Things To Do This Week: Weekend Edition

• Friday
• The Eighth Annual Sunset Snowball at the Roxy
• Busdriver at The Troubadour
• “The Perverse Puppetry of Jan Svankmajer” at Silent Movie Theater
• Friday at Westside Eclectix Comedy Theatre
• A Charlie James Brown Christmas at the Falcon Theatre
• Extraordinary Deceptions: A Magical Holiday Extravaganza at Powerhouse Theatre
• It Could Have Been a Wonderful Life at Two Roads Theatre
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center
• SF
• Hubba Hubba Revue Holiday Spectacular at DNA Lounge
• The Golden Girls: The Play at the Finn Gallery
• Kung Pao Kosher Comedy at New Asia Restaurant
• Branding: The Art of Burning Flesh at The Women's Building
• Christmas Crap-Array at the Exit Theatre
• Across the Universe at the Red Vic
  
• Helvetica at The Roxie New College Film Center
• Saturday
• “Holyf*cking Kidsh*t Christmas Special” at the Silent Movie Theatre
• Los Angeles heArt Project Sacred Candlelight Walk at Echo Park Lake @ 4:30
• The Vandals, Supernova, Hunter Revenge, A Kiss Could Be Deadly at the House of Blues
• A Tuna Christmas at Theatre Asylum
• Yo Ho Ho! A Pirate's Christmas at the NoHo Arts Center
• SF
• "The Monster Show" at Harvey's
• "The Chaos of the Stars" at Rena Bransten Gallery
• Get Crafty! at Mama Buzz Café
• Seeing yourself seeing: Olafur Eliasson at SF Museum of Modern Art
• Sunday
• Los Angeles Ballet: The Nutcracker at Royce Hall
• Chicago Club Rumboogie at Stage 52 Theatre
• Wu Tang Clan at House of Blues Sunset Strip
• SF
• A Chanticleer Christmas at St. Ignatius Church
• Baraka at the Red Vic
• "Amateur Strip Night" at Deco Lounge
  
• or
  "Venus Christ: A Rock Opera to End All Time" at Ten 15 Folsom
  

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Things To Do: Monday-Thursday

• Monday:
• Read Newsweek's cover article on "The Sleeper" John Edwards on how he will win Iowa.
  
• Go Tell It on the Mountain: The Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas Show at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
• The Sun That Lights the Rainbow: The Life and Times of Elizabeth I at Cal State Northridge's Oviatt Library
• "Covers of Covers": Steve Keene, paintings of famous album covers at Cartoon Network Studios
• Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold at Laguna Playhouse
• SF
• Monday Night Marsh at The Marsh
• Tuesday
• Causes and Consequences of Anti-Americanism Around the World at the Skirball
  
• "Punk 365": photographs by Jenny Lens, Dawn Wirth, Theresa Kereakes, Gary Leonard and Chuck Krall" at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
  
• La Posada Magica: The Magical Journey at South Coast Repertory
  
• Angels & Demons: Blessed or Possessed?: juried group show at A Shenere Velt Gallery
  
• Carnival of the Strange: Highlighting Original Works of Emily the Strange: original artwork by the creative forces (Rob Reger and Buzz Parker) behind the cult comic character, as well as carni-inspired works at the Wonderful World Art Gallery
  
• "Merry Titmas": group show of breast-themed holiday art at World of Wonder
• SF
• Tracy/Hepburn Double Feature at the Castro Theatre
  
• Mary Zimmerman’s Argonautika at Berkeley Repertory's Roda Theatre (her Metamorphoses was like the most wonderful thing)
  

• Wednesday:
• Hope From a Dark Place: Slater Bradley, at Blum & Poe
  
• "Sadly Beautiful: A Vinyl Show" at Black Maria
  
• Unique Works from the 1970s": Robert Mapplethorpe, assemblage at Marc Selwyn Fine Art
  
• The Gay Mafia: Nu-Queer Winter at the Lounge Theatre
• SF
• David Sedaris’ “The SantaLand Diaries & Season's Greetings” staged at the Eureka Theatre
• "The Knife: Silent Shout: An Audiovisual Experience" at Mezzanine
• Thursday
• Ozomatli at House of Blues
  
• Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art at UCLA’s Fowler Museum
  
• Lessons at the Lee Strasberg Institute
• SF
• In the Shadow of the Moon at the Red Vic
  
• Queens of the Stone Age at The Warfield
  
• The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller at the Post Street Theatre
  
• "Jackie Beat: Give 'Til It Hurts" at the Empire Plush Room
  
  
  
  

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Things To Do: Monday-Thursday*

*it just makes a lot more sense to do it Monday thru Thursday than Monday through Wednesday

• Monday:
• Tool(!)(!) at the Nokia
• Producer (and Legend) Richard Zanuck screens and discusses Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, featuring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter and Alan Rickman at the Wadsworth Theatre @ 7 (apparently it is easily the Best Picture of the year, though I'm still not too jazzed about it right now)
  
• Double feature at the UnUrban Coffee House: First, “Mahalia Jackson: Give God the Glory”, "a portrait of the gospel legend as revealed through her last world tour" Then “Guernica”, renowned avant-garde director Fernando Arrabal’s look at the Spanish Civil War. Discussion with producer Suzanne Blum after each film.
• Handel’s Messiah Sing a Long at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
• SF
• G. Love and Special Sauce at The Regency Center
• "The Buddhist Awakening Within" and "The Diversity of Possibilities” at 625 Gallery
• Disposable Film Festival at Artists’ Television Access
• Very Special Money and Run Winter Season Holiday Special at La Val’s Subterranean Theatre
• Tuesday
• "The Last Gimme Shelter at the Roxy" with Pete Yorn, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, Donavan Frankenreiter, Phantom Planet, Peter Himmelman, Mandy Moore, Jesca Hoop, Megan Jacobs
  
• (Squirrel Nut Zippers with) Eleni Mandell at the El Rey
  
• 'Brit psychedelic group Voice of Seven Woods performs before the big screen to “sonically reinterpret” Sergei Paradjanov's dreamy The Color of Pomegranates ' at the Silent Movie Theatre
  
