
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Green
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery
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From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who were asked to explore... View details »
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Milo Martin
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (8am–3pm) @ Brickhouse Kitchen
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Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so it makes sense that... View details »
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Cherie Benner Davis
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones
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LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the physical and psychological world.... View details »
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Robert Hardgrave
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling a "Fantastic Voyage" vision... View details »
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Sue de Beer
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Thursday Nov 29, 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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Plays Well With Others
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College
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Following the DIY aesthetic to a T, Sharon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth, and Leslie Yagar, collectively known as the ladies of PiNK (Pins, Needles, and Knives... View details »
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Kim Dingle
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Thursday Nov 29, 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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Thursday Nov 29, 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 »
- Film
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Diva 25th Anniversary
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (midnight) @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
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A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the glossy, style-conscious movement that... View details »
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Pascual Sisto
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ De Soto Gallery
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If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds. Like his Spanish countryman,... View details »
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Iva Gueorguieva
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Thursday Nov 29, 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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Sandow Birk
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
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Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot, whose Miseries and Misfortunes... View details »
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Nicole Eisenman
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Thursday Nov 29, 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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Ellen de Meutter
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
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For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with desolate backdrops. The collection... View details »
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Carole Caroompas
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Western Project
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Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project, she counts films by... View details »
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Jen Liu
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery
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Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once again entrenched in humorously... View details »
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Dream of Today
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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East meets West (coast, that is) in this exhibition of 14 NYC-based up-and-comers. Independent curator and New York gallerist Amy Smith-Stewart lends her well-trained eye... View details »
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Alex Kopps
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art
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Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't hold that against him.... View details »
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Soundwaves
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Julius Shulman
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Thursday Nov 29, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ Los Angeles Public Library
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Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else — and he's also shot... View details »
