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06 Letters. Man, I have been crying all day. 06 Old News. Just sobbing, like a little girl. 07 Wonkette’s Weekette. George Freaking Bush just made me cry, I am not kidding, talking about the “president-elect” and Mrs.

Obama and their “beautiful daughters” coming to the White House. 08 Desert Rattler. I think I might cry right now, again. Condoleezza Rice cried too. I saw her. Crying and smiling at the same time. She could not wipe that grin off her face, like a crazy crying smile lady. Oh, Ken Layne wrote Desert Rattler. It’s about some mean lady beating her dog. 10 Q, Rated. Hey, here’s something by Marc B. Haefele about that school bond. It passed. Prop. 8 did too. We don’t have a story about that. 11 Action of the Week! Also, sometimes people live in refugee camps, like in What Is the What. That is sad.

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12 Truth, Justice, and the New American Way. Mick Farren puts on his history professor hat (it’s a sort of jaunty beret) and tells

President-Elect Barack Obama what he has to do now. Maybe this is kind of presumptuous? Maybe President-Elect Barack Obama has it all under control, thanks, it’s cool?

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18 Eat. Richard Foss fits just right in West L.A.’s Nook. Plus something about pumpkin wine coolers – gross! – in Bites.

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Shoppiness. Kim Lachance read the news today, oh boy. IT WAS VERY GOOD NEWS! Except for all the newsstands, or newspapers, or whatever. They’re sort of in trouble. Psycho Sudoku and Jonesin’ Crossword. Matt Gaffney made you these very nice puzzles. It was nice of him. It is a day for giving. The Advice Goddess. Amy Alkon is a giver too, a giver of advice! She is always telling people what to do! Real Astrology. Is it the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, like my mom sang on the phone last night? Hmmm, Brezsny doesn’t say.

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22 Seven Days. Ron Garmon and company plan your every move. 23 Film. Andy Klein on Bernie Mac’s last, Soul Men, and on two small but charming pictures, Loins of Punjab Presents and Captain Abu Raed. 29 Third Degree. Gabrielle Paluch has a swingin’ little convo with Naomi Harris, who takes pictures of group sex. 30 33 34

Music. Ron Garmon smells that Smell. Paluch talks pleasure, bands, with the Pleasure Circus Band. Joshua Sindell plots your course, in NightBeat. Nathan Solis on cheap shows, in Fanboy. Garmon cruises to the coronation of the King of Hancock Park, in Clubland. And your week in new releases, in Merch. Stage. Don Shirley says it’s springtime, pre-Hitler, in Spring Awakening. Also, says “ehhhhh” for Happy Days. Classical. Donna Perlmutter has been calling me on the phone to worry about the election for months now. Also, she went and saw Myth, the Jose Limon Dance Company, and the newest Twyla Tharp, all in a week. Best week ever? Maybe so. And Paluch gives you your month in classical and dance, in Steps.

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“I am sure that La Raza and the open borders crowd will get quite a thrill from your story” Our Lady of the Winnebago It is truly unfortunate that people such as yourself choose to write stories like this [Nathaniel Page’s “Weekend with the Warriors,” Oct. 23]. It is obvious that you arrived at Camp Vigilance with a prior agenda. That agenda of course was to paint a picture of the Minutemen as a group of foolish malcontents full of conspiracy theories and prejudices based on race. Unfortunately a good deal of what you say in your story is based on hearsay and lies. I am the old fart with attitude you spoke of. An example of hearsay is the comments you wrote about Lil Dog. He never emptied a clip across the border, there was never an ATF investigation, and he was not kicked off the land as you have said. The Mountain Minutemen have never used war paint and never stood on top of pickup trucks pointing rifles into Mexico. I don’t know how true the rest of your story is because I was not there. I was busy rebuilding an old Winnebago which is NOT called Godzilla. It is called an old motor home. The name Godzilla is reserved for an old delapidated Suburban that has been on the border with various Minuteman groups for over three years. Too bad you didn’t bother to verify BEFORE you wrote the story. This story should be required reading in Journalism 101 as a fine example of yellow journalism and how NOT to write a story. It is unfortunate that you did not choose to write about the Minuteman who was presented a certificate of appreciation by the Border Patrol for his work. Or about the good that Minuteman groups do by saving lives of people who are left to die in the mountains and desert. Or about the first aid, food and water given to illegals. Or about how Minutemen have been attacked by drug runners and illegals. Too bad you didn’t write about how most Border Patrol agents appreciate the Minutemen and are actually glad to have the help and thank the Minutemen for what they do. Too bad you didn’t bother to mention the fact that while many Minutemen have been attacked, in three years and 2,000 miles of border there is NOT ONE verifiable report of a Minuteman attacking an illegal entrant. Too bad you didn’t write about the landowners near the border who constantly have their fences cut, homes and outbuildings broken into or destroyed by drug runners trying to evade Border Patrol agents. Too bad you didn’t bother to write about the

FACTS of what illegal immigration is doing to U.S. schools, hospitals and American sovereignty. Yes, Mr. Page, you have done what you set out to do and I am sure that La Raza and the open borders crowd will get quite a thrill from your story. However, I consider your story an undignified assault on patriots who consistently put their very lives on the line in order to protect your rights and the sovereignty of our nation. –Dick Via lacitybeat.com What is this Dribble??? You call THAT Journalism?? I call it Agenda Driven TRASH, Mr. Page!! TRAITOR!!! These people put it ALL on the line each time they go out there. Why are there a lot of older people out there Mr. Page?? Because PEOPLE LIKE YOU (I use the term PEOPLE loosely when referring to you Mr. Page) can’t be bothered to WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES!!! Do you ALSO get a quiver up your Leg when Obama speaks, Mr. Page?? Prolly do!! –ArizonaPatriot Via lacitybeat.com I was down at Campo this past weekend looking at what us “rednecks” and “geriatrics” fumbling around down at the border ALL accomplished by just being there the past three years. The Border Fence is being built. This country owes a big thank you to all of the MM groups Doing What Our Government Won’t Do, at least until now. –ACampoMM Via lacitybeat.com

By Steve Lowery

Monday, October 27 Um, Iraq? Anyone? Tuesday, October 28 We’ve heard a lot over the past five years about violent crime being down in Los Angeles. A lot of people have credited the arrival of LAPD Police Chief William Bratton, while others have cited more cops on the streets and fewer criminals with that “can-do” attitude. Whatever, the point is, there could be even less violent crime if police could actually go about the business of finding and prosecuting more criminals. What’s stopping them? Well, today the Los Angeles City Council is considering a plan to get more money to the LAPD to fund the hiring of more DNA analysts and support staff to examine a backlog of unexamined DNA related to violent crimes. How much of a backlog are we talking about? Try 7,000 cases. Of those, the most pressing are the more than 500 cases of sexual assault and homicide in which detectives have requested DNA analysis but are still waiting for results because of the LAPD crime lab’s limited resources and staff. So the council is considering giving the LAPD $700,000. That may seem like a lot just to hire 16 more DNA analysts but, remember, they also have to buy all that cool mood lighting and Plexiglas dry marker boards and those razors that just leave cool-looking stubble on the analysts’ face. Also, lasers! Now, the LAPD is not a total victim here. Turns out the department could have easily gotten a half-million dollars from a federal earmark designated specifically for DNA analysis but someone forgot to send that in. And, in fact, the $700,000 is really only a bandage on the wound. Fact is the department needs about another $900,000 to meet its goal of clearing 2,500 older cases this year. It also needs $4.2 million over the next few years to fill more analyst positions and keep up contracts with outside labs. Police are looking to the community for help. In light of the shortage in resources, they’ve asked all thugs, toughs and ne’er-do-wells to consider, “Is this murder really necessary?” Wednesday, October 29 In what has progressively become one of the strangest, most-chilling, and stupidest presidential campaigns of all time, a Redondo Beach woman named Lisa Castaneda puts up a Halloween display which includes the effigy of Barack Obama hanging by its neck with a meat cleaver stuck in it and blood spattered on its gray suit. Ladies and gentlemen, American political discourse! This comes the same day a likeness of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, also

I have personally met these specific Minutemen, and though I was not present for this event, I believe the contents of the article to be factual. I live in the area and have kicked them off my land in the middle of the night before. The illegals are bad enough, but the Minutemen are worse. Most residents and Border Patrol seem to agree. The only people claiming they are worth a damn are the Minutemen themselves. I’ve even heard these guys take credit for the new border fence going up where I live in Jacumba. It’s being built by Sundt Co., not the Minutemen. –JMAN Via lacitybeat.com Send letters to editor@lacitybeat.com or do it up old school: Letters to the Editor, LA CITYBEAT, 5209 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036.

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hanging by its neck, is taken down in West Hollywood, causing some to say the Redondo Beach display was a case of titfor-tat and thereby raising the question: What is tat and where can I get some?

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Thursday, October 30 Afghanistan? Nothing?

Saturday, November 1 Happy Day of the Dead! And speaking of the dead, how about those newspapers? Over the past few days we’ve had the L.A. Times lay off another 75 people, continuing the newspaper company’s desperate drive to not be a newspaper company. This week’s carnage includes the Christian Science Monitor, which announced it will no longer publish a daily paper, and The Orange County Register, which laid off 110 people yesterday. But, it seems the L.A. Times is always getting the worst of it. The most recent cuts mean that the editorial staff is now in the 600s as opposed to the 1,200s it had when the paper was bought by the Tribune Company. What’s more, well, less, is that a memo has been circulated that confirms that the Times will lose its exceptional Washington bureau. The Times bureau will be folded into a single Tribune Company bureau serving all the papers, which is to say, serving no one. But this is the way animated sea sprite and Tribune owner Sam Zell – who, it was reported, gave $40,000 to the McCain campaign – wants it. Don’t mess with Papa Smurf. Sunday, November 2 Not fair. You already know how it all turns out.✶

WEEKETTE! Monday Race War Plan: Murder 102 Random Black People and Die Trying to Kill Obama But what do the psychotic racists do when they get home from Sarah Palin klan rallies? They plot a race war, which starts with the robbery of a gun store, and then a massacre at a school in a black neighborhood in Tennessee, where 88 black people would be shot to death, and 14 would be decapitated. “The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community,” the Associated Press says. Uh, sure. After the school massacre, the race warriors would go on a “national killing spree,” according to the ATF’s Jim Cavanaugh in Nashville, which would end in a failed attempt to assassinate Barack Obama. Really, the failed attempt was part of the plan. “They said that would be their last, final act — that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama,” Cavanaugh said. “They didn’t believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying.” Okay, enough fun for now. Your Wonkette editor is going to visit the gun shop again. –Ken Layne Sarah Palin Fan Has Cute Nickname for Barack Obama Well, we’ve come to this moment finally, my friends, where an attendee of a Sarah Palin rally shouts that Obama is a “nigger.” We found the video on the Daily Kos so of course the video maker decides to flash the word “NIGGER” several million times, in case you miss it. Sarah Palin clearly hears it and hesitates and ultimately decides to ignore it, being such a class act and all. Maybe she thought the person said “jigger,” a common bartending instrument? Or, to presage our conservative friends, maybe this person was an Obama plant? Or maybe Sarah Palin just heard someone call Barack Obama a “nigger” and decided to keep talking. –Jim Newell Tuesday Reporter Tells Epic Tale of How She Has LIMITED PRESS ACCESS to Walnuts My friends, this election is not what you think it is. It is not about choosing between two candidates (AND RON PAUL WRITE-IN 4 LBRTY) for the next president. Ha! This election has always been about something more fundamentally innate to the American ethos: how easily newspaper reporters can get access to John McCain on his bus or plane between stops. And in today’s Los Angeles Times, one reporter examines her world-historical role in this tragic Sophoclean drama about the will of the Human against the cultural and political and naturalistic forces of the Gods, who sometimes go a whole week without giving a quickie press avail. If this is navel-gazing, then GAZE WE WILL into the NAVEL OF DARKNESS. Reporters are the only people in the world who understand, as of now, that this entire election is about them and the obstacles they have to overcome in order to get juicy quotes for their nut grafs. And so John McCain was, until this summer, easily the most important person in the

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Friday, October 31 Redondo Beach’s Lisa Castaneda, who said she would never take down her display of a murdered Barack Obama, takes it down after meeting with a local McCain campaign worker. People are still debating which is worse – a hanging woman or a hanging black man – which pretty much tells you where we are politically. But since we’re there, let me just say that there’s a lot more historical baggage that goes along with a hanging black man, especially in a political climate where angry McCain supporters have been shouting things like “Kill him” and “Off with his head.” Castaneda maintains that the display was all in good fun but then adds she is “appalled by [Obama] who is so close to being our president who won’t put his hand on the Bible.” Of course, there is not one instance of Obama refusing to put his hand on a Bible. If there were, don’t you think the McCain campaign, currently desperately trying to dig up dirt on anyone he shared a juice box with in grade school, would have played that up? Then she says, “My intention is really a statement on how I am obviously for McCain.” And isn’t that really where we’re at in America: My guy is great, yours is worse than Hitler? Finally, she tries to make light of the situation, saying there was “nothing mean-spirited by any means” in the display. Also: Those ladies last week with the fried-chicken Obama welfare bucks? Nothing racist! By any means!

WEEKETTE! world, forever, for chatting the fourth estate up in his fancy bus salon for several hours a day. Surely you all can relate to this reporter’s warm experiences in those halcyon days on a very personal level: By July, I had covered McCain for almost seven months. I could recite many lines of his stump speech by heart, dreamed about his events at night and spent so much time scrolling through campaign e-mails on my BlackBerry that my fiance joked to our friends about the other man in my life. Over those months, McCain had artfully created a sense of intimacy with the reporters who traveled with him. He barbecued for us at his Arizona cabin, and opened up about matters as personal as his faith and his son’s girlfriends. On one of my first days covering McCain, another reporter protectively warned me that it was important to be judicious with the material I used from McCain’s bus rides to keep the conversations in context. Although the relationship was mutually beneficial, McCain offered accessibility and openness that was rare, if not unprecedented, in modern presidential politics. Now, as the presidential campaign plunges into its final days, that intimacy — real or imagined — has evaporated. This “accessibility and openness” is the key to why McCain was such an honest hero of wars. By offering such rare and unlimited access to reporters, reporters were able to pass on loads of important issue-related information to a discriminating American electorate — chiefly, how tangy John McCain’s homemade ribs are and whether McCain’s son will keep hooking up with this new girl he met, probably “Katie,” or get back together with his ex, even if it has to be a long-distance/weekends thing because she is still in college. Imagine deciding your vote without taking this information into account — you’d feel pretty stupid! Among other significant things the very accessible John McCain told this reporter was where she should consider taking her honeymoon. Where the best deals were. BUT THEN THE VERY SAD DENOUEMENT OF COURSE: Later that summer, the frequency of McCain’s news conferences dwindled to late-afternoon, end-of-the-week affairs where he began calling more often on reporters he didn’t know. We now watched from afar at most events — listening for the few sentences that would change each day in his stump speech. We would catch glimpses of him through the window of his SUV from five cars back in the motorcade or watch him get off the plane. At the height of vice presidential speculation, we rushed the staff cabin of the plane, frustrated that no one was around to address the rumors. “What do you want, you little jerks?” McCain said, using his former term of affection, before turning away. On a recent Sunday during a brief stop at a Virginia phone bank, I got unusually close to McCain in the line of people waiting to shake his hand. Tape recorder out and within a foot of him, I asked if he could talk about his new economic plan, which he was to unveil that week. The man who once asked me about my wedding date returned my gaze with a stare, shook the hand of the strangers to the right and left of me and continued out the door. Did McCain’s son decide to keep hooking up with Katie? We’ll never know. Consider. –JN

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Electioneering By Ken layne

GRIM PHOTO BY KEN LAYNE

t’s the Sunday before Election Day, and I’m driving slow through a housing tract in Adelanto, a grim creosote flatland known for its collection of prisons if it’s known for anything. This is the northern frontier of Southern California subprime stucco sprawl, and it’s astounding how many of these 2006-vintage houses are vacant. Some are boarded up, plywood sheets over busted windows. Some are trashed, with cheap broken furnishings dumped around the lot along with ripped-out sinks and shower doors. One looks as if a semitruck drove through the closed garage door – or, more likely, a U-Haul van slammed into it, by accident, driven by ruined people making a hasty retreat. Whoops. But the evidence for most of the foreclosures is banal. Dead lawns. A court notice taped to the front door. Garbage cans stuffed yet never hauled out to the curb. This street, it’s not a spectacular example of the collapse noted by the papers or network news. It’s just a development that caught my eye one afternoon, driving down Palmdale Road, because so much plywood is visible over the graffiti-covered concrete-block wall surrounding the tract. But there is some human activity: A few guys in yellow shirts are canvassing the empty block, for Proposition 8, that anti-homosexual measure of such concern out here. Because there are four or five vacant houses between the occupied ones, a driver stops when he notices signs of life, and the two yellowshirts hop out and knock on doors. I get back on the main road, maddened by this idiocy, and turn into a strip mall parking lot, thinking I need

coffee. But the mall is a tragedy, clumps of desert gangbangers and beggars standing pointlessly around the Rite Aid, huge pickups hauling huge trailers full of off-road buggies hogging the spaces around the fast-food cubes, and a sad-looking stray dog dodging between cars. With no collar and no hope, it looks like a tan-colored version of my own dog, when he was dumped at the end of a desert road years ago. Weary of humanity, tired of politics, numb from the noise of a two-year campaign and all the screeching proletariat, I turn off the radio and drive down unknown roads. Eastward, up, away. There are still secrets to be found out here, if you drive far enough and then abandon the car and walk. On the other side of Sycamore Rocks, at the top of Apple Valley’s semi-rural gridlock, I find a paved road that seems to end within a little mountain range I’ve never explored. No signs of houses up there, or anything, really. Just a railroad track alongside the asphalt. Things are looking promising – there are no off-roaders out here, no piles of discarded tires and construction rubbish. I’ve wandered into secret wildlife refuges that appear on no standard maps, their very existence unspoken to prevent some ambitious redneck from emptying his guns into a herd of bighorn. Maybe this is such a place. The road winds through the foothills, Joshua trees appear with the elevation gain, and I crest the hill to see ... a gravel mine at the end of the road, the massive metal contraption sitting in a bowl carved out of the mountainside. So much for that. Not every random drive around the desert ends with adventure. I turn on

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the radio and wonder where I might, finally, get that coffee. John McCain is on the satellite radio, barking at some people in New Hampshire. Bruce Springsteen is playing a concert to a million people somewhere, but they’ve really come to hear the main act, the other presidential candidate. Sadly, I realize that same grim strip mall on the 395 is on the way home, too. I turn into the parking lot to get a cup of coffee. Two kids dart out and I stomp on the brakes. They’re chasing after a dog, that same sad-eyed brown hound. A little boy of about six, with jug ears and eyeglasses and freckles, and I guess his slightly older sister, with long flat hair and dirty pants. A teenaged girl in a Stater Bros. grocery apron is right behind them, trying to help. I roll down the window. “I’ve got a leash in here.” “We don’t have a collar,” the little girl says helplessly. “Hang on, I’ll get him,” I say, figuring I’ll loop the end of the leash around his neck. The boy staggers up to my window, suddenly sobbing so terribly that he has to repeat himself three times before I understand: “But our mom is way over there, at KFC!” I park and grab the leash and a Tupperware bowl of water I keep for my own dog. But a beat-up maroon minivan is suddenly behind me, brakes squealing, a huge red-faced woman already out, screaming at the poor beast. “GET IN THE CAR YOU STUPID GODDAMNED DOG! BAD DOG!” It shrinks and creeps to the open side door of the van, and she begins raining punches on its head. Nothing can save this country.✶

