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FRONTLINES 6 The Bad Sheriff. ALAN MITTELSTAEDT explores Lee Baca’s man-crush for Mel Gibson and proposes everyone just chill a bit regarding embattled L.A. Times reporter Chuck Philips, in L.A. SNIPER.

7 Celebrating Third Place. Local book legend Dutton’s is doomed. Damn. In AMERICAN BABYLON by ANDREW GUMBEL.

COMMIE GIRL 13 REBECCA SCHOENKOPF is back! What else is there to say, except “Soon after that, Kelly let loose with ‘I like to FUCK!’ ” Have fun.

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STAGE 18 Longing, Moliere and Lust. Don Juan and Dying Gaul go to hell. By DON SHIRLEY.

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The Quick and the Dead. Shine a Light and Chapter 27 prove how ’60s culture continues to haunt us. BY ANDY KLEIN.

20 Family Films. My Brother Is an Only Child and Young Yakuza look at very different families. By ANDY KLEIN.

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irst off, how ’bout that headline? Pretty edgy, huh?

Also, kinda in-your-face. Not too face-y, I hope. What I was shooting for was just the right amount of “in” in relation to “face,” you know, without being rude, because rudeness helps nothing, am I right Suicide Hotline operator No. 8?

Anyways. Abortion. Yeah. See, I remember when abortion was big. Christian Slater-big. It was back in the ’80s, when all we seemed to do was talk about abortion and wonder if there was any limit to the upward arc that was Miss Lisa Bonet’s career. But times changed, and what with the Internet and the Magic Bullet, who has time for abortion? Even bumper stickers, long the engine of political discourse in America, moved on to other areas of debate. (“Resolved: No Fat Chicks.”)

So it was with a good deal of nostalgia that I gazed upon the bumper sticker in front of me on the 405. There, on the bumper of a rather tired looking Mazda, was a nativity scene with the adjacent words: “If Mary Had Been Pro-Choice, There Would Be No Christmas.”

Okay, first, there will always be a Christmas. There will always be a Christmas because that’s the way the five guys who run the world from their bunker underneath the Statue of Liberty’s big toe want it. (Season’s Greetings, my sub-podiatric overlords!)

Next, the bumper presupposes that every woman who is pro-choice automatically wants to have an abortion when, of course, most pro-choice women choose to have children. Regret it later? Sure. Drunk dial old boyfriends from the El Torito women’s room? Absolutely. Still.

So, it seems to me that what the bumper was saying was that Pro-Choice Mary would choose an abortion because her pregnancy was unwanted. Basically, bumper, you’re saying that God pressured Mary into getting pregnant.

Well, I don’t know what God you worship – I bet He has muttonchops – but my God is an awesome God; a God of peace and compassion. A God who likes to prank guys into almost killing their sons, a God who enjoys messing with people’s heads by presenting Himself as a talking shrub or Oprah. My God is a short-tempered God who likes damning people to live in inhospitable places such as giant fish or North Hollywood.

So, tired Mazda bumper, would that God, the God of salt-o-cide and frog rain, really be so heartless, so cruel as to pressure a young girl, a teen, into having His baby?

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[Re: L.A. Sniper: “Don’t Slur Me, Bro,” March 20] l was outraged by your uninformed attacks on Paul Hoffman. You make pronouncements about what civil rights lawyers should do and hold Dan Stormer up as the model because he represented the JPL scientists for free.

Clearly, you know nothing about Paul Hoffman and did not bother to find out before suggesting that he is only interested in piles of money, rather than “ridding society of an evil force.”

While I have a great deal of admiration for Dan Stormer (who, by the way, makes a lot of money according to reported verdicts and settlements, which then allows him to do a case for free), there is no one – I repeat, no one – who does more pro bono work than Paul Hoffman. If you had bothered to find out anything about him, you would learn that he has worked tirelessly to establish human rights and hold accountable repressive regimes and dictators, including the late Ferdinand Marcos. He was the director of the ACLU, and the president of Amnesty International. He has brought landmark cases to end slavery and forced labor by multinational oil corporations exploiting low-income local populations in Burma, Nigeria and other countries.

Paul spends nearly half of his time on pro bono human and civil rights work.

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I am proud to say that Paul Hoffman is a friend of mine. He is one of the most decent people I know. I had the privilege of working with him for 10 years at the ACLU and continue to work with him now on some cases. I can’t tell you how many times I meet people who tell me that Paul was their inspiration to go to law school to do the human rights work that he does.

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One of the few people in Los Angeles who still remember that an investigation remains open in the Case of Mel’s Bad Night Out is Michael Gennaco, chief attorney for the Office of Independent Review. In a report last December on “Celebrity Justice and the Sheriff’s Department,” he dinged a unit commander for giving preferential treatment to Gibson on July 28, 2006 – the night of his sloppy arrest. Now, 19 months later, we’re still waiting for the leak investigation to come to a close.

“I’m a little discouraged that it’s taken as long as it has,” Gennaco said Monday.

In his December report, Gennaco hinted that he would get in the last word once that witch-hunt is over. Wrote Gennaco: “After the conclusion of the ‘leak’ investigation, there may be additional findings of policy violations and/or preferential treatment surrounding this aspect of the case.”

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about preferential treatment. If you had been Gibson, all of your outrageous conduct would have been described in unremitting detail in your arrest report. Gibson’s sanitized arrest report, however, could have been describing the arrest of a choirboy who had imbibed too much altar wine. The arrest was described as having gone down “without incident.”

The juicy details (Sugartits!) got excised by higher-ups, an outlandish move that won them top-to-bottom scolding in Gennaco’s report last December. The full details were placed in a supplemental report that was supposed to remain secret, an illegal practice banned by the state public records laws. Within 24 hours of Gibson’s arrest, the full, unadulterated report was leaked to gossip/celebrity/entertainment website TMZ.com.

Days later, sheriff’s officials raided Mee’s house in pursuit of evidence that the deputy spilled the story. The disastrous handling of the matter by Baca and his troops shook up the career of the deputy, who was transferred and harassed for doing his job … namely, saving the world from yet another sozzled driver.

When Gennaco finally critiques the illegal hounding of Deputy Mee, expect a huge showdown between the public’s right-to-know crowd and the sheriff’s inner-sanctum starfuckers.

Said Gennaco: “I would favor more disclosure.”

And, we’ll toss in a medal of honor for whoever leaked the report.

HEEL, CRITICS OF CHUCK PHILIPS

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WHO’S THE BIGGEST FRAUD SITTING in public office right now in Los Angeles County? Tough call, but if you leave out the Board of Supervisors, the dishonor probably goes to either D.A. Steve Cooley or Sheriff Lee Baca. Both men are overseeing dead-end investigations and both are worldclass pansies when it comes to finding the courage to stand up and take the heat for their dumb-ass errors in judgment.

In the D.A. man’s case, he never intends to touch wayward pedophile protector Cardinal Roger Mahony, but don’t expect him to tell the public he’s closing the books after spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars paging through the diaries and papers of the Jackass in the Red Robe, who’d be hellbound if one existed.

And the loony sheriff, who’s snowed some of the top human-rights watchers in this city with his often empty New Agey rhetoric during his too-long three terms in office, refuses to stop looking for the person who leaked the Mel Gibson arrest report way back during the summer of 2006. Hey Lee, ask your favorite mystic before you take my word on this, but some words in that wallet-sized code of ethics you make your deputies

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If you need evidence that humans are not the highest form of life on this planet, consider the unrelenting attacks from all quarters on L.A. Times Pulitzer-winning entertainment investigative writer Chuck Philips. Bruised and bloodied, Philips was skewered for believing that documents filed as part of a Florida court case were actually authentic FBI reports that linked two men to setting up the 1994 attack on rapper Tupac Shakur. Not to minimize the error, but how many of Philips’ critics have ever sought confirmation that a court document was valid? How many of his critics have even stepped foot in the file room of any courthouse in America? The report on Thesmokinggun.com turned them all into experts on detecting fabricated reports, even those by the clever con man involved in the Florida case.

It’s not like Chuck and his editors ducked the incoming barrage. Within hours of learning of his mistake, Philips owned up to it and apologized. The next day, his paper ran a front-page correction. Philips and Times Editor Russ Stanton deserve a standing ovation, not to be pissed on by the legions of misinformed pundits.

Ladies and gentlemen, Chuck Philips made a mistake. A human error, no matter how serious or public, is, in the end, just a human error. The mistakes that matter more are the institutional ones. Look how long it took The New York Times to face the fiction spewed by Judith Miller and her paper about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction: the Times’ mea culpa ran on May 26, 2004 -- three years or more after its propaganda began misleading a nation.

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ed of stealing nuclear secrets from Los Alamos. The N.Y. Times destroyed his career with a story that ran on March 6, 1999. Eighteen months later, on September 26, 2000, the paper finally ran a bloated, charitable analysis of its poor handling of the story and said it “should have pushed harder to uncover weaknesses in the FBI case against Dr. Lee.” One more thing about the Philips’ fallout. In addition to the dumb comments from pundits and critics, it would be nice to shut up blowhard attorney Jeffrey Lichtman, who was quoted in the Times as saying the paper should come to him with their checkbooks open. Let’s not get too technical here, but the document in question, as part of a court file, can be reported on without any repercussions, regardless of whether it’s fake or not. It’s called the “fair report privilege” and is recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Lichtman should turn off his mouth – and meter – and go hide in a law library.

The moral of this story: Hug your dog, and wish she ruled the world -- or that she could, at least, teach the sub-dogs among us to heel.

WAIT 41 HOURS BEFORE YOU KILL SOMEBODY Was that an April Fool’s Day joke or the L.A. City Council voting Tuesday?

Indeed, the council was serious when it considered calling for a 40-hour moratorium on killing in the City of Angels. It would start at 6:01 p.m. Friday and is the idea of Earl Ofari Hutchinson, the president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable.

No offense to Earl, who couldn’t get the City Council to go along with his plan, but maybe we should go for a slightly longer ban, seeing how we’d all like to be around longer than what boils down to another workweek – if you’re union. Maybe a 40-year ban, with an option to renew!

And, as long as we’re doing away with murder, can we put a lid on lesser (yet annoying!) crimes -- like littering? And maybe issue an advisory to discourage the perfectly legal practice of some subway riders who chew gum loudly on the train?

As for murder, let’s kill the politics and resurrect a lively debate on taming L.A.’s gangs.

YAGMAN’S NEW DIGS Stephen Yagman, L.A.’s top police brutality lawyer, got a bum rap on tax-fraud charges, and will be exonerated once his appellate attorney, and UC Irvine law school head, Erwin Chemerinsky (it’s true!) gets his day in court. Just a little prediction you heard hear first. This is not to say that Yagman is not one of the two or three most obnoxious people ever to practice law or anything else in California (true too), but, fortunately for a lot of us, that’s not yet a felony.

In the meantime, Yagman won’t be seen walking on the beach near his Venice home anytime soon. On Monday, he started serving his three-year sentence at a low-security prison near Raleigh, N.C. His new address: Stephen Yagman, FCI Butner Low, Federal Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 999, Butner, NC 27509. Now, don’t be rude and send him checks from some made-up overseas account with his name on it. ✶ Send insults and ammo to BigAl@lasniper.com

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THE STARKEST LESSON I learned recently about the survival of independent bookstores in the age of digital retailing and corporate cannibalization came not at the Irish wake for Dutton’s in Brentwood last weekend – a stirring and sad occasion for everyone in this city – but in the pretty mountain town of Durango, Colorado.

Durango doesn’t, at first, seem a particularly likely haven of book-loving. It’s a mountain resort at the southern end of the San Juan range, a gussied up former silver-smelting town with a couple of fine Victorian hotels and a Main Avenue packed with souvenir shops, outdoor equipment stores and restaurants.

True, Durango is also home to a small university, Fort Lewis College, and a smattering of hippies and other big-city refugees attracted to the stunning scenery. But it’s no Denver, no Boulder – seat of the University of Colorado – and certainly no match for the bookbuying appetite of L.A.’s Westside.

And yet, there on Main Avenue, is Maria’s Bookshop, one of the finest independents in the West. You can tell within minutes of walking in that this is a shop assembled by people who care passionately about books, want to steer you only to the best titles, and want, above all, to harness the energy of their clientele to create not just a retail outlet but also a community center.

Much like Dutton’s you might say. Here, though, is the difference. Andrea Avantaggio and Peter Schertz, the proprietors of Maria’s, own their building. It’s hard enough to make a living from the mark-ups on literary fiction, poetry anthologies and historical recreations of the conquest of the West. But at least Avantaggio and Schertz don’t have to worry about real estate going through the roof, or landlords dreaming of condo complexes. They don’t need anybody’s charity to keep the rent affordable. They need only keep the community on their side.

If that was all it took for Doug Dutton to keep his bookstore going, he’d be in business for another hundred years. People didn’t just patronize his flagship store on San Vicente Boulevard, they adored it with a passion. At last Sunday’s wake, you could hardly move for people crammed between the palm trees in the central courtyard, crammed into the store’s three wings, crammed even into the coffee shop and the sidewalk outside.

They were readers, writers, community campaigners; people who, whatever they felt about books, sensed that Los Angeles was losing another important piece of its fragile sense of civic purpose. Dutton’s was very much a writers’ bookstore – hundreds

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upon hundreds of us launched our own titles with a reading, either in the tight confines of the West Wing, where the fiction and poetry was stacked, or in the roomier (but often colder) air of the courtyard.

The thing that captured many of our hearts was the way Dutton and his staff (often Diane Leslie, who moderated many of the readings) paid close attention even to first-time writers and made us feel important, whether our books went on to sell well, indifferently or not at all. That was the community spirit of the place: the idea that words are both the gateway to knowledge and also the ultimate consolation for the cruelties and money-driven vulgarity of the modern world.

Sometimes, though, consolation is not enough. As has been chronicled by the Times and others, the Dutton family badly overextended itself with its secondary branches, especially the store in Beverly Hills which

closed just over a year ago, and ended up more than $500,000 in debt.

Enter Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway, who took over ownership of the Barry Building where Dutton’s Brentwood is housed and spent the better part of a year toying with the roles of both angel and demon.

First he wanted to knock down the building and turn the site into a condo complex.

Then, with the real estate market turning (Brentwood is littered with half-baked condo projects, halted in their tracks by the mortgage crisis), Munger relented, telling everyone how much he valued independent bookstores – hah! – and how he wanted to preserve Dutton’s in some form, even if that meant confining it to the corner of his new condo/retail/whatever development.

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Caughey, who was in attendance last Sunday, made no bones about her low opinion of Charlie Munger, and even relished a story suggesting the low esteem in which he evidently holds her. At some point during the negotiations, Munger and Dutton talked about the sorts of departments an independent

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Dutton mentioned new books, fiction, and then – mindful of Caughey’s day job as a Jungian psychotherapist – tossed psychology into the mix. “I guess we can have a few psychology books,” she reported Munger as saying, “but no Jung. Nothing

by Carl Jung!”

The compromise Doug Dutton was hoping for eventually materialized, but it wasn’t enough to save his store.

As he announced a month ago, Munger agreed to withdraw all claims on back rent and pay off his debts in full, in exchange for the store’s closure on April 30. Dutton is also allowed to keep the bookstore name and is, theoretically, free to reopen elsewhere. We shouldn’t hold our breath about that, not with real estate prices and commercial rents being what they are on the Westside or, indeed, in the rest of Los Angeles.

Perhaps the saddest part of the whole story is the fact that this is in fact a time of unique opportunity for independent bookstores. After years of encroachment on the independent sector, the two bookselling behemoths, Borders and Barnes & Noble, are both hitting hard times because of stiff competition from the Internet.

That makes perfect sense: when a store offers nothing beyond an inventory frontloaded with Ann Coulter bile-spewings and knock-offs of the Christian fundamentalist Left Behind bestseller series, why bother actually going there when Amazon.com is so quick and easy?

Independent stores, by contrast, offer something the computer cannot – the bookstore equivalent of the Third Place concept, a place to meet people, feel part of a book-reading community, attend readings, drink coffee and, hey, sit down with a laptop and write.

Dutton’s in Brentwood was about the best Third Place imaginable, with that courtyard and sense of both space and erudition – a “perfect marriage between building and bookstore,” in Diane Caughey’s words.

The funeral wake will, in effect, continue all month, as the already depleted shelves empty further, the markdowns grow bigger and the sense of impending loss grows by the day.

As the titles vanish, the number of comments and testimonials left by grieving customers will surely grow. Among my favorites spied on Sunday, a quote from Cicero: “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

And another line, in improvised Latin, scrawled in black marker on an empty bookshelf: “Numerus stultorum infinitus est.”

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A Long Beach ER doc writes prose that chills the blood and should move politicians PRECOCIOUS, SERIOUS-MINDED and, at 11, the “man of the house” to his mom and two sisters, Jose Luis Garcia Bailey flashed through public notice for a few days in March after being gunned down on a Long Beach street corner.

Witnesses reported that two alleged gang members fired into a crowd, with a stray bullet ripping through the boy’s upper body. He stopped breathing at the scene and was taken to St. Mary Medical Center, where all of Dr. Maurcio Heilbron, Jr.’s professional valor couldn’t patch the boy’s heart. Readers of the Long Beach PressTelegram were handed a harrowing account of the effects of gang warfare by the surgeon. As the boy is dying, the doctor brings the family in: “His mother looks at me. My hands are still in the boy’s chest, trying to do something, anything. In her eyes, I see a soul that I am about to crush with a little nod of my head. I do so.”

In true writerly fashion, Dr. Heilbron places his faith in the power of a good story simply told and the hope words really do precede action.

—Ron Garmon CityBeat: One is struck by the clarity and force of your writing. Who do you read?

Dr. Heilbron: I’m a book-o-holic. [Laughs.]

I have about 2,500 first editions in hardcovers. I love the classics, like the juiciest of Dickens. And popular stuff like Stephen King and the hardboiled detective school.

History, but not textbook-y history, something vivid done with flair and drama and imagination. Do you know James Agee?

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Well, we were knocked out by your prose at CityBeat, I can tell you.

Well, you’re high, but thank you.

that’s some big auditorium. I had nothing prepared and was told I was on the panel. I’m with the president of one thing and the president of something else and they’re giving these flowery speeches. I just went off. I reminded them of what day it was and asked, “How many trauma centers do you think they’ve closed in New York? None. Almost no one lived through what happened, but the ones who did, where were they treated? Trauma centers, under trauma protocol.” I had these things in my mind and was so angry! And I said, “We started with 25 trauma centers for a population of 8 million. Now we have 13 for 10 million and you want to close two?” All the cameras suddenly went whir! click! focusing in. “What’s gonna happen,” I said, “is that one of you rich folks up in Palos Verdes, your daughter is gonna get into a car accident and there’ll be no place to take her and then there’ll be a problem.”

Indubitably, but well-done anyway.

This one felt like if I didn’t write about it, I’d just explode.

Yours is a rewarding career all by itself, with many absorbing problems and challenges ... .

Absolutely. It’s the best.

Do you ever try to get politicians to come to the ER and see what you do every day?

I would love that! I got into a little bit of trouble because of that a while ago. A year after September 11, I was asked to speak in front of the L.A. Board of Supervisors downtown. They were going to close some trauma centers and I thought I was just going into someone’s office and all of a sudden I show up at a room number

... keeping the mind occupied and wits going ... .

Very much so. I had 11 days off last year.

Oh, yes.

I’m starting to read his movie criticism and I’m astonished at how quick and amazing he is. Brilliant!

How often are you moved to write about your experiences?

More often than not. It just doesn’t always get printed. It’s my catharsis, my therapy.

I’ve probably had a dozen things published in the Press-Telegram and other places. Do you know Marlo Thomas?

Yes. She wrote a book called The Right Words at the Right Time. In Volume II, I wrote a chapter on adoption.

