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Diana San Juan, Benjamin Siepak, Vicente Serna, Nick Veronin on April 5, 2017
Spring into First Friday. This week brings with it the first South First Friday art walk of the spring season. Be sure to get out there and check out the great galleries. There’s the 19th annual Latino Art Now! show at MACLA, Julie Barrett and David Mejia at KALEID Gallery and Immersion…
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Whether you consider yourself a member of Team Stark or Team Lannister, believe Daenerys Targaryen to be a true leader of the people or some sort of high fantasy cult of personality, and no matter where you come down on the Red Woman and her fickle Lord of Light, as a true…
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Diana San Juan, Vicente Serna, Nick Veronin on March 29, 2017
From the twangy, country-boy prosperity gospel of Chris Janson—whose “Buy Me A Boat” has more than 50 million views on YouTube—to the reserved and sobering Americana of Vikesh Kapoor, this week’s Metroactive newsletter is packed to the brim with promising young musicians. If hip-hop and soul are your thing, you’ll definitely want…
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Though he’s not a household name like Drake or Rihanna, the music of Ramin Djawadi might be just as ubiquitous. His spare piano renditions of songs like “Paint it Black” and “Black Hole Sun” help to build suspense and guide viewers to moments of revelation in Westworld.
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Dian San Juan, Vicente Serna, Benjamin Siepak, Nick Veronin on March 22, 2017
A new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel comes to City Lights Theater. ‘Frankenstein’ tells the tale of Victor Frankenstein and his monster with a modern-day twist and with the aid of cutting edge technology. Intent on examining what “it truly means to be human, and the plight of the outsider,” City Lights…
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Vicente Serna, Nick Veronin on March 15, 2017
Them bricks is way to hot, you need to cut it! One might presume that Trevor Paglen took the advice of a certain Long Beach trapper when he conceived of his “Trinity Cube”—a block fashioned out of irradiated glass collected from the post-meltdown Fukashima Exclusion Zone in Japan and Trinitite, the mineral…
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Diana San Juan, Vicente Serna, Benjamin Siepak, Nick Veronin on March 8, 2017
Sheltering two illegal immigrants from postwar Italy comes with unexpected consequences for Eddie and Beatrice Carbone in Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge, opening this week at The Pear Theatre. Also this week: John 5, guitarist for Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie brings big, scary guitars to The Ritz Dash Berlin…
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Richard von Busack on March 6, 2017
Cinequest wraps up this weekend with personal appearances by director Walter Hill, actress Jane Lynch, Garbo on the big screen at the 90 year old California Theater, and a just-announced appearance by Fred Armisen.
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There are a whole lot of movies showing at this year’s Cinequest. And that’s not to mention all the cutting edge virtual reality programming. Here are two of Metro film critic Richard von Busack’s picks for films that are showing this weekend. For more Cinequest highlights, check out our Cinequest package.
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Diana San Juan, Vicente Serna, Benjamin Siepak, Nick Veronin on March 2, 2017
For those who weren’t moved by the mascara and brooding synth experimentation of bands like Depeche Mode and The Cure, or the caustic affront of hardcore punk bands like Black Flag and Bad Brains, the 1980s marked a dark time for popular, guitar-driven music. By ’81—the year The Rolling Stones released their…
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