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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
Aug 12-18, 2008
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The mind-numbing tour de force that was Beijing 2008's opening ceremonies was outdone only by the ensuing multi-channel deluge of coverage — from human interest to sight-seeing, political controversy, and Phelpsian dominance. But LA's wildly eclectic counter-programming is no slouch: Melanie Pullen's exhibition of large-scale combat photographs are dark and slick, while the expansive outdoor butterfly pavilion at the Natural History Museum is a magical waking dream. Etta James' Hollywood Bowl appearance with the legendary Solomon Burke promises sexy, old-school bop 'n croon, while experimental lute breaks the mold at the MAK Center, and DJ Spooky haunts the woods of Big Sur with a light-and-sound show. Whatever your cup of Oolong, don't bother with decaf — there's too much to do.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Tom Sachs
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A bricolage tinkerer, Tom Sachs recreates objects with found materials and brand-name icons to subvert their original meanings and values. Equally invested in concept and in craft, Sachs' provocative work has rough edges, revealing how each piece is made. Our sister publication Artkrush speaks with Sachs about his working process and current shows.
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Akashic Books
Each anthology in Akashic's Noir series spotlights authors with a kinship to their city.
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MUSIC: Folk/Country
Or, the Whale w/ Idaho Falls, Leslie & the Badgers, and Caleb Nichols
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Tuesday Aug 12 (8pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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While one listen to the harmonized chorus of "Call and Response" is all it takes to fall for Or, the Whale, the San Francisco septet has a lot more to offer than catchy climaxes. The group combines alt-folk, country, and rock influences with lyrical substance, which is only natural considering the band's name is taken from the subtitle to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Inspirational, political, and inclusive, Or, the Whale's sound swarms from all directions: the slide guitar chokes you up, xylophone hits brighten a dark room, and drums keep things moving like a victory march. Playing supporting roles tonight are the Idaho Falls, Caleb Nichols and the dusty, sweet road house love songs of Leslie & the Badgers.
- Phil Kropoth
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MUSIC: Classical
The Los Angeles Philharmonic feat. works by Philip Glass and Edward Elgar
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Tuesday Aug 12 (8pm)
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Hollywood Bowl (2301 N Highland Ave, 323.850.2000)
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Tonight, the LA Philharmonic juxtaposes romanticism, opera, and minimalism in compositions by Philip Glass and Edward Elgar. The program begins with pieces from Glass' the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, a dramatic, avant-garde opera initially written for the 1984 Olympics. It is followed by Glass' 1987 Violin Concerto, a piece rich with the patterns, repetitions, and haunting, solo violin that have since become his signature. The concert concludes with Elgar's breakthrough composition, Enigma Variations. Originally written in 1899 to entertain his wife, the piece is broken into 14 parts, each one a musical sketch of one of their close friends.
- Anna Wiener
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MUSIC: Punk/Metal
The Locust w/ Qui, Halloween Swim Team, and Upsilon Acrux
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Wednesday Aug 13 (7pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Like an Old Testament plague, San Diego's experimental grind-punk vets the Locust swarm up the I-5 for a one-off show at the Echo. Angelenos with a taste for noise would do well to catch this gig, the last Locust performance in the States before the band hits Europe. Although the Locust have released a dozen or so records since 1995, nothing hits like their live set, all neck-snapping rhythmic shifts, throat-shredding vocals, and, of course, four grown men in skin-tight bug costumes. Come early for a set by LA's own Qui, who meld sludgy guitar to a pummeling rhythm section and vocals by ex-Jesus Lizard madman David Yow.
- Eli Dvorkin
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FILM: Festival
Downtown Film Festival
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Wednesday Aug 13
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Orpheum Theatre (842 S Broadway, 877.677.4386)
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According to local legend (and pictorial evidence), Downtown Los Angeles was once a vibrant metropolis overflowing with entertainment, culture, and men wearing hats. Now, after decades of skyscraper-building and sci-fi dystopianism, Downtown is back (sans hats), and the organizers of the Silver Lake Film Festival are celebrating that resurgence with the inaugural Downtown Film Festival. MOCA, SCI-Arc, and the historic Los Angeles and Orpheum theaters (as well as other venues) host films before the event culminates Sunday night with an outdoor screening of water documentary and 2008 Sundance favorite Flow at California Plaza.
