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Issue 257 |
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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 29-Feb 4, 2008
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With another week of wild weather behind us, many Angelenos are suffering from a mighty case of cabin fever. Of course, there are plenty of ways to dispense those doldrums: from hard-rock and indie songwriters in Venice, to Kid Sister and A-Trak rattling the cages at the Natural History Museum (sound familiar?), there's no shortage of music. New York's acclaimed Wooster Group, meanwhile, brings its PoMo Hamlet to Downtown, and throngs of thongs descend on the Queen Mary for Carnaval, Brazilian-style.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Celebration of Inspiration
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This New Year's Eve, Flavorpill teamed up with Le Méridien hotels to give four lucky readers an experience way better than drinking too much and making out with strangers. We sent our explorers to four different cities — Shanghai, Vienna, Miami, and Monaco — to take in the art, culture, cuisine, and nightlife, and report back on their adventures.
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FILM
The Wild One (1953)
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Tuesday Jan 29 (1:30pm)
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Skirball Cultural Center (2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, 310.440.4500)
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The Wild One may not be a great film, but it is an enormously influential one. Bob Dylan rode — and crashed — a Triumph, the same make Marlon Brando used in the film. The Beatles got their name from one of the film's motorcycle gangs. Most notoriously, Brando's nasal retort of "Whaddya got?" to an innocent inquiry of "What are you rebelling against?" summarized the country's panic over juvenile delinquency in one sentence. As for the movie itself, the taut narrative arc follows two motorcycle gangs who battle for supremacy as a small California town looks on in horror. It's worth seeing for Brando's biker regalia alone.
- Jason Jude Chan
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Tom Brosseau w/ Jill Sobule
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Tuesday Jan 29 (8pm)
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Largo (366 N La Cienega Blvd, 310.855.0350)
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Folksy art-house rocker Tom Brosseau sings songs straight out of America's heartland — deceptively simple, guitar-driven truths that hit close to home. Tonight, his fist-in-velvet-glove delivery holds sway at Largo for an evening of new tunes from his latest album, Cavalier — an album the artist calls "an apocalypse of the soul." Expect some songs from Brousseau's Late Night at Largo, the 2004 live album recorded in the empty club after hours. Also performing is rock's most cunning linguist, Jill Sobule; though most famous for her '90s MTV hit "I Kissed a Girl," the critically acclaimed folk singer/songwriter has plenty more tricks up her sleeve.
- Julian Hooper
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
The Wooster Group: Hamlet
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Tuesday Feb 5
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REDCAT (631 W 2nd St, 213.237.2800)
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The Wooster Group has been at the forefront of American experimental theatre, cultivating their own language — a fusion of sophisticated technology and radical interpretation — for over 30 years. Under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, the collective now breathes life into that complex canon-staple Hamlet. Basing their production on Richard Burton's mind-bending 1964 multimedia version (a 17-camera video piece, technically), the Group pieces together a fragmented, impressionistic reinterpretation, radically altering the play's form, but not its core sentiments and considerations on the tragically confused prince.
- Allen Moon
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Venice Rocks feat. Circus Diablo w/ Soccermom and Warner Drive
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Wednesday Jan 30 (9pm)
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Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice (625 Lincoln Blvd, 310.230.5343)
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With a star-studded hard-rock resume, a bit of gunslinger swagger, and UK style to spare, the boys of Circus Diablo invade the A/C Club for a special Wednesday edition of Venice Rocks. The venue is literally 100 times more intimate than the stadiums they entertained on Ozzfest's 2007 tour — it may just barely contain their power-chord tsunamis. Circus Diablo get help spinning dancers 'round the A/C's new poles from local metallic punkers (and regular Viper Room headliners) Warner Drive, along with Soccermom's vicious brand of dissonant new wave, which features the kittenish, barbed-wire vocals of Helen Nishimura.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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FILM: Documentary
The 11th Hour
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Thursday Jan 31 (6:30pm)
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Korn Hall, UCLA (110 Westwood Plaza)
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The 11th Hour is a consciousness-raising contribution to the trump topic in the game-of-life shuffle: global ecological disaster. With scientific facts, doom-informed news footage, and essay-style montages of the environmental impact of our everyday lives, Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners' documentary instills an ante-up urgency in its audience. Actor/activist Leonardo DiCaprio narrates over the 50 intercut interviews with talking-head advocates, including guess-who appearances (Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking), while solution-oriented experts (Bruce Mau, William McDonough), discuss the distressed state of the natural world. The film posits not mankind vs Mother Nature, but rather a future hinging on careful, collaborative change.
