Mia Doi Todd, Mauricio Tanaka + Friends
Bootleg Theater – Silverlake, CA
3/21/10

The winsome singer/songwriter, Mia Doi Todd blazes a strong trail of self-assured folk with her latest album GEA.  Now the L.A.-based musician will be playing with the amazing Mauricio Takara and friends from Sao Paulo, Brazil and the Rebekah Raff Harp Ensemble!  They’ll be playing the Bootleg located in the Silverlake/Downtown LA region.  Please check it out if you’re in the neighborhood! →

SOUL IN THE PARK
Footsie’s Bar – Highland Park, CA
3/24/10

Join Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Todd Simon next Wednesday for an evening of warm energy with two of LA’s most gifted and humble musical giants.  Hear them in a setting as they spread love through their jazz influences and favorite afro-latin selections from Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Colombia, and much more. →

ODDSAC is a film collaboration between Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez. Starring the band members, the film layers audio and visual elements without a narrative, creating what looks to be a tripped-out and immersive form of spectacle. →

“WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD” Photographic Exhibition
Annenberg Space for Photography – Los Angeles, CA
3/27 to 6/13/10

People accurately surmised that many of the modern-day conflicts would take place over oil.  However, few really speculate on the likelihood of future world wars being fought over fresh water.  A limited resource that Californians generally take for granted as the drought periods lengthen in the stolid face of global warming.  “WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD” is an exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography, organized in partnership with National Geographic Magazine. →

Chuck Palahniuk’s Book Release
Largo – Los Angeles, CA
05/18/10

The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; →

Lola
Corey Helford Gallery-Culver City, CA
03/27-04/14

This March Los Angeles artist Lola unveils her magic at Corey Helford Gallery with a new collection of works entitled ” Ipsum Factum.” Lola’s second solo exhibition at the gallery is her most highly anticipated to date. →

A new film from Melissa Auf Der Maur!
Cinefamily Theater- Los Angeles, CA
04/01/10

Out Of Our Mindsis the bloody, brash and berserk new brainchild of Melissa Auf der Maur, member of both Hole and Smashing Pumpkins! This half-hour short film, a companion piece to her second solo album of the same name, covers three time periods, all connected by a single mythological quest: the Hunt for the Heart.

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Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY
3/25/10

Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. →

Big City Forum #13
Honor Fraser Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
3/20/10

Big City Forum invites you to a conversation with poets, writers, and seers about literal vs. metaphoric space, inscape/landscape, the visible/invisible world, liminality — “betwixt and between” — & proximity in motion… →

The “Socalled” Movie Premiere
Maggie Mae’s – Austin, TX
3/16/10

Meet Socalled (Josh Dolgin). He’s unstoppable. A pianist, singer, arranger, rapper, producer and composer (and also a magician, filmmaker, and visual artist), he’s blasting through the boundaries that separate music from different cultures, eras, and generations. →