  
• SF
• Rza at the Independent
  
• Viva Variety! at the Buriel Clay Theatre
  

• Wednesday
• Bjork (!)(!)(!)(!) at the Nokia
• Ben Lee (!)(!) at the El Rey
  
• A Screening of The Crowd with Kevin Thomas at the Aero
  A Double Feature of Top Secret! and Bananas at the New Beverly
• SF
• Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name at the Intersection for the Arts
  
• Songs to Offend Almost Everyone at the New Conservatory Theatre Center
  
• Christine Pelosi at the Commonwealth Club @ 6:30 (I anticipate yelling)
  
• Charlie Hunter Trio with the Campbell Brothers at Yoshi's SF
  
• Shaker Chair at The Ashby Stage
• Thursday
• Dewey Cox & The Hard Walkers at the Guitar Center Hollywood (7425 Sunset Blvd)
  
• G Love & Special Sauce at Vault 350
  
• Francisco's Fire at Dorie Theater at the Complex
  
• R. Kelly at the Honda Center
  
• Team Sleep at the Fonda
  
• Split Second at The Next Stage
• SF
• Intelligence Failures: The FBI, the CIA and 9/11 at the World Affairs Council (I anticipate yelling) @ 6
  
  

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Things To Do This Week: Weekend Edition*

*oh how I wish Thursday still felt like the start of the weekend

• Thursday:
• Mike Stinson at The Echo
• Samuel Jackson In-Person "The actor discusses two of his recent films — Resurrecting the Champ and Black Snake Moan at the Aero @ 7:30
• Multimedia European duo Michaela Grill and Giuseppe Ielasi attempt “to link improvised electronic music and abstract live visuals to the highest degree possible,” resulting in an interactive, improvisational video/concert at the Echo Park Film Center
• The Nightwatchman at The Hotel Café
• Charlie Hunter Trio at Vault 350
• Confessions of a Christmas Banshee at the Lankershim Arts Center
• The Crucible at the Matrix Theatre
• Evelyn Glennie at Royce Hall (wow I did not know she was deaf. That makes her even more amazing)
• Fools at West Valley Playhouse
• Girls Night: The Musical at the Coronet Theatre
• Iceland at the Bootleg Theater
• La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
• Light Sensitive at the Pico Playhouse
• Naomi Klein at Temple Emanuel
• SF
• Staircase at Theatre Rhinoceros
• Bondage "A tale by David Henry Hwang and directed by Ryan Yip, set in a Los Angeles S&M parlor." at Exit Theatre on Taylor
• Everything Has Been Arranged at the Intersection for the Arts
• Brian Regan at Nob Hill Masonic Center
• Crowd You’re In With at Magic Theatre
• Neccessity of Hank at the Exit Theatre
• Friday
• Jon Brion (and Nels Cline) at the Largo
  
• Montana Walk Sale and Bake Sale "Support the Aero by contributing to the theater’s first annual benefit bake sale, featuring a free screening of The Simpsons Movie plus an exhibit of Simpsons art in the Every Picture Tells a Story bookstore gallery nearby. Drop off any goodies at the Aero by 4:30 p.m.
  
• KRS-One at the Rhythm Lounge
  
• Andrew Bird (!)(!)(!)at the Orpheum with Handsome Family
  
• Anything at the Lillian Theatre
  
• Crispin Hellion Glover’s” It is Fine! Everything is Fine “The curiously “off” actor presents his second feature as director/producer — part two of his directorial debut It trilogy, the psychosexual story of a wheelchair-bound ladies’ man. Also included: an in-depth post-screening discussion with Glover and a pre-screening live presentation of his Big Slide Show, featuring a dramatic narration accompanying illustrations from Glover’s books" at the Egyptian
  
• Enrique Iglesias at the Nokia Theatre
  
• Grand Delusion at Lost Studio
  
• The Opening of Misty Beethoven at the New Beverly at Midnight
  
• Twist (Pop-rock musical based on Oliver Twist, book and lyrics by Gila Sand, music by Paul Leschen) at the Avery Schreiber Theater
• SF
• Tori Amos at the Paramount Theatre (!)()!()(!)(!) [Oakland]
  
• It Could Have Been a Wonderful Life at the SF Playhouse
• Saturday
• Juliette & the Licks at the Roxy
  
• 1940s Christmas at Club Sweet Lorraine's at KSLG Playhouse Theater Players
  
• The Dig: Death, Genesis, and the Double Helix at the Pacific Resident Theatre
  
• Holiday Appeal for Class War Prisoners "The Partisan Defense Committee and Labor Black League for Social Defense present this event to help free Mumia Abu-Jamal. Music by Exposition of Audible Mainframe" at Immanuel Presbyterian Church @ 2:00
  
• Schoolhouse Rock Live! at Greenway Court Theater
  
• "Christian Bale Marathon at the Aero "Actor Christian Bale appears in person for a program of his work. First, Bale’s a wounded Civil War vet in James Mangold’s remake of 3:10 to Yuma . Then, he’s one of six Bob Dylans in Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There . Then, he reinvents the caped crusader in Batman Begins. And, last, Bale brings yuppie to a new kind of trickle-down disturbing with the adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. Also included: Discussion with Bale, all-evening buffet and special Christian Bale memorabilia.
• SF
  
• Prefuse 73, School of Seven Bells, Blank Blue at Slim's
  
• Andrew Bird at the Warfield
  
• The Apartment at the Castro Theatre
  
• Ingmar Bergman: Light and Shadow at the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley)
• Sunday
• A Christmas Carol at Celebration Theatre
• David Gray at the Wiltern Lounge
  

as always there is a ton of things that I didn't mention here that are happening so...go wandering and discover.

