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The Dogs, The Black Widows, The Rough Kids
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The Dogs were punk rock before the term even existed, forming in 1969 in Lansing, Mich., where they were inspired by such high-energy forebears as The Stooges and The MC5. But when The Dogs headed West, relocating to Hollywood in the mid-1970s, their songs became shorter, faster and meaner,... More >> |
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| Downtown | Music |
Money Mark, Mark de Clive-Lowe
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For Subsuelo's Los Tres Marks event, three of the most daring and experimental musicians -- all named Mark -- come together to dismantle and then reassemble hip-hop, funk, soul and ferociously rare vintage keyboards and even children's toys, too. Jurassic 5 alum Nu-Mark has an entire set... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Music |
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 |
BODYTRAFFIC
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Sometimes the planets align in the best possible way. And so it is with L.A.'s own BODYTRAFFIC. It was a significant coup when the contemporary dance troupe's artistic directors, Lilian Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett, persuaded New York's choreographer of the moment, Kyle Abraham, to... More >> |
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| Santa Monica | Dance |
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
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The original production of The Laramie Project rode on the wave of passion and grief spawned by the murder of Matthew Shepard. The current work, which looks at Laramie and the related issues as they appear 10 years after the fact, is necessarily more contemplative and thoughtful, but it builds... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Theater |
KT Tunstall
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It's hard to stand out in a sonic landscape where singer songwriters are a penny a dozen, especially when armed only with an acoustic guitar. But for the past decade, Kate Victoria Tunstall, better known as KT Tunstall, has defied the odds. Tunstall's breakout track, 2005's "Black Horse and a... More >> |
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| Hollywood | 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 |
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 |
James Turrell: A Retrospective
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It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, painter, architect, Light and Space artist or earthwork artist. We vote for all of the above, and more. But however you cast your ballot, you can't help but be a fan of Turrell's transcendent Skyspaces -- specially built rooms (and... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Art - Museums |
The Fifth Anniversary Group Exhibition
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Some galleries are as much an art project as the exhibitions they present. In Pasadena, that's certainly true of Jane Chafin and Chaz Alexander's gallery. The Offramp Gallery Fifth-Anniversary Party will be one of the gallery's magical garden openings, unveiling improvements to the lovingly... More >> |
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| Pasadena and vicinity | Art - Galleries |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks From the Royal Museum for Central Africa
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The word "power" often connotes bigness -- the tallest buildings, the strongest weapons, the deepest bank accounts. So the smallness of the emblems in "Shaping Power," the debut exhibition in LACMA's newly opened African Art galleries, is striking. The show consists largely of exquisitely... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
Talk of the Town: Portraits by Edward Steichen From the Hollander Collection
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From 1900 through the 1960s, Edward Steichen photographed gowns, buildings, artists, actresses and aircraft characters. Usually the images had an air of seriousness, even if they were melodramatic, like the one of sculptor Auguste Rodin staring at (and posed like) his iconic sculpture The... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
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 |
