Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library

5/5: This just in! Email me if you would like to go--the kind folks at Largo will reserve some seats together for our group! I just need to let them know how many!

Please join us on May 8 for an end of the law school year musical celebration at Largo at the Coronet. See the critically acclaimed, astoundingly talented multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, producer Jon Brion in one of his famous Friday night shows. 

The show starts at 9:30pm and the cost is $25. You can pay cash at the door or purchase tickets by credit card in advance by calling Largo directly at (310)855-0350 (no additional service charges). I highly recommend getting the tickets as soon as possible because the venue is fairly small and his shows often sell out.  I hope to see you there! Invite your friends!

If you don't know about Jon Brion, I encourage you to read this very recent (4/21/09) interview with him from LAist.com.  There is also a great L.A. Times article about Largo and its move to the historic Coronet Theater last year. 

Finally, here's a clip of Jon Brion playing from the Largo film released in 2008:

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WHAT: Uptown Underground: OC
WHERE: Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa
WHEN: Saturday, October 11 at 10:00 p.m. to midnight
COST: Cost of admission is FREE! For information regarding parking, please click here.

Join KCRW DJ Jason Bentley for an evening of art, music and dancing under the stars at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. From KCRW: "Bentley will offer up a mix of urban beats and hypnotic rhythms in a live DJ set that will serve as the soundtrack to David Michalek's outdoor art installation Slow Dancing--larger-than-life, hyper-slow-motion video portraits of famous dancers from around the world that will be projected onto the east facade of the Center's Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall above the community plaza." Dancers depicted in the art installation include modern and ballet artists, krump artist Lil C, Bill T Jones and many others. A big thanks to Donna Gulnac for the head's up on this event! [Info source]

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WHAT: Voyage to the Bottom of Sunday
WHERE: The Groundlings Theatre, 7307 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, (323) 934-4747
WHEN: Sunday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission is $15.00.

Join today's up-and-coming sketch comedians for an evening of laughs as they improve their way through a sea voyaged-themed skit. Directed by Mikey Day. [Info source]

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WHAT: TarFest Art Show
WHERE: Korean Cultural Center, 5505 Wilshire Blvd., (323) 936-7141
WHEN: Friday, October 3 at 6:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission to opening reception is FREE!

Held every year since 2003, TarFest is an annual festival of emerging film, music and art held at the La Brea Tar Pits and the surrounding Museum Row in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles. Kicking off this year's TarFest is the TarFest Art Show, which features 45 pieces by 38 artists selected by Howard Fox of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. TarFest continues through the weekend with film and music festivals on Saturday, October 4 and a one-mile run on Sunday, October 5. [Info source]

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WHAT: 10th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival
WHERE: Various venues along Colorado Blvd., (323) 254-5295
WHEN: Saturday, October 4, 5:00 p.m. to midnight
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!

If you don't want to spend $40 to attend the Detour Music Festival this weekend, check out this year's Eagle Rock Music Festival for FREE! ERMF will feature 50 local bands with appeal to lovers of indie-rock, world-music, folk, punk, and experimental music. Some of the highlights include Earlimart, Abe Vigoda, Crystal Antlers, and Radar Bros. A festival map and schedule may be viewed here. [Info source]

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WHAT: Fowler in Focus: Ancient Ceramics from Colombia and Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos / Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown: Landscape of Mexican Migration
WHERE: UCLA, Fowler Museum
WHEN: Both exhibitions open this Sunday, October 5; Museum will be open from noon to 5:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!