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Sarah Palin Now Hates Ted Stevensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guts, Too Sarah Palin took a HARD LINE against domestic terrorist Ted Stevens this afternoon after a wishy-washy first response, saying he â&#x20AC;&#x153;needs to step aside.â&#x20AC;? Take that, crook. Sarah Palin is playing a good hand here: Get this douche out of the way tonight, appoint herself to fill out the remainder of his term in the Senate, quit that on Friday morning, and then campaign through Tuesday as a former senator and governor a.k.a. the most qualified candidate on either ticket in the last quartercentury. â&#x20AC;&#x201C;JN WEDNESDAY Charlie Crist Ruins John McCainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chances in Florida by Letting People Vote We may mock Florida Governor Charlie Crist for his weird penchant for dating women, but it is all in good fun: He seems like a very nice fellow and a good sport. Most of the time! Except, say, when it comes to John McCain, whom he now clearly loathes. Consider: Charlie Crist endorsed John McCain for president so that John McCain could win the Florida Republican primary. Charlie Crist got engaged, out of love, and so that if he became John McCainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s VP and McCain died in office, President Crist would not be the first bachelor president since James Buchanan. Charlie Crist did all these nice things for John McCain, but now McCain is fucking up everything, so Charlie Crist has put a FORK IN HIM. He announced an extension of early voting hours in Florida, because high turnout was causing the usual confusions and awful waits and accusations of disenfranchisement. The Republican legislature had restricted them to eight hours a day on weekdays (so basically, if you have a job you cannot vote) and eight hours total on weekends (so the weekend lines are so interminably long you give up). Now polls will be open 12 hours a day on weekdays and 12 hours total this coming weekend! This is good for Democracy, but bad for Republicans. Ben Smith at Politico writes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;[Crist] just blew Florida for John McCain,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; one plugged in Florida Republican just told me.â&#x20AC;? We cannot wait to hear infuriated Republicansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; theories about why extended early voting hours are bad. Oh wait here we go! A commenter on the St. Petersburg Times: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The headline should read: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Crist gives ACORN more time to cheatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sara K. Smith Nicolle Wallace Will Not Be Thrown Under the Bus The Republican equivalent of being sent to the gulag is babysitting Sarah Palin, and this thankless task has fallen to former Bush staffer and current McCain employee Nicolle Wallace. What unspeakable sin did Wallace commit in order to be saddled with this terrible burden? Only History will tell. But for now she insists it is awesome to hang out with Sarah Palin all the time, and also she did not buy her all those clothes like Fred Barnes said she did. Everybody knows already that Jeff Larson is the human responsible for decorating Sarah Palin with a mountain of expensive European finery when all she wanted was to shuffle around in humble peasant garb forever. But for some reason â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sexism perhaps HMMM? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fred Barnes said on FOX News that Nicolle Wallace bought Sarah Palin all her clothes, which made her, Ms. Wallace,

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Why the LAUSD bond passed, and big By marc b. haefele

n the end, it was more about school bucks than school books. The folks who most actively backed Prop. Q – the $7 billion educational bond measure that passed Tuesday with almost 70 percent – were not the 45,000 teachers and the 700,000 pupils in the LAUSD. Sure, the district itself dropped 20 grand on Prop. Q “informational” materials. This was reported by the Times as undue influence, but didn’t matter a bit in the end. What was really at issue was voter confidence in the LAUSD itself. The passage means it’s

The results were a rare and widely proclaimed LAUSD success story. In the late ’90s, the much-maligned LAUSD was running year-round multi-tracked class schedules in 227 schools, seriously blunting teaching quality, such as it then was. Now the facilities, at least, are a lot better. All that handsome new school construction you see all over town has made the big difference, with lots of shiny new classrooms and about half as many year-round multi-track schools. As the LAUSD tells it:

of Nostradamus. These waffley fringes occasioned the Times’s and the Daily News’s editorial opposition. On the other hand, while there was a wellbankrolled “Yes on Q” organization, there was no corresponding “no” group. LAUSD’s long-serving hordes of angry critics seemed to be sitting this one out. Not all critics did. Now is a good time, if you are in the pundit biz, to talk tough about slashing public spending, particularly if you subscribe to the century-old economics dicta recently embraced so passionately by Sen. John

Roy Romer. There’s less accountability, as the Monday Times story about former Assistant Principal Steve Thomas Rooney suggests. After this alleged pistol-wielding child molester was transferred around the system instead of being fired, the only disclosed result was an orgy of fingerpointing. This is irresponsibility of the kind one associates with the LAUSD of the ’90s. To an uncertain extent, the voter approval of Q suggests that despite increasing problems, the recent eightyear era of voter confidence in the

somehow still there. The truly big spenders behind the proposition were actually the region’s biggest contractors and building-trade unions: They collectively socked in most of the $700,000 funding for Yes on Q, which was on your ballot if you lived in the 710-square-mile school district that includes Los Angeles, unincorporated East L.A., and eight entire L.A. County cities. There was a terrific reason for this support in the form of thousands of potential new construction jobs in a time and place where such jobs are getting scarce. The $7 billion will build, complete, or renovate hundreds of elementary, middle, and high schools in the 878-school LAUSD. If the idea sounds overfamiliar, that’s because this was the fifth multi-billion-dollar LAUSD bond measure proposed since 1997. Q’s better-publicized predecessors were BB, K, R, and Y. Their passage provided $19 billion in school construction funds.

“Since 2002, the District has completed 72 new K-12 schools and 30 early education centers and expansions, built 59 additions to existing schools, and added approximately 75,000 new K-12 classroom seats. There is progress being made at older schools too. More than 17,110 repair and upgrade projects and approximately 1,200 technology projects have been completed at schools throughout the District.” Not bad for starters. But there’re still 200,000 kids in temp classrooms, the average school is 45 years old, and the average class is still supersized. Also, those prior spending measures did nothing for the aspiring, burgeoning charter schools outside the LAUSD’s official Big Top, and they want help too. Enter Q. It is 70 pages in length and the detail on proposed spending seems infinite. But there are also long passages where it gets vague and speculative. Less like a hard business plan, you might say, and more like a prophecy

McCain. Otherwise you might, like the contractors and building trades unions, support the idea of $7 billion creating new jobs and thus trickling back into the increasingly parched local economy. On the other hand, servicing the bonded debt is to cost district homeowners an additional $60 per $100k in assessed valuations – something like an average extra $250 a year (in addition to the $123 per $100k already being assessed). That’s the kind of wealth redistribution many recessioning property owners might not be expected to embrace. Another possible negative was the fact that the LAUSD (which has had nearly $5 billion in assistance from the state in recent years) was taking a likely $440 million lop in anticipated state operating funding this year and might best concentrate on dealing with that rather than building more schools. Nor has Superintendent David Brewer III earned the public confidence inspired by his dynamic predecessor,

district’s self improvement may not yet have ebbed. What of the long fruitless war between Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the LAUSD? As we all know, despite certain campaign promises, the mayor still isn’t running the L.A. schools the way mayors do in Chicago and Washington DC. But he’s taken charge of a handful of bad schools and embedded his capable education sidekick, Ramon Cortines, as Brewer’s deputy. Now peace reigns between City Hall and the district, relatively speaking – yet even this comity somehow affected Q. The story goes that the district originally wanted just $4 billion in new bonds. The mayor’s polling found public support for $7 billion. Was this “what the public will bear” approach the right way to assess the actual need, in tough times, for a school spending package equaling roughly half the LAUSD’s entire $14 billion annual budget? Apparently it was.✶

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n October 16, Barack Obama joked, a bit haltingly, “I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the Planet Earth.” He was addressing the long-running and politically crucial Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City, where candidates in white tie put aside electioneering, and perform with dry, big-city wit. Little more than 48 hours later, full-color guerrilla art posters appeared on Melrose, Vermont, and other trendsetting Los Angeles avenues showing Obama as Superman, pumped like the Man of Steel, and decked in patriotic red, white, and blue. It’s a tall building to leap, with our nation and our world in just the place for which movement conservatives have been begging whilst twirling their mustachios like Snidely Whiplash. For years, conservative activist Grover

Norquist has been advocating running up debts and decifits so we would bankrupt ourselves, and hence be unable to provide for our common welfare. He called for his fellow travelers to “starve the beast” of government until it was “shrunk so small you could drown it in a bathtub.” After eight years of profligate wars and falsely low interest rates – maintaining the appearance of wealth, as people bled their illusory home equity dry – they have succeeded, and we are there. The luxury liner of consumerism has smacked into the iceberg. Sarah Palin can cry “socialism” and let slip the dogs of McCarthy – the Bush family still sneers about the “socialism” of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whom to this day they call “that man” – but Republicans have burned even their most flimsy credibility. And yet President-Elect Obama is just a man. Can he actually save a grateful nation?

‘Greed Is Good’ xactly one week after the Al Smith dinner, 82-year-old Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman and Ronald Reagan appointee who had once presided over the longest economic boom in history, faced the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to explain the economic crisis. Intensively questioned by relentless L.A. Democrat Henry Waxman, the former Fed chair admitted his faith in the self-correcting powers of the free market had been misplaced. “This crisis has turned out to be much broader than anything I could have imagined. […] Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief.” Later he would acknowledge that free-market economics had failed. “The whole intellectual edifice collapsed.” For the man who was once hailed as the “Maestro” to make a televised confession that it all went wrong means only one thing: It all went wrong. Since the Reagan Revolution in the early 1980s, we have trusted our fate to the mythic power of the market, and the

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good intentions of corporations. And the combination of the two – to put it crudely – screwed the pooch. The private sector has run its course. Gordon Gekko-style self-interest has brought us to the brink of disaster. The collapse of Greenspan’s “intellectual edifice” is also the collapse of the entire Reagan Revolution and all who sailed in it. The hard times facing the nation are complex, but their causes are simple. The private sector has not served the American people. For them to hold onto their homes, feed their families, and receive medical care has become an impossible challenge. The safety nets of the New Deal, which saved the country during the Great Depression but were so gleefully gutted by Reaganites, neocons, and Bill Clinton, must be revised and restored. No alternative to government intervention remains. Corporate America already knows this as it waits for handouts like a wino with a cardboard coffee cup. Let them demean “redistributionists” and a progressive tax code, and then let them gnash their teeth in the electoral wilderness for a long time to come. They wanted to prove government was the enemy, and so they gave us a FEMA that let a city drown. The time for modest

President-Elect Obama in leaps and bounds BY MICK FARREN readjustment is long past.

Those Who Forget History he first New Deal saved the nation in 1933. Through the Roaring Twenties, the Titanic of capitalism had also been greeddriven to the ice, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to office in barely the nick of time. The ship was sinking, the third class passengers had no lifeboats and were already drowning. That era’s “whole intellectual edifice” had collapsed on Wall Street’s Black Thursday (October 24, 1929). It became impossibly worse on the Black Monday and Black Tuesday that followed. And then a terminal, monthlong market panic ushered in the Great Depression. Paul Krugman – Princeton professor, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, and winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economic Science – described the inevitability of a downward and destructive economic spiral that will eventually dive to disaster as primarily psychological. “Bad news begets bad news, and the circle of pain just keeps getting wider,” he wrote, but Krugman was further moved to quote some classic lines of poetic despair. “Economic data

rarely inspire poetic thoughts. But as I was contemplating the latest set of numbers, I realized that I had William Butler Yeats running through my head: ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer / Things fall apart / the center cannot hold.’” In 1928, the president who failed to hold the center was one-term Republican Herbert Hoover. Hoover was a prime contender – until the advent of George W. Bush – for “worst president ever,” and his successor, Franklin Roosevelt, affirmed, “There is nothing inside the man but jelly!” The stock market was in a state of panic, financial institutions cruised close to insolvency, credit was paralyzed, an epidemic of foreclosure swept the country, and threats of business closures, corporate layoffs, and serious unemployment reared and resounded. In addition to this truckload of economic woes, FDR faced a peripheral catalog of problems created by the Volstead Act and alcohol prohibition that, in addition to causing social upheaval and a spreading disrespect for law and order, had already laid the foundations and provided the bath-tub gin capital for organized crime as we came to know it

through the rest of the 20th century. And, if all of the above wasn’t enough, a huge environmental disaster was brewing in the American heartland. A combination of prolonged drought and over-cultivation by ill-informed and inexperienced farmers had created what became known as the Dust Bowl. In Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas, topsoil turned to dust on a hundred million acres of what had previously been waving fields of grain, and was swirled into the sky by prevailing winds to form apocalyptic dust clouds. Some of these storms blew as far as New York and Washington DC, and dumped Kansas dirt into the Atlantic Ocean. The dust storms even deflected the jet stream, worsening the drought. The actual U.S. food supply was threatened, and thousands of families, the backbone of the still highly agricultural U.S. economy, were forced by the sheer need to survive onto two-lane poverty trails to California and Oregon. Dubbed “Okies” – and described in the novels of John Steinbeck and the songs of Woody Guthrie, and photographed by Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans – they quickly discovered, in insanitary migrant camps,

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picking fruit for starvation wages, that the West Coast was no Eden. The popular fallacy was that Hoover compounded the chaos following the 1929 Wall Street crash by blithely relying on the market to cure the malaise. Hoover feared federal intervention would encourage an unhealthy reliance on government, but, ultimately, he was forced to intervene. He raised taxes on corporations and the rich, attempted to persuade the banks to adopt voluntary self-regulation, and speeded up federal building projects, but this was too little, executed too late, although many of FDR’s staunchest New Dealers admitted Hoover had laid the foundations for what ➤

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would come to be known as FDR’s First Hundred Days. Hoover, however, made other moves that alienated the working people of America. He authorized the arbitrary deportation of more than a half-million Mexican migrant workers, and then, when thousands of unemployed World War I veterans set up shantytowns in Washington DC in June 1932, demanding payment of the Adjusted Service bonus they had been owed since 1924, Hoover sent in troops under General Douglas MacArthur – and junior officers Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton. Hoover initially ordered MacArthur not to use force against the vets, but the general ignored him, claiming he was fighting “communist revolution.” Hundreds of men, women, and children were injured as troops burned the symbolic “Hooverville,” but the president, although furious, refused to reprimand MacArthur, and, by that refusal, Hoover historically defined himself as the enemy of veterans and the working class.

‘I Will Sell It’ he world that confronts Barack Obama is radically different than the one that faced FDR in 1933. In some respects it is less starvation-desperate – until climate change brings about an American famine – but it is an incalculably more extensive and dangerous landscape, and infinitely more complex. In 2008 we have instant global communication, and – like it or not – a globalized economy. We also have the specter of nuclear proliferation. FDR did not inherit two ill-conceived and ruinous wars – one hemorrhaging money and the other rapidly turning Fort Apache – or an Islamic radicalism, conditioned by its own leaders and goaded by the Bush administration to believe jihad is the final solution. Twenty-first century USA does not have a dust bowl, but China is coming close, with dark clouds of pollution crossing the Pacific to obscure our view of the Hollywood sign. Roosevelt’s primary strength was that he always looked to the brightest. The advisors who designed his rescue programs and the managers who made them reality were outstanding in their respective fields. There were no crony jobs for Michael Brown. A typical example was FDR’s hiring of Hugh Hammond Bennett, the country’s leading soil erosion expert, to reverse the horrors

of the Dust Bowl. FDR gave him an agency and a free hand, and the Midwest breadbasket was saved. Barack Obama has already made the same pledge to consult only with the best. In his barnburning, last live appearance with Bill Clinton, outside Orlando last week, he vowed, “Tell me what’s needed, and I will sell it.” This is the most important campaign promise he needs to keep, and of which he must be regularly reminded.

by former oil company hacks, giving tax money to T. Boone Pickens for his natural gas. A snake-oil rush for cheap nuclear power and let-the-government-take-thewaste must also be prevented. Government involvement in gasoline refining capacity, which the private sector has so shamefully neglected, would be an early and visible curbing of Big Oil, who will be looking to turn the new president to the dark side from his very first day in office.

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hen Franklin Roosevelt sold his New Deal programs to the American people, he couched many in terms of national security. The New Deal agencies borrowed streamlining techniques from the mobilization for World War I, and FDR rejected the conservative concept that national security was only about military might. America was at risk if its people were hungry,

homeless, sick, or wandering the back roads looking for work. He defended his agricultural subsidies on the grounds that the U.S. must never be held hostage to a dependence on imported food, and made it clear that the farmers who fed the country could not be efficient without reliable electricity. National security must also be integral to the Obama pitch, and he must likewise surround himself with the best and most imaginative. The new American president has already promoted the need for a Manhattan Project, hammer down to energy independence, renewable fuel sources, and environmental protection. This is another promise to which Obama must be held. Energy is homeland security. It impacts everything from foreign relations to children with asthma. The oil barons had their way with George W. Bush any time they wanted. They were even allowed to borrow the U.S. Army for their grim adventures in the Middle East, and they have yet to return it. Under Barack Obama the oilmen must learn their fun in the sun is over. They can take their profits, and their mantra of “drill-baby-drill,” and get themselves hence. If they don’t like them apples, they can always be nationalized – just like in Venezuela. But Obama also has to avoid the trap of bureaucracy. Energy policy cannot become a labyrinth of Fed agencies staffed

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he current health care obscenity in which the sick live or die according to their ability to pay is not just a scandal but also a threat to national security. In the early 1930s, health care was hardly an issue. The crash of 1929 came a single decade after the unstoppable influenza epidemic had caused more fatalities than World War I. Medicine was relatively primitive, and the primary reliance was on hardworking but poorly paid neighborhood doctors, mom-and-pop drugstores, rudimentary inoculation, and very basic patient hygiene. Poor families certainly found it hard to afford much-needed surgery, but Americans were not being routinely forced into bankruptcy by a cancer diagnosis or a chronically sick child. (They just died.) The medical care nightmare of the 21st century is another unconscionable failure of the private sector. The unholy troika of drug manufacturers, HMOs, and insurance companies has victimized the poor and made preventive medicine derelict. Katrina proved the private sector has no adequate response to natural

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disasters, and certainly couldn’t cope with a major pandemic. When profit motive comes up abjectly wanting, where do we turn but to the government? Nationalized health care will not, of course, be easy. As Hillary Clinton learned in 1993, Big Health fights dirty when its stranglehold is threatened. Its surrogates will roll out their incongruous demonization of Canada, Sweden, the U.K., and France, and the equally bizarre belief that any government control is the precursor to a Soviet America. For President Obama to implement a change from disgraced private enterprise to a futurenow vision of fullcoverage service, he will need to pick his battles carefully, and win some highly visible victories before the

country fully falls in behind him. An early victory would be a reversal of some heinous Bush-era policies. Medicare and Medicaid have massive purchasing power that can and must be used to negotiate cuts in the pornographic profiteering on prescription drugs. A mess of public support can be bought with lower prices at the drugstore. But Obama also needs to ensure that government heath care functions with 21st century efficiency. Again the call is for smart people with ingenuity and organizational models to fashion the vision, and avoid the bureaucracy that snared traditional socialism.

Tony Soprano and the Taliban he mess left by the culture wars also has to be bagged and removed. Obama does not have Prohibition to repeal, but he does have to address the never-ending War on Drugs. In just 15 years, Prohibition gave America the legendary crime families fictionalized in The Godfather and The Sopranos. For the best part of a century, billions upon billions of dollars have been poured into the Drug War to impose a similarly dubious intoxicant-morality on stoners in Seattle, speed-freaks in Montana, and junkies in New York City. The War on Drugs has brought nothing ➤

but abject failure, misinformation, incalculable costs in ruined lives, a nightmare penal system, and monstrous erosion of individual freedom. It has culminated in a planetary network of power, money, and corruption that links graft-riddled Mexican law enforcement, both sides in the endless civil war in Colombia, child soldiers in Central Africa and – maybe most disturbing of all – the Taliban. The material supports of Al Qaeda are oil and opium, and for that reason alone drugs and their legality are another aspect of national security, not dictates of lifestyle. A credible Obama drug czar must embrace legalizing and taxing marijuana, an engagement between the Afghan poppy growers and the legitimate pharmaceutical industry, and domestic harm reduction and health care, rather than another escalation of crime and punishment. Our Foreign Adventures he grimmest national security cleanup will be national security itself. A cleansing scalpel must be applied to the concealed creations of Bush and Cheney and their War on Terror. In its endorsement of the new president, The New York Times demanded exactly that. “Mr. Bush has arrogated the power to imprison men without charges and browbeat Congress into granting an unfettered authority to spy on Americans. He has created untold numbers of ‘black’ programs, including secret prisons and outsourced torture. The president has issued hundreds, if not thousands, of secret orders. We fear it will take years of forensic research to discover how many basic rights have been violated.” Early in the game, the president must move visibly toward resolutions in the Bush-legacy wars. It would take many strategic pages to examine the military mess, but, as with everything, it will be a matter of perception. If he can be seen strengthening Afghanistan, and also moving to a diplomatic endgame in Iraq, possibly with the help of reengaged European allies and the U.N., an electorate who knew it wouldn’t be easy will accept that.

