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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 22-28, 2008
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As you've no doubt heard, today is Earth Day, a time when people around the world pause to remember the needs of the living planet we all share. But it's also a fine time to appreciate the cultural contributions of our fellow terrestrials — and the world makes it easy for us, as the Indian Film Festival, Polish Film Festival, Ottawa Animation Festival, and multi-disciplinary Brit Week show off around town. Locals are no slouches either, of course, as MOCA's ambitious Allan Kaprow survey and the alt-portraiture of Heroes & Villains amply demonstrate. Just try not to guzzle too much gas driving around to all those galleries and theatres.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Mexican Art
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Mexican-born artist Gabriel Orozco's formidable body of work ranges from sculpture and photography to installation and video, and is characterized by a winsomely madcap and thought-provoking lyricism. His distinctive aesthetic and that of kurimanzutto, the nomadic gallery he founded in 1999, have influenced Mexico's most noteworthy artists — a group that rarely settles on any one artistic medium.
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Girl Talk
Gregg Gillis dishes on his next ADD mashup, tentatively titled Wild Peace IV.
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PURE Photo Series
With BMW's help, Flavorpill commissioned photographers to uniquely capture our five US cities.
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ART: Photography
Heroes & Villains: Artists Portraits by Tatiana Wills & Roman Cho
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Tuesday Apr 22 (7–10pm)
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Corey Helford (8522 Washington Blvd, 310.287.2340)
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A collection of who's who in the alt-comic and street-art scenes adorns the walls tonight in a portrait series by photographers Tatiana Wills and Roman Cho. The two have snapped over 120 artists since 2005 — including major players like Shepard Fairey, Kinsey, Camille Rose Garcia, Liz McGrath, and Gary Baseman — capturing their inner characters in their most elemental environments. Tonight's focus is on Los Angeles-based artists, putting faces to the many names that continue to shape today's popular culture from the realms of the underground.
- Menaka Gopinath
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ART
Allan Kaprow: 18 Happenings in 6 Parts
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Tuesday Apr 22 (8pm)
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Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (6522 Hollywood Blvd, 323.957.1777)
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As part of an ambitious MOCA survey of the late Allan Kaprow, LACE hosts this short-run restaging of one of the artist's more traditionally formatted theatrical works. Originally unfurled at NYC's Reuben Gallery in 1959, 18 Happenings in 6 Parts is here recreated by sound-and-installation artist Steve Roden and a team of colleagues using Kaprow's notes and documentation. Involving scripted audience participation, the music of John Cage, and various visual elements, this seminal piece raised a new awareness of alternative conceptual art nearly 50 years ago. Needless to say, it's aged very well.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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ART
Dave McKenzie: Screen Doors on Submarines
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Wednesday Apr 23 (6–9pm)
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REDCAT (631 W 2nd St, 213.237.2800)
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Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a single cell fits within the social organism. No experience is too commonplace, no conclusion too modest to figure into McKenzie's oeuvre — in one recent project, he announced his schedule of upcoming appearances via pre-printed daily planner pages. Firmly rooted in his relationship to the quotidian, McKenzie represents the contemporary individual's identity as a function of basic everyday occurrences.
- Mallory Farrugia
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Dave McKenzie speaks with artist Rodney McMillan during the opening reception on Wed Apr 23 (6:30pm).
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Her Space Holiday w/ Lymbyc System, Head Like a Kite, and Antimc
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Wednesday Apr 23 (8pm)
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The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd, 310.276.6168)
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The Postal Service, take note: over the last seven years and nearly as many albums, San Mateo's Marc Bianchi (aka Her Space Holiday) has emerged as the master of sugary-sweet, electronic pop and gently haunting lyrics. Although Bianchi has lately abdicated the throne — his upcoming album Xoxo, Panda and the New Kid Revival will be his first recorded without electronics — his melodies are as heartbreaking as ever. Joining Her Space Holiday are fellow Mush recording artists Lymbyc System, Head Like a Kite, and Antimc.
- Nicole Cifani
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FILM: Documentary
Standard Operating Procedure
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Thursday Apr 24 (7pm)
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Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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Similar to this year's Best Documentary Oscar winner, Taxi to the Dark Side, director Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure digs deep into 2004's Abu Ghraib prison scandal. (Morris is is no stranger to the award himself, having taken the gold statuette for 2003's Fog of War.) In Standard, Morris surveys the photographic evidence portraying torture and human-rights abuses and speaks to notorious players like Army Private Lynndie England. As she and other participants from the military's PR nightmare open up, the film begins to sort out whether the scandal was the tip of an iceberg or really just a case of "a few bad apples."
- Jessica Jardine
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Caribou w/ Fuck Buttons
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Thursday Apr 24 (8pm)
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El Rey (5515 Wilshire Blvd, 323.936.6400)
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Noise isn't supposed to be this pretty. Sure, My Bloody Valentine, Jesu, and a whole mess of pedal-pushers have shown that's not necessarily true, but Fuck Buttons take the concept to a whole new stratosphere. "Bright Tomorrow" had the blogs beside themselves — a simple, shimmering keyboard melody that boils over into a Yellow Swans-ish barrage of screams and hiss — while early reports on their debut, Street Horrrsing, confirm that the tune was no fluke. Before the Buttons hammer out their ugly/pretty catharsis, Dan Snaith's Caribou (formerly Manitoba) play it just plain pretty. Last year's Andorra was a return to form, all crystalline songwriting and sunshiny instrumentation.
