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The Ambrose, a uniquely crafted Santa Monica hotel, opens its doors to
tranquility, harmony, and a blissful state of well-being. Affordable
luxury is the signature of this 77-room boutique property. With rates
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| | If video killed the radio star, MTV killed the video star in its attempt to become the Real World/Road Rules Challenge Network. RES magazine hopes to change all that. Combining a program of music videos and digital shorts, RES gives American audiences a taste of what Europeans enjoy daily. This month's special feature is a mini-retrospective of French collective H5, who introduce their videos for Massive Attack, Playgroup, and others. Also in attendance are members of the Scandinavian video crew Traktor to unveil their latest Basement Jaxx video starring android beauties and *NSync's JC Chasez. Traktor's Mats is slated to DJ the after-party at Boardner's. (JCF)
  
 Traktor directed which controversial (of course) Madonna video? The third correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Join LA's underground chic every Tuesday at Tangier when the Good Life hosts an evening of deep and funky beats designed to make you forget Wednesday morning's impending nine to five. Despite the ultra-cozy venue and uber-chill vibe, the eclectic mix of house, funk, '80s, and soul should get you off the couch and onto the floor. With Mr. Annand of Tropical headlining tonight's festivities, cancel that morning meeting and come see how the beat goes on. (AM)
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| | Arty yet not art rock; cello-wielding yet not chamber pop. Sea Ray are one of those hard-to-classify indie-rock bands that all your friends should listen to — if only you could explain why. The easy way out: describe them as a fusion of the mid-'90s shoegazer and alternative-rock scenes that wielded everyone from the Ocean Blue to Tindersticks to Radiohead. Currently on tour opening for the Church, a fortuitous headlining gig at Spaceland saves you an additional $12 cover charge for "Under the Milky Way." (JSS)
What unlikely indie-rock pioneer produced tracks for Sea Ray's EP 1? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Our favorite Argentinian music maker gets us into the groove every time we set his electronica record, Gran Hotel Buenos Aires, on the turntable — we can't help but fall for the instrumental tracks laced with guitar sounds, airy Spanish vocals, and dub rhythms. But long before he fell into his current style, he played reggae-tinged folk, flamenco, smooth electro, and romantic percussion records in Buenos Aires. Now he comes to Los Angeles for a night at the Latin club Nacional to give us Angelenos a taste of his taste. Enjoy the trademark mojitos and imagine yourself under the Buenos Aires moonlight. (BC)
Which trip-hop group signed and produced Aubele's debut, Gran Hotel Buenos Aires? The first three correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Between the joblessness wrought by the movie industry's escalating flight to Canada and the imminent havoc a Bush reelection would wreak upon the peace and stability of artists and stoners everywhere, life in LA is growing quite precarious. As Jennifer's pregnant with twins and all, she and Brad have quietly decided to cut their losses and head to Vancouver in time for the births. What makes this sale cool — aside from the chance to own the golden couple's red fur rug, collection of giant cookie jars crusted with THC crystals, an entire room of vintage pet rocks, the Honey Bear bong from True Romance, the cast from her broken ankle signed by the five other Friends, all her clothes from the series, and his 12 Monkeys wardrobe — is that it's being held at their soon-to-be-former residence. Follow the link to the website, enter password "flavorpill," and get top-secret directions. (SND)
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| | Larry Bell is known as an early practitioner of what's come to be called minimalism, though he has worked with a dramatic flair, a keen sense of humor, and a deep love of physical objects not typically associated with the movement. His art minimizes the interference of artistic pretensions, to better celebrate the inherent qualities of the materials and found objects that constitute his output. His take on minimalism's intentions and legacies in the context of this major museum survey should prove both enlightening and entertaining. (SND)
Note: This event takes place in conjunction with A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, which runs through Mon 8.2 (hours).
Which place has Larry Bell called home for the past 30 years? The first correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | History, race, religion, gender, politics — all these once immutable social subcategories have become as fluid as the bytes coursing through the DSL lines of our global village. But the commercial and entertainment segments of our society have become increasingly defined by narrow, arbitrary concepts such as "brand" and "demographic." Tony Brown, Carol Es, Steven Greenfield, Elizabeth Hoffman, Midge Lynn, Mary Milelczik, Suzan Woodruff, Ali Smith, Michele Jaquis, and Steve Irvin, whose performance is particularly promising, each address the tempest of ideas surrounding the problematic aspects of identity in our label-obsessed culture. This diverse group of artists shows works in painting, photography, performance, installation, and, of course, the great "multimedia" catchall. (DSM)
Note: A performance takes place at 8pm. This exhibition continues through Sun 4.25 (Fri-Sun: 6:30-8:30pm).