The flak will undoubtedly fly, but the overwhelming evidence of corporate failure is the stick which beats back objections. They have failed. Now it’s our turn. The second phase of the New Deal saw FDR embark on the big ticket items – massive blue-collar job-creation programs in which roads, bridges and dams were built and electrification grids were extended to rural areas under the auspices of the Public Works Administration (PWA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Tennessee Valley Authority, while the United States Housing Authority supervised ambitious slum clearance projects. The WPA also strengthened labor unions to prevent the bold rebuilding of the nation being

Maddow on MSNBC, Candidate Obama was adamant that New Deal-style public works really would get rolling. “We have to rebuild our infrastructure. Look at China. Their trains are faster than ours, their ports are better than ours. They are preparing for a very competitive 21st century, and we’re not.” The automatic question in any discussion of New Deal-style national reconstruction is frequently tinged with a sneer: “Yes, but how are you going to pay for all this?” Candidate Obama resorted to a reassuring if-it’s-needed-we’ll-findthe-money. “One of the most frustrating things about the last eight years was the ability of George Bush to pile up debt, huge deficits, and nothing to show for it. If you’re going to run deficit spending

And Your Wallet ith the election a done deal, the bank liquidity bailout has to be renegotiated to something more plausible and evenhanded than the corporate welfare devised by George Bush and Henry Paulson. Foreclosures must be frozen as speculative paper is separated from Americans’ real homes. Care has to be taken, though, to balance deficit reduction with maintaining consumer spending as a short-term defense against the encroaching specter of deflation.

the-Plumber contempt for intelligence or decency that were the hallmarks of the McCain/Palin campaign offers some hope he will do the right thing now that he’s in power. He is an African American who has won the presidency. He has already achieved the impossible. He asserts his belief in capitalism and denies he’s a socialist, but maybe it is a new and very different form of capitalism that’s the object of his cool passion. Barack Obama is surely too smart to subscribe to a philosophy in which, as Alan Greenspan put it, the whole intellectual edifice has collapsed. How far, though, Barack Obama will heed his homework is the key question. FDR’s strengthening of organized labor during the New Deal brought workers to the national table, seating them beside the fat cats, making them more than just an item on a corporate balance sheet. How far Barack Obama is prepared to embrace revitalized labor remains to be seen – as does the extent that labor is capable of revitalizing itself. Globalization and outsourcing dictate that effective labor organizing can only operate globally. Solidarity means exploitation in Bangalore or Beijing is felt as acutely as exploitation in Detroit or Denver. Twenty-first century labor could well revisit (dare I say it?) the ideas of Eugene Debs and the IWW with a century-later makeover. One big union? Anarchist science fiction? Maybe, but when you ain’t got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose.

derailed by exploitative employers, and the federal government made itself both the instigator of change and the arbitrator of conflicts. On October 17, in The New York Times, Paul Krugman advised Barack Obama to take a page from FDR’s New Deal playbook. “This is also a good time to engage in some serious infrastructure spending, which the country badly needs in any case. The usual argument against public works as economic stimulus is that they take too long: By the time you get around to repairing that bridge and upgrading that rail line, the slump is over and the stimulus isn’t needed. Well, that argument has no force now, since the chances that this slump will be over anytime soon are virtually nil. So let’s get those projects rolling.” Last week, just days before the election, in an interview with Rachel

you’d better be repairing our roads and bridges, our water systems and our sewer lines.” Obama seemed particularly interested in an updated power grid to manage power from multiple sources. If only to impress Maddow’s largely liberal/ progressive audience, Obama had plainly done his New Deal homework. But the real question is not how we are going to pay for a New Deal, a brave new world, and a new American way. It’s “Will we-the-people accept a serious dose of reality? Or, over a mere three or four generations, have we now become so pampered we’re incapable of aspiring to greatness?” In his Rachel Maddow Show interview, Obama cited the painstakingly innovative organization of his no-drama election campaign as a model he would expand when he tackled the nation’s problems. Barack Obama’s defeat of gutter prejudice and the Joe-

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Brother From Another Planet n a culture of infantile gratification, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, will Americans cling to petulant dreams of Hummers, Viagra, and increasing worthless McMansions even as that very culture collapses? Perhaps Barack Obama really wasn’t joking at the Al Smith dinner when he quipped he was Superman. Let’s not forget that Superman fell out of the sky over Dust Bowl-ravaged Kansas in the middle of the Great Depression, an alien from another world come among us, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound, but ready to restore truth, justice, and the American way in the era of FDR and the New Deal. Superman’s creators, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, had a definite left-leaning perspective and, in their early storylines, Superman battled crooked businessmen, corrupt politicians, and grasping slumlords. President Barack Obama is surely too calm, too cool, too collected, and too in control not to precisely calculate even his pop culture references, and, loath as I am to believe in any politician, I find that highly – if maybe irrationally – reassuring.✶ Mick Farren blogs at Doc40.blogspot.com.

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Well-hidden restaurant has fun, thoughtful food By richard foss

ook is as well hidden as an establishment can be without actual misdirection. One person in my party was still looking for it while he was only three feet from the entrance, and though he is occasionally a tad unobservant, he had a good excuse this time. From the outside all you see is a door in the darkest corner of a Santa Monica Boulevard mini-mall, not an obvious place to put a restaurant. Once you’re inside, it’s a comfortable place – ’50s coffee shop, meet hipster bar/ restaurant, featuring the Space Age lamps and hard-edged Googie architecture common to both. This makes perfect sense because the food here is updated traditional American – Midwestern cooking for college graduates, mom’s home cooking after Mom started hanging out with an artsy crowd. Like the squash soup ($6), a mainstay around October when thousands of people hollow out a pumpkin, look at the pile of vegetable innards, and wonder if there’s anything they can do with it if they don’t feel like making a pie. They can, and they

can cook with other squashes too. (The pumpkins sold for jack o’ lanterns are raised for size rather than taste – culinary pumpkins are less fibrous, smaller and sweeter. You can cook the ones you carve, but they won’t have the intensity of flavor.) This soup tasted like it might have had a bit of pumpkin mixed with green and yellow squash. It was warm, thick, and sweet, not candysweet but vegetable sweet, and if you don’t know the difference then I suggest that you order squash soup somewhere, possibly at Nook. There were nice hints of fall herbs like sage and maybe a dash of cinnamon, and the drizzle of creme fraiche across the top was pretty but not really needed; this was perfect all by itself. The menu at Nook isn’t all Americana – the persimmon, pomegranate, fennel, red onion, and arugula salad with curry vinaigrette ($9) has some ingredients you don’t see on the Northern plains. There was a startling combination of flavors, sweet and sour from the pomegranate seeds and persimmon, light bitterness

from arugula, and a mild hint of onion sharpness to complement the mild curry. As Rev. Sydney Smith mentioned in his poetic salad recipe, “Let onionatoms lurk within the bowl/and scarcesuspected, animate the whole.” The mains were more in line with the updated home cooking concept than the salad – pot roast ($20), rib eye with maple-mustard sauce ($26), and Arctic char with home fries ($20). Arctic char is a fish closely related to salmon but less oily, and when pan-roasted it can achieve an amazing crisp crust and meltingly moist interior. What took this beyond the usual was the bed of Tabasco butter that was perfectly calibrated; creating such a subtle effect with such a powerful ingredient is like doing surgery with a machete, but they aced it. We liked the accompanying home fries and black eyed pea and tomato salad too, which had enough body and character to be a diverting side item. The pot roast was less audacious but satisfying. Onion and vegetable shreds were stewed in to round out the slowcooked meat, perhaps a dash of vinegar to give the merest hint of sauerbraten. There were some concessions to modern taste – the same dish served in Wisconsin would have cooked the green beans to mush, but these were served at a Californian idea of doneness. I had planned to order a lighter meal than the rib eye steak, but the maplemustard glaze caught my eye and I had to try it. It’s not a bad idea, sweet and spicy, and a great complement to a very good piece of beef topped with some of the best fried onions I can remember. The only off note was the accompanying apples sauteed in brandy, which were overly sweet – something more tart or savory would have been a better contrast to the maple. We had ordered a side of mac and cheese ($7) before seeing an order go by – it was huge, and though we liked it very much we took more than half of it home. There are several interesting sides, like the shiitake and gruyere bread pudding, that would make good vegetarian main courses. To drink there was wine and good Belgian beer, and we considered dessert before realizing we were comfortably replete as it was. Dinner would have been a hard act to follow.✶ Nook, 11628 Santa Monica Blvd., West L.A., (310) 207-5160. Open midweek 11 a.m.-3 p.m., daily 5-10 p.m. Full bar, wheelchair access good.

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Sugar and Spice … We’re all committed to eating healthier diets, right up to the actual moment when we actually order that deep-fried Mars bar. A UCLA study reminds us that it’s not just what you eat but how you season it. The stars are oregano and cumin, which have exceptional antioxidant properties, and turmeric, which shows anti-cancer effects in lab studies. Sounds like the beginning of a nice curry recipe … . According to the University of South Carolina, a glass of red wine to wash it down will help protect you from several strains of influenza. See you at that Indian restaurant with the good wine list for some health food … . Don’t Have a Cow A look at the list of restaurants that will open near Staples Center shows that it’s carnivore heaven. In addition to the first outpost of famed Manhattan Beach steak and seafood house Rock’nFish, there’s Fleming’s and the Yard House, famous for beef and wine, and beef and beer respectively, and Trader Vic’s, famous for whatever goes with flaming rum punch. Though I know that you can get something other than grilled cow parts at any of these restaurants, and in fact I’m a big fan of several of them, I can’t help thinking that a vegetarian place would provide a bit of balance … . It’s the Great Pumpkin … Halloween is over and we can give up the pumpkinflavored everything until next year, right? Apparently some people love the flavor, because I’ve been seeing press releases from all manner of restaurants and bars advertising pumpkin-flavored beers and cocktails. Some sound pretty good – I’ve had some fine spicy pumpkin ales in my time, though most of the cocktails I’ve experienced have been cloyingly sweet. Sorry, I’m drawing the line at the pumpkinflavored wine cooler … . Gobble … I’m also getting Thanksgiving menus from various restaurants, and so far the most interesting is from Locanda del Lago. Pumpkin and Amaretto soup sounds like an interesting combination, and California trout baked with mushrooms and white wine might wean me away from turkey – except that the turkey here is stuffed with Italian sausage and chestnuts. I’m always making the Thanksgiving dinner for my extended family so I never go to any of these, but this is the first restaurant Thanksgiving in a long time that has really tempted me. Call (310) 451-3525, or check their website for details … . Tooting My Own Horn … If you’re interested in learning a bit about culinary history in Los Angeles, I’ll be lecturing at this Saturday’s meeting of the Culinary Historians of Southern California at the downtown L.A. library. The subject is the culinary history of the South Bay from 1950 to the present day, and you can hear about the restaurant that sold prime rib dinners for one cent and made money doing it, the escaped camel incident in Hermosa Beach, and other strange tales. The meeting is at 10:30 a.m. in the Mark Taper Auditorium. –Richard Foss We accept tips: RichardFoss@earthlink.net.

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Yesterday’s Newsstand By Kim Lachance

xactly how are you reading this right now? Online or on paper? Why do I care? Because this week’s Shoppiness takes us to a type of merchant that might soon be obsolete, right along with the only thing it sells, mainly because of you. You and your CrackBerry, your lack of attention span, lack of time and more importantly, your lack of cash. Throw in a shitcan economy and the unending “death spiral” of print journalism, and what do you get? Three words: Christian. Science. Monitor. That would be a newspaper, albeit a Bible-thumping one, in case you didn’t catch it in, say, the last 100 years. It’s also one less publication for sale at struggling local newsstands like Westside International News, one of two barely surviving indie newspaper and magazine sellers in Santa Monica. The prophetically named Custer’s Last Newsstand is the other. Sniff, sniff. I have

can think of, even, for example, geeky criminal ones, like hacking. For $6.95, the anonymous miscreants of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly supply you with stepby-step directions on how to “capture Botnet Malware using a honeypot,” whatever that means; how to rob some sucker’s AT&T wireless minutes; and how to cash in on Bank of America security flaws. Jesus. “What’s in your wallet?” After porn, and the incredible shrinking Los Angeles Times, the runner-up bestsellers are the Chinese newspapers. I’d name them but they were sold out, as usual. Star and The National Enquirer, those buck-fifty juicy bogus news nuggets sadly aren’t far behind in sales, says Michael. So let me get this straight. A thousand real Gannett journalists are eating pink slips while lying hacks continue making bank? Who’s reading this tripe? The stars

neither the motivation nor gas (sound familiar?) to peruse both, so I give you Westside, a small, no-frills neighborhood haunt located in a dull brick strip mall on Wilshire, between 9th and 10th streets. Of the shop’s two-dozen or so meticulously aligned, organized-bysubject sections, porn is the biggest, and the biggest seller. T&A may be fast and free (or at least cheap) online, but judging by the steady stream of spank shoppers, smut is the main artery keeping Westside from flatlining. Reams of sex, sex, and more sex (gay, straight, sideways, and go find out for yourself, sicko), are in plain, mostly clear plasticwrapped view, boldly, refreshingly (this is beginning to sound like a beer commercial) not stashed away in a skeezy back room. Way to keep the pervs honest, Westside. Michael with the backwards newsboy cap and the mellow East African lilt clerks here part-time. The regulars call him Kip, the short version of a long Kenyan name. Westside is somewhat of a local hangout, like Cheers, where everybody knows your name. Warm and fuzzy’s all good and fine until your elderly landlord busts you buying the latest California Swinger directory ($9.95). While graciously giving me a half-hour whisper-quiet tour of Westside’s three short aisles, Michael stops to point out a few empty spots here and there along the gray racks. Despite more and more frequent cutbacks, they’re relatively well-stocked. There’s a publication for every lifestyle, interest or hobby you

apparently are. They flock to Westside to read all about their stillborn doubleheaded monkey spawn, then speed-dial their lawyers. Meanwhile, across the street, the paparazzi adjust their zoom lenses for naught; sweet, kind Michael sneaks most celebs out the back door. They’ve got hundreds of the usual vanilla categories, but I like the subgenres better: For stoners, SKUNK Magazine ($1.99), High Times’s crazier Canadian “stinkin’ it to the man” cousin; for furry third-wave feminists, the defiant soapbox Bitch Magazine ($6); for vegan feminists’ daughters, New Moon Girls; and for the GLBT crowd, In, Out and every big, fat queer thing in between. Sub-sub-genres get weirder, like civil war enthusiast, vampire worship, knives (Blade Magazine, “the world’s #1 knife publication”) and too many to list. Of Westside’s dwindling newspaper inventory, they sell a handful of international dailies here and there to homesick expats and business travelers. Overall, the prices are cheap. Then again, magazines and newspapers are generally inexpensive. At $24.95, a snooty European haute couture glossy called Wound, as in spun, not maimed, I hope, was the closest I came to sticker shock. The cheapest was T.H.E., a large, full-color zine put out by L.A. artists about – shocker – art in L.A. It’ll set you back two whole quarters, about the cost a newspaper. Buy one. Doesn’t Fido need to be housebroken?✶ Westside International News, 922 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, (310) 395-0805.

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PSYCHO SUDOKU 11

Sum Sudoku

Put one digit from 1-9 in each square of this Sudoku so that the following three conditions are met: 1) each row, column, and 3x3 box (as marked by shading in the grid) contains the digits 1ñ9 exactly one time; 2) no digit is repeated within any of the areas marked off by heavy black lines; and 3) the sums of the digits in each area marked off by heavy black lines total the little number given in each of those areas. For example, the digits in the upper-leftmost square in the grid and the square directly to its right will add up to 11. Now do what I tell you -- solve!! psychosudoku@hotmail.com

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“Early and Often”-an election selection by Matt Jones

Across 1 Broadband Internet alternative 4 Words after “spring” or “take” 9 “Blue Ribbon” beer 14 Kwik-E-Mart proprietor 15 ___ loading (marathon runner’s strategy) 16 Kona greeting 17 LINE 1 20 Chips, elsewhere 21 Piercing site 22 “Bali ___” (“South Pacific” song) 23 Weird Al’s Star Wars parody of a Kinks song 24 What to do in one of the three circled squares 28 Exhibit 30 Like WWE wrestler Umaga, by birth 34 Defunct space station 37 Egg-shaped 40 “Fiddler on the Roof” character 41 LINE 2 44 Mild cigar 45 Video game plumber 46 They appear before U 47 Kawasaki competitor 49 Traveler’s stops 51 How to decide which one of the three circled squares to fill in 54 “Moby-Dick” captain 58 Scatter seed 61 D.J.’s dad, on “Roseanne” 62 University of Maine town 63 LINE 3 68 Frozen food or cereal, e.g.

JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

69 2008 Olympics protesters 70 Funny or ___ (humor website) 71 Foul (up) 72 Kind of question with a 50-50 answer 73 “___ Blues” (song written by John Lennon) Down 1 Bugs’ pal/antagonist 2 Former veep Agnew 3 Shocking, like tabloid news 4 Takes to the stage 5 Fond du ___, Wisconsin 6 The end of an ___ 7 “Li’l” comic strip character 8 George Eastman’s camera company 9 ___ thai 10 Chicken ___ king 11 This and that 12 Stadium to be replaced by Citi Field in 2009 13 What’s seen when ice skater Babilonia hails a cab 18 Of which there are way more than seven in the world 19 Some nest eggs 24 Step in a chess game 25 “If man makes himself ___ he must not complain when he is trodden on” (Immanuel Kant) 26 With “The,” magazine described as “the flagship of the left” 27 “Uncanny” superhero team 29 Laugh from the Green Giant 31 Finito 32 Affirmative votes 33 ___ earnings (phrase used when comparing a current and upcoming paycheck)

34 Cruise’s “Magnolia” costar 35 “Lost ___ Mancha” (2002 documentary) 36 Wander around 38 Food Network’s “Barefoot Contessa” host Garten 39 Greek architectual column style 42 Cafeteria holder 43 Weasel cousin 48 Automaker with the tagline “Vorsprung durch Technik” 50 Indian wrap 52 Live it up 53 ___ Rock Pete (Diesel Sweeties character) 55 Coat that covers your head: var. 56 Photographer Leibovitz 57 Participant in a historic 1899 war or rebellion 58 Attempt 59 2004 swing state 60 African American Studies scholar Cornel 62 Director Preminger 64 “Ooooooohhh.... On the ___ Tip” (platinum 1992 album) 65 “Yeah, like that’ll ever happen” laugh 66 Baby doctors: abbr. 67 What brave people use to fill in crosswords ©2008 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Reference puzzle #0386.

