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Pumpkin Festival
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With its gorgeously remote, rural setting, nestled in a ring of rolling hills, and its eye-poppingly vivid sprawl of 10,000 or so pumpkins, Canyon Country landmark Lombardi Ranch's annual Pumpkin Festival never fails to deliver plenty of seasonal kicks and idyllic, agrarian atmosphere.... More >> |
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| Santa Clarita and Beyond | Community Events |
Neïl Beloufa
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Ghebaly Gallery, the space run by François Ghebaly, started out in Chinatown, moved into a muffler shop in Culver City in 2009 and now has an impressively big space by the Dames and Games nightclub downtown, adjacent to the space the young-and-growing Night Gallery opened in January.... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Gogol Bordello
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One of the great things about the sprawling, three-ring circus known as Gogol Bordello is that no animals are ever harmed during their riotous performances. Except for human animals, that is. Lead singer Eugene Hutz usually remains unscathed when he flings himself about the stage, climbs into... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Music |
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Becoming Los Angeles
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No matter how thin your wallet, every first Tuesday the 50,000-year-old Simi Valley mastodon can be your date. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's halls of herpetology, ichthyology and mineralogy are open once a month to broke Angelenos dying to keep tabs on the world's ancient... More >> |
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| USC to South L.A. | Art - Museums |
Facebook
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If you thought having your family eavesdropping on you by reading your Facebook posts was terrifying, well, what if those posts were dissected and laughed at by trained professionals? In Upright Citizens Brigade's weekly Facebook salon, two audience members are randomly selected to have their... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Comedy |
Humor Abuse
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As the title indicates, Humor Abuse is no lighthearted evening of sidesplitting laughs. Demonstrating elaborate pratfalls, juggling and elegant comedy bits, Lorenzo Pisoni's solo clown show charts his upbringing as a fourth-generation vaudevillian and performer, focusing mainly on a... More >> |
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| Downtown | Theater - Large, Theater |
John Van Hamersveld: Drawing Attention
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Of all the factors propelling the cultural revolution of the 1960s, you could argue that none was more pervasive and profound than the music -- and integral to its appeal was the visuals that went with it. The psychedelic avant-garde in the era's iconic album covers, posters and magazine... More >> |
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| San Fernando Valley | Art - Galleries |
HK Zamani: Remembering and Forgetting; Susan Silas: RAVEN
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Susan Silas' found birds series involves, as the title suggests, finding birds on sidewalks, alleys or lots. They've already died by the time Silas takes them home to photograph over a period of time. Often she treats them like sacred specimens, placing them against a white backdrop and... More >> |
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| Downtown | Art - Galleries, Arts |
John Mason: Crosses, Figures, Spears, Torques
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From the late 1950s through the '70s, John Mason made monuments that sometimes riffed on the prehistoric, like his 1957 ceramic Vertical Spear form. Or sometimes he made pop products seem prehistoric, like the 1959 ceramic Blue Wall, which looks like petrified blue jeans spread across a wall.... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Werner Herzog: Hearsay of the Soul
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His music is eerie, dreamy, jarring, richly harmonious -- an arresting blend of traditional and experimental classical motifs. Dutch cellist/composer Ernst Reijseger has long been a pioneer in jazz, improvisational and contemporary classical music, appreciated by, among other luminaries, Werner... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Art - Museums |
Junipero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions
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Junipero Serra, the Franciscan friar who founded the first missions in California and famously compelled Native Americans to convert through fervent chest-beating, has been exhumed multiple times since his 1784 death. Once in 1882, a friar distributed threads from Serra's dug-up burial stole.... More >> |
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| Pasadena and vicinity | Arts, Art - Museums |
Chris Lipomi: Clothed Ascension; Jedediah Ceasar
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When designer Halston partnered with JC Penney early in the 1980s, it was something of a first: a couture name making clothes for the masses. The ads for the match all said, "You're Looking Smarter Than Ever." One showed a lady in bold pink pantyhose, a matching pink dress and white hat... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism From California Collections
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Late in the 1950s, when David Rockefeller decided Chase Manhattan Bank should have an art program, Sam Francis was one of the first painters the bank enlisted. The abstract expressionist, who had just started to establish himself, painted in primary colors. The shapes he rendered look like... More >> |
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| Pasadena and vicinity | Arts, Art - Museums |
Devin Troy Strother: Look at all my shit!
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Some of the collaged-together paintings in Devon Troy Strother's show "Look at all my shit," on view at Richard Heller Gallery, have mouthfuls for titles. One of the longest belongs to the painting in which pitch-black figures with afros ride tangerine-colored cheetahs among multiple layers of... More >> |
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| Santa Monica | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Ivan Morley
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Ivan Morley's A True Tale paintings were painted onto cracked glass, then peeled off and affixed to aluminum, but it might not matter much whether you know this or not. You'll still get that sense of a shattered surface when you looked at them, and the twisty shapes and colors that vaguely... More >> |
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| Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax | Art - Galleries, Arts |
Sixth Street Mural at the Standard, Downtown L.A.
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John Knuth's mural, part of the Sixth Street Mural at the Standard program, shows red-orange smoke billowing out against a black background. It's the photograph of an emergency flare against a night sky, and, seen shooting up out of the desert, or on the side of a road, it probably would have... More >> |
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| Downtown | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Steve Roden: Rag-picker; Dave McKenzie: Where the Good Lord Split You
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"Ragpicker," artist Steve Roden's new show at Susanne Vielmetter Projects, includes a fantastic suite of smallish drawings. They're in the second gallery, on the westernmost wall. Some are long, some square; they're all surreal and precious-feeling despite the fact that their shapes are... More >> |
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| Culver City | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Marina Zurkow: Oil & Water; Blastomere
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The fancy new Red Building at the Pacific Design Center certainly grabs its share of attention in the shiny West Hollywood skyline. But every two months or so, the PDC's classic Blue Building is the star of the show, as the art galleries occupying the majority of its stately and sometimes... More >> |
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| West Hollywood | Art - Galleries |
Low End Theory
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Remember life before Low End Theory? So quiet. So normal, even. Seven years ago, if you wanted your head to explode, you really had to work at it. But then Low End revealed itself as a new beginning, as founders Daddy Kev, Nobody, Gaslamp Killer, Nocando and edIT (later succeeded by D-Styles)... More >> |
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| Downtown | Music |
Carnival of Souls
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| Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax | Film, Film - Repertory and Special Screenings |
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
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| West Hollywood | Film, Film - Repertory and Special Screenings |
Premios Billboard de la Musica Mexicana
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| Out of Town | Music |
Carla Kaplan
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| Pasadena and vicinity | Literary Events |
Rebels of Comedy Presents: Hilarious Hump Days
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| San Fernando Valley | Comedy |
Chateau Marmont, Kauf, Goldenboy
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| Out of Town | Music |