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| | Not since the Boredoms has a band tried so hard to sound so lazy. Liars are like juvenile delinquents in the principal's office, flinging lyrical spit balls while tagging each other with "kik me" signs. Their bratty brand of avant-post-proto-punk — made danceable by drummer Ron Albertson's flat-tire disco beat — resides somewhere between a Hot Hot Heat-Locust car crash and a Donna Summer zombie movie. Though they sound loose, rowdy, and untrained, don't let Liars fool you. While perfecting their fashionable disdain for effort, they've developed into a rock force to be reckoned with. (JCF)
Note: Liars also play Fri 4.2 (8pm).
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| | Maestro narrates modern club culture's genesis, focusing on proto-DJ Larry Levan and his residency at King St.'s Paradise Garage. The documentary firmly places the culture's birth in the '70s downtown NYC scene, tracing its explosive growth from a niche sound in black and Hispanic gay clubs to the destruction wrought by a then-unnamed virus to the global phenomenon it has become today. Combining intimate interviews with figures such as David Mancuso and Frankie Knuckles, and rare footage of the Garage and the Loft, director Josell Ramos has created an educational and engaging tribute to the art of DJing and the people whose lives it changed. (WJI)
Note: There is a free premiere after-party on Thur 4.1 (RSVP).
What was Levan's birth name? The first correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this film's premiere on Thur 4.1.
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ART
First Friday Art Walk
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| when: | Fri 4.2 (7-11pm) |
| where: | Los Feliz Art Galleries (map, 323.662.3279) |
| price: |  FREE |
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| | This free self-guided tour of roughly a dozen art galleries is the ideal crawl across LA's East Side. Circle Elephant Art shows Propaganda, a group of new paintings and drawings by Scott Siedman, whose work employs conventions and techniques of the old masters to address symbolism and meaning in religion and spirituality, militarism, materialism, and sexuality in his vision of the luscious dystopia we inhabit. La Luz de Jesus shows Detroit-based master of the stylized macabre Glenn Barr's new works in Haunted World, and Bedlam over on Hillhurst has Kathleen Moriarty's poetic, eerie landscapes. (SND)
Note: Visit Circle Elephant's map to see the edgiest, most homegrown high-meets-low art galleries involved in this event.
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| | The gleam of a metal mask shines from the stage and quick-witted words pour out from the speakers with soft beats and whimsical samples to match. Our favorite man with many alter egos, MF Doom, and the Stones Throw beatmaker everyone wants to work with, Madlib, make up the Madvillain duo. Their album, Madvillainy, is a breakthrough in underground hip-hop; it has depth and layers, and spins comic-book make-believe adventures. This record release party features Madvillain along with Stones Throw compadres Peanut Butter Wolf, Egon, and J-Rocc. (BC)
Which Marvel villain adorns MF Doom's album covers? The first five correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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DISCUSSION
MOCA presents Brice Marden and Gary Garrels
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| when: | Sat 4.3 (3pm) |
| where: | Silverscreen Theater, Pacific Design Center (8687 Melrose Ave, W Hollywood, 213.626.6222) |
| price: | $12 |
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| | Brice Marden, you'll remember from art school, is renowned for his peculiar, squiggly line style of drawing that resembles enormous Chinese calligraphy. He often employs strange materials such as beeswax when creating large-scale monochromatic paintings, whose influence on minimalism cannot be overstated. Gary Garrels, chief curator of MoMA's Department of Drawings and curator in its Department of Painting and Sculpture, engages him in conversation. Put your thinking caps on and relive the glory days of art theory. (SND)
Note: This event takes place in conjunction with A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, which runs through Mon 8.2 (hours).
In 1972, Marden created the work "The palette of Star" for which New York-based rock singer? The first correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Swiss duo Agnes Luzia Brugger and Bernhard Schmid are not your average neon artists, whatever that means. Working as a team, they have used photography and light-box installations to document and interpret their particular "spiritual journey" — a tour of European cities represented by a large-scale picture of each city's most famous neon sign. A 21st-century update of the Christian concept of the faithful citizen's pilgrimage to a cathedral or reliquary, this series enshrines religious piety in its new incarnation of commerce and advertising. (SND)
Note: This exhibition runs through Sun 9.26 (Wed-Sat: 11am-5pm / Sun: 12-5pm), concurrently with an epic survey of over three dozen neon artists, giving viewers the chance to find out what an average neon artist is, for comparison's sake.
