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Issue 253 |
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Your cultural event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in Los Angeles this week. |
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Los Angeles
Jan 2-7, 2008
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2007 is over, and the season of giving is behind us. Now, we can finally get back to the serious business of entertaining our own bad selves. Decompress with a host of top-shelf flicks, from gold standard Dr. Zhivago to newer classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Shake it out at the live-drumming championships or the first Bootie LA of the new year, or walk it off at any of the new art shows opening this week at galleries all over town. However you spend your regained "you" time, do it with resolve, and spread it.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Yue Minjun
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One of the leaders of the Chinese avant-garde art movement, Yue Minjun is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, and sculptures, whose laughing characters are based on self-portraits. Using humor to comment on a variety of social issues, Yue has been most closely identified with a group of Chinese artists known as cynical realists.
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Eco-Chic
A wave of nature-nurturing fashion trends is hitting the market.
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Jahcoozi
A multi-cultural trio with ties to London, Sri Lanka, NYC, Berlin, and Tel Aviv.
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FILM
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
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Wednesday Jan 2
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Arclight Hollywood (6360 Sunset Blvd, 323.464.4226)
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Period-piece machine David Lean directed Doctor Zhivago, the 1965 classic adaptation of Boris Pasternak's sprawling Russian saga. The epic portrays the fierce love between a sensitive poet/surgeon, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), and a dressmaker's daughter, Lara (Julie Christie), whose affair is curtailed by the (decidedly picturesque) Russian revolution. As hard-to-pronounce characters careen across the screen and subplots are interwoven, the episodic narrative develops as an elegant train ride through a rough, romantic personal and national history.
- Jason Jude Chan
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FILM
Peppermint Candy (1999)
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Thursday Jan 3 (7:30pm)
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (5905 Wilshire Blvd, 323.857.6000)
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With only four films to his credit, director Lee Chang-dong has earned a reputation as one of South Korea's most notable filmmakers. His first film, Peppermint Candy, opens with an exhausted, middle-aged business man at the end of his wits. After an unexpected encounter with old acquaintances, the man hurls himself into the path of an oncoming train, and the film spins backwards in time. Encompassing 20 years of South Korean history — from the student uprisings of the early '80s to the Asian financial crisis of the late '90s — Lee's breakthrough debut unfolds a stirring story of regret, first love, and letdowns.
- Jason Jude Chan
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
First Fridays feat. Sea Wolf
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Friday Jan 4 (6–11pm)
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Natural History Museum (900 Exposition Blvd, 213.763.3466)
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Local indie troubadours Sea Wolf (helmed by Alex Brown Church) kick off a new year of education, exhibitions, and entertainment at the NHM's First Fridays series. The sextet gently weaves cello, finger-picked guitar, heartfelt piano, and ambient swells of synth strings together with driving rhythms and a gypsy accordion. Sea Wolf traffic in dreamy, bittersweet nostalgia — you can almost feel the deck of an ancient ship creak under your feet as you depart for distant lands. It's the perfect inauguration for the 2008 First Fridays theme, "History Repeating."
- Lucinda Knapp
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ART
David Sandlin: Swamp Preacher & Martha Rich: Imitation Snakeskin Superstore
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Friday Jan 4 (11am–9pm)
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La Luz de Jesus (4633 Hollywood Blvd, 323.666.7667)
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While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's large-scale paintings, Silverlake's edgier La Luz presents a handful of the artist's oil-on-panel works. In addition to these more complex works, the exhibition also lends space to several dozen drawings taken from Sandlin's Swamp Preacher Fantagraphics series. La Luz complements these works with Martha Rich's Imitation Snakeskin Superstore, a mixed-media project influenced by the department-store wishbooks of the '60s and '70s for which the artist herself modeled as a young girl.
- Ashley Tibbits
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There will be an opening reception on Fri Jan 4 (8-11pm).
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ART
Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk
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Saturday Jan 5 (noon–5pm)
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Lawrence Asher Gallery (5820 Wilshire Blvd, 323.935.9100)
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The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from the physical and emotional experiences locked within architecture and public spaces. Sculptor John Krawczyk coaxes fluidity and fleshiness from metal, while painter Kyoung Ha Yoo employs a considerable bag of stylistic tricks, conjuring conceptual urban environments using glimmer, texture, collage, drawing, and exotic symbols. Tying the show's many approaches together, Jon Tarry employs painting, sculpture, and collage works in a series that uses several locations' indigenous materials to represent those locales' airport runways.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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There will be a reception for the artists on Sat Jan 5 (6-10pm).