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Things To Do This Week: Monday-Wednesday

• Monday:
• Bugsy Malone [starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster!] then Phantom of the Paradise at the New Beverly
• The Cinema Cabaret: Neo-Benshi Live Film Narration "The Jack H. Skirball Screening Series presents poets from L.A., San Francisco and New York as they convene to re-approach the Japanese “film teller” tradition of benshi, in which writers or actors narrate alongside silent films. Tonight’s neo-benshi invites performers to select scenes from popular TV or film, mute the soundtrack and “re-inscribe the familiar images with new meanings,” featuring new looks at Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Kiss Me Deadly, Rebel Without a Cause and more" at REDCAT
• Polaroid Stories at the Actor’s Playpen
• Robert Haas at the Los Angeles Central Library @ 7
• USC Thornton Chamber Music Marathon "USC Thornton students jam at the annual event featuring three nights of nonstop chamber music performances" at Newman Recital Hall @ 5
• San Francisco
• Undoing at Sundance Kabuki
• The Great Dictator at the Castro Theatre
• Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show at Bimbo's 365 Club
  

• Tuesday:
  
• A Place To Bury Strangers at the Silverlake Lounge,
• Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings at the El Rey
• SF
• Marc Cohn at the Palace of Fine Arts
• "Douglas Gordon: Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 Until Now" at SF Museum of Modern Art
• Juliette & the Licks (!)(!) at the Great American Music Hall
• "Damned If You Duhig" at Annie’s Social Club
  

• Wednesday:
• Lagerfeld Confidential at the Aero
• A sneak preview of Paul Schrader’s The Walker "starring Woody Harrelson as Carter Page, a D.C. gay confidant and “walker” for some of capitol hill’s most important wives, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall and Lily Tomlin" at the Egyptian
• and I think the Spice Girls show is sold out but if you wanna try a scalper they’re at Staples
• SF
• "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Escapades at the Shotwell Studios
• Once at the Red Vic (I adore this movie!)
  

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Things To Do This Week: Weekend Edition*

*including Thursday of course. And I almost forgot all about this

• Thursday
• Metal:A Headbanger's Journey "[follows] Canadian anthropologist and metal enthusiast Sam Dunn as he travels the world on a quest to understand the origins and controversies of the genre at Silent Movie Theatre"
  
• The Idiots at the Steve Allen Theatre
  
• “The 7th Annual Attack of the 50 Foot Reels” at the Egyptian “Twenty filmmakers compete with this challenge: shoot one 50-foot cartridge of super 8 film, edit entirely in-camera, and create your own original soundtrack without seeing the film. Flicker then assembles the bits and pieces, without the filmmakers seeing the final product until tonight, when the results are revealed."
  
• Grindhouse Film Festival Presents She Freak at the New Beverly
  
• Atlanta: The Musical (co-written by Adrian Pasdar) at the Geffen Playhouse
  
• Benedictus at the LA Theater Center “America plans to bomb Iran, in Motti Lerner's political drama, translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris.”
  
• Bob’s Holiday Office Party “Small-town insurance agent throws his annual Christmas bash, in Joe Keyes and Rob Elk's comedy.” At the Lounge Theatre
  
• Gospels of Childhood “Poland's Teatr Zar collective interprets Christian texts through acting, chanting and movement.” At the UCLA Freud Playhouse
  
• Letters to The President at the Electric Lodge “Selections from the more than 130 letters M.S. Garvey has written to President Bush”
  
• Monna Vanna at the Stella Adler
  
• The Nightwatchman at The Hotel Café
• SF
• Hannah Takes The Stairs at the Red Vic Movie House
  
• Dress Up at the New Conservatory Theatre Group
  
• Stardust and Empty Wagons: Stories From the Katrina Diaspora "Cut from the same cloth as "The Laramie Project" and other interview-based stage docu-dramas, Ellen Gavin's "Stardust and Empty Wagons" assembles testimony from displaced New Orleans residents. Their tales of Hurricane Katrina's destruction, difficult personal flights and our government's failure to properly rebuild sport the inevitable power of real-life disaster reportage" at the Brava Theater Center
  
• Ozomatli at the Fillmore
  
• Van Hunt at the Independent
  

• Friday
• Jimmy Scott at the Echo
  
• The Raspberries at the House of Blues
  
• Cake at the Orpheum
  
• Carole King and James Taylor at the Troubadour
  
• The Glory of Living at the Victory Theatre Group
  
• The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild at the Elephant
  
• “Fusion: The 5th Los Angeles LGBT of Color Film Festival” at the Egyptian Theater Fusion 2007, a “consciously multiracial, gender-inclusive arts event” marrying film, music, spoken word, performance, panels and workshops kicks off with its opening gala, featuring short films of “inspiring personal journeys and the exuberance of youth,” including Dee Rees’ Pariah, Cinzia’s The Matchmaker, Cherien Dabis’ Make A Wish, Nick Oceano’s El Primo, and Soman Chainani’s Kali M (continues all weekend)
  
• “Ninth Annual Nihilist Film Fest” at Track 16 "Ninety minutes of twisted independent short-film nothingness, “ranging from troubling to hilarious” and “profound to completely silly.”
  
• Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show at the El Rey
  
• Bella Sorella at the Coffee Gallery Backstage
  
• The Boofont Sisters at Casita Del Campo
  
• Love Loves a Pornographer at [Inside] the Ford
  
• Narnia at Sierra Madre Playhouse
• SF
• The Comedians of Comedy at The Independent
  
• Issa (Jane Siberry) at the Great American Music Hall
  

• Saturday
• The Lemonheads at The Troubadour
  
• Bury the Dead at the Park La Brea Activities Center
  
• The John Butler Trio at the Orpheum
  
• The Mismatch Game at the Renberg Theatre
  
• Shakespeare's R & J at the Chandler Studio
• SF
• Madam Butterfly at the War Memorial Opera House
  
• "25 Year Anniversary of Thriller" at Milk
  
• Kathy Griffin at the Nob Hill Masonic Center
  
• "NEXMAP: New Experimental Music, Art, Performance" at the Recombinant Media Labs
  

• Sunday
• VHS or Beta at the El Rey
  
• Hong Sang-soo's Woman is the Future of Man at the Silent Movie Theatre
  
• Fire in The Well at the Hammer Museum
  
• Young, Jewish and Left” a new doc examining “race, queerness, spirituality, Zionism, resistance, justice and liberation,” featuring progressive community organizers, playwrights, artists and rabbis” at the Workmen’s Circle
• SF
• Reduced to Ruin, The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir at the Make-Out Room
  
• Rake’s Progress at the War Memorial Opera House
  
• Gays & Dolls at the San Francisco Comedy College
  
• Dodo for President at the Off-Market Theater
  
• "Sunday’s A Drag" at Harry Denton’s Starlight Room
  
• United Genders of the Universe at the Pacific Center for Human Growth
  
  

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Things To Do: Monday-Wednesday

• Monday:
  
