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Day: November 7, 2018
Tony Magistrale: Three Poems
Let Me Die Like a Dog In place of her usual five o’clock supper without any whining despite the pain surrounded by those she knew and loved her still, the perfect dog inhabiting a less-than-perfect body, her sixteen-year-old arthritic hips and legs gone inflexible as metal bars, placed her soft face one more time into …
Hung Up: On MOCA’s Show Stealers
Zoe Leonard goes on view for her first retrospective in an American museum (MOCA Geffen Contemporary), Rosa Loy opens at Kohn Gallery, and Julie Orser closes down JAUS’ brick and mortar for their final exhibition: with over 20 local show openings, here’s the art in LA to get hung up on this week… Less than …
Paying the Price of Admission
With a title like Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living, you can pretty much tell that the play that just opened at The Fountain Theatre is going to be about that living’s high cost. Less predictable is just how high that cost can be — or might go — for some people. And although money plays a …
Bach Studies with Aïden Carberry
LA raised choreographer and dancer Aïden Carberry (schooled at LACHSA and currently part of the inaugural class at The USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance) is both dancer and dance maker in the beautiful NOWNESS short directed by Benjamin Millipied, Bach Studies with Aïden Carberry. It opens on the young man seated at a small …
Mick Jenkins, Pieces of a Man
Seconds in, clapping arrives. At first listen “Heron Flow” reminds me of Mos Def’s Black on Both Sides. More specifically it reminds me of the track “Love” off Black on Both Sides. “Heron Flow” featuring Julian Bell is the opening track/skit of Chicago lyricist Mick Jenkins’ sophomore album titled Pieces of a Man. The vibe …
They Write by Night
A Man, a Woman, a Gun . . . and a Bridge You are a fan of film noir, those cheaply made but strikingly photographed black and white crime movies of the 40s and 50s, movies like Double Indemnity, or Out of the Past, or Gun Crazy that featured characters that seemed born criminals but also regular folks who, in …
Dancing Back to Move Things Forward
Real time dancemaking in West L.A., filtered dance downtown, reverence and revelry in East L.A., Russian ballet with a Spanish knight errant in Costa Mesa, dancing that gives back in Lincoln Heights, joy and justice through urban Latin dance in Long Beach, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Watch out for that windmill The …