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Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain
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"It seems like you love [paint] more than anybody I know," Dennis Szakacs, the Orange County Museum of Art's director, said to artist Richard Jackson a few years ago. "I buy more of it than anybody I know!" Jackson replied. Szakacs has curated a Jackson retrospective at OCMA, "Ain't Painting a... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Arts, Art - Museums |
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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. | Art - Galleries |
Cinderella
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"Non Piu Mesta" ("No Longer Sad") is a little aria in Rossini's comic opera La Cenerentola -- Cinderella, in inglese -- that's the bane and bounty of all coloraturas. Its difficulty is so legendary that only the brave should attempt it, and only the greatest mezzo sopranos will pull it off. If... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Music |
The Happy Hour Story Experiment
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Comedian Melinda Hill and writer Eve Sturges' "experimental hour of storytelling with their fancy, famous friends and exciting newcomers." This week: Anna David and Jillian Lauren. More >> |
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| Out of Town | Comedy |
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 |
Facebook
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Tear yourself away from Facebook for an evening and submit yourself to Facebook, the weekly show formerly known as MySpace. The show's creator, Owen Burke, and his comedy cronies will make fun of two audience members, as only trained improvisers can. Here's Burke's promise: "Each week two... 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 |
Shitty Jobs
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I think we all know about those. More >> |
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| Hollywood | Comedy |
Vance Sanders' Open Mike of Love
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Mr. Sanders can be counted on to bring a quality group of comics to his weekly "Open Mike of Love" standup show. Lineup varies and is subject to change. It's also subject to occasionally not being all that funny, but for the most part, the comics are top-notch, or just below top-notch. Just go... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Valentine's Day, Comedy |
Levitated Mass
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Just when you thought you'd figured out what art really is, Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer is where modern art and the Protestant work ethic weirdly intersect, which is to say that a 340-ton granite megalith painstakingly transported over two weeks from Riverside sits in a 456-foot-long slot,... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
Eurydice
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Playwright Sarah Ruhl's melancholy and slightly surreal drama is a whimsical take on the classic Greek myth of Orpheus, the divinely inspired musician who defied nature and descended into Hades to retrieve his slain wife. This exciting modern interpretation shifts the emphasis throughout the... More >> |
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| Glendale | Theater - Large, Theater |
Trisha Brown: Floor of the Forest
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| West L.A. | Art - Museums |
Fantasy: A Fantasy-Themed Art Show
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For many people, knowing what Dungeons & Dragons is and finally getting on board with Game of Thrones is about as deep into the realm of fantasy as they've gotten. But there's no denying -- between the wildly resurgent popularity of titles like The Lord of the Rings, Dragon Age and Zelda, and... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Art - Galleries |
Melancholia
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This ensemble piece from the Latino Theater Lab serves as a disquieting reminder that the fortunate survivors of war quite often become its most heart-rending victims. Directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela, Melancholia tells the story of Mario, an idealistic young man from East Los Angeles who... More >> |
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| Downtown | Theater |
Little House on the Prairie-Oke!
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Remember last year's Are You There God? It's Me, Karen Carpenter, the musical spoof that used Judy Blume's '70s coming-of-age book set to the Carpenters' music? Writer-director Dane Whitlock has done it again, this time integrating the decade's classic TV series Little House on the Prairie with... More >> |
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| Silver Lake | Theater |
The Trouble With Words
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Composer and musical director Gregory Nabours' 90-minute musical is smart, sexy, funny and heartbreaking, with 18 appealing songs (five of them new for this production). Presented as the opening number, the title tune is catchy enough to hook you in immediately. The attractive and searingly... More >> |
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| Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax | Theater |
Cavalia's Odysseo
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This vast equestrian spectacle (the stage, the size of a hockey rink, encompasses 15,000 square feet) created by Normand Latourelle and directed by Wayne Fowkes, features 67 horses of 11 breeds as well as 45 international human performers, including riders, trainers, acrobats, aerialists,... More >> |
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| Burbank | Theater, Circus |
Sexsting - Based on True Events: Predator or Prey?
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Playwright Doris Baizley consulted with defense attorney Anne Raffanti before writing this revealing one-act about a law-enforcement officer who realizes that the man he wants to entrap is not that different from himself. Estranged from his family, stressed-out FBI agent Richard Roe (Gregory... More >> |
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| Los Feliz | 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 |
Facial Recognition: James Kochalka, Matt Furie, and Mark Todd
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Giant Robot's GR2 Gallery is a beloved staple of avant-garde cartoon culture in L.A., combining art, publications and events into a sort of vortex where retro-futuristic, plastic and nostalgic, Asian-influenced and expressively fine-art smart sets of visual culture meet and mesh. Its latest... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Art - Galleries |
Inner Journeys Outer Visions; Che Mondo (What a World)
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This Sunday a pair of new shows opens at L.A.'s favorite historic hilltop gallery, LAMAG at Barnsdall Art Park. "Inner Journeys, Outer Visions" curator Sara Cannon has said that her show "looks at the persistent yearning for spiritual enlightenment in contemporary thought and art," while "Che... More >> |
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| Los Feliz | Art - Galleries |
Dreamgirls
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Director Marco Gomez's mostly straightforward but pleasingly intimate staging of Tom Eyer and Henry Krieger's now classic Motown rock musical engagingly captures the ferocious ambition, passion and inevitable disappointments of the story of the rise of a girl band -- a tale whose incidents... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Theater - Small, Theater |
Cristopher Cichocki: Epicenter
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A fresh round of gallery exhibitions opens at the Pacific Design Center's Blue Building this week, with curious crowds ascending to its second floor for a rare Tuesday-night group of receptions (pushed up a few days to make room for this year's West Week events). Highlights of the March crop... More >> |
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| West Hollywood | Art - Galleries |
Smoke and Mirrors
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If you've forgotten the childlike joy and sublime wonderment of seeing magic performed, Albie Selznick's theatrical show is an enchanting reminder. The accomplished actor-magician puts on a bewildering tour de force that has more "how did he do that" flashes than can be counted. The show also... More >> |
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| San Fernando Valley | Theater |
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 |
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