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Dr. Mauricio Heilbron, Jr.

So you have every inducement to keep your nose clear of anything political. Yet you’re drawn into it. Why? I think anyone who wants to be part of their community has to be political. The good part of political. I just read a short biography of George Washington, the APRIL 3~9, 2008

man who invented the presidency and his ideas are still good for something.

You’ve tried to get the pols to come see what you do.

How would I get them to? What avenues would I have? I will tell you that at board meetings for the hospital and community meetings, there are politicians who are acutely aware of what’s going on here. The fact they don’t wanna come down and have a look, well, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they have a lot on their plate. But they know where we are. I’d welcome them with open arms and never wag my finger and berate them for being here. But, if you’re gonna talk about it, maybe you should come hang out here.

You mentioned the war in your story. Is there any connection in your mind between gang violence here and the occupation there? Apart from the obvious kinship as obscenity.

Yes. I think it’s ignorant for anyone to look at one and not the other. I don’t know if people refuse to see the connection out of political correctness or they’ve just given up. You could take photos of a lot of city street corners in L.A., run them in the paper and defy people to tell the difference between here and Iraq. Wrecked structures, people running in the streets, gunfire, I guarantee you could find such places here, New York City, Chicago, on the outskirts of Dallas. It just seems ludicrous that we have a culture that prides itself on fear, murder, crime and instilling dread and panic in a population in order

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to maintain superiority, which is exactly what terrorists do. We’re even afraid to call them “gangbangers” when we analyze them. We have to call them “wayward youth.” I’m fixing these people and they spit on me and I don’t mean metaphorically. Legally, I have to fix them and they know that. Being shot makes them feel invulnerable, never mind the fact I worked my ass off for three days trying to bring you back. They don’t care. The ones who flew planes into buildings on 9/11 didn’t care either.

A sense of humanity seems rather too rare these days to risk projection on a distant enemy.

Both my parents are from Colombia.

I was born here and speak English as a second language. America was the pedestal everyone looked up to. Now people laugh at us.

What of young Bailey?

I think people are gonna forget about this kid. We forget about things so fast. People don’t remember individual school shootings after a while. There’s been three since Virginia Tech. We’ve become numb out of necessity. If we weren’t we wouldn’t be able to live with ourselves. If he’d been 25 and not 11, it wouldn’t have made the paper. Writing about it was initially therapeutic or selfish or whatever you want to say. If this keeps it on the forefront of people’s thoughts a little longer, maybe someone who can actually do something will get wind of it. ✶

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★ T’S A FRIDAY EVENING ON skid row, and the fierce deprivation that clogs the area’s sidewalks during the day has slightly abated. The sidewalks are now just busy with misery, not overwhelmed by it, as if someone cracked the lid on skid row and let some of the pressure out, giving it a little breathing room until morning. Once dawn breaks, of course, the poor and destitute lucky enough to have snagged one of the few beds at a mission for the night will trickle onto the streets again, where they will cluster together with their garbage bags and their grocery carts – indeed, their entire lives – and wait to start the whole cycle again. Most are men, most are single, and most probably won’t make it out of here.

Inside the Union Rescue Mission, however, it’s a different matter entirely.

Hope dares to rear its head here and men, women and children are bustling around. A short elevator ride upstairs is the women and children’s wing, where the youngest and most invisible residents of skid row call home.

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Down one of the halls is the family entertainment room, and it’s a small but welcome haven from the staleness of the rest of the building. The room, an explosion of bright colors with toys littered all over the floor, bustles with activity. Arlene Olivares and her children are there, and Arlene’s oldest daughter, Ailene Cuenca – 11 years old, quiet but with a maturity beyond her years – is talking about how she has a tough time doing homework at the shelter, where she and her family share a room with three other families.

“There are a lot of kids in my room, and it’s too noisy,” she says. Dressed in a gray hooded sweatshirt and shorts, she had been helping out her mother with her youngest sister when she asked me what my favorite subject is. “English,” I told her.

Ailene’s situation is a lot better than it was two-and-a-half years ago, though, when she and her family were homeless for a year and moved from motel to motel every four months, forcing her to switch schools each time.

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when I go to another it’s harder,” she says, fidgeting with her hands.

Her mother, short but carrying an authority around her children only a mother can, agrees, noting that even though it’s loud and difficult for her kids to get work done at the shelter, it’s still better than moving around.

“It’s hard on them, it’s hard,” she says.

“They get settled in one school with the schoolwork and all of their friends, and then they have to start all over with another one.”

The statistics on homeless schoolchildren agree. Nationwide, with each change of school a child is set back academically from four to six months. Fortyone percent of homeless children will attend two different schools in a normal year, and 28 percent will attend three or more different schools. In the Los Angeles Unified School District alone, Ailene is just one of 13,521 homeless students in K-12 who have been identified. In California, she’s just one of 178,014, and in the country she’s one of 907,000 – all of these numbers are drastic undercounts because it’s hard to track and identify the students.

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The amount of money doled out by the federal government to help these students is inadequate. Funded through the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, in 2007-08 homeless students received only $61.9 million. That works out to less than $70 per identified student, far short of the money they need to overcome the significant obstacles presented by their living situations. Further, the Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program of the McKinney-Vento act – the sub-section that deals with homeless schoolchildren – is not even funded to its full $70 million allotment. In 2008-2009 the funding will be increasing, slightly, to $64 million, an amount still less than the $5 million increase requested by homeless youth advocates.

“The program is woefully, woefully under-funded, and it has been throughout its 20-year-history,” said Barbara Duffield, policy director of the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth in Washington. “Just as there is a lack of awareness about homelessness with the public, it’s also an issue with legislators.”

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The Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program earmarks its funds for a sprawling diversity of purposes, including tutoring and before- and afterschool programs, evaluations, professional development, health ser vices, transportation not otherwise provided for through federal, state or local funding, education programs for both parents and schools, school supplies, and a host of others. Advocates for the students worry about the long-term effects of this ongoing crisis.

“If this doesn’t scream No Child Left Behind, I don’t know what does,” said Leslie Croom, who until recently was a member of the United Coalition East Prevention Project in Los Angeles, which does extensive work with homeless students. “If the school is not prepared for … these kids, they’re just going to end up with kids who fall through the cracks.”

Children are falling through the cracks everywhere in the country because school districts – especially poor ones, which often strain under a sizable homeless student population – are faced with an impossible financial situation. The responsibility for this debacle lies primarily with the federal government, which, while spending more than half a trillion dollars a year on its military budget, can only pony up $64 million for nearly one million homeless schoolchildren.

Even with enough money, solving the problems of the country’s homeless students would be a Herculean task. To do so with the budget they are working with now makes the proposition of solving these children’s problems so preposterous as to almost defy belief.

Little School on the Row kid row is, by and large, a distinctly monochromatic area, its sidewalks a dull grey, its buildings almost uniformly drenched in drabness, its denizens cloaked in faded second-hand clothes, so any color in the area is bound to draw attention. And so the colorful murals painted on the side of portables at an elementary school are a welcome and jarring sight, joined by the sounds of children running around, shouting, laughing and playing. The school, the only one in skid row, is Ninth Street Elementar y School, and approximately half of the 400 children – ranging from grades K-5 – are homeless.

Most of the kids attending Ninth Street come from the area, whether they are from the shelters – two of Arlene Olivares’ children are students here – or the hotels. Many come from all over the county as well, due to an obligation within McKinney-Vento that students be able to stay enrolled at their original school, despite where they may have moved.

While a good idea on balance, as changing schools often unnecessarily and drastically disrupts children’s learning, there are drawbacks as well. Due to the transient nature of homelessness, many students who are constantly moving all over Los Angeles County are forced to travel up to two hours to attend school, making it remarkably difficult for many students to be on time at all.

“You’re between a rock and a hard place,” said Pamela Hughes, the principal at Ninth Street. “You want them to come to school and get that continuity, but the buses don’t always run on time, so the parents bring them in late.”

Soon after, Hughes was interrupted when a young student walked past us with her backpack on at about 11 a.m. “Hi,” said Hughes cheerily, before confiding that the student was just now making her way to school – a few hours late. “They come all the way from way south. But you have

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Other examples of students having their education broken up by repeated moves abound. One first grade student, said Hughes, has been to eight different schools already.

The statistics facing homeless schoolchildren are startling. Homeless children are four times more likely to drop out of school and two times more likely to score lower on standardized tests; one in ten homeless students will miss at least one month of school each year, 36 percent have repeated a grade, and 14 percent – double that of other children – are diagnosed with a learning disability. All of these problems are caused, exacerbated and impacted in myriad ways by their troubled environments.

“It affects their learning,” said Hughes. “It would affect an adult’s learning as well. They’re trying to survive, their parents are trying to survive, they’ve got to wonder whether or not they have a place to say.

We’re talking about children with such uncertainty. And most of their parents are really trying hard, too, and they’re doing the best that they can do, but sometimes their minds are not always on learning.”

Emotional and physical problems are also rife among homeless children: They get sick twice as much as other children; go hungry twice as often as other children; 25 percent have witnessed acts of violence within their family; more than 20 percent of homeless preschool children have serious enough emotional problems to require professional care; and 47 percent have psychological problems like anxiety, depression, or withdrawal, as compared with 18 percent of other children.

Sleepy students are also a problem, said Hughes, for many students are unable to get enough rest as a result of the turbulence and loudness that frequently characterize their home situations, whether they are living in dormitory settings, doubled up at an apartment, or have a disruptive family situation.

“Many times we have to decide if we’re going to wake up a student when they fall asleep in class because they’re missing their education, or are we going to let them sleep?” she asked. “Sometimes we’ll bring them in and I’ll let them sleep in during recess or lunch time, but I tell the teachers they have to wake them up. Because we have to educate them.”

‘Fuses Are Easily Lit’ he stigma of homelessness affects the children’s self esteem as well, and can lead to discrimination among the students themselves.

“We have children who are here because their parents work in the area, and they’re considered to be in the highest echelon,” said Hughes. “The kids in the hotels are in the middle because they’re not getting free stuff, and the kids in the shelters are at the bottom. It’s a caste system.”

The harsh environment of skid row and the tough domestic situations of many of the kids can also be harmful, said Dan McSweeney, a counselor at Ninth Street who is funded partially through McKinneyVento dollars, a godsend for the moneyand resource-strapped school.

“What are they going home to?” asked McSweeney, his thick Irish brogue belying the fact he has been working in one position or another at Ninth Street for two decades now. “They get on a bus and it drops them off at 6th and San Pedro, and there’s guys down there hanging around and carts and drugs and urine and shouting and screaming around the back … .

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used to it and hardened by it, and you become accepting of it. And then you become sort of a part of it, because you have to survive in there.”

This often leads to discipline problems, which both Hughes and McSweeney cited as one of the most exacting and demanding aspects of their jobs.

“I find there’s more aggravation and more fighting on the part of kids who live in homeless situations and kids who live in hotels down here,” said McSweeney.

“They don’t have that same sense of security, they have to fight … . It’s survival of the fittest, it’s almost like the jungle … .

The volume is up, the aggravation is higher – fuses are easily lit.”

While discipline problems are common at any school, and especially Ninth Street, further problems arise as parents – mainly mothers – are hard to reach, as many lack phone numbers or a reliable way of getting in touch.

All of these problems have helped land Ninth Street into those most dreaded of bad books – the bad books of No Child Left Behind, the federal education program that applies its standards, and the tests that measure those standards, equally between schools throughout the country – whether they’re located on skid row or in Beverly Hills.

Ninth Street has failed to meet its standards for the English Arts for two straight years, at least partially as a result of their high numbers of English language learners, and the bar will be set even higher this year, virtually guaranteeing that the school will fall short of the standards for a third time. “[Our students] have the capability to learn, but a lot of the time they don’t have the continuity in their learning because they’re in and out [of school], and it may not be that important to them right now,” she said. “Am I going to have a place [to stay tonight], is my mother going to be there when I get back, and who’s going to be there, my mother or her boyfriend? These are the things our children have to deal with.”

With all of these problems facing Ninth Street students, it is – understandably – sometimes difficult for the adults at the school to remain optimistic in the face of such overwhelming odds.

“I’m sure some will end up in gangs,” said McSweeney, his rough, calloused hands grabbing his head. “I hope that someday, when I’m confronted by some gang or something, that one of the members will be someone who went there, and they’ll remember and they’ll be like ‘Oh, you were at Ninth Street,’ and they won’t shoot me because they’ll remember, and there will be a sense of compassion. And that’s the whole thing – you have to be hardened.”

“How do you maintain your humanity in this context?”

need someone who can help them navigate through the system. It’s better than it was, but it’s still a far cry from what we need.”

The program received $796,000 in Title I funding from the district for this academic year, which is a stream of federal funding reserved for school districts with a high percentage of students from lowincome families. Unfortunately, all of the money she receives goes toward paying her staff, which, aside from the five counselors, includes another part-time counselor and a few office aides.

As far as money to help out the students in a more tangible way, the program received a meager $128,000 in federal McKinney-Vento funds for the 2007-2008 school year, or less than $10 per child.

One of the most important uses for the little money that they do receive goes toward identifying and helping homeless parents and their children navigate through the often-complex school bureaucracy.

“The real problem is identifying them,” said L.A. Unified Superintendent David L. Brewer. “We’ve done a lot of development with teachers and administrators to help identify them, because a lot of them don’t self-identify. Once we identify them, then we’re providing them with services that they need.”

Unfortunately, people who work with the homeless students say that there are not nearly enough resources to provide identified students with needed services.

Furthermore, many families are unaware of the right of equal access to education that homeless schoolchildren are guaranteed by McKinney-Vento. Many schools are also ignorant of what obligations they have to fulfill. While some have large populations of homeless schoolchildren, many do not and this can make it difficult for parents trying to enroll their children, mainly because they lack a permanent address and the money to help purchase the necessary school materials that the district must provide.

Arlene Olivares ran into this problem when she and her children were bounced around from motel to motel a couple of years ago.

“The schools were not helpful … .

I told them we were homeless and they didn’t help,” she said, adding that things are much easier now, as her children attend schools that have substantial homeless populations. “They just gave me a hard time in even getting [my children] into schools, because I didn’t have a permanent address. I told them our situation, and they just made things hard.”

A recent change in county policy has made things easier though, with every school now required to designate someone to act as a homeless liaison, to be in charge of contacting the Homeless Education Program if they have a homeless student.

A Sea of Despair

With little money coming in the future and a crisis that is only worsening, it would seem that pessimism would be the order of the day. For Ninth Street’s Hughes, though, that just isn’t an option.

“I have to be optimistic,” she said. “I can’t give up on children.”

Arlene recently moved out of the Mission with her family, and, as usually happens, she left no forwarding address.

In an interview several months ago, she spoke of the cyclical nature of homelessness, and the effect it was having on her children.

“It’s hard, because we were homeless before, then we got our house, then something happened and we became homeless again,” she said. “I think it’s harder because they’re getting older, and they’re a little older this time.” ✶

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ore than most, Los Angeles is a city in crisis as far as dealing with homeless schoolchildren. The Homeless Education Program – the L.A. Unified program in charge of homelessness in the district – employs a meager five counselors, one of whom stays in the office. These counselors are supposed to be identifying homeless students, engaging in broad-based outreach services, and making the necessary linkages between homeless parents and schools. With five, that’s an impossible task – that’s an improvement, though, as up until last May there was only one.

“No, we’re not adequately staffed,” laughed Melissa Schoonmaker, the pupil services and attendance coordinator in charge of the program. “These families

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Listen to Me Crying Appropriate, in context ~ BY REBECCA SCHOENKOPF ~

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ARE YOU SAG?” WAS HIS LINE, AND because my friend Kelly is not an asshole, and thus was not expecting the pick-up, she’d thought he’d asked her if she were sad. “No, not at all!” she explained. “I’m just busy, helping out ... .” Oh, right ... . Was she SAG. Well, it was Calabasas’ Method Fest indie film festival, after all. She really should have expected it. Instead her interlocutor got an all-evening lecture on the right way to find love, and his way. His way involves Porsches and bimbots, and then he’s sad when the bimbots go prospecting for gold.

Kelly is a junior high art teacher, and her husband, Chris, fixes mandolins and performs in various Long Beach supergroups, and they live on 80 acres on a mountain in Sonoma, and they drink tea made from dried Siberian roses, which tastes exactly as delicious as you would expect tea made from dried Siberian roses to taste, and they bring a proper tea service with them no matter how many miles – and yet they don’t bring proper stemware, meaning we are drinking their lovely wine out of plastic tumblers from the Country Days Inn – and when they are in town, I come running.

Method Fest on Friday night? Honey, you couldn’t keep me away.

I was hoping Method Fest would be just terrible. It was in Calabasas, for one thing, the cutest li’l Hummerfilled Agrestic you ever did see, and so that in itself was promising. The worst movie I ever had the pleasure of knowing was at the Newport Beach Film Festival, way back in 2000. It was a movie about Vincent Van Gogh and a crone who tells him in a magnificent Dracula thunder, “You will become the greatest painter of flowers who ever lived! And one day, the flowers will return the favor!”

And thus is he called back to life in the middle of the Rose Parade (by Sunflowers! Whee!) to be saved by a poor man’s Julianne Moore who says (whinily, yet nostrils flared) things like, “I want to be respected as a woman and an artist, and I want to know love!” whereupon Vincent says to her, “Listen to the canvas crying, Kaht-tee, and feed it with the paint!” and she listens to him even though he stalks her and totally lives on her roof. You know who else was there? Sally Kirkland was there, as Sally Kirkland, Art Detective! Why? Because Vincent had begun stealing his own works from various billionaires who kept them hung in ill-lit hallways in manses that were intriguingly alarm- and security-free, and Sally Kirkland, she was pissed! “Art terrorists thrive on creating economic chaos,” said she, almost weeping, before rant-

ing spittily about how the Joker made art desecration cool. You know what I always say: Actually, neither do I. And so Friday night at Method Fest, we saw Crazy.

It starred some hot, charming, dimpled young Dennis Quaid type, and he was pretty, and so we sat through it.

The truish life story of Nashville session picker Hank Garland was not nearly terrible enough, traveling as it did every rock & roll ’50s biopic ever, and so it was like five hours of Garland and his wife growing apart because he’s always on the road and never puts her first, so she

COMMIE GIRL totally fucks some dude doggie-style. There was a shockingly bad moment, though, when a groupie accosts Dimples outside his hotel room door, to have him sadly wave her off because he’s got a girl back in Chicago, whereupon she explains he’s free to pretend she’s somebody else. Wall there, missy, then by all means, please come in and enjoy some dick! So we did like that, then.

Also, according to Chris – who knows these things – there were almost a million dollars’ worth of pretty guitars, which were shot lovingly, gauzily, pornily, as they lay center-frame, glistening and throbbing.

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kinship with Garland – who had scandalized Nashville by palling with coloreds, which the movie spent probably three whole minutes on in between the torpor of the relaaaationship – because he, Kaye, had been “fighting systems for 40 years in the newspaper business. I didn’t take it as far as Hank Garland did, but ... .” Well. I’m sure you’re holding the line valiantly against Dean Singleton’s rapings, except for that part where you work at the Daily News.

Afterwards, at the afterfuneralparty (where the atrocious DJ was playing 311), nobody talked to us but a guy who said he “help[s] people make money tax-free,” at which point he got a small slice of my mind, and Chris gave us a small music-history lesson on how back in the day, Garland really could shred, but I explained it was shredding like basketball pre-black-people was basketball, i.e. not that impressive by today’s standards, I mean, he was certainly no Nashville Pussy’s Ruyter Suys.

Soon after that, Kelly let loose with “I like to FUCK!” and it wasn’t till the next day that we were able to piece together why she’d said so, because at this point, we were very drunk. Some guy had touched her hair, which gave her great offense, and I’d noted that she’s never had her hair pulled during sex. “You like to make love,” I’d snickered, at which point she’d let fly.

