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Just as all movies should have orangutans and karate in them, Cinefamily staunchly supports the assertion — via "The Five Minutes Game" — that every movie is interesting for at least its first five minutes. While this may not apply to Andy Warhol's Empire or most Movies of the Week...
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Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax
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Memorial Day, Film |
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For some strange and wonderful reason, movie theater owners decided that Tuesday is the day to offer cheap seats. For a similarly wonderful reason, museums followed suit in fueling this peculiar social compact, so what better way to embrace conformity than with today's matinee double bill of...
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Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park
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Move over Keyboard Cat and Dramatic Squirrel. The latest animal on the Internet to make us two-legged species laugh and waste precious work time is the honey badger. The popularity of YouTube's "The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger" has to date attracted more than 44 million views thanks to the...
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West Hollywood
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We Love You, Candye Kane!
There's a slew of great reasons to go to the 23rd Annual Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival, and not just because of the fest's logo: an alligator in sunglasses playing the guitar. (You need the T-shirt.) On the Blues Stage: The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Rod Piazza and...
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Ventura County
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The Echo :
8:30 p.m. May 28
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On the surface, Baron Von Luxxury seems like an electro-disco geek lothario made in the image of Beck's Midnight Vultures. But spend a little time with this Silver Lake resident's new album, The Last Seduction, and you'll discover what makes him unique. He offsets his falsetto with a...
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Echo Park
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The Joint :
8:00 p.m. May 29
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For more than a decade, trumpeter John Daversa has nurtured a big band that has become one of the area's finest, most often seen crammed into the cozy Baked Potato on Sunday nights. In recent years, Daversa also has begun developing a quintet, which is set to follow last year's big-band album,...
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Out of Town
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The Echo :
8:30 p.m. May 30
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In many ways, The Clean are like New Zealand's equivalent to The Urinals. Each band started in the late 1970s, releasing obscure singles that melded lo-fi production and musical backing with an art-pop aesthetic that invoked predecessors like the Velvet Underground. Both groups are better known...
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Echo Park
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L.A. Louver :
Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. from May 24 until June 30
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Ben Jackel makes amazing, deceptively simple sculptures that resemble the familiar objects they depict in precise, witty detail, even as they dissemble as to what materials they are made from. He is best known for a technique of sculpting in stoneware and wax, creating a dark surface sheen and...
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Out of Town
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Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries |
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One of the greatest gifts postmodernism ever gave to perception was the idea that art surrounds you every day and everywhere you go. Surprising that it hasn't been showcased in such a colossal way until now: "Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974" is the first large-scale exhibition addressing...
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Downtown
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Arts, Art - Museums |
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L.A. WEEKLY: Simon Cowell looked like he was about to drool checking you out on The Tonight Show — did he try to pick you up after the show?
NATASHA LEGGERO: No, but he did invite me over for an enema. Also I bummed one of his Kools.
Are you considered a big star when you go home to...
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West Hollywood
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Comedy |
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Sunset Junction :
12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. May 26
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Where are you going to be this Memorial Day Weekend? Maybe the beach? Just think about the war over parking and the crowds fighting over beach territory. Or maybe Uncle Bert's family barbeque? Take a second to remember the mustard stuck to Uncle Bert's lips as he reminisces about the glory...
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Silver Lake
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Topanga or not Topanga? It's the 39th year for the tie-dyed, groovy gathering that is Topanga Days. Topanga Canyon may not be the hippie haven it used to be, but that doesn't stop its residents from breaking out the incense and Hula Hoops for three days of bands, beer, Hacky Sacking and arts &...
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Malibu
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"The past is cracking off and the future is rushing in." Sandra Bernhard: Sandrology represents a new kind of science, one that takes hypocritical politics, extremist religion and prideful stupidity to task as satire-worthy targets in its "pop culture anthropology." Also, the show has way more...
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Downtown
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Theater - Large, Theater, Comedy |
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There isn't necessarily a lot of jazz in UCLA's annual JazzReggae Festival, but there will be a lot of thrilling music pumped out anyway over the course of this Memorial Day weekend. If it wasn't already clear that The Roots are one of America's greatest and most versatile live bands, the...
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West L.A.
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On paper, the pairing of American concert violinist Hilary Hahn with German electronic composer-pianist Hauschka looks like one of those perfect-for-adverts things about how supposedly disparate musicians are bridging cultural/aesthetic gaps to find common territory in a new form of art blah...
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Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park
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Dry the River have been called the next Mumford & Sons, but the British band's backstory isn't the usual folksy fare. Singer-guitarist Peter Liddle began writing songs in his bedroom while at medical school, but when he realized what he had, he traded in his scrubs for Levis and solo status for...
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Out of Town
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With his writing partner Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller wrote six decades' worth of the most popular and best-loved popular music. "Hound Dog." "Is That All There Is?" "Stand by Me." Most everything the Coasters ever did, including "Charlie Brown" and "Poison Ivy." Stoller has a...
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Out of Town
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Arts, Art - Museums |
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Get in the van with The Shrine — it'll be the van with the red-eyed wizard, lightning bursting out of every orifice, airbrushed in bleeding fluorescents on the side — and let the spray-paint fumes and hallucinogens fight for control of your mind. This Venice power trio are a band...
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Out of Town
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Paul McCartney's only son looks more than sounds like his dad: On a pair of recent EPs (newly collected on The Complete EP Collection), James McCartney pursues a cloistered indie-rock vibe that kind of recalls Bakesale-era Sebadoh, of all things. Evidence online suggests he boosts the energy a...
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West Hollywood
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It absolutely shouldn't work. Melding choral vocals, glittery synths and a stand-up harp (of all things!) should not work. Harps are not cool. Neither are high, wavering falsettos. But somehow local favorite Active Child (aka Pat Grossi) has managed to put together a show that stirs the soul...
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West Hollywood
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Rising L.A.-to-S.F. emcee Alexander Spit worships at the throne of deceased Bay Area king rapper Mac Dre, but rather than imbue his beats with the essence of thizz (ecstasy), he's inspired by a different brand of intoxicant. Some have called what he does "shroom-bap," a combination of classic...
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Out of Town
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Out of all the L.A. punk and new-wave bands of the late '70s and early '80s, the Suburban Lawns were truly uncategorizable. The Long Beach quintet's wickedly sarcastic "Gidget Goes to Hell" was a KROQ hit, and its video was even aired on Saturday Night Live, but these former CalArts students...
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Out of Town
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It's almost comical to label an artist as groundbreaking in today's rinse-and-repeat musical landscape. But in 2008, when Santi White, better known as Santigold, emerged with her dub-inflected eponymous debut stuffed with polyrhythmic electro-pulses and whiplash rhymes — not to mention an...
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Out of Town
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He's got a string of upcoming festival dates (including Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas) and a collaborative EP with Cypress Hill due out June 5. But first Rusko hits the Palladium tonight for the final date of his North American tour in support of this spring's Songs. As that title...
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Out of Town
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Barring a reunion of Ege Bamyasi–era Can, which would involve a resurrection, it's hard to imagine a more exciting event for L.A.-area fans of Krautrock, the '60s-born German experimental movement that continues to deeply inform most progressive music today. The Dublab crew and Teutonic...
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