- Dave Marley
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ART
All of This is Melting Away
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Thursday Aug 14 (6–9pm)
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Royal/T (8910 Washington Blvd, 310.559.6300)
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Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from prominent collector Susan Hancock's personal trove. The title, which establishes a theme of disappearance, comes from a work by featured artist Jim Hodges. Other artists include Dave Muller, Bjarne Melgaard, Makiko Kudo, and Kirsten Hassenfeld. All of This is Melting Away also boasts a newly commissioned work by Beth Campbell, plus toys and other consumer goods by Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama. The range of art and design represents a marquee collection as well as the cross-genre ethos according to which the newly opened multi-use space operates.
- Ashley Tibbits
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ART: Festival
Digital Art LA
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Thursday Aug 14 (7–9pm)
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Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (107 W 5th St, 323.646.9427)
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The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), a Downtown Gallery District staple, gets the whole neighborhood involved this week when surrounding venues like the Regent Theater, Niche.LA, and Spring Arts Collective host a festival of installations and video screenings honoring the aesthetic plurality of digital media. Meanwhile, nearby galleries exhibit selections from the collections of major international art institutions, like the Center for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk, Poland. LACMA curator Howard Fox acts as juror for an international new-media show at LACDA itself.
- Ashley Tibbits
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Exhibitions take place in various local galleries. Visit LACDA for details.
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ART: Photography
Deborah Glusker: MALI feat. Akwaaba Music
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Friday Aug 15 (6pm)
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SALT ( 1138 1/2 Abbot Kinney Blvd, 310.452.1154)
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Photographer Deborah Glusker brought plenty of film with her on a recent trip to the enchanting West African nation of Mali and returned with a portfolio of landscapes and portraits that are by turns intimate and exuberant. The progressive Venice boutique Salt hosts an exhibition of Glusker's prints, and tonight pairs her images with DJ sets featuring tunes from Benjamin Lebrave's newly formed African dance label Akwaaba Music as well as cuts selected by KCRW's Tom Schnabel, host of the world-music nexus Cafe LA.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Smoking Popes w/ Koufax and stepsonday
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Friday Aug 15 (8pm)
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Knitting Factory (7021 Hollywood Blvd, 323.463.0204)
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Brothers Matt, Eli, and Josh Caterer — the core members of the pop-punk foursome Smoking Popes — burst onto the Chicago indie-rock scene in the early '90s, touring with the likes of Green Day, Elastica, and Morrissey (the last called the outfit his "favorite American band"). After calling it quits in 1999, the group was still beloved enough in 2005 to sell out a reunion show in just over half an hour. Now, Smoking Popes are set to release their first album in nearly a decade, turning out the incisive guitar-driven melodies, soaring vocals, and whip-smart lyrics that made them an influential proto-emo powerhouse.
- Audrey Mast
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ART
Neck Face: Cannibal Carnival
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Saturday Aug 16 (7–10pm)
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New Image Art (7908 Santa Monica Blvd, 323.654.2192)
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Neck Face and his ubiquitous demon motifs — scrawled all over downtowns on both coasts — enter the gallery scene and infiltrate the once-genteel medium of watercolor painting. With past bodies of work involving underwear-clad corpses hanging from nooses, Mexican snuff tabloids, masks, and billboard interventions, expect a varied array of urban source material that supports the artist's proposition that death is more than the end of life — it's also entertainment. Mini-ramp skateboarding, an art form in its own right, takes place during the opening.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Global
Azymuth w/ Beat Konducta, Carlinhos Sounds of Brasil, J ROCC, B+, Coleman, and Samba Angeles
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Saturday Aug 16 (9pm–2am)
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Echoplex (1154 Glendale Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Get ready to slip into your most vibrant party gear as ArtDontSleep presents a sweet and low-down night full of Brazilian and Brazil-inflected uptempo grooves. Highlights include a rare performance from Rio's progressive samba celebs Azymuth, full-body dance drumming from Carlinhos, and sizzling-hot DJ action from Stones Throw chameleon Beat Konducta (you may know him as Madlib, the most revered beat scholar in town). The world-spanning lineup packs enough energy into one night to keep you sated until Carnaval season comes around again.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: DJ
Custom Sundaze feat. Osunlade
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Sunday Aug 17 (1–9pm)
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Custom Hotel (8639 Lincoln Blvd, 310.645.0400)
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Born in St. Louis but currently living on a heavenly Greek isle, DJ, producer, and composer Osunlade has worked with such artists as Roy Ayers, Cesaria Evora, Patti Labelle, Freddie Jackson, and even Bert and Ernie. All that star power — not to mention his spiritual role as a priest of the traditional Yoruba religion of Ifá — has more than prepared him for the rigors of running a deep-house, global-beat record label (Yoruba Records). He also takes the occasional world tour, so catch him before he heads back to the Grecian coast.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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The afternoon features the tempting Flavorpill-themed Orange Fresh cocktail by Le Tourment Vert absinthe, with a special hosted bar from 2-3pm.