“See?” She said. “It was appropriate! In context.”

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Sweet Boneless Jesus Chris Gaffney would love you if his life depended on it ~ BY CHRIS MORRIS ~

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HRIS GAFFNEY IS A musical treasure. He needs your help if he’s going to live. Gaffney – “Gaff” to his friends – is one of those unique characters who cuts across genres with a blithe indifference to boundaries.

An outstanding songwriter possessed of a voice worthy of comparison to George Jones’, he has effortlessly fused country, blues, R&B, and Tex-Mex border music for three decades. In 1986, he cut the first of his half-dozen solo albums (sometimes co-billed with his band the Cold Hard Facts). He also spent years as a recording and touring member of Dave Alvin’s band the Guilty Men, singing, playing guitar, and pumping his accordion.

For the last four years, Gaffney has been partnered with former Paladins guitarist Dave Gonzalez in the Hacienda Brothers.

The quintet has released two studio albums, produced by Southern soul songwriting icon Dan Penn, and a tremendous live shot originally broadcast on Norwegian radio in ’05. All of them belong in your record collection. I’ve probably seen the band 20 times, and they made a memorable appearance on my Indie 103.1 radio show.

They are one of the only groups I’ve ever seen that raised the bar every time I saw them; one particularly unforgettable set was a searing, balls-out show on the Santa Monica Pier last summer. The loudly beating heart of all these gigs was Gaffney, whose soulful vocals are the Haciendas’ crucial propellant.

Two months ago, friends and fans were alarmed to learn that Gaff had become desperately ill. After he was originally diagnosed with hepatitis C, further tests uncovered cirrhosis of the liver; about a month ago, a large tumor was discovered on his liver. He will eventually need an organ transplant. He can survive this crisis: Washington bluesman Curtis Salgado was similarly diagnosed in 2006, and, following a transplant, he is again performing and recording.

Gaffney and his family, who live in Costa Mesa, have a tough row to hoe.

The Hacienda Brothers canceled their tour dates due to the severity of the singer’s condition. While his wife, Julie, works and receives Blue Cross coverage, the family’s money for such essentials as mortgage

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payments and living expenses has now been halved. Moreover, next week Gaffney is scheduled to begin costly drug treatments to shrink the tumor – necessary preparatory therapy if a transplant is to be effected. It is estimated that beyond his insurance coverage, his medical expenses will reach $60,000, and this estimate was of course made in the very earliest stages of treatment, and could rise.

Gaffney’s sister Helen and nephew Ben have established www.helpgaff.com to collect donations that will go into a fund to alleviate Gaff’s medical expenses. According to Julie Gaffney, many have swiftly rallied around her husband: contributions made through the site and via personal donations directly to the family totaled $17,000 as of March 31.

Gaffney’s situation is sadly not unique: I received word late last week from blues/rockabilly singer Candye Kane, a familiar figure on Southern California stages for 20 years, that she is suffering from pancreatic cancer, and will undergo surgery in mid-April. She is uninsured;

SONIC NATION a benefit to defray her medical costs is scheduled at Perq’s in Huntington Beach on April 20; see her MySpace page for more information. Local musician and single father Drac Conley is recovering from March prostate cancer surger y; see www.helpdrac.com for more.

In a country where citizens are chronically underinsured, most musicians live in an insurance-free zone; even those with coverage struggle to survive financially in the face of extended treatment. Gaffney and the others face staggering expenses in the face of life-threatening illnesses. I urge anyone who loves music to dig a little deeper and lend a hand. I don’t want to get maudlin about it – I know Gaff wouldn’t approve – but I do want to continue to hear these voices. ✶

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HEY HEARD THE CALL, those curiosity-seekers, and jammed Disney Hall last week – vowing not to miss the first-time appearance of violinist Gustavo Dudamel.

That would be the same Gustavo Dudamel slated to become the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s next musical director in 2009. What, you say? Our next maestro treated as mere mortal, not holding forth on the podium but sitting among four other Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians to play chamber music? Just another sistema-type enthusiast, just another egalitarian bred in Venezuela’s up-from-poverty youth orchestra, not a celebrity in excelsis, not one who’s been seized upon by an avid international music press?

Well, bet on it.

Our young Dudamel – he’s 27 (27!) – is a humble sort. By taking second chair in Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet he may have robbed the throngs of a high-profile exposure to his virtuosity as a fiddler. You see,

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As it turned out, the rewards were big: clarinetist Michele Zukovsky floated Mozart’s unearthly line somewhere into the cosmos, seemingly without any physical effort, without taking a breath. Here was divine playing of divine music – surely you remember it being described thus by Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus. Yes, some kind of miracle, a creative transport from humankind to the heavens. Together with cellist Peter Stumpf and violist Dale Hikawa these five players found a perfect calibration of musical/emotive gold. It was what we always come in search of, but rarely find.

A few nights later Dudamel switched from horse-hair (bow) to wood stick (baton), stepped up to the podium, and charged the full Philharmonic to ring Disney’s rafters, as is his wont. In a nod to Esa-

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Pekka Salonen he led the outgoing director-composer’s ear-popping soundscape Insomnia, a tormentedly graphic suggestion of the subject done here as a myriad of brilliant colors and textures all racing to the canvas edge. (Who could sleep?)

But just in case you thought of dozing off afterward, Dudamel returned with Simon Trpceski in tow and the two twentysomethings rolled right into Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto. The stage shook with its currents of rhythmic dynamism. I mean shook. And rocked. The Macedonian musician seemed to swallow and digest the score whole, his fingers producing marvels of high-speed clarity and defining one percussive layer under another.

The thrills didn’t end there, though. For Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique Dudamel and the orchestra met every broad burnished effect and every outsized manic impulse of the score, with full wattage.

Are the days of sound dimmers coming to end in Los Angeles?

On to fowl feathers. American Ballet Theatre unfurled its latest, lavish (too lavish?) Swan Lake for a first look at the Music Center Pavilion last weekend and left some of us with the thought that watching a classical icon so heavy on its accoutrements and light on its core expressive values just might be a losing proposition.

If, for instance, Kevin McKenzie’s choreography (after Petipa/Ivanov, of course) had flowed better from phrase to phrase and not come across as so awkward and phlegmatic for any number of soloists, then we could somewhat overlook Zack Brown’s costumes (with their thousands of yards of fabric), which, by the way, seemed to be wearing the dancers, rather than vice versa.

What’s sad is that the opening night’s high-powered cast simply did not have the interpretive depth or polish to draw us into the central drama. Michele Wiles, so steely and commanding in her technique, was at a loss when it came to projecting the Swan Queen’s despairing vulnerability, but wowed the crowd via her hard-glitter virtuosity. David Hallberg, with his gothic ghostly pallor looked every bit the noble Prince without quite delivering the live-ordie passion called for.

Ah, well. There’ll always be others. ✶

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Attitude Adjustment Why do we like 3 on Fourth?

Because 7, 8 urchin ~ BY RICHARD FOSS ~

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’VE HAD SOME INFURIATING experiences with snobbery in L.A. restaurants, so I understand how some places might consciously avoid any hint of elitism. Still, this can be taken too far.

It’s like being proud of how humble you are, a reminder that a sincere attempt to be self-effacing can backfire.

3 on Fourth boasts that it serves “Cuisine Without Attitude,” which in practice means items ranging from medieval European favorites to stylishly eclectic sushi. In between are entrées such as green pea ravioli, roast pork with mustard sauce, or a burger – not “attitude” food, but simple recipes made with high-end ingredients.

After considering several possibilities, a friend and I decided to order from both poles of the menu to see what the kitchen does best.

After hesitating over an interesting looking soy milk custard with spinach and caviar ($13), we decided to start with scrambled eggs with sea urchin, crème fraiche, and black truffle ($22) and marrowbones with toast and port jelly ($20). The last time I saw marrowbones on a menu in L.A. was at a culinary historians re-creation of a Georgian dinner, and I was surprised to see them again. They’re good though incredibly rich, the roasted bones full of fatty marrow that you spoon on your toast like butter. At 3 on Fourth this dish was all about meaty richness modified with a little herb, a dash of pepper, and the sweet, deep flavor of the port jelly cubes. Those who try this starter out of curiosity may be surprised to find that they actually like it.

We were less thrilled with the eggs, which had just a dash of sea urchin flavor, a few discs of preserved black truffle, and more crème fraiche than necessary. I might have liked it better without the cream entirely, the better to appreciate the combination of musky truffle and that breath of sea foam that sea urchin can lend to a dish.

We were surprised when something else arrived – the soy milk custard we decided not to order. (It wasn’t a mistake, the kitchen sent it out as a surprise.) This was completely successful, a savory custard with just the right light touch of garlic, topped with a quail egg and tobiko caviar.

The verjuice sabayon that ringed the plate was pretty but not essential to the flavor – this worked

fine by itself.

We enjoyed our starters while sipping from a half-bottle of Burgundy from the excellent wine list and considering the odd but appealing décor. Most of the furniture in the room wouldn’t be out of place in an old-school steakhouse, but a dramatic high table with massive flower centerpiece and draped ribbons overhead adds theatrical flair – it looks like staging for a musical.

For main courses we selected roasted branzino ($33) and pot-au-feu ($28). The branzino (sea bass, for those who don’t speak Italian) was cooked so the skin was perfectly crisp, then filleted and served over pureed leek fondue with truffle vinaigrette. The ideas and execution were both flawless, the flavors of fish and pureed vegetable mix perfect together. We had appreciated the cooking before, but it snapped into focus here – this was a masterful dish. So was the potau-feu, a thick, rich stew of slow-cooked beef and vegetables. This was a no-compromises dish, the vegetables cooked to European ideas of doneness rather than Californian so that the carrots, turnips, leeks, and onions had merged together and absorbed the flavor of the broth.

It looked like something anybody could do with a crock pot – but looks can be deceiving. This was comfort food with an admirable level of finesse in the spicing. At our server’s suggestion, we accompanied this with a side dish of sautéed bok choy with soy sauce and garlic ($8). It was a very good choice, a light, sharp complement to the deep flavors of the stew.

We considered cheese from a sushi-bar type menu – a vast selection that included some very interesting possibilities – but decided on an apricot and pistachio tart ($9) instead. It was a nice combination of fruit sweetness and nuttiness, a fine end to a meal alongside a cup of good coffee. 3 on Fourth may scorn “attitude,” but there’s such a thing as a good attitude, and I think they have it. ✶

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HARISMATIC MEN WHO ACT as if they’re above the law are apparently with us always. Witnessing these guys when they tumble from their thrones, especially if they’ve been obnoxiously hypocritical, is a favorite pastime. Just ask Eliot Spitzer, Larry Craig, Antonio Villaraigosa.

It’s no surprise that these schadenfreude-inducing spectacles are popular in the theater. Of course if we initially admire the subjects, such plays become tragedies, not comedies. The same can be true when innocent bystanders are injured, in the course of the great man’s downfall.

Two recently opened productions illustrate spectacular reckonings that befall two seemingly invincible men. Each of these plays also evokes the image of a statue that more or less comes to life as a key narrative component.

Molière acquired his reputation as the theater’s expert on hypocrisy mostly through the frequently revived Tartuffe. Much less familiar is his take on another legendary sinner, Don Juan. At A Noise Within, using Richard Nelson’s down-toearth translation, director Michael Michetti makes a strong case for Don Juan.

Don Juan (swashbuckling Elijah Alexander) is more sophisticated and candid than Tartuffe.

Instead of trying to hide his libertine views, he spends much of his onstage time rationalizing them in conversations with his valet Sganarelle (JD Cullum), donning hypocritical masks only when it’s necessary to get what he wants from his targets.

In the play’s funniest rant, Sganarelle tries to rebut Don Juan’s opinions but ends up using convoluted turns of phrase that could have been written by Ionesco. Score one for Don Juan.

At the end of the play, as the statue of Don Juan’s late enemy the Commander beckons him into what looks like hell, the rake holds his head high as he strides into the pit. Molière, the devil’s sharpest advocate, seems to cheer him on.

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Without any explicit allusions to the 21st century, this 343-year-old play feels up-to-date.

The L.A. premiere of Craig Lucas’ 13-year-old The Dying Gaul, by contrast, feels a bit belated, not because the material is especially dated but because it follows on the heels of Lucas’ movie version, released last month on DVD. Considering that it’s set in Hollywood, its tardiness in reaching L.A. is even stranger.

The reprobate in The Dying Gaul is Jeffrey (Ken Arquelio), a movie exec who tells Robert (Patrick Hancock) how much he admires his screenplay, which is named The Dying Gaul after a famous ancient sculpture depicting a wounded soldier. But the script is based on Robert’s own recent loss of his boyfriend to HIV-related tuberculosis. Jeffrey promises Robert a million bucks – if only the screenwriter can manage to change the fictional couple to a man and a woman.

Jeffrey is married, with kids, to Elaine (MaryEllen Loukas), yet he seduces Robert in the bedroom as well as in the wallet. His compulsions make Don Juan look naïve for never having explored bisexuality. Complications multiply when Elaine assumes chat room pseudonyms to become Robert’s unknowing online confidante.

Each of the three people in this triangle leaps into a moral morass. At the end of the play, the hell on earth for the survivors looks worse than the supernatural hell in Don Juan.

A couple of plausibility problems notwithstanding, Jon Lawrence Rivera’s staging in an intimate theater is a good fit for this word-driven chamber drama. But no one here can hold his head high while marching into hell. ✶ Don Juan, A Noise Within, 234 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale. (818) 240-0910. anoisewithin.org.

Closes May 24.

The Dying Gaul, Elephant Theatre, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood. (323) 960-7745. plays411.com/dying gaul. Closes April 19.

For more reviews by Don Shirley, see Stage listings, page 34.

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The Quick and the Dead ‘Shine a Light’ and ‘Chapter 27’ prove again how ’60s culture continues to haunt us ~ BY ANDY KLEIN ~

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In a sense, he’s too great a choice. That is, Shine a Light -- shot at two 2006 shows in New York and edited together as one -may (or may not) be a first-rate picture of the Stones onstage in their sixties; but there’s not much here that exploits Scorsese’s personality or greatest skills. How much different would it have been with, say, Steve Binder (The T.A.M.I. Show) or Tony Mitchell (Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night) calling the shots?

Believe me, I’m not knocking those guys: The two titles cited are among the best concert movies ever made. But Scorsese’s career brings with it a different set of expectations. Of his three largest music projects in the past, both HBO’s The Blues (2003) and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) had broad canvasses and room for historical depth, and The Last Waltz (1978) documented a poignant event in the death of a great group.

The first few minutes of Shine a Light are wonderfully droll -- a string of confused pre-concert meetings and phone calls, as

Scorsese deals with lights and cameramen while desperately trying to get Jagger to firm up the set list. The director, as always, is a great onscreen presence, and these scenes could almost be outtakes from This Is Spinal Tap. Bill Clinton shows up to introduce the band at one of the concerts, so we get the incongruous sight of Keith Richards sweetly saying “Hello, Dorothy!” to Hillary’s 86year-old mom. (One can only hope that Hillary prepared her for some of the lyrics she was about to hear.)

However, once the show kicks off with “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” we are almost entirely on Really Well Shot Historical Record of Concert turf. A half-dozen times, Scorsese inserts cleverly chosen interview clips, mostly from the early days, which gives us a chance to marvel at how little Mick has changed and how much Keith has.

An oft-broken rule of the genre is that one shouldn’t cut away in the middle of a song to insert some talk, no matter how resonant. Scorsese does it only once ... in the least bothersome spot: Mick leaves the stage for several minutes -- for a costume change and, hopefully, a couple of bottles of Gatorade -- while Keith steps up to the mike for acoustic versions of “You Got the Silver” and “Connection.” Keith’s performance of the second tune isn’t particularly good, and the cutaway is a bit of a relief.

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Pretty damned good, actually. After 45 years, 24 studio albums, and roughly 300 songs, the problem with a Stones set is that somebody’s notion of an absolutely essential song is going to be missing. In this case, I’m that somebody, and I can’t wrap my brain around the omission of “Honky Tonk Women.”

About two-thirds of the 18 or so selections come from the golden period that ended with Exile on Main St.: starting with “Satisfaction” and “As Tears Go By”; through “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Sympathy for the Devil”; and on to “Brown Sugar” and “Tumbling Dice.” Later tunes include “Shattered” and “Start Me Up.” Three guest stars each do a duet with Mick: Jack White shows up for “Loving Cup”; Christina Aguilera for “Live with Me”; and Buddy Guy for Muddy Waters’s “Champagne & Reefer.” It’s sporting that Mick lets Buddy sing, given that the latter’s voice blows him off the stage.

The sound for most of the show struck me as a little murky, which may be the result of the venue I saw it in or my aging ears or, most likely, the denseness of the arrangements. Like the 1991 At the Max, the film is being released in IMAX theaters (in addition to regular venues). So, if -- unlike me -- you can watch a 20-foot-tall Mick quickly whipping back and forth across a too-wide screen without getting a headache, IMAX might be worth it for better sound.

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Make all the jokes you want about these guys being geezers, but how many 50-year-olds can maintain the energy level that Jagger displays here for nearly two hours? Long ago, Richard Belzer described Jagger onstage as looking like “a rooster on acid.”

Decades have passed, and the singer has inevitably evolved: Now he looks like a wellpreserved, extraordinarily fit 63-year-old rooster on acid.

There are plenty of other ’60s icons still around, but -- thanks to psycho-asshole Mark David Chapman -- John Lennon is not among them. For whatever reason, two fictional features have recently been made about Chapman’s stalking and murder of Lennon. A month and a half ago, Andrew Piddington’s The Killing of John Lennon showed up on one L.A. screen, swept away a week later in a flood of bad reviews and audience indifference. There is very little reason to imagine -- or hope -- that its successor, Jarrett Schaefer’s Chapter 27, will fare any better.

The title Chapter 27 refers to the notion that Chapman was trying, by his actions, to write one further scene beyond the last chapter of his favorite book, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Schaefer follows Chapman (Jared Leto) from his arrival in New York to the moment he unloads his gun into one of the most famous people in the world. Along the way, as he hangs out near the Dakota, Lennon’s apartment house, he has an awkward flirtation with another fan named Jude (Lindsay Lohan) and some tense encounters with Paul (Judah Friedlander), the paparazzo who lucks out by snapping a picture of him getting Lennon’s autograph.

It’s easy to understand Leto’s desire to break out of the pretty-boy mode he’s been consigned to since his days on My So-Called Life. For Chapter 27, he’s even pulled a De Niro -- temporarily gaining 60 pounds and successfully making himself look the very picture of Chapman.

Sadly, he’s less well-served by the material than in his last such outing, Lonely Hearts (2006). He may look just like Chapman; he may sound just like Chapman; and his mumbled voiceover may perfectly reflect Chapman’s inner world.

The problem is: Who wants to enter that world? Neither Chapman -- still alive in Attica Prison -- nor his inner life is very interesting, even by the standards of psychoassholes. Chapman decided to kill Lennon because he felt like a nonentity; if the film is anything to go by, he was right. As a result, I was looking at my watch before the first third of the movie’s 84-minute running time had passed.

The only attractions Chapter 27 may exert on potential viewers are its exploitable casting coups: Leto’s transformation, Lohan’s presence (however limited), and -- for trivia freaks -- Lennon being played by Mark Lindsay Chapman, who was cast as the singer in a 1985 TV movie and then lost the role solely because of his unfortunate name. ✶ Shine a Light. Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jack White, Buddy Guy, Christina Aguilera, Bill Clinton, and Martin Scorsese.