• Special Preview of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly "from the winner of the Best Director’s Award at Cannes 2007, Julian Schnabel — the true story of stroke survivor Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor in chief of French Elle" @ 7:30 at LACMA's Bing Theatre
• "John Turturro’s musical Romance and Cigarettes features "lip-syncing bawdiness to songs by James Brown, Janis Joplin, Tom Jones and Bruce Springsteen by an ensemble cast that includes James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Mary Louise Parker, Eddie Izzard, Aida Turturro and Elaine Stritch" @ 7 at the Wadsworth Theatre
• Double Feature at the New Beverly, the original 3:10 to Yuma then an archival print of High Noon
• Writer's Bloc presents Robert Kuttner, author of The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines our Prosperity, in conversation with Arianna Huffington at UCLA's James Bridge Theatre
• SF
• Black Nativity at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
  
• No Such Thing at the New Langton Arts
• Tuesday
• Johnette Napolitano (and David J) at the Roxy,
• Jose Gonzalez at the Henry Fonda Theater
• Don Giovanni at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Music Center
• Hank Williams: Lost Highway at the Laguna Playhouse
• Los Campesinos (with Most Serene Republic) at the Echo
  
• SF
• La Rondine at the War Memorial Opera House
• Macbeth (also?) at the War Memorial Opera House
  
• Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars at the Red Vic Movie House
  
• Blame It on Fidel at The Roxie New College Film Center @ 7
  

• Wednesday
• Don Caballero at Safari Sam's
• SF
• Chemlab (with U.S.S.A. and Skeleton Key) at Bottom of the Hill
  
• Erotic Reading Circle at the Center for Sex & Culture
  
• King Corn at The Roxie New College Film Center @ 8:50
  
  

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Things To Do This Week: Monday-Wednesday*

through the 21st of November. And let's see if I can do this for L.A. and San Francisco

• Monday:
  
• Filmmakers Alliance Showcase at the Echo Park Film Center @ 7:30
  
• The Edukators at Goethe Institut- Los Angeles
• Sarah Silverman (and Friends) at the Largo
  
• At The Un Urban Coffee House " 'Magnavoz', an experimental adaptation of Xavier Icaza's stance on the future of post-revolutionary Mexico written over 80 years ago." and " 'The American Egypt' an exploratory pastiche of the unique political history of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, including an attempt to secede in the 19th century, a brief socialist government in the early 20th century and its feminist congress of 1916"
• As Thousands Cheer at the Alex Theatre
• The Common Air at the Lillian Theatre
• Studio at REDCAT or
• Memorial Reading for Mutanabbi Street "Earlier this year, a car bomb exploded in the vibrant center of Baghdad bookselling. Writers come together to honor the victims with a memorial reading and celebrate the beauty and value of literature, ideas and community. Participants include Chris Abani, Beau Beausoleil, Laila Lalami, Suzanne Lummis, Majid Naficy, Marisela Norte, Sholeh Wolpe and Terry Wolverton" at the L.A. Central Library @ 7.
• San Francisco
• Telluric Currents at The Lab
• Sigur Rós' Heima (icelandic tour film) at Mezzanine or
  
• Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) & Completely Hollywood (abridged) at the Marines Memorial Theater
• Tuesday:
• Gabriel Iglesias at the Comedy & Magic Club
• Cry Baby (!)(!)(!) at the La Jolla Playhouse (writing "the" and "la" just seems really redundant)
• Mary J. Blige at the Nokia Theatre 0r
  
• The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey at the Irvine Barclay Theatre
• San Francisco
• Travis at The Fillmore
• Pub Quiz Night at Maggie McGarry's
• Quiz Nights at Mad Dog in the Fog (what can i say? i love trivia mixed with alcohol)
  
• Trannyshack at The Stud ( really, who doesn't love a drag show?) @ 11
  
• Wednesday
• The Chicago Conspiracy Trial at the Odyssey Theatre
• Clube NME at Spaceland or
• Travis at The Wiltern LG
• S.F.
• Beach Blanket Babylon at Club Fugazi
• Shopping! The Musical! at the Shelton Theatre
• Troy: The Gates of Hell at SFSU Campus Little Theatre or
  
• Sex at the Aurora Theatre (in Berkeley)

as for the rest of the week I guess we're supposed to spend time with our families, blah blah.

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Things To Do This Week: Weekend Edition*

*Thursday counts, kinda, right?

