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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
Feb 19-25, 2008
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Testosterone runs rampant this week, as LA celebrates rough 'n tumble behavior at every turn. The nasty boys of Dirty Sanchez get hot and heavy onstage, and Julian Schnabel doubles up with a painting show and high hopes for Sunday's Oscars. Like your rogues more classic? The original sinner gets his due with a rare screening of the 1926 Don Juan, and Rebel Without a Cause nods to the chain-smoking troublemaker in everyone.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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MORE FLAVOR: Lecture
Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra
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Tuesday Feb 19 (7:30pm)
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Art Center (1700 Lida St, 626.396.2319)
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Walton Ford's paintings revive a particular kind of 19th-century sensibility, encompassing not only the hyper-detail of Victorian scientific illustration, but also the fabulist, mythological traces that then remained in naturalist sciences. In Ford's depictions of terrestrial life, majestic, predatory beasts lock in sexualized, psychologically troubled battles, and their relationships to humans are rife with misunderstood majesty. His unparalleled precision evokes the sensuality of the beasts to an uncomfortable but irresistible degree. Tonight, Ford lectures at Art Center on the occasion of the publication of Pancha Tantra, a major new monograph from TASCHEN.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Van Hunt w/ Jesca Hoop
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Tuesday Feb 19 (8:30pm)
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Temple Bar (1026 Wilshire Blvd, 310.393.6611)
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Singer/songwriter Van Hunt lets flow the kind of neo-soul music that prompts candlelit smooch sessions and the wearing of edible underwear, so his pairing with quirky, folk-pop songstress Jesca Hoop is a surprising and lovely mismatch. The Grammy-winning Hunt just released his third album, Popular, and has toured with boldfaced headliners like Alicia Keys. Hoop, meanwhile, was employed as a nanny by Tom Waits and his wife before ending up a Morning Becomes Eclectic darling in recent months; tonight, armed with last year's Kismet, she primes the Temple Bar for Hunt's smooveness.
- Jessica Jardine
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FILM: Documentary
Outfest Wednesdays presents With You!
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Wednesday Feb 20 (7:30pm)
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Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd, 323.466.3456)
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Yaniv Dabach's critically acclaimed documentary, With You!, tackles the trials and tribulations of the Gotham Knights, New York's first official gay rugby club. Initially formed as a low-key footie outfit for locals, stakes rise dramatically when the team confronts a bigger issue at play: convincing rival, straight clubs that they're a force to be reckoned with. What emerges in this humorous, uplifting documentary is a fascinating subculture often missing in gay film: the brotherhood of sports. Stick around after the screening for an afterparty sponsored by Absolut and an audience Q&A with the director.
- Julian Hooper
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ART
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
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Wednesday Feb 20 (8:30pm)
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REDCAT (631 W 2nd St, 213.237.2800)
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The New York School of poets is renowned for its canonized males (John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, etc), but its leading women have been largely overlooked. Like morning light slivering through history's forested branches, Maggie Nelson's Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions, offers a poetic, feminist analysis of women's integral role. Tonight, Nelson and a panel of her peers — including subject Eileen Myles, critic Bruce Hainley, poets Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine, and artist-musician Tara Jane O'Neil — creatively and critically respond to the shifted spotlight.
- Jason Jude Chan
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Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day
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Thursday Feb 21 (10am–5:30pm)
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Gagosian Gallery (456 N Camden Dr, 310.271.9400)
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Neo-expressionist aesthete and, most recently, award-winning feature-film director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) takes a break from the red carpet with a return to the gallery walls. Schnabel creates dynamic mixed-media hybrids that tackle big themes head-on in the spirit of capricious, contrarian ambition. In this series, the artist has digitally printed a series of found hospital x-rays and blown them up to exaggerated scale. The skeletal fragments, fragile and ethereal, ask appropriately grand questions about the nature of science and identity.
- Nicole Cifani
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There is an opening reception on Thur Feb 21 (6-8pm).
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
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Friday Feb 22 (7pm)
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Crash Mansion LA (1024 S Grand Ave, 213.747.0999)
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Cleveland-based rap act Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are still best-known for their ubiquitous 1997 single "Tha Crossroads" — but really, they've got a whole lot more love to give. Despite the departure of two original members, BTnH's latest album, Strength & Loyalty, retains the group's signature style of rich vocal harmonies and almost-incomprehensibly speedy rhymes. (Flesh-n-Bone may yet return, pending his release from prison later this year.) The album's first single, "I Tried," is a slow-paced, sober reflection on street life (featuring a guest chorus by Akon) that recently went ringtone platinum.