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Family Films ‘My Brother Is an Only Child’ and ‘Young Yakuza’ look at very different sorts of families ~ BY ANDY KLEIN ~

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TALIAN DIRECTOR DANIELE Luchetti, we are told, chose the title My Brother Is an Only Child in tribute to ’70s singer Rino Gaetano, who wrote and recorded a song by that title. The general texture of Gaetano’s song sounds influenced by John Lennon’s “Mother,” but the title was presumably filched (with the tense changed from past to present) from American writer Jack Douglas’s 1959 bestseller, large portions of which, at a certain point of my life, I could recite from memory.

Luchetti’s film may be far from the sort of broad yockfest Douglas specialized in, but, most of the time, it’s still infectiously funny. We first meet our hero, Accio (Vittorio Emanuele Propizio), as an adolescent misfit in seminary school, circa 1960. Giving up on being a priest, he returns to his working-class family in Latina, a small town 40 miles from Rome.

Since his family members are all socialists, the still rebellious Accio has little choice but to become a Fascist, under the tutelage of neighbor Mario (Luca Zingaretti), who still regards the majority of his countrymen as traitors for having turned against Mussolini in 1943. The political dynamic in the household becomes dominated by the friction between Accio and his older brother, Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio).

About 20 minutes in, we leap forward to Accio’s late teens -- with the role being taken over

by Elio Germano -- when the ideological tension becomes inextricably bound up with romantic tension: Accio falls madly in love with Francesca (Diane Fleri), Manrico’s big-city girlfriend. And the conflict becomes further confused by the political upheavals seizing Italy (and most of the rest of the industrialized world) as the decade wears on.

In description, this may sound dreary, but Luchetti directs with a light touch that recalls the Italian comedies that were popular -- in the U.S. as well as Europe -- during the period it portrays. And, while no one in the cast is the next Mastroianni, Germano brings an edge to his work that allows him to overshadow the more conventionally handsome Scamarcio.

Young Yakuza is also about family dynamics but within a rather different sort of family. Like My Brother Is an Only Child, it’s partly a coming-

of-age film, but -- in its form, its milieu, and (sad to say) its quality -- it couldn’t be more different.

First of all, it’s a documentary (at least allegedly): French director Jean-Pierre Limosin (Novo) somehow got permission to film within the traditionally closed chambers of a Japanese crime organization. He decided to center his film on Naoki Watanabe, an aimless young man whose mother -- on the suggestion of a trusted friend -- arranges for him to be apprenticed to a mob boss named Kumagai. She hopes that he will learn a few things about respect and responsibility and find his place in the world.

Naoki seems to be happy with his initial duties, cleaning and shopping. But he’s almost expressionless, so it’s not that big a surprise when we learn he’s unhappy enough to simply leave town halfway through the film, not to be seen again until the very end. The director is forced to weave an awkward narrative cloth involving various other members of the Kumagai family.

The notion that the gangsters were willing to be filmed seems so preposterous that I kept looking for signs that Young Yakuza was a scripted mockumentary. But eventually I came to believe Limosin’s claims, simply because, with all the options fiction provides, no one would deliberately construct so dull and meandering a story. That his subjects play their cards close to the vest is to be expected; but one might have hoped he could coax something a bit more revealing, or merely interesting, from them. ✶

My Brother Is an Only Child. Directed by Daniele Luchetti. Screenplay by Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli, and Daniele Luchetti; based on the novel Il Fasciocomunista by Antonio Pennacchi. With Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Diane Fleri, Alba Rohrbacher, Luca Zingaretti, and Vittorio Emanuele Propizio. Opens Friday at Laemmle’s Royal.

Young Yakuza. Directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin. With Naoki Watanabe, Chiyozo Ishii, and Hideyuki Ishii. Opens Friday at the ImaginAsian Theatre, 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033, Theimaginasian.com/la.

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Heddy Honigmann makes a strong argument for the sentimentality of ritual in her latest documentary, on the famous Père-Lachaise cemeter y in Paris. Here, where Frédéric Chopin, Marcel Proust, Amadeo Modigliani, Georges Méliès, and Jim Morrison are buried, visitors come from as far away as Korea to pay homage to their ar tistic idols alongside regulars whose less famous loved ones also rest in peace. Say the old women who are Morrison's "neighbors," "He never gives us any trouble."

It's moments like these that Honigmann draws out with her patient camera, lingering as a pianist struggles to find the words to express her passion for Chopin, an illustrator for Proust, an embalmer for Modigliani. One, a singer visiting the grave of Iranian writer Sadegh Hedayat, she even entices to per form. Amid the practical reality of upkeep -- gravediggers, stone chiselers, and power washers -- her still images of gravestones, sculptures, flowers, and mementos meditate on mor tality and immor tality. As Honigmann follows these artists' work out into the world -- to the Louvre, a concer t stage, the living room of three blind people watching Simone Signoret on film -- the dead, through ar t and/or through love, make a connection to the living. Ultimately, Forever celebrates life.

(Annlee Ellingson) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)

IMAGINARY WITNESS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE HOLOCAUST Gene Hackman narrates this 2004 documentary from Daniel Anker (Music from the Inside Out), which traces the reluctance of Jewish film industr y moguls to make even passing reference to anti-Semitism prior to World War II; the political difficulties with criticizing Hitler before we entered the war; and treatments of the Holocaust all the way up to Roman Polanski's The Pianist.

Who knew that Goebbels called Louis B. Mayer to complain about Frank Borzage's early anti-Nazi film, The Mor tal Storm? Or that the studios fired their German Jewish reps at the request of the Nazis? Numerous film excerpts are intercut with interviews of industr y veterans, as well as Steven Spielberg and historian Neal Gabler. Some of the speakers are a bit too self-congratulator y, but the film is still hugely informative. (Andy Klein) (Laemmle's Grande 4, Laemmle's Town Center 5)

LEATHERHEADS For his third film behind the camera, George Clooney gives classic Hollywood screwball comedy a spin, combining it with the stor y of pro football's salad days, ca. 1925. The actor-director stars as Dodge Connolly, rakish owner-player for a traveling squad that's fallen on hard times. Looking to reverse his fortunes, Dodge hires media darling Carter "The Bullet" Ruther ford (John Krasinski, of The Office), a Princeton footballer and World War I hero. But tough, tar t-tongued repor ter Lexie Littleton (Renée Zellweger) has Ruther ford in her sights for a takedown piece, and she won't let potential feelings for either man deter her from her job.

Fetishistic recreation of film styles past has been something of a specialty for Clooney (see Solaris, Good Night, and Good Luck, and The Good German), and Leatherheads is, in its technical execution and performances, an exceedingly amiable work. Clooney breaks out his slick huckster grin, and he and Zellweger enjoy having a bickering go at one another, Moonlightingstyle. The problem is that there are about 60 good script pages here, but the rest is just a time-biding mishmash. This is especially evident when we come to a conventional "big game" finale, whose concrete stakes are determined to be exactly...nothing. As the movie shrugs, so too does the audience. (Brent Simon) (Citywide)

LOVE SONGS Cut from loosely the same cloth as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the exquisitely French mini-musical Love Songs tells a tale of "indigestible love," in the form of longtime Parisian couple Ismaël (Louis Garrel) and Julie (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier), and their recently added third par tner, Alice (Clotilde Hesme). How they got to this point no one seems quite cer tain, and just as up in the air is where things are headed. When unforeseen tragedy strikes, though, ever yone copes in different ways.

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In rearranging the pop songs of Alex Beaupain and having his cast perform them in intimate, naturalistic registers, writer-director Christophe Honoré (Ma Mére, Dans Paris) crafts a few ver y effective scenes, but the overall cumulative effect is a bit twee. Nothing much cuts psychologically deeply, so Ismaël's fraught relationship with Julie's family and his subsequent emotional meandering come off as hollow. In fact, Love Songs' characters are so concerned with self-analysis, yet totally free of any tangible angst, that the entire movie - a cinematic valentine-cum-diagnosis -could easily be performed by their therapists.

(Brent Simon) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS The first English language feature from Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love) is a half-risen soufflé so wistful it disappears, despite the Shanghai-born director's continued visual master y (executed and enhanced by Se7en D.P. Darius Khondji).

Singer Norah Jones plays Elizabeth, who soothes her recently broken hear t with the caloric ministrations of Jeremy (Jude Law, almost too charming), proprietor of a Manhattan diner. Soon, the forlorn Elizabeth begins an episodic journey of self-discover y, initially escaping to Memphis, where she witnesses the whiskey-fueled destruction of the mar riage between cop Ar nie (David Strathairn) and his cheating wife Sue Lynne (Rachel Weisz). Later, she becomes a Nevada casino waitress, befriending sassy gambler Leslie (Natalie Por tman).

The top-shelf suppor ting players revel in their limited screen time, per forming with theatrical energy while trusting Wong to make the whole thing come together. But this cross-countr y collection of damaged souls makes nar y a mark on Elizabeth, because Jones, while relaxed and pleasantly simple, projects no inner life. Instead of benefiting from Wong's lesson in American emotional detachment, Elizabeth is merely a tour guide. If the film's uneaten blueberr y pies remind us to indulge in the sweetness of life, Wong forgets that pies taste better when they're a little bit hot.

(Mark Keizer) (The Landmark West Los Angeles, Pacific Arclight, Laemmle's Playhouse 7)

SEX AND DEATH 101 Successful fast food exec Roderick (Simon Baker) dumps his bridezilla blonde fiancée, after receiving an e-mail from life's supercomputer listing the 29 women he's slept with ... as well as the next 72. Some men would ration out their good fortune for a Viagra bash at the nursing home; Rod -- a blander, stateside scion of Hugh Grant and Jude Law -- giddily burns through his "embarrassment of bitches" in a year, only to find there's precious few conquests (or "human shields") between him and Death Nell (Winona Ryder), the man-hating murderer at the end of his sexual agendum.

Writer-director Daniel Waters's flick makes use of its great hook and setup for R-rated Up! All Night boobage, as the hopelessly horny Rod descends from checking girls' IDs before buying them a drink to calling them up in the phone book and asking them to come over so they can just do this already. But despite two separate necrophilia gags and its dismissal of Jane Austen as a "whore bitch," Sex and Death 101 feels like it's feigning its misogyny, cynicism, and philosophical depth (though "karma sutra" is a great pun). Cur vaceous and grating, Ryder scrambles our fond memories of her, but Facts of Life's Mindy Cohn, as Rod's lesbian secretar y, is a perky surprise. (Amy Nicholson) (Laemmle's Sunset 5, Laemmle's Playhouse 7)

SUPERHERO MOVIE Immediately after the opening intro, hapless nerd hero Rick (Drake Bell) gets whacked on the head three times in ten seconds. And from there, astonishingly, Craig Mazin's mashup spoof -- two parts Spider-Man, one par t ever yone else -- gets funny. One fateful day at a genetics lab, Rick is mounted by ever y creature on Noah's Ark, including a biting dragonfly that injects him with, um, dragonfly superpowers. This sets him on a collision course with evil Lou Landers (Christopher McDonald), Professor Xavier (Tracy Morgan), and Stephen Hawking (Rober t Joy). Meanwhile, Rick falls for nextdoor sweetheart Jill Johnson (Sara Paxton, sincere but strong) and is schooled by his Uncle Albert (Leslie Nielsen) that "With great power comes hot bitches." Crammed with situational -- not slop-spoof-referential -- jokes, the flick's comedy momentum keeps us laughing despite our embarrassment over cracking up at Aunt Lucille's (Marion Ross) flatulence during Rick and Jill's big love speech. (Amy Nicholson) (Citywide)

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ALSO OPENING THIS WEEK:

Extra Ordinary Barry. All in one day, an Angeleno (Jay Convente) loses his job, argues with his girlfriend (Carrie Chason), and discovers he's about to be visited by the eightyear-old daughter (Natalie Carter) he never knew he had. Vivi Stafford wrote and directed this indie comedy. (AK) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) Grizzly Park. Eight misfits sentenced to community service in a California park must contend with both a serial killer and a giant grizzly. Tom Skull wrote and directed; Glenn Morshower, Randy Wayne, Zulay Henao, Emily Foxler, Shedrack Anderson III, and Julie Skon star. (AK) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) Nim's Island. When her father disappears, a girl (Abigail Breslin) on a deserted island must call on an agoraphobic author (Jodie Foster) and the latter's fictional male alter ego (Gerard Butler) for help. The team of Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin directed and cowrote this adaptation of the book by Wendy Orr. (AK) (Citywide) The Ruins. Carter Smith directed this adaptation of a novel by Scott B. Smith (A Simple Plan), about vacationing Americans en-

countering evil in the Mexican jungle. The cast includes Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, and Jonathan Tucker (AK) (Citywide)

SHOWTIMES April 4-10 Note: Times are p.m., and daily, unless otherwise indicated. All times are subject to c hange without notice.

BURBANK AMC Burbank 16, 140 E Palm Av, (818) 9539800. 10,000 B.C. Fri-Sat 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25; Sun 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:55, 7:40, 10:15; Mon-Thur 2:30, 5:05, 7:40.

21 Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 1, 2:15, 4, 5:15, 7, 8:15, 10, 11:15; Sun 11:15 a.m., 1, 2:15, 4, 5:15, 7, 8:15, 10; Mon-Tue 1, 2:20, 4, 5:15, 7, 8:15, 9:55; Wed 1, 4, 7, 9:55; Thur 1, 2:20, 4, 5:15, 7, 8:15, 9:55.

The Bank Job Fri-Sat 11:35 a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:50, 10:35; Sun 5, 7:50, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:25, 4:05, 7:10, 9:50.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Sat 11:10 a.m., 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:50; Sun 11:10

a.m., 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30; Mon-Thur 1:30, 3:45, 6:10, 8:30.

Drillbit Taylor Fri-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50; Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40.

Leatherheads Fri-Sat 11 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:55, 2:40, 4:50, 5:30, 7:45, 8:25, 10:40, 11:20; Sun 11 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:55, 2:40, 4:50, 5:30, 7:45, 8:25, 10:25; Mon-Thur 1:45, 2:35, 4:25, 5:25, 7:05, 8:25, 10.

Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme Sat only, 10:30 a.m.

Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme - Encore Sun only, noon.

Nim’s Island Fri-Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25; Mon-Thur 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25.

The Ruins Fri-Sat 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30, 11:55; Sun 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; MonThur 2:15, 4:35, 7:15, 9:30.

Run Fat Boy Run Fri 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 8, 10:45; Sat 5:10, 8, 10:45; Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 8, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:15.

Shine a Light Fri-Sat 11:50 a.m., 2:45, 5:35, 8:30, 11:25; Sun 11:50 a.m., 3, 6:05, 9:10; Mon-Thur 1:05, 3:50, 6:55, 9:45.

Shutter Fri-Sat 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40, midnight; Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:25, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10.

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Stop-Loss Fri-Sat 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30; Sun 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:10; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10.

Superhero Movie Fri-Sat 11:20 a.m., 1:45, 4:05, 6:20, 8:40, 11; Sun 11:20 a.m., 1:45, 4:05, 6:20, 8:40; Mon-Thur 2, 4:10, 6:20, 8:40.

Under the Same Moon Fri-Sat 11:45 a.m., 2:35, 5:25, 8:10, 11:05; Sun 11:35 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:55, 10:35; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05.

AMC Burbank Town Center 8, 210 E Magnolia Bl, (818) 953-9800. 10,000 B.C. Fri 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25; Sat 12:25, 3:05, 5:55, 8:30, 11:05; Sun 12:25, 3:05, 5:55, 8:30; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri 2:15, 4:35, 7, 9:20; Sat-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7, 9:20; Mon-Thur 2:15, 4:40, 7, 9:20.

The Hammer Fri 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8, 10:25; Sat-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35; MonThur 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15.

Meet the Browns Fri 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:55, 10:20; Sat-Sun 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:20, 7:05, 9:30.

Never Back Down Fri 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 10; SatSun 11:30 a.m., 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35; MonThur 1:35, 4:15, 7, 9:40.

Nim’s Island Fri 2:25, 5, 7:35, 10:10; Sat-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Thur 2:40, 5:15, 7:50.

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The Other Boleyn Girl Fri 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:05; Sat-Sun 11:35 a.m., 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35.

Superhero Movie Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55; Mon-Thur 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 9:50.

AMC Burbank Town Center 6, 770 N First St, (818) 953-9800. 21 Fri-Sun noon, 3:05, 6, 9; Mon-Thur 3:20, 6:15, 9:15.

College Road Trip Fri 11:45 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:20; Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:25, 5:45, 7:55, 10:15.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Sat 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10; Sun 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40; Mon-Thur 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45.

Leatherheads Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:20, 9:15; Mon-Thur 1:15, 3:55, 6:35, 9:20.

The Ruins Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45; Sun 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30; MonThur 1:25, 3:50, 6:10, 8:35.

Vantage Point Fri 11:40 a.m., 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; Sat-Sun 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; MonThur 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35.

CULVER CITY, MARINA DEL REY The Bridge: Cinema De Lux & IMAX Theater, The Promenade at Howard Hughes Center, 6081 Center Dr, Westchester, (310) 568-3375. 10,000 B.C. 11:50 a.m., 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30.

21 Fri noon, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50, 9:50, 10:20, 12:30 a.m.; Sat 11 a.m., noon, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50, 9:50, 10:20, 12:30 a.m.; Sun 11 a.m., noon, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50, 9:50, 10:20; Mon-Thur noon, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50, 9:50, 10:20.

The Bank Job Fri 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45, 12:25 a.m.; Sat 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45, 12:25 a.m.; Sun 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45.

Bob the Builder: On Site: Roads & Bridges SatSun 10 a.m.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Sat noon, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9, 11:15; Sun-Thur noon, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9.

Drillbit Taylor Fri-Sat 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05, 12:30 a.m.; Sun-Thur 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05.

Leatherheads 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25.

Meet the Browns Fri 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20, 12:35 a.m.; Sat 10:05 a.m., 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20, 12:35 a.m.; Sun 10:05 a.m., 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20; MonThur 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20.

Nim’s Island Fri-Sat 11:40 a.m., 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 10, 12:25 a.m.; Sun-Thur 11:40 a.m., 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 10.

The Ruins Fri 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8, 10:25, 12:35 a.m.; Sat 10:30 a.m., 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8, 10:25, 12:35 a.m.; Sun 10:30 a.m., 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8, 10:25; Mon-Thur 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8, 10:25.

Run Fat Boy Run 2:25, 4:55, 7:25.

Shutter Fri 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45, midnight; Sat 10:30 a.m., 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45, midnight; Sun 10:30 a.m., 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45; Mon-Thur 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45.

Stop-Loss 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25.

Superhero Movie Fri 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55, 12:15 a.m.; Sat 10:15 a.m., 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55, 12:15 a.m.; Sun 10:15 a.m., 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55; Mon-Thur 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55.

Under the Same Moon Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10, 12:30 a.m.; Sun-Thur 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10.

Culver Plaza Theatre, 9919 Washington Blvd, (310) 836-5516. 10,000 B.C. Fri-Sun 2:25, 7:25, 9:40; Mon-Thur 2:25, 7:25.

College Road Trip 11:45 a.m., 3:20, 5:10.

The Hammer Fri-Sun 1:55, 3:50, 8:05, 10:05; Mon-Thur 1:55, 3:50, 8:05.

In Bruges Fri-Sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45; Mon-Thur 12:05, 2:30, 5:15, 7:30.

Juno Fri-Sun 2:35, 8, 10; Mon-Thur 2:35, 8.

The Other Boleyn Girl 11:40 a.m., 5:45.

Paranoid Park Fri-Sun 1:30, 7, 8:50; Mon-Thur 1:30, 7.

Race 11:35 a.m., 5:05.

Run Fat Boy Run Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:25, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55; Mon-Thur 12:15, 2:25, 5:25, 7:40.

Vantage Point 12:10, 5:20.

