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Comedy Palace
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One of the best stand-up shows in L.A., Comedy Palace, takes place every Thursday night in the small roof space of a Chinese restaurant in Los Feliz. Producer Sam Varela has a knack for booking both big-name talents and future rising stars of the alternative stand-up scene. Veteran comics like... More >> |
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| Silver Lake | Comedy |
Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It
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Stephen Prina's show at LACMA, called "As He Remembered It," is full of built-ins -- built-in bookshelves, closets, cabinets, counters. Prina had these made to replicate built-ins from houses built by architect R.M. Schindler in the 1930s. This means they have a spare, midcentury refinement to... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
Steven Claydon: Total Social Objects
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Few materials are weirder and tackier than kitchen laminate, the kind you put on countertops to give them that faux-something look. London-based artist Steven Claydon uses laminate liberally in his new show at David Kordansky Gallery. He uses greenish and brown varieties on his frames and... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Ends and Exits: Contemporary Art From the Collections of LACMA and The Broad Art Foundation
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You have to walk through Cady Noland's Office Filter, a metal gate with a jacket hanging on one end of it, to get into the second gallery of LACMA's "Ends and Exits" show. There you'll find a yellow tarp across which Keith Haring painted his red, rambunctious characters, and the dress of white... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
Wu Tsang
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"Has anyone ever recoiled when you tried to kiss them?" Alex Segade asks Wu Tsang in Mishima in Mexico, a film the artists made together, in which they play artists planning to make a film based on Yukio Mishima's novel Thirst for Love. Wu Tsang says yes, "but that doesn't mean they weren't... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Art - Galleries, Arts |
James Turrell: A Retrospective
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It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, painter, architect, Light and Space artist or earthwork artist. We vote for all of the above, and more. But however you cast your ballot, you can't help but be a fan of Turrell's transcendent Skyspaces -- specially built rooms (and... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Art - Museums |
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The Rolling Stones
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It's easy to make fun of The Rolling Stones -- a karaoke-addled Mick Jagger even got in on the act last season on Saturday Night Live -- but the not-always-convenient truth is that Jagger and Keith Richards continue to write great songs, including the punchy new stiff-upper-lipper "Doom &... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Music |
Tomorrow!
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It's been seven years since Ron Lynch, along with Craig Anton, launched Tomorrow!, the wildly unpredictable midnight comedy show at the Steve Allen Theater. Brendon Small soon was added as host, and the show quickly gained a reputation for anything-goes comic experimentation. Neil Hamburger,... More >> |
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| Los Feliz | Comedy |
Keep It Clean Comedy
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While you were busy swing dancing, JC Coccoli's been hosting a night of "speakeasy-esque" standup comedy. Hear her explain why Keep it Clean Comedy came to exist. "Working comics in L.A. were in dire need of a speakeasy spot to work their showcase material. Prepping for performances on Leno,... More >> |
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| Los Feliz | Comedy |
Shitty Jobs
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I think we all know about those. More >> |
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| Hollywood | Comedy |
Cagematch
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Though improv is generally about love and support, Cagematch is all about improv teams battling each other in a knock-down, drag-out fight of comedic scene work. It's hosted by the dynamic Harrison Brown, whose hilarious show intro played to Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" displays an impressive... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Comedy |
New Material With Kevin Nealon
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The Weeds star and former SNL standout does hilarious standup on a weekly basis, with bits on fatherhood and other touchstones of modern-day living. More >> |
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| West Hollywood | Comedy |
Sit 'n' Spin
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Always a smart option: Storytelling by Jill Soloway, Maggie Rowe, Jaclyn Lafer and assorted guests of varying hilarity; www.sitnspin.org. Feb. 23: Mary Elizabeth Williams Villano, Carla Snowden, Danielle Bernabe, and Harmon Leon. More >> |
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| Hollywood | Holiday, Comedy |
Stanley Kubrick
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After the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's joint acquisition with the Getty of Robert Mapplethorpe's art and archives proved to be a major coup, LACMA now holds the distinction of being the first U.S. art institution to host an exhibit dedicated to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. The... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
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The Annenberg Space for Photography's new exhibit, "War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," spans more than 165 years' worth of images of soldiers, civilians and politicians. Iconic images are featured: soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal;... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Heart of Darkness
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In his haunting, solo adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, playwright-actor Brian T. Finney navigates his craft directly through the work's core themes of madness, imperialistic exploitation and, well, the horror. Finney reimagines the story as monologue, artfully... More >> |
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| Culver City | Theater |
Trainspotting
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Director Roger Mathey and Seat of the Pants Productions return with a solid revival of their 2002 production about four lower-class Edinburgh youths prematurely entombed in a hellish world of sex, heroin addiction and violence. The story is based on the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh (the source... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Theater |
Do Lord Remember Me
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During the mid 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project, at the request of President Franklin Roosevelt, undertook an extensive gathering of oral histories from former slaves about their lives. It is these voices from an ugly past that are the material for James de Jongh's stirring 1977 docudrama Do... More >> |
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| West Adams/ Crenshaw/ Baldwin Hills | Theater |
Our Class
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A disturbing drama, executed by an accomplished ensemble under Matthew McCray's direction, Tadeusz Slobodzianek's Our Class deals with the alleged massacre of 1,600 Jews by their Polish neighbors in a small town in 1941. The multistranded plot builds around 10 individuals, five Jewish and five... More >> |
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| Northeast L.A. | Theater |
Miljohn Ruperto/Ulrik Heltoft: Voynich Botanical Studies
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The Voynich Manuscript, written sometime in the 1400s or 1500s, has never been read. No one knows how to decipher the mystery language it was written in, though world-class code breakers have tried. No one knows who wrote it, or why, though theories abound. The manuscript also features a number... More >> |
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| Chinatown/ Elysian Park | Art - Galleries, Arts |
Brecht on Brecht
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Playwright George Tabori assembled a huge master script -- too massive for inclusion in any one production -- of materials collected from the works of Bertolt Brecht. Directors are urged to make their own selection from the myriad pieces, which include poems, songs, scenes and transcripts of... More >> |
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| Northeast L.A. | Theater |
360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story
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Dig Columbia Records' short list: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen and Willie Nelson. Sean Wilentz -- America's hippest historian -- has written an epic tome called 360 Sound: The... More >> |
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| Downtown | Arts, Art - Museums |
The Miracle Worker
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There's always a danger of toppling into sentimentality when retelling a story as uplifting and inspirational as the saga of blind, deaf and dumb Helen Keller and her tough, determined teacher, Annie Sullivan. Playwright William Gibson avoids that pitfall by emphasizing the humor in the... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Theater |
Rocks & Clocks: Cameron Gainer, Mark Hagen, Emilie Halpern, Mungo Thomson
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That twilight period before the sun is officially up takes around 20 minutes most mornings. Minneapolis-based artist Cameron Gainer's Sunrise/Sunset takes 18 minutes every time. His video installation plays out in a darkened room at Ambach and Rice Gallery, with pink and yellow light shining... More >> |
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| Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Speedy Graphito: NEWWORLDS
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Thanks to the mainstreaming of street art, it's easy to lose sight of the earlier generation of global pioneers who laid the movement's foundations. Studio City's Fabien Castanier Gallery is aiming to fix that, presenting French urban-art icon Speedy Graphito in his second show with the gallery... More >> |
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| San Fernando Valley | Art - Galleries |
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