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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
Apr 15-21, 2008
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Playtime is important, so Angelenos keep their inner children in sight at all times. To keep them happy, the Fowler Museum throws a costume party in honor of mermaids and water goddesses, and painter Jason Martin's alluring abstractions evoke the South Pacific favored by his fellow deep-sea surf enthusiasts. Sometimes, of course, it's all about the toys — Bent Fest turns kids' playthings into DIY instruments, and a new Upright Citizens Brigade show riffs on audience members' most embarrassing iPod tracks.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Let's Independent! feat. the Minor Canon w/ Luke Top, and (((Eagle Winged Palace)))
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Tuesday Apr 15 (9pm)
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Boardner's (1652 N Cherokee Ave, 323.462.9621)
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"Finish your taxes and let's independent," says Joe Fielder, mastermind of Radio Free Silver Lake and curator of the monthly Let's Independent! party at Boardner's. The top of this evening's lineup features Cashew and his band of lovely lasses, conspicuously called (((Eagle Winged Palace))), who strum a ghostly sort of acoustic psych rock. Retro rockers Luke Top chase them off the stage with a barrage of tender mopecore. They're followed by the evening's nightcap, the Minor Canon, a dreamy anti-pop crew featuring a two-man horn section.
- Jorge Barriere
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Paul Wall w/ Tech N9ne and Ill Bill
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Tuesday Apr 15 (10pm)
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Crash Mansion LA (1024 S Grand Ave, 213.747.0999)
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Swishahouse icon, platinum-selling rapper, and purveyor of gleaming grills, Paul Wall brings his deep Southern drawl to Crash Mansion for a co-headlining appearance. Wall's guest verses on Mike Jones' enormously popular 2004 single "Still Tippin'" shot him to hip-hop megastardom after years of building a loyal following in Houston, and his chopped-and-screwed masterpiece, The People's Champ, only sealed the deal in 2005. His tourmate, the clown-painted Tech N9ne, is a Kansas City rapper who's moved hundreds of thousands of his own records independently. Joining them is Ill Bill, a rising Jewish MC from Brooklyn.
- Joe Blankholm
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ART: Photography
Aperture West Collaborative Series feat. Larry Fink
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Wednesday Apr 16 (7pm)
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Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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Larry Fink's stark, black-and-white photographs tend to contrast high and low culture, observing the dialogue between disparate social groups. Over his 45-year career, Fink has trained his lens on high fashion, boxing, musicians — he even released a humor book mocking the Bush administration. He's received two Guggenheim Fellowships and NEA Grants, been exhibited everywhere from the Whitney to New York's MoMA, and is a contracted photographer for Condé Nast publications, including Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. All this, and he's a full-time professor at Bard University. He lectures this evening at the Hammer as part of the museum's Aperture West series.
- Jessica Jardine
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Banyan w/ Crescent Moon Descendents, Jennifer Grayson, and Becky Kessler
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Wednesday Apr 16 (8pm)
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The Mint (6010 W Pico Blvd, 323.954.9400)
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Back in the proto-alternative '80s, 18-year-old Stephen Perkins played drums in a little hard-rock band called Jane's Addiction. The '90s ensued, and Perkins came out the other side a well-respected session player and a well-connected solo artist. Banyan, Perkins' multimedia collective, has dozens of rotating members — from Flea to Nels Cline, Petra Hayden to performance painter Norton Wisdom — and touches on jazz, art rock, and punk with experimental aplomb. Tonight's over-stuffed bill also features three local acts who take that same free-thinking sonic sensibility in delightfully diverse directions.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
dirty mean tricks
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Thursday Apr 17 (8–10pm)
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Unknown Theater (1110 Seward St, 323.466.7781)
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Director/choreographer Jennifer Li spins her theatrical yarn with a seamlessly integrated movement style and an ensemble of offbeat collaborators. For dirty mean tricks, she's working in tandem with featured dancers Hassan Christopher and Marissa Labog, whose other ongoing projects (including the Company of Strangers) have helped them gain a masterfully nuanced partnering sensibility. Live musical accompaniment by Velvet Monkey, blending European folk and traditional jazz with current pop, and puppets by Michelle Zamora provide a perfect match for Li's dark and tragicomic tale.
