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Issue 274 |
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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
May 27-Jun 2, 2008
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With the academic year winding down in earnest, it's tempting to ditch study hall and devote the summer months exclusively to poolside endeavors. Luckily, we live in LA — where you can get yer learnin' while you play. Culver City Gallery District and the West Hollywood Avenues of Art & Design each host outdoor gallery crawls, Fridays Off the 405 sets music (and booze) against the Getty Center's informative California Video exhibit, and the Book Expo reminds us that reading is both fun and fundamental. Whether school's out for summer or forever, never stop learning.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Activate 100th Issue Contest
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News shouldn't be a spectator sport. To celebrate the 100th issue of our sister publication Activate, we're stepping out of the mainstream media to let you showcase the stories that activate your universe. Enter to win some great prizes — including a video camera and subscriptions to the New Yorker — by sharing your photos or video on our Flickr group.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Foxboro Hot Tubs
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Tuesday May 27 (7pm)
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The Roxy Theatre (9009 W Sunset Blvd, 310.278.9457)
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Revealed as a "secret" Green Day side project, Foxboro Hot Tubs add a bit of extra skronk, meshing power-pop and rockabilly into a series of crunchy, radio-ready anthems. While an underlying sense of Green Day song structure remains intact, the band isn't so much a punk paean as a sacrifice to the garage gods. Billie Joe Armstrong's snotty rasp is present, but for Foxboro, he tempers it with a seedy swagger, barking in time to the heady crunch of tunes like "Mother Mary." The band plays at the intimate Roxy tonight; best to line up really early, as tickets are only available at the door.
- Andrew Phillips
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ART
Psychedelic Healing Visions: A Celebration of Lavender Diamond's film Imagine Our Love
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Tuesday May 27 (8pm)
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The Silent Movie Theatre (611 N Fairfax Ave, 323.655.2510)
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If the idea of an "interplanetary ballet" gets you going, then prepare yourself for Imagine Our Love, a musical film by twee-folk singer/songwriter Lavender Diamond (aka Becky Stark). Named after Stark's new album, the movie features the artist sporting wild costumes in a variety of outer space-themed, Busby Berkeley-esque song-and-dance numbers. The "Earth-liberation fashion fantasy" was directed by projection artist Maximilla Lukacs, and is screened tonight as part of the ongoing, always-eclectic Cinefamily series at the Silent Movie Theatre. The evening also features a variety show with guest performers, as well as raffles and limited-edition posters.
- Jessica Jardine
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Jen & Angie
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Wednesday May 28 (8pm)
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UCB Theatre (5919 Franklin Ave, 323.908.8702)
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Following its packed six-month run in New York City, longform comedy sketch Jen & Angie fulfills its destiny and arrives in Hollywood. The show, written by Laura Buchholz and Christina Casa, centers on three of the planet's brightest-burning stars: Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, and Angelina Jolie. Aniston (Sara Chase) and Jolie (Casa) end up stranded on a remote island together — with a vegetative, mannequin-played Pitt — after their plane goes down, and are forced to overcome their messy romantic liaisons and personal insecurities to survive.
- Jessica Jardine
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Advance reservations are recommended.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Superdrag
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Wednesday May 28 (10pm)
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The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd, 310.276.6168)
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Superdrag's "Sucked Out" was one of the prime pop confections of 1996, with cherry-red guitar distortion and John Davis' hoarse vocals transforming the song's self-conscious lyrics into a celebratory call-to-arms. Unfortunately for the band, Elektra didn't hear another single and dropped it after an elaborate (if equally invigorated) follow-up album sporting the razzing title Head Trip in Every Key. Fortunately — perhaps inspired by Nada Surf's surprising post-wilderness success — Superdrag recently reformed, and from the sound of their new demos, the Nashville group is still lacing its Beatles-esque pop with feverish fuzz.
