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Megafauna, Dr. DeVito, The Face, Blue Blazer
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Austin’s Megafauna make feral prog-punk with (of course) mega-intensity, the kind of thing that switches from heartbreak to mindmelt in the time it takes to touch toe to guitar pedal. Case in point: minute 2:44 on 2012 track “Love Project,” where guitarist and singer Dani Neff... More >> |
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| Santa Monica | Music |
Lost & Found Film Club
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We're pleased to hear that a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign ensured that Cinefamily will have the digital projection equipment to comply with the latest arm-twisting from the big Hollywood studios. But the theater still celebrates the ephemeral with its monthly "Lost & Found Film Club"... More >> |
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| Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax | Film |
T. Kelly Mason: Atmospheric (Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary action)
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T. Kelly Mason's Typology of Glasses shows a line of casual-looking glassware painted against a baby blue background. The painting is inside a lightbox, backlit by gels and covered with glass. Above that glass, Mason has outlined his glassware in marker, so that the drawing begins to seem... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Arts, Art - Galleries |
One Night With Janis Joplin
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The seductive appeal of this musical hagiography by writer-director Randy Johnson is no mystery. Nineteen-sixties rock acts have proved effective boomer bait for fundraising PBS stations for years. That the trend should have morphed into the tribute-concert stage musical merely speaks to... More >> |
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| Pasadena and vicinity | Theater - Large, Theater |
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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 |
Eben Goff: New Sculpture; John M. Miller: All or Nothing (At All)
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There's an awful story in art-world lore about the marriage of Ana Mendieta, the elegant earth artist, and Carl Andre, the clean-edged minimalist. She fell from a window one night, possibly pushed by him, and didn't survive. Sometimes this seems like a metaphor for how their sensibilities were... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Dialogues: An Exhibition of Drawings and Models
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For Your Art, a space inside a gallery across from LACMA, continues to present eclectic pop-up projects, including the current interdisciplinary group show, DIALOGUES: Los Angeles-Paris/Art-Architecture. For the latest in an impressive run of programs from the Ceci N’est Pas ...... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Art - Galleries |
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 |
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 |
Trisha Brown: Floor of the Forest
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| West L.A. | Art - Museums |
Meg Cranston: Emerald City; Alex Israel: Lens
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Every year, Pantone, the 50-year-old company famous for forecasting which colors will be popular when, names a color of the year. This year, it's emerald green, a color of "elegance and beauty" that enhances "our sense of well-being." Artist Meg Cranston follows such forecasts closely, and, for... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Arts, Art - Galleries |
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 |
Made in Space
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In "Made in Space," curated by Laura Owens and Peter Harkawik at Night Gallery, Jedediah Caesar's bricks of resin run along the floor near where the wall meets it. Mungo Thompson's two mirrors, which have Time magazine's logo at the top and its classic red border along the edges, hang opposite... More >> |
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| East L.A. | Arts, Art - Galleries |
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 |
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 |
California Scene Paintings From 1930 to 1960; Christopher Miles: Bloom; John O'Brien: Meander
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"Christopher Miles: Bloom," "John O'Brien: Meander" and "California Scene Paintings 1930-1960" all open at the Pasadena Museum of California Art this weekend, presenting three very different yet conceptually interrelated displays that speak to life in the Greater Los Angeles region through... More >> |
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| Pasadena and vicinity | Art - Museums |
Won Ju Lim: Selected Sculptures
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Artist Won Ju Lim studied architecture before she studied sculpture and began her career in the early aughts with crisp, colorful models of stacked cities and local landmarks. Her Broken Landscapes series, which she exhibited for the first time circa 2007, felt darker. She would re-create local... More >> |
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| Santa Monica | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Brad Eberhard: (dis-solve)
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In Brad Eberhard's 4-foot-tall oil painting Entrar, a large group of small figures wearing colored shirts, skirts or pants walks along an inclining expanse of greens, while green, blue and mauve shapes loom above the figures, some dripping down on them as stalagmites might. In Colored Dirt,... More >> |
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| Chinatown/ Elysian Park | Arts, Art - Galleries |
End of the Rainbow
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Judy Garland's legendary triumphs and tragedies, dish and dirt have been chronicled so often and in so many forms, it would seem no nuance is left to be unearthed. Then there is Tracie Bennett, a performer whose colossal vocal and emotional power in End of the Rainbow pull us eagerly into a... More >> |
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| Downtown | Theater - Large, Theater |
Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke
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Pianist-composer Chick Corea’s 59 Grammy nominations are the third most of any artist in the history of the awards, and his 20 wins tie him with guitarist Pat Metheny for the most by a jazz musician. Bassist Stanley Clarke has been with Corea off and on since Corea’s first award for... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Music |
The Meltdown
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Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani host this weekly standup show with really (hint hint) top comics. More >> |
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| Hollywood | 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 |
Fat History Month, Pile
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| Echo Park | Music |
Blake Bailey
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| West Hollywood | Literary Events |
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