Loews Cineplex Marina Marketplace, 13455 Maxella Av, (310) 827-9588. 21 Fri 1:15, 4, 7, 10; Sat-Sun 10:30 a.m., 1:15, 4, 7, 10; MonThur 1:20, 4, 6:45, 9:30.

Drillbit Taylor Fri-Sat 1, 4:35, 7:40, 10:20; Sun 1, 7:40; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 9:45.

Leatherheads Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15; SatSun 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15; MonThur 1:30, 4:20, 7, 9:40.

Meet the Browns Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55; SatSun 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50.

The Ruins Fri 2, 4:45, 7:25, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:25, 9:45; Mon-Thur 2, 4:45, 7:10, 9:20.

Superhero Movie Fri 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:10; Sat 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:10; Sun 10:40 a.m., 5, 10:10; Mon-Thur 2:15, 4:45, 6:50, 9.

Pacific Culver Stadium 12, 9500 Culver Bl, (310) 855-7519. 21 Fri-Sun noon, 1, 2:45, 4:15, 5:40, 7:05, 8:30, 10:20; Mon-Thur 1:15, 2:15, 4:30, 5:30, 7:20, 8:20, 10:10.

The Bank Job Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:50, 10:10; Mon-Thur 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25.

Drillbit Taylor Fri-Sun 1:05, 4, 7, 9:30; Mon-Thur 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10.

Leatherheads Fri-Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45; MonThur 1:35, 4:15, 7, 9:40.

Meet the Browns Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:20, 9:45; MonThur 1, 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30.

Nim’s Island Fri-Sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; MonThur 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 8, 10:20.

The Ruins Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:30, 8, 10:35; Mon-Thur 1:05, 3:15, 5:35, 7:50, 10:05.

Stop-Loss Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15; Mon-Thur 2, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15.

Superhero Movie Fri-Sun 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:25, 9:35; MonThur 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50.

Under the Same Moon Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:05, 5:45, 8:20, 10:50; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40.

UA Marina, 4335 Glencoe Av, (310) 823-1721. 10,000 B.C. Mon-Thur 11:10 a.m., 5, 10:20.

The Bank Job Mon-Thur 11:40 a.m., 2:50, 5:20, 8, 10:40.

Nim’s Island noon, 2:30, 4:50, 7:30, 10.

Run Fat Boy Run Mon-Thur 2:40, 7:40.

Stop-Loss Mon-Thur 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30.

Under the Same Moon Mon-Thur 11:20 a.m., 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10.

DOWNTOWN & SOUTH L.A. Laemmle’s Grande 4-Plex, 345 S Figueroa St, (213) 617-0268.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri 5:10, 7:20, 9:20; SatSun 1, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:20; Mon-Thur 5:10, 7:20.

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust Fri 5:30, 7:45, 10; Sat-Sun 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10; Mon-Thur 5:30, 7:45.

Leatherheads Fri 5, 7:40, 10:10; Sat-Sun 1:50, 5, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Thur 5, 7:40.

Superhero Movie Fri 5:20, 7:30, 9:40; Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40; Mon-Thur 5:20, 7:30.

Magic Johnson Theaters, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 4020 Marlton Av, (323) 290-5900. 10,000 B.C. Fri-Sun 11:20 a.m., 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:15; Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:15; Thur 4:45, 7:20, 10:15.

21 Fri-Sun 10:05 a.m., 1, 4, 7:05, 10:05; Mon-Thur 1, 4, 7:05, 10:05.

College Road Trip Fri-Sun 10 a.m., 12:10, 2:35, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35; Mon-Thur 12:10, 2:35, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Sat 11:50 a.m., 12:25, 2:10, 2:50, 4:25, 5:05, 7, 7:30, 9:20, 9:55; Sun 11:50 a.m., 12:25, 2:10, 2:50, 4:25, 5:05, 7, 7:30, 9:20; Mon-Wed 12:25, 2:10, 2:50, 4:25, 5:05, 7, 7:30, 9:20; Thur 12:25, 2:50, 4:25, 5:05, 7, 7:30, 9:20.

Drillbit Taylor Fri-Sun 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45; Mon-

Thur 1:45, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45.

Leatherheads Fri-Sun 10:55 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25.

Meet the Browns Fri-Sat 11:25 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6:55, 7:25, 8, 9:30, 10, 10:30; Sun 11:25 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 12:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6:55, 7:25, 8, 9:30, 10; Mon-Wed 12:30, 2, 2:30, 3, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6:55, 7:25, 8, 9:30, 10; Thur 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6:55, 7:25, 8, 9:30, 10.

Nim’s Island Fri-Sun 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35; Mon-Thur 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25.

The Ruins Fri-Sun 10:10 a.m., 12:35, 3:10, 5:25, 8:10, 10:40; Mon-Thur 12:35, 3:10, 5:25, 8:10, 10:40.

Shutter Fri-Sun 10:25 a.m., 12:40, 3:05, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15; Mon-Thur 12:40, 3:05, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15.

Superhero Movie Fri-Sun 10:20 a.m., 12:45, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50, 10:10; Mon-Thur 12:45, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50, 10:10.

Under the Same Moon Fri-Sun 11:10 a.m., 1:55, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20.

University Village 3, 3323 S Hoover St, (213) 748-6321. 21 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45, 12:20 a.m.; Sun-Thur 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45.

The Ruins Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15, 12:25 a.m.; Sun-Thur 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15.

Saturday Night Fever Fri-Sat midnight.

Superhero Movie noon, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9.

HOLLYWOOD ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Bl, (323) 4644226. 21 Fri 5:10, 8, 11:10; Sat-Mon 2:30, 5:10, 8, 11:10; Tue 11:05 a.m., 1:45, 2:30, 4:25, 5:10, 7:25, 8, 10:15, 11:10.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Mon 11:25 a.m., 1:35, 4:55, 7:55, 10:05; Tue 11:25 a.m., 1:35, 4:15.

In Bruges Fri-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45; Mon 11:55 a.m., 2:15, 4:45; Tue 11:55 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50; Sat-Mon 11:30 a.m., 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50.

My Blueberry Nights Fri-Tue 11:45 a.m., 2:05, 5:15, 8:05, 10:35.

Nim’s Island Fri-Tue noon, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10.

Priceless Fri-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 8:20, 10:40; Mon 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:40; Tue 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 8:20, 10:40.

The Ruins Fri-Mon 11 a.m., 12:05, 1:30, 2:35, 4:20, 5:25, 7:20, 8:15, 10, 11:15; Tue 11 a.m., 12:05, 1:30, 2:35, 4:20, 5:25, 8:15, 11:15.

Run Fat Boy Run Fri-Tue 11:20 a.m., 2, 5, 8:10, 11.

Shine a Light Fri-Tue 11:15 a.m., 12:20, 1:55, 3, 4:35, 5:40, 7:35, 8:30, 10:25, 11:20.

Stop-Loss Fri-Tue 11:35 a.m., 2:25, 5:05, 8:25, 10:55.

Under the Same Moon Fri-Sun 11:10 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20; Mon 11:10 a.m., 1:40, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20; Tue 11:10 a.m., 1:40, 4:40.

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Grauman’s Chinese, 6925 Hollywood Bl, (323) 464-8111. Leatherheads 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30.

Los Feliz 3, 1822 N Vermont Av, (323) 6642169. The Bank Job 4:30, 9:30.

Leatherheads 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30.

Run Fat Boy Run 2, 7.

Under the Same Moon 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30.

Mann Chinese 6, 6801 Hollywood Bl, (323) 461-3331. 10,000 B.C. 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10.

The Bank Job 1:20, 4, 6:50, 9:40.

Drillbit Taylor noon, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:10.

Leatherheads Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30, midnight; Sun-Thur 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30.

Superhero Movie 11:45 a.m., 12:40, 2:10, 3:10, 4:40, 5:40, 7, 8, 9:20, 10:20.

Pacific’s El Capitan, 6838 Hollywood Bl, (323) 467-7674. College Road Trip Fri-Sat 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15; Sun-Thur 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7.

Pacific’s The Grove Stadium 14, 189 The Grove Dr, Third St & Fairfax Av, (323) 692-0829. 21 FriWed 10:25 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 1:15, 2:10, 4:10, 5:15, 7:10, 8:15, 10:15, 11:10; Thur 10:25 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 1:15, 2:10, 4:10, 5:15, 7:10, 8:15, 10:10, 11:10.

The Bank Job 11:30 a.m., 2:30, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Mon 11:25 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:35; Tue 11:25 a.m., 2, 4:20, 9:35; Wed-Thur 11:25 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:35.

Leatherheads Fri-Sat 10:55 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 1:55, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:15, midnight; Sun 10:55 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 1:55, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:15; Mon 10:55 a.m., 11 a.m., 1:55, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:15; Tue 10:55 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 1:55, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:15; Wed 11:50 a.m., 2:50, 5:40, 8:30, 11:15; Thur 10:55 a.m., 11:50 a.m., 1:55, 2:50, 4:40, 5:40, 7:30, 8:30, 10:15, 11:15.

Nim’s Island 11:20 a.m., 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45.

The Ruins Fri-Sat 11:40 a.m., 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10, 12:05 a.m.; Sun-Wed 11:40 a.m., 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10; Thur 11:40 a.m., 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30.

Run Fat Boy Run Fri-Wed 10:50 a.m., 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35; Thur 10:50 a.m., 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25.

Shine a Light Fri-Tue 10:20 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:10, 2:05, 4:05, 5:05, 7:05, 8, 10:05, 10:55; Wed 10:20 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:10, 2:05, 4:05, 5:05, 8, 10:20, 10:55; Thur 10:20 a.m., 11:15 a.m., 1:10, 2:05, 4:05, 5:05, 7:05, 8, 9:55, 10:55.

Stop-Loss 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:35, 7:55, 10:40.

Superhero Movie Fri-Wed 11:55 a.m., 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25; Thur 11:55 a.m., 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05.

Under the Same Moon Fri-Tue 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20; Wed 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:25, 10:05; Thur 11 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20.

Regent Showcase, 614 N La Brea Av, (323) 934-2944. The Band’s Visit Fri 7:30; Sat-Sun 3:30, 5:30, 7:30; Mon-Thur 7:30.

Vine, 6321 Hollywood Bl, (323) 463-6819. Call theater for titles and showtimes.

Vista, 4473 Sunset, (323) 660-6639. 21 Fri 7, 9:35; Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:25, 7, 9:35; Mon-Thur 7, 9:35.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, UNIVERSAL CITY Century 8, 12827 Victory Bl, (818) 508-6004.

10,000 B.C. 11:10 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:35.

21 10:40 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:15.

College Road Trip 12:10, 4:50, 9:40.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! 10:30 a.m., 12:40, 2:55, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50.

Drillbit Taylor 2:20, 7:05.

Nim’s Island 10:25 a.m., 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05.

The Ruins 10:55 a.m., 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55,

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Shutter 10:35 a.m., 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45.

Superhero Movie 11 a.m., 1:15, 3:30, 5:35, 7:50, 10.

Loews CityWalk Stadium 19 with IMAX, 100 Universal City Dr at Universal CityWalk, (818) 5080588; IMAX Theater (818) 760-8100. 10,000 B.C. Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:50; Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40; Mon-Thur 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40.

21 Fri-Sat 11:20 a.m., 12:05, 2:10, 3:10, 5:05, 6:20, 7:55, 9:25, 11, 12:20 a.m.; Sun 11:20 a.m., 12:05, 2:10, 3:10, 5:05, 6:20, 7:55, 9:25, 10:40; Mon-Thur 2:10, 2:55, 5:05, 6:20, 7:55, 9:25, 10:40.

The Bank Job Fri-Sat 11:50 a.m., 5:35, 8:10, 10:45; Sun 11:50 a.m., 5:35, 8:10, 10:35; Mon-Wed 5:35, 8:10, 10:35; Thur 5:35, 8:10.

College Road Trip Fri-Sun 11:40 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7, 9:40; Mon-Wed 2, 4:45, 7, 9:40; Thur 2, 4:45, 7.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:05, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Wed 1, 3:05, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10; Thur 1, 3:05, 5:15, 7:40.

Drillbit Taylor Fri-Sun 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 5:10, 8:15, 10:35; Mon-Thur 2:20, 5:10, 8:15, 10:35.

Leatherheads Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 12:50, 1:50, 3:45, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15, 12:05 a.m.; Sun 11:15 a.m., 12:50, 1:50, 3:45, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15; Mon-Thur 1:05, 1:50, 3:45, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15.

Meet the Browns Fri-Sat 12:30, 5:45, 10:55; Sun 12:30, 5:45; Mon-Thur 5:45.

Never Back Down Fri-Sat 2:50, 12:10 a.m.; SunThur 2:50.

Nim’s Island Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Mon-Thur 2:05, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50.

The Ruins Fri-Sat 12:05, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6, 7:35, 8:30, 10:05, 11:10, 12:20 a.m.; Sun 12:05, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6, 7:35, 8:30, 10:05; Mon-Thur 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6, 7:35, 8:30, 10:05.

Run Fat Boy Run Fri-Sun 3, 8:20; Mon-Thur 1:40, 8:20.

Shine a Light: The IMAX Experience IMAX Fri-Sun noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:40; IMAX Mon-Thur 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:40.

Shutter Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:35, 4:55, 7:10, 9:30, 11:50; Sun 12:20, 2:35, 4:55, 7:10, 9:30; Mon-Thur 2:35, 4:55, 7:10, 9:30.

Stop-Loss Fri-Sat 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:20, midnight; Sun-Thur 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:20.

Superhero Movie Fri-Sat 11:10 a.m., noon, 1:15, 2:15, 3:20, 4:30, 5:30, 6:45, 7:45, 9:05, 10, 11:15, 12:15 a.m.; Sun 11:10 a.m., noon, 1:15, 2:15, 3:20, 4:30, 5:30, 6:45, 7:45, 9:05, 10; Mon-Thur 1:15, 2:15, 3:20, 4:30, 5:30, 6:45, 7:45, 9:05, 10.

Under the Same Moon Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:25, 6:15, 9, 11:40; Sun 12:45, 3:25, 6:15, 9; Mon-Thur 12:55, 3:25, 6:15, 9.

NORTHRIDGE, CHATSWORTH, Mann Granada Hills, Devonshire St & Balboa Av, (818) 363-3679. 10,000 B.C. 5:20, 8, 10:30.

21 12:40, 3:50, 7, 10.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! 11:40 a.m., 12:50, 2:10, 3, 4:20, 6:40, 9.

Drillbit Taylor 1, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20.

Leatherheads 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10.

Nim’s Island 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 6:50, 9:40.

The Ruins noon, 2:30, 5, 7:50, 10:20.

Shutter 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50.

Superhero Movie 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:30.

Pacific’s Northridge Fashion Center All Stadium 10, 9400 N Shirley Av, (818) 501-5121.

10,000 B.C. Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15; Mon-Thur 1:35, 5, 7:35.

21 Fri-Sat 12:45, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10; Sun 12:45, 4:10, 7:20, 10; Mon-Thur 2, 4:50, 7:40.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri 12:25, 2:40, 5, 7:25, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:25, 9:45; Mon-Thur 1:30, 4:55, 7:10.

Drillbit Taylor Fri 2, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25; Sat noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25; Sun noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:10; Mon-Thur 1:40, 5:15, 8.

Leatherheads Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05; Mon-Thur 1:45, 5:20, 7:55.

Never Back Down Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55; Sun 1:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40; Mon-Thur 2:05, 5:10, 7:50.

Nim’s Island Fri 1:45, 4:35, 7, 9:30; Sat 11:45 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:30; Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:20; Mon-Thur 2:30, 5:05, 7:30.

The Ruins Fri-Sat 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:20; Sun 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:05; Mon-Thur 2:15, 5:35, 8:15.

Shutter Fri 12:35, 2:50, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50; SatSun 11:50 a.m., 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50; MonThur 1:50, 5:30, 7:45.

Superhero Movie Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:25, 7:45, 10:30; Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:25, 7:45, 9:55; Mon-Thur 2:20, 5:45, 8:10.

Pacific’s Winnetka All Stadium 21, 9201 Winnetka Av, Chatsworth, (818) 501-5121. 10,000 B.C. Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55; Sun-Thur 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45.

21 Fri 1, 1:50, 4, 4:50, 7:05, 7:55, 10:05, 10:55; Sat 1, 1:50, 4, 4:50, 7:05, 7:50, 10:05, 10:55; Sun-Thur 1, 1:50, 4, 4:50, 7:05, 7:50,

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The Bank Job Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:35; Sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:25; Tue-Thur 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:25.

College Road Trip Fri 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30; SatSun noon, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30; Mon-Thur 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10; Sat-Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10; Mon-Thur 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10.

Drillbit Taylor Fri 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50; Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50; Sun 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:35; Mon-Thur 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:35.

Leatherheads Fri 1:15, 2:05, 4:05, 5, 7, 8, 9:45, 10:50; Sat 11:30 a.m., 1:15, 2:15, 4:05, 5:10, 7, 8:05, 9:45, 10:50; Sun 11:30 a.m., 1:15, 2:15, 4:05, 5:10, 7, 8:05, 9:45, 10:40; Mon-Thur 1:15, 2:15, 4:05, 5:10, 7, 8:05, 9:45, 10:40.

Meet the Browns Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10; Sun-Thur 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10.

Never Back Down 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15.

Nim’s Island Fri 1, 2, 3:20, 4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:50; Sat-Sun 11:30 a.m., 1, 2, 3:20, 4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:50; Mon-Thur 1, 2, 3:20, 4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:50.

The Ruins Fri 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10; Sat-Sun noon, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10; Mon-Thur 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10.

Run Fat Boy Run Fri-Sat 2, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30; Sun-Thur 2, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25.

Shine a Light Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:35, 10:40; Sun-Thur 1:10, 4:20, 7:35, 10:20.

Shutter Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:15, 5:40, 8:20, 10:45; Sun-Thur 1:05, 3:15, 5:40, 8:20, 10:35.

Stop-Loss 1:35, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50.

Superhero Movie Fri 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 5:05, 5:55, 7:30, 8:30, 10, 10:55; Sat 12:05, 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 5:05, 5:55, 7:30, 8:30, 10, 10:55; Sun 12:05, 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 5:05, 5:55, 7:30, 8:30, 9:40, 10:40; Mon-Thur 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 5:05, 5:55, 7:30, 8:30, 9:40, 10:40.

Under the Same Moon Fri-Sat 2:25, 5:20, 7:55, 10:45; Sun-Thur 2:25, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30.

Vantage Point Fri-Sat 10:35; Sun-Thur 10:30.

SANTA MONICA AMC Santa Monica 7, 1310 Third Street Promenade, (310) 395-3030. 21 Fri-Sun 11:10 a.m., 12:40, 2, 3:40, 5, 6:40, 7:50, 9:40, 10:40; MonThur 1, 2:15, 3:45, 5, 6:30, 7:50, 9:30.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Sun 11:40 a.m., 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15; Mon-Thur 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05.

Nim’s Island Fri-Sun 11:05 a.m., 1:35, 4:10, 7, 9:30; Mon-Thur 2, 4:20, 6:45, 9:05.

The Ruins Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; Mon-Thur 3, 5:25, 7:40, 10:10.

Stop-Loss Fri-Sun 11:20 a.m., 2:05, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:25, 7:15, 9:50.

Under the Same Moon Fri-Sun 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10; Mon-Thur 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10.

Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex, 1332 Second St, (310) 394-9741. The Band’s Visit 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45.

The Counterfeiters 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:30.

The Hammer 12:45, 3, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15.

Married Life 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 10.

Loews Cineplex Broadway, 1441 Third Street Promenade, (310) 458-1506. The Bank Job Fri 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15; Sat-Sun 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15; Mon-Thur 2, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Fri 1:50, 4:20, 7, 9:30; Sat-Sun 11:30 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 7, 9:30; Mon-Thur 1:55, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15.

