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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
Sep 9-15, 2008
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As the political season reaches a fever pitch, it's only proper for Angelenos to exercise their constitutional right to free assembly on a grand scale. This week, you can surf the crowds at the Bowl for an ambitious performance of Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand or head a bit further up the 101 and catch the first annual West Beach Music Festival on the sweeping Santa Barbara beach-front. The Nocturnal Festival lures electro heads up to San Bernardino for some serious arena-scale boogaloo, while the merry pranksters of Camper van Beethoven gather all their friends for a massive indie-rock camp-out. Hey, our government is supposed to be of, by, and for the people — so why not take the opportunity to go and meet a few?
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
In an Absolut World
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Here at Flavorpill, we like to think we have vision. That's why when the folks at Absolut asked us to contribute to their visionary new project, we could hardly resist. Sparked by the idea that "In an Absolut World, the world would revolve around culture," our writers reveal more of their utopian ideals in our very own Absolut World blog.
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Hiraki Sawa
A video artist meditates on travel and transience, innocence and isolation.
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Tricky
The results can be messy, but you'll still find yourself listening intently.
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MUSIC: Classical
Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand
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Tuesday Sep 9 (8pm)
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Hollywood Bowl (2301 N Highland Ave, 323.850.2000)
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Austrian composer Gustav Mahler wrote orchestral works that are considered to be some of classical music's biggest blockbusters. One of the most popular is his Eighth Symphony, which premiered in 1910 with 1,000 performers, earning it the name "Symphony of a Thousand" — a moniker the composer deplored. His legacy is far-reaching, having influenced composers such as Leonard Bernstein and Kurt Weill, and the second movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 plays an integral part in Star Trek: Voyager. Accordingly, tonight's Hollywood Bowl performance of the Eighth is no toned-down affair. On the grandiose bill are eight soloists, the LA Master Chorale, and the LA Children's Chorus.
- Julian Hooper
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Émilie Simon w/ Matt Sheehy, Sunny Levine, and Lukas Haas
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Tuesday Sep 9 (8:30pm)
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The Roxy Theatre (9009 W Sunset Blvd, 310.278.9457)
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France's empress of electro-pop, Émilie Simon presides over the Sunset Strip's Roxy Theatre this evening, bringing with her the eclectic, intricate tracks her fans have fancied for years. Thumping bass lines, swirling strings, and a divine voice put Émilie on the map after 2003's self-titled debut release, and she continues to seduce audiences worldwide. Joining her tonight are actor Lukas Haas; Venice Beach's leader of the laid-back groove, Sunny Levine; and Portland's palatine of harmony, Matt Sheehy.
- Jorge Barriere
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
826LA's Fall-Time Yuk-Fest
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Wednesday Sep 10 (8pm)
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Avalon Hollywood (1735 Vine St, 323.462.8900)
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The nonprofit 826LA emphasizes writing as an important tool for kids' success. The organization, founded to support the writing endeavors of students from elementary through high school, relies on some celeb pull (Judd Apatow and Fiona Apple are on the advisory board) as well as a star-studded roster of charity events. Tonight's benefit, Fall-Time Yuk Fest (subtitle: "Insightful Comedy and Dogs on Tightropes"), brings together Patton Oswalt, Janeane Garofalo, Tim and Eric, Jimmy Pardo, Bill Burr, Al Madrigal, and Bob Moore's Amazing Mongrels. All proceeds go toward 826LA's free student programming.
- Julian Hooper
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MUSIC: Electronic
Irwin's Conspiracy feat. Irwin, Nalepa, and Nosaj Thing
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Wednesday Sep 10 (10pm–2am)
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Air Conditioned Supper Club, Venice (625 Lincoln Blvd, 310.230.5343)
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The Air Conditioned Lounge's new series, Live Electronic, kicks off with an epic lineup. Irwin's Conspiracy boast a powerful live show that combines the spontaneity of jazz and the power of rock with a hip-hop energy. Irwin composes and loops elements on the spot, building songs in real time that harness his energetic drumming and Theremin skills. Rounding out the bill is LA's Nosaj Thing and Flavorpill's own Steve Nalepa (aka Nalepa), back for his first LA show after a summer of rocking festivals and clubs in the UK, Tokyo, and the US.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Punk/Metal
Finntroll
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Thursday Sep 11 (7pm)
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House of Blues Sunset Strip (8430 W Sunset Blvd, 323.848.5100)
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While a jolly band of Finnish metalheads singing about trolls and beer may not be for everyone, neither are rainbows, puppies, and piles of gold. For those who love death metal and Tolkien as much as they love polka, Finntroll need no introduction. The Helsinki-bred band is single-handedly responsible for turning the American masses on to folk metal after touring North America over the past year in support of their darkest and least bouncy effort to date, Ur Jordens Djup. If only the House of Blues served Kurobuta pork chop: you could eat one with your bare hands tonight.
