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Issue 263 |
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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
Mar 11-17, 2008
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Sometimes it seems like Angelenos are never home. When we're not working long hours leagues away, we're hiking or running around at the beach. Heck, even our malls are open-air. The city's visual and cultural tumult has goaded imaginations into action for generations — just witness the Getty's ambitious 40-year survey of California-made video art, poet Milo Martin's alone-in-a-crowd urban epiphanies, and the outdoor bipedal frenzy that is the Downtown Art Walk. So turn around, get back on the road, and fall in love with LA all over again.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Sweeney Todd
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Tuesday Mar 11 (8pm)
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Ahmanson Theatre (135 N Grand Ave, 213.628.2772)
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Johnny Depp's acclaimed cinematic stab (ahem) at Mr. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has refreshed our memories on this tale of greed, revenge, and culinary cannibalism. But in this cunning stage revival, John Doyle's adroit direction blurs the line between cast and orchestra: here, ten cast members accompany each other instrumentally while simultaneously playing their character roles. The effect is sublimely terrifying, as Doyle's stylized, deconstructed staging streamlines the bloody musical into a taut and frightening theatrical machine.
- Allen Moon
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The Wombats w/ AAnchors AAweigh
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Tuesday Mar 11 (8:30pm)
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Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, 323.661.4380)
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NME favorites the Wombats bring their polished indie pop to Spaceland tonight to kick off the US leg of their international tour. On their UK-only debut album, A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, the punky trio makes all the moves that befit a British hype-band, combining tight, frenetic guitars and caffeinated drums with cheeky lyrics about unrequited love and feeling awkward around girls. The two Liverpudlians and their Norse bassist mark the latest iteration of the danceable rock music that's been flying across the pond since the Arctic Monkey mania of 2006. Opening the night are local bands AAnchors AAweigh and CoCo B's.
- Joe Blankholm
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PERFORMING ARTS: Spoken Word
Milo Martin: Poems for the Utopian Nihilist
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Wednesday Mar 12 (7pm)
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Book Soup (8818 W Sunset Blvd, 310.659.3110)
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Poet/painter Milo Martin's enduring love affair with Los Angeles has taught him many things — chiefly, how to be comfortable with paradox. His writing evokes LA's dissonant loveliness: its hulking gray architecture and searing blue skies, the extremes in its cultural and economic worlds, and its proud, sparkling superficiality. Martin's latest book of poems and art examines what it's like to live, love, think, and create while straddling the border between the optimistic search for beauty and the suspicion that the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Amp Fiddler w/ BabyStone
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Wednesday Mar 12 (9pm–1:30am)
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Temple Bar (1026 Wilshire Blvd, 310.393.6611)
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If you think the funk no longer hits the fan now that George and Bootsy are getting on in years, Amp Fiddler may offer you some soul salvation. Fiddler's paid his dues performing and recording with folks like Mr. Clinton, the Brand New Heavies, Prince, and Maxwell; a funkmaster for all seasons, he brings a polished live flow together with a discerning ear for gritty beats. After three years of silence, the Fiddler returns with a joyful new album, the aptly titled Afro Strut. Meanwhile, openers BabyStone keep Sly and his family alive (literally; the band's frontwoman, Novena Carmel, is his daughter) in the present day.
- Gordon K Hurd
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ART
Downtown Art Walk
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Thursday Mar 13 (noon–9pm)
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Various Downtown Galleries (102 W 5th St, 213.624.6212)
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Downtown LA's Art Walk is an easy, breezy way to spend an evening. As if free gallery and museum tours (stops include REDCAT, the Hive, and LA Center for Digital Art) weren't enough of a lure, DASH shuttle buses (also gratis) now loop through Gallery Row to scuttle you to and fro through the night. As yet another treat, these buses are manned by several renowned LA historians, who'll tell tales of Downtown's wacky history during your journey. At last month's Art Walk, an Afro-Brazilian tango marching band showed up unannounced and serenaded gallery-goers, so bring your dancing shoes, just in case.
