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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 23-29, 2008
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The recent chaos on Wall Street grabbed every headline in sight, whipping up a blizzard of coverage that obscured more than just this weekend's Emmy coverage. Strangely, a few other stories jostled to fill the media with freaked-out guys in suits: there was US' historic Ryder Cup victory, the revelation that Sarah Palin's favorite pastor is a self-proclaimed witch hunter, and the scandalous inefficiency of the government's response to Hurricane Ike's aftermath. Why not cruise the interweb for independent voices (we know a pretty good one) and ways you can help instead? Then renew your faith in humanity by heading outside for a little cultural enlightenment.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Physics at the Brink
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The recently activated, 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever constructed, designed to help answer some of the toughest questions in science. Activate posed some questions of its own to Dr. Dan Hooper, an associate scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who celebrated this exciting time in physics.
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The Bug
Kevin Martin, aka the Bug, has struck a chord, particularly with fans of dubstep.
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WORKac
Committed to the development of sustainable construction techniques.
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ART: Architecture/Design
Architecture and Seduction: Bachelor Pads and Sex Machines
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Tuesday Sep 23 (7pm)
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Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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In a town that has played host to notorious seductions both on-screen and off, Architecture and Seduction: Bachelor Pads and Sex Machines considers the role of location — and more specifically, the private residence — in erotic encounters. Tonight's panel discussion, an extension of the museum's current exhibition, Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner, posits that a sensuous space can be as attractive as a siren song, and that what happens behind closed doors may be facilitated by the curves, textures, and vistas of that edifice. Norman Millar mediates the conversation among Paulette Singley, Frank Escher, Renata Hejduk, and Kazys Varnelis.
- Jane McCarthy
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Little Jackie w/ J*DaVeY
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Tuesday Sep 23 (8pm)
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The Roxy Theatre (9009 W Sunset Blvd, 310.278.9457)
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Hollywood's J*DaVeY — the duo of new-wave producer Brook D'Leau and sexy, mohawked vocalist Jack Davey — are taking the future by storm, having caught ?uestlove's eye and opened for Prince. The electro-hop duo brings its West Coast flair home tonight, littering the stage with seductive, synthed-up tracks from its newly-released album. Come out for the home team, but stay put for Brooklyn's hip-hop princess Little Jackie's headlining set of savvy, sunny, pop-infused urban soul.
- Chloe Leichman
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FILM: Shorts
Restless Brilliance
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Wednesday Sep 24 (7pm)
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Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd, 310.443.7000)
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You can't swing a Wii stick without hitting one blurred genre or another at audiovisual juggernaut Restless Brilliance. Presented by new-media organization Volume Projects, tonight's program features a live performance by avant-electro celebrity Shuttle 358 (aka Fenton, aka Dan Abrams) and Richard Chartier's 2007 conceptual masterpiece Colorfield Variations — a compendium of sound-and-light art by an international roster of digital and A/V artists riffing on the modern-painting idiom.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The New Year w/ A Weather and Modern Memory
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Wednesday Sep 24 (8:30pm)
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The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Texas strummers the New Year steep their gentle arrangements and whispered vocals in subtle ironies and jaded lyrical allusions. On their new, self-titled album, the band lands a bit like Death Cab for Cutie with an extra layer of wistfulness — not surprising, considering that the New Years' members hail from '90s slowcore underdogs Bedhead. Either way, the heartfelt melodies cut straight to that sticky place at the bottom of your throat. Openers A Weather play delicate indie-folk, while Modern Memory add confident, radio-ready pop to the mix.
- Natalya Krimgold
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MUSIC: Punk/Metal
Mission of Burma performing "Vs"
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Thursday Sep 25 (7:30pm)
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Echoplex (1154 Glendale Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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Inspiration to guitar-dads everywhere, Mission of Burma prove the rock doesn't have to stop on the other side of the hill. 2004 comeback album OnOffOn was unanimously received as a worthy addition to the band's oeuvre — an exception to the typically cash-centric rule of rock reunions. Live, the regrouped Bostonians sacrifice little of the feedbacked vitriol that made 1982's Vs. a post-punk landmark, espousing the same noise-as-hooks ethos that set them apart from the chord-mangling pack in the first place. You might not get all the old hits tonight, but, then, you'll probably be too busy flailing to fresh material and an inevitably epic rendition of "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" to notice.