- Gerry Mak
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PERFORMING ARTS: Cabaret/Burlesque
Zig Zag
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Thursday Sep 11 (8 & 10pm)
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Studio 1636 (1636 Wilcox Ave, 323.860.9936)
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Billed as "a love story about dreams gone wrong," Zig Zag recalls the heyday of Hollywood. Told in rhythm, rhyme, and song — and set against a vaudeville-on-vinyl musical backdrop — the production tells the tale of a wide-eyed flapper named Laurelai and her tormented love triangle with Club Zig Zag master of ceremonies Gerald G. Gerald and a mysterious new paramour, Charlie. Part musical, part comedy, Zig Zag is a step back in time, and showcases a catchy score and some of the indie stage's most ambitious costuming, choreography, and visual design.
- Julian Hooper
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FILM: Documentary
The Cool School
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Friday Sep 12 (7pm)
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Norton Simon Museum (411 W Colorado Blvd, 626.449.6840)
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FREE w/ museum admission
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Around the time when NYC's Leo Castelli started blowing the doors off contemporary art with groundbreaking shows from Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, and Johns, the gallerist's LA contemporaries Walter Hopps and Irving Blum were busy mounting a challenge to New York's art-world dominance. From Ferus Gallery's 1957 opening to its closing in 1966, the space launched a cadre of future 20th-century art icons, from Ed Ruscha to Ed Moses (and even a little-known New Yorker named Andy Warhol). Documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville and critic Kristine McKenna enshrine the personalities, scandals, and enduring legacy of this band of brothers affectionately (and aptly) dubbed the Cool School.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Fireworks Finale: Celebrating Summer with Brian Wilson
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Friday Sep 12 (8:30pm)
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Hollywood Bowl (2301 N Highland Ave, 323.850.2000)
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With the long-awaited release of SMiLE in 2004, pop genius and Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson pulled off the impossible, rekindling his foundering solo career by returning to its most inspired moment. Still running on the record's momentum, Wilson brings a similarly uncanny mix of pop sensibilities and esoteric arrangements to his latest album, That Lucky Old Sun. Hot off stints at sold-out concert halls (he debuted the new project at a series of performances in London and Sydney), Wilson trots out hits and newer arrangements alike, revitalizing the classic sounds of summer.
- Joe Blankholm
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MUSIC: Festival
Nocturnal Festival feat. Digitalism w/ Richie Hawtin, Claude VonStroke, Miguel Migs, and Kaskade
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Saturday Sep 13 (6pm–4am)
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NOS Center (San Bernardino) (689 S E St)
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$55
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A Southland staple for ravers, electronic-music fans, and the purely adventurous, Nocturnal Wonderland returns for its 14th year, this time as the Nocturnal Festival. While the drive to San Bernadino may seem long, diehards will forget the mileage as soon as they see the astounding six-room lineup. This year's festival includes Richie Hawtin and Claude VonStroke, representing techno's quirky sides; Doc Martin and Miguel Migs, with proper lessons in 4/4 house; legendary turntablist DJ Craze working the crowd into a sweat; and drum 'n bass ambassador Dieselboy rinsing the dance floor clean with his layered mix of bouncy jump-up and edgy tech-step. Bring a friend (and your sunglasses): it's going to be a long night.
- Amanda Moshier
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Aesop Rock w/ Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz
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Saturday Sep 13 (8pm)
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The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd, 310.276.6168)
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Aesop Rock is one of Def Jux's most consistently brilliant voices, with a gritty, futuristic take on left-field hip-hop. His flow is supremely confident, and his lyrics are truly mind-boggling, weaving together absurdist stories and bizarro imagery with acrobatic verbal dexterity. Hip-hop may not always translate well in the live arena, but Aesop's dizzying, disorienting shows never disappoint. In recent interviews, he's threatened to leave music altogether, so catch him spitting tracks from his excellent record, None Shall Pass, while you still can.
