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Onion Events Newsletter - Los Angeles (April29-May5)
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| LOS ANGELES | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - Monday, May 5, 2008 | |
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| This week in A.V. LA | ||
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In the Los Angeles print edition of The Onion: Ironic, isn?t it, that the modern conception of May Day (introduced by France) commemorates labor riots that took place in Chicago, when the U.S. is one of two Western nations that officially ignores the holiday? While the proletarian and progressive of the outside world take to the streets to demand better wages and, say, reasonably priced commodities, America sits at its collective cubicle, comfortable with the knowledge that come Labor Day, it?ll really light a fire?under the barbecue grill. But take pride, Angelenos, this city is better than that. Between May Day and Cinco de Mayo, Los Angeles makes the most of Spring?s final full month--in less than a week--with ample opportunities to both demonstrate and celebrate. | |
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| April 6th through September 1st 2008 | Phantom Sightings: Art After The Chicano Movement | |
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Onion wish to invite you and a guest to the upcoming exhibit Phantom
Sightings: Art After The Chicano Movement. This exhibit is the first major consideration of the legacy of Chicano art in almost two decades, and explores the understanding of Chicano art history and notions of ethnic identity, cultural politics, and artistic practice. It will feature thirty-one artists and 120 works including paintings, sculpture, performance, video, and much more. To enter click here or send an email to lapromo@theonion.com with "Phantom" in the subject line. LACMA | |
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Upcoming Events |
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| May 1st - May 18th | Los Angeles Comedy Festival | |
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Featuring over 160 performers from across the USA, Canada and of course, L.A., the Los Angeles Comedy Festival returns for its third season offering 18 consecutive nights of fun. From The Sultans of Satire (featuring the best comics of the middle East) to Shame Is Right! (award-winning sketch comedy from Toronto) to an actual pancake juggler named Scot Nery, there's guaranteed to be something (to laugh at) for everybody. Also in the mix are alternative comics Elisha Yaffe, Rebecca Addelman, Levi MacDougall, and Kerri Lendo, as well as Children of a Lesser God (all-girl improv from Chicago), New York comics Modi and Kendall "Shorty" Ward, and local favorites like [Claude...Warriors], and Competitive Awesome. For tickets and more info click here and check it out at myspace.com/lacomedyfestiva Sponsored by The Onion, Myspace.com and Rooftop Comedy | |
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A.V. Club Picks |
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| Tuesday, April 29, 7pm | The Breeders + Colour Revolt | |
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With the Pixies reunion officially exhausted, Kim Deal has returned to The Breeders to make the band?s fourth album, which is only its second since ?Cannonball? blew up 15 years ago. Kim and twin sister Kelley rarely take a
straight line when writing their pop songs, and they?ve gotten even weirder on the new Mountain Battles, which includes Spanish, German, and lots of songs that are going to have an uphill battle trying to keep the audience excited on Wednesday. Mississippi?s Colour Revolt creates an
atmospheric wash of sound with a triple cascade of guitars and the earnest vocals of Jesse Coppenbarger, who sometimes recalls early Bono when he isn't going for a more histrionic emo scream. (Breeders also performing April 25 at Coachella)
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| Thursday, May 1, 8:30pm | Wallpaper | |
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Bay Area electro lothario Wallpaper is a groove-addled, New Jack Swing-obsessed force, channeling the off-kilter humor of Digital Underground and the sexual sincerity of Bel Biv DeVoe into his tight, funky digital tracks.
The just-released T-Rex EP, his first for local indie stalwart Eenie Meenie, features such grit-covered disco balls as Hot Chip-meets-The Pack banger ?Evrytm We Do It? and self-aware party sendup ?The Remix,? both of which play their strongest from the stage. Live, auto-tuned frontman Ricky
Reed (nee Eric Frederic) often performs from a shag-coated recliner with wine glass in hand, accompanied by drummer Arjun Singh--who hits the skins like Animal on a sugar-binge--and homemade video collage. Opening: The Lady Tigra, Buddy Akai. (Also May 2 at Jimmy?s Lounge.) Viper Room |
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| Friday, May 2, 7pm | Yo! Majesty + Does It Offend You, Yeah? | |
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They?ve received comparisons to everyone from J.J. Fad to The Geto Boys, and they?ve opened for blues-punks The Gossip and Brazilian electro-rockers CSS. Clearly Yo! Majesty isn?t your typical hip-hop lady trio, but if
you?ve heard the remix of ?Club Action? that incorporates Enya?s ?Orinoco Flow (Sail Away),? you already knew that. Bass-beating jams like ?Kryptonite Pussy? help the Tampa crew get the party started; it also doesn?t hurt that they?re not afraid to get up close and personal with fans ? la Girl
Talk. And did we mention the nudity? A warning to those standing in front: You will get wet. Also headlining, and also punctuated, is U.K. electro-rock duo, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, who?ve earned their stripes remixing everyone from Bloc Party to The Raconteurs. Opening: Technology, Closed Heart
Surger.
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| Saturday, May 3, 9pm | Nina Nastasia | |
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Nina Nastasia plays delicate, atmospheric, ominous songs that flutter like folk but cut like rock--although she does well to distance herself from the hirsute strum-bums that have risen in the wake of Devendra Banhart. Part
of that owes to the no-frills production style of Steve Albini, who has recorded most of her output, including the recent You Follow Me, a collaborative album with Dirty Three/Cat Power drummer (and solo singer-songwriter) Jim White. Another part of it owes to Nastasia?s voice, which sounds
especially chilling live. Opening: David Carsten Daniels, Nico Stai.
Spaceland | |
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| Sunday, May 4, 7:30pm | Blues Brothers + National Lampoon?s Animal House | |
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Before the once good name of National Lampoon was sullied by wrongheaded sequelling and endless cheaper versions of their few classics, there was 1978?s Animal House, the timelessly trashy campus romp that solidified
the all-too-short career of funnyman John Belushi. The original SNL cast-member here plays the crude frat anti-hero, ?Bluto,? whose achievement of a 0.0 GPA is surpassed only by his ability to trash anything and anybody that falls within his drunken aim (urinary or otherwise). In Blues
Brothers, released two years later, Belushi trades in the physical comedy for cool wit, performing alongside Dan Aykroyd as a pair of reunited siblings (last name Blues) who must reform their R&B outfit to save the orphanage that raised them. Of course, they?ll have to dodge bazooka fire and
outwit the cops to make it happen.
Aero Theatre | |
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| Monday, May 5, 7:30pm | The Apartment + Annie Hall | |
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America?s premier postwar cynic, writer-director Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard) quelled his alleged heartlessness enough to pick up a Best Picture Oscar for The Apartment, even though
the opening minutes are as memorably bilious as anything in his career. An anonymous drone in a city whose population, if laid end to end, ?would reach from Times Square to the outer limits of Karachi, Pakistan,? Jack Lemmon loans out his apartment to insurance company higher-ups in a ploy to climb
the corporate ladder. A single panorama of Lemmon in a sea of desks is enough to suggest the hilarious futility of his efforts, but elevator operator Shirley MacLaine offers some consolation. Brightening up this double feature is the Woody Allen classic, 1977?s Annie Hall, a jumbled sketch of
a romance from start to finish that lovers and would-be lovers never cease to bond over.
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