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Hush-hush at the Los Angeles DWP
Until Tuesday, when he appeared before the City Council after some of its members suggested they might issue him a subpoena, Department of Water and Power interim chief Austin Beutner wasn’t talking much about DWP Real Estate File J 84356 — which contains a recommendation b…
Gentry Against Funky in Venice
Ten old RVs line one block of Third Avenue in Venice. Most are stuffed to the windshields with hoarded junk. Few look roadworthy. Tires are bare. Cobwebs have formed. A man sporting dreadlocks walks up and says three of the campers, all painted in the same ’60s rainbow theme, bel…
Educating Maria
On a recent afternoon inside the bustling day-care center Las Familias del Pueblo in downtown’s Skid Row, Alice Callaghan heads toward a ringing phone. The middle-aged Episcopal minister, who was once a Catholic nun, still wears a kind of religious uniform that’s both pragmatic a…
Peru Day
The museum’s Target Free Sundays at MoLAA celebrates Peruvian Independence with guided tours, live Peruvian music and dancing and art workshops on making paper llamas and Andean hats.
Sun., July 18, 1-4 p.m., 2010…
B-Movies and Bad Science
This outdoor screening of 1955′s It Came from Beneath the Sea is preceded by a discussion.
Sat., July 17, 7:30 p.m., 2010…
Nightranger: Smashing Patience
“I love you all, but I’m too old for this shit.” Such were the parting words of Billy Corgan at Smashing Pumpkins’ intimate tour warm-up at the Viper Room last week, but the smoldering set his band dished out before leaving the stage proved the last…
Music Picks: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Bridget St. John, Bad Astronaut, Kings of Leon
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THE DONKEYS AND BIG SEARCH AT SPACELAND
The members of the Donkeys may not all be mop-topped, country-clothed hippie types, but they may as well be. The San Diego four-piece specializes in a psychedelia -encrusted brand of Americana rock th…
WTF Is Art-Rap?!
Ask Open Mike Eagle, “What is art-rap,” and he will give you a serious answer. The former third- and fourth-grade special-education teacher will convey his disenchantment with hip-hop: the illegal downloading that killed the underground, the ephemeral nature of Internet mixtape c…
Aging With Delta Spirit
With six decades of rock & roll in our slipstream, music fans are used to the notion that the future is sounding more and more like the past. Spend some time with Delta Spirit, though, and you get the feeling the city is starting to sound an awful lot like the country.
Li…
Manic at the Polysexual Disco
“DON’T THINK, JUST DRINK,” reads one of the cheaply photocopied posters hanging on the wall. Another advises that “PAIN IS TEMPORARY, GLORY IS ETERNAL,” while a third, plastered to the door of the men’s room, reads, “FUCK FOR FUN, FUCK FOR MONEY.”
The messages are meant i…