This weekend brings the opening of two new exhibitions at the Fowler Museum. "Fowler in Focus: Ancient Ceramics from Colombia" features more than 40 examples of ancient ceramic works of the peoples of Colombia. The works in this collection are from the Muñoz Kramer collection and are meant to foster study into the origins and development of the indigenous societies of lower Central and upper South America between B.C.E. 500 to C.E. 1500. [Info source] "Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos / Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown: Landscape of Mexican Migration" considers Mexican migration into the United States as seen through Chicano/Mexican visual arts. Works in this bilingual exhibition include paintings, works on paper, photographs, video and installations. The title phrase of the exhibition--"Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos"--is taken from a popular dicho or saying in Mexico and in Chicano/Mexican communities in the U.S., which refers to the superficial judgments made about people solely based on appearances. [Info source]

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WHAT: Powell Library Concerts in the Rotunda: Featuring Spanish Guitarist Francesc de Paula Soler
WHERE: UCLA, Powell Library Rotunda
WHEN: Friday, September 26 at 8:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!

Kicking off the first concert in this year's Powell Library Concerts in the Rotunda series is Francesc de Paula Soler. Recognized as an innovative performer, Soler is known as the "Poet of the Guitar." His performance will be divided into two parts: the first will feature representative composers of Spain and Latin America, and the second will feature the works of contemporary guitarists, including Soler. [Info source]

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WHAT: Honoring the Sea
WHERE: Santa Monica Beach, at the end of Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica
WHEN: Sunday, September 28 at 3:00 p.m. until sundown
COST: Cost of admission is FREE! Read info about parking here

Hundreds of artists will gather at the Santa Monica Beach to celebrate the close of this season's World Festival of Sacred Music and to "honor nature at the meeting place of the sky, land and sea." Three hundred artists will present sacred traditions from seven lineages of world cultures. From the World Festival of Sacred Music: "The opening procession will resound with the festive sounds of the brass Banda Juvenil Solaga from Oaxaca and the Pasadena Scottish Pipes and Drums ensemble. One hundred dancers led by Keali’i Ceballos and Sissy Kaio will chant and dance on the sands in reverence of Kanaloa, the Hawaiian deity of the ocean.  Swing Brazil welcomes their guests Viver Brasil, Capoeira Batuque, Seara de Caridade do Cabolo Tupinamba and the Elders of the Diaspora and will lead us in celebration of Yemanja, the Afro-Brazilian sea goddess. Drummers and dancers from Burkina Faso led by Olivier Tarpaga and DAFRA will pay homage to the Yuroba Orisha. Playing a central role is Cindi Alvitre and Ti’at Society. The traditional canoe of the Tongva, will be paddled beyond the breakwaters, carrying the offerings to the sea and sacred blessings to the four corners of the Earth, guided by energy of the Agape Choir and the rhythms of Remo Drum Circle facilitated by Christine Stevens." Organizers suggest that audience members wear white, bring flowers and a sweater. [Info source]

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WHAT: Fowler in Focus: Ceramics of Papua New Guinea
WHERE: UCLA, Fowler Museum
WHEN: Exhibition closes this Sunday, September 28; Museum will be open from noon to 5:00 p.m.
COST: Cost of admission is FREE!

This weekend brings the closing of a wonderful exhibition at the Fowler Museum featuring the ceramic works of the diverse peoples of Papua New Guinea. New Guinea ceramists gather clay in the hills or swamps surrounding their villages and form it into wares that range from superbly functional cooking and storage pots to highly esoteric sacred figures. In “Fowler in Focus: Ceramics of Papua New Guinea,” visitors can see more than thirty fine examples from the Fowler collection, including bowls used for food preparation and serving, incised ceremonial vessels, figurative ceramics, and ornaments for the gables of houses. [Info source]

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WHAT: Mare Serenitatis (Sea of Serenity)
WHERE: Aratani/Japan America Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, (213) 628-2725
WHEN: Friday, September 19 at 8:00 p.m.
COST: $20 for students / $25 general admission [Ticket info]