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FILM: Double Feature
The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Professionals (1966)
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Sunday Aug 17 (5:40pm)
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New Beverly Cinema (7165 W Beverly Blvd, 323.938.4038)
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Our president may have given cowboys a bad name, but if you've still got a soft spot for tobacco-chewing gunslingers, unlikely heroes, and frontier justice, then the New Beverly has the double feature for you. First up is The Magnificent Seven — the John Sturges remake of Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai — starring Yul Brynner, James Coburn, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson as a crew of mercenary bodyguards charged with defending a farming village from the bad guys. The dusty dueling continues with Richard Brooks' The Professionals, in which Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin ruin the plans of a gang of unscrupulous Mexican kidnappers.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Warpaint w/ the Drones, Die Princess Die, and Hecuba
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Monday Aug 18 (8:30pm)
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Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, 323.661.4380)
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Lo-fi blues rockers the Drones teeter between exhaustion and rage, mixing filthy, meandering guitar riffs and the snarling vocals of an old drunk at the bar. As such, their barely coherent stories of losing at life and love seem ready to unravel at any moment. Since breaking through Stateside in 2005, the band has toured tirelessly. Tonight the talented Aussie quartet returns to the recording locale of their 2006 record, Live in Spaceland, for a free show — part of the month-long residency of local up-and-comers (and Cat Power sound-alikes) Warpaint.
- Joe Blankholm
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ART: Photography
Melanie Pullen: Violent Times
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Tuesday Aug 12 (10am–6pm)
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ACE Gallery (5514 Wilshire Blvd, 323.935.4411)
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Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war and takes her elaborately staged crime scenes to a new level. Soldiers, weapons, and warfare are depicted in large photographs and on giant light boxes, giving her subject matter an alluring, cinematic quality. Soldiers are bathed in clouds of smoke and fog, lending drama, ambiguity, and menace to the range of ethnicities and time periods represented, and also suggesting that war is an eternal reality. The darkness of Pullen's work is matched by its beauty, which addresses society's idealization — if not outright glamorization — of mortal combat.
- Sascha Feldman
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ART
Insiders, Outsiders, & the Middle
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Wednesday Aug 13 (11am–6pm)
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The Scion Installation LA Space (3521 Helms Ave, 310.815.8840)
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With the help of Giant Robot, Scion Installation LA presents this group show featuring three different "schools" of artists. Adrian Johnson and Noriko Ashino are among the Insiders — graphic artists whose work is made for private consumption and represented through prints and t-shirt designs. The Outsiders, classified as those whose pieces are displayed openly and publicly, include French street artist Space Invader and Japanese graffiti artist Kami. Shinya Yamamoto, Nao Harada, and Ed Trask make up the Middle, the artists who draw elements from the other two groups and whose work appears everywhere from drum sets to clothing to organic paintings on paper.
- 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
Jake Lancaster
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Allen Moon
Jorge Barriere
Julian Hooper
Steve Nalepa
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
Ashley Tibbits
Phil Kropoth
IMAGE EDITORS
Adda Birnir
Tom Starkweather
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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