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| | If you grew up in the Bronx in the late '70s, you had front-row seats to the opening scenes of hip-hop culture. And more often than not, on that stage were the Cold Crush Crew; listen through the hiss of an old tape to their legendary battle at Harlem World in '81 or witness their scenes in Wild Style, and you'll understand. Whether it was DJs Tony Tone and Charlie Chase hooking into a light pole to rock a block party or Grandmaster Caz lending his lyrics to Hank from the Sugarhill Gang for "Rapper's Delight" (for which he never received royalties), they were at the center of it all. Tonight, they're joined by GrandWizzard Theodore, the man who invented the scratch. (MS)
Who's the current recipient of your cold crush and why? Our five favorite answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | It's a happy hour sunshower for those whom 808s give power when Mike Dearborn hits the decks. Dearborn came out of Chicago's classic acid moment; as a result, the electronic 4/4 rhythms he purveys — in remixes for the likes of fellow acid innovator Felix Da Housecat, wild pitch wildmen Hardfloor, and techno icon Joey Beltram — straddle that blissfully fine line between techno and house. The brutally elegant sounds this tech-house innovator helped usher in with acid can be heard today in everything from the DFA to Josh Wink, so it's time to get an uncut dose from a real Chi-town jackmaster. Unrepentantly hard and funky, nothing beats a good squealing 303 acid line when Dearborn starts spinning. (MD)
Dearborn recorded a cover version of which Gary Numan song on 1998's Random, Vol. 2: A Gary Numan Tribute? The first correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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ART
Women of Our Time and Clay Bodies
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| when: | Ends Sun 4.4 (11am-5pm) |
| where: | Long Beach Museum of Art (2300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, 562.439.2119) |
| price: | $5 |
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| | Representation of the human figure is arguably the richest subcategory of visual art, going all the way back to cave painting. These two exhibitions, both closing today at the renovated and expanded Long Beach Museum, highlight some of today's finest work portraying the curves of the body. Women of Our Time presents a selection of 75 portraits of remarkable women culled from the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Clay Bodies investigates every arena — from Toby Jugs and Staffordshire pottery to folk art figurines — in which the human body has been represented with clay since the 18th century. (DSM)
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| | As one-half of the most enduring house music production outfit, Masters at Work, Little Louie Vega has injected house with flavor for almost two decades. A true master in his work, Vega isn't content with merely adding beats to a song and calling it dance music. Instead, he gives the music soul, depth, and diversity — adjectives hard to come by within the genre. Vega's latest release, Elements of Life, is a veritable musical fusion. Vega has brought together a nine-piece band to celebrate, giving fans the opportunity to see his music come to life. (MG)
Vega was a regular on which early-'90s dance show? The second correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | From Kraftwerk to Nena to Yello and beyond, Germany has proved to be the hotbed of synth-pop activity. While not as well known as any those acts, Wolfsheim were a key player in Deutschland's fertile garden of synthetic soul. Dark and moody — with albums called Popkiller and No Happy View and songs like "Entropy" and "For You I'm Bleeding" — Wolfsheim have stayed vital by staying true to their quasi-goth vibe and gently industrial dance-floor ambitions. Thanks to the whole neo-'80s movement, Wolfsheim sound fresh again. Old-school new romantic to the core, Wolfsheim get your achtung with their tortured electronic northern European soul. Angst was never so much fun. (MD)
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| | While Mark Eitzel went on to record an eclectic and engaging set of albums after the breakup of American Music Club (most notably 60 Watt Silver Lining and The Invisible Man), he will forever be associated with his former band. Deservedly so, as songs such as "Outside This Bar," "Firefly," and "Sick of Food" showed a beauty, ambiguity, and frailty rarely matched by their peers. With a reunion tour, new album, and self-released best-of/rarities compilation in the works, AMC's devoted fans finally get to see their drunken heroes perform together once more. Others may never know what they're missing — not that it ever mattered for the rest of us. (AW)
Note: This event is a fundraiser for the Sweet Relief Fund. Also on the bill are Concrete Blonde, Paula Cole, Glen Phillips, and Jesse Harris.