The Other Boleyn Girl Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10; Sat-Sun 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:25, 7, 9:40.

Vantage Point Fri 2:25, 5, 7:30, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:25, 5, 7:30, 9:45; Mon-Thur 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30.

Mann Criterion, 1313 Third Street Promenade, (310) 395-1599. 10,000 B.C. noon, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20.

Drillbit Taylor 11:40 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:50.

Leatherheads 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10.

Run Fat Boy Run 11:50 a.m., 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30.

Shine a Light 1, 4:10, 7:10, 10.

Superhero Movie 12:30, 2:50, 5, 7:20, 9:30.

SHERMAN OAKS, ENCINO ArcLight Sherman Oaks, 15301 Ventura Bl, Sherman Oaks, (818) 501-0753. 21 Fri 1:50, 2:30, 4:40, 5:25, 7:35, 8:20, 10:35, 11:10; SatSun 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 2:30, 4:40, 5:25, 7:35, 8:20, 10:35, 11:10; Mon 1:50, 2:30, 4:40, 7:35, 10:35; Tue-Thur 1:50, 2:30, 4:40, 5:25, 7:35, 8:20, 10:35, 11:10.

The Bank Job 2, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30.

College Thur only, 12:10 a.m.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10; Sat-Sun 11 a.m., 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10; Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10.

Leatherheads Fri 1:40, 2:40, 4:25, 5:30, 7:15, 7:50, 8:30, 10, 10:40, 11:20; Sat-Sun 11:40 a.m., 1:40, 2:40, 4:25, 5:30, 7:15, 7:50, 8:30, 10, 10:40, 11:20; Mon-Wed 1:40, 2:40, 4:25,

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5:30, 7:15, 7:50, 8:30, 10:40, 11:20; Thur 11:40 a.m., 1:40, 2:40, 4:25, 5:30, 7:15, 7:50, 8:30, 10, 10:40, 11:20.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:35, 10:35; Sat-Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:35, 10:35; Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:35, 10:35; Thur 1:30, 4:20, 7:35, 10:35.

Nim’s Island Fri 1:25, 2:25, 4:05, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40; Sat-Sun 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:25, 2:25, 4:05, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40; Mon-Thur 1:25, 2:25, 4:05, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40.

Prom Night Thur only, 12:01 a.m.

The Ruins Fri 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50; Sat-Sun 11:50 a.m., 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50; Mon-Thur 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50.

Run Fat Boy Run 2:10, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25.

Shine a Light Tue-Wed 1:55, 4:55, 8, 10:50.

Smart People Thur only, 12:15 a.m.

Stop-Loss 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05.

Street Kings Thur only, 12:05 a.m.

Superhero Movie Fri 2:15, 4:30, 7, 9:35; SatSun 11:05 a.m., 2:15, 4:30, 7, 9:35; Mon-Thur 2:15, 4:30, 7, 9:35.

Under the Same Moon Fri 2:20, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45; Sat-Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:20, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45; Mon-Tue 2:20, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45; Wed; Thur 2:20, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45.

Young at Heart Mon only, 8.

Laemmle’s Town Center 5, 17200 Ventura Bl, Encino, (818) 981-9811. The Band’s Visit 2:30, 7:20, 9:40.

The Counterfeiters 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10.

Flawless 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55.

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust 12:15, 5.

Married Life 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50.

Priceless 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:35.

Mann Plant 16, 7876 Van Nuys Bl, Panorama City, (818) 779-0323. 10,000 B.C. 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20.

21 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10.

College Road Trip noon, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:15.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! 11:40 a.m., 12:20, 1:50, 2:30, 4:05, 4:50, 6:40, 7:20, 9:10, 9:50.

Drillbit Taylor 11:45 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40.

Leatherheads 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20.

Never Back Down 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45.

Nim’s Island 11:30 a.m., 12:10, 1:45, 2:30, 4:10, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9, 10.

The Ruins 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30.

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L HOLLYWOOD ArcLight Hollywood at Sunset & Vine (323) 464-4226 Fri.- Tues.: 11:20 2:00 • 5:00 • 8:10 • 11:00

L L.A./BEVERLY HILLS Pacific’s The Grove Stadium 14 (323) 692-0829 (#209) Daily: 10:50 • 1:50 • 4:50 • 7:40 • 10:35 Thurs.: 10:50 • 1:50 • 4:50 • 7:40 • 10:25

L AGOURA HILLS Mann Agoura Hills 8 (818) 707-9966 F ALHAMBRA Edwards Atlantic Palace 10 (800) FANDANGO #115 F ALISO VIEJO Edwards Aliso Viejo Stadium 20 (800) FANDANGO #116 G ANAHEIM HILLS Cinema City Theatres (714) 970-6700 F ANAHEIM HILLS Edwards Anaheim Hills 14 (800) FANDANGO #117 F APPLE VALLEY UltraStar Apple Valley 14 (760) 247-3333 F ARCADIA AMC Santa Anita 16 (626) 321-4AMC BAKERSFIELD United Artists East Hills Mall (800) FANDANGO #497 F BREA Edwards Brea Stadium 22 (800) FANDANGO #120 L BUENA PARK Krikorian’s Metroplex 18 (714) 826-SHOW

F BURBANK AMC Burbank 16 (818) 953-9800 L CHATSWORTH Pacific’s Winnetka Stadium 21 (818) 501-5121 (#095) L CHINO Krikorian’s Chino Spectrum Marketplace 12 (909) 628-1500 F CHINO HILLS Harkins Chino Hills 18 (909) 627-8010 L CLAREMONT Laemmle’s Claremont 5 (909) 621-5500 Tickets available @ laemmle.com F CORONA Edwards Corona Crossings Stadium 18 (800) FANDANGO #1723 F COSTA MESA Regency South Coast Village (714) 557-5701 F COVINA AMC Covina 30 (626) 974-8600 F CULVER CITY Culver Plaza Theatre (310) 836-5516 G FOOTHILL RANCH Regal Foothill Towne Center Stadium 22 (800) FANDANGO #135

F UNIVERSAL CITY CityWalk Stadium 19 with IMAX (800) FANDANGO #707 Fri.- Sun.: 3:00 • 8:20 Mon.- Thurs.: 1:40 • 8:20

F FULLERTON AMC Fullerton 20 (714) 992-6000 L GLENDALE Mann Theatres at the Exchange (818) 549-0045 F GOLETA Camino Real (805) 963-9503 G HEMET Regal Hemet 12 (800) FANDANGO #138 G HUNTINGTON BEACH Cinemark Century 20 Huntington Beach at Bella Terra (800) FANDANGO #987 F IRVINE Edwards 21 MegaPlex (800) FANDANGO #140 G LA HABRA Regal La Habra Stadium 16 (800) FANDANGO #145 F LANCASTER Cinemark 22 (800) FANDANGO #1103 F LONG BEACH AMC Marina Pacifica 12 (562) 435-4AMC F LONG BEACH AMC Pine Square 16 (562) 435-4AMC

L WEST LOS ANGELES The LANDMARK at W. Pico & Westwood (310) 281-8233 Free Parking www.landmarktheatres.com Daily: 12:00 • 2:30 • 5:00 • 7:40 • 10:05 F LONG BEACH Edwards Long Beach Stadium 26 (800) FANDANGO #148 F LONG BEACH Cinemark@The Pike (800) FANDANGO #1181 G LOS FELIZ Los Feliz 3 (323) 664-2169 L MANHATTAN BEACH Pacific’s Manhattan Village (310) 607-0007 (#056) MARINA DEL REY United Artists Cinemas (800) FANDANGO #510 F MISSION VIEJO Edwards Kaleidoscope Stadium 10 (800) FANDANGO #149 L MONROVIA Krikorian’s Monrovia Cinema 12 (626) 305-7469 F MORENO VALLEY Harkins Moreno Valley 16 (951) 686-FILM #118 F NEWPORT BEACH Edwards Island 7 (800) FANDANGO #151 F NORWALK AMC Norwalk 20 (562) 864-5678 F ONTARIO AMC Ontario Mills 30 (909) 484-3000

L SANTA MONICA Mann Criterion 6 (310) 248-MANN #019 Daily: 11:50 • 2:40 5:20 • 7:50 • 10:30

F ONTARIO Edwards Ontario Palace Stadium 22 (800) FANDANGO #153 G ORANGE Cinemark CineArts @ Century Stadium 25 (800) FANDANGO #913 F ORANGE AMC 30 at the Block (714) 769-4AMC F PALMDALE Cinemark Antelope Valley Mall (800) FANDANGO #2136 L PASADENA Laemmle’s Playhouse 7 (626) 844-6500 Tickets available @ laemmle.com L PICO RIVERA Krikorian Pico Rivera Metroplex 15 (562) 205-3456 F PUENTE HILLS AMC Puente Hills 20 (626) 810-5566 G RANCHO MIRAGE Cinemark Century River 15 (800) FANDANGO #917 L REDLANDS Krikorian’s Redlands Cinema 14 (909) 793-6393

L SHERMAN OAKS ArcLight Sherman Oaks at the Galleria (818) 501-0753 Daily: 2:10 • 5:05 7:45 • 10:25

F WEST LOS ANGELES The Bridge Cinema De Lux (310) 568-3375 Daily: 2:25 • 4:55 • 7:25 F REDONDO BEACH AMC Galleria at So. Bay 16 (310) 289-4262 G RIVERSIDE Regal Riverside Plaza Stadium 16 (800) FANDANGO #1722 F RIVERSIDE AMC Tyler 16 (866) 514-5692 F RIVERSIDE Metropolitan’s University Village Cinemas (951) 784-4342 G ROLLING HILLS Regal Avenues Stadium 13 (800) FANDANGO #158 L SAN LUIS OBISPO Downtown Center Cinema (805) 546-8600 F SANTA BARBARA Fiesta 5 (805) 963-9503 F SIMI VALLEY Edwards Simi Valley Plaza 10 (800) FANDANGO #165 L TEMECULA The Art House @ The Movie Experience At Tower Plaza (951) 698-7800

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Superhero Movie 11:50 a.m., 12:30, 2:10, 2:50, 4:30, 5:20, 7, 7:50, 9:30, 10:20.

Under the Same Moon 11:30 a.m., 12:10, 1:50, 2:40, 4:20, 5:10, 6:50, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10.

Pacific’s Sherman Oaks 5, 14424 Millbank St, Sherman Oaks, (818) 501-5121. 10,000 B.C. 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 9:40.

Leatherheads 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 1:45, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50.

The Other Boleyn Girl 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:55.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, BEVERLY HILLS, CENTURY CITY AMC Century City 15, 10250 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 277-2011. 10,000 B.C. Fri-Sat 10:35 a.m., 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10, 12:45 a.m.; Sun 10:35 a.m., 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55; Mon-Thur 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10.

21 Fri-Sat 9:45 a.m., 10:40 a.m., 12:45, 1:40, 4, 4:55, 7, 8:10, 10:15, 11:20, 12:40 a.m.; Sun 9:45 a.m., 10:40 a.m., 12:45, 1:40, 4, 4:55, 7, 7:55, 10, 10:40; Mon-Thur 11 a.m., 1, 1:50, 4, 4:40, 7, 7:40, 10, 10:30.

The Bank Job Fri-Sat 10:20 a.m., 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55, 12:35 a.m.; Sun 10:20 a.m., 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50; Mon-Thur 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, 7:30, 10:15.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Sat 9:40 a.m., 12:10, 2:35, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Sun 9:40 a.m., 12:10, 2:35, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40; Mon-Thur 12:05, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:40.

Drillbit Taylor Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 1:55, 5, 7:55, 10:40; Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:55, 5, 7:55, 10:30; Mon-Thur 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5, 7:35, 10:05.

Meet the Browns Fri-Sat 10:15 a.m., 12:35, 3, 5:25, 8, 10:50; Sun 10:15 a.m., 12:35, 3, 5:25, 8, 10:35; Mon-Thur 11:50 a.m., 2:25, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Fri-Sun 9:35 a.m., 12:25, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30; Mon-Thur 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10.

Nim’s Island Fri-Sat 9:30 a.m., noon, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:20; Sun 9:30 a.m., noon, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05; Mon-Thur 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35.

The Ruins Fri-Sat 9:55 a.m., 12:20, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15, 10:55, 12:45 a.m.; Sun 9:55 a.m., 12:20, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15, 10:40; Mon-Thur 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8, 10:25.

Shine a Light Fri-Sat 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:45; Sun 10:10 a.m., 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30; Mon-Thur 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20.

Shutter Fri-Sat 10:05 a.m., 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:25; Sun 10:05 a.m., 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Mon 11:10 a.m., 1:20, 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30; Tue 11:30 a.m., 1:55, 4:20, 10:30; Wed-Thur 11:10 a.m., 1:20, 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30.

Superhero Movie Fri 9:50 a.m., 12:05, 12:50, 2:25, 3:10, 4:45, 5:30, 7:10, 8:05, 9:45, 10:35, 12:05 a.m.; Sat 9:50 a.m., 10:25 a.m., 12:05, 12:50, 2:25, 3:10, 4:45, 5:30, 7:10, 8:05, 9:45, 10:35, 12:05 a.m.; Sun 9:50 a.m., 12:05, 12:50, 2:25, 3:10, 4:45, 5:30, 7:10, 8:05, 9:30, 10:25; Mon-Wed 11:55 a.m., 12:55, 2:15, 3:25, 4:50, 5:50, 7:10, 8:10, 9:30, 10:25; Thur 11:20 a.m., noon, 1:35, 2:15, 4:05, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30, 10:25.

Vantage Point Fri-Sat 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10; Sun 10 a.m., 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Thur 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20.

Laemmle’s Music Hall 3, 9036 Wilshire Bl, (310) 274-6869. The Counterfeiters Fri 5, 7:30, 9:55; Sat-Sun noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55; Mon-Thur 5, 7:30, 9:55.

Forever Fri 5, 7:20, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40; Mon-Thur 5, 7:20, 9:40.

Love Songs Fri 5:15, 7:40, 10; Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10; Mon-Thur 5:15, 7:40, 10.

Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theatre, 8000 Sunset Bl, (323) 848-3500. Boarding Gate 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:40.

Extra Ordinary Barry 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55.

Grizzly Park 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:30, 9:55.

Sex and Death 101 1:15, 4, 7, 9:45.

Shelter 12:30, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 9:50.

Beverly Center 13 Cinemas, 8522 Beverly Blvd., Suite 835, (310) 652-7760. 10,000 B.C. noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10:10.

Be Kind Rewind 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50.

Diary of the Dead 12:50, 5:40, 10:20.

Drillbit Taylor 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30.

Jumper 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50.

Juno 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:20.

Meet the Browns 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 10.

Never Back Down 3, 7:50.

Penelope 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 6:40, 8:50.

Persepolis 12:40, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30.

Shutter 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:20, 9:40.

The Spiderwick Chronicles noon, 2:20, 4:30, 7, 9:10.

Vantage Point 1, 3:20, 5:30, 7:50, 10.

WESTWOOD, WEST L.A. AMC Avco Center, 10840 Wilshire Bl, (310) 4750711. The Bank Job Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45;

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Leatherheads Fri 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:40; Sat-Sun 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:40; Mon 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:40; Tue-Wed 4:25, 7, 9:40; Thur 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:40.

Nim’s Island Fri 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:10, 9:30; SatSun 10:15 a.m., 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:10, 9:30; Mon 2:45, 5, 7:10, 9:30; Tue-Wed 5, 7:10, 9:30; Thur 2:45, 5, 7:10, 9:30.

The Ruins Fri 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50; Sat-Sun 10:30 a.m., 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50; Mon 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50; Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:30, 9:50; Thur 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50.

Laemmle’s Royal Theatre, 11523 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 477-5581. My Brother Is an Only Child 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:35.

Landmark’s Nuart Theater, 11272 Santa Monica Bl, (310) 281-8223. Cannibal Holocaust Fri only, midnight.

Chapter 27 Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; Mon-Thur 5:10, 7:30, 9:50.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sat only, midnight.

Landmark’s Regent, 1045 Broxton Av, (310) 2818223. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45.

The Landmark West Los Angeles, 10850 W Pico Bl, (310) 281-8223. Flawless Fri-Mon 11:10 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 3:10, 4:20, 6, 7, 8:30, 9:35; Tue 11:10 a.m., 12:30, 1:45, 3:10, 4:20, 7, 9:35; Wed-Thur 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:35.

In Bruges Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15; Thur 12:15, 2:45, 10:15.

Leatherheads Fri 11 a.m., 12:20, 1:45, 2:50, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:55, 10:50; Sat 11 a.m., 12:10, 1:45, 2:50, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:55, 10:50; Sun-Thur 11 a.m., 12:10, 1:45, 2:50, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:55.

My Blueberry Nights 11 a.m., 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15.

The Other Boleyn Girl Fri-Tue 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55.

Priceless 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50.

Run Fat Boy Run noon, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:05.

Stop-Loss Fri-Tue 11:30 a.m., 12:45, 2:10, 3:30, 4:50, 6:10, 7:30, 8:40, 10:10; Wed-Thur 11:30 a.m., 12:45, 2:10, 3:30, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10.

Under the Same Moon 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10.

Young at Heart Wed-Thur 11:10 a.m., 12:40, 1:50, 3:20, 4:30, 6, 7:10, 8:40, 9:45.

Majestic Crest Theater, 1262 Westwood Bl, (310) 474-7866. The Band’s Visit 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30.

Mann Bruin, 948 Broxton Av, (310) 208-8998. 21 1, 4, 7, 10.

Mann Festival 1, 10887 Lindbrook Av, (310) 2084575. Superhero Movie 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30.

Mann Village, 961 Broxton Av, (310) 208-5576.

Stop-Loss 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50.

WOODLAND HILLS, WEST HILLS, TARZANA AMC Promenade 16, 21801 Oxnard St, Woodland Hills, (818) 883-2262. 10,000 B.C. Fri-Sat 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:20, 10; Sun 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55.

21 Fri-Sat 10:40 a.m., 12:45, 1:35, 3:40, 4:35, 6:50, 7:30, 9:45, 10:35; Sun 10:40 a.m., 12:45, 1:35, 3:40, 4:35, 6:50, 7:25, 9:45, 10:10; MonThur 1:05, 1:55, 4, 5, 6:55, 8, 9:45.

The Bank Job Fri-Sat 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15; Sun 4:55, 7:30, 10:05; Mon-Thur 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 10:05.

College Road Trip Fri-Sat 10:25 a.m., 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40; Sun 10:25 a.m., 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35; Mon-Thur 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:35.

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Fri-Sat 10:20 a.m., 12:40, 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30; Sun 10:20 a.m., 12:40, 3:20, 5:45, 8, 10:10; Mon-Thur 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10.

Drillbit Taylor Fri-Sat 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40; Sun 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:15, 7:05, 9:30; Mon-Thur 1:45, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35.

Leatherheads Fri-Sat 10:15 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 1, 2, 3:45, 4:50, 6:35, 7:45, 9:30, 10:40; Sun 10:15 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 1, 2, 3:45, 4:50, 6:35, 7:35, 9:20, 10:15; Mon-Thur 1:25, 2:30, 4:05, 5:15, 6:50, 8:05, 9:30.

Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme Sat only, 10:30 a.m.

Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme - Encore Sun only, noon.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Fri 11:40 a.m., 2:05; Sat-Sun 2:05, 4:20; Mon-Thur 1:50, 4:20.

Nim’s Island Fri-Sat 10:15 a.m., 12:35, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:40; Sun 10:15 a.m., 12:35, 3, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15; Mon-Thur 2, 4:25, 7, 9:25.

The Ruins Fri-Sat 11:45 a.m., 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35; Sun 11:45 a.m., 2:05, 4:30, 7, 9:25; MonThur 2:15, 4:35, 7, 9:20.

