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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
Jul 29-Aug 4, 2008
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New York transplants and those secretly yearning for tall buildings and poorly lit side streets are in luck this week, as Downtown's haphazardly gentrified patchwork of dive bars and shabby-chic developments gets busy. Pharmaka Gallery launches a poetry series; the Barker Block lofts celebrate the release of Paul G. Maziar and Matt Maust's new book WHAT IT IS: WHAT IT IS; Peanut Butter Wolf kicks off a weeklong club-hopping marathon at Chinatown gem Grand Star; lingerie models in gorilla masks strike a pose at La Cita; and spoken-word artists from Venice to the Castro shake the LATC’s walls with a few heart-pounding slams. Beach? What beach?
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Behance Network
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When asked to curate a page on the Behance Network — a social networking site for creative professionals — Flavorpill co-founder Sascha Lewis chose his favorite galleries from the thousands posted by artists and designers on the site. Check out all of his picks, and learn more about Behance. We can all be creators.
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Tracey Moffatt
The Australian artist on her work and the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The Watson Twins w/ Tim Fite
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Tuesday July 29 (8:30pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Though they've been together since 1998, the Watson Twins only really rose to prominence after Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis tapped the pair's pipes on her unabashed solo success Rabbit Fur Coat. While they also gained a nearly unshakable association with the indie singer, Chandra and Leigh Watson step out of the shadows with the soothing vocal harmonies and raw folk meanderings of their newest Vanguard Records release, Fire Songs. Tonight, the twins represent their southern heritage as a duo, hitting town alongside alt-county chameleon Tim Fite.
- Rachel Brodsky
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MORE FLAVOR: Convention
LATV Festival
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Tuesday July 29
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The Highlands Hollywood (6801 Hollywood Blvd, 323.461.9800)
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The National Association of Television Programming Executives (NATPE) presents the LATV Festival, where agents, studios, and executives meet to size up the competition. The fest is a tribute to both the creative and business sides of TV, with an impressive range of events that parse new trends and challenges in the realms of content development, production, and funding. There's something here for everyone in the biz, whether you're looking to hear industry secrets straight from the big shots, have the itch to pitch your million-dollar concept, or just want to commiserate with others over the struggle to get rich and famous in Hollywood.
- Sascha Feldman
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Some events take place at the nearby House of Blues on Sunset Blvd — check the festival website for complete details.
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FILM
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
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Wednesday July 30 (8pm)
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Arclight Hollywood (6360 Sunset Blvd, 323.464.4226)
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Filmed at the Griffith Observatory and other locales around LA, Rebel Without a Cause remains James Dean's most iconic film. Nominated for five Academy Awards, the Nicholas Ray-directed classic is a sophisticated take on teen angst, in which Dean plays 17-year-old Jim Stark, a tortured out-of-towner who winds up at a new school in Los Angeles. Dean was the first actor to ever be posthumously nominated for two Oscars, for his roles in Giant and East of Eden, though many critics believe that his performance in Rebel was more deserving.
- Julian Hooper
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Jay Reatard w/ Cheap Time
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Wednesday July 30 (9:30pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Jay Reatard might be the current king of Memphis garage punk, but he's a completist's nightmare — his overflowing discography makes Prince look like My Bloody Valentine. It wouldn't be so daunting if he'd just release a clunker every once in a while, but between the distorto-synth racket of his former band Lost Sounds and his own solo work, that's a rarity. Next up is the Night of Broken Glass EP, which spazzes out with the usual Wire-bound fits of nervous energy (try the bouncy, defeatist anthem "All Over Again" for a good example of Reatard's lean pop smarts). Just don't be surprised if you end up going home after tonight's show with the whole merch table.
- Stephen Gossett
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PERFORMING ARTS: Spoken Word
The Third Area: Poetry at Pharmaka
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Thursday July 31 (7pm)
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Pharmaka (101 W 5th St, 213.689.7799)
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Considering their city's notorious light and dark sides, it's no surprise that Angeleno poets are continuously inspired. Pharmaka gallery channels those creative juices through the Third Area: Poetry at Pharmaka, a reading held in its Downtown space. For the inaugural event, the monthly gathering invites a few notables: Beckian Fritz Goldberg, winner of the 2004 FIELD Poetry Prize; poet and fiction writer Mariano Zaro; LA native and award-winner Yvette Johnson; and Loyola Marymount professor Sarah Maclay.