- Nick Earhart
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Paint the Nation Tour feat. Atmosphere w/ Abstract Rude, Blueprint, and DJ Rare Groove
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Thursday Sep 25 (9pm)
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The Wiltern (3790 Wilshire Blvd, 213.388.1400)
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Minneapolis' veteran duo Atmosphere (aka Slug and Ant, the backpacker's Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff) draw a die-hard crowd of indie hip-hop heads obsessed with Slug's caustic intelligence and intensely personal stories. You'd think Slug would be a little tired, having released close to ten albums in the last decade, but Atmosphere's buoyant, self-possessed 2008 full-length, When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold, proves that the Midwestern maestro can still spit for days with energy and heart to spare - and catch Billboard's attention.
- Chloe Leichman
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ART
Dennis Oppenheim: Cactus Grove
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Friday Sep 26 (7–9pm)
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ACE Gallery (9430 Wilshire Blvd, 310.858.9090)
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Dennis Oppenheim first hit the art-world radar in the late 1960s with his Land and Body Art projects, which combined film and video with performance, sculpture, and installation. Since then, Oppenheim has ping-ponged between directions and mediums and built a constellation of varied works. In the past two decades, the artist has increasingly focused on sculpture, producing large-scale pieces with a decidedly surrealist bent. In his new exhibition at the Ace Gallery Beverly Hills, Cactus Grove, the artist embarks on a strange and fantastical architectural exploration involving large, wiggly thingamajigs.
- Jane McCarthy
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Silver Jews w/ James Jackson Toth
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Friday Sep 26 (8pm)
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Echoplex (1154 Glendale Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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David Berman's Silver Jews were once dismissed as a Pavement side project. But really, Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nostanovich's presence in the band's early incarnations were largely inconsequential: even without them, there was no denying Berman's transcendent mix of lyrical beauty (he's both studied and taught creative writing) and deadpan delivery. Whether tapping the sounds of Nashville or New York, Berman is the master of the perfect indie-folk weeper. He's recently been sharing the mic with his wife, Cassie, and it's a welcome switch-up, bringing warmth to the Jews' irreverent, poignant rock 'n roll.
- Bill Chenevert
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MORE FLAVOR: Benefit
The Silverlake Conservatory of Music presents Hullabaloo 2008
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Saturday Sep 27 (5–11pm)
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Union Station (800 N Alameda St)
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$125
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The Silverlake Conservatory of Music, brainchild of Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and multi-instrumentalist Keith "Tree" Barry, hosts the fourth-annual Hullabaloo benefit concert at the physical intersection of all things LA, Union Station. The soiree raises cash for the school's scholarship fund, available to students with prodigious talent whose parents' wallets aren't as fortunate. It features performances by trumpet impresario Roy Hargrove, sultry Italian jazz diva Roberta Gambarini, members of the LA Philharmonic, and students and teachers from the school itself. The ticket price might seem daunting, but remember, there's an open bar, so depending on your habits, $125 could prove to be a bargain.
- Jorge Barriere
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ART
No Brow
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Saturday Sep 27 (7–10:30pm)
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Black Maria Gallery (3137 Glendale Blvd, 323.660.9393)
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Not unlike impressionism, "low brow" was a label with initially negative connotations affixed to a group of artists reacting against then-mainstream art. Merging their vision with the outsider-friendly, music- and tattoo-influenced cultures that inspired them, they made art more accessible to the public. Now, as so often happens when that which is alternative becomes popular, this school of thinking flirts with the cerebral exclusivity against which it first rebelled. Black Maria takes matters into its own hands with No Brow, a group show featuring Ken Garduno, Jennybird Alcantara, and Brooks Salzwedel among others seeking to reclaim the original goals of the low-brow movement: non-commercial art that privileges raw human experience above esoteric concepts.
