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Issue 256 |
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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 22-28, 2008
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With our beloved writers still twiddling their thumbs, it looks like reality-TV Land is going to stick around for a little longer — so unplug the tube already. Lucky for us, LA's mold-breaking art, music, and theatre make it easy to back away from the screen. Whether catching the world premier of hot-blooded theatre piece Victory, gawking over actual stars, rock 'n roll pole dancing in Venice, or photographic subversion in Culver City, skip the cathode rays in favor of good old-fashioned UV.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Office dA
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Multidisciplinary firm Office dA synthesizes green consciousness, respect for craft, and a love of iterating forms. The Boston firm's most outlandish combination of eco-friendly and algorithmic methods is Helios House, a LEED-certified BP gas station in LA. The silvery form is a notable departure from the firm's characteristic, understated elegance.
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Musicophilia
Neurologist Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia entertainingly illustrates the power music has over the human body.
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The Flavorpill Blog
The Flavorpill Blog highlights our hard-working crew and the company we keep.
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Media Mash-Up: Guy/Ken
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Tuesday Jan 22 (8pm)
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Bootleg Theater (2220 Beverly Blvd, 213.389.3856)
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This live, multimedia spectacular brings together two impressive artists: award-winning composer and choreographer Ken Roht and wildly inventive filmmaker Guy Maddin. Roht's Orphean Circus dancers perform elaborate routines during (and in between) Maddin's short films; meanwhile, media artist Jim Hickox constructs photo collages of both art forms. Call it a 3-D entertainment pastiche; call it Busby Berkeley on mushrooms; call it an avant-garde mashup; whatever label you prefer, this film, theater, and music extravaganza is guaranteed brain candy.
- JT Priest
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
Listen Again: Music You Should Change Your Mind About Right Now
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Tuesday Jan 22 (8:30pm)
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REDCAT (631 W 2nd St, 213.237.2800)
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Some musicians' popularity obscures their objective badness (Mariah Carey, James Blunt), and some artists are so universally reviled that they're actual pop-culture pariahs (Creed, Céline Dion). Today's iPod-shufflers, though, gleefully erase boundaries of taste faster than you can say "Fred Durst," rediscovering cast-off artists and singing their praises from the rooftops (or, at least, their blogs). Tonight, in honor of new music-crit compendium Listen Again, a cast of notable reformed snobs — including the LA Times' Ann Powers, singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), and Soul-Sides.com's Oliver Wang — speak for five minutes a piece, convincing the audience of various pop songs' hidden awesomeness.
- Todd Goldstein
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Trevor Hall w/ Her Girl Friday, Abbot Kinney, and Shatto
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Wednesday Jan 23 (8:50pm)
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The Derby (4500 Los Feliz Blvd, 323.663.8979)
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Quickly making a name for himself, fledgling singer-songwriter Trevor Hall hits the Derby this evening, blessing the east side with stories of spiritual encounters and exaltation. Having mixed it up with the likes of Matisyahu, the Wailers, Keb Mo, Stevie Nicks, and members of Rusted Root, this veritable prodigy is getting around at the ripe young age of 20. Largely influenced by his recent pilgrimage to India, Trevor Hall brings to the stage a magnanimous voice, wrapped up in an acoustic dancehall twist. The Derby is also lending the mic to indie-rockers Abbot Kinney, shoegazers Shatto, and uber-cool femme-rock trio Her Girl Friday.
- Jorge Barriere
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Indie 103.1 presents Club NME feat. the Teenagers
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Wednesday Jan 23 (9pm)
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Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, 323.661.4380)
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Indie 103.1 takes over Spaceland tonight with another installment of Club NME's ready-to-break artists. Tonight's spotlight shines on a band that sailed all the way from across the pond, French trio, the Teenagers. With trademark Parisian pouts and Zoolander-like stage presence, the fashionable three sing catchy, often X-rated electro-pop in tongue-in-cheek accented Franglais. (Scarlett Johansson is allegedly a major inspiration.) Also on the bill are lo-fi locals Run Run Run, Arizona group Mostly Bears, and DJs Dia & Young Pop.
- Julian Hooper
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Arrive before midnight for drink specials.
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MUSIC: Global
Yu Hongmei
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Thursday Jan 24 (8:30–10pm)
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REDCAT (631 W 2nd St, 213.237.2800)
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In this rare performance, Yu Hongmei showcases her mastery of the ancient Chinese erhu, a two-string bowed instrument. In her capable hands, the instrument produces clear, sonorous tones — its quiet grace is like the musical equivalent of a subtle brush painting. The first erhuist to receive the coveted Pro Musicis International Award, Hongmei is joined by Zhi Ming Han (yangqin) and Cynthia Hsiang (piano) for a classical Chinese program mixed with European selections.
