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Black Keys at LA Weekly Party at SXSW

Mark Mauer
Mark your calendars if you're making the trip to Austin for South by Southwest this year. The LA Weekly party is Friday, March 14 from noon to 5:00, at La Zona Rosa, 612 W. 4th Street, Austin. The LA Weekly / Village Voice concert will feature The Black Keys (seen......
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Willie Nelson, Nokia, 2/13

Mark Mauer
Willie Nelson, Nokia Theatre, Feb. 13 Photos by Timothy Norris If Willie Nelson had delivered a show with half as much heart, enthusiasm and class, it still would have been an excellent night of American music. I'm ashamed I expected so little from the man. With a simple backdrop of......
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Por El Suelo on Virgil: Retna, AWR, Dame, Werc

Mark Mauer
The wall that went up a couple of weeks ago on Virgil a few blocks south of Santa Monica is looking beautiful. Here are some sections that weren't finished during our last visit. All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump. The words Retna painted going across the piece......
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Augor: There Will Be Blood

Mark Mauer
Somehow, I doubt that Paul Thomas Anderson is going to love this so much that he'll grab it to hang in his house the way Murakmai did with Augor and Revok's piece a couple of weeks ago. Shelley Leopold got this picture of an excellent billboard liberation project done by......
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The Kooks, Morning Benders, Troubadour, 2/7

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The Kooks, Morning Benders, The Troubadour, February 7 It's been two years to the day that The Kooks' first (and so far only) album Inside In Inside Out came out in the States. Full of bouncy, fun pop songs, it faded away surprisingly fast, never gaining much traction beyond the......
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Marka27's Echo Park Mural: Libertad Poder Revolucion

Mark Mauer
This is simply one of my favorite street art wall murals in Los Angeles. Done by MarkA27 The face of César Chávez has gotten some ugly tags all over it. But I love the way the painted plants flow right into the real ones growing against the wall. And the......
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New Retna & Dame Wall – in Action.

Mark Mauer
I got lucky Saturday when just a few blocks from my apartment I came across Retna and Dame working on a new wall on Virgil. Above, Dame working on his part of the wall. Lots of skating near the painting. Here's what the wall had looked like before it's rehabilitation......
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Banksy Back in LA?

Mark Mauer
Bobby S. saw and snapped this on Melrose near the New Beverly on the site of a previous Banksy piece. Check out his bigger picture and write-up here on his blog kitsunenoir.com Photo property of kitsunenoir.com......
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Good Reads List / Good Reads Website

Mark Mauer
Don't want to sit at home watching the primary returns, biting your nails and pulling your hair? The National Book Critics Circle is sponsoring events in fifteen cities where people meet up and talk about what they're reading. The L.A. one is tonight at Skylight Books at 7:30. 1818 N......
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Another Pro-Obama Song – A Good One!

Mark Mauer
If nothing else Obama's candidacy is at least inspiring people to make music. Alas, for the most part the songs haven't been very good. Will.i.am's mess of a song can't be saved by snippets of Scarlett Johansson, and the Daedalus track posted yesterday... Well, that's not going to sway any......