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MORE FLAVOR: Lecture
David Gonzales
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Sunday Jan 6 (2pm)
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Pasadena Museum of California Art (490 E Union St, 626.568.3665)
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Mexican American cartoonist David Gonzales looks to his own barrio for inspiration. In high school, the LA native created Homies, a series of adventures about his real-life amigos, and fashioned the main character, Hollywood, after himself. Those same friends started asking for comic strips and — long story short — Gonzales helmed a franchise that made its way from Lowrider magazine into Wal-Mart and then onto bumper stickers and women's underwear. Tonight at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the artist discusses his work, struggles, and success.
- Julian Hooper
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FILM
Metropolis (1927)
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Monday Jan 7 (8pm)
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Arclight Hollywood (6360 Sunset Blvd, 323.464.4226)
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Perhaps Fritz Lang's finest two hours, Metropolis partially arose from his first sighting of a 1920s nighttime New York skyline. The reel's mechanized monuments stem from this real-life revelation, as the imposing architectural patterns become the first symptom of the alienated, all-too-efficient future society. With a caste system separating the masses of subterranean slaves and the elevated, decadent elite, the film captures the incipient phase of a literal social groundswell led by Joan of Anarchy, Maria. The megalomaniacal master's son does a Buddha-like pirouette after witnessing the workers' suffering, while his father fabricates another agenda. A Socialist sci-fi fever dream, the film reverberates far after its concluding pandemonium.
- Jason Jude Chan
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A Q&A follows with Daily Variety's John Burlingame and special guest Dr. Cornelius Schnauber.
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MUSIC: Classical
Monday Evening Concerts: Exercises en Route
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Monday Jan 7 (8pm)
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Herbert Zipper Concert Hall (200 S Grand Ave, 213.621.2200)
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Composer Earl Kim's celebrated song cycle Exercises en Route was inspired by the difficult, delicate writings of Irish literary giant Samuel Beckett. A slate of renowned musicians performs Exercises tonight, alongside works by members of the ensemble — including the West Coast premiere of Boccadoro's Bad Blood — as part of the Monday Evening Concerts series' progressive avant-classical repertoire.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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ART
Wallace Berman: Photography and Other Works of Art 1950-1976
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Wednesday Jan 2 (10am–6pm)
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Michael Kohn Gallery (8071 Beverly Blvd, 323.658.8088)
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Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show, you've probably never heard his name before. The jack of all arts (poetry, sculpture, collage — you name it, he's made it) and social butterfly (his huge circle of influential friends included a pre-"Mickey" Toni Basil) finally gets his due at Michael Kohn Gallery, whose ongoing exhibition is a mini-survey of Berman's murky, beautiful assemblages and photographs.
- Justin Izbinski
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MORE FLAVOR: Parade
31st Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade
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Sunday Jan 20 (11:30am)
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Old Town Pasadena (Raymond & Colorado)
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In true bizarro-LA style, the Pasadena Doo Dah parade flaps its ungainly wings for its 31st incarnation. A wacky send-up of the upright 'n uptight Rose Parade, the Doo Dah features a precision Hibachi Grilling Team, "Howdy Krishnas," Billionaires for Bush, more drag queens than you can shake a wig at, a synchronized napping team, and countless other bohemian weirdos parading their best out-of-this-world, out-of-the-box creations. It's an explosion of Mad Hatter brilliance mated with incisive cultural monkey-wrenching.
- Lucinda Knapp
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FILM
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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Tuesday Jan 15 (8pm)
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Arclight Hollywood (6360 Sunset Blvd, 323.464.4226)
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Don a bowler and brush up on your Nadsat for tonight's screening of Stanley Kubrick's radical classic A Clockwork Orange. The notorious adaptation of Anthony Burgess' novel follows Alex DeLarge (modern misfit Malcolm McDowell) as he carouses with his dumb-but-obedient droogs and causes ultraviolence in a near-future Britain. Tramps are trampled, and slang is esoterically but enjoyably slung, until Alex becomes an experimental subject for the state's sadistic Ludovico technique, which aims to divest him of old affinities. This consummate favorite is an eye-opening experience with a stylized slate of pessimism, satire, and mordantly imagined music — including the strangest rendition of "Singin' in the Rain" ever recorded.
- Jason Jude Chan
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This screening is followed by a Q&A with moderator Jon Burlingame and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker and A Clockwork Orange DVD commentator Nick Redman.
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