- Giles Cottle
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FILM
Contempt (1963) and Les Mystères du Château de Dé (1929)
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Sunday Sep 14 (7pm)
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Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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The Hammer Museum culls from the Film & Television Archives to create an intriguing, interdisciplinary film series that explores the diverse manifestations and character-contextualizing potential of architecture in cinema. The series is in large part inspired by the soaring expressiveness (and frequent location-casting) of John Lautner's oeuvre, examples of which are currently on display at the museum. Today's double feature boasts a pair of rare masterpieces: Contempt is a Godard classic starring Brigitte Bardot and inspired at least in part by the epically photogenic Mediterranean campus of Capri's Villa Malaparte. Les Mystères du Château de Dé, meanwhile, is a little-known Man Ray gem, comprising a lively motion-picture photograph of the quirky, Cubist modernism of Provence's Villa Noailles and its grounds.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: DJ
DEEP presents Charles Webster
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Sunday Sep 14 (10pm–2am)
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Vanguard (6021 Hollywood Blvd, 323.463.3331)
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Electronic-music innovator Charles Webster is man of many strengths: his house-music productions are trippy, poppy, and, yes, booty-bumpin' as all get out. A lover of Rickie Lee Jones and Marvin Gaye, Webster slips a sense of the sultry and the heartfelt into his sets, full of whirring repetitions, ethereal synths, and erratic tempo tantrums. Featuring an outdoor candle spot and a Buddha bauble or two, venerable Sunday house-of-house-worship DEEP at the Vanguard was made for this type of music — the kind likely to induce religious epiphanies.
- Nicole Spector
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Oh Darling
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Monday Sep 15 (8pm)
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The Hotel Café (1623 1/2 N Cahuenga Blvd, 323.461.2040)
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Pioneers of the emerging Portland pop explosion, Oh Darling deliver an intoxicating blend of indie rock that's more inspired by Day of the Dead festivals than cookie-cutter confections. The LA-based group's debut album, Nice Nice was produced by Gregg Williams (the Dandy Warhols) with ten cuts of unapologetic, perfectly crafted pop punch. Charismatic lead singer Jasmine Ash is a siren onstage — a powerhouse persona who's a little bit Courtney Love, a little bit Karen Carpenter — singing sly tracks that depict Southland mornings and obsession ("Waking Up on a Train"). Tonight, the band celebrates the release of Nice Nice with a Hotel Café cookout geared toward making you its newest fan.
- Julian Hooper
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Death to Anders
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Monday Sep 15 (8:30pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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KROQ Locals Only and Performer Magazine present a residency for LA's own Death to Anders at the Echo every Monday night this month (fortuitously, this is also the venue's free night). This quirky quartet rocks with a little Beck-inspired sonic schizophrenia, interspersed with sparkly guitar lines reminiscent of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. Every week this month, they're joined by a fresh parade of indie bands, including the Henry Clay People, Radars to the Sky, the Monolators, One Trick Pony, and Fol Chen.
- Jorge Barriere
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ART
Bob Biggs: OPP-A Roadmap to Nowhere, Doug Edge: New Paintings, and Kate Harding: Whiskey Creek
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Tuesday Sep 9 (11am–6pm)
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Track 16 Gallery (2525 Michigan Ave, 310.264.4678)
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Track 16 opens the fall season with three concurrent solo exhibitions. Venice stalwart Doug Edge is known for the fluidity and materials-driven caprice of his quixotic mixed-media abstractions; noted critic Kristine McKenna curates a selection of his most recent paintings. Kate Harding uses fashion — particularly leather clothing — as a prism through which to examine seasonal cycles of fertility and fallowness. Her new series juxtaposes abstract art's geometric shapes with color patches from garments. Finally, Slash Records founder Bob Biggs shows psychologically fraught, symbol-rich paintings whose surrealist tendencies are organized into families of boats, nudes, skeletons, clouds, and other memes that defy logic but possess their own internal order.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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Syndrome: I Learned It By Watching You
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Tuesday Sep 9 (noon–7pm)
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Crewest Gallery (110 Winston St, 213.627.8272)
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Micah Hancock, James Larese, and Mars Sandoval, who make up the motion-design studio Syndrome, demonstrate their penchants for biting humor and stark realism during an exhibition of new work at Crewest Gallery. I Learned It By Watching You, which takes its title from an '80s public-service announcement, expertly combines new processes with old, showcasing pieces that comment satirically on the ways in which mass media affects society. The Saturday-night reception is an aural attraction as well; it includes a set from DJ Daz of LA's Umoja Soundsystem.
- Ashley Tibbits
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About Us |
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Shana Nys Dambrot
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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