- Allen Moon
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ART
Bent Festival 2008
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Thursday Apr 17
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California Plaza (300-350 S Grand Ave, 213.687.2159)
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If Chucky the homicidal doll had gotten a scholarship to Juilliard and developed an obsession with John Cage instead of murder, he might have been the first circuit bender. An international movement attracting musicians, artists, performers, noiseniks and mad scientists, circuit bending typically involves the manipulation of simple electronics — especially those found in children's toys like talking dolls — into avenues of sonic expression that Playskool just wouldn't understand. This year's Bent Festival is LA's fifth and most ambitious to date, with concerts by celebrity benders from all over the world, plus workshops, demonstrations, and parties over three days at two downtown locations.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The Ash Grove 50th Anniversary: Legend and Legacy
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Friday Apr 18 (8pm)
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UCLA Live at Royce Hall (752 Charles E. Young Dr, 310.825.4401)
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Tonight's UCLA Live concert commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Ash Grove, the legendary folk-music club that defined '50s- and '60s-era LA music. Ash Grove's alumni are an impressive bunch, including Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, June Carter, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, and Kris Kristofferson. While many of these artists can't make it to this evening's festivities, the Royce Hall extravaganza breaks out some big names nonetheless: Taj Mahal, Michelle Shocked, Roland White, Ry Cooder, and some yet-to-be-announced surprise guests.
- Julian Hooper
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Soundtrack: Is Your iPod Hilarious?
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Friday Apr 18 (10pm)
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UCB Theatre (5919 Franklin Ave, 323.908.8702)
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Hitting shuffle on an unsuspecting iPod can mean unpredictable embarrassment — as when, say, songs from The Little Mermaid soundtrack pop up. Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe Soundtrack lures folks down to the theater for that very reason. Basing their shtick on the long-running New York UCB show of the same name, the LA troupe features actors and writers from TV shows and films like The Office, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Old School, and Superbad. So pack up your iPod, Zune, or whatever form of music-on-the-go you prefer, and find out if your taste is so-bad-it's-good, or just hilariously bad.
- Jessica Jardine
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ART
Randall Sellers and Evah Fan
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Saturday Apr 19 (5–7pm)
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Richard Heller Gallery (2525 Michigan Ave, Suite B-5A, 310.453.9191)
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Consummate visual storyteller Evah Fan continues her Scheherazade-like seduction with a new batch of works at Richard Heller Gallery. Her small drawings of mundane, everyday objects — manila envelopes, reading glasses, sport water bottles — are whimsical and sweet on the outside, and subversively sour on the inside. It's this duality that makes her work so tempting, as the simplistic narratives often distract from a more sinister plot. A concurrent solo show of work by Randall Sellers tells stories too, but in a different style. Sellers' graphite drawings use a vintage, post-illustration sensibility to spin charming, romantic, and slightly cheeky tales.
- Heather Silva
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ART
Sue-Ling Hyde
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Saturday Apr 19 (7pm–midnight)
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Ghettogloss (2380 Glendale Blvd, 323.912.0008)
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Sue-Ling Hyde is more than a pretty face. You might recognize her from modeling gigs with Shiseido, Versus, and Moshino, but the Puerto Rican artist (who, incidentally, is married to Passion's James Hyde) has been passionate about painting for as long as she can remember, constantly doodling on anything she could get her hands on (napkins, pizza boxes, appointment books). At least now Hyde has a slightly more appropriate forum: Silverlake's Ghettogloss exhibits a new collection of her paintings, inspired, she says, "only by love."
