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Brandon Sward
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May 8, 2024 3:25 pm
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PAULPFEIFFER: PROLOGUETOTHESTORYOFTHEBIRTHOFFREEDOM Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Through June 16, 2024
I hate sports. I’ve come around to physical activity in general, but something about sports … Maybe it’s the arbitrariness of their rules, or the oxygen of public discourse they consume. More likely, it’s because most of the hot dudes at my high school were good at them, and back then, my angsty teenage self felt lacking in both the athletic and attractiveness departments.
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Brittany Menjivar
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May 3, 2024 1:52 pm
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ORIGINALRENAISSANCEPLEASUREFAIRE Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area Through May 19, 2024
My ren faire experience began with a quest of fantastic proportions. After parking on a side street to avoid traffic, I headed toward the fairgrounds, anticipating a leisurely stroll, and instead wound up facing a rocky slope more suited for a mythical realm than humble Irwindale. I could’ve hung my head and returned to my car — or, alternately, hiked up my maxi skirt and accepted the challenge. Ready for an unorthodox afternoon, I took the latter route. I wasn’t the only one — a bevy of princesses, pixies, and pirates scrambled up the hill after me.
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A.J. Urquidi
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May 2, 2024 12:01 pm
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HELMET: LOOKLEFTTOUR with CRO-MAGS Teragram Ballroom Los Angeles April 28, 2024
On Sunday in Central Los Angeles, I parked on one of Westlake’s copious skid rows, crunching the gutter-salad of glass crumbles from the last car that gave up circling the block and settled for this fateful spot. A wife-beater-clad gentleman was exchanging a baggie for cash before the unblinking eye of the Wells Fargo ATM. Descending toward 7th, not far from abandoned real estate that could’ve housed the houseless, I passed three different flavors of fecal stench and a dusty man shrieking and smacking his skull like an 11th-century friar.
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Emily VanKoughnett
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May 1, 2024 10:28 am
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MANNEQUINPUSSY: I GOTHEAVENTOUR with SOULGLO The Fonda Theater Los Angeles April 26, 2024
My millennial algorithm keeps pushing TikToks about the power of listening to nostalgic music, claiming, essentially, that dancing to System of a Down beats finding a new therapist. An internet psychologist in my feed says it’s harder to form the same relationship to music as an adult than it is as a teen — something to do with dopamine receptors and reaching an age past which art can’t biohack the chemically ingrained bitterness in our brains. But fuck all that, because the band Mannequin Pussy has pushed me to levels of fandom apparently unbefitting people in their thirties.
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Emily Ann Zisko
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Apr 28, 2024 11:52 am
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IKEARESIDENCYRECEPTION Surely Work Studios Los Angeles April 20, 2024
Like the markers in the 22-acre IKEA in Burbank — second in size only to the flagship store in Stockholm — arrows made of masking tape led me to the entrance of a hullabaloo in shades of yellow and blue. Välkommen to At Home, the inaugural exhibition of the IKEA residency in Downtown Los Angeles.
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Kate Sadoff
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Apr 25, 2024 4:18 pm
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WILLCOCKRELL’S LAUNCHOFEVEREST, INC., DIESEL A Bookstore Los Angeles April 16, 2024
I avoid the Brentwood Country Mart at most costs; it’s a danger zone for running into people from my high school. Last Tuesday night, however, I sucked it up and went on a whim to hear Will Cockrell launch his new book, Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World, with climbing legend John Long at DIESEL, A Bookstore.
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Kate Sadoff
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Apr 25, 2024 11:39 am
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JENNIFERCROFT’S DISCUSSIONOFTHEEXTINCTIONOFIRENAREY, DIESEL A Bookstore Los Angeles April 18, 2024
The Białowieża Forest is the last remaining old-growth forest in Europe and has recently been subjected to logging by the Polish government. There is a horse hoof – shaped fungus, Fomes fomentarius, that both devours trees and improves forest health. The first person to study and talk about underground mycelium networks was a woman named Suzanne Simard. Mycelium offers an apt metaphor for translators’ work, in which sentences are layered on top of sentences, creating a broader network of literature. It isn’t possible to translate a 1,000-page book in seven weeks. It also isn’t mandated that translators’ names appear on the covers of books they’ve translated. Jennifer Croft — who, over the course of an hour-and-a-half-long talk, not only mentioned all of the above but also candidly admitted to never having done shrooms — is campaigning to change that final fact.