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| | Though compared most often to early Liz Phair thanks largely to her confrontational lyrics and frank sexuality, this New Yorker by way of Maine more closely taps into the spirit of Juliana Hatfield, packing the acrid wallop of her confessionals in a Blake Babies sugarcoating. Ms. Pillsbury brings her eponymous three-piece, which features journeyman drummer Dave Oromaner and bassist Sandy Brockwell (of Jane Jensen), to the West Coast to support her full-length debut. Released on her own Average White Girl label earlier this year, The Wrong Marianne comfortably treads the middle ground between jangly and acerbic. (JH)
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| | Before he went totally manic magic realist — or is that surrealist? — with La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2, maverick auteur Federico Fellini got in touch with his just plain realist side. A deceptively simple coming-of-age tale of five friends outgrowing their boring hamlet in the Italian boonies, I Vitelloni captures warm human truths with Fellini's trademark playfulness and social satire just bubbling under the surface. The film's proven surprisingly influential — films like Diner bogarted much from it. And despite the emphasis on everyday reality, Fellini can't hold back his sublimely lyrical side, as in the last sequence, one of the most beautiful and elegant in film history. (MD)
Fellini was Woody Allen's first choice for a memorable cameo scene taking place in line at a movie theatre in which film? The first five correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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ART
The LA Years: Part I
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| when: | Now through Sat 4.3 (Tue-Sat: 10am-5:30pm) |
| where: | Christopher Grimes Gallery (916 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, 310.587.3373) |
| price: | FREE |
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| | Christopher Grimes Gallery has been a fixture on the Los Angeles scene for 25 years; some of the most critically acclaimed and widely collected artists from California, Latin America, and elsewhere have graced its walls. Now local collector Tom Peters and Angles Gallery director Nowell J. Karten have co-curated a two-part retrospective survey celebrating what one might call its deep bench, including major works from John Baldessari, Fred Tomaselli, and Lisa Yuskavage. (SND)
Note: Part II opens on Sat 4.10.
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| | A reference to "wardrobe malfunction" is about all the time-warping you see in The Underpants, which, in contrast to Steve Martin's earlier, Pirandello-influenced Picasso at the Lapin Agile, is a refreshing and straightforward farce. While the setting (pre-WWI Continental Europe) is similar, the message (female sexual
liberation) and the method (an "adaptation" of an earlier work by Carl Sternheim) are not. Martin has clearly found a period rich in irony, and mines it from several directions at once. Dan Castellaneta (TV's Homer Simpson) excels, again, as the embodiment of the small-minded petit-bourgeois male, while Meredith Patterson is perhaps even better as his put-upon wife. (DSM)
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| CD REVIEW: Dirty Sound System, Dirty Diamonds |
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Diamondtraxx
Released February 2004
$19.99 (Amazon)
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Paris-based producers and DJs Dirty Sound System became a hometown sensation last year when their Dirty Diamonds mix CD was a runaway hit despite being available only at the legendary boutique Colette. Now the album is getting a proper release, and its easy to understand why Parisians were so excited — the irresistible mix is a tongue-in-cheek, rock 'n roll twist on the floaty retro-future pop popularized by Air and their ilk. From the opening strains of "Angie" (the Rolling Stones' classic is given a vocoder once-over) to bits of a score from horror flick director and composer John Carpenter to the classic Larry Levan mix of Grace Jones' "Pull Up to the Bumper," Dirty Diamonds makes space-age lounging cool all over again. (DJP)
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This review is courtesy of Earplug, a biweekly music newsletter produced by Flavorpill Productions.
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| PARKING LOT SALE: Aron's Records |
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Remember when people used to pay for music? This weekend's Aron's Famous Parking Lot Sale just might be the incentive to make an honest citizen out of you. With tens of thousands of CDs going for less than the price of a latte, it's enough to free you from your digital web of thievery for a long while. Browse the extensive vinyl section. Enjoy the live DJ. Allow yourself a respite from the juggernaut of Amoeba, and sink your teeth into something a bit more do-able. Whatever you do, don't forget to take home some of Aron's famous Cleveland Stadium mustard — it goes great with bargains. (JCF)
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| STREAMS: dublab |
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There are so many numbers floating through the air. Cell phones, facsimile gizmos, locker combos, pin codes, nephew's ages, # # # # # # #. How can you be expected to keep it all straight? You're no robot (unless you have gears and oil dripping from your shoe). Let's work on simplifying things. Throw out those digits and live with letters. Swing along with dublab on the alphabet train and you'll never be the same. (Frosty)
*dublab's Spring Proton Drive is on. Give some dough today and help keep creative radio shining.
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