- Ashley Tibbits
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MUSIC
Is it Music? feat. David Chiesa & Mathieu Werchowski, Anna Homler, and Marcos Fernandes & Robert Montoya
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Sunday Apr 20 (7pm)
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Dangerous Curve (1020 E 4th Pl, 213.617.8483)
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This evening's installment of Dangerous Curve's aptly named Is it Music? series outdoes itself with a lineup featuring collaborative and solo "musical" experiments. The evening is built around the gentle earthquakes of David Chiesa's double and electric basses, the Rimbaud-esque violin improvisations of fellow Frenchman Mathieu Werchowski, the anything-can-be-a-drum percussion of Marcos Fernandes, the micro-minimal electronic trances of Robert Montoya, and Anna Homler, who sings jazzy, mesmerizing love songs in made-up languages.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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FILM
Logan's Run (1976)
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Sunday Apr 20 (9pm)
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The Steve Allen Theater (4773 Hollywood Blvd, 323.666.4268)
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Only Hollywood could birth a film about a 23rd-century society in which everyone must end their lives at the tender age of 30. Director Michael Anderson's Academy Award-nominated Logan's Run stars a wide-eyed Farrah Fawcett and revolves around Logan 5, a "Sandman" determined to escape the jaws of a young death. The dystopian boiler draws distinct parallels to life in Los Angeles, cunningly predicting a future of fighting overpopulation and pollution. Fittingly, a remake has been languishing in present-day Hollywood development hell.
- Julian Hooper
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READING
CalArts at LACMA: Reading Series in Contemporary Literature feat. Cherríe Moraga and Helena Maria Viramontes
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Monday Apr 21 (8pm)
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (5905 Wilshire Blvd, 323.857.6000)
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LACMA's Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement is a historic showcase of contemporary Chicano art as well as a retrospective of earlier Chicano artists. More than 125 paintings, photographs, digital media works, and installations are on display — including "phantom" urban landscapes by photographer Christina Fernandez, "intermedia" installations by Mario Ybarra Jr., and Nicola Lopez's wall-sized drawings. Prolific authors and CalArts Chicana writers Cherríe Moraga and Helena Maria Viramontes speak tonight inside the Phantom Sightings exhibition, merging the show's visual and literary components.
- Jessica Jardine
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Ruby James w/ Shane Alexander and Matt Ellis
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Monday Apr 21 (8pm)
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The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd, 310.276.6168)
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Sexy songstress Ruby James releases her aptly titled debut record, Desert Rose, to a packed West Hollywood crowd tonight at the Troubadour. The new album is a beautifully bleak, down-home depiction of a passion for love and a life of freedom. (It even includes a velvety rendition of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game.") Squeaky-clean pop singer Shane Alexander opens, and Venice Beach-based singer/songwriter Matt Ellis charms with a set of edgy, melancholic indie folk on the early side.
- Jorge Barriere
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ART
Panopti(con)
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Tuesday Apr 15 (11am–5pm)
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Bank (125 W 4th St, 213.621.4055)
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Los Angeles multimedia artist Martin Durazo curates this collection of work by 17 artists under the broad thematic umbrella of power and authority. The exhibition's name — referring to an early 19th-century prison-surveillance structure — invokes the binaries of watcher versus watched and controlling versus controlled; artists Chris Tallon, Kiki Seror, Tim Nolan, and several others interpret these themes. In Bank's project room, Enrique Castrejon reconfigures images he appropriates from the media into orderly, geometric wall drawings.
- Ashley Tibbits
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ART
Anselm Kiefer: Palmsonntag
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Wednesday Apr 16 (noon–6pm)
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First Baptist Church (760 S Westmoreland Ave)
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Out of 36 glass panels and multiple tonnage of cracked clay and resin, German artist Anselm Kiefer has created an illusion (as well as an allusion) in the form of a giant fake palm tree. Situated in a dusty church gymnasium, the piece demands intellectual inquisitiveness, rather than religious fervor, to process its connection to Palm Sunday, the day Jesus returned to the Holy Land and the eve of his imminent demise. Why bother constructing a fake palm tree in the desert that is LA? Because Kiefer's work, despite his labor-intensive craftsmanship, has always been more about the symbolism of action than action itself.
- Amy Kaps
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This installation runs in tandem with Kiefer's exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery (456 N Camden Dr, 310.271.9400).
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