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The Untamed Youth, Thee Midniters, The Phantom Surfers, Haunted George, Rev. Beat-Man, Deke Dickerson's All-Star Frat Band, The Go Nuts, The Sloths, The Castle Kings, Kim Fowley, Mark & the Escorts, Thee Cormans, The Loons, The Shag Rats, Thee Tee Pees
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While NYC big-beat swamis Billy Miller and Miriam Linna’s Sandy-soaked Norton Records warehouse has enjoyed a variety of fundraising events in the last few months, this flat-out astonishing lineup is the most potent testimony yet to the power of Norton’s achievements and... More >> |
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| Echo Park | Music |
Groundislava
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Groundislava is one of those guys who makes music like Tao Lin writes — minimal and atmospheric at the same time. You can focus on each little tiny part or just let yourself dissolve completely. Yes, his recent Katy Perry remix is a bit of a departure, but not as much as you’d... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Music |
The Tamir Hendelman Trio
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Since moving to Los Angeles from his native Israel at age 12, all this pianist has done is win a national Yamaha keyboard competition and tour Japan as a teenager, join the famed Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, have an album (Destinations, 2010) reach No. 1 on the jazz charts and become the... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Music |
Los Angeles Dance Festival
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In a season filled with wonderful out-of-town companies dropping in for a bit of SoCal spring, only to take the ticket proceeds back to entertain their home audiences, L.A.’s own bring it all home with the second edition of the Los Angeles Dance Festival. Co-sponsored by Diavolo Dance... More >> |
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| Downtown | Dance |
Marilyn: My Secret
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Though iconic Hollywood bombshell Marilyn Monroe's story has been examined and re-examined from almost every possible angle over the years, Marilyn: My Secret, Odalys Nanin and Willard Manus' take, treads ground yet unworn as it explores the star's bisexuality and lesbian affairs. Just after... More >> |
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| West Hollywood | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Monsterpalooza
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Whether scaly, one-eyed, furry, slimy, winged, shambling or even undead, monsters are a near-universal fascination. Yet lurking among us are a cult of zealots for whom they have almost religious significance. For that sickly sect, Monsterpalooza is like a three-day Christmas in Hades.... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Festivals, Conventions |
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 |
Walking the Tightrope
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Given that so many examples of children's theater are simply appalling -- the equivalent of Muffin the Puppet singing "Sharing Is Caring and Obey your Parents" or some such rubbish -- what a pleasure it is to see a work, aimed at a young audience, that possesses both intellectual heft and... More >> |
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| USC to South L.A. | Theater |
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