I went to hear the award-winning translator and author discuss her new book, The Extinction of Irena Rey, with the librettist and writer Sarah LaBrie at DIESEL, A Bookstore last Thursday. Croft and LaBrie sat on chairs in front of the barbershop. I sat behind a man wearing a T‑shirt featuring an image of Laika, the sacrificial Soviet space dog.
FUNNYGIRL Ahmanson Theatre Los Angeles April 9, 2024
The worst day of my life may be the day I turn 26, not only because I’ll be ineligible for my parents’ health insurance, but also because I’ll lose access to the Center Theatre Group’s 25 and Under program, which provides free and discounted tickets in an effort to expose young people to live theater, and of which I have been a loving beneficiary for the last two years. On April 9, I took the opportunity to see the national tour of Funny Girl, a production I’ve been eagerly anticipating since the revival opened on Broadway in 2022. A newly sprained ankle wasn’t going to stop me; I strapped on that brace and made my way to the Ahmanson Theatre, ibuprofen in hand.
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Tosten Burks
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Apr 19, 2024 9:48 am
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OUTSIDEWORLD 71 Studio Bar Los Angeles April 5, 2024
On my way to the jazz duo Outside World’srelease show in Hollywood two Fridays ago, I learned from my younger sister through tears over the phone that our grandmother was starting hospice. I walked up that annoying stretch of Cahuenga by the dormant Cinerama dome where the old Variety office – turned – Amoeba Music building now hosts ticketed TikTok art traps with Grandma Andy on my mind. When she arrived in Los Angeles from small-town Iowa to model, the night’s venue, 71 Studio Bar, was a printing business, then a recording studio; now it’s a brass-plated cocktail lounge and performance space that advertises its rock and roll lore and offers four distinct bottle service packages. Baritone saxophonist Henry Solomon in neon-bleached hair dyed with black stars and bassist Logan Kane in a New York City tourist T‑shirt, backed by pianist Chris Fishman and drummer Benjamin Ring, were playing their second song as I squeezed, on assignment, into the modest concrete room hung with mustard curtains and packed with baggy jeans.
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Brittany Menjivar
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Apr 17, 2024 9:55 am
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BLUR: COACHELLAWARM-UPSHOW The Fox Theater Pomona April 10, 2024
Last Wednesday morning, I emerged from the supermarket with a two-liter bottle of electrolyte water and three energy bars, which I promptly tucked in the fanny pack around my waist. I drove east, in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains — but I wasn’t planning to hike. My destination was Blur’s Coachella warm-up show, the Britpop band’s first appearance in the United States since 2015.
KENZYPEACH’S BRIC A BRACBABYALBUMRELEASESHOW The Virgil Los Angeles April 6, 2024
Look up Kenzy Peach on Spotify, and you’ll find this bio: “Kenzy Peach is a friend to all big-hearted weirdos and unsettling women! Kenzy Peach is too much! Kenzy Peach needs to know — are you receiving her psychic messages?” Never fear, Kenzy Peach — the answer is a resounding yes.
SIERRAFERRELL: SHOOTFORTHEMOONTOUR The Fonda Theatre Los Angeles April 3, 2024.
While I don’t exactly know what a honky-tonk is, I’ve always wanted to attend one. This past Wednesday was the closest I’ve come: blue ostrich cowboy boots, tan and teal Ariat boots, red knee-high cowboy boots, and Frye Campus boots lined up along Hollywood Boulevard in anticipation of Sierra Ferrell, the roots musician who went on to turn the Fonda Theatre into the Grand Ole Opry for a night.
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A.J. Urquidi
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Apr 2, 2024 11:51 am
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SLIDEAWAYFEST featuring NOTHINGPERFORMINGGUILTYOFEVERYTHING and friends The Belasco Los Angeles March 31, 2024
Members of the jury, I understand you have a verdict in the case of Slide Away Fest Los Angeles on this 30th day of March, 2024. As we have outlined, said festival at the Belasco showcased bands in the broad categories of shoegaze, shoegaze-revival, and variations of reverb-soaked guitar alt-rock thereof, with elements of hardcore. These bands convened with assistance from Philadelphia group Nothing, the headliner, who thereby presented 2014 debut Guilty of Everything in a live setting for its 10th anniversary.