- Jessica Jardine
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Alejandro Escovedo
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Thursday July 31 (8pm)
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The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd, 310.276.6168)
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After kicking off his career with San Francisco punks the Nuns, Alejandro Escovedo ushered in the alt-country movement with Austin bands Rank and File and the True Believers. Now a revered elder statesman of the rock world, Escovedo has moved from noise to laying down delicate layers of cello and pedal steel. His tales of love and loss ring especially true since, in 2003, he contracted hepatitis C and was forced to face the disease with no health insurance. The resurgent rocker hits the Troubadour tonight.
- Jonathan Knapp
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
DJ Z-Trip & Friends
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Friday Aug 1 (8pm)
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Echoplex (1154 Glendale Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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$20
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Mashups are sooo 2001. Now that every Serato-toting DJ has figured out how to drop T-Pain a cappellas on top of Steve Miller riffs, these shotgun weddings sound about as fresh as "Walk This Way." Lucky for us, supreme turntablist DJ Z-Trip — who's made mashups his MO since his earliest demos — still has the ability to surprise. From his lawsuit-inviting underground mixes to his cleared-samples 2005 major-label debut, Shifting Gears, Z-Trip always shows an ear for what he calls "uneasy listening" — in which disparate acts like Black Sabbath, Lyrics Born, and Rush all clamor for attention.
- Matt Sussman
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All proceeds from this show will be donated to the Barack Obama campaign.
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Eric Idle: Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
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Friday Aug 1 (8:30pm)
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Hollywood Bowl (2301 N Highland Ave, 323.850.2000)
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$10 -149
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Think Monty Python's Life of Brian as a humorous oratorio: Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) follows Brian, a contemporary of Jesus, who rockets to glory, mistaken for the son of God. Featuring top-notch musical-theater performers like Idle himself, as well as the classic song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," Not the Messiah delivers wicked laughs and thought-provoking riffs on religion. Like many of Idle's one-offs, this show may never be staged again (or at least not for a long time), so grab your seats fast.
- Lucinda Knapp
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ART
Live from Skid Row
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Saturday Aug 2 (6–9pm)
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The Box Gallery (977 Chung King Rd, 213.625.1747)
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FREE
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The Box Gallery has successfully bridged art and social change with the Skid Row History Museum, a means of educating the public about the problems faced by LA's homeless population. The temporary show involves an interactive time line, a large floor map of downtown Los Angeles, and a "sleeping zone" outlined in red tape outside the gallery. To celebrate the success of the Skid Row History Museum, tonight's closing reception features Dome Village designer Ted Hayes speaking about his ingenious and architecturally innovative invention, as well as performances by Lucky Dragons, Ron Taylor, the Church of the Nazarene Gospel Choir, and Riccarlo Porter.
- Sascha Feldman
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PERFORMING ARTS: Puppetry
The Puppet Shows: Part II
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Saturday Aug 2 (6 & 8:30pm)
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Santa Monica Museum of Art (2525 Michigan Ave, 310.586.6488)
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Part two of the Santa Monica Museum of Art's The Puppet Shows picks up where part one left off, as a varied cadre of artists explore the metaphor of puppetry through various media. In Janie Geiser's "peep-show/diorama/performance," The Reptile Under the Flowers flirts with live video, while in Caitlin Lainoff's Le Petit Macabre, animation and a kazoo invoke the precariousness of our intergalactic existence. Geiser and Lainoff are just a few of the exhibition's nearly 30 artists, whose ranks include heavy hitters like Kara Walker and Kiki Smith.
- Jessica Jardine
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Part II is part of a larger exhibit, The Puppet Show, on view from May 24 to August 9.
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MUSIC: Punk/Metal
Boris w/ Torche
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Sunday Aug 3 (7pm)
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Echoplex (1154 Glendale Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Boris rattle the brain harder than any flag-waving, metal-zone-stomping, B.C. Rich-tapping good ol' boys ever could. The Japanese doom lords are just heavy in a way that is difficult to describe, down-shifting seismic grooves into cathartic mess of overdriven guitar and satanic incantation. While collaborations with Sunn O))) and psych-shredder extraordinaire Michio Kurihara reflect the trio's droning and melodic tendencies, respectively, the recent Smile LP is perhaps Boris' most accomplished and varied foray into the nether regions of psychedelia.