- Jessica Jardine
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Beach House w/ Papercuts
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Thursday Mar 13 (6:30pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Touring in support of their sophomore album, Devotion, Baltimore-based dream-pop purveyors Beach House bring their shimmering, spectral arrangements to the Echo tonight. The duo has only improved since releasing its critically acclaimed self-titled debut, which finished in the top 20 of Pitchfork's Best of 2006 race. The new record is brighter and more polished, with lead singer Victoria Legrand's rich timbre echoing over deliberate, reverb-laden melodies and droning organs for a surreally soothing ambience that nears womb-like plenitude. Starting off the evening are the San Francisco-based Papercuts, to which Alex Scally, the other half of Beach House, also contributes.
- Joe Blankholm
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FILM
Reel Epics: The Films of Béla Tarr
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Friday Mar 14 (7:30pm)
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (5905 Wilshire Blvd, 323.857.6000)
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Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr has been playing with shot duration for the last four decades. He swoops, swivels, and dances his camera so that cuts last upward of one minute — this, in an era when the average lasts a frantic ten seconds. Tarr once used a single shot lasting an epic 67 minutes in a TV production of Macbeth. As part of a three-week Tarr retrospective at LACMA, two of his earliest films screen tonight: his 1979 debut film, Family Nest (Családi tűzfészek), and 1982's The Prefab People (Panelkapcsolat).
- Jessica Jardine
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ART: Architecture/Design
CA Boom V
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Friday Mar 14
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Santa Monica Air Center, Barker Hangar (3021 Airport Ave, 310.455.2886)
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Southern California has been at the forefront of design and architectural innovation for generations, and with the increased interest in all things eco-friendly, local built-culture visionaries are poised to keep the momentum going. The fifth year of the CA Boom design fair threatens to be the biggest one yet. More than 120 vendors, lectures, workshops, and tours hint at homegrown design's global future in areas from alternative building materials to simple ways of greening up your life without sacrificing comfort and style.
- Will Coley
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
Celebrate Dance 2008
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Saturday Mar 15 (8pm)
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Alex Theatre (216 North Brand Boulevard, 818.243.7700)
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Celebrate Dance has become a yearly staple, as producer Jamie Nichols continues to hand-pick emerging and established companies from the ever-growing Los Angeles dance scene. Tonight's bill includes, but is not limited to, Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project's emotionally raw choreography (accompanied by live contemporary African music); Ana Marie Alvarez's urban-Latin dance-theatre group Contra-Tiempo; Jacob "Kujo" Lyons' punishing brutality in the Lux Aeterna Dance Company; Bradley Michaud's lithe acrobatics in Method Contemporary Dance; and the lyrical finesse of Jennifer Backhaus' Backhausdance.
- Allen Moon
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ART
California Video
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Saturday Mar 15
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The Getty Center (1200 Getty Center Dr, 310.440.7300)
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As video art's growing reach now extends from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera to commuters watching YouTube on their iPhones, the Getty Center weighs in with its most modern, ambitious survey to date. California Video gathers together top-tier videos made on the West Coast in the last five decades by iconic artists like John Baldessari, Skip Arnold, Diana Thater, Chris Burden, Bill Viola (the subject of an early retrospective at the Center), and Bruce Nauman (who represents the US at this year's Venice Biennial). Along with the exhibition's star power, a stunning, industrial-style installation design and an extensive series of special screenings and talks promise an entertaining, thought-provoking experience.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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FILM
SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT: Works of the London Film-Makers' Co-operative
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Sunday Mar 16 (7pm)
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Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd, 323.466.3456)
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At the height of the '60s avant-garde art scene, London was one of the world's most progressive cities for visionary filmmakers. A big reason was the London Film-Makers' Co-Operative, which, in 1966, launched an innovative tripartite approach: it would facilitate the production, distribution, and screening of experimental films. Tonight's program, presented by LA Filmforum and curated by film scholar Mark Webber, features a dozen short films made between 1970 and 1974 — the cream of the crop from the LFC archives. Expect cheeky mod style and a dash of London brio as New Wave cinema explores its roots.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Boredoms w/ Human Bell
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Sunday Mar 16 (8pm)
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Music Box at the Fonda Theater (6126 Hollywood Blvd, 323.464.0808)
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After hearing about the 77-member percussive spiral galaxy that assembled beneath the Brooklyn Bridge last summer, it might seem like a comedown to witness Japanese psychedelic drum-circle emissaries Boredoms with only their core members. But even with just three drummers, Boredoms are a force to be reckoned with. Squad leader Eye stands behind a towering array of mounted guitars and tabletop electronics, leading the ensemble through pastoral cymbal washes, thunderous tom-tom runs, and Sunny Murray-worthy free-form jams with unrivaled precision and intensity.