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THE advice goddess

Serf and turf BY amy alkon My boyfriend’s from a socially prominent family, complete with a long line of sycophants and hangerson. I apparently passed the initial vetting process, but a year later, I still feel like I’m auditioning. He sometimes doesn’t invite me to events where everyone brings a spouse or a date. I feel like he and others don’t think I’m “fabulous” enough. He said his not including me is related to issues he has with letting go and trusting, and mentioned an ex who attended events with him, then let him know she was doing him a favor. I’m trying to be patient and gradual, stop analyzing, and just enjoy our time together. How else can I cope and make this work? –The Girlfriend Perhaps you could do more to let these blue bloods know how much you and they have in common. Maybe mention how you learned the ABCs of diplomacy

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from your father’s work at the Embassy (Suites Hotel, where he’s the night manager). Share how you felt the day you discovered that you, too, are an heiress, as your father waved his hand over the family holdings, proclaiming, “Someday, this will all be yours.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t gesturing at the homes, the cars, the yachts, but at the boxes of crap piled up in the basement. If that campaign doesn’t get you in, you might take a lesson from the society stiffs – those who made their money the old-fashioned way, by inheriting it from their robber baron ancestors – and stop trying so hard. You’ve already asked, watched, waited, avoided analysis; you’ve pretty much done everything short of enrolling in suck-up lessons at the community college. Yet, a year later, your boyfriend’s still trotting off solo to society events, leaving you to wait home on the foyer rug like the family dog. (Some girls get into the society

pages, some just go on them.) And why doesn’t he invite you? Um, because the boll weevil lays its eggs in early spring? That wasn’t the reason he gave, but it makes about as much sense as claiming it’s because his last girlfriend failed to express the proper measure of gratitude at her opportunity to be looked down upon by his fine relations. If the guy isn’t ashamed of you, he doesn’t seem to care enough to keep you from thinking so, and feeling that the guy you’re with isn’t proud to be seen with you is really damaging. Being “patient and gradual” won’t change a thing. You are who you are: a girl who winters in the exact same one-bedroom apartment where she summers, springs, and falls. Your real problem is your failure to be difficult. I’m not suggesting you start flying around your relationship on a broom, but that you become somebody who couldn’t fathom trying to “cope” with a guy who balks at presenting her

to Mummy, Daddy, and the drunk trust fund uncles. Tell your boyfriend “I don’t date guys who don’t feel they can bring me around.” And be willing to walk away. Don’t just get behind the idea of that; be a girl who needs her dignity more than she needs a boyfriend. This should eliminate the need for icky conversations about how you’d like to be treated. Instead, you’ll communicate it from the start, from within: Oh, what’s that? They don’t want my sort around? Well, who wants them? My family got an engraved invitation to be here, right on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor; Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ... .” Nowhere does it say “Give me your stuck-up snots, your country club masses in scary-ugly golf pants yearning to get everything for free.”✶ (c)2008, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. AdviceAmy@aol.com. www.advicegoddess.com.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Uranus is on the opposite side of the sun from Saturn right now. To traditional astrologers, that’s a stressful aspect. It bespeaks a titanic clash between the forces of progress and the inertia of the past. But there are mitigating factors. The expansive planet Jupiter is trine to Saturn and sextile to Uranus, suggesting that unexpected grace may provide beauty and healing during these strenuous moments of truth. I predict that’s what will occur in your personal life, Aries. You’re well-situated to navigate smartly through the brouhaha. For best results, respect the old ways, but not so much that it slows down your exuberant quest for the most interesting possible future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Every year my friend Jim travels to Cabo San Lucas in Baja California to participate in a deep-sea fishing competition. He says the best way to catch the big fish is with actual bait in the form of smaller fish. But marlins can be fooled into getting snagged with merely pretty lures -- colorful fabrications that look like food but are actually made of metal, wood, plastic, and rubber. Jim says that hammerhead sharks, on the other hand, will never bite the fake bait. They’re too smart, insisting on the real thing. I suggest you use this information as an allegory in the coming weeks, Taurus. You may find it to your advantage to get yourself “caught” by a metaphorical fisherperson, but only if he or she is offering you the authentic bait, not a simulation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

When the air is pure and clean, a bee can smell a flower from 3,281 feet. The presence of pollution severely cripples the bee’s awareness of floral scents, however, reducing its range to 650 feet. Consider the possibility that this is a metaphor for what has been happening to you recently, Gemini. Have you suffered a reduction in your sensitivity to sources of nourishment? Are you oblivious to gifts and blessings that could be available to you if you only knew about them? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this is quite possible. Luckily, you’re reading this horoscope, which will surely motivate you to overcome the problem. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Dolphins love erotic play, according to the book Dolphin

Chronicles. For almost a third of their waking life, they caress and touch each other. They’re ingenious about using their Frisbees, plastic boats, and rubber balls as sex toys. Gender isn’t much of an issue. There’s as much same-sex as opposite-sex cavorting. If you’d like to place yourself in alignment with cosmic rhythms, Cancerian, you will consider taking a page from the dolphin Kama Sutra in the coming days. Remember, the key for them is simply to play freely without any specific goal. Bliss comes as much from experimenting with creative intimacy as from driving toward orgasm. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One of my friends on Facebook describes her vocation as “Hammer of the Gods.” Her task in life, she says, is to be a tool that the divine powers wield as they nail together raw materials to make useful structures. While I don’t know if that’s also one of your long-range goals, Leo, I do know that it describes a role you’d thrive in during the coming weeks. So how about it? Are you ready to upgrade your game in order to be the best hammer of the gods you can possibly be?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

I’m not necessarily suggesting that you read Al Franken’s book The Truth (with Jokes). But I do recommend that you make that title your motto in the coming week. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, there will be no such thing as truth without jokes, at least for you. Every situation you need to know more about will, if you investigate it, reveal some amusing riddle. All the information that’ll be important for you to gather will lead you in the direction of laughter.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Some years back, I maxed out my credit cards to pay for recording my band’s CD. Soon afterwards, following a few financial setbacks, I was close to declaring bankruptcy. Luckily, my parents stepped in and bailed me out. (Thanks, Mom and Dad!) Since then, I’ve rigorously kept my debts to a minimum. That policy has, on occasion, cramped my style, but it looks pretty wise in light of the current financial crunch. Please draw inspiration from my experience, Libra. Take inventory of any patterns in

your own life that may be distorting your ability to get the money and resources you need. This is an excellent time to flush your old conditioning and imprint yourself with good, new habits. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Many times in my life,” says philosopher Eckhardt Tolle, “it has been my experience that the most powerful starting point for any endeavor is not the question ‘What do I want?’, but what does Life (God, Consciousness) want from me? How do I serve the whole?” I offer that meditation to you, Scorpio, as you slip into the heart of the reinvent yourself phase of your cycle. It’s time to stage a grand reopening, launch a new (relation)ship, or instigate a fresh batch of good trouble. As you whip up the initiatory energy, ask the Big Cosmic Thou where it would like you to go and what it would love you to do.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth,” says Ishmael in Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, “whenever it is damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses . . . it [is] high time to get to the sea as soon as I can.” Use this passage as an inspirational kick-in-theass, Sagittarius. There’s no need for you to sink into the emotional abyss Ishmael describes. Fix yourself before you’re broken! Get to the sea immediately, and prevent the grey glumness from taking over. If there’s no ocean nearby, then try the next best things: Walk along a river or lake. Immerse yourself for long stretches in baths and saunas and heated pools. Cry and sweat and come abundantly. Listen to music that makes you feel like you’re floating.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

This is the Week of the Upside-Down Rainbow. It’s a time when signs of good fortune are everywhere, but always with some odd twist or anomalous feature. Should you worry that the tweaks mean there’s some mischief at work? Does it suggest you will have to pay a price for the breakthroughs that are coming? I don’t think so. My interpretation of the upside-down rainbow (or the fiveleaf clover or the torn $10 bill you find on the street) is that you will be asked to expand your capacities in order to take full advantage of the unusual blessings.

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By Rob Brezsny

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Should you go with the flow or should you try to wheedle, manipulate, and entice the flow to go with you? This is one of those rare times when I advocate the latter approach. The flow is currently in an indecisive state, when it could go one of several different ways. You have cosmic authorization to nudge it in the direction that looks to you like it will be the best for the most people.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

In the sci-fi film The Matrix, a small band of people have managed to escape from the collective hallucination that most of their fellow humans are stuck inside. Though life is hard staying free, there are some perks. They can, for instance, get downloads of data directly into their brains that allow them to quickly master complex tasks. In this way, the heroine, Trinity, learns to fly a helicopter in a few minutes. I call your attention to these fictional events, Pisces, because I think you’re close to pulling off real-life accomplishments that resemble them. First, you’re in an excellent position to slip away from certain illusions that enslave some of the people around you. Second, you have an enormous power to rapidly understand new information and acquire new skills.

In addition to the horoscopes you’re reading here, Rob Brezsny offers EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. To access them online, go to RealAstrology.com. The Expanded Audio Horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. Rob’s main website is at FreeWillAstrology.com. Check out his book, Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings. “I’ve seen the future of American literature, and its name is Rob Brezsny.” - Tom Robbins, author of Jitterbug Perfume and Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.

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Immaterial Girl: Madonna at Dodger Stadium (see Thursday)

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Madge & The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Having reinvented herself past postmodern irony into a kind of referential jigsaw, Madonna takes her act on the road yet again, this time in the wake of a headline-grabbing split from film director husband Guy Ritchie. Her “Sticky & Sweet” Tour rolls its diabetic way into Dodger Stadium tonight, to the delectation of her sugar-shocked longtime fanbase now licking feverishly at Hard Candy, which debuted, of course, at No. 1. Can hype get any more hypertrophied? Not on your tintype, kiddoo. 7 p.m. $148−$889. Dodger Stadium, 1000 Elysian Park Ave., Los Angeles. (213) 4803232. livenation.com. (Ron Garmon)

Friday 7

Your Ears Will Bleed

It’s a shame, really, that they’ve just put up new chandeliers and fixtures at The Wiltern, since the power metal rogues DragonForce will be tearing down a few lamps with earth-shattering guitar solos and vicious brain-melting screams. These Londoners will very much break down the pillars of doubt from unbelievers who think hair-metal is dead. DragonForce are of that power-chord ilk, but with less Spandex and more ruptured eardrums. Admit it – you couldn’t beat Legends of Flames on Guitar Hero. Why not honor those big buttons on your fake guitar and see the band live? Oh, and send a love note to Indie 103.1 for setting all this up. 7 p.m. 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. (213) 388-1400. (Nathan Solis)

Saturday 8

Learning to Crawl

Though the art itself (and participating galleries) will be spread across Los Feliz, Atwater Village, Echo Park and environs, the Silver Lake content of the two-day Silver Lake Art Crawl will be well-upheld by tonight’s kickoff party at the brand new Gold Bear Academy space. This evening celebrates the ever-burgeoning Eastside gallery scene, with a chance find some of the most fun and creative folks in this palm-frond burg sopping up merlot and getting loose. RSVP-only. 9 p.m.-midnight. Free. Gold Bear Academy, 200 Hyperion Ave., Silver Lake. silverlakeartcrawl.com. (RG)

Sunday 9

This Is, in Fact, Olympic & Fig

That Beck keeps on rockin’ like an ironic hurricane. What with his lanky frame and drawled-out

vocals, that fellow sure can make a whole lot of noise. But us folks are spoiled when it comes to Beck. He’s an L.A. native who’s paid his dues and now graciously arrives to take away that newvenue smell at Club Nokia. That’s right, Beck will be the first act to take the stage and all we can hope is that he’ll bring the energy he built up from the summer festival circuit. This is the type of show you’ll wheeze to your grandchildren, “I was there when Beck opened up Club Nokia.” And they’ll say, “Sure, President Beck used to play music. Whatever.” 7 p.m. $41.50-$71.50. Club Nokia, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., downtown L.A. clubnokia.com. (NS)

Monday 10

Shhh. Such Soft Music

Dear Spaceland, acoustic guitars are awesome weapons of change. They might not always be heard in a crowd, but with The Western States Motels having a co-residency with Marching Band, you can be sure of being murmured to in stylish company. Expect a lot of Blur fans to show, including some brought in by the soft sounds coming from under the door. P.S. Boxing Lesson will be on this bill, too!? 9 p.m. Free. 21+. Spaceland, 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., L.A., (213) 413-8600. clubspaceland.com. (NS)

Tuesday 11 Real, Like TV

Lately, the TV apparatus has been more like a crap dispenser, what with so many marathons of reality shows. Why not get out to an event that’s about a television show? It’s better than it sounds. The Museum of Television and Radio has these forums with the creators and cast members of shows and today they feature the off-kilter Pushing Daisies. Fans will ask awkward questions, someone will say “Worst. Episode. Ever,” and everyone will have a great time. 7 p.m. $25. The Paley Center for Media, 465 N. Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, (310) 786-1091. paleycenter.org. (NS)

Wednesday 12

What Did the Five Fingers Say to the Face?

Charlie Murphy is perhaps best remembered for his role in Chappelle’s Rick James sketch, and the ensuing “I’m Rich Bitch” comedy tour. Maybe his best-known sketch is the one where he plays basketball with Prince and says he was dressed like a figure skater? Or was it the one where he plays Tyree, the mad Real World cast member who sleeps with his roommate’s girlfriend, stabs his parents, and then votes him off the show? Don’t worry, it’s OK to laugh. The point is, he’s done lots of funny stuff before, now he’s doing funny standup. Offend. Be offended. Laugh. Love. Eat. 8 p.m. $20. The Improv, 8162 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, (323) 651-2583. improv.com. (GP)

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Double dynamite: Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson wrap it up

Sam & Mac Do Sam & Dave

‘Soul Men’ may be lightweight and flawed, but it cruises on star power and great music By Andy Klein

he enjoyment you derive from Soul Men – the new comedy from Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man) – may be directly related to your love for ’60s/early-’70s soul music, most particularly the Stax/Volt sound out of Memphis. Which is my way of saying: This may not be a great movie, but I still couldn’t help falling in love with it. The screenplay by Robert Ramsey & Matthew Stone (not the South Park guy) is basically a riff on Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys (which had its own precursors), except with late-middleaged black singers instead of ancient Jewish vaudevillians. The opening sequence has the highest concentration of laughs in the whole thing: It’s a faux VH1 Behind the Scenes segment, tracing the history of soul trio the Real Deal (Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, John Legend), with the coifs and costumes lovingly re-creating the transformation of styles from the mid-’60s (slickeddown hair and suits) through the ’70s (first Afros and polyester thin lapels, then psychedelia a la Bootsy Collins and George Clinton). The group (we are told) broke up when lead singer Marcus (Legend) embarked on a successful solo career and the other two members had a falling out. Louis ( Jackson) became the world’s most inept bank robber and ended up in the slammer; Floyd (Mac) made a bundle in the car wash business. When Marcus dies, Louis and Floyd are invited to sing at the funeral. Floyd – who’s living a well-to-do life of nearly suicidal ennui, now that his nephew has taken over the business – jumps at

the chance. The problem is that he has to convince Louis to come along, even though the two men haven’t spoken in more than 20 years. Louis is working at a crummy job and living in a rundown shithole, so Floyd entices him with a greaterthan-50 percent cut of their payday for the gig. Conveniently for the plot, Floyd refuses to fly, which means that the two “enemies” have to drive from L.A. to N.Y. in four days. Early in the trip, they pick up two more passengers – Phillip (Adam Herschman), a dorky gofer from the agency putting together the show, and Cleo (Sharon Leal), the daughter of the woman at the center of Louis and Floyd’s falling out. Cleo, of course, is exactly the right age to possibly be the daughter of one of the duo. Floyd has improbably managed, on no notice, to book one-night stands at cheap venues at each evening’s stop along the way, allegedly so that the two can get their rusty chops in shape, but, in the real world, so that the filmmakers can work in several musical numbers. Louis and Floyd’s career may suggest a number of real-life figures, but it’s overwhelmingly based on the history – or at least the rumors and legend – of the tragic dissolution of Sam & Dave, the greatest duo of the soul era. This isn’t the first time Sam & Dave have been the inspiration for a film: Bill Fishman’s 1988 Tapeheads also featured a similar duo, with Sam Moore (the original) teaming up with Junior Walker (in Dave Prater’s place); and the Blues Brothers were partly inspired by the pair.

The real Dave died before he and Sam could ever settle their differences, assuming that would have been possible. When I saw them once – in their heyday, circa 1967/68 – my seats were fairly close to the front and on the side where they had to walk up a few steps to get to the stage. They both looked grim and hostile as they entered and went up the stairs; the moment they hit the stage and were in the spotlight, they were all smiles and camaraderie, singing about their eternal bond. If I hadn’t seen their expressions seconds earlier, I would have assumed they really were bosom buddies. At the end of the set, the process was repeated in reverse; as they walked off, their faces froze again, as if they would have rather been anywhere else or with anyone else. Their affectionate performance on stage was a study in showbiz professionalism. Soul Men is built around the chemistry between Jackson and Mac, who (we are told) were longtime friends. (Mac died at the age of 50 a few months after the film was shot; Isaac Hayes, who appears briefly as himself, died the following day. The closing credits have outtakes that form a tribute to Mac, with a nod to Hayes as well.) The chemistry comes through in the dialogue; the physical humor is another issue. There are three or four slapstick scenes – the two men fighting either with each other or with Cleo’s abusive husband – that are excruciatingly badly staged, clearly the worst moments in the affair. Jackson and Mac do their own singing, and, well, they don’t stray

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too far from the notes. Jackson fares the better of the two, in part because his voice projects so powerfully (as is evident in his pseudo-biblical spiel in Pulp Fiction); it’s one of the reasons he’s come to own the word motherfucker. But, as soon as they share the stage with Leal, a real singer, they are revealed as little more than showerstall competent. (The sound mix and the excellent backup players help mask their deficiencies.) The music includes a few old hits (Hayes’s version of “Never Can Say Goodbye”); lots of remakes of old hits (“I’m Your Puppet,” “Do Your Thing”); and remakes of old obscurities like “Water” and “Boogie Ain’t Nothing (But Gettin’ Down).” There is one terrific new (or sort of new) song, “Walk in the Park”; I say “sort of ” because it leans heavily enough on samples (or rescorings) from “People Got to Be Free” that members of the Rascals get co-writing credit. Inexplicably, this song is absent from the soundtrack album, but it can currently be downloaded for free from the film’s website. Most of the plot is predictable, but that doesn’t really spoil the fun. Between the terrific music and the interplay of the stars, Soul Men goes down easily, if unremarkably. V Soul Men. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. Written by Robert Ramsey & Matthew Stone. With Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, Sharon Leal, Adam Herschman, Affion Crockett, John Legend, and Isaac Hayes. Opens Friday citywide.

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Bollywood satire and Jordan’s Oscar entry highlight this season’s ‘small movies’ By Andy Klein

n Loins of Punjab Presents, the first feature from writer-director Manish Acharya, a large New Jersey pork loin company, founded by an Indian immigrant, decides to sponsor Desi Idol, an American Idol-like singing contest for desis, i.e., Americans of South-Asian ethnicity. Among the aspirants polishing their mostly Bollywood-style vocals are rapper Turbanotorious BDG (Ajay Naidu, best known for playing Samir Nagheenanajar in Office Space); Preeti (Ishitta Sharma), a gorgeous, demure, and talented teenager; Sania (Seema Rahmani), an aspiring actress who pretends to speak Hindi in order to qualify; Vikram (played by the director), a shy geek whose job has just been outsourced to India; Saddam Hussain (Uday Chandra), whose unfortunate name now blights his life; and Josh Cohen (Michael Raimondi), who loves everything Indian, including girlfriend Opama (Ayesha Dharker), and feels that his obvious ethnic disadvantage shouldn’t prevent him from entering. Up against them all is Mrs. Kapoor (Shabana Azmi), a wealthy pillar of the community who has no compunction about using bribes, connections, and dirty tricks to guarantee her own victory. The most obvious model for this sweet, lowbudget production is Christopher Guest’s Best in Show ... except with desis instead of doggies. While the film never achieves the hilarity of Guest’s work, it shares the same combination of humor and genuine emotional content. Despite the presence of such relatively familiar faces as Naidu, Dharker, and Azmi, it’s the director himself who provides the most affecting onscreen performance. Almost all the numbers are rerecorded versions of Bollywood songs, with most of the actors doing their own singing. A few jokes – like references to stars Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt – assume some slight knowledge of Bollywood culture, but they fly by quickly enough that unprepared viewers are unlikely to be alienated. One of the subplots involves an ancient white couple who become convinced – because of the names, accents, and unfamiliar lingo – that terrorists lurk among the contestants. It’s a broad and reasonably funny wrinkle, but – after the last few months of vile insinuations about Barack

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Obama’s origins, religion, and “terrorist quotient” – it feels a little closer to the bone than Acharya may have intended. Another worthy small film this week is Captain Abu Raed, which credibly claims to be the first Jordanian production to receive an American theatrical release. (At the moment, it’s only getting a week’s Oscar-qualifying run on one screen; it’s already Jordan’s entry for the Foreign Language category.) Abu Raed (Nadim Sawalha) isn’t a captain at all, but rather a janitor at the Amman airport. When he keeps a pilot’s cap he’s found in the trash, the children in his rundown neighborhood decide he’s a pilot and press him to tell about his international adventures. Raed – a lonely, childless widower – finally agrees; an inveterate lover of reading, he is able to spin stories that thrill his young audience. His cover is blown by Murad (Hussein AlSous), a bitter adolescent whose drunken father beats mom and the kids. Raed only responds to Murad’s attacks with kindness, finally winning his trust. But what can he do to help the boy escape his father’s cruelty? In his feature debut, writer-director Amin Matalqa shows a sure hand. But presumably it’s Sawalha who has inspired this qualifying engagement. He’s appeared in American films, but in parts too small to have left a strong impression; he was only familiar to me as the father of Julia Sawalha, who played Saffy on Ab Fab and voiced the heroic Ginger in Chicken Run. This is the role where he really gets to strut his stuff. It’s a terrific performance, subtle and complex, and most effective when the camera simply lingers on his face. V Loins of Punjab Presents. Directed by Manish Acharya. Written by Anuvab Pal & Manish Acharya. With Shabana Azmi, Ajay Naidu, Seema Rahmani, Ayesha Dharker, Ishitta Sharma, Jameel Khan, and Michael Raimondi. Opens Friday at the ImaginAsian Center downtown, Laemmle’s Regent Showcase, and Laemmle’s Fallbrook 7. Captain Abu Raed. Written and directed by Amin Matalqa. With Nadim Sawalha, Rana Sultan, Hussein Al-Sous, Udey Al-Qiddissi, and Ghandi Saber. Opens Friday at Laemmle’s Music Hall 3.