• Thursday : Of Montreal at the Avalon, Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal: Ten Chi at Royce Hall, "Dark Play or Stories for Boys" at Boston Court Theatre, Little Fish at The Blank Theatre, Wreck of the Unfathomable at Theatre of NOTE, A Judas Priest double feature. First "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" then "Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest" “a doc chronicling the fallout from a 1985 suicide pact between two teens and the subsequent court battle that followed when their families sued CBS Records and Judas Priest on the grounds that subliminal messages in Priest's music started the fire.” at Silent Movie Theatre, Amelia Cuni “The dhrupad vocalist ‘forges an uncanny blend of traditions’ with her original interpretation of John Cage's 18 Microtonal Ragas” at REDCAT or Gail Can See for Three Days “Joshua Faigen's story of a journalist and a woman about to be executed” at Theater Tribe
• Friday: 4 x 4: Four New Works by Four Queer Artists at Highways Performance Space, The Bald Soprano at the City Garage, The Glory of Living “Rebecca Gilman's thriller about a young girl's detour 'into a life misled'" at Victory Theatre Center, Birdy “Study of the social impact of war, adapted by Naomi Wallace from the novel by William Wharton” at the Lounge Theatre, Liberating Jesus! at the Edgemar Center for the Arts, Girlfriend Experience “Paul Tarantino's Internet-era bedroom farce.” at the Next Stage, Parallel Lives “Abridged version of the comedy by Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney” at The Complex, The Piano Lesson “August Wilson's familial battle over an upright piano” at The Hayworth, She Wants Revenge at the Henry Fonda, Strip “Bikini girls grind the pole in George Damian's exotic-dancer story” at the Actor's Playpen or Joanna Newsom at the Walt Disney Concert Hall (!)(!)(!)
• Saturday: Not Now Right Now (Industry Showcase,CD release party) at Crash Mansion L.A., Jens Lenkman (and Throw Me The Statue) at the Troubadour, Displays of Affection: “Carnality by Mark Loewenstern, Riches by Lee Blessing” at Avery Schreiber Theater, Hero “Soldier returns home early from Iraq, in Luis Alfaro's comedy” at the Studio/Stage , Out of Thin Air: Tales of a 21st Century Wizard “Brandon Scott combines stories, magic, mind-reading, music and quantum physics” at Actors Forum Theatre [this sounds like the coolest thing ever], Stars at the Orpheum or Socialism Conference “The Party for Socialism and Liberation hosts “a day of Marxist speakers, workshops and discussion on the revolutionary struggle against capitalism, war, racism and bigotry” at Hermandad Mexicana Nacional @ 10:00 am (map) [word.]
• Sunday: The Life and Writings of George Orwell at the Felicia Mahood Senior Center, Rooms 2A-2B “Steve Bindman leads a discussion sponsored by the Secular Jewish Humanists of Los Angeles” @ 11:30 am or Tosca “Casa Italiana Opera Company presents a fully staged production of the Puccini favorite starring Begona Bilbao in the title role, with Don Squillace as the noble Cavaradossi and Mario Biscaldi as that rat Scarpia. Preceded by a five-course meal at 2:30 p.m. [that pretty much sounds like heaven] at the Casa Italiana Community Center of St. Peter's Parish @ 4:30 pm
• And so since I was actually sent a press release about it (which made me feel really cool and important and influential) I'd like to announce that the :
• West Coast Premier Of Cult Hit Continues Through December 21, 2007
  HARVEY FINKLESTEIN'S SOCK PUPPET SHOWGIRLS
  Now playing Fridays 11PM at Theatre Asylum, 6320 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038.
  Chicago's acclaimed Harvey Finklestein Productions LLC in association with C.A.F.E. is pleased to present the west coast premier of the cult favorite HARVEY FINKLESTEIN’S SOCK PUPPET SHOWGIRLS. The puppeteers consist of Los Angeles area actors Eddie Beasley, Jonathan Caplan, Dorien Davies, Steve Sabellico, and Lowe Taylor. Harvey Finklestein Productions LLC is pleased to announce BACKSTAGE SEATING, which offers audience members a unique view of the production. The BACKSTAGE SEATING is very limited and available on a first come first served basis at the door on the night of the show. This puppet show is ADULTS ONLY.
  HARVEY FINKLESTEIN'S SOCK PUPPET SHOWGIRLS is a truly unique and wholly unauthorized parody of the Joe Eszterhas film Showgirls -- as performed by sock puppets. The play, like the beloved film, follows an ambitious young drifter as she navigates her way through that world of power, topless dancing, seduction, vulgarity, gambling and sex that we call Las Vegas. If you haven't seen sock puppets pole dance, you haven't experienced the true power of the theater.
  Harvey Finklestein premiered Sock Puppet Showgirls in 2002 in Chicago where it played for over nine months and was hailed by critics as: "a great moment in Chicago theatre" (Windy City Times), "hilariously tasteless" (Chicago Tribune), and "a real sock-it-to-'em production!" (Chicago Sun Times). In 2004 Harvey Finklestein retooled Sock Puppet Showgirls and Harvey Finklestein’s Sock Puppet Showgirls played in Chicago before heading to New York to partake in The 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. The show became one of the hottest tickets of the festival while playing at The Cherry Lane Theatre. Since then there have been two successful limited engagement runs of Harvey Finklestein’s Sock Puppet Showgirls at Ace of Clubs in New York, one during the fall of 2005 and one during the summer of 2006.
  Other productions by Harvey Finkelstein Productions LLC include UU7: A Magician Never Tells His Tricks, a live action parody of the James Bond genre told with actors in mascot costumes, a rock band, and a movie screen, also Harvey Finklestein’s A Puppet Christmas Carol, a twisted look at Dickens. Harvey TV is a new puppet-sketch video series and can be seen on YouTube.com. Please visit www.harveyfinklestein.com for more information on Harvey Finklestein Productions LLC.
  HARVEY FINKLESTEIN'S SOCK PUPPET SHOWGIRLS performs every Friday at 11:00 pm through December 21, 2007. Tickets are $15, available at the door or 800-838-3006 or on the web at www.brownpapertickets.com.
  

(and so I've decided that if you wanna send me a press release to publicize or shill for something...I think I'm okay with it, though of course I reserve the right to refuse things that are against my sensibilities.)

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Things To Do This Week: Monday-Wednesday*

since television may be moribund or far too “reality based” for the near future here are a few things to do this week November 5- November whatever next Sunday is.

(and a peek into my process here, because I’ve discovered letting people into the experience is oh so much fun! I really didn’t know if I should keep doing things that are playing in L.A. or since I moved up north to focus on things in the Bay Area. But then I realized that first I don’t really know much about the different venues and “spirit” of here yet and that a good plurality of my “readers” are in So Cal (not to mention a lot of information about what’s happening I yoink from L.A. Weekly and I haven’t discovered the San Francisco equivalent yet, though admittedly I haven’t been looking.) So I think I’m going to keep on with L.A.ness for a bit more, until I get my sea legs, at least.

Monday: “Oscar’s Docs: Part Three” The series showcasing films winning the Oscar for documentary filmmaking continues focusing on 1977-88 with "Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements""Broken Rainbow" and " Women — for America, for the World "at the A.M.P.A.S. Linwood Dunn Theater, the Shout Out Louds with (Johnossi and Nico Vega) at the Henry Fonda, at the New Beverly Cinema a David Lynch Double Feature: First Lost Highway then Dune. [I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen Dune-I remember when I was little my brother had like picture books about it so I think I got the story but…it’s about spices,right?], Success at the Stella Adler theatre or "The Valerie Project" The rarely screened Czech New Wave film Jaromil Jires' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) gets a makeover with live music by some of the “heroes of the new folk/psychedelic movement,” including a nine-piece collective all the way from Philadelphia at the Silent Movie Theatre.

Tuesday: Architecture in Helsinki, Glass Candy, Panther at The Troubadour, at the Egyptian an Andy Kaufman double feature: "I’m From Hollywood" a look at Kaufman’s caustic stint in the world of professional wrestling, including his much publicized row with Jerry Lawler and his challenge to amateur female wrestlers. Plus, "Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall" Discussion following with Lynne Margulies, wrestler Jerry Lawler, Carnegie Hall producer Charles Braverman and the world’s oldest living wrestler, The Aztec Mummy," Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney at the Largo, Informational Religious Forum-"Mormonism 101" at Rancho Park Library (Ray Bradbury Room) [Prepare for the coming of Mitt Romney, your overlord-and apparently these aren't true], En Un Sol Amarillo "Teatro de los Ande's docudrama set after the 1998 Bolivia earthquake. In Spanish with English supertitles" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Vanessa Carlton with the Graham Colton Band at the Ivar or 365 Days/365 Plays at the Marina Pavilion at California Plaza. The finale of the yearlong daily performance project by Suzan-Lori Parks.