- Jason Jude Chan
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A discussion with the directors follows the screening.
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FILM: Documentary
Mingus (1968) and The Universal Mind of Bill Evans (1966)
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Thursday Jan 31 (8pm)
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The Silent Movie Theatre (611 N Fairfax Ave, 323.655.2510)
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Mingus is a bopping hour of music and musing from Charles Mingus, the "Angry Man of Jazz." Thomas Reichman's 1968 documentary follows Mingus in the wake of his eviction from his New York studio, as he jives at a jam session and marches in solidarity at a peace parade. During the customary sit-down, the renowned musician improvises some insightful commentary on race, politics, women, family, and, of course, jazz. Reichman weaves kinetic live performances into this illuminating illustration of an uncompromising artist. The Universal Mind of Bill Evans is an astute Steve Allen interview with the low-key pianist.
- Jason Jude Chan
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
NHM First Fridays feat. A-Trak w/ Kid Sister
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Friday Feb 1 (6:30pm)
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Natural History Museum (900 Exposition Blvd, 213.763.3466)
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Chicago's vibrant hip-hop export Kid Sister and Montreal's turntablist prodigy (and Kanye West's DJ) A-Trak anchor the NHM's second serving of their First Fridays series. Kid Sister's sound flows like neon, with a fast, fresh touch of '90s flavor. A self-described party-rocker, A-Trak's super funky, hi-tech, electro-rap sound heats up the North American Mammal Hall along with DJ sets from dublab's Frosty & Take. To help get your learn on, early arrivals are treated to a curator-led exhibit tour as well as a discussion on the highly developed brains and communication systems of elephants.
- Celine Malanum
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Bodies of Water w/ Castanets
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Friday Feb 1 (9pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Club Underground presents an avant-folk double bill, with Castanets opening for Bodies of Water. Erstwhile denizens of Brooklyn's bottomless experimental-rock scene, Castanets recently released In the Vines, a thick brew of eerie, meditative songs with a tendency to devolve into screeching noise jams. When in full force, Bodies of Water flood the stage with four singers, trombones, trumpets, giant drums, organs, and violas, with cheeky vocals and cheerleader-fresh hooks to round out the gargantuan ensemble's larger-than-life stage show.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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ART
Nick Walker: Pretty Decorating
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Saturday Feb 2 (2–7pm)
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Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art (1257 N La Brea Ave, 323.969.0600)
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Bristol-based street artist Nick Walker — known as the Apish Angel — comes to America, ready to stencil Tinseltown. Like his notorious countryman Banksy, Walker paints tongue-in-cheek send-ups of bourgeois prissiness, and his works have appeared in films Judge Dredd, Hackers, and Eyes Wide Shut. His most iconic contribution to England's landscape is Moona Lisa, an image of da Vinci's iconic lady exposing her derriere. Fusing traditional painting with spray-paint techniques in his works at Carmichael Gallery, Walker also dabbles in the erotic and violent, lionizing lingerie-clad gals and pistols — anything to get under the establishment's skin.