LATEST REVIEWS BALLAST Single mom Marlee (Tarra Riggs), a recovering crack addict, works as a janitor while tr ying to raise her troubled teenage son, James (Jimmyron Ross), himself drifting into a life of drugs. When James is beaten up by thugs, he and Marlee flee to the home Marlee used to share with her husband, who has recently killed himself. They form a grudgingly tender relationship with Lawrence, the dead husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twin brother, who is tr ying to cope with his own grief and is only gradually able to assist in his estranged familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jaw-dropping financial and emotional need. Lensed in the oppressively grey murk of a Mississippi Delta winter, and utilizing an ensemble of nonprofessional performers, writer-director Lance Hammerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leisurely paced, character-driven drama is the per fect antidote for an audience wear y from overindulgent, high-concept studio films. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a movie boasting such a strong sense of melancholy that the sorrow is almost a character in its own right. Hammerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plot doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound like much, but the per formances are rich with psychological subtext, with a powerful organic quality that packs quite a punch â&#x20AC;&#x201C; par tially the result of the castâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largely improvised acting. The emotions are incredibly close to the sur face, which creates something like a mix of Greek tragedy and a secretly obser ved real-world incident. The Mississippi Delta backdrop is grubby and broodingly desolate, yet strangely beautiful â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a more than appropriate location for the sad, desperate characters. (Paul Birchall) (Laemmleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunset 5)

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS Adapted from John Boyneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award-winning novel of the same name, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas unfolds through the eyes of eight-year-old Bruno (Asa Butter field), who is unaware of the complicity of his Nazi commandant father (David Thewlis) in the grim prosecution of Adolf Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Final Solution. After his family settles into a large countr y house with a distant view of a commune-style barn where all the â&#x20AC;&#x153;farmersâ&#x20AC;? wear strange undergarments, Bruno sneaks out through the back garden in search of adventure. He stumbles across Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a mousy Jewish boy from the nearby concentration camp, and a forbidden friendship develops between the pair. While his sister laps up the nationalistic propaganda of a Nazi tutor, Bruno struggles to square the bilious invective with his personal experience. Smar tly adapted and ably directed by Mark Herman (Little Voice), the film succeeds as an exercise in discrete stor ytelling â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not tr ying to tell a bigger stor y than its resources allow. With wide angles and uncluttered frames from cinematographer Benoit Delhomme, it eschews the crushingly monochromatic design of many Holocaust tales, aiming for a more naturalistic palette, to underscore the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s humanistic tone. The per formances are uniformly strong, but what helps most anchor the film, though, is the wide-eyed Butter field, who conveys adolescent naivete while never tipping over into affected cuteness. (Brent Simon) (Pacificâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ArcLight, Landmark West Los Angeles)

CAPTAIN ABU RAED See second Film feature.

the 28-year-old when the pair broke up. After Bagbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death, Turner hightailed it to Newfoundland, where a negligent justice system compounded the problem horribly. It fell to Bagbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resilient parents, David and Kathleen, to bring Turner to justice. Then Turner announced she was pregnant with Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s child. What happens after that is so beyond the scope of what any sur viving parent should have to endure, so heinous in its disregard for victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rights, that Canadian law may be changed as a result. If Kuenneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film has any flaw, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the slight hint of emotional manipulation, since the stor y is horrifying enough without the sledgehammer. But his anger is justified; the film deser ves to be seen as an intensely personal testament to human resiliency and how a greater good can come from any tragedy. Despite the swirling, deepening layers of true-crime melodrama that drive the narrative, we never forget Shirley Turnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original crime â&#x20AC;&#x201C; depriving the world of an apparently terrific guy. (Mark Keizer) (Laemmleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunset 5)

GeneCo president Rotti (Paul Sor vino) and his goony children (Bill Mosely, Nivek Ogre, Paris Hilton), the fallout is worse than foreclosure: A repo man reclaims their livers and leaves them for dead. The Grand Guignol morality â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with its innocents and demons, like a repo man (Anthony Head) who hides his job from his innocent daughter (Alexa Vega) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is more haunting than the music allows. A drum-crashing, guitar-thrashing, clumsy smashup, it makes Andrew Lloyd Webber â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hell, even Evanescence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sound subtle. Freed from the constraints (or rather, imagination) of merely being able to pretend-kill victims on stage, Smith and Zdunick have unleashed Saw II, III, and IV director Darren Lynn Bousman to slick the screen in blood and organs. With its expressionistic sets and heavy, glossy black wigs, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more overpowering than wor th remembering; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad-good in the way The Rocky Horror Picture Show must have seemed to nuns, except without the shock, musicality, or Meat Loaf (though Hilton acquits herself fine). (Amy Nicholson) (Laemmleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunset 5, Laemmleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Playhouse 7)

SOUL MEN See first Film feature.

STRANDED: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;VE COME FROM A PLANE THAT CRASHED ON THE MOUNTAINS In October 1972, a plane carr ying 45 members of the Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes. Twenty-five survived the initial crash; others died within hours; and eight more died in the avalanche that buried the wrecked plane, which they were using as shelter. Ultimately, the sur vivors were stranded for 72 freezing, inhospitable days and were rescued only after two of them hiked 44 miles until they found a Chilean shepherd, who recalls how â&#x20AC;&#x153;they smelled of the grave.â&#x20AC;? This amazing stor y has been told before, in print (Piers Paul Readâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bestseller Alive) and on screen (Frank Marshallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1993 adaptation of Readâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, as well as Rene Cardonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1976 quickie, Sur vive!). But director Gonzalo Arijon creates the definitive account by having the sur vivors narrate the stor y in their own words. Far from exploitative, Arijonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s docu-

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DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER The most effective way to watch Kur t Kuenneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrenching documentar y is to walk in knowing nothing beyond the following: Kuenne made the film for the infant son of childhood friend Andrew Bagby, who was murdered in Pennsylvania in 2001. But there is a devil in the hear tbreaking details, and she is Shirley Turner, Bagbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ex-girlfriend, who drove 1,600 miles to murder

Lynch), who shoehorns her coke addiction into ever y sentence. In this mediocre comedy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; destined for cable purgator y as background noise to a hangover and a pizza â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both characters are (like the script) half-baked: Ruddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Danny is an iner t grump, who could have been played by a rock; as Wheeler, Scott is stuck playing yet another horndog, the kind of character he tried to outgrow with the brilliant bleak comedy The Promotion. (Luckily, even exer ting next to no effor t, both are likable enough that the flick isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tor ture.) Five writers worked on the script; none bothered to create a plot or jokes. Director David Wain and the ensemble arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tr ying much harder â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the film, like a cer tain lame-duck president, is content with a Gentlemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s C. For tunately twelve-yearold actor Bobbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;e J. Thompson is too young to pick up on the adultsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; apathy: Playing a hostile, breast-obsessed kid who looks like an elementar y schooler but cusses like a pimp, Thompson shames all the bigger names sleepwalking through the movie by giving it ever ything heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got. (Amy Nicholson) (Citywide)

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ALSO OPENING THIS WEEK: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. In this sequel to the 2005 animated hit, Alex the lion (Ben Stiller) and his friends “accidentally” go to Africa, where they meet their species-al relations. Directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath return, as do voice actors Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Enter tainer, and Andy Richter; also along for the ride are Alec Baldwin, will.i.am, and the late Bernie Mac. (AK) (Citywide) The World Unseen. In 1950s South Africa, a freespirited Indian woman (Sheetal Sheth) not only breaks the new apar theid rules, but even goes on to fall for another woman (Lisa Ray). Shamim Sarif wrote and directed this British/South African coproduction about the dawn of apar theid. (AK) (Laemmle’s Music Hall 3)

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BURBANK AMC Burbank 16, 140 E Palm Av, (818) 953-9800. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:30, 4:05, 6:30, 8:55; Mon 1:40, 4:10, 6:25, 8:55; Tue 11:05 a.m., 1:30, 4:05, 6:30, 8:55; Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:25, 8:55. Body of Lies Fri-Sat 10:25 a.m., 1:40, 4:45, 8:05, 11:20; Sun 10:05 a.m., 1:20, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35; Mon 1:20, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25; Tue 10:05 a.m., 1:20, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35; Wed 1:20, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25. Changeling Fri-Sat 9:55 a.m., 1:05, 4:25, 7:40, 10:55; Sun 9:55 a.m., 1:05, 4:25, 7:40, 10:45; Mon 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20; Tue 9:55 a.m., 1:05, 4:25, 7:40, 10:45; Wed 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20. The Haunting of Molly Har tley Fri-Sat 9:55 a.m., 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50, 12:10 a.m.; Sun 9:55 a.m., 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50; Mon 2, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45; Tue 9:55 a.m., 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50; Wed 2, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Fri-Sun 10:30 a.m., 12:40, 1:25, 4:20, 6:25, 7:05, 9:55; Mon 1:05, 1:35, 4:25, 6:20, 7, 9:55; Tue 10:30 a.m., 12:40, 1:25, 4:20, 6:25, 7:05, 9:55; Wed 1:05, 1:35, 4:25, 6:20, 7, 9:55. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sat 10:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 6:15, 6:45, 8:45, 9:15, 11:15, 11:55; Sun 10:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 6:15, 6:45, 8:45, 9:15; Mon 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 6:15, 6:45, 8:45, 9:15; Tue 10:45 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 6:15, 6:45, 8:45, 9:15; Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: The IMAX Experience IMAX Fri-Sat 10:15 a.m., 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45; IMAX Sun 10:15 a.m., 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40; IMAX Mon 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40; IMAX Tue 10:15 a.m., 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40; IMAX Wed 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40. Max Payne Fri 11:10 a.m., 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Sat 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Sun 11:10 a.m., 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Mon 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50; Tue 11:10 a.m., 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50. The Metropolitan Opera: Doctor Atomic Sat only, 10 a.m. Pride and Glor y Fri-Sat 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25; Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25; Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15; Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25; Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15. Quantum of Solace Thur only, 12:01 a.m.. Role Models Fri-Sat 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30, midnight; Sun 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; Mon 1:30, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25; Tue 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; Wed 1:30, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25. Saw V Fri-Sat 10:35 a.m., 12:50, 3:10, 3:40, 5:30, 7:55, 9:10, 10:20, 11:35; Sun 10:35 a.m., 12:50, 3:10, 3:40, 5:30, 7:55, 9:10, 10:20; Mon 1:20, 3:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:10, 9:40; Tue 10:35 a.m., 12:50, 3:10, 3:40, 5:30, 7:55, 9:10, 10:20; Wed 1:20, 3:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:10, 9:40. Soul Men Fri 9:40 a.m., 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25, 11:10, 12:15 a.m.; Sat 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25, 11:10; Sun 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:20, 10:50; Mon 1, 4, 6:50, 9:30; Tue 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:20, 10:50; Wed 1, 4, 6:50, 9:30. W. Fri-Sat 10:20 a.m., 1:35, 4:40, 8, 11; Sun 10:20 a.m., 1:35, 4:40, 7:55, 10:50; Mon 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35; Tue 10:20 a.m., 1:35, 4:40, 7:55, 10:50; Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri-Sat 10:50 a.m., 1:25, 4, 6:40, 9:20, 11:45; Sun 10:50 a.m., 1:25, 4, 6:40, 9:20; Mon 1:25, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20; Tue 10:50 a.m., 1:25, 4, 6:40, 9:20; Wed 1:25, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20.

AMC Burbank Town Center 8, 210 E Magnolia Bl, (818) 953-9800. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri 12:25, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05; Sat-Sun 10:10 a.m., 12:25, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05; Mon 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10; Tue 10:10 a.m., 12:25, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05; Wed-Thur 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:50, 5:35, 8:20, 11:10; Sun 12:05, 2:50, 5:35, 8:20; Mon 2:50, 5:35, 8:20; Tue 12:05, 2:50, 5:35, 8:20; Wed-Thur 2:50, 5:35, 8:20. House Fri 12:45, 3:20, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40; Sat-Sun 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:25; Mon 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:25; Tue 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:25; Wed-Thur 1:55, 4:25, 7, 9:25. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Mon 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Tue 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Wed-Thur 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45. RocknRolla Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10; Sat-Sun 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10; Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55; Tue 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10; Wed-Thur 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55. Role Models Fri 1:20, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20; Sat-Sun 10:40 a.m., 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:20; Mon 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15; Tue 10:40 a.m., 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:20; Wed-Thur 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15. Soul Men Fri 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:30; Sat-Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:15, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30; Mon 2:20, 5, 7:35, 10:05; Tue 10:30 a.m., 1:15, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30; Wed-Thur 2:20, 5, 7:35, 10:05. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Sat-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Mon 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10; Tue 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Wed-Thur 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10. AMC Burbank Town Center 6, 770 N First St, (818) 9539800. Changeling Fri-Sun noon, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45; Mon 3:15, 6:30, 9:45; Tue noon, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45; Wed-Thur 3:15, 6:30, 9:45. Eagle Eye Fri 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:25; Sat-Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10; Mon 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05; Tue 10:30 a.m., 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10; Wed-Thur 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Fri 1:55, 5, 7:50, 10:40; Sat 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:40; Sun 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:25; Mon 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:25; Tue 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:25; Wed-Thur 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:25. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Sat-Sun 9:45 a.m., 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Mon 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Tue 9:45 a.m., 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Wed-Thur 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15. Saw V Fri 1:25, 4:10, 6:25, 8:40, 11; Sat 11:05 a.m., 1:25, 4:10, 6:25, 8:40, 11; Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:25, 4:10, 6:25, 8:40; Mon 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:10; Tue 11:05 a.m., 1:25, 4:10, 6:25, 8:40; Wed-Thur 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:10. The Secret Life of Bees Fri 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:55; Sat-Sun 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55; Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55; Tue 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55; Wed-Thur 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55.

DOWNTOWN & SOUTH L.A. Laemmle’s Grande 4-Plex, 345 S Figueroa St, (213) 6170268. Circulation Fri 9:45; Sat-Sun 3:10, 9:45; Mon-Thur 5:20. P.J. Fri 5:20, 7:30; Sat-Sun 1, 5:20, 7:30; Mon-Thur 7:30. Truth of Nanking Fri 5, 8:20; Sat-Sun 1:40, 5, 8:20; MonThur 7:20. Magic Johnson Theaters, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 4020 Marlton Av, (323) 290-5900. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Sun 10 a.m., 12:25, 3, 5:30, 7:50; Mon 12:25, 3, 5:30, 7:50; Tue 10 a.m., 12:25, 3, 5:30, 7:50; Wed-Thur 12:25, 3, 5:30, 7:50. Changeling Fri-Sun 11:55 a.m., 3:30, 7, 10:25; Mon 12:10, 3:30, 7, 10:25; Tue 11:55 a.m., 3:30, 7, 10:25; Wed-Thur 12:10, 3:30, 7, 10:25. Eagle Eye Fri-Sun 11:10 a.m., 4:35, 10; Mon 4:35, 10; Tue 11:10 a.m., 4:35, 10; Wed-Thur 4:35, 10. The Haunting of Molly Har tley Fri-Sun 10:30 a.m., 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30; Mon 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30; Tue 10:30 a.m., 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30; Wed-Thur 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Fri-Sun 10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20; Mon-Thur 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sat 9:45 a.m., 10:05 a.m., 10:35 a.m., 12:05, 12:30, 1, 2:25, 2:55, 3:25, 4:50, 5:20, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 9:40, 10:10, 10:40; Sun 9:45 a.m., 10:05 a.m., 10:35 a.m., 12:05, 12:30, 1, 2:25, 2:55, 3:25, 4:50, 5:20, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 9:40, 10:10; Mon 12:05, 12:30, 1, 2:25, 2:55, 3:25, 4:50, 5:20, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 9:40, 10:10; Tue 9:45 a.m., 10:05 a.m., 10:35 a.m., 12:05, 12:30, 1, 2:25, 2:55, 3:25, 4:50, 5:20, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 9:40, 10:10; Wed-Thur 12:05, 12:30, 1, 2:25, 2:55, 3:25, 4:50, 5:20, 5:50, 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 9:40, 10:10. Max Payne 2, 7:25. Pride and Glor y 10:20. Role Models Fri-Sat 9:55 a.m., 12:35, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 11; Sun 9:55 a.m., 12:35, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:40; Mon 12:35, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:40; Tue 9:55 a.m., 12:35, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:40; Wed-Thur 12:35, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:40. Saw V Fri-Sun 9:50 a.m., 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05; Mon 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05; Tue 9:50 a.m., 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05; Wed-Thur 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05. The Secret Life of Bees Fri-Sun 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:35; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:35. Soul Men Fri-Sun 11:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:55, 2:35, 4:45, 5:15, 7:30, 8, 10:15, 10:50; Mon noon, 1:55, 2:35, 4:45, 5:15, 7:30, 8, 10:15, 10:50; Tue 11:15 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:55, 2:35, 4:45, 5:15, 7:30, 8, 10:15, 10:50; WedThur noon, 1:55, 2:35, 4:45, 5:15, 7:30, 8, 10:15, 10:50.

