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L.A. Heritage Day
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Don’t even try telling this to those snobbish New Yorkers, but Southern California in general, and L.A. in particular, are brimming with culture — so much so that we need an official day to reflect on the awesomeness of both. Hence L.A. Heritage Day, an event that started in 2008... More >> |
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| Chinatown/ Elysian Park | Festivals |
Mudhoney, The Freeks
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Although Nirvana and Pearl Jam get most of the credit these days, it was really the mid-’80s Seattle band Green River that set the template for the heavy, sludgy, hard-rock sound that would later be called grunge. Green River singer Mark Arm and guitarist Steve Turner reconfigured... More >> |
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| Echo Park | Music |
Merle Haggard
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Merle Haggard is the only native Californian ever inducted into Nashville’s most exclusive club, the Country Music Hall of Fame, but he sure as hell does not play Los Angeles anywhere near often enough. And that is a damn shame, because Haggard’s brilliant original compositions and... More >> |
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| San Fernando Valley | Music |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Remembrance
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There's a memorably tender moment, in this production of Graham Reid's 1984 Irish play, when two widowed seniors, Bert (Mik Scriba), a Protestant, and Theresa (Diana Angelina), a Catholic, kiss for the first time. The two always meet in a cemetery, where they regularly tend the graves of their... More >> |
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| Beverly Hills | Theater |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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