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Your event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in Los Angeles. |
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Los Angeles
Feb 3-8, 2010
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Is there any more stressful experience than moving? Surely there is, but at the moment I'm hard-pressed to think of one. After 15 years in Venice Beach, I packed up and moved to Downtown LA this weekend. Maybe it's all the time I spent in my hometown of NYC last year, but something in me was just craving taller buildings and later business hours. Somehow I managed to forget what such an undertaking would actually entail: the confronting of my hoarding instincts, how heavy art books can be, and how few offers of help actually materialize. But it all seems to have worked out in the end — my temporary apple-crate writing desk is perfectly serviceable — so it's time to embrace a new perspective on our fair city, take the Year of the Tiger by the tail, and find a new local bar in time for the Super Bowl.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
20 presents for your Valentine that don't suck
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Valentine's Day may be the most maligned holiday of the modern greeting-card era. But even the biggest misanthrope's gotta love someone, even if it stems from total narcissism. Hence, our shopping guide for February 14, for everyone from the cute girl you've been crushing on, to the friend-with-benefits and/or the unlucky object of your next break-up. Plus, a chance to win three of our top picks! »
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FILM
Sneak preview of Stuck!
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Wednesday Feb 3 (7:30pm)
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Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd, 323.466.3456)
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'80s ladies and cult-film stars converge at tonight's sneak-preview screening of Stuck!, a campy celluloid tribute to women's prison movies. Susan Traylor, John Waters darling Mink Stole, Easy Rider star Karen Black, and former Go-Go Jane Wiedlin play cellmates in Steve Balderson's "devastating" tale about "shattered innocence" and just a little jailhouse lesbianism.
- Julian Hooper
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Laura Marling
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Thursday Feb 4 (8pm)
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Largo at the Coronet Theater (366 N La Cienega Blvd, 310.855.0350)
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$20
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This spring, British musician Laura Marling releases the follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut disc, Alas I Cannot Swim, an angsty affair that the then-17-year-old wrote in her London bedroom. Now 20, the guitar-playing singer/songwriter has teamed up with Ethan Johns (Ray LaMontagne, Kings of Leon) for her sophomore disc, I Speak Because I Can. The collection, sure to be previewed this evening, sparked a creative burst; she heads back into the studio in a few weeks for another album of new material.
- Julian Hooper
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MUSIC: Electronic
Magical Properties Tour feat. Daedelus w/ Jogger and Nosaj Thing
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Friday Feb 5 (8:30pm)
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The Echo (Echo - 1822 Sunset Blvd, Echoplex - 1154 Glendale Blvd, 213.413.8200)
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$15 / $13 advance
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Daedelus, the alter-ego of Alfred Darlington, launches the Magical Properties tour, and his new label, on his home turf of SoCal. With characteristically cheeky, laid-back resolve, he's taking some good friends with him for a magical ride across the country. Jogger's graceful yet provocative digi-analog compositions move between the future and memory, meeting somewhere in between. And fresh off remixing indie-It Girl Charlotte Gainsbourg earlier this year, wunderkind Nosaj Thing delivers trademark wonky beats, hopefully throwing in some of his hypnotic synched visuals, too. While sound-mesmerist, style icon, and music experimentalist Daedelus has long called upon his Anglophile influences, he finally gets to show us why his mad-scientist romantic aesthetic is all his own.
- Tanja Laden
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ART
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
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Saturday Feb 6 (8–11pm)
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Subliminal Projects (1331 W Sunset Blvd, Suite 210, 213.213.0078)
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From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing is what it appears to be. Albert Reyes examines the mediated universe of culture, public images, and his city-specific vantage point on global affairs through urgent, expressive line drawings executed on whatever surface is at hand. Andres Guerrero crafts complex, kaleidoscopic paintings with a psychedelic sensibility and a love of the skull motif, which express the infinite possibilities of the lone imagination.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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MORE FLAVOR: Food/Wine
Fallen Fruit: Plant the Perimeter Fruit Tree Giveaway
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Sunday Feb 7 (noon)
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LACMA (5905 Wilshire Blvd, 323.857.6000)
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FREE
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What began as the mapping of fruit trees in LA neighborhoods grew into Fallen Fruit, a full-fledged activist art project and collaboration among David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young. Rooted in the notion that all of us deserve to have access to "public fruit," Fallen Fruit holds a pair of public fruit-tree adoptions, officially launching EATLACMA, the museum's year-long series of food-related talks, performances, exhibitions, and other events on culture, art, politics, and eatables. February 6, TreePeople Los Angeles sponsors the public fruit-tree adoption at Watts Towers, and on February 7, it moves to LACMA. Potential adoptive fruit parents are encouraged to arrive early for the best selection.
- Tanja Laden
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Red Arrow Messenger February Residency
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The boys of Red Arrow Messenger play no-frills alternative rock with plain and honest vocals. "Murder Ballad" is a timeless tale of Americana violence and struggle, infused with a touch of atonal indie modernity. "More Love" reveals the band's diversity, sticking with dark lyrics ("Your eyes shine like the mouth of a gun...") but accompanied by a hip-hop bass line. Playing in support is a cast of local indie favorites, including Jenny O, Rumspringa, and Last American Buffalo, whose "Bohemian Blues" sounds like it was pulled from the Bob Dylan mold.
- Phil Kropoth
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ART
Gustavo Godoy: Fast-Formal Object: Big White
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Wednesday Feb 3 (10am–6pm)
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Honor Fraser (2622 S La Cienega Blvd, 310.837.0191)
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Somewhere on the formal continuum between Gordon Matta-Clark's cut-outs and the Ice Hotel in Sweden lie the architectural sculptures and interventions of Gustavo Godoy. Using his customarily circumspect and quotidian array of materials — mostly the woods, paints, and plastics of simple construction — he transforms the interior space of the gallery into a geometrical and industrial, yet intuitive and inviting, near-landscape. It is exactly this push-pull between nature and industry; the explosive activity of creation and the refined setting for the display of art; that makes Big White such an affecting experience.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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About Us |
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Shana Nys Dambrot
DEPUTY EDITOR
Tanja Laden
SENIOR EDITORS
Doug Levy
Leah Taylor
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Julian Hooper
Jorge Barriere
Jane McCarthy
PUBLISHERS
Mark Mangan
Sascha Lewis
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