- Nick Earhart
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MUSIC: Folk/Country
An Evening with Dolly Parton
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Sunday Aug 3 (8pm)
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Greek Theatre (2700 N Vermont Ave, 323.665.5857)
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With Dolly Parton's musical 9 to 5 prepping for its debut in LA this September and the singer's latest album debuting at the highest chart position of her career, the entertainment legend is bracing for a big year. The American icon takes to the Greek tonight for the LA leg of her Backwoods Barbie world tour, playing tunes from 9 to 5 as well as country classics "Jolene," "Coat of Many Colors," and "I Will Always Love You," which she refused to share with Elvis Presley.
- Julian Hooper
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Warpaint w/ Mia Doi Todd, Moonrats, and Titus Andronicus
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Monday Aug 4 (8:30pm)
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Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, 323.661.4380)
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Say what you will about ambitious New Jersey quintet Titus Andronicus — they make a helluva racket. The band's recently released debut, The Airing of Grievances, buries seething punk-rock screeds in ringing guitars and piano, calling to mind the Replacements and home-state hero Bruce Springsteen. With their proclivity for literary references kept in check by an overwhelming desire to wail, Titus' new tunes exhibit the breadth of a biblical epic and the angst of a high-school parking lot. Expect open-air sing-alongs, and, in keeping with their namesake play, plenty of blood and guts. The band hops onstage tonight as part of local psychers Warpaint's monthlong Spaceland residency.
- Eli Dvorkin
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MORE FLAVOR: Party
Sean Carnage presents Three-Year Anniversary Party
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Monday Aug 4 (9pm)
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Pehrspace (325 Glendale Blvd, 213.483.PEHR)
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Sean Carnage has been blowing minds and eardrums with his weekly music-and-mayhem nights at Pehrspace for three years now, so it's time to mark the big anniversary with a party. Tonight's overstuffed bill features loud, wicked, yet strangely danceable punk-rock tunes from bands hailing from LA and elsewhere. The music goes off amid the Rewarding Savagery with Sweets, a collection of Zaq Landsberg's disturbingly funny depictions of sentient piñatas protecting themselves from far-reaching sticks of destruction.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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Zaq Landsberg's work remains on view through August 10.
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ART
Edwin Ushiro: While Tides Guide You Back Home
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Tuesday July 29 (noon–6pm)
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Edwin Ushiro's multimedia paintings are ethereal combinations of pop art and anime, which explains why he is in high demand as a production designer, art director, and storyboard artist for NBC Universal, Warner Bros., and Mitsubishi. Still, it may surprise some of his fans to learn that While Tides Guide You Back Home is his first solo show in LA. The exhibition addresses Ushiro's melancholic feelings toward leaving his native Hawaii with dreamy, sun-kissed images that are populated by young, forlorn figures. Combining paint, ink, iron-on transfers, fabric, and digital media, Ushiro's stand-apart work marks him as a must-watch local artist.
- Jessica Jardine
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Camelot Artists present Rabbit Hole
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Friday Aug 1 (8pm)
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Skylight Theatre (1816 1/2 N Vermont Ave)
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Commissioned as part of South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival, David Lindsay-Abaire's wrenching drama won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and kick-started Cynthia Nixon's Tony Award-winning return to the stage. Rabbit Hole explores the emotional havoc that rips a small family apart when its young son is accidentally killed, and each character's search for clarity only adds to the horror of the excruciating situation. Camelot Artists' style is rooted in simplicity and honesty; the group strips away the nonessentials in order to throw the performers' nuanced, moving portrayals into heightened relief.
- Allen Moon
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Shana Nys Dambrot
DEPUTY EDITOR
Jessica Jardine
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Nick Earhart
SENIOR EDITORS
Jake Lancaster
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Allen Moon
Jorge Barriere
Julian Hooper
Steve Nalepa
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
Ashley Tibbits
Phil Kropoth
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Adda Birnir
Tom Starkweather
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