- Matt Sussman
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READING
Junot Díaz
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Monday Mar 17 (7pm)
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Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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Junot Díaz was inundated with well-earned praise for his 1997 collection, Drown. In the ten years since, the Dominican-American writer slowly, but surely, finished his first novel. He tantalized fans with a New Yorker excerpt in 2000, but the complete The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao wasn't published until last September. It's a sprawling saga that chronicles one Dominican family's passions and pain, from the parents' lives under the brutal Trujillo regime to their son Oscar's struggles as a "ghetto nerd" in New Jersey. Tonight Díaz reads from this acclaimed modern masterpiece, which just won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Toby Warner
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Read the full text of Toby Warner's recent Boldtype interview with Díaz.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Rock Over London presents Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip w/ Emmy the Great and Riz MC
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Monday Mar 17 (8pm)
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The Roxy Theatre (9009 W Sunset Blvd, 310.278.9457)
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UK duo Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip are responsible for last year's "Thou Shalt Always Kill," and while the electro anthem's caustic lyrics don't quite jibe with the pair's usual sexy, danceable grooves, its exhortations to stay authentic, socially engaged, and independent clearly touched a dance-floor nerve. The duo combines catchy spoken-word bits with uptempo beats and samples reminiscent of early Massive Attack (not to mention a slightly dangerous stage presence). The two make a stateside appearance in Hollywood tonight, showing off the rest of their house-punk repertoire.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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ART
Jeffrey Vallance w/ James Goodwin, Laurie Hassold, Marjan Hormozi, Dave Shulman, and Scotty Vera
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Tuesday Mar 11 (11am–6pm)
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Track 16 Gallery (2525 Michigan Ave, 310.264.4678)
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Extravagance, irony, and ephemera converge in five concurrent exhibitions. The focus is the 30th-anniversary celebration of Jeffery Vallance's performance piece Blinky the Friendly Hen. In the original piece, the artist purchased a chicken breast from a local supermarket and took it to be ostentatiously buried at the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery. The project's highly charged vegan implications and Evelyn Waugh-esque satire finds a new home in a chapel that Vallance constructed in the gallery's main space. The five artists showing in conjunction with (and chosen by) Vallance further his installation's humorous mood.
- Mallory Farrugia
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FILM: Documentary
Girls Rock!
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Tuesday Mar 11
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Landmark Nuart Theatre (11272 Santa Monica Blvd, 310.281.8223)
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Eight-year-old Amelia is crafting a 14-song cycle about her dog Peppi, but her mate Palace is more of a metal head. At Portland's Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls, they join other 8-to-18-year-olds to bang out punk and metal songs on guitars, drums, and keyboards, while screaming into mics with revelatory abandon. Girls Rock!, the resulting documentary, takes its cues from a '90s-era DIY aesthetic and ideology (all clip-art animation and earnest females) that could benefit this decade. Even if feminism has fallen out of fashion, the doc reminds us, girls wielding guitars can always make a statement.
- Lisa Rosman
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