- Ashley Tibbits
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MORE FLAVOR: Fair
Writing Pad at the West Hollywood Book Fair
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Sunday Sep 28 (10am–6pm)
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West Hollywood Park (647 N San Vicente Blvd, 323.848.6534)
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The West Hollywood Book Fair has so much to offer — panels, signings, readings, exhibitions, and more — that seeing it all is basically impossible. But the folks at Writing Pad have figured out a way to rise above the fray: food. The free Queer Writing Brunch introduces the West Side literati to the Pad's winning formula of lively topics, intimate workshops, and gourmet treats. Following the scones 'n lemon curd is a panel discussion, appropriately, on food-inspired writing featuring Laraine Newman and Evan Kleinman.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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The Queer Writing Brunch runs from 10:30 to 11:45am and requires an RSVP. Contact Writing Pad at 323.333.2954.
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PERFORMING ARTS: Spoken Word
Tongue and Groove feat. Mayda del Valle
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Sunday Sep 28 (6–7:30pm)
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The Hotel Café (1623 1/2 N Cahuenga Blvd, 323.461.2040)
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Mayda del Valle is what you might call a spark plug. A ferocious little tiger lily whose spoken-word torrents come on like avalanches of butterflies, she draws on the warmth of Latino culture and the injustice in America's lawless inner cities to concoct snapshots of the present moment that are by turns sensual and electric. She lights up this month's T&G alongside gifted local music talents and wordsmiths including Roger Guenveur Smith, an all-American hunk with a subversive mind, a lion's heart, and a wicked tongue.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Calexico w/ the Cave Singers
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Monday Sep 29 (8pm)
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Music Box at the Fonda Theater (6126 Hollywood Blvd, 323.464.0808)
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Southwestern indie-folkies Calexico are constantly redefining themselves. Since its founding members moved from LA to Tucson in 1994, the band has developed an affinity for unique sounds drawn from a library of indigenous instruments. Often getting help from friends such as Neko Case and Iron and Wine, Calexico rock accordions, vibraphones, and marimbas on tunes saturated with shadowy melodies and sun-warmed western dust. The group is quick to shift shape, however, inhabiting styles ranging from minimalist acoustic folk to mariachi to Afro-Peruvian pop. Tonight, Calexico present songs from their latest effort, Carried to Dust.
- Rachel Brodsky
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MUSIC: Electronic
Jamie Lidell w/ Janelle Monáe
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Monday Sep 29 (9pm)
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Avalon Hollywood (1735 Vine St, 323.462.8900)
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Warp Records' bionic crooner Jamie Lidell first broke out of the electro scene with 2005's Multiply. Touted as a brilliant, oddball homage to Motown, Lidell only revealed the genius of his production method when he hit the stage, sampling and looping his own voice live before stepping to the mic to sing. His new record, Jim, focuses more on his pipes and persona, and should catapult him from well-regarded electronica maven to pop sensation. Also on the bill is the pompadoured Janelle Monáe, whose alt-soul stylings have been compared to those of André 3000 and Cee-Lo Green.
- Ali Gitlow
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ART
Kerry James Marshall: Portraits, Pin-Ups, and Wistful Romantic Idylls
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Tuesday Sep 23 (10am–5:30pm)
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Koplin del Rio Gallery (6031 Washington Blvd, 310.836.9055)
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Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall has shown internationally to great acclaim, and now will show for the sixth time with Koplin del Rio in LA. The deceptively simple formulation of his painting practice — Western art history recombined with contemporary African-American sociopolitics — hasn't evolved so much as it has deepened. His most recent series employs the framework of classic European portraiture, deftly grafting sensual dimensionality, detailed costuming, and regal postures onto urban narratives. The ironic tone of Marshall's work highlights the unfortunate lack of African-Americans in the upper echelons of museum collections and in positions of power, but the pieces' formal finesse and majesty also make them breathtaking in a straightforward manner.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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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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