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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 26-Mar 3, 2008
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Cast your definitions of culture aside: this week's calendar is all about border crossing and broken boundaries. Norway's "best live band," Bigbang, traverse the Atlantic with smooth Nordic grooves, while Cold War Kid Matt Maust trades the concert stage for the gallery wall. The LA Phil, meanwhile, swaps high art for the sweet and low-down in a live collaboration with indie rockers Grizzly Bear. Be careful out there: with so much in flux, time and space may start to look a little fuzzy.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
CoisCéim Dance Theatre presents Knots
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Tuesday Feb 26 (8pm)
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Irvine Barclay Theatre (4242 Campus Dr, 949.854.4646)
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Knots uses a confrontational blend of seemingly reckless, contact-based dance and theatrical wordplay to explore the guilt, conflict, and fear inherent to relationships. Director and choreographer Liam Steel has forged a new dance-theatre paradigm through his work with DV8 and Stan Won't Dance. Based on the writings of Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, Knots (which won the Best Production award at the 2005 Dublin Fringe Festival) is a poignant, brutal, and often hilarious display of physical dexterity and emotional honesty.
- Allen Moon
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FILM
Army of Shadows (1969)
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Wednesday Feb 27 (7:30pm)
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Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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Hard-boiled auteur Jean-Pierre Melville always treated the gangsters and gamblers in his films with existential understatement; in his magnum opus, Army of Shadows, he extends the same courtesy to WWII French Resistance fighters. The film is adapted from a Joseph Kessel novel, but Melville's own Maquis experiences also play a role in his uncompromising portrayal of civilians whose subversiveness carries a lethal risk. The film's elemental cinematography — all grays and washed-out color — underscores the bleakness of Nazi-occupied France.
- Jason Jude Chan
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Roger Deakins and Curtis Hanson are both in attendance for tonight's screening.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
British Sea Power w/ Colourmusic and Castledoor
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Wednesday Feb 27 (8:30pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Bombastic UK quartet British Sea Power play the Echo tonight in support of their brand-new album, Do You Like Rock Music? The record finds the band further refining the triumphant, crescendo-laden indie rock of its sophomore release, Open Season, with frontmen Yan and Hamilton's lyrics remaining stuffed with cultural and historical allusion. BSP are known for elaborately staged live shows — which recently included bloodshed from keyboardist Phil Sumner after an ill-advised stage dive — and their theatrical flourishes genuinely pull at the heartstrings, goofy antics and all. Fellow indie rockers Colourmusic and local band Castledoor kick off the evening.
- Joe Blankholm
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British Sea Power play Spaceland on Thur Feb 28.
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FILM: Animation
Animation Nite: From Halifax with Love
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Thursday Feb 28 (8pm)
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Echo Park Film Center (1200 N Alvarado St, 213.484.8846)
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Given the surroundings of picturesque Nova Scotia, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Halifax is a burgeoning visual-arts hub. Tonight, animator Siloën Daley assembles a showcase of the area's talent, stuffing an hour-long presentation with her impressive animation, as well as six women-directed shorts that inspired her work. After the pieces play out their lighthearted scenarios (an NYC tea party) and visual oddities (floating ice cream, crippled supermen, a house and its occupants dyed pink), LA band Foot Foot wrap up the night with graceful, bass-heavy harmonies.
- Jason Jude Chan
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MUSIC
The Poor Excuses w/ Light FM and Tigers Can Bite You
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Thursday Feb 28 (8pm)
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Three Clubs (1123 N Vine St)
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The Three Clubs may be best remembered as the bar that was "dead anyway" in the 1996 film Swingers, but it's alive and kicking tonight with a spazz-tastic bill of local garage rockers. The Poor Excuses play wordy, rambunctious, groove-heavy indie punk with a freaky edge. Featuring drummer Harry Trumfio — brother of Los Abandoned, OK Go, and American Music Club producer Dave Trumfio — Light FM's electro-tinged beach pop follows East-side faves Tigers Can Bite You, who hit the stage with some shenanigans of their own.
- Jorge Barriere
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Cat Power
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Friday Feb 29 (9pm)
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The Wiltern (3790 Wilshire Blvd, 213.388.1400)
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Chan Marshall regularly slips bits of other tunes into her own work — turning the chorus of Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" into a wry lyric on "Good Clean Fun" or embedding the refrain of "Amazing Grace" in "Metal Heart." So it's fitting that she takes time out to record covers, of which Jukebox is her second collection. Retaining the smooth Memphis sound that propelled The Greatest to acclaim, Marshall moves from Hank Williams to James Brown to CCR, assembling a set less remarkable for its selections than for her newfound easy delivery. We're crossing our fingers that Marshall steps into her new (more settled) greatness for tonight's gig, leaving those famously unstable live performances behind.