- Max Goldberg
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FILM: Documentary
Eat the Document (1972)
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Thursday May 29 (8pm)
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Skirball Cultural Center (2701 N Sepulveda Blvd, 310.440.4500)
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The Skirball continues its ongoing exhibition Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966 with a screening of unreleased Dylan documentary Eat the Document. The film captures a brief, seminal moment in Dylan's life: his 1966 European tour with the Hawks, the Canadian sidemen who later became the Band. Dylan directed the film himself with the help of D.A. Pennebaker, the man behind revered Dylan doc Don't Look Back. (The project was a commission by ABC television, which eventually rejected it upon viewing.) Legendary music documentarian Penelope Spheeris (The Decline of Western Civilization) hosts the screening and discusses Dylan's impact on the world of filmmaking.
- Jessica Jardine
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Ladytron w/ Datarock
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Thursday May 29 (8pm)
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Music Box at the Fonda Theater (6126 Hollywood Blvd, 323.464.0808)
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The snarls of Bulgarian-born Mira Aroyo tease Helen Marnie's hushed vocals, while their Ladytron bandmates mess about on analog synthesizers. The band's dark, low-end synths and often pessimistic lyrics are shot through with undeniably coy pop structures (hi, "Seventeen"), building a dance party perfect for even the moodiest wallflowers. Their fourth full-length, Velocifero, is out this June, featuring help from the production teams behind heavyweights like NIN and Ed Banger. Ladytron were at the forefront of electro with 2005's Witching Hour, and they're fittingly joined tonight by the new guard, cheeky Norwegians (and labelmates) Datarock.
- Leah Taylor
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MUSIC: DJ
Fridays Off the 405 feat. Dirty Finger and B.Cause
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Friday May 30 (6–9pm)
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The Getty Center (1200 Getty Center Dr, 310.440.7300)
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The May installment of Flavorpill and the Getty Center's Fridays Off the 405 party features DJ Dirty Finger with support from DJ B.Cause. The Brooklyn-based Dirty Finger has performed alongside an eclectic bunch of musicians — everyone from Jazzy Jeff to Gang Gang Dance — spinning soaring swirls of disco pop, soul stomp, and avant house; he was recently named Brooklyn's top spinner by the NY Press. B.Cause, meanwhile, has been a fixture in the Bay Area club scene for years with his mix of classics and under-appreciated gems.
- Alexx Shaw
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ART
Four
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Friday May 30 (7–10pm)
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Corey Helford (8522 Washington Blvd, 310.287.2340)
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Jason Shawn Alexander, Sarah Folkman, Melissa Forman, and Karen Hsiao make up the "four" artists of this exhibition, which brings together locals working within the new fine art movement. Alexander was exposed to Renaissance works from an early age, and the influence permeates the often dark-themed paintings he creates today. Folkman's paintings frequently draw upon dreams and memories, and Forman's character-based images evolved from years of commissioned portraiture. The only non-painter of the bunch, Hsiao, creates "antique" photographs that have been internationally exhibited. The foursome is enhanced by the addition of guest artist Miso.
- Ashley Tibbits
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Piot Brehmer
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Saturday May 31 (10am–1pm)
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Samuel Freeman (2525 Michigan Ave, B7, 310.449.1479)
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Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's a certain allure to his figurative portraits that gives them an updated air of the contemporary. Although he uses the same voyeuristic gaze and bases his images on photographs, the nature of his subjects is beguilingly ambiguous: they are either women of questionable professions (i.e. prostitutes and strippers) or those who pose in provocative clothing and suggestive positions as fictional characters in an artist's narrative. Brehmer is paired with fellow figurative artist Robert Yarber, whose cartoony lyricism balances out the sultry seduction in the former's work.
- Heather Silva
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Swervedriver
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Saturday May 31 (8pm)
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Music Box at the Fonda Theater (6126 Hollywood Blvd, 323.464.0808)
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Of all the Creation Records bands, Swervedriver most resemble the aggro-sensitive mold that actually impacted the charts during the early '90s. (They're also one of the shoegaze era's lost causes, remembered more by association than anything else.) Unlike Ride's warped Britpop or My Bloody Valentine's erotic-pixie haze, Swervedriver's sound is, stripped of its trademark atmospherics, actually kind of grungy; 1993's Mezcal Head is textured and sensual and all of that, but it also snarls like a pissed-off teen, soaring with melodramatic angst. After their ten-year hiatus, the dudes recently got back together for Coachella and a short North American tour.