- Stephen Gossett
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
He Asked for It
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Friday Apr 25 (8pm)
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Theatre of NOTE (1517 Cahuenga Blvd, 323.856.8611)
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Erik Patterson's provocative play He Asked for It explores the dark underbelly of one-night stands: the HIV-indifferent behavior of "bug chasers." A character study of disenchanted gay youth who look to infect themselves in exchange for a sense of belonging, He Asked for It skirts controversial and uncomfortable borders. Ted (Joe Egender) is a young, fresh-off-the-bus actor who arrives in Hollywood looking to become the next big thing. Pitch-black comedy and drama ensue when Ted's often-treaded path leads him to more hotel rooms than audition rooms, and a perilous set of dangerous sexual encounters threatens to derail his idealistic existence.
- Julian Hooper
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MORE FLAVOR: Festival
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
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Friday Apr 25
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Empire Polo Field (81-800 Ave 51)
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Dig, if you will, the picture: three days in the desert, 100-plus degree temperatures, and a Saturday headlining date with His Royal Purple Majesty (or whatever he's calling himself these days). Coachella 2008 has cooked up an impressive, indie-leaning roster: Friday night belongs to the Verve, Aphex Twin, and Alison Goldfrapp's chilled-out new tunes. Things get heavier on Saturday when M.I.A. beats up the desert along with Cold War Kids, Death Cab for Cutie, Portishead, and a late live set from Prince. If you're still alive by Sunday, catch '80s synth kids Chromeo, Spiritualized, Sia, Gogol Bordello, and Roger Waters.
- Julian Hooper
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MORE FLAVOR: Festival
LA Times Festival of Books
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Saturday Apr 26 (10am–6pm)
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UCLA Main Campus (308 Westwood Pl)
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Marking its 13th year of disproving the tired old saw about Angelenos not reading, the LA Times Festival of Books unites bibliophiles with the writers and publishers who love them. Taking over theaters, halls, and lawns across the UCLA campus all weekend, readings, signings, panel discussions, and forums cover subjects as divergent as the Iraq war, the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, and how to entertain picky eaters. New this year, a menu of writing seminars caters to those hoping to become the next American literary icon.
- Mary Montoro
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FILM
The Steve Allen Theatre: Cronenberg Retrospective
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Saturday Apr 26 (8pm)
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The Steve Allen Theater (4773 Hollywood Blvd, 323.666.4268)
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David Cronenberg has created some of the most memorable cinematic moments in recent history (think Scanners or Eastern Promises). The Steve Allen theatre pays tribute with this retrospective to the auteur behind a sublimely violent body of work. Tonight's screening features 1983's Marshall McLuhan-inspired classic Videodrome. While searching for the next big thing, the smut-peddling president of Civic TV, Max Renn (James Woods), comes upon a mysterious signal originating from the center of all evil — Pittsburgh. What follows confirms what your mother always told you: "TV will rot your brain!" Behold, the new flesh.
- Justin Izbinski
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Neil Hamburger w/ the Fuxedos and Andy Kindler
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Sunday Apr 27 (9pm)
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Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, 323.661.4380)
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Andy Kindler teases a guffaw out of you by the sheer force of his power to annoy. The Fuxedos play their punk rock loud and their costumed, politically salty stage show is as irresistible as headlights to a deer. And Neil Hamburger, hot off a star-studded supporting tour for his recently released album of country songs, lets them each scare the rock 'n roll daylights out of the crowd before going into his own downtrodden, shtick-shift routine, which in many ways is equally, if not more, disturbing.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Colin Meloy
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Monday Apr 28 (8pm)
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Music Box at the Fonda Theater (6126 Hollywood Blvd, 323.464.0808)
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Decemberists leader Colin Meloy strips away the accordions, melodicas, and Stephen Colbert-trumping sidemen for tonight's solo acoustic performance. Befitting the man who literally wrote the book on the Replacements, Meloy's solo gigs are more freewheeling than his well-honed full-band shows. Check out Kill Rock Stars' new compendium, Colin Meloy Sings Live!, on which he picks songs from deep in his back catalog, ambles through Fleetwood Mac and Pink Floyd covers, and proves himself a master of that trickiest of live arts — onstage banter. And don't forget the tour-only EP of Sam Cooke covers!
- Stephen Gossett
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
I'm from Barcelona w/ Dusty Rhodes & the River Band
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Monday Apr 28 (8pm)
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El Rey (5515 Wilshire Blvd, 323.936.6400)
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IFB mastermind Emanuel Lundgren isn't actually from Barcelona, but the 28 other musicians in his supergroup aren't making an issue out of it. As twee as the Polyphonic Spree are grandiose, I'm from Barcelona squeeze onto the stage armed with banjos, clarinets, kazoos, and the like. Creating sweetly orchestral pop songs in the tradition of the Beach Boys and the Elephant 6 collective, Lundgren displays impressive restraint, showcasing delicate, folk-inspired melodies without muddling them. For their part, his musicians layer their significant vocal talents on top of everything, creating a gorgeously humble wall of sound that envelops rather than overwhelms.
- Connie Hwong
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ART
Lush
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Tuesday Apr 22
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Salon Oblique (address & directions provided with RSVP)
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With Lush, West Side sensation Salon Oblique upholds its growing reputation for intellectually and aesthetically engaging multimedia group exhibitions. As in previous shows, a cadre of painters, sculptors, and media artists takes on a multifaceted theme — in this case, sensuality, addiction, and excessive beauty. Michael Dee's radiant light-box sculptures, fabricated from melted plastic tumblers; the gooey, glistening paint abstracts of both Hollis Cooper and Steve Hampton; and Swinda's swirling, iridescent, textile-based architectural installations are just some of the works filling every available space in this impressive private home, public salon, and evolving art laboratory.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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