- Jocelyn Glei
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Blitzen Trapper w/ Grand Archives
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Friday Feb 29 (8:30pm)
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The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd, 310.276.6168)
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Portland's Blitzen Trapper take the stage at the Troubadour tonight with countrified indie rock. The sextet's third release, last year's Wild Mountain Nation, is a collection of lo-fi ditties that convincingly walk the line between Appalachian twang and the playful style-experiments of Pavement's Wowee Zowee, with a few classic-rock riffs thrown in for good measure. Riding a wave of positive reviews and well-deserved Internet hype (including Pitchfork's all-important Best New Music nod), the band signed with Sub Pop last summer. Gentle indie-pop group Grand Archives and atmospheric folk-rockers Fleet Foxes open.
- Joe Blankholm
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Grizzly Bear with the LA Philharmonic
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Saturday Mar 1 (9pm)
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Disney Concert Hall (111 S Grand Ave, 213-972-7211)
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Atmospheric indie rockers Grizzly Bear perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra tonight at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It's an evening in two parts: first, the LA Phil play a classical program curated by the band, and then Grizzly Bear move forward with a set of their own lush, yet restrained, pop ditties. The collaboration, grandiose as it is, perfectly teases out the complexity of Grizzly Bear's subdued, breathy arrangements. The show follows on the heels of band member and LA-native Dan Rossen's performance at Disney Hall last month, as part of the Songs of the City series.
- Joe Blankholm
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Soul Exploration II feat. Platinum Pied Pipers w/ Tiombe Lockhart and Blu & Exile
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Saturday Mar 1 (9pm)
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Crash Mansion (1024 S Grand Ave, 213.747.0999)
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Slum Village founding member Wajeed and master musician Saadiq are the effusive musical duo otherwise known as the Platinum Pied Pipers. Along with an all-star cast, PPP bring intergalactic soul and progressive hip-hop to the party proper at the recently renovated (and heavily hyped) Crash Mansion, in anticipation of their sophomore release on Ubiquity Records. This second installment of ArtDontSleep's Soul Exploration series also features the extravagant, sexy electro-soul of Brooklyn Afro diva Tiombe Lockhart; Blu & Exile's nimble folding of hip-hop, eclectic sampling, and stellar grooves; and DJ sets from J-Boogie and Sake1.
- Nicole Cifani
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ART
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
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Sunday Mar 2 (11am–5pm)
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Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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Employing iconic black-paper silhouettes, Kara Walker — who was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" in 2007 — sparks a tense dialogue between artist and viewer with her installations and animated films. At the Hammer Museum, her scathing retelling of American history through images of sexual violence, racial stereotypes, and antebellum mores finally receives the retrospective treatment. Her room-sized narrative installation Darkytown Rebellion engulfs viewers with a colored-light projection layered over a grotesque Southern parade; in the early paper silhouette Cut, a woman's ecstasy can easily be confused with her self-inflicted pain. As discomforting as Walker's imagery may be, her tenacious instincts for artistic precision, provocation, and humor mobilize in equal measure.
- Catherine New
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FILM
Tran T. Kim-Trang: The Complete Blindness Series
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Monday Mar 3 (7:30pm)
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REDCAT (631 W 2nd St, 213.237.2800)
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Tran T. Kim-Trang's Blindness Series uses eight experimental shorts to deconstruct the idea of visual impairment. The films were released, serial-style, over 14 years, and each lowercase-titled piece carries a theme: surveillance (ocularis), language (alexia), and cosmetic surgery (operculum), among others. Tran's culminating short, Epilogue, delves into bereavement, self-representation, and birth with an audio recording of her dead mother, her muse Jacques Derrida's handwriting, and ultrasound images of her child. While each individual short stands on its own, strung together they demonstrate a beautiful intellect at work.
- Jason Jude Chan
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Stadium Devildare
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Friday Feb 29 (8pm)
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Theatre of NOTE (1517 Cahuenga Blvd, 323.856.8611)
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Stadium Devildare is billed as "a tale of future sport... America to the extreme" — and indeed, Ruth Margraff's play pushes the country's obsessions (fame, violence, reality television) to their limits. As unsavory, gigantic creatures threaten humanity, our only chance to defeat them lies in Evel Knievel's legendary suit of armor, known as "Guts 'N Glory." In the contest that follows, four courageous (and/or psychotic) contenders vie for the treasured costume and its accompanying 15 minutes of fame, with the audience itself voting on which warrior will be left standing.
- Mary Montoro
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Sunday performances are followed by a discussion with the show's creators.
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