- Nick Earhart
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Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007
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Sunday June 1 (noon–5pm)
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Pasadena Museum of California Art (490 E Union St, 626.568.3665)
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Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle: a mural of a police helicopter executed entirely in hair pomade. He's also known for his beaded-curtain pieces, which fuse the banal and the sensational. Now, the New York-born, LA-residing artist is the subject of a mid-career survey covering ten years of work. Organized by Thelma Golden for an earlier show at the SMH, the exhibition includes early examples of Newkirk's curtains, as well as his subsequent forays into mixed-media installation, photography, and video.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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Potter-Belmar Labs and Giacomo Castagnola
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Saturday May 31 (8pm)
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Materials & Applications (1619 Silver Lake Blvd, 323.913.0915)
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Santa Fe, New Mexico is home to a growing population of cutting-edge artists and art spaces. The live-cinema performers and fortune tellers of Potter-Belmar Labs are among the most far out, reviving the once-popular "magic lantern" method of divination (which involves projected lights, screens, and live elements in an interactive, low-tech multimedia performance). Tonight, they're joined in presentation and discussion by Tijuana-based video artist Giacomo Castagnola and his ABCmovil — a portable, vehicle-based video show featuring his vast archive of footage documenting the Baja art scene.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Aimee Mann
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Monday June 2 (8pm)
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Largo (366 N La Cienega Blvd, 310.855.0350)
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After a couple of concept albums (including a curious "seasonal" record), former 'Til Tuesday tunesmith Aimee Mann is back on track with a signature disc that recalls her work on the Magnolia soundtrack. Smilers, produced by longtime bassist Paul Bryan, features trademark Mann compositions and some of-the-moment mashups — one with Sean Hayes and another with McSweeney's honcho Dave Eggers. The first single, "Freeway," is a hard-driving paean to Orange County opulence and its associated spiritual bankruptcy. Tonight, Mann makes a second stop at favorite haunt Largo for a preview of her new material.
- Julian Hooper
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Kristina Wong: Hooray (Whoring) for Hollywood!
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Monday June 2 (8pm)
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Comedy Central Stage (6539 Santa Monica Blvd, 323.960.5519)
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Kristina Wong's scandalous, abrasive comedy is wrong in all the right ways. Using herself as a weapon, she takes aim at stereotypes of Asian-Americans, depressed women, rampant materialism, unattainable beauty, and vacuous movie stars in a series of one-woman shows based on her original characters. More Andy Kaufman than Margaret Cho, Wong drags her audiences into her act, implicating them in her scathing critiques. Tonight, she soullessly whores her various indecent skills for "the industry" in order to obtain a lucrative contract. Plus, it's her birthday — another rich vein for material.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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Elizabeth McGrath: The Secret Party
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Tuesday May 27 (noon–6pm)
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Billy Shire Fine Arts (5790 Washington Blvd, 323.297.0600)
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For The Secret Party, Elizabeth McGrath ditches her usual creepy dolls and freaky dioramas and fully embraces her works' intrinsic whimsy with a frothy, quirky collection of figurative watercolors. The artist's subjects — human, animal, or otherwise (e.g. smiley-faced guns and winged dragons) — appear winsome or woeful, but always lovely. A Billy Shire gallery favorite, Hollywood native McGrath returns to the Culver City space, and has already sold out her show — an indication of her kooky, character-driven paintings' appeal.
- Ashley Tibbits
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Shana Nys Dambrot
DEPUTY EDITOR
Jessica Jardine
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Nick Earhart
SENIOR EDITORS
Anna Balkrishna
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Joe Blankholm
Jorge Barriere
Julian Hooper
Steve Nalepa
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
Ashley Tibbits
IMAGE EDITORS
Adda Birnir
Sarah Steele
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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