- H.G. Masters
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Mere Mortals w/ Xu Xu Fang and Black Kites
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Saturday Feb 2 (9pm)
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Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, 323.661.4380)
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Tonight at Spaceland, shimmery shoegaze pop collides with brooding, riff-heavy rock. Mere Mortals, fronted by German-born, London-bred Alex Steuerwald, craft refined, reverb-heavy pop songs influenced by the Verve, Oasis, and the Stone Roses. Fronting the bill, Xu Xu Fang offer dark, catchy arrangements driven by thick riffs and punch drums (check out the "Good Times" single for a taste), and Black Kites make beautiful, melancholy rock intensified by lilting boy/girl vocals.
- Joe Blankholm
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
Fowler OutSpoken Panel: The Word in L.A.
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Sunday Feb 3 (2–4pm)
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Fowler Museum, UCLA (Westwood Plz & Sunset Blvd, 310.825.4361)
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Elizabeth Harney, curator of the Fowler's African art exhibition Inscribing Meaning, hosts a talk with LA artists Robbie Conal, Alexandra Grant, and Lezley Saar, further exploring the themes of writing and communication in visual art. Conal's scathing paintings parody conservative political figures; Grant takes a more cerebral course, populating her paintings with speech balloons filled with backwards text; and Saar tackles race in her allegorical, mixed-media pieces, invoking the paradoxes of biracial identity.
- H.G. Masters
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Erik Penny presents the Brendan Hines w/ Julianna Raye
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Sunday Feb 3 (8:30pm)
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Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice (625 Lincoln Blvd, 310.230.5343)
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Scruffy, harmonica-wielding, soulful (and occasionally potty-mouthed) troubadour Brendan Hines — correction, the Brendan Hines — blasts through the singer/songwriter genre with gallows humor, clipped phrasing, and a sweetly nostalgic, matter-of-fact baritone. The foxy, soundtrack-ready folk of Julianna Raye balances the evening with a hint of the angelic.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
Justin Guariglia: Shaolin: Temple of Zen
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Monday Feb 4 (7:30pm)
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Ben Maltz Gallery (9045 Lincoln Blvd, 310.665.6909)
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Justin Guariglia is a contributing editor with National Geographic and one of the most prominent and award-winning young photojournalists in the business today. His new exhibition at Otis, Shaolin: Temple of Zen is an unprecedented documentation of the hermetic, mysterious Buddhist monk-warriors of Henan, China. In keeping with the context of this exhibition, Gene Ching, a publisher of Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine, and kung-fu movie historian, former stuntman, and fight choreographer, Dr. Craig Reid, join Guariglia in conversation.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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The exhibition continues through Mar 29 (Tue-Sat: 10am-5pm / Thur: 10am-7pm).
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FILM: Documentary
The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone (2003) and Bars in the Memory (2004)
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Monday Feb 4 (7:30pm)
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Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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Julio Medem's documentary The Basque Ball explores the ongoing political and cultural struggle between the Basque nationalist movement and the Spanish government with a sprawling, portmanteau approach that informs and incites with equal intensity. Interweaving 100-plus interviews with timely footage of northern Spain's natural loveliness, Medem's dizzying assemblage of colliding dialects and paradigms offers passage into an engulfing conflict. With stylistic similarity, Manuel Palacios' Bars in the Memory annotates Spanish annals with its disquieting disclosure of Franco's secret labor camps that suppressed half a million political prisoners. Through archival film and first-hand intelligence, Palacios fashions an unexpected and extraordinary exposé.
- Jason Jude Chan
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ART: Photography
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
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Wednesday Jan 30 (11am–5pm)
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Fette's Gallery (4255 Baldwin Ave, 310.559.7733)
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Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait — of someone else. The semiotic frolic is the brainchild of LA's favorite French-blogger-turned-gallerist, Fette, and has yielded predictably unexpected results. Assuming historical and fictional personalities with humor, mixed techniques, and allegorical wit, the exhibitions' artists convey the impression that identity is interchangeable and relative, reveling in the sheer fun of playing a game of postmodern dress-up.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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