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- Brand X Movies on the Pier
Santa Monica Pier
Friday, September 11 at 7:00pm - Catch the Cube at Sunset Junction
Sunset & Junction, Los Angeles
Saturday, August 22 at 7:15pm - Summer School for Glamour Girls!!
Live! on Sunset
Thursday, July 23 at 7:00pm - L.A. in Short Video Shorts Com...
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Monday, May 11 at 9:00am
The work of artist Alison Foshee provokes questions such as: Is it a painting? Is it a bunch of Avery office labels that have been stuck together? Can I touch it? At Jancar Gallery, you can view a series of creations made from uncommon items, such as stationery and sculpted lumps of hot glue. ...
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Hayao Miyazaki: a rare interview with Japan's master of animation (Telegraph)Panda baby boom leaves mothers too exhausted for more (Times of London)Will Fox go black on Time Warner Cable? And is this necessarily a bad thing? (New York Times)Doctor Who: Last episode will leave viewers heartb...
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Everyone suffers from that post-Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa depression, right? Too much eggnog, too many latkes and STILL not getting that pony … it can all lead to a wallow period before the "excitement" (a.k.a socially acceptable drinking) of New Year's Eve comes around. The Growl...
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Ricky Jay is an illusionist and frequent face to anyone familiar with the work of David Mamet. The playwright and the magic legend have collaborated on films and live shows in the past, and they come together yet again for "A Rogue's Gallery: An Evening of Conversation and Performance...
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What our resident Brand X film guru, Andy Klein, is looking forward to 2010:"Shutter Island"Another thriller from Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. I'm there. (Feb. 19) "Alice in Wonderland"Tim Burton and Lewis Carroll -- such an obvious pairing it's amazing it...
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Picture a campground in chaos, a bonfire blazing in the distance as pajama-clad campers are frozen in flight, limbs swinging as they tear away from unseen danger. It sounds like a dream recalled in the haze of a groggy morning, but the image is actually from the richly narrative portfolio of L....
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The mighty Gizmodo blog is always a great place to research all your techie and gadgety needs, but a post there today might prove particularly useful if you expected to find a certain Apple product to be under your Christmas tree but said item was nowhere to be found after Santa had vamoosed bac...
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Every December, the lovely Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre presents the "It Sucked!" awards, a comedic run-through of the year's bummers. Swine flu. The global economic collapse. Politicians disappearing into the "Appalachians." Kanyegate. Balloon boy. Michael Jackson ...
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1. The end of the velvet rope: "With the tougher economy, staff will have to recognize that bars are an extension of the hospitality industry, so all customers must be treated really well," says 213 proprietor Cedd Moses, owner of downtown bars such as Seven Grand and Tony's Saloo...
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So what if you've just trudged through your first workday after theholiday marathon? That's NO excuse to stop rocking. Tonight yourmission is to catch Mere Mortals' last night in residency at Spaceland.Chugging, spacey guitars are propelled along by arock-solid Krautrock-inspired r...
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"We've been in L.A. for about a week, and we're about to go home. We started in New York, then went to Mexico, and this is the last stop. What will I remember about L.A.? I don't know. We pretty much went shopping all the time. The size of it, I guess. There's so much... to do and see. And the smo...
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If you're one of the few people who have not abandoned Los Angeles for the month, spend the morning getting to know it a little better with the Little Tokyo Walking Tour, orchestrated by the Japanese American National Museum. Meet up with docent Bill Shishima, who will take you through dow...
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What's better than one screwball comedy? Two of them. Back to back. Clear your calendar and hit the Aero for a double feature of 1939's original "The Women," starring Rosalind Russell and Joan Crawford, which involves a tangle of gossip, infidelity and pratfalls. Then get up, give your legs a goo...
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In some houses, Santa will spend Christmas conquering a plate of cookies. At the Silent Movie Theatre, he will be conquering Martians. CineFamily presents its Mondo Xmas event, which pairs the nation's most culturally sacred holiday with freakish film clips from weird Christmas movies, like ...