A program of the UCLA World Festival of Sacred Music, Mare Serenitatis is a performance in 3 movements, blending traditional rites from Japan with classical and contemporary Western influences. Conceived by artist and zen archer Hirokazu Kosaka, Mare Serenitatis features choreographer and Japanese Butoh dancer Oguri, Japanese classical court music Gagaku and dance Bugaku, and Zen Archers. Reaching back to the primal sounds of man and the hunt, the evening begins when a Zen Archer shoots an arrow over the distance of the stage, instantly purifying the space. Migrating across a desert, the post-war influenced Butoh dancer breathes life into the newly purified space. For one small instant the search stops and the present prevails before moving on in the journey again. The evening ends with a large 12-million candlelight Searchlight stretching its horizontal beam across the sky, illuminating the journey’s path while a lone-archer releases his arrow into the darkness of the night. [Info source]

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WHAT: Amanda Ross-Ho: Half of What I Say Is Meaningless
WHERE: Cherry and Martin Gallery, 12611 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, (310) 398-7404
WHEN: Opens Saturday, September 20 at 6:00 p.m.; ongoing on Wednesday - Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. through November 1
COST: FREE!

Demonstrating an ongoing interest in locating understanding through inversion, Amanda Ross-Ho’s second exhibition at Cherry and Martin finds her recontextualing images and objects with intimate—rather than generic—origins. Ross-Ho’s careful mediation suggests the possible universality of the personal. Her objects display both individual qualities and 'sibling' identities, playing on traits of familial exchange and proximal relativity. [Info source]

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WHAT: Remembering Dini Ostrov: A Special Screening of His Girl Friday
WHERE: James Bridges Theatre, Melnitz Bldg., UCLA Campus (near Lot 3), (310) 206-FILM
WHEN: Saturday, September 20 at 7:30 p.m.
COST: $10.00 [Ticket info]

This hilarious comedy stars Cary Grant as a crafty newspaper editor hell-bent on keeping his ace reporter and ex-wife, Hildy (Rosalind Russell), from settling down with a pitifully dull businessman (Ralph Bellamy) by convincing her to cover the imminent execution of a convicted murderer. Hawks' ingenious use of overlapping dialogue accelerates the film's already break-neck clip and epitomizes the verve of Hollywood's Screwball Era. A reception honoring Dini Ostrov will follow. [Info source]

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FOR THE KIDS: Family Day: Sculpting with Scissors
WHERE: Norton Simon Museum of Art, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, (626) 449-6840
WHEN: Saturday, September 20 at 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
COST: FREE for students and children

See how modern artists boldly use color in paintings, and then express your artistic abilities as you construct colorful collages with cut paper. Recommended for children ages 4 through 10. [Info source] For you adult kids, don't miss the Marcel Ducamp Redux exhibition, which shows through December 8.

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For those who are visiting the Law Library Blog for the first time, welcome! This post is the first of what I hope will be a weekly feature of fun things you can do in L.A. on the weekend for twenty bucks or less. Enjoy!

Need to release some steam this weekend? Check out the Berlin duo Modeselektor, who will be showcasing their unique blend of dubstep, French house, techno, hip-hop and humor at Avalon Hollywood this Saturday, Sept. 6 at 10:00 p.m. Tickets purchased in advance of the show start at $20.00. [Avalon Hollywood, 1735 Vine Street, Hollywood; (323) 462-8900]

If you're in the mood for something a bit less rowdy, check out this season's opening exhibitions at the Craig Krull Gallery, featuring the works of Dennis Hopper (yes, Easy Rider) and Wendy Burton. The exhibitions will run from Sept. 3 through Oct. 4, 2008. Admission is FREE! [Craig Krull Gallery, located in the Bergamot Station Art Center, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-3, Santa Monica; (310) 828-6410]

For those with kids, a day at the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park with Choo Choo Soul looks promising. As described on KCRW's event calendar, Choo Choo Soul "funks up children's music with hip infusions of beat-boxing and soul." Admission is FREE this Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. with open lawn seating. [Levitt Pavillion, MacArthur Park, 2230 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles; (213) 384-5701]

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