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HOLLYWOOD ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Bl, (323) 4644226. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30; Mon-Tue 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:35, 7:25, 10:25. Changeling Fri-Sun 1, 4, 7:30, 10:40; Mon-Tue 1, 4, 7:30, 10:50. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sat 11:10 a.m., 12:30, 1:30, 3, 4:10, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:20, 11:45; Sun 11:10 a.m., 12:30, 1:30, 3, 4:10, 5:30, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:20; MonTue 11 a.m., 12:30, 1:30, 3, 4:20, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 9:50, 11:10. Max Payne Mon 11:40 a.m., 2:40, 5:20, 8:10, 10:40; Tue 11:40 a.m., 2:40. Rachel Getting Married Fri-Sun 10:40 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10; Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20. Religulous Mon only, 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 4:55, 7:35, 10:35. RocknRolla Fri-Sun 10:55 a.m., 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 10:05; Mon-Tue 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 10:05. Saw V Fri-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5:10, 8:10, 10:35; Mon 11:45 a.m., 2:35, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Tue 11:45 a.m., 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15. The Secret Life of Bees Mon-Tue 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5, 7:50, 10:30. Synecdoche, New York Fri-Sun 10:35 a.m., 1:15, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15; Mon-Tue 11:15 a.m., 2:15, 5:05, 8:05, 10:55. W. Fri 10:50 a.m., 1:50, 5, 7:50, 10:50; Sat-Sun 10:50 a.m., 1:50; Mon-Tue 11:20 a.m., 2:20, 5:10, 8, 11. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri-Sat 11 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40, midnight; Sun 11 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40; Mon 11:10 a.m., 12:15, 1:40, 2:50, 4:10, 5:25, 7:10, 8:15, 10, 11:05; Tue 11:10 a.m., 12:15, 1:40, 2:50, 4:10, 5:35, 7:10, 8:15, 10, 11:05. Grauman’s Chinese, 6925 Hollywood Bl, (323) 464-8111. Private Screening Sun only, noon. Soul Men Fri-Sat noon, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:20; Mon-Thur noon, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:20. Los Feliz 3, 1822 N Vermont Av, (323) 664-2169. Changeling 2:45, 5:45, 8:45. Role Models 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. W. 2:45, 5:45, 8:45. Mann Chinese 6, 6801 Hollywood Bl, (323) 461-3331. Body of Lies Fri-Sun 12:40, 6:40; Mon-Thur 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40. The Haunting of Molly Har tley Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10; Sun 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10. Pride and Glor y Fri-Sun 3:40, 9:40; Mon-Thur 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50. Private Screening Fri-Sat 7:30; Sun noon, 7:30. Pacific’s El Capitan, 6838 Hollywood Bl, (323) 467-7674. High School Musical 3: Senior Year 10 a.m., 4, 9:50. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Sing-Along 1, 7. Pacific’s The Grove Stadium 14, 189 The Grove Dr, Third St & Fair fax Av, (323) 692-0829. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:45, 7:15. Body of Lies 10:25 a.m., 1:15, 4:15, 7:25, 10:35. Changeling 10:30 a.m., 12:25, 1:30, 3:45, 4:40, 7:05, 8, 10:25, 11:15. The Haunting of Molly Har tley 7:50, 10:15. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sat 10:20 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:05, 12:45, 1:50, 2:35, 3:15, 4:25, 5:05, 5:45, 7, 7:35, 8:15, 9:35, 10:05, 10:45, 12:05 a.m.; Sun-Thur 10:20 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 12:05, 12:45, 1:50, 2:35, 3:15, 4:25, 5:05, 5:45, 7, 7:35, 8:15, 9:35, 10:05, 10:45. Quantum of Solace Thur only, 12:05 a.m. Role Models Fri-Sat 11:25 a.m., 12:20, 2, 3, 4:35, 5:40, 7:20, 8:20, 10, 11:10, 12:30 a.m.; Sun 11:25 a.m., 12:20, 2, 3, 4:35, 5:40, 7:20, 8:20, 10, 11:10; Mon 11 a.m., 12:20, 2, 3, 4:35, 5:40, 7:20, 8:20, 10, 11:10; TueThur 11:25 a.m., 12:20, 2, 3, 4:35, 5:40, 7:20, 8:20, 10, 11:10. Saw V Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10, 12:35 a.m.; Sun-Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Wed-Thur 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 10:20. Soul Men Fri-Sat 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30, 12:25 a.m.; Sun-Thur 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30. W. 9:45. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri-Sat 11:20 a.m., 12:15, 1:55, 2:50, 4:30, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:50, 12:20 a.m.; Sun-Mon 11:20 a.m., 12:15, 1:55, 2:50, 4:30, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:50; Tue 11:20 a.m., 12:15, 1:55, 2:50, 4:30, 5:30, 8:10, 10:30, 11:05; Wed 11 a.m., 12:15, 1:35, 2:50, 4:10, 5:30, 8:10, 10:15, 11:05; Thur 11 a.m., 12:15, 1:35, 2:50, 4:10, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40, 11:05. Regent Showcase, 614 N La Brea Av, (323) 934-2944. Loins of Punjab Presents Fri 5:30, 7:30, 9:30; Sat-Sun 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30; Mon-Thur 5:30, 7:30, 9:30. Vine, 6321 Hollywood Bl, (323) 463-6819. Vista, 4473 Sunset, (323) 660-6639. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri 4:40, 7, 9:45; Sat-Sun 2, 4:40, 7, 9:45; Mon-Thur 4:40, 7, 9:45.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, UNIVERSAL CITY Century 8, 12827 Victor y Bl, (818) 508-6004. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. The Haunting of Molly Har tley 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 11:40 a.m., 12:55, 2:10, 3:25, 4:40, 5:55, 7:10, 8:25, 9:40. Quantum of Solace Midnight Thur only,. Role Models 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50. Saw V 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 10. Zack and Miri Make a Porno 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15. Loews CityWalk Stadium 19 with IMAX, 100 Universal City Dr at Universal CityWalk, (818) 508-0588; IMAX Theater (818) 760-8100. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 12:45, 3, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05. Changeling Fri-Mon 12:30, 2:05, 3:45, 7, 10:15; Tue-Thur 12:45, 2:05, 3:50, 7, 10:15. Eagle Eye Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 5:15, 8:05, 10:55; Sun-Mon 11:15 a.m., 5:15, 8, 10:45; Tue-Thur 5:15, 8, 10:45. The Haunting of Molly Har tley Fri-Sat 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:20, 6:35, 8:50, 11:15; Sun-Mon 11:25 a.m., 1:55, 4:20, 6:35, 8:50; Tue-Thur 1:55, 4:20, 6:35, 8:50. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Fri-Mon 11:35 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30; Tue-Thur 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sat noon, 12:50, 2:30, 3:20, 5, 5:50, 7:30, 8:20, 10, 10:50, 12:20 a.m.; Sun-Mon noon, 12:50, 2:30, 3:20, 5, 5:50, 7:30, 8:20, 10, 10:35; Tue-Thur 12:50, 2:30, 3:20, 5, 5:50, 7:30, 8:20, 10, 10:35. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: The IMAX Experience IMAX Fri-Sat 11:30 a.m., 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 9, 11:20; IMAX Sun-Mon 11:30 a.m., 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 9; IMAX Tue-Thur 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 9. Max Payne Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:30, 6, 8:30, 11:10; Sun-Thur 1:05, 3:30, 6, 8:25, 10:45. Pride and Glor y Fri-Mon 12:40, 6:15; Tue-Thur 12:55, 6:15. Quantum of Solace Thur only, 12:01 a.m.. Quarantine Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25, 11:45; Sun-Mon 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25; Tue-Thur 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25. RocknRolla Fri-Sat 11:05 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 8, 10:45; Sun-Mon 11:05 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 8, 10:40; Tue-Thur 2:15, 4:55, 8, 10:40. Role Models Fri-Sat 11:10 a.m., 12:10, 1:40, 2:50, 4:15, 5:30, 6:50, 8:10, 9:30, 10:40, 12:10 a.m.; Sun-Mon 11:10 a.m., 12:10, 1:40, 2:50, 4:15, 5:30, 6:50, 8:10, 9:30, 10:40; Tue-Wed 1:40, 2:50, 4:15, 5:30, 6:50, 8:10, 9:30, 10:40; Thur 1:40, 2:50, 4:15, 5:30, 6:50, 8:10, 9:30, 10:40, midnight. Saw V Fri-Sat 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 3:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10, 9:55, 11:30, 12:20 a.m.; Sun-Mon 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 3:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10, 9:55; Tue-Wed 2:10, 3:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10, 9:55; Thur 2:10, 3:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10, 9:55, 11:35. Soul Men Fri-Sat 11:20 a.m., 1, 2, 3:40, 4:40, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:10, 11:50; Sun-Mon 11:20 a.m., 1, 2, 3:40, 4:40, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:10; Tue-Wed 1, 2, 3:40, 4:40, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:10; Thur 1, 2, 3:40, 4:40, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:10, 11:45. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri-Sat 11 a.m., 12:05, 1:30, 2:40, 4, 5:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20, midnight; Sun-Mon 11 a.m., 12:05, 1:30, 2:40, 4, 5:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20; Tue-Thur 1:30, 2:40, 4, 5:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20.

SANTA MONICA AMC Santa Monica 7, 1310 Third Street Promenade, (310) 395-3030. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri 5:20, 7:35, 9:55; Mon-Tue 5:20, 7:35, 9:55; Wed-Thur 2:45, 5:20, 7:35, 9:55. Changeling Fri 7:25, 10:45; Mon-Tue 7:10, 10:20; Wed-Thur 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 10:20. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Fri 5:15, 7:55, 10:35; Mon-Tue 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; WedThur 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri 5:30, 7, 7:45, 9:30, 10:05; Sat 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Sun 3; Mon-Tue 5:30, 7, 7:45, 9:30, 10:05; Wed-Thur 12:45, 2, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7, 7:45, 9:30, 10:05. Pride and Glor y Fri 7:15, 10:15; Mon-Tue 7:15, 10:10; Wed-Thur 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10. Role Models Fri 5:40, 8, 10:30; Mon-Tue 5:40, 8, 10:30; Wed-Thur 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:30. Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex, 1332 Second St, (310) 394-9741. Happy-Go-Lucky Fri 7:25, 10:15; Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15; MonTue 7:25, 10:15; Wed-Thur 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15. Rachel Getting Married Fri 7:30, 10:15; SatSun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; Mon-Tue 7:30, 10:15; Wed-Thur 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15. The Secret Life of Bees Fri 10; Sat-Tue 7:40, 10; Wed-Thur 1:55, 4:50, 7:40, 10. W. Fri 10:10; Sat-Tue 7:20, 10:10; Wed-Thur 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10. Loews Cineplex Broadway, 1441 Third Street Promenade, (310) 458-1506. Call theater for titles and showtimes. Mann Criterion, 1313 Third Street Promenade,

(310) 395-1599. Body of Lies Fri 7, 10:10; SatSun 3:50, 7, 10:10; Mon-Tue 7, 10:10; WedThur 12:50, 3:50, 7, 10:10. Eagle Eye Fri 9:50; Sat-Sun 4:30, 9:50; MonTue 9:50; Wed-Thur 11:40 a.m., 4:30, 9:50. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri 7:20; SatSun 2:20, 7:20; Mon-Tue 7:20; Wed-Thur 2:20, 7:20. Saw V Fri 7:40, 10:20; Sat-Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20; Mon-Tue 7:40, 10:20; Wed-Thur 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri 6:30, 7:30, 9, 10; Sat-Sun 1:30, 2:30, 4:05, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9, 10; Mon-Tue 6:30, 7:30, 9, 10; Wed-Thur noon, 1:30, 2:30, 4:05, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9, 10.

7:30, 10:35; Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:35; Tue 10:10 a.m., 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:35; Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:35. Eagle Eye Fri-Sat 5:20, 8:05; Sun-Mon 5:20, 8; Tue 5:20, 8:05; Wed 5:20, 8.

The Haunting of Molly Har tley Fri-Sat 2:05, 7:10, 12:20 a.m.; Sun-Mon 2:05, 7:10; Tue 2:05; Wed 2:05, 7:10. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Fri-Sun 9:45 a.m., 12:35, 2:30, 3:25, 6:20, 8, 9:15; Mon 12:35, 2:30, 3:25, 6:20, 8, 9:15; Tue

9:45 a.m., 12:35, 2:30, 3:25, 6:20, 8, 9:15; Wed 12:35, 2:30, 3:25, 6:20, 8, 9:15. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sat 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:25, 1, 2:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:05, 11:30; Sun 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:25, 1, 2:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:05; Mon 12:25, 1, 2:55,

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SHERMAN OAKS, ENCINO ArcLight Sherman Oaks, 15301 Ventura Bl, Sherman Oaks, (818) 501-0753. Beverly Hills Chihuahua Fri-Wed 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35; Thur 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:35. Body of Lies 11 a.m., 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:50. Changeling Fri-Sat 12:45, 4:05, 7:15, 10:45; Sun-Thur 12:45, 4:05, 7:15. The Color of Money Tue only, 7:30. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 4:50, 10:15; Mon-Tue 11:30 a.m., 4:50; Wed-Thur 11:30 a.m., 4:50, 10:15. High School Musical 3: Senior Year Sing-Along Fri-Sun 2:10, 7:35; Mon-Tue 2:10; Wed-Thur 2:10, 7:35. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., noon, 12:30, 1:45, 2:25, 3, 4:20, 5, 5:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 9:20, 9:55, 10:30, 11:30; Sun-Thur 11:15 a.m., noon, 12:30, 1:45, 2:25, 3, 4:20, 5, 5:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 9:20, 9:55, 10:30. Quantum of Solace Thur only, 12:01 a.m., 12:15 a.m.. Rachel Getting Married 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35. Religulous 11:25 a.m., 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50. RocknRolla 11:55 a.m., 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 11. Role Models Fri-Mon 11:35 a.m., 12:25, 2:15, 3:05, 4:45, 5:35, 7:30, 8:15, 10:05, 10:55; Tue 11:35 a.m., 12:25, 2:15, 3:05, 4:45, 5:35, 7:30, 8:15, 10:05, 10:45; Wed 11:35 a.m., 12:25, 2:15, 3:05, 4:45, 5:35, 7:30, 8:15, 10:05, 10:55; Thur 11:35 a.m., 12:40, 2:15, 3:05, 4:45, 5:35, 7:30, 8:15, 10:05, 10:55. The Secret Life of Bees 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40. W. Fri 11:10 a.m., 2:05, 5:15, 8:10, 11:10; Sat-Thur 11:10 a.m., 2:05, 5:15, 8:10, 10:55. The Who Live at Kilburn 1977 Mon only, 8, 10:30. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri-Mon 11:20 a.m., 12:10, 2, 2:45, 4:50, 5:25, 7:20, 8:25, 10:10, 11:05; Tue 11:20 a.m., 12:10, 2, 2:45, 4:50, 5:25, 8:25, 11:05; Wed-Thur 11:20 a.m., 12:10, 2, 2:45, 4:50, 5:25, 7:20, 8:25, 10:10, 11:05. Laemmle’s Town Center 5, 17200 Ventura Bl, Encino, (818) 981-9811. The Duchess 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:40. Happy-Go-Lucky 1, 3:50, 7, 9:50. I’ve Loved You So Long 1:10, 4, 7:10, 9:55. There Is Always a Woman in Between 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10. What Just Happened? Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:30; Sat-Thur 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55. Mann Plant 16, 7876 Van Nuys Bl, Panorama City, (818) 779-0323. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2, 3, 4:20, 5:20, 6:40, 9. Changeling 12:50, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20. Eagle Eye 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40. The Haunting of Molly Har tley 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10. High School Musical 3: Senior Year 11:30 a.m., 1:10, 2:10, 3:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10. RocknRolla 7:40, 10:20. Saw V noon, 1, 2:20, 3:20, 4:40, 5:40, 7, 8, 9:20, 10:30. Zack and Miri Make a Porno 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 6:30, 7:40, 9, 10:10. Pacific’s Sherman Oaks 5, 14424 Millbank St, Sherman Oaks, (818) 501-5121. The Haunting of Molly Har tley 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40. High School Musical 3: Senior Year 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55. Saw V 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 9:50. Soul Men 1:10, 4:15, 7:10, 9:45. Synecdoche, New York 1, 4:05, 7, 9:50.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, BEVERLY HILLS, CENTURY CITY AMC Century City 15, 10250 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 277-2011. Beverly Hills Chihuahua FriSat 10:15 a.m., 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35; Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35; Tue 10:15 a.m., 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35; Wed 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35. Body of Lies Fri-Sun 10:10 a.m., 1:15, 4:15,

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3:45, 6:30, 9:05; Tue 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:25, 1, 2:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:05; Wed 12:25, 1, 2:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:05; Thur 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:05. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: The IMAX Experience IMAX Fri-Sun 9:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:35, 10:05; IMAX Mon noon, 2:15, 5, 7:35, 10:05; IMAX Tue 9:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:35, 10:05; IMAX Wed noon, 2:15, 5, 7:30, 10:05; IMAX Thur 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30, 10:45. Max Payne Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 4:35, 9:35; Mon 4:35, 9:35; Tue 11:30 a.m., 4:35; Wed 4:35, 9:35. The Metropolitan Opera: Doctor Atomic Sat only, 10 a.m. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Fri-Sat 11; Sun-Wed 10:45. Pride and Glor y Fri-Sat 10:40 a.m., 1:35, 4:45, 7:50, 10:50; Sun 10:40 a.m., 1:35, 4:45, 7:50, 10:45; Mon 1:35, 4:45, 7:50, 10:45; Tue 10:40 a.m., 1:35, 4:45, 7:50, 10:50; Wed 1:35, 4:45, 7:50, 10:45. Quantum of Solace Thur only, 12:01 a.m.. Role Models Fri-Sat 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55, 12:30 a.m.; Sun 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55; Mon 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55; Tue 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55; Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55. Saw V Fri-Sat 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55, 12:15 a.m.; Sun 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; Tue 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; Wed 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55. The Secret Life of Bees Fri 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Sat 2, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Sun 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Mon 2, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Tue 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Wed 2, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30. Soul Men Fri-Sat 9:50 a.m., 12:25, 3, 5:40, 8:15, 10:55; Sun 9:50 a.m., 12:25, 3, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50; Mon 12:25, 3, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50; Tue 9:50 a.m., 12:25, 3, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50; Wed 12:25, 3, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50. W. Fri-Sun 9:55 a.m., 1:05, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25; Mon 1:05, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25; Tue 9:55 a.m., 1:05, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25; Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri-Sat 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, 1:40, 4:20, 5:20, 7, 9:40, 10:55, 12:20 a.m.; Sun 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, 1:40, 4:20, 5:20, 7, 9:40, 10:40; Mon noon, 1:40, 4:20, 5:20, 7, 9:40, 10:40; Tue 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, 1:40, 4:20, 5:20, 7, 9:40, 10:40; Wed noon, 1:40, 4:20, 5:20, 7, 9:40, 10:40. Laemmle’s Music Hall 3, 9036 Wilshire Bl, (310) 2746869. Captain Abu Raed Fri 5, 7:30, 10; Sat-Sun noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Mon-Thur 5, 7:30, 10. The Duchess Fri 5:20, 8; Sat-Sun noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8; Mon-Thur 5:20, 8. The World Unseen Fri 5, 7:20, 10; Sat-Sun noon, 2:20, 5, 7:20, 10; Mon-Thur 5, 7:20, 10. Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theatre, 8000 Sunset Bl, (323) 8483500. Able Danger Fri only, 11:55. Ballast Sat only, 1:45. Dear Zachar y Fri 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:45; Sat-Sun 1:30, 7,

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WESTWOOD, WEST L.A. AMC Avco Center, 10840 Wilshire Bl, (310) 475-0711. Changeling Fri-Sun 12:45, 4, 7:05, 10:15; Mon 2, 5, 8:10; Tue 1:30, 7:10; Wed-Thur 2, 5, 8:10. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Mon-Thur 2:05, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Role Models Fri-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05; Mon-Thur 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05. Zack and Miri Make a Porno Fri-Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 10; Mon 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45; Tue 4:35, 10:20; Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45; Thur 1:30, 4, 10:20. Laemmle’s Royal Theatre, 11523 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 477-5581. I’ve Loved You So Long 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:45. Landmark’s Nuart Theater, 11272 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 281-8223. Bloodspor t Fri only, midnight. The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sat only, miidnight. Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains Fri-Sun 1, 4, 7, 9:55; Mon-Thur 4, 7, 9:55. Landmark’s Regent, 1045 Broxton Av, (310) 281-8223. High School Musical 3: Senior Year 1:45, 4:30, 7, 9:30. The Landmark West Los Angeles, 10850 W Pico Bl, (310) 281-8223. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Fri-Sat 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:55, 7:20, 8:20, 9:40; Sun-Thur 11:50 a.m., 1, 2:20, 3:30, 4:55, 6, 7:20, 8:20, 9:40. Changeling Fri-Tue 11 a.m., 12:40, 2:10, 4, 5:20, 7:15, 8:30, 10:20; Wed 12:40, 4, 7:15, 10:20; Thur 11 a.m., 12:40, 2:10, 4, 5:20, 7:15, 8:30, 10:20. Happy-Go-Lucky 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 10:10. Quantum of Solace Thur only, midnight. Rachel Getting Married 11:10 a.m., 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05. Religulous Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20; Mon 12:20, 2:50, 10:20; Tue 12:20, 5:20, 10:20. RocknRolla Fri-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:35; Mon 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 10:35; Tue 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:35. Slumdog Millionaire Wed-Thur 11 a.m., 12:20, 1:45, 3:10, 4:35, 6, 7:30, 8:45, 10:15. Synecdoche, New York 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25. W. 10:50 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30. What Just Happened? Fri-Mon 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40; Tue 2:40, 7:40; Wed-Thur 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:45, 10:30. Zack and Miri Make a Porno 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15.

Majestic Crest Theater, 1262 Westwood Bl, (310) 4747866. The Duchess Fri-Wed 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45; Thur noon, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45. Mann Bruin, 948 Broxton Av, (310) 208-8998. Soul Men noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10. Mann Festival 1, 10887 Lindbrook Av, (310) 208-4575. Body of Lies 1:20, 7. RocknRolla 4:20, 9:50. Mann Village, 961 Broxton Av, (310) 208-5576. Pride and Glor y Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10.

WOODLAND HILLS, WEST HILLS, TARZANA AMC Promenade 16, 21801 Oxnard St, Woodland Hills, (818) 883-2262. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sun 9:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55; Mon 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55; Tue 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55; Wed-Thur 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55. The Metropolitan Opera: Doctor Atomic Sat only, 10 a.m. Quantum of Solace Thur only, 12:01. Laemmle’s Fallbrook 7 Cinemas, Fallbrook Mall, 6731 Fallbrook Av, West Hills, (818) 340-8710. Changeling 1:40, 4:50, 8. Fashion Fri noon, 6:15; Sat 3, 9:30; Sun noon, 6:15; Tue 2:30, 5:45, 9; Thur 2:30, 5:45, 9. Golmaal Returns Fri 3:15, 9:30; Sat noon, 6:15; Sun 3:15, 9:30; Mon noon, 3, 6, 9; Wed noon, 3, 6, 9. Loins of Punjab Presents Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:50; Mon-Thur 1:20, 3:30, 6, 8:30. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Fri-Sun noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20; Mon-Thur 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8. Rachel Getting Married Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55; Mon-Thur noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8:10. The Secret Life of Bees Fri 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40; SatSun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 8:40. What Just Happened? Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 10; MonThur noon, 2:30, 5:10, 8:20.