Wednesday: The Hives at the Avalon, The Hold Steady with Art Brut (and The Blood Arm) at the Henry Fonda (!)(!)(!), a Sneak Preview of "No Country for Old Men" at the Aero Theater (!)(!)(!), "Doubt, a Parable" at the South Coast Repertory (playing through the weekend and beyond), Ladies of the Slack Key Guitar at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts "All hailing from Hawaii, Cindy Combs, Princess Owana Salazar and Brittni Paiva are masters of traditional and contemporary slack key guitar." Low End Theory "Daddy Kev's underground hip-hop night has Dntel, DJ sets from Dublab Soundsystem, The Gaslamp Killer, much more" at the Airliner, Love Like Blue “Kristen Lazarian's dark romantic comedy about three couples breaking up and getting it together" at the Whitefire Theatre, One Solution “Researcher discovers a cure for cancer, in Allan Smith's play” at the Stella Adler Theatre, Tonight at Eight-Thirty “Noel Coward One Acts” at the Deaf West Theatre, World premier of Suzan-Lori Parks’ "Ray Charles Live! A New Musical!" at the Pasadena Playhouse or Restless Brilliance "Presented by Volume arts organization, this evening of multidisciplinary art forms includes sound manipulation, soundtrack generation, digital media, computer-generated visuals, aural landscapes, video mixes, and animation. This second installment offers 12K Records founder Taylor Deupree, musician and multimedia artist Christopher Willits and visual experimentalists I8U & Chika. Frank Bretschneider's Rhythm Exp, which explores the link between fine art and the abstract purity of music, will be screened" at the Hammer Museum


*and hopefully my computer won't give out before i can give you the fun stuff for the weekend, like last time, because there are some really amazing things happening

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Things To Do: Monday-Wednesday

(because I don't plan any farther in advance, and so neither should you. plus these things can get so unwieldy at times...)

• Monday: Boys Like Girls at the House of Blues, Jesus And Mary Chain at the House of Blues-Anaheim, at the Billy Wilder Theatre "Actor Anthony Hopkins screens his directorial effort Slipstream (2007), about an actor/screenwriter’s breakdown spawned by his inability to distinguish reality from fiction, co-starring Christian Slater and John Turturro" , at the Wadsworth Theatre "Stephen Farber’s Fall 2007 Monday night series continues with The Kite Runner, based on the bestseller about an Afghan family’s experience of the Soviet invasion through the rise of the Taliban. Guest speakers include producers Rebecca Yeldham and William Horberg and actor Shaun Toub" @ 7, An Hour inside My Brain “Kristine Zbornik's musical-comedy cabaret” at L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center- Renberg Theatre, or the Russian Patriarchate Choir at Royce Hall "They dress in long cassocks and look like monks in the throes of their devotions. No flashy stage antics here — the sober 12-member Russian Patriarchate Choir is the only vocal ensemble authorized to officially represent the Moscow Patriarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, and do they ever do their job. Formed by courageous and dedicated singer/scholars during the latter part of the Soviet regime, the choir spent years unearthing and decoding sacred manuscripts, despite government censure of sacred music, and gave the first performances of works that had been buried for centuries. Today, they are at the forefront of the exciting renaissance that’s at last bringing this rich vocal tradition to the world’s attention. Led by Anatoly Grindenko, the all-male a cappella ensemble demonstrates its “expressive and visceral sound” and vocal range in its Royce Hall debut program that runs the glorious gamut from medieval chant and 16th- to 19th-century church music to Russian folk songs both melancholy and ebullient."
• Tuesday: Interpol at the Forum(!)(!)(!)(!)(!)(!), Jesus and Mary Chain at The Wiltern, Gemma Hayes (with Holly Conlan, Christina Courtin, Angie Mattson ) at the Hotel Café, or Jill Sobule at the Largo.
• Wednesday: A Double Feature at The Egyptian- "The Outside Man" then "Classe Tous Risques," Sia at the El Rey or Múm at the Orpheum
  
  
  

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Things to Do this Week

the second week of October beginning tonight, the 8th

Monday: Holly Golightly at The Echo, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes Plus Black Fag (Black Flag Tribute) at the Knitting Factory, Justice at The Henry Fonda, "Night Shapes" at the Goethe Institut Los Angeles-"The pope comes to town for the evening and stirs things up in Berlin in the edgy comedy " or "A double feature. First, Dreams to Remember: The Legacy of Otis Redding (2007, David Peck, Phillip Galloway), featuring 16 full-length Otis performances, including his last-ever performance two days before his death. Plus, Stax Revue 1967, recently unburied from Norwegian TV vaults, this look at the long-lost European TV Stax Revue 1967 is the only known full-length film covering “the tour that sparked the soul revolution” — starring Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Arthur Conley and Booker T. & the MGs. Discussion between films with Zelma Redding and Stax session musician Wayne Jackson of the Mar-Keys." at the Egyptian Theatre with Two screens: the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre and the Spielberg Theatre.

Tuesday- Michael Gerson, former Bush Speechwriter speaks at The Cathedral of Our Lady of The Angels on "Why We Need Heroic Conservatism" as part of Zocalo cultural forum series @ 7, Bat For Lashes(!)(!)(!) at the Troubadour, Ruins, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound at The Smell, or Wildboy '74 "Caged kid turns self-help guru, in Eva Anderson's play" at the Bootleg Theatre (also performing on Wednesday)

Wednesday-A Michelango Antonioni double feature at the New Beverly Cinema, Zabriskie Point and Il Grido, Mt. Eerie and The Microphones at the Troubadour, Andras Schiff at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Jose Gonzalez(!)(!) at the El Rey, Band of Horses at Amoeba @ 7, Beirut at the Avalon, Make/Shift contributors at Skylight Books or Revolving Door "an exploration of the complex issues faced by a Melbourne, Australia street sex worker" and The Trials of Darryl Hunt "a portrait of a wrongly convicted man who spends 20 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn’t commit" at A.M.P.A.S. Linwood Dunn Theater.