- Joe Blankholm
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Liars w/ No Age
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Friday Feb 22 (8pm)
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El Rey (5515 Wilshire Blvd, 323.936.6400)
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Armed with little more than a massively fuzzed-up guitar and ferociously pounded drum kit, No Age's sloppy, restless sound is true art-punk bliss. Echoing the primitivist minimalism of Beat Happening and the rough-around-the-edges aesthetic of early-'80s punk, guitarist Randy Randall and singer/drummer Dean Spunt submerge pretty melodies in layers of distortion, reverb, and pummeling tom work. The LA-based duo's much-blogged-about live performances (which even earned the group an adoring nod in the New Yorker) crash and burn just as often as they achieve poignant pop perfection. Tonight, the recent Sub Pop signees join up with the ever-evolving Liars.
- Suzanne Niemoth
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
HEAT Festival
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Saturday Feb 23 (6pm–1am)
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UC Riverside Campus (900 University Avenue, 951.827.1012)
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If Eric B. & Rakim, EPMD, and De La Soul are underground hip-hop's royalty, then Mos Def is the celebrated envoy. Mr. Def — along with '90s reggae-metal mainstays 311 — headlines this year's HEAT Festival, hosted by UC Riverside. Keeping with the decade-appropriate revivals, Moby plays a rare DJ set. (His new album Last Night is out in April.) More contemporary standouts include hyped hip-hop duo Clipse (with their side project Re-Up Gang), local Spanish rockers Monte Negro, and — if you've still got the energy — mashup king Girl Talk.
- Celine Malanum
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Tickets must be purchased in advance.
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MUSIC: DJ
Felix da Housecat
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Saturday Feb 23 (10pm)
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Avalon Hollywood (1735 Vine St, 323.462.8900)
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DJ and producer Felix da Housecat is synonymous with big-name house music — and for good reason. Over the last 20 years, the Chicago native has constructed the sort of all-time-classic tracks that bump as hard in the club as they do at large-scale outdoor music festivals. These days, he breaks up his international tours by remixing the likes of Madonna, Kylie, and Thom Yorke, while also hammering out soundtrack cuts for video games and movies including Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Tonight, Felix shakes rumps at the Avalon in support of his most recent release, Virgo, Blaktro & the Movie Disco.
- Jessica Jardine
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FILM
Oscar Night with the Cinefamily
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Sunday Feb 24 (4pm)
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The Silent Movie Theatre (611 N Fairfax Ave, 323.655.2510)
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Whether your personal picks are based on media hearsay, a desire to provoke, or actual pleasure, your Oscar night is best shared with other ardent cinephiles. Tonight, the Cinefamily hosts an evening of arguments, agreements, and appreciation: decide if former "it" girl Julie Christie or younger, spunkier Ellen Page possesses that unique quality, and if There Will Be Blood will drink the competition's proverbial milkshake. Whatever the outcomes, enjoy the over-long speeches on a gigantic screen with snacks, sofas, and a chance at a year's Cinefamily membership.
- Jason Jude Chan
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Ben Karlin's Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me
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Sunday Feb 24 (8pm)
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The Steve Allen Theater (4773 Hollywood Blvd, 323.666.4268)
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Comedian and writer Ben Karlin is best known as the longtime producer of The Daily Show — and, like his fellow distinguished alumni, he now stars in a wickedly funny project of his own. Based on his best-selling book of the same name, Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me trades on self-deprecating, caustic wisdom to examine the inconvenient insights offered by departing lovers. The rotating live cast features Karlin, musical guests, and cheeky bastards like Andy Richter, Bob Odenkirk, and Patton Oswalt.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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FILM
Ulrike Ottinger: Prater
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Monday Feb 25 (8pm)
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REDCAT (631 W 2nd St, 213.237.2800)
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Ulrike Ottinger settles her restless aperture on Vienna's Prater amusement park in this odd, engaging film. With a cast that includes the descendants of the "man without a torso," an illusion-machine repairman, and current and past park guests, Ottinger journeys back in time in an exploration of the attraction's cultural importance. She brackets her reminiscences with archival footage and a reworking of Alice in Wonderland as a hopscotch adventure; it's as jubilant and jarring as the Prater's own carnival amusements.
- Jason Jude Chan
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Ottinger will be present for the screening.
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ART
James Turrell: Dividing the Light
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Sunday Feb 24 (10am–8pm)
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Draper Courtyard, Pomona College (6th St and College Way, 909.621.8283)
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It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he is, the transcendent, full-body experience of Turrell's Skyspaces — specially built rooms oriented to capture and refract natural light in profoundly affecting ways — is indisputable. Colors change, light sources invert, time passes, and the sky itself seems to behave like paint on a canvas. Considering the lengthening days of spring, and a moratorium on visits to Roden Crater, this is a fine chance to get a little extra sun.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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