SPEC IAL SCR E ENI NG S THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre, Santa Monica, (323) 466-3456. Aerotheatre.com. Attack of the Giant Screen – Them!, 7:30; followed by The Giant Claw . American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, (323) 466-3456. Egyptiantheatre.com. Danny Boyle In Person! – Shallow Grave, 7:30; followed by Trainspotting. CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre, Hollywood, (323) 655-2520. Silentmovietheatre.com. Rober t Downey, Sr.: A Prince – Putney Swope, 8; followed by Pound. New Beverly Cinema, L.A., (323) 938-4038. Newbevcinema.com. Call theater for titles and showtimes.

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Attack of the Giant Screen – Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), 7:30; followed by Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre Tilda Swinton In Person! – Julia (2008), 7:30; followed by discussion with actress Tilda Swinton. L.A. County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Theatre, L.A., (323) 857-6010. Lacma.org. Full of Life: Arnaud Desplechin – A Christmas Tale, 7:30. New Beverly Cinema Midnight Cowboy, 7:30; Raging Bull, 9:45. Reservoir Dogs, 11:59. UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, 10899 Bl, L.A., (310) 206-3456 or Wilshire cinema.ucla.edu/calendar. The Labyrinthine Worlds of Alain Robbe-Grillet – L’Immortelle, 7:30; followed by Trans-Europ Express.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Attack of the Giant Screen – Tremors, 7:30; followed by Critters. New Beverly Cinema Midnight Cowboy, 2:45, 7:30; Raging Bull, 5, 9:45. The Stepfather, 11:59.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Attack of the Giant Screen – 20 Million Miles to Earth, 7:30; followed by Th e Monster T hat C h a l l e ng e d t h e W o r l d . American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre Old Bones! – The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, 5; introduced by writer/director/actor Larr y Blamire. L.A. Premiere! Presented in the Majesty of SuperSkeletorama! – The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, 7:30; followed by discussion with cast and crew. New Beverly Cinema 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), 5; Mysterious Island (1961), 3, 7:35. UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy The Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum Labyrinthine Worlds of Alain Robbe-Grillet – Last Year at Marienbad, 7.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10 CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Presented with live score by In the Nurser y – The Passion of Joan of Arc, 8. New Beverly Cinema 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), 7:30; Mysterious Island (1961), 10:05. UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum Out of the Past: Film Restoration Today – The Savage Eye, 7:30; preceded by the shor t Muscle Beach; free.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre New Films from Italy – Gomorrah, 7:30; introduced by director Matteo Garrone. L.A. County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Theatre William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies, and Hollywood – Polly of the Circus, 1; Not So Dumb, 2:20. Preview screening – Slumdog Millionaire, 7:30. New Beverly Cinema 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), 7:30; Mysterious Island (1961), 10:05.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre Nick Broomfield In Person! – Battle for Haditha, 7:30. American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre 40th Anniversar y Screening! – Head, 7:30; preceded by the theatrical premieres of the never-televised Monkees TV series pilot and rare versions of four Monkees episodes unseen since 1973, plus other rarities; followed by discussion with Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and songwriter Tommy Boyce. CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius – Why Worry?, 8; followed by A Sailor-Made Man. New Beverly Cinema Call theater for titles and showtimes.

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ver the past five years, Naomi Harris has been photographing swingers having big group-sex parties all across the United States. And then there was that very photogenic crock-pot filled with gravy on the table next to a pile of biscuits on a paper plate which she photographed as well. It’s totally understandable, after watching all that writhing flesh, that gravy is what starts to look good through the lens. –Gabrielle Paluch L.A. CityBeat: Your new book America Swings is published as an art book by Taschen, but in a lot of ways it seems like what you’ve produced is an anthropological study. Which did you mean to do? Naomi Harris: My intention with this work was to give people who don’t really have much of a voice some visibility. According to what we see in the media, the only people who have sex are young, attractive, and affluent, and that’s simply not the case in real life. People are old and wrinkly or fat, people have weird kinks, and that’s sex too, and those people deserve a voice as well. I’m not passing judgments, saying this way of life is good or bad, I’m simply trying to show this other side of American life that is just as American as what’s visible in the mainstream. The images have sexual content, but this isn’t erotic art, and the photos are not meant to be erotic – in that sense the concept does have an element of anthropological study. What did you learn about human emotions like jealousy and love from the swingers you photographed? Swingers say if you’re a jealous person, then swinging just really isn’t for you. I’ve learned from this that I’m really not capable of just shelving my jealousy like that, but when you talk to poly-amorous couples they’ll tell you that swinging keeps their relationships together. Sometimes, you’ll hear them say things like that, and a year later you see them again and they’re getting divorced, but not always. And then, you can’t even really say that the jealousy and swinging is ultimately what drove the couple apart. Swingers’ relationships are still fraught with all the same problems we see in conventional relationships, but who’s to say that there was no jealousy? I bet the Dalai Lama gets a little jealous There was pretty much always booze around at the sometimes, and there’s just nothing he can do about it. In the end you can really only talk about your own parties I went to. My opinion with swinging is that it’s like with karaoke – if you can’t do it stone cold sober, emotions, and the only conclusion I can really draw you shouldn’t be doing it. It kind of also makes me from going to these parties for five years is that I’m think that maybe some of the people who swing maybe a very monogamous person, and that it’s not for me. aren’t entirely comfortable with it after all, that it’s I think jealousy is a very basic human emotion that more about the fantasy, thinking it would be cool to try all mammals experience, and it’s really impossible rather than actually going through with it. Or maybe for a human being not to feel that way sometimes. It’s natural. In a way, swingers are saying that they’ve they try it once and it’s really great, but then when they try it a second time it’s not really OK, but they do it been able to evolve beyond jealousy. They often again anyway hoping it’ll be as fun as that first time. say they feel they’ve been able to go beyond the restrictions of conventions of marriage as something Any special, fun swinger-lingo you learned? that’s sort of been put upon society. For me, seeing There are phrases to denote how far people will go, that much sex all the time just really kills my libido. soft-swap versus full-swap, for example. Or if someone doesn’t like to swing they call them vanilla. Then there What about diseases? are unicorns, which are unattached, single women. There seems to be a relatively low incidence of They call them unicorns because they’re like the holy sexually transmitted diseases at these parties. You’d think it would be rampant, especially because a lot of grail of conquests for swingers – attractive and rare. these people don’t always use protection; somehow it You profiled an all-black male group in Florida, who doesn’t really seem to come up that often. have group sex with married white women while their Is there a lot of drug abuse? husbands watch, called Mandingos. What interests you It really varies depending on the group and the age. about this particular kink? Some of the people I saw at these groups were getting I think it’s fascinating because I don’t think it’s just extremely intoxicated beforehand, and some not. about sex. I think the guys do it because they’re taking

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something back, sort of like they’re “sticking it to the man,” but through the woman. There seems to be a twofold motivation behind it for the white people who do it. These people are generally in their ’40s or ’50s, people who grew up in a time when interracial couples, especially in the South, just really weren’t permissible. So to them it seems perhaps quite avant-garde, or outrageous. The cuckolding phenomenon is the other aspect. A cuckold is in a relationship where the woman openly had affairs to humiliate the husband. Now it’s taken on a more extreme form where the husbands are actually present, and it’s still about humiliation. They’re being humiliated by watching their wives being pleasured by half a dozen men, and on one hand they think it’s exciting, but on the other hand it’s also humiliating. I was at one party I wasn’t allowed to photograph where, after encouraging the Mandingos to ejaculate on his wife’s face, the husband then took her to the bathroom and licked her face clean. So I think that’s pretty much about as humiliating as you can get. Is there ever an exchange of money in these situations? I’m not really sure, I think it may be by donation. Like a yoga class? Maybe a similar concept, I don’t know. V

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Pleasure Circus Band is from another context entirely By Gabrielle Paluch

Parts & Labor The Smell, Nov. 3

or the purposes of this preview, music is like food; everybody makes it in their own way, and it always seems radically different wherever you go. In case you ever figure out what country (or planet, for that matter) Oliwa’s Pleasure Circus Band is from, please take me there immediately, because if the music at their shows is any indication, the food must be piquant and fabulous. Their latest show at the Unknown Theatre, hosted by the AMAR Collective and featuring Big Lovin’ Panda, had the usual Pleasure Circus dress code: Feel free to attend in costume, but after dancing like that you’ll probably be leaving nude anyhow. Expect more of the same for this Friday’s show at El Cid, L.A.’s one and only historical flamenco dinner theater. Pleasure Band looks spontaneous during performances, but don’t let the fun fool you – there are 11 thoughtful brains’ worth of over-intellectualized art school behind this free-and-easy music making, complete with a full brass section and exotic drums. Oliver Newell, 26, who writes the music and conducts from behind his electric bass, could be called the front man but protests the word. “The term would be a little misleading in this case. I do write all the music and stand at the front, but the incredibly diverse backgrounds of the musicians behind me, the influences and expertise they bring, are sometimes things I don’t even understand entirely, let alone things of which I am capable. When I write the music, it’s really just so that all these different individual voices have a new common context, a new relationship to one another.” Talk about diverse backgrounds and new contexts: New York drummer Qasim Ali Naqvi’s background in improvisational free jazz has now given way to groove-based rhythms. The other percussionists bring Afro-Cuban and Brazilian beats, the bassist is influenced by the music he encountered while living in Hawaii, a Moroccan Rhodes pianist finds himself making psychedelic sounds, and the rest of the band hailing from the South tend to make blues music. So what do you get when you put a quirky young musician from every corner of the world together in a band? Why, a postmodern tribal dance party! “My intention for this music,” Newell comments, “is to create a space to let loose, to celebrate, and let it evolve into and out of chaos. Sometimes people have gotten the impression that what we’re doing is a joke – and it is, but it’s also not.”

21+. Friday, midnight. El Cid, 4212 W. Sunset Blvd., (323) 668-0318. www.oliwamusic.com.

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t was the night before Election 2008, and virtually every news outlet was heaving sighs of unaffected relief. The long national nightmare is almost over, even if it means the deliquescence of 1980s movement conservatism (that sheltered retard of American politics) may at last proceed on schedule. This, combined with the long Halloween weekend, must’ve had the effect of wringing the skonk-art crowd dry, since barely three-dozen beards and tone-wonks wandered through the Smell on Monday night to welcome Brooklyn noise-poppers Parts & Labor. As is usual with this venue, the performance went on with the same boho aplomb for 30 as for 300. Terrors was holding forth in the back of the venue when I arrived with publicist extraordinaire Ana Bustilloz. A pseudonym for feedback-folkie Elijah Forrest, Terrors specializes in one-man pedal lament and the kind of electrified weeping to crack a heart of anthracite. “All this shit is boring to do,” admitted Forrest diffidently, “so it must be terrible to watch.” Perhaps, but to listen was a rare bit of tenderness and balm for freshsqueezed feelings. The tiny heartache resident in my breast all weekend was expertly massaged by this stout fellow, resplendent in facial hair right out of Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet. Next up was Gowns, a three-piece howling a mournful, proto-American Wisconsin Death Trip racket through synth, violin, and other accoutrements. A disconsolate prairie howl wafted into an inferno of churning distortion, while I stared at the pitted concrete floor and colordaubed walls. Ana began to withdraw to the exit, as the vocalist took to wailing about her translucent arms, and the rest of the audience stood poleaxed and impressed at the fury. I coaxed the lovely La Bustilloz back for the headliners, who, after such raw head and bloody bones, seemed slick as Motley Crue. Parts & Labor are compleat noisepoppers, insofar as they write intricate, pleasing tunes they then harry and torture through various Dantean means. Receivers, now out on Jagjaguwar, is a welter of furiously whirling fragments chasing each other inside a melodic Cuisinart in service of a vision of annihilation that would be as punk as fuck if punk stood for anything but a green-haired version of biz-asusual anymore. Toward the end, vocalist Dan Friel remarked the next song, inspired by a D.C. protest march, was “a dream of what’s gonna happen tomorrow.” That reminded me I had to go vote in the early morning, so I guided a nowrevved Ana to the door and out. –Ron Garmon

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NIGHTBEAT Kaiser Chiefs They’re stars back home, playing far larger venues than the intimate Troubadour, but the Kaiser Chiefs could catch on in a major way over here if the British quintet continues to pen the same kind of lightly invigorating tunes found on the band’s third album, Off With Their Heads. As with the Police and the Kinks in their respective days, the Leeds-based band’s pop masks a detached skepticism on matters of class and comfort, and routine versus revolution. Yet the charm with which they do it makes one surmise they wouldn’t mind sharing a pint with you while they engage your consciousness. Tues. at the Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 276-6168. troubadour.com.

This Week’s Highlights Thursday, November 6

By Nathan Solis

Coheed and Cambria. Nu-proggers play their second album in its entirety on the second night of their L.A. run. Their third and fourth discs are played on the remaining two nights. The Avalon, Hollywood, avalonhollywood.com. Also Fri. and Sat. Death By Stereo. Fullerton screamo stars detonate fiercely. Key Club, West Hollywood, keyclub.com. Madonna. You wanna go ’round Madge’s bases? Here’s your chance. Dodger Stadium, Elysian Park, livenation.com. Old Crow Medicine Show. Nashville’s old-timey music stars return to promote Tennessee Pusher. Music Box @ Fonda, Hollywood, henryfondatheatre.com. TV on the Radio, The Dirtbombs. Big Apple art-rockers TV on the Radio join forces with Detroit’s rockin’ soul family the Dirtbombs for a wild evening. The Wiltern, Los Angeles, livenation.com. Watkins Family Hour with guests Ben Lee and Matt Costa. Largo, Los Angeles, largo-la.com.

Friday, November 7

Pennies in the Ashtray

remember the first time someone invited me to a party where a band was playing. Some guy asked for $2 at the door. “Who are you and why do you want my $2 cheeseburger money?” “Donations.” Arguing the importance of $2 cheeseburgers wasn’t going to solve anything. Turns out, the band sucked: They were ska meets gangsta rap. From that point on, I wasn’t going to dish out my singles. If a band really deserved my money they would either play a song I shouted out (think Disney musicals) or they would be so bad that everyone would rush the stage and steal the show. Can’t do either of those now. One, bands don’t take requests and two, bouncers are not gentle people. That leaves us, the poor music aficionadi, to find solace in knowing that we don’t have to donate blood to buy a ticket for a show. Here are a few upcoming – perhaps you’ll see me there, perhaps not. OK, the Bangles established that Mondays are NOT fundays. But Spaceland always has itself some fine residencies and November is no exception with Western State Motels. This is acoustic bard Carl Jordan’s baby and we’re just along for the ride. You missed the first show of the month, are you really going to be a jerk and miss another? Oh, and free! Tuesday night is Indie103.1 ’s Check One Twosda ys. Everyone’s favorite Earlimart will be siren-calling us to The Echoplex, with the Afternoons and Red Cortez (formerly the Weather Underground). Now, the Weather Underground has been an amazing fixture for the L.A. scene, what with the mix of blues and savage surfer rhythm. Yes, savage, as in unrelenting and simple drumming that goes well with harmonica. It’s a free show, but if you’re stuck in the limbo that is 18, but not quite 21 yet, expect to pay $5. Don’t forget that The Smell will never ask you for more than $10, and it never hurts to check out Mr. T’s Bowl, Pehrspace, or the always-clever Echo Curio. We’re still in a recession. Tightwad is the new black. V

Apes & Androids. N.Y. Indie-rockers influenced by Queen, Prince, and Beck. The Echo, Echo Park, attheecho.com. Citizen Cope. Fans of C.C.’s blend of hip-hop and folk will have to wait one more month for their new album. Orpheum Theatre, downtown L.A., laorpheum.com. DragonForce, Turisas, Powerglove. British fleet-fingered metal dudes DragonForce might well be upstaged by the medieval costumes and melodies of Finland’s Turisas. The Wiltern. Electric 6, Local H. Two gimmicky rock bands team up for better odds. Key Club. Face to Face, Guttermouth. Reunited Victorville pop-punk band Face to Face headline over Guttermouth’s bratty, anything-goes mischief. House of Blues Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, hob.com. The Heartless Bastards, The Broken West. Alt-country stars saddle up for musical bliss. Spaceland, Silver Lake, clubspaceland.com. Jaguares. The Mexican stars return to headline the spacious downtown venue. Nokia Theatre/LA Live, downtown L.A., nokiatheatrelalive.com. droid behavior: human and skin-job alike Jedi Mind Tricks. Bracing hip-hop punk from this willing-to-offend Philadelphia duo. Music Box @ Fonda. Van Morrison. The Irishman performs Astral Weeks live for a future live album. Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, hollywoodbowl.com. Also Sat. Tangerine Dream. The legendary German soundscapers celebrate their 40th anniversary. Royce Hall, UCLA, Westwood, uclalive.org. Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll & Sipe. Jam-band leaning Keller and crew prepare to thrill local hacky-sack players. El Rey Theatre, Miracle Mile, theelrey. com.

Saturday, November 8

Dave Alvin and Friends. The master Blaster hosts a roots-rock party. Largo. Dead Meadow. Heavy stoner rock from friends of Fugazi. The Troubadour, West Hollywood, troubadour.com. The Dodos. Psychedelic folk from San Francisco duo. The Echoplex, Echo Park, attheecho.com. Jim Gaffigan. The hard-working comic and co-star of My Boys plays two shows tonight. The Wiltern. Hawthorne Heights, Emery, The Color Fred. Emo-punk stars Hawthorne Heights promote new album Fragile Future. House of Blues Sunset Strip. Grant-Lee Phillips. The Largo favorite returns to haunt. Largo’s Little Room. The Who. The first of two nights with the longtime purveyors of maximum R&B. Nokia Theatre/LA Live. Also Sun.

Sunday, November 9

Natacha Atlas and the Mazeeka Ensemble. Traditional Arabian music mixed with smoky, outre arrangements. El Rey Theatre. Beck. The sonic vagabond headlines the first concert at this new downtown venue. Club Nokia, downtown L.A., nokiatheatrelalive.com. Also Mon. Russell Brand. British comic Brand extends his current stay in L.A. Largo.

Monday, November 10

Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power. Veteran folk-rocker Chesnutt returns with latest album Dark Developments; he’s joined by the brilliantly weird collective, Elf Power. The Echoplex. John Hiatt, Ben Taylor. The veteran and the comer, Hiatt and his band are joined by James Taylor’s boy for a short tour. House of Blues Sunset Strip. King Kahn and the BBQ Show, The Duchess and the Duke, The Flash Express. Fine rock ’n’ soul revue from these disciples of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. The Echo.

Tuesday, November 11

Copeland, Lovedrug, Lydia, The Lights. Copeland’s ever more sophisticated mellow alt-rock has expanded its audience its eight years as a band. El Rey Theatre. Earlimart. Local sunny pop purveyors hang out their shingle on a Tuesday night. The Echoplex. Rickie Lee Jones. Solo show from the bohemian star. Largo. Method Man, Redman. Beats and blunts from the toking and smoking duo. House of Blues Sunset Strip. Mudvayne, 10 Years, Snot. Peoria math-metal crew Mudvayne is joined by Knoxville’s 10 Years, and recently reconstituted Santa Barbara punkers Snot. Hollywood Palladium. Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The blues-guitar wunderkind returns for more. Key Club. Travis. Upbeat Scottish band spreads its good vibes on latest disc, Ode to J. Smith. The Troubadour.

Wednesday, November 12

Jonatha Brooke with Glen Phillips. Should be plenty of heavenly harmonies for all. Largo. Dungen. The Swedish psychedelic rock band recently released its acclaimed fourth album. The Echo. The Entrance Band. Trippy folk-rock influenced by the sounds of the ’60s, led by Guy Blakeslee and Paz Lenchantin. Spaceland. The Faceless, Abigail Williams. Death metal critics have been raving about Abigail Williams (a group) and their latest album, In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns. Key Club. Lupe Fiasco. Chicago rap phenom plays his first local headlining show. Club Nokia. Galactic. The New Orleans jazz and funk collective are famed for playing thrilling sets. House of Blues Sunset Strip. The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Night Horse. Swedes T(I)NC used to sound like the MC5; they’re sounding more ’70s than ever on latest, Rick Rubinproduced album, The Cross of My Calling. El Cid, Los Feliz, foldsilverlake.com. –Joshua Sindell

Thu NOV 6 8pm • Fri NOV 7 11am Sat NOV 8 8pm • Sun NOV 9 2pm Violin sensation Midori performs a rarely-heard Britten masterpiece. Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads the LA Phil in vivid musical images from pioneer America and ancient Mexico.