Thursday- Annie Lennox at the Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills, What to Do Someone You Love is Depressed at Dutton's Brentwood @ 7, The Tragically Hip at the House of Blues, The Avengers and Pansy Division at Spaceland, Nellie McKay(!)(!)(!) at the Largo, Canned Peaches in Syrup at the Pasadena Playhouse (friday and saturday night as well), at Vroman's Book store James Swain "presents and signs Midnight Rambler, a novel about a serial killer who tortures women and plays the Rolling Stones' 'Midnight Rambler' while doing so" @ 7, Robbie Jensen: Live With a Vengeance! at the Secret Rose Theater or Something Wicked 2007 "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, hosts a dance party/costume contest/auction benefiting AIDS Healthcare Foundation" at the Out of The Closet Thrift Store @ 7:30.

Friday- Baggage Claim at Gardner Stages (saturday also), A Black Trilogy 2007 "Spencer Scott's Call Out My Name, Bill Harris' He Who Endures, and N.R. Davidson Jr.'s El Hajj Malik" at the Stella Adler Theatre, "An Evening with Meshell Ndegeocello " at the Echoplex @ 7, The Black Lips at the Troubadour, Carnivale of the Unassuming at Casa 0101, Chekov Mania: A Russian Vaudeville at The Attic Theatre and Film Center, The Empire Builders at Pepperdine's Lindhurst Theater, The Fastest Clock in the Universe at the Celebration Theatre, Wreck of the Unfathomable at Theatre of NOTE, Out of Thin Air: Tales of a 21st Century Wizard at Actors Forum Theatre, The Love Talker at Hub Theater, Little Secrets at The Space, The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Sacred Fools Theater, Old Actor Fights!! at Elephant Theater, Murky Lake at Atwater Playhouse or Point Break Live! (!)(!)(!) at Charlie O's Lounge (on Saturday as well)

Saturday- A Child's Guide to Common Household Monsters "Are there monsters hiding under your bed? Maybe. Author James Otis Hatch will debunk the myth that monsters are scary" at Barnes & Noble 3rd Street @ 10 a.m., Laser Spectacular featuring the Music of Pink Floyd at The Canyon (28912 Roadside Dr., Agoura Hills), Girlyman (!) at McCabe's, Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament "Watch top designers in head-to-head challenges." at the Henry Fonda, Shaolin Warriors at Cal State Long Beach's Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Take-A-Hike "Shannon Tweed, Sophie Tweed-Simmons, CCH Pounder and other celebs turn out for this benefit for breast cancer research. Registration at 7:30 a.m.; race at 9 a.m." at Paramount Ranch, West Indian Girl at Spaceland, Without Risk of Excessive Loss at the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, or Waiting For Godot at A Noise Within.

Sunday- Lineage Dance: Skin at the Boston Court Theatre, Q-Tip at the Key Club, Beethoven & Brahms at the Walt Disney Concert Hall @ 7, "Honor" Thy Mother and Father at the Santa Monica Playhouse, Art "Yasmina Reza's examination of art and friendship, translated by Christopher Hampton" at the Laguna Playhouse, Best in Drag Show at the Orpheum "A beauty pageant judged by celebs, including Kathy Griffin. Benefits Aid for AIDS" or Charles Phoenix's Disneyland Tour of Downtown L.A. "Guided tour of "the other Magic Kingdom," with stops at Adventureland (Olvera Street), Fantasyland (Bob Baker Marionette Theater), the Haunted Mansions (Victorian homes on Carroll Street) and more."Meet at Union Station at Noon.


and i'm already exhausted...

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Things to Do this Week

for the week starting the 1st of this month (I refuse to acknowledge the passing of time)

• Monday: Morrissey at the Hollywood Palladium (and I think he'll be there for like another week), The Go-Go's at the House of Blues Anaheim, The Black Angels at the Troubadour, Break Even-a low-budget, multi-award-winning film shot sans script in 11 days, about three lonely people, a crook, a refugee and a prostitute , looking for a change- at the Goethe Institut Los Angeles, or Rendition (film and discussion) at the Wadsworth Theatre
• Tuesday: Jenna von Oy (I think she's singing but she'll always be Seven from Blossom to me)
• Wednesday: Durango at the David Hwang Theatre, Gruff Rhys, Her Space Holiday, XOXO, Panda at the Rec Center Studio, Sunny and Share Love You-the winner of the Outfest 2007 Audience Award for Best Soundtrack, a mockumentary about a former hubby-and-wife rock team who reconvene as an act who performs wildly inappropriate children’s songs involving “pedophiles and angry rainbows- at the Egyptian Theatre, Mark Ronson at the El Rey, a double feature of Jonestown:The Life and Death of Peoples Temple/Jesus Camp at the A.M.P.A.S. Linwood Dunn Theatre, Not Until Walter Gets Here at Sierra Stage, One Solution at the Stella Adler Theatre, or the Darjeeling Limited at Aero Theatre; Discussion with Wes Anderson following the film.
• Thursday: She Wants Revenge at the Troubadour, Anne Rieh “rieh-defines" Marlene Dietrich at the Gardenia Restaurant and Lounge, A (Piece of) Work in Progress at the Santa Monica Playhouse, K. Sridhar: An Evening of Indian Classical Music at the Skirball Cultural Center, Hollywood Hell House 2007 at Acapulco (friday and saturday nights as well) or Sertab Erener & Fahir Atakoglu Live-The Turkish pop songstress Erener joins forces with internationally acclaimed composer/pianist Atakoglu for one night only- at the Kodak.
• Friday: LA Phil: Salonen conducts Beethoven's Seventh Symphony at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, George Carlin at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk, Jon Brion at the Largo, Mods and Rockers (Slight Return): A Place to Be: A Celebration of Nick Drake. This special evening saluting the tragic Pink Moon British singer-songwriter includes films, guests, an art and photography exhibit, and the world theatrical premiere of Their Place: Reflections On Nick Drake (2007), a compilation of short Drake homages created by notable fans like Heath Ledger, Jonas Mekas and Tim Pope. Plus, the doc A Skin Too Few: The Days Of Nick Drake (2000, Jeroen Berkvens), featuring rare interviews with Drake’s producer Joe Boyd, arranger Robert Kirby and family members. Special in-person guests: Drake’s sister Gabrielle Drake and Joe Boyd- at the Egyptian Theatre, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore at the Fountain Theatre, The Root at Ark Theatre Company, Suffragette Koans at the Little Victory Theatre, No Shame Theatre at the Powerhouse Theatre, or a free 20th anniversary screening of The Princess Bride at LACMA's Bing Theatre (though of course you own the dvd, such a large setting could be fun- like a PG and kid friendly Rocky Horror show)
• Saturday: Kurt Cobain: About a Son at the Nuart, Heat & Hostility at the El Centro, Painted Alice at the Elephant Theatre, Valparaiso at Garage Theatre, Mods and Rockers (Slight Return): A double feature. First, a “mystery sneak preview” of a new rock film so good “you’ll be telling all your friends you saw it first.” Then, some Maysles brothers goodness with the absolutely unforgettable Gimme Shelter (1971), an eerie murder-caught-on-tape look at the end of an era, when rock & roll literally became hellish at the Altamont Motor Speedway in December 1969- at the Aero Theater, Simon Stokes at Taix, Assassins at the National Guard Armory, Clay at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, The Fabulous Divas of Broadway at Open Stage West, or Ugly Coco at the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center' Renberg Theatre (!)(!)(!)
  
