Final performance: The Mill
Mutineer Theatre Company – Atwater Village, CA
Halloween Day

If you’re just waking up from your Saturday night revelries and feeling you should do something good for all the baaaaad you may not even remember doing last night, checking out THE MILL this afternoon at 3p should do just the trick.

Presented by the local nonprofit Mutineer Theatre Company, THE MILL is the live stage adaptation of James Richter’s audio play. The whole production is a tight, taut hour of suspenseful fun: with its suggestive audio elements, played against the Atwater Playhouse’s minimalistic set and crowned with performances uncommonly, persuasively good (Levi Petree’s the consummate raconteur), THE MILL is a treat, guaranteed. At a mere $5 and change, it’ll be the best time, and money, spent this Halloween season… and you won’t have a nasty hangover to nurse. →

In-store appearance: STAN LEE
Every Picture Tells A Story – Santa Monica, CA
11/7/10

Creator of an entire comic book canon, Stan Lee will make an appearance at Santa Monica’s Every Picture Tells A Story, which for 21 years has celebrated art, literature and entertainment as a gallery and bookstore. Since its beginnings in 1989, Every Picture Tells A Story has represented the best in illustration art, featuring a stellar roster including Maurice Sendak, Marvel Comics, Hilary Knight, Garth Williams, the Bros. Hildebrandt, Eric Carle and Dr. Seuss.

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My Dog Tulip
Nuart Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
10/21/10

Author J.R. Ackerley found the love of his life in the erratic and beautiful Alsatian bitch Tulip, with whom he had a 14-year relationship that was in turn both tender and strained. This “animated movie for adults” is the first film to be drawn entirely by hand with paperless computer technology. Featuring the voices of Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini, the film renders the acclaimed memoir by Ackerley in startling and poignant detail. My Dog Tulip plays at the Nuart Theatre from Oct. 21 to Oct. 28.

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In May of 2011, the Whitney Museum of American Art will host a solo exhibition for Cory Arcangel, the Brooklyn-based digital artist. Arcangel, best known for his motion graphics, video and installation work, will serve as a host for this year’s Whitney Studio Party on October 26.

In celebration of his upcoming exhibition, Cory has created 8½” x 11” prints entitled “HP Photosmart C3180 All-In-One Test (Forward and Back Again).” The first 50 Artist Sponsor ($500) ticket buyers at the Whitney’s annual Studio Party will be gifted these limited edition signed and numbered works. →

Stones Throw and Anika Records’ new artist Anika had a career in political journalism before meeting Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and bonding over their shared appreciation of punk, dub and sixties girl bands. At 23 years old, she is releasing a self-titled debut recorded with Barrow and friends over 12 days in Bristol. Her music blends post-punk cool with dub rhythms drenched in reverb, although country, folk and experimental rock also make up the layers of influences on the young singer’s sound. Check out Anika’s video for her cover of Yoko Ono’s “Yang Yang.”

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Philips and O’Neill have recently collaborated on a headphone project entitled The Stretch.  Now we at Evil Monito do receive our fair share of product flow but it isn’t always when the product actually performs up to our standards. We’ve been using these headphones for the last few weeks and the verdict is in, we not only enjoyed the sound quality of these headphones, we were particularly impressed with just how comfortable these headphones felt. With regard to the recent resurgence of celebrity endorsed headphones and new brand headphones, it’s rare when a pair of headphones deliver

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SENA  is a contemporary women’s line developed and produced in the heart of the Garment District in New York City.

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The Exquisite Book project is based on the Surrealist game called the Exquisite Corpse. The book is a modified version of the game, played by one hundred contributing contemporary fine artists, illustrators, designers and comic artists.

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VTech is proud to premier the first official music video off Bilal’s new CD, Airtight’s Revenge (Plug Research), directed and edited by Michael Sterling Eaton.

http://music.vtechphones.com/2010/10/music-video-premiere-bilals-restart/ →

In his short life, Jean-Michel Basquiat was an international superstar in the art scene and pop-culture, creating thousands of paintings, dating Madonna, befriending and collaborating with Andy Warhol, walking on the runway for Comme des Garcons, and appearing in a Debbie Harry video. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public at large, Basquiat was an international star. →