- JT Priest
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MORE FLAVOR: Spectacle
Winter Sky Highlights
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Friday Jan 25 (7pm)
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Planetarium, Santa Monica College (Pico Blvd & 17th St, 310.434.4223)
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Before landing your spacecraft at whatever far-flung destination you have in your sights tonight, experience the grandeur of the twinkling firmament at one of the west side's most unheralded resources, Santa Monica College's planetarium. With the moon's delayed ascent, tonight's breathtaking telescopic viewing includes the Pleiades, the Orion Nebula, and a head-spinning array of constellations from the legendary to the obscure. What with the view, the science tidbits, and the cocktail-party wisdom, you'll finally get a night of LA stargazing that won't have you asking for a refund on your tour-bus ticket money.
- Jason Jude Chan
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Au Revoir Simone
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Friday Jan 25 (8pm)
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The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd, 310.276.6168)
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Named after a hilariously unforgettable scene in Tim Burton's Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Brooklyn girl-band Au Revoir Simone sing serious pop harmonies with electro-synth spunk. The Williamsburg women's ethereal tunes have earned considerable critical love of late (David Lynch listed them as his favorite new band of 2007). Tonight, at the tail end of a minitour that bounced them around the country, ARS blaze a trail to the Troubadour stage for some surreal chick rock, including tunes from their second album, The Bird of Music.
- Julian Hooper
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ART
Dustin Yellin
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Saturday Jan 26 (11am–6pm)
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Samuel Freeman (2525 Michigan Ave, B7, 310.449.1479)
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Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he does do is actually more fascinating than the idea of frozen deep-sea organisms. Over the course of weeks, even years, Yellin builds up each column, layer by layer, using colored inks suspended within the resin — drawn in — and thereby showing what it looks like to draw in both the third (space) and fourth dimensions (time). The resulting pieces are spectacular constructs full of volume, lavish detail, and rich color, illustrating not only the tangible manipulation of time and material, but of the artist's own life.
- Lucinda Knapp
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There will be an opening reception Sat Jan 26 (6-9pm).
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
High Places w/ Lucky Dragons
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Saturday Jan 26 (9pm)
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The Smell (247 S Main St)
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Brooklyn's High Places play lighthearted melodies with a concentrated blend of tropical percussion and laptop beats. Mary Pearson's cooing and Rob Barber's synths make a combo that sounds like the Books crossed with Panda Bear. Tonight, LA's Lucky Dragons join High Places with a whirl of appropriated folk samples and electro-acoustic interplays. Performing at the Smell, a venue that is equally as DIY as both bands, the show is guaranteed to be as intimate as Pearson's vocals.
- Toby Shuster
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FILM
A Taste of Honey (1961)
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Sunday Jan 27 (7pm)
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Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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In its day, the British New Wave depicted mid-century England's working class with an authentic blue-collar realism. For a supreme example of the style, catch Tony Richardson's adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's play, A Taste of Honey. (The Smiths were big admirers of the original.) Amidst granular shots of smokestacks and soiled streets, a 17-year-old girl named Jo is pregnant after an affair with a sailor. Ashamed of her daughter, the girl's mother leaves her. Jo strikes out on her own and finds a room, a job, and friendship in the care of her employer.
- Jason Jude Chan
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FILM
The Shining (1980)
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Monday Jan 28 (7:30pm)
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Arclight Sherman Oaks (15301 Ventura Blvd, 323.464.1478)
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The Shining opens with John Alcott's aerial shots of empty Colorado byways with their eerie, edge-of-the-world beauty. This gorgeous yet unsettling cinematography is a preview of the spooky atmosphere that plays a main role in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel. In the slow-roast suspense, punctuated intermittently by bursts of breakneck aggression, struggling writer Jack Torrance (a scenery-chewing Jack Nicholson) volunteers his family to be winter caretakers at the mountain-locked Overlook Hotel. At the gloriously decadent hotel, Jack's son Danny stumbles upon profoundly creepy twin wraiths while his dad grins and grimaces his way into homicidal mania. Though it's been parodied into familiarity, Kubrick's singular vision of psychosis still unsettles.
- Jason Jude Chan
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
The Cut
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Thursday Jan 24 (8pm)
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Rude Guerrilla Theater Company (200 N Broadway, 714.547.4688)
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British playwright Mark Ravenhill gives theater company Rude Guerilla another opportunity to stage the U.S premieres of his work. Past collaborations have included Shopping and Fucking as well as Some Explicit Polaroids, and now the small but provocative company puts on The Cut. Ravenhill's plays bring with them a haunting need to explore the darkest corners of the soul, and The Cut is no different. A political allegory set in an Orwellian state; The Cut probes the dehumanizing effects of a totalitarian regime on both the oppressed and the oppressors. This production, as with many of director Dave Barton's works, is by no means a light theatrical experience and definitely not for the faint of heart.
- Allen Moon
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