• Sunday: Gutpuppet and Tin/Bag at the Center for the Arts, Mods and Rockers (Slight Return): A sneak preview of the biopic every Joy Division fan has been waiting for, Control at the Aero Theater, Arabia Exotica 2007: Glamour in Exile at the Avalon, Bob Baker's Fiesta: Halloween Edition at the Bob Baker Marionette Theatre (reservations required) or the Shins at the Greek.
  

that should give you a few options...

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Things to Do this Week

for the week of (what's today?) the 24th through next Sunday

• Monday: Editors at the Wiltern, Foo Fighters at the Fonda, Martha Wainwright at The Hotel Cafe or Reel Talk at the Wadsworth Theatre "Stephen Farber’s Fall 2007 Monday night series continues with My Kid Could Paint That, a doc about 4-year-old Marla Olmstead, who challenged the definition of modern art when her paintings started to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Discussion following with writer-director Amir Bar-Lev" @ 7
• Tuesday: Arctic Monkeys at the Hollywood Palladium(!)(!)(!)(!)(!), Dr. James Watson "Avoid Boring People" at the L.A. Central Library- The Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of the double helix discusses Avoid Boring People: And Other Lessons From a Life in Science with science writer K.C. Cole @ 7, The Gas House at Sacred Fools Theatre (wednesday also), Bunny Bunny at the Hudson Guild Theatre (wednesday as well)-Alan Zweibel's "sort of romantic comedy" about his relationship with Gilda Radner, or Slow Dancing at the Music Center Plaza (Wednesday as well, 6.p.m. both nights_-With giant screens encircling the plaza fountain, the Music Center launches its 2007-2008 dance season with David Michalek's mesmerizing installation depicting more than 40 dance luminaries filmed for five seconds at high speed then projected in ultraslow motion over 10 minutes. With dancers drawn from ballet, modern dance, hip-hop, tap and international classical dance, the videos reveal secrets of how dancers move and how movement varies among different types of dance.
• Wednesday: Bad Brains at the House of Blues, Klaxons at the Fonda, A Gus Van Sant double feature at the New Beverly Cinema- Mala Noche and My Private Idaho (thursday-saturday showings as well), 2007-2008 Contemporary Documentaries at the A.M.P.A.S. Linwood Dunn Theater- The 26th annual series showcasing feature-length and short docs nominated for the 2006 Academy Awards kicks off with a double feature. First, James Longley’s Iraq in Fragments, Plus, My Country, My Country @ 7, A Streetcar Named Desire at ArcLight or !!! at the Avalon
• Thursday: Leap at the Falcon Theatre- Arnold Margolin's comedy about a window jumper (performances also on wednesday-saturday), Must Don't Whip 'Um at Redcat-(performances on wednesday-sunday as well), Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman at the Egyptian Theatre a six-hour non-fiction Sex in the Cityesque documentary confession by Jennifer Fox, exploring what it really means to be a free woman today, including Fox’s travels to 17 countries “to understand how diverse women define their lives when there is no map.” Tonight: Chapter One: No Fear of Flying, shot in New York, Wyoming, Lapland and South Africa. Plus, Chapter Two: Test Piloting: Tick Tock, an exploration of the concept of the biological clock, shot in New York, Wyoming, Philadelphia, London, Paris and South Africa @ 7 30, The Battle of Wounded Me at the Hudson Guild Theatre, Down in the Basement at Tangier-William Mesnik's "metaphorical re-imagining of the story of Bob Dylan's The Basement Tapes", Girl,20 at the Hudson Mainstage- (performance friday and saturday as well)
  
• Friday: Goblin Market at GTC Burbank-Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon's musical about Victorian sisters transported to a world of goblins (performances through sunday), Journey to Dollywood at the Matrix Theatre (performances thursday through saturday), Jim Morrison: Swimming to the Moon at Art/Works Theatre (performances through saturday), And Neither Have I Wings to Fly at Road Theatre Company, Evel Knievel: The Rock Opera at the Bootleg Theater, Henry V at the Next Stage, NEVAH-EH: Prince of Black Angels at the Stella Adler Theatre-Epic fantasy musical, by Lonnie L. Henderson, Skin of Honey at the Macha Theatre-Odalys Nanin's love story set in Castro's Cuban revolution, Low at the Troubador, Toots & the Maytals at the House of Blues, The National at the Wiltern
  
• Saturday- Bright Eyes at the Hollywood Bowl, @ 7, #*@$$$%!!! EMOTIONAL GARAGE SALE at the Actors Group Theatre, Dead Bride Running at the Underground Theatre, or Bang! New dance rock and Brit-pop at the Ruby @ 10, Defari at the Rhythm Lounge or Morrissey at the Hollywood Palladium (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
  
• Sunday- The Shins at the Greek, Turbonegro at the Fonda, the L.A. premiere of The Cloud at the Aero Theatre, The Consequence at Billy Wilder Theatre, An Evening of Experimental Middle Eastern Dance at Deaf West.
  

wow, i'm already exhausted.

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