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Issue 362
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  Your event guide

Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in Los Angeles.
 




  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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Wed Feb 3
 
 

  FILM
Sneak preview of Stuck!
when: Wednesday Feb 3 (7:30pm)
where: Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd, 323.466.3456) map
price: $11
  '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

 


  Also Happening Wednesday
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PERFORMING ARTS: Spoken Word
Flypoet
@ Savoy Entertainment Center

MUSIC: Electronic
Telepath
@ Fais Do Do

 
 
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Thur Feb 4
 
 

  MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Laura Marling
when: Thursday Feb 4 (8pm)
where: Largo at the Coronet Theater (366 N La Cienega Blvd, 310.855.0350) map
price: $20
  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

 


  Also Happening Thursday
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Cue the Moon w/ ExDetectives, Deep Sea Divers, and Souls in Secret
@ Silverlake Lounge

 
 
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Fri Feb 5
 
 

  MUSIC: Electronic
Magical Properties Tour feat. Daedelus w/ Jogger and Nosaj Thing
when: Friday Feb 5 (8:30pm)
where: The Echo (Echo - 1822 Sunset Blvd, Echoplex - 1154 Glendale Blvd, 213.413.8200) map
price: $15 / $13 advance
  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

 


  Also Happening Friday
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Run Devil Run
@ The Viper Room

MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Emily Wells
@ Largo at the Coronet Theater

 
 
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Sat Feb 6
 
 

  ART
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
when: Saturday Feb 6 (8–11pm) More times»
where: Subliminal Projects (1331 W Sunset Blvd, Suite 210, 213.213.0078) map
price: FREE
  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

 


  Also Happening Saturday
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ART
Echo Park Art Walk
@ Various Echo Park locations

MORE FLAVOR: Benefit
Amoeba Charity Auction
@ Amoeba Records

 
 
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Sun Feb 7
 
 

  MORE FLAVOR: Food/Wine
Fallen Fruit: Plant the Perimeter Fruit Tree Giveaway
when: Sunday Feb 7 (noon)
where: LACMA (5905 Wilshire Blvd, 323.857.6000) map
price: FREE
  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

 


  Also Happening Sunday
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MORE FLAVOR: Tour
Urban Hike: Forgotten LA
@ Various locations

ART: Architecture/Design
Paulette Singley
@ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

 
 
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Mon Feb 8
 
 

  MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Red Arrow Messenger February Residency
when: Monday Feb 8 (8:30pm) More times»
where: Bootleg Theater (2220 Beverly Blvd, 213.389.3856) map
price: FREE
  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

 


  Also Happening Monday
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Ten Tops: Love...? feat. the Roman Catholic Mime Collective
@ Sacred Fools

 
 
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Ongoing
 
 

  ART
Gustavo Godoy: Fast-Formal Object: Big White
when: Wednesday Feb 3 (10am–6pm) More times»
where: Honor Fraser (2622 S La Cienega Blvd, 310.837.0191) map
price: FREE
  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

 


  Also Ongoing
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ART
Daniel Dove
@ Cherry and Martin

PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Ray Bradbury's 2116
@ Fremont Centre Theatre, 1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA 91030

 
 
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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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