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Thirty years ago, coming out of an early screening of National Lampoon's "Animal House," I exclaimed, "Wow, that was great. Too bad it's aimed so totally at people like me that it's doomed to flop." But Hollywood studios are, of course, size queens, and I appa...
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According to Variety, this Christmas two local TV stations will be going toe to toe, duking it out in the holiday yule log ratings sweepstakes. It used to be that KCAL's four-hour yule log was the only game in town, but KTLA's video fireplace will be giving it some direct competition th...
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This year the by-now-traditional NORAD tracking of Santa's whereabouts has been subcontracted, apparently, to Google Earth, where you can track Mr. Claus, his reindeer and elves in 3-D! The story of how the whole "NORAD tracks Santa" thing came about is actually pretty interestin...
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Our favorite story gaining traction around the Interwebs today has to do with Anglican priest Rev. Tim Jones, who more or less told his congregation that it's OK to steal from retail giants like grocery chain Tesco if your family is hungry. Makes sense to us, but Rev. Tim (who is not as lib...
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You have to hand it to Lou Reed. For five decades, the guy's been on the cutting edge of the cutting edge, from the avant-garde rock of the Velvet Underground to ... developing his own iPhone app?Yup. Reed, perhaps rock's most decadent artist of all, has just released his Lou Zoom app ...
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Watching the video for Bob Dylan's "Must Be Santa" from his new "Christmas in the Heart" album, I must confess that my first reaction was "Who let the weird old guy into the party?" I didn't really have a second reaction to it. Tell us what you think, in the commen...ts. --Richard Metzger
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Just in time for a year-end blur of celebrity death montages, photographer Todd Grey releases "Michael Jackson: Before He Was King," his pictorial tribute to the fallen idol. Grey served as Jackson's personal photographer for a decade, capturing many rare, candid photos of Jackso...
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You know those weird kids in high school that dressed really cooland smelled strangely of cupcakes and rubber cement? Whelp, apparently nowthey all make awesome progressive music and are signed to ManimalVinyl, brainchild of Paul Beahan. You can catch a great sample of thelabel’s talent pool on ...
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It will be a bittersweet holiday season this year for sci-fi fans around the globe. On one hand we're getting two new "Doctor Who" specials (I don't count "The Waters of Mars" because it aired in Britain a while back. Any Who fan worth their salt downloaded that one...
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The city of Baltimore declared today Frank Zappa Day in honor of the iconoclastic rock musician and composer, who was born there 69 years ago on Dec. 21, 1940. Last week the city's public art commission also announced that a bronze statue of Zappa would be erected outside of a public librar...
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Israeli-born and enigmatically named Ku- Kula may paint doe-eyed dolls and pepper her compositions with quaint antiques, but that doesn't mean she's all hearts and unicorns. Professing an obsession with death and legacies, she confesses that "the whole process of painting becomes...
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Thom Yorke has been blogging from the Copenhagen climate summit on Radiohead's website and he's not happy with the way things are going. Here's today's entry, with York's spelling and punctuation intact:a display of rhetoricok so now there are texts/ drafts flying aroun...
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Go-Go Jane Wiedlen is renting out her amazing sci-fi fantasy penthouse loft in Little Tokyo. Check out her Blade Runner-esque decor. A sweet crib for those with more unique tastes than the average Earthling, don't you think? --Richard Metzger
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The "Iron Man 2" trailer was released just a few hours ago, and the sequel to 2008's blockbuster looks set to do some serious box office boffo again next summer. With Robert Downey Jr. reprising his role as troubled industrialist Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) and Samuel L. Jackson a...
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"When everyone is wearing ugly sweaters, it's hard to stand out as being the most appalling," says Nat Cole, vocalist of the L.A.-based band Castledoor. This is the band's second time on the bill of the Christmas Sweater Festival, an annual concert and charity benefit that�...
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More like a gourmet potluck of musicians than a band, Fool's Gold ishelmed by two perpetual collaborators, Luke Top (affiliated with CassMcCombs and Paper Cuts) and Lewis Pesacov (of Foreign Born). Nowstaples of the L.A. indie scene, their Afro-pop-inspired collective isa must-hear for any...
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