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Look Daggers (2Mex of the Visionaries & Ikey Owens of The Mars Volta/Free Moral Agents) celebrate their new ablum, Suffer In Style (including the DVD Alive For Now In Long Beach). It’s out now on Up Above Records!

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I’m From Barcelona Who Killed Harry Houdini? (Mute) The second album from this Swedish mishigas is a fine lot of chamber pop noise, as diverting as a chartreuse sunset, as inconsequential as a sparrow’s gastritis. Rolling Stone rates this as “pretty damn charming,” but just how credible is toe-in-the-dirt guilelessness by your sophomore entry? At this point, a typical rock act is steeped in mindbending iniquity, or at least the kind of sour boredom that produces tour songs, but this outsized mob (actually, Emanuel Lundgren plus a platoon of appendages, sidemen, and waldoes) is winsomely utopian to the last gorgeous tick. “Music Killed Me,” the album’s bleakest moment, still manages to ascend Parnassus on a gentle 1966 zephyr, and “Rufus,” the finale, is an ode to a 10-foot Labrador that pumps pink indoor fog like a David Gates far gone in cubensis. Formerly in times of manifest horror, rock critics would scorn such delightful stuff as near-criminal piffle, but such brethren seem to have followed the long-late Lester Bangs into Romilar and silence. −Ron Garmon Anavan Cover Story (Slanty Shanty) Anavan came down from Alaska (you know, right next to Russia) to L.A. and ordained themselves priests of a guitar-free dance-church. Cover Story blares down with the amplitude of unfiltered pop, but the suggestion of a proper recording process would topple the creativity like a Jenga set. What we hear are “ah-has” going through a merry-goround speaker, repeating faster and faster, causing moving sensations to ripple through the listener. “Off to a Fighting Start” chants “take a long walk on a short dock,” escalating every time, as though they’re making it up on the fly and it all becomes very catchy. “Work It Out” is what a Mega Man level would be if video games were made in a ’70s discotheque and Prince made a surprise appearance. “The Perfect Sound” is pop sugar sprinkled on all the dirty habits we had when we were kids. Some effects are a bit childish, but it’s only because a slide whistle sound comes in now and again. It’s beautifully crafted mayhem, what with our listening attention wandering over the soundscape, but in the middle are three very hyper, pale folks from Alaska, and that’s the best part. −Nathan Solis The Wildhearts Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One Before Vol. 1 (Round/Cargo import) In which a very underrated London punk-rock band takes on songs that the band feels are, in turn, criminally underrated, and delivers an allaround smashing job. The 15 tunes collected and performed by frontman Ginger and his cronies are done in the ’Hearts’s inimitable slash ’n’ yearn style, but the group never suffocates the source material, the best-known being such KROQ faves as Helmet’s “Unsung” and Toadies’s “Possum Kingdom”; additionally, no true music fan will be mystified by the likes of the Georgia Satellites, Soul Asylum or the Descendents. After that, the bands get a little more obscure: The Unband? Foil? Regurgitator? The Lee Harvey Oswald Band? But the passion and care with which every song is lovingly paid tribute is infectious – the album closes with a blitzkrieg take on Warren Zevon’s “Carmelita” that would have the old Excitable Boy smiling from the afterlife – and may cause unfettered 99-cent bin digging. –Joshua Sindell Howlin’ Wolf Rockin’ the Blues, Live in Germany, 1964 (Acrobat) Wolf had just come off a tour with his worthy constituents – the Rolling Stones, whose jaunty cover of “Little Red Rooster” would hit No.1 in the U.K. about a month after the renowned frogvoiced Chicago bluesman recorded these nine sides live in Bremen. A giant at 6-foot-3 and close to 300 pounds, the onetime Chester Arthur Burnett owned one of the great proto-rock stage presences, at times riding motorbikes from the wings and crawling on the boards barking and ululating in tones of a longterm resident of Dante’s Second Circle. Some part of such lengthened shadow hangs over these eerie performances of such chunks of the Burnett/Willie Dixon songbook like “Shake It for Me,” All My Love,” and a bawdy “Howlin’ for My Darlin’,” but his trademark moan through New Orleans Jimmy Oden’s “Going Down Slow” is like a shot of coffin varnish and last cigarette. Appearing with Wolf are no less than Dixon himself, Sunnyland Slim at the keys, Clifton James on drums, and the spine-tingling Hubert Sumlin on guitar. Church music for sinners. −Ron Garmon

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Of Kings and Monsters Halloween Interruptus: The streets were already handed over to the ad-hoc Bedlamites of All Hallow’s Eve 2008 by the time we arrived at the El Rey Theatre for the Roky Erickson show, and the venue was a four-walled more-of-the-same. It’d been a long, weird week, and a few of the seamed veterans and spotty young crammed inside were beginning to get a little unhinged. There was much shoving and imprecation as the ragged clot outside the restrooms began to look like a behaviorist experiment in the effects of fluid retention and compressed space on the slop-drunk human subject. Things were rather more congenial out in the hall, but most of the familiar faces I clocked appeared sunk well deep in some slough of situational despond or other. Nevertheless, as if on a cue independent of buzz and buzzkill, the lights dimmed for the big boy, the old familiar coil of expectation began to wind in the audience, and Austin flower punks The Black Angels blitzed into “Hey Bo Diddley” as Roky, beaming and portly like some biker Orson Welles, stepped out to a general tumult. Next came a series of detonations that sounded uncannily like “Two Headed Dog,” “Night of the Vampire,” and “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” as the cream of the revered maniac’s 1960s and 1970s catalog was hauled out and set on fire. A charming young lady charged the stage and hung on the psychedelic godfather’s neck and Roky took the affection with as much dignity as a married man can muster. Unhappily, this was as far as our Halloween went, as my indisposed-yet-sober girlie met with head-banging mishap in the ladies room, and all my love and props to the El Rey staff that helped me carry her outside all non compos mentis and shit. Hours later, cruising through downtown after the Last Cab in L.A. did a noisy louie on a nearly-empty Sixth Street to retrieve my hillbilly ass and cart it home, I surveyed the holiday wreckage in nerve-blasted silence. Despite pushy cops, tanked economy, and general pre-revolutionary angst (or perhaps because of them), the party skills of aroused Angelenos are showing marked improvement. Saturday Night of the Living Dead: So much so that, despite angst and drizzly weather, I couldn’t wait to start all over again on El Dia de los Muertos. The eastern end of Sunset Boulevard was beginning to crank to life as I loped ’round to The Echoplex to meet Dance Commander. She was got up as one of Robert Palmer’s slinky side-chicks in his “Addicted to Love” video and about to lead her R.A.I.D. troupe into combat with audience libido at the Bootie L.A. monthly. She bade me stay, but we parted with a squeeze and I drifted westward along Santa Monica to the immense overstimulation going on at Hollywood Forever, as rolling waves of revelers, boisterous in tacky costumes, flooded the cemetery. There I met and parted from a pretty new friend before bumping into kamikaze photog Curious Josh snapping pics and grinning like a monkey. The Hipgenesis crew was throwing a jollification over at Circus and the party vibe on Hollywood was beginning to build once more as the hour approached midnight, but I had a more inward experience in mind. Once safely ensconced in a comfy seat at the all-night horrorthon at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, I slowly ingested three pale yellow sprigs of psylocibe cubensis as Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive unspooled before a packed house of monster freaks and UCLA dorm rats in their jammies. The early a.m. hours passed pleasantly in whorls of color and riots of shrieking, until the apocalyptic climax of Lamberto Bava’s Demons – in which a movie screening literally summons Hell to Earth – lent perfect context for an exit. It was still dark, and rain fell in gentle silver sheets as I made my way down a lifeless Montana Avenue to the bed of a friendly succubus of my acquaintance. Le Plus Royaliste: Despite the foregoing exertions, I was nevertheless shoulder-to-shoulder early the next afternoon with Madame Editor, Richard Foss, Gabrielle Paluch (turning heads in a canaryyellow dress), Paul Takizawa and other CityBeat conferees at the coronation of Mr. Norwood Young as King of Hancock Park. Youngwood Court, the monarch’s stately Third Street manor, is well-known to passersby as the place with all the plaster Davids posing their exquisite Michelangelo-marbled asses to the delectation of all and sundry. His Majesty’s late tenacious struggle to decorate his property as he sees fit is as aristocratic an act as I’ve seen in this reflexively bourgie burg, and such championing of the ancient right to privacy ought to be an inspiration to everyone who simply doesn’t want to conform to majoritarian, um, taste. –Ron Garmon

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Eagle Hills, Eagle Ridge, Eagle Landing. Three Midwestern white-collar wage slaves (Johnny Clark, Jon Amirkhan, Jeffrey Stubblefield) express unsettling frustrations amid amusing chitchat in a bar. Then one of them tries to change his life, in Brett Neveu’s slender comedy. It’s amusing, but without other characters and locations, the play seems to take place in a vacuum. Ron Klier’s staging for VS. and Range View is sharply obser ved. Hayworth Studio Theatre, near MacArthur Park. (323) 960-7738. plays411.com/ eagle. Closes Nov. 15. Halo. An image of Jesus appears on the wall of a Nova Scotia coffee shop, causing turmoil in a small town. A cynical barista (Frances Manzo) is at the center of the action, although her motives remain somewhat confusing in Josh MacDonald’s script. Meanwhile, a young woman on life support is watched by her father and sister. In Bruce Gray’s staging, the characterizations feel more polished than the themes. Theatre 40, Beverly Hills. (310) 364-0535. theatre40. org. Closes Nov. 6. The Heiress. In 1947, Ruth and Augustus Goetz dramatized Henr y James’s 1880 novella Washington Square, about an unmarried woman (Kirsten Potter) in 1850 New York who faces a domineering father (Tony Amendola) and a deceptively charming suitor (Michael A. Newcomer). Packed with nuances as well as stark turns of plot, engaging in its silences as well as its words, it’s well cast and guided by director Martin Benson. South Coast Repertor y, Costa Mesa. (714) 708-5555. scr.org. Closes Nov. 16.

Springtime Pre-Hitler And ‘Happy Days’ are here again BY DON SHIRLEY

wo musicals about teen cultures opened last week. The vibrant Spring Awakening, set in 1890 Germany, is based on a once-scandalous play by Frank Wedekind. The bland Happy Days, set in 1959 Milwaukee, looks like episode #251 of Garry Marshall’s monster-hit retro-sitcom (minus the original actors) – extended into a two-hour musical special. For a moment, let’s imagine that these two musicals had exchanged plots. If Happy Days had adapted the Spring Awakening storyline, young atheist Richie Cunningham would impregnate his naive girlfriend, whose family would turn to an illicit abortionist. Disgraced Richie would be sent to reform school. Meanwhile, Ralph Malph would flunk out of school and face so much humiliation from his father that he would kill himself. On the other hand, if Spring Awakening had borrowed the Happy Days plot, German teenagers Melchior and Moritz would campaign to save their hangout, Der Wienerschnitzel, from closure. To raise money for their cause, they would produce dancing and wrestling competitions. The town’s teen rebel mentor, Ilse (a.k.a. die Fonz), would ignore her bad knee and join in. OK, forget the fantasy. It’s Spring Awakening, adapted by Steven Sater, which has the juicier story – the one with the S-E-X, which goes virtually unnoticed in Happy Days. The average audience age on opening night of Spring Awakening looked about 30 or 40 years younger than the average age at Happy Days. In fact, it’s safe to surmise that the Happy Days producers are trying to appeal not to today’s teenagers but to those who were teenagers in the ’50s or the ’70s. Still, the vitality of Spring Awakening for young audiences isn’t only because its narrative is concerned with more, uh, urgent matters. It’s also because the Duncan Sheik score sounds like compellingly contemporary alt-rock, not the popular songbook of 1890 Germany. Although these teenagers are dressed in German period garb, they grab mikes and emote as if they were in an L.A. club. Some of their haircuts also look suspiciously more like 2008 than 1888. Sticklers for surface realism might

object. Then again, sticklers for surface realism probably should avoid musicals in general and stick to, well, TV sitcoms like the original Happy Days. Paul Williams’s score for this “new,” musical version of Happy Days sounds relatively appropriate for its period, albeit in a homogenized form. By contrast, the anachronistic use of 21st century sounds in Sheik’s score gives repressed German teenagers the chance to express their inner anxieties in a way that makes them instantly recognizable to today’s teenagers – and today’s audiences in general. Bill T. Jones’s hectic, jerky choreography achieves much the same results. These are masterful and explicitly theatrical strokes – examples of why theatergoers pay money for a live experience instead of watching sitcoms at home, more or less free of charge. Kevin Adams’s haunting lighting design and the decision to seat a few audience members on two sides of the stage enhance the intimacy, under Michael Mayer’s direction. The experience isn’t quite as intimate at the Ahmanson Theatre as it was in the smaller Broadway venue where I first saw Spring Awakening in 2007. But one component of the touring production is better – Christy Altomare as Wendla, the naive girlfriend. Her counterpart in New York didn’t achieve the same quality of artless innocence. The Spring Awakening story doesn’t end quite as bleakly as I earlier suggested. A closing chorus, “The Song of Purple Summer,” tries to transcend all the heartache that precedes it. It’s not quite as convincing as the angst. Nonetheless, the ingenious creators of Spring Awakening understand that a sense of renewal, after tragedy, is considerably more gripping than a nevertested belief in mindlessly “happy days.” V

Joe’s Garage. This Pat Towne/Michael Franco adaptation of Frank Zappa’s album (1979), musically directed by Ross Wright, provides a few lively moments of rock spectacle but not much of a coherent story or a prescient satirical parable. Even after Bush/Cheney, Zappa’s scenario about music being banned feels remote – in many ways, music is more accessible than ever. Zappa’s shaggy-dog story depicts Joe (vigorous Jason Paige) constantly watched by a Central Scrutinizer (a cutely cheesy puppet), but the tale itself can’t withstand the scrutiny it receives in this format. It’s no surprise that a plaintive cut from the original album, played in darkness with no actors on stage, is the most effective moment. Open Fist Theatre, Hollywood. (323) 882-6912. openfist.org. Closes Nov. 22. Lovelace: A Rock Opera. Linda (Katrina Lenk) of Deep Throat fame is a quivering victim, primarily of her vile

Spring Awakening, Ahmanson Theatre, Music Center, downtown L.A., (213) 628-2772. centertheatregroup.org. Closes Dec. 7. Happy Days, La Mirada Theatre. La Mirada, (562) 944-9801. lamiradatheatre.com. Closes Nov. 16. For more reviews, go to lacitybeat.com, and click on Currently Playing.

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husband (Jimmy Swan) but also of her enabling mother (Whitney Allen). Then she abruptly rebels and becomes a feminist martyr, acquiring an unseen husband, as well as a child who remembers her fondly enough to narrate intermittently. There’s no unspoken dialogue, but the program lists 40 songs by Anna Waronker of That Dog and Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go’s. Though some of the music is worthy and sung well, the effort to cram so much of it into 90 minutes reduces the story into something that’s shallow and schematic, as in a similarly structured rock opera about Evel Knievel a year ago. Hayworth Theatre, near MacArthur Park. (323) 9604442. plays411.com. closes Nov. 23. The Rainmaker. N. Richard Nash’s 1954 drama focuses on a young Western woman (Bridget Flaner y), beleaguered by the excessive fretting of her father (Mitchell Edmonds) and brothers about her lack of a beau. A charismatic con man (Bo Foxworth) improves her self-image with some romantic hokum. It isn’t ver y convincing, though the fault is Nash’s, not director Andrew J. Traister’s. A Noise Within, Glendale. (818) 240-0910. anoisewithin.org. Closes Dec. 6. Salvage. After a Montana Blackfeet couple (Noah Watts, Elena Finney) becomes entangled with another (unseen) Blackfeet family in a fatal traffic accident, life takes a severe tumble. Diane Glancy’s glum play, directed by Sheila Tousey for Native Voices, is broken into so many little scenes that it plays like a would-be screenplay. The momentum is interrupted by many minor scene changes within the family’s auto salvage business and home. The only other onstage character is the man’s father (Robert Graygrass-Owens). Autr y Center, Griffith Park. (866) 468-3399. ticketweb.com. Closes Nov. 23. Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. Richard Alfieri’s stor y of a difficult friendship between an aging Southern widow (Constance Towers, with an erratic accent) and a struggling gay dance instructor (Jason Graae) occasionally rejects subtlety but nevertheless builds an undeniable poignancy in original director Arthur Allan Seidelman’s revival. Falcon Theatre, Burbank. (818) 955-8101. FalconTheatre.com. Closes Nov. 23. Tragedy: A Tragedy. Will Eno’s portrait of a local TV news team tr ying to cover the onset of (permanent?) darkness begins with a cutting sense of existential and linguistic satire. Some of the play’s juice begins to dr y up as the characters’ moods shift from reassurance to hysteria to exhaustion and what might be death. Still, it’s an intriguing dose of contemporar y absurdity. Son of Semele, Beverly east of Vermont. (213) 351-3507. sonofsemele.org. Closes Nov. 16. –Don Shirley

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Your Multiethnic Synthesis Is Showing: Los Angeles Master Chorale has quite an eclectic lineup for Nov. 9. Remember how Esperanto was going to unite the world in one language? Imagine 62 singers and an Indonesian gamelan ensemble performing Lou Harris’s La Koro Sutro, which is Esperanto for that sacred Buddhist text The Heart Sutra. The second half of the show features Chinary Ung’s latest compositions for the chorale, who will be joined by Cambodian instrumentalists and dancers. lamc.org.

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Takes Two to Tango: George Bizet’s masterpiece opera Carmen opens Nov. 15, under the direction of Emilio Sagi at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, and with Viktoria Vizin and Nancy Fabilola Herrera sharing the role of Carmen. The world’s fourth most performed opera will provide a little bit of a break from Puccini for L.A. operagoers. Rumor has it there’s a Chinese musical version set to open on Beijing stages in May, and it will not be called East Side Story. But that is neither here not there. laopera.com. New Moves: The 11th annual Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival at the McCallum Theatre features performances by both professional and pre-professional dancers across all styles and genres. Backhaus Dance company will be performing Nov. 15, but the festival lasts all weekend to ensure full exposure to all the newest exciting things in choreography. mccallumtheatre.com. A Good Girl for Linus: This month the Da Camera Society brings a thrilling first: Acclaimed toy pianist Phyllis Chen will be performing pieces by varying composers from John Cage to Bach on her diminutive keyboard at Culver City’s environmentally friendly Residence for a Briardon on Nov. 16. Chen has performed on both regular and toy pianos at the Carnegie Hall, who doesn’t love serious music on funny instruments? dacamera.org. Wintertime Is Organtime: Chelsea Chen performs an organ recital Nov. 23, including classic organ favorites by Bach, and a composition of her own, Taiwan Tableau, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Praise the lord, remain my soul’s friend. musiccenter.org. We Will Not Forget: The Broad Stage is putting on a performance Dec. 4 of chamber pieces commemorating the plight of homosexuals during the Third Reich. Featuring a string quartet and Yiddish music, as well as a California premiere of a piece by Jake Heggie. thebroadstage.com. --Gabrielle Paluch

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But Twyla Tharp dumbs down down down By Donna Perlmutter

ime passes. Reality blurs. Quality ebbs. Unsuspecting audiences forget what used to be. Or maybe they never knew things were any different before. Well, here’s a remedy – for those who went to the brand new “Myth,” by the much-ballyhooed Moroccan-Flemish choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui at Royce Hall’s UCLA Live one night, and the Jose Limon Dance Company at Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., the next, followed by Miami City Ballet’s latest Twyla Tharp piece several days later. First, you saw a two-hour woozy extravaganza that passes for avant-garde entertainment posing as a sitcom circus comprising multilingual wackadoodles wrapped up in Middle Eastern musical diversions and tumbling acts and sight gags by the yard, with a 6-foot3 anorectic black transvestite from Alabama singing “I Feel Pretty” into his hand mirror and then reading the riot act in his best hissy-fit drawl and prancing around in high heels to all the tedious dolts that he vamped onstage. You know what? It was the kitchen sink. You or I could have concocted our own set of meaningless motley whimsies ad nauseum. And to think that hypesters invoke the name Pina Bausch – Pina Bausch – in their advertising! But if you were smart enough to trot across town to Luckman the second night, as all the savvy seekers did, you saw what brought us to modern dance in the first place. Yes, back in the 1950s,

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