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Issue 255 |
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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 15-21, 2008
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With no red carpet, no half-drunk movie stars, and neither Joan nor Melissa in evidence, the 2008 Golden Globes was admittedly anticlimactic. But LA will not be denied its parties — we still have myriad opportunities for winners, losers, and disappointed viewers to raise a glass and show off their best moves anyway. Whether you prefer a leather-daddy party on the East Side or a gallery opening on the West, dress up like you won something and spread it.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Lydia Millet
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Lydia Millet's fiction mixes the fantastic with sharp humor, philosophical digression, and an aching concern for the future of humanity — and all other species. Following the release of her new book, How the Dead Dream, Millet talks about the messianic, the maternal, and what animals can teach us.
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Pandatone
Pandatone's criminally overlooked Happy Together is a stripped-down, post-toytronica masterwork.
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Naples Gets Trashed
Responding to a garbage pileup, the Italian army headed to Naples for cleanup duty.
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FILM
Hollywood's Hellfire Club Evening
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Tuesday Jan 15 (8pm)
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The Silent Movie Theatre (611 N Fairfax Ave, 323.655.2510)
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$12
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Following the release of Hollywood's Hellfire Club, this event revives the wild, self-destructive world of the Bundy Drive Boys. The recent tome chronicles the high-flying shenanigans of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, and Errol Flynn — troublemakers equipped with plenty of free time and Hollywood-earned cash. Whether carousing at weeklong parties, chugging mint juleps, or chasing miniskirts, these prodigal spirits excelled in lascivious and luxurious mischief. Reviving the scandals, this screening features Barrymore's Svengali (1931), Fields' sordid short The Dentist (1932), and select clips from the group's incredible home movies. Original art from infamous forger John Decker is also on display.
- Jason Jude Chan
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
African-American Avant-Gardes, 1965-1990
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Wednesday Jan 16 (7:30pm)
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The Getty Center (1200 Getty Center Dr, 310.440.7300)
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FREE w/ RSVP
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The '70s and '80s were periods of explosive cultural, political, and artistic change in LA, particularly within the African-American community. Inspired by earlier generations, black artists, writers, and activists pursued boundary-pushing, genre-crossing ideas through collaborative projects, like historic multimedia collective Othervisions Studios, and the vibrant Leimert Park gallery scene that birthed visual artists Rick Buxie, Gregory Edwards, and David Hammons. Tonight's panel — featuring artist and UC Irvine professor Ulysses Jenkins, artist and filmmaker Barbara McCullough, and other luminaries of the era — addresses the history and legacy of one of LA's biggest cultural growth spurts.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC
Concrete Frequency: Man-Machine in the Digital City feat. Cornelius w/ Plaid
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Thursday Jan 17 (9pm)
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Disney Concert Hall (111 S Grand Ave, 213-972-7211)
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$28 - 37
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The modern metropolis' ever-shifting ambience inspired this acclaimed LA Phil miniseries. Tonight's installment is a symbiotic affair, dubbed Man-Machine in the Digital City, and stars the experimental sight-and-sound envelopments of Tokyo virtuoso Cornelius and British duo Plaid. Cornelius' famed Synchronized Sensuous Show sets his dizzying electronic sound — all elemental loops, layering, and patchwork beats — to outlandish visuals. Following the remixer's assembly is Plaid's equally arresting visual and sonic assault. The pair's live performance combines nimble melodies, splintered beats, and art-house video abstractions in an evening brimming with stimuli.
- Jason Jude Chan
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
LA Improv Dance Festival
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Friday Jan 18 (8:30pm)
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Diavolo Dance Theatre (615 Moulton Ave, 714.979.4700)
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Now in its fourth year, iD Fest continues to grow and attract national talent beyond the LA dance community. Festival director Jones Welsh has assembled a rich week of workshops investigating the myriad styles of improvisational dance, culminating in on-site collaborations between participants. The individual performances will be instantaneous fusions of disciplines and styles, percolating in and around each other during the week-long event. In keeping with the festival's core values, each performance has no set course and will inevitably evolve to create a singular event unique to its space and time.
- Allen Moon
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Friday's performance is pay-what-you-can.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Xu Xu Fang w/ Exitmusic and Winter Flowers
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Friday Jan 18 (9pm)
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Bordello Bar (901 E 1st St, 213.687.3766)
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Misfit dreamers Xu Xu Fang blend awkward hook runs with graceful power chords to make moody, sweet psychedelic jams. Their atmospheric sound crosses Jefferson Airplane with a little Radiohead and maybe a hint of Berlin. Xu Xu Fang are something of a local delicacy in LA's dens of weird pop, earning the band a growing number of radio plays and buzz among the more progressive sound mags. Also invited along for tonight's ride are nostalgic harmony junkies Winter Flowers and trip rockers Exitmusic.
- Jorge Barriere
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ART
Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Album Cover
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Saturday Jan 19 (11am–6pm)
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Robert Berman Gallery (Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave, 310.315.1937)
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Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging designer revolutionized the music industry with a simple idea: album covers should have art on them. Alongside Steinweiss' singular covers, paintings, and collages, the gallery shows an eclectic array of work by contemporary artists, ranging from the compelling, intricate sci-fi noir of David Trulli to the exuberant pop surrealism of Anthony Ausgang.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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There is an opening reception on Sat Jan 19 (6-9pm).
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Theatre of NOTE Performance Marathon
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Saturday Jan 19 (2pm–6am)
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Theatre of NOTE (1517 Cahuenga Blvd, 323.856.8611)
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$18
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If endless peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and an onslaught of monologues, costume pageants, daredevils, performance art, comedians, sword play, poetry slams, circus acts, animal tricks, and mockumentaries are up your alley, then Theatre of NOTE's Performance Marathon may just give you a joy attack. The Marathon celebrates its 13th year of uncensored, unbridled acts with ten-minute running times. Arrive early, leave, come back, leave again, come back again, and repeat as many times as you like — your 18 bucks gets you in and out from 2pm until the wee hours of the morning.
- Allen Moon
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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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MUSIC: Electronic
Mustache Mondays
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Monday Jan 21 (10pm)
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Charlie O's at the Alexandria (501 S Spring St, 213.626.1743)
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As West Hollywood clubs settle for a more "mainstream" mix, the ever-changing LA gay scene continues to migrate east. Tonight, queers on a quest for more edge head to downtown dive bar Charlie's O — located in slightly downtrodden, historic interior of the Alexandria Hotel. The reason to break out the chaps: Mustache Mondays, a provocative party that oozes '70s sleaze, homo hedonism, and Mapplethorpe-era madness. Nacho Biz, Josh Peace, Dino Dinco, and Total Freedom bring the beats — a combination of old-school house, electro, and drag-queen disco dirges.
- Julian Hooper
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ART
Don't Fence Me In
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Tuesday Jan 15 (11am–5pm)
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Bandini Art (2635 S Fairfax Ave, 310.837.6230)
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The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical, touching installation of paper bags filled with breath; Ashley Emenegger's I Heart My Fine China's delightfully inappropriate use of warm-colored felt, rubber snakes, and a Lite-Brite set; and Jennifer Vanderpool's bizarre, handcrafted stalactites and stalagmites made of disposable household materials. Also of note are Jennifer Celio's obsessively detailed large-scale pencil drawing depicting a storm cloud engulfing a parking lot and Sharon Ben-Tal's wispy modernist meditations on line and texture.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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