Run Fat Boy Run Fri-Sat 11:50 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:35, 10:10; Sun 11:50 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:35, 10:05; Mon-Thur 2:20, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10.

Shutter Fri-Sun 10:30 a.m., 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50; Mon-Thur 1, 3:10, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45.

Stop-Loss Fri 10:55 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55; Sat 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40; Sun 10:55 a.m., 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50; Mon-Thur 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50.

Superhero Movie Fri-Sat 10:45 a.m., 12:55, 3:05, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05; Sun 10:45 a.m., 12:55, 3:05, 5:20, 7:50, 10; Mon-Thur 1:20, 3:05, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40.

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Vantage Point Fri 4:20, 7, 9:25; Sat 11:40 a.m., 7, 9:25; Sun 11:40 a.m., 7, 9:15; Mon-Thur 7:05, 9:20.

Laemmle’s Fallbrook 7 Cinemas, Fallbrook Mall, 6731 Fallbrook Av, West Hills, (818) 340-8710.

The Bank Job Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55; MonThur noon, 2:40, 5:30, 8:20.

The Counterfeiters Fri 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40; Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10; Mon-Tue 1:30, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40; Wed 11:10 a.m., 1:30, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40; Thur 1:30, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40.

Cycle Fri only, 10.

The Hammer Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 9:55; Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:40, 6, 8:30; Wed 11 a.m., 1:20, 3:40, 6, 8:30; Thur 1:20, 3:40, 6, 8:30.

Leatherheads Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45; MonThur noon, 2:30, 5:15, 8.

Married Life Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10; Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50; Wed

11:30 a.m., 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50; Thur 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Fri-Sun noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20; Mon-Tue 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8; Wed 10:45 a.m., 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8; Thur 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fri only, midnight.

Snow Angels Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; Mon-Thur 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS THURSDAY, APRIL 3

1328 Montana Av, Santa Monica, (323) 4663456. Aerotheatre.com. All About Bette Davis: A Centennial Tribute – Jezebel, 7:30; followed by The Letter.

American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Bl, Hollywood, (323) 466-3456. Egyptiantheatre.com. Return to Noir City: The 10th Annual Festival of Film Noir – Lizabeth Scott Double Feature – Desert Fury, 7:30; followed by Dead Reckoning.

CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N Fair fax Av, Hollywood, (323) 6552520. Silentmovietheatre.com. Marxist Musicals – Jolly Fellows (AKA Moscow Laughs AKA Vesolye Rebyata), 8.

New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Bl, L.A., (323) 938-4038. Newbevcinema.com. Network, 7:30; The Hospital, 9:50.

Veterans Memorial Building Auditorium, 4117 Overland Av, Culver City, (310) 2536625. Backlot Film Festival – 12 (Act or Die), noon; Castaways of ATA, 2. Student Short Film Program – A Slice of Trouble, 3; followed by Dandelion, Express Lane, Rib, The Romanovs’ Last Photograph, and The Winer. La Cucina, 4; followed by Q&A with directors Allison Hebbied and Zed B. Starkovich, writer A.W. Gryphon, and various other members of cast and crew. Lady Magdalene’s, 7; followed by Q&A with writer/director J. Neil Schulman and actress Nichelle Nichols. Cabin in the Sky, 9. Info: (310) 204-6920 or Backlotfilmfestival.com.

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American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre All About Bette Davis: A Centennial Tribute – Dark Victory, 7:30; followed by Now Voyager.

American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre Return to Noir City: The 10th Annual Festival of Film Noir – Dick Powell Double Feature – Cornered, 7:30; followed by To the Ends of the Earth.

CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Cinevegas: 10 Years on the Edge – The Last Movie, 7:30, 10.

Cinespace Dinner & a Movie – Sweeney Todd, 7. Film in a restaurant/bar setting; call for reservations.

Hammer Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theatre, 10899 Wilshire Bl, L.A. Info: (310) 206-3456 or Hammer.ucla.edu. The Talking Pictures of Manoel de Oliveira – My Case (Mon Cas), 7:30; followed by Rite of Spring (Acto da Primavera).

L.A. County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Theatre, 5905 Wilshire Bl, L.A., (323) 8576010. Lacma.org. A Sterling Legacy: British Directors in Hollywood – The Lady Vanishes, 7:30; The Man Who Knew Too Much, 9:20.

Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Bl, West L.A., (310) 281-8223. Landmarktheatres.com. Cannibal Holocaust, midnight. For adults only.

New Beverly Cinema Network, 7:30; The Hospital, 9:50.

Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond St, El Segundo, (310) 322-2592. Otmh.org. Comedy Festival, 8:15; silent and sound comedies with shorts and live musical accompaniment.

Veterans Memorial Building Auditorium Backlot Film Festival – Muse of Fire, noon; followed

by Q&A. Debriefing, 2; followed by Q&A with Keith Jeffreys. OJ Is Guilty – But Not of Murder (The Overbooked Suspect), 3; followed by Q&A with the filmmakers. Carl Reiner Tribute – The Dick Van Dyke Show (2 episodes), 6; followed by Coast to Coast Bigmouth and The Life and Love of Joe Coogan; The Comic, 7; All of Me, 9. Info: (310) 204-6920 or Backlotfilmfestival.com

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American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre All About Bette Davis: A Centennial Tribute – All About Eve, 7:30; followed by Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.

American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre Return to Noir City: The 10th Annual Festival of Film Noir – Barbara Stanwyck Double Feature – Sorry, Wrong Number, 7:30; followed by The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

In the Spielberg Theatre – Cult Cinema Club’s Spaghetti Western night, 7:30.

Cinespace Dinner & a Movie – Sweeney Todd, 6:30. Film in a restaurant/bar setting; call for reservations.

CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Fat Man & Little Boy: Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre – The Maltese Falcon. Harmony Korine –The Diary of Anne Frank II, 7; followed

by Kids. HolyFuckingShit: 2007 – I Know Who Killed Me, 10:30.

Hammer Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theatre 18th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema – Red Card (Carte Ghermez), 7:30.

Landmark’s Nuart Theatre The Rocky Horror

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MONDAY, APRIL 7 Hammer Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theatre Archive Treasures – Smog, 7:30.

New Beverly Cinema The Fastest Gun Alive, 7:30; Cimarron, 9:20.

REDCAT at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 631 W Second St, downtown L.A., (213) 2372800. Redcat.org. Heinz Emigholz: Photography and Beyond – Schindler’s House, 8.

Wadsworth Theatre, Veterans Administration grounds, 11301 Wilshire Bl, bldg 226, Westwood, (310) 479-3636. Wadsworththeatre.com. Reel Talk with Stephen Farber – Young@Heart, 7; followed by discussion with director Stephen Walker.

TUESDAY, APRIL 8 L.A. County Museum of Art, Leo S. Bing Theatre Tuesday Matinees – She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1.

New Beverly Cinema Blood Diner, 7:30; Scream Bloody Murder, 10.

Skirball Cultural Center Rock Around the Clock, 1:30.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre Egyptian Theatre 85th Anniversary Screening – The Unsinkable Molly Brown, 7:30.

CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Soviet Silents – Bed and Sofa, 8.

New Beverly Cinema Mondo Cane, 7:30; Zulu, 9:40.

Richard Roeper, AT THE MOVIES WITH EBERT & ROEPER

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American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre All About Bette Davis: A Centennial Tribute – The Whales of August, 7:30; followed by The Little Foxes.

American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre Return to Noir City: The 10th Annual Festival of Film Noir – Tough Dames Double Feature – Wicked Woman, 7:30; followed

by The Story of Molly X. CineFamily at the Silent Movie Theatre Hou Hsiao-Hsien – Flight of the Red Balloon, 7. You Hit Like a Girl: The Ladies of Kung Fu – Invincible Kung-Fu Legs, 9:30.

Hammer Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theatre 18th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema – Those Three (An Seh).

LA FilmForum at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Bl, Hollywood, (323) 466-3456.

Egyptiantheatre.com. Heinz Emigholz: Photography and Beyond – The Basis of Make-Up II, 7; followed by Miscellanea I, Miscellanea II. New Beverly Cinema The Fastest Gun Alive, 3:20, 8; Cimarron, 5:10.

Old Town Music Hall Comedy Festival, 2:30; silent and sound comedies with shorts and live musical accompaniment.

Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 Sepulveda Bl, L.A., (310) 440-4500. Skirball.org.

Passover Double Feature – Judios en el Espacio, 2; followed by When Do We Eat?.

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Picture Show, midnight; with live performance by Sins O’ the Flesh.

New Beverly Cinema Network, 3:05, 7:30; The Hospital, 5:25, 9:50. Amoeba Midnights – Piranha, midnight.

Old Town Music Hall Comedy Festival, 2:30, 8:15; silent and sound comedies with shorts and live musical accompaniment.

Veterans Memorial Building Auditorium, 4117 Overland Av, Culver City, (310) 2536625. Backlot Film Festival – In Search of the Second Amendment, 10 a.m. Arthur Freed Tribute – Gigi, noon; preceded by the Tom and Jerry cartoon Truce Hurts. Train Master, 3.

V.I.P. Reception for Carl Reiner, 6; Awards Ceremony for festival honoree, Carl Reiner, 7. Info: (310) 204-6920 or Backlotfilmfestival.com.

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Local art openings are something of an international affair this week. On view at L.A. Artcore starting today is an International Exchange Show with Thailand, featuring artists with such memorable names as Nonthivathn Chandhanaphalin and Kiettisak Channonar t (120 Judge John Aiso St., downtown L.A., 213-617-3274; Laar tcore.org). At Bergamot’s Mark Moore Gallery, Tim Bavington’s banded paintings (think Fruit Stripe gum on canvas) are making way on Saturday for New London School, a group show of London artists curated by Simon Rumley and Zavier Ellis (Opening reception Sat., 5-7 p.m.; Free; 2525 Michigan Ave. A-1, Santa Monica, 310-4533031; Markmooregallery.com).

What Made Milwaukee Famous is named after a Jerry Lewis song about beer. They hail from Austin, Texas, and play a handsome brand of indie rock. In other words, they’re such a college band – whether that’s a good thing or bad determines whether you should go see them play with Louis XIV tonight at the Avalon. If you don’t feel like sticking around for Louis, arguably the most hated band in rock just three years ago, you can knock yourself out on what really made Milwaukee famous at the Hungry Cat down Vine, where PBR is sold by the 24 oz. can. 7 p.m. $15. Avalon, 1735 N. Vine St., Hollywood, (323) 462-8900.

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This city had its own unofficial, unintentional Ingmar Bergman tribute just two days after the Swedish filmmaker’s death, when cinephiles lined up around the block for the New Beverly’s long-scheduled and bleak double feature of The Virgin Spring and Wild Strawberries. Those of us who missed that can still revisit Bergman this weekend, thanks to a three-day Academy retrospective that continues tonight with The Virgin Spring and Through a Glass Darkly, and began Friday with the haunting, made-for-a-darkened-theater Fanny and Alexander. 7 p.m. $5; $3 students. Linwood Dunn Theater, 1313 Vine St., Hollywood, (310) 247-3600.

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You’re smarter than I am if you have anything left to say about Frank Gehry. The work of L.A.’s resident starchitect has been picked and pored over to the point of cliché; Gehry speaks for himself today at the Hammer, one of the rare area cultural institutions he didn’t design (2 p.m.; Free; 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood, 310-443-7000; Hammer.ucla.edu). A discussion of L.A. architectural history would be remiss not to mention the late Rudolph Schindler, whose buildings and homes are the subject of Heinz Emigholz’s documentary Schindler’s Houses, screening at the REDCAT on Monday (8 p.m.; $9; 631 W. Second St., downtown L.A., 213-237-2800; Redcat.org).

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Book Soup may be indie, but you can never call it elitist: in the past eight days, it’s hosted in-stores by Tori Spelling, Jesse Ventura, and now Jose Canseco, whose entire life reads like a résumé for a career in reality television. The former baseball player and admitted steroid user presents and signs his second book, Vindicated (that thwack you hear is the sound of would-be novelists everywhere slapping their foreheads), tonight. Please, someone ask him about that pool party. 7 p.m. Free. Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 659-3110. Booksoup.com.

Not many filmmakers could rightfully be called folk artists – but then again, not many filmmakers are former security guards who’ve lived their entire lives in Calhoun County, Arkansas, never having taken a film class or even gone to college. When Phil Chambliss took the 95 bucks his wife had saved for an icebox two decades ago and spent it on a movie camera instead, he never thought it would be his ticket to admiring audiences from London to San Francisco – yet here he’ll be tonight, for a screening of a collection of his amateur shorts at the Silent Movie Theatre. 8 p.m. $12. 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., (323) 655-2510. Silentmovietheatre.com

RJD2 isn’t cool anymore. Lightning struck for the hip-hop producer back in 2002, in the form of cobbled-together and widely praised debut instrumental album Deadringer, but critics have been increasingly unkind as he’s incorporated singing and live instrumentation – and even left indie rap flagship label Def Jux – in the years since.

Still, last time I checked, his live sets bring a welcome mix of old-school and progressive leanings – and some pretty sick beats to boot. He performs with similarly rock-influenced rap group Dälek tonight at the Fonda. 8 p.m. $20. Music Box @ Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, (323) 464-0808. Henryfondatheater.com.

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Aurélia Thiérrée would like to welcome you to the mind of a madwoman. Or a dreaming woman. Or whatever you happen to think you’re watching if you see circus-theater show Aurélia’s Oratorio at the Freud Playhouse.

The cirque-inspired and reality-bending jaunt is a wordless performance in which the actors and the set tell a story through acrobatics, dance, and puppetry that is as much the audience’s creation as it is theirs – at no point are viewers told the meaning behind the show’s varied tableaus.

“The original idea was a woman gone mad,” Thiérrée, the star of Aurélia’s Oratorio, says. “What I tried to work with was the state when you dream of something completely absurd, but you believe the reality of it until you wake up. Whatever environment my mother built around me, I believed the reality of that act.”

Aurélia’s Oratorio is directed and was created by Thiérrée’s mother – and Charlie Chaplin’s daughter – Victoria Thiérrée Chaplin. Mother and daughter put the concept and form of the show together over the course of a year while they were both working on other performances. The show expanded from a 20-minute residency to an hour and has been continuing on in this form for the past five years.

“The third character is the set that starts to move and take life. It’s sort of fragile, it can break any time,” Thiérrée says. “It is nerve-wracking, but it makes it interesting too, the possibility that it might not work and might collapse.”

Interestingly, audience interpretations of the work have varied based on the culture of the country the show was being performed in. In Spain, Thiérrée says, the audience thought the work was about death; in London, the reaction was a lighthearted appreciation of the variety show quality of the piece.

“Entertainment is the main goal. When it goes beyond that, it’s fantastic,” Thiérrée says. “It’s theater. It’s made with string and cardboard and human beings and every night you hope that everything will fly off and entertain people. That’s it.”

–Ashley Archibald Aurélia’s Oratorio. April 9-11 at 8 p.m.; April 12 at 2 & 8 p.m. $34-$42. Freud Playhouse, UCLA, Westwood, (310) 825-2102.

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Ministry, Meshuggah

Among the first to take the crushing-block/printing-press industrial sounds of art and noise bands, and fuse them into something resembling heavy rock and roll, Ministry and its leader, Alain Jourgensen, is currently among music’s most caustic and sarcastic critics of the current administration and its lack of ethics. Jourgensen – ever the outlaw shaman, mirrored sunglasses under a haystack of matted hair, funneling his fury into a microphone stand bedecked with skulls, roadkill, and other assorted – has seemingly never been angrier at anyone like he is at the former governor of his adopted home state of Texas. This fuel has re-inspired and rejuvenated Ministry to new levels of lyrical vitriol and musical ultra-aggression: 2006’s Rio Grande Blood and 2007’s The Last Sucker have served as album-length dissections of the Bush-Cheney administration’s diabolical misadventures and mistakes. But will this really be, as Jourgensen has promised, the “C U LaTour”?

Opener Meshuggah is not, contrary to your bubbe’s tales, a group of nice Jewish boys, but a fearsome crew of burly Vikings from Sweden who aspire to take their prog-jazz metal to new heights with every latest release. Yet, Meshuggah’s new Obzen breaks little new ground: while bringing the usual mathematical precision to head-banging volume, it’s still all sinew and little soul. (Fri.-Sat., House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 323-848-5100.)

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LIVING LEGENDS & THE GROUCH The Living Legends crew is a family of independent hip-hop creators. From primary earth bases in Los Angeles and Oakland, the Legends extend worldwide and beyond... they return to Amoeba to celebrate the release day of the Living Legends album The Gathering AND The Grouch’s Show You the World from Park the Van Records.

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HUMAN GIANT The comedy team of Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer bring the funny to Amoeba and sign copies of Season 1 of their sketch comedy show!

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RECORD STORE DAY! On Saturday, April 19, hundreds of independently owned music stores across the country will celebrate “Record Store Day” and Amoeba gets in on the fun with special guest DJ sets from our friends Peanut Butter Wolf, The Donnas and others, giveaways, contests and more... visit Amoeba.com for full schedule as it develops! www.recordstoreday.com

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BOMBAY DUB ORCHESTRA In town for the Indian Film Festival, Andrew T. MacKay and Garry Hughes spin a set for Amoeba’s Friday night DJ series Resonance.

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Saints & Sinners Thursday, April 3 Satanic Swingers Lounge w/DJ Lee 10899 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles

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Alex’s Bar, 2913 E Anaheim St, Long Beach, (562) 434-8292. Alexsbar.com. Call for showtimes Fri: The Secret Affair. Sat: Mr Mister Miyagi. Sun: Birds of Avalon, Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast, Tijuana Knife Fight. Mon: The Bouncing Souls, Dead to Me. Wed: Indoor Swapmeet.

Avalon Hollywood, 1735 N Vine St, Hollywood, (323) 462-8900. Avalonhollywood.com. Thur: Club Tigerheat. Fri: Spider After Dark with Paul Ahi. Louis XIV, What Made Milwaukee Famous. Sat: Sebastian Ingrosso, Damian Lazarus, Droog.

Boardner’s of Hollywood, 1652 N Cherokee Av, Hollywood, (323) 462-9621. Boardners.com. Sat: Bar Sinister. Mon: Blue Mondays. Tue: Institution Tuesdays. Wed: Club Moscow.

Bordello, 901 E First St, downtown L.A., (213) 6873766. Bordellobar.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Boulevard Music, 4316 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City, (310) 398-2583. Boulevardmusic.com. Call for showtimes. Fri: Richard Smith, Julie Adams. CaféClub Fais Do-Do, 5257 W Adams Bl, L.A., (323) 9548080. Faisdodo.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

The Canyon Club, 28912 Roadside Dr, Agoura Hills, (818) 879-5016. Canyonclub.net. Shows at 8 unless otherwise noted. Sat: Hollywood U2, Fallout, Jetstream.

Cat Club, 8911 Sunset Bl, West Hollywood, (310) 657-0888. Myspace.com/thecatclub. Shows at 8.

Thur: Vie, The Follow, Helen Rae, Hollywood 77, The Drills, Phil Campbell, Star fuckers. Fri: Kill or be Killed, Mouth to Mouth, Monte Pittman, Adorable Addicts, Mad Juana, Mitch & Friends. Sat: Among the Infected, Autotonic, Ball & Chain, Tracie Devai, Alibi, Aces & Eights. Mon: Filthy Gorgeous, Krimzen, Tantric Cycle, Attack Bird, World Wide Spies, The Becoming. Tue: Suzie Stapleton, Kirsten Thien, Laura Serafine, FX of CTV, Irish Goodbye, Whiskey Circus, Gene Wilder. Wed: J.D. King, The Steeple Jacks, Dave Gleason, Old California Mike Stinson, Country DJs. CIA, 11334 Burbank Bl, North Hollywood, (818) 5066353. Ciabnormalarts.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Cinema Bar, 3967 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City, (310) 390-1328. Myspace.com/thecinemabar. Shows at 9 unless noted. Thur: Lisa Douglass, Neighborhood

Bullys. Fri: Low Tide 5. Sat: Rancho Deluxe. Tue: Duane Jarvis and the Cinematics. Wed: Low Tide 5.

Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, (818) 348-3789. Cobaltcafe.com. Thur: Eros, I Am Orion Eyes, Death of a Celebrity, Dead Alive, The Messenger, Remove The Veil, Kingston Falls, A Dreadful Fall, 6:30. Fri: Cassera, Cold War Transmission, Vanity Play, Down for the Count, Malhreux, Culprit, Parents, 6:15. Sat: Pobre Callejeros, Infinity Girls, H.M.S. Terror, The Disgustingtons, Waterhead, A Pretty Mess, 6:30. Sun: The Wind Rises Electric, Kill the Scene, Eros, Plastered??, Ties of Honor, 8. Tue: Open Reading.

The Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Bl, Altadena, (626) 398-7917. Coffeegallery.com. Sat: The Mighty Echoes, 8. Sun: Ellen and Steve Stapenhorst, 2; Lindsay Tomasic and String Planet, 7. Mon: The Riders of the Purple Sage, 8. Wed: The Smart Brothers, 8.

Cowboy Palace Saloon, 21635 Devonshire St, Chatsworth, (818) 341-0166. Cowboypalace.com.

Call for showtimes. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

The Derby, 4500 Los Feliz Bl, Los Feliz, (323) 6638979. Clubderby.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Dragonfly, 6510 Santa Monica Bl, Hollywood, (323) 466-6111. Thedragonfly.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

The Echo, 1822 Sunset Bl, Echo Park, (213) 4138200. Attheecho.com. Fri: Ashbury, Bullet for Dali, 9; In the Echoplex: Autechre, Rob Hall, Massonix, 9. Sat: Le Loup, The Ruby Suns, Princeton, 8:30; In the Echoplex: Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang, Ryan Magestic, 10 a.m.; Bootie LA, 9. Sun: Grand Ole Echo, 5; Part Time Punks, 10. Mon: Radars to the Sky, Aushua, The Weather Underground, 8:30. Wed: Summer Darling, Wait.Think.Fast, 8:30; In the Echoplex: Dub Club, 9.

El Cid, 4212 W Sunset Bl, L.A., (323) 668-0318.

Elcidla.com. Thur: Almardiente Flamenco Dinner Theater, 6:30; The Super Sexy Show, 10. Fri: Flamenco Dinner Theatre, 6:30; Mash Di Place, 10. Sat: Flamenco Dinner Theatre, 6; Club Macondo, 10. Sun: Flamenco Dinner, 6:30. Mon: Garage Comedy, 8. Tue: Ronnie Mack’s Barn Dance, 7. Wed: Flamenco Dinner, 6:30.

El Rey, 5515 Wilshire Bl, L.A., (323) 936-6400/4790.

Theelrey.com. Shows at 8. Fri: The Cribs, Ra Ra Riot, Jeffrey Lewis & The Jitters, 8. Sat: Line Dance Contest, 4. Wed: Mae, The Honorary Title, Between the Trees, Far-Less, 7.

14 Below, 1348 14th St, Santa Monica, (310) 4515040. 14below.com. Call for showtimes. Thur: Surrender the Pink, The Sons of Tito, Alan Maxon, 9.

Fri: The Scheming Ministers, Blessed Le Strange, Curious Primate, 9. Sat: Adam Smith Acoustic Project, Minibike, Master Hunter, Destroyed by Voices.

Sun: Christ Laterzo, Leroy, Craig Banks, PSS, 8. Tue: Acoustic Tuesdays, 8. Wed: Our Last Requiem, Skyline Collapse, The Swellers, The Syncope Threshold, Pour Habit, 8.

Genghis Cohen, 740 N Fairfax Av, West Hollywood, (323) 653-0640. Genghiscohen.com. Thur: Maritri, Mark Latham with Saul Kaye, Bart Ryan with Saul Kaye, 8. Fri: Andrea Stople, Corrine May, Supermodel, Adam Freedman, 8. Sat: Sandra Piller, Audra Mae, Danny Peck, James Fuchs, 7:30. Mon: Hilary Cousins, Gerina Di Marco, Kristy Hanson, Allan Comeau, Andy White, Chick P. 7. Tue: Peech, Amanda Abizaid, David Kidd, 7:30. Wed: Steph Taylor, Karma, The Q Band, 8.

The Gig, 7302 Melrose Av, L.A., (323) 936-4440.

Liveatthegig.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Good Hurt, 12249 Venice Bl, West L.A., (310) 3901076. Goodhurt.net. Thur: Redroom, DJ Dave Payne, 10. Fri: Linden Street, Say When, Caso Do Samba, 8:30. Sat: Sicarus, Internal Defect, Grey Haven, The Mulburry Purple, Etched in Red, 8:30. Sun: Torpedo Slow, Eyes Around, 8:45. Mon: Not the Government, Clyde Bonnie Clyde, Black Whole Sons, 9:30.

Wed: Slaam-B, UCLA- Devin Presents, 8:30.

Hallenbeck’s General Store & Café, 5510 Cahuenga Bl, North Hollywood, (818) 985-5916. Hallenbecks.net. Tue: Open Mike, 7.

The Hotel Café, 1623 N Cahuenga Bl, Hollywood, (323) 461-2040. Hotelcafe.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

House of Blues, 8430 Sunset Bl, West Hollywood, (323) 848-5100. Hob.com. Thur: Ladies Night, 8.

Fri-Sun: Ministry, Meshuggah, Hemlock, 9.

Key Club, 9039 Sunset Bl, West Hollywood, (310) 274-5800. Keyclub.com. Call for showtimes. Fri: Scifin, Sistine, Shurman. Sun: The Unseen, A Wilhelm Scream. Mon: Steel Panther, Paperback Hero.

Tue: Ruby Tuesdays presented by Spin with Drive A, 8.

King King, 6555 Hollywood Bl, Hollywood, (323) 9609234. Kingkinghollywood.com. Thur: L’Effleur Des Sens, 9. Fri: Compression, 10. Sat: DJ Kemal, 10.

Tue: Descargo con Timba with Sono-Lux and DJ Saoco, 10. Wed: Ryan Bingham, Marc Ford, 8.

Knitting Factory, 7021 Hollywood Bl, Hollywood, (323) 463-0204. Knittingfactory.com. See also Knitting Factory AlterKnit Lounge. Thur: Mystik Journeymen, Awol One, C-Minus, Pow Shadowz, Kruse, GGB, 8; In the Front: The Illuminasti Trio, 8. Fri: Pigeon John, 8; In the Front: U-N-I, Nobody Famous, 9. Sat: RZA, 8. Sun: La Resistencia, Los Kung Fu Monkeys, South Central Skankers, Roncovacoco, 6:30; In The Front: Quese IMC & DJ Shock B, Marisa Rondstadt, El Vuh, Cihuatl-Ce, Tactile, Os12, MC Jabee, Benflowz, 7. Mon: The Warriors, Elysia, The Ghost Inside, Stray from the Path, Harvey Lee, 7; In the Front: Life Nine, New Kingdom, Obscure Relevance, Inverse, 8. Tue: In The Front: Trouble, Marice, Tina Flatlinerdz, Cbreeze, Lil CJ, The Poltergeist, Tray, Mann, Mike G, 7:30. Wed: Authority Zero, Whole Wheat Bread, Beat Union, 7:30; In the Front: K-The-I, Astronautalis, Caroline, Jack Tung, Michael Nhat, 8:30.

Knitting Factory AlterKnit Lounge, 7021 Hollywood Bl, Hollywood, (3a23) 463-0204. Knittingfactory.com.

See also Knitting Factory. Thur: Warlords of Rock n Roll Thunder & Lightning, 50 Cent Hair cut, Bucksworth, Anna Bowman, 8. Fri: Ars Poetria, Juan Prophet Organization, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, 9. Sat: All the Way, Catacomb Rockers, Mass Terror, Morrow Liberates, Machinery, Las Ratas, 7. Sun: Azure Down, Costa Nova, Flashing Red Lights, Jeremy & Jessica Burgan, The Ghosts of Searchlight, 7. Mon: Bad Samaritans, Positive Approach, Wholesale Murder, C.I., 7:30. Tue: A&R Knights: Streets of Rage, 7; Bluebeat Lounge: Chris Murray Combo, Burnt, 3 Spot, 9.

Kulak’s Woodshed, 5230 1/2 Laurel Canyon Bl, North Hollywood, (818) 766-9913. Kulakswoodshed.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Largo, 432 N Fairfax Av, L.A., (323) 852-1073/1851.

Largo-la.com. Call for showtimes. Thur: The Watkins Family Hour. Fri: Grant Lee Phillips. Sat: An Evening of Stories with Paul F. Tompkins. Mon: Tig Has Friends. Tue: Jill Sobule.

Little Temple, 4519 Santa Monica Bl, L.A., (323) 660-4540. Littletemple.com. See also Temple Bar. Shows at 9. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

The Malibu Inn Bar and Restaurant, 22969 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, (310) 456-6060. Malibuinn.com. Shows at 8. Thur: Y&T, Metal DJ Will, Bluebeard, 8. Sun: Don Carlos, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Wayne Jobson, 7.

McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Bl, Santa Monica, (310) 828-4497. Mccabes.com. Fri: Susan Werner, Natalia Zukerman, 8. Sat: Chris Smither, John Troy, 9:30. Sun: The Sunshine Sisters, 11 a.m.; Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, 7.

School of Rock (Beatles Tribute) 1026 Wilshire Blvd. (at 11th St.), Santa Monica www.templebarlive.com

Safari Sams

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KARAOKE + $3 KAMIKAZES

SATURday, April 5 8:30PM $18

MONDAY

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PINT NITE!!!

$3 BUD LIGHT DRAFT

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2 FOR 1 COCKTAILS + BRING YOUR IPOD WEDNESDAY

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$3 WELL COCKTAILS

Sunday, APRIL 6TH

Karaoke Night!

(all drink specials end at 11pm)

Not pretentious, no cover, no attitude.

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imals, Imaad Wasif. Wed: Her Skeleton, Crowned King.

Viva Cantina, 900 Riverside Dr, Burbank, (818) 845-2425. Vivacantina.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Whisky a Go-Go, 8901 Sunset Bl, West Hollywood, (310) 652-4202. Whiskyagogo.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Zeropoint, 1049 E 32nd St, L.A. Zeropointspace.org.

Thur-Wed: Call for info.

–Ashley Archibald

SUSAN STOCKER

JAZZ CRITIC’S CHOICE

Heroes

Dr. Lonnie Smith is a singular jazz organist. While others try to outgun saxophonists with their horn-like lines on the keyboard or become a one-man funk machine, this man has his own way. No one can take harmonically simple material and inject color and drama into it like The Doctor. His use of space, dynamics, and ethereal background figures is the work of a musical master. Smith descends on the Jazz Bakery until Sunday with a tremendous band: trumpeter Christian Scott, saxophonist Donald Harrison, guitarist Peter Bernstein, and drummer Smitty Smith for what should be a memorable ~ DR. LONNIE SMITH ~ weekend. Friday at the Pasadena Jazz Institute (260 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 206, Pasadena, 626-398-3344; 7p.m.; $10), the L.A. Jazz Collective Launch Festival celebrates the new organization with bands led by Damon Zick, Brian Swartz, and Josh Welchez. Gary Fukushima, Matt Otto, and Robby Marshall lead Saturday’s units, along with Option 3. Tuesday at The Mint, the musically incorrigible Dirty Dozen Brass Band brings New Orleans to L.A. Those bad boys always tear it up. It’s been 12 years since Barbara Brighton started her Young Artist Jazz Series at Catalina’s and the anniversary party is Tuesday, with vocal and instrumental bands from L.A. County High School for the Arts. Brighton’s been providing an important showcase for developing talent on a consistent basis, which makes her a hero any way you slice it.

–Kirk Silsbee For info, see Jazz, Blues, Latin; Rock, Pop, Acoustic; and Concerts listings.

The Mint, 6010 W Pico Bl, L.A., (323) 954-9400.

Themintla.com. Thur: Bob Malone, Jeffrey Foucault, Karen Nash, 8. Fri: Boogaloo Assassins, Marian Marie, Harlem’s Night Cabaret, The Brown Betties, 7:30. Tue: Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Check in the Dark, Leviathan Brothers, 8. Wed: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Breakfast, John Cruz, 7:45.

Molly Malone’s Irish Pub, 575 S Fairfax Av, L.A., (323) 935-1577. MollymalonesLA.com. Thur: Jill and Haven, The Mighty Regis, The Dirges, 8:30. Fri: Marine Herald, Run Through the Desert, Pedestrian, Danny Chaimson, 8. Sat: The Four Postmen, No Cover, 7:30. Mon: Adjoa Skinner, Nina Storey, Carney, 8:15.

Tue: Justanya Kelley, Freeman, Go Sunday, 8. Wed: Hodges, Philip Sayce, 9.

Mr. T’s Bowl, 5621 1/2 N Figueroa St, Highland Park, (323) 256-7561. Mrtsbowl.tripod.com. Call for showtimes. Thur: Squeezebox Sam and The Men with No Name, Deepakalypse, The Grizzly Owls, The Kris Special, Lynda Kay, 9. Fri: Shiloe, El Olio Wolof, Rademacher, The Monolators, 10. Sat: Blue Virginia City Revival, Gears, Primadonna, Scrid Hunters, Mexifornianans. Sun: Evening with Ollin. Mon: Abe Lincoln Story, Adam Marsland Chaos Band, Marvelous Toy. Wed: Izzy Cox, Squeezebox Sam and The Men with No Name, Matt Crane, Joe Baiza, Steve Reid, Adam Diller, 9.

Portfolio Coffeehouse, 2300 E Fourth St, Long Beach, (562) 434-2486. Portfoliocoffeehouse.com. Fri: Jim Fisk, 9. Sat: Joey Hebdo, 6. Wed: Open Mic. Room 5 Lounge, 143 N La Brea Av, second floor, Hollywood, (323) 938-2504. Room5lounge.com. Thur: Mark Franco, 8. Sat: Victoria Wallace, Paris Carney, Adnrea Marchant, 8. Sun: Brad Stewart, 7; Molly & Amanda, 9. Mon: Acoustic Mondays, Jay Souza, John Elliot, Garrison Starr, Jay Nash, 8. Tue: Jessica Lombard, Tyler Waldorf, Chris Pierce, Jes Hudak, Brianna Sage, 7. Wed: Alyssa Suede, Bar t Ryan, Emma Burgess, Joe Greene, 7.

The Roxy, 9009 Sunset Bl, West Hollywood, (310) 2762222. Theroxyonsunset.com. Thur: A Fine Frenzy, Ferras 7:30. Fri: Keltronix, MSM, Spector, Goldfish, Little Dragon, DJ Bentley, DJ Garth Trinidad, 9. Sat: Rhythm Nun, Adelitas Way, Jupiters Ring, 7:15; In the Rox: Groove Bazaar, Helios Jive, DJ Santo, 9. Mon: Finch, The Secret Handshake, The Halos, 7. Wed: Paul Green School of Rock All Stars, 7:30.

Safari Sam’s, 5214 Sunset Bl, Hollywood, (323) 6667267. Safari-sams.com. Thur: Tshizabi, Kaiowas, Ellerman, She’s Sinking, 8. Fri: Les Sans Culottes, Cindy Alexander, The Cuban Cowboy, Paul Zollo, 8. Sat: Asylum Street Spankers, King Straggler, 8:30. Sun: Brunch Americana with The Groovy Rednecks, The Cheatin’ Kind, noon; Renfue, 6. Tue: Virtual Tuesdays, 8. Wed: The Supersuckers, Saddle Trash, She Died, Charlie & The Valentine Killers, Nick Dixon, 8.

Scene Bar, 806 E Colorado St, Glendale, (818) 2417029. Thescenebar.com. Shows at 9. Thur: Lux & Vixen’s Burlesque a Go Go, The Woolly Bandits, Thee Out Mods. Fri: The Most Powerful Hand, Fitter, Vultures United, The Deepsea Goes. Sat: Club Place N Time. Mon: Seasons, Monolators, The Dirty City Brothers, Les Blanks. Tue: boxViolet, Looner, Odd Modern, Weyou. Wed: Death To Anders, Service Group, The Broken Remotes, Manhattan Murder Mystery.

Silverlake Lounge, 2906 Sunset Bl, Silver Lake, (323) 666-2407. Foldsilverlake.com. Thur: Taxi, Revent, Stock Market Crash, 9. Tue: The Meemies, Obedient Waves, 9. Wed: Lesbians on Ecstacy.

The Smell, 247 S Main St, L.A., (213) 625-4325.

Thesmell.org. Shows at 9. Fri: Stab City, Halloween Swim Team, The Phyllis Steins, Infant. Sat: Pizza!, The Studiofix, Big Whup, Hard Place, Julia Holter. Sun: Bad Parents. Mon: Foot Village, Kyle H. Mabson, Robin Williams on Fire, Winners, Ownweatherone. Wed: Bacteria Cult, Kevin Shields, Tik///Tik, xdugef, Moment Trigger, Tleilaxu Music Machine, Fag Bashers, Sunken Landscapes, KILT, Pukers, Fierstein/Lilberman Duo, Dirty Branches, Laco$te, Laundry Room Squelchers.

Spaceland, 1717 Silver Lake Bl, Silver Lake, (213) 833-2843. Clubspaceland.com. Thur: Craft Club, Fish Circus, Nightfur, Michael Mazochi, 8:30. Fri: Light FM, The Music Lovers, Good on Paper, 8:30. Sat: King Brothers, Shellshag, Bipolar Bear, 8:30. Sun: Rademacher, El Olio Wolof, Tigers Can Bite You, 8:30. Mon: Johnathan Rice, Nik Freitas, Pierre De Reeder, 8:30. Tue: Softlightes, The Billionaires, 8:30.

Taix 321 Lounge, 1911 W Sunset Bl, L.A., (213) 4841265. Taixfrench.com. Shows at 10:30. Thur: The Mello Cads, Tina Digeorge. Fri: Joe Baiza Congress Of. Sat: The Dimebox Band, David Serby. Wed: Dogweed.

Tangier Lounge, 2138 Hillhurst Av, L.A., (323) 6668666. Tangierrestaurant.net. Sun: Taylor Goldsmith, Herman Dune, Lucy Bland, My Imaginary Friends, 7:45. Wed: Sara Lov, Ed Vallence, Twilight Sleep, Cinnamon Roll Gang, 8:30.

Temple Bar, 1026 Wilshire Bl, Santa Monica, (310) 393-6611. Templebarlive.com. Thur: Ted Brown, Greg Johnson, Sid Jordan, Simon Petty, Seth Rothschild, 9. Fri: Beatles Tribute, DJ Ceebrown, Fatlip, Slimkids, Omni, BLX, VJC Nathan Nice, 9. Sat: Beatles Tribute, The Keystones, Percee P, Wildchild, Blood of Abraham, Mykah 9, DJ Jeremy Sole, Egon Opening, Sand Bloom and the Expanders, 9. Sun: DJ B.A.D., The Signature, The Regiment on Horns, BJ The Chicago Kid, CJ, Uncle Chuck, 9. Tue: Ana Moura, 8:30. Wed: Jennie Laws, Bruno Mars, Black Cowboy, 8:30.

Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Bl, West Hollywood, (310) 276-6168. Troubadour.com. Thur: Big Head Todd & The Monsters, The New Amsterdams, George Stanford, 8:15. Fri: Big Head Todd & The Monsters, The New Amsterdams, 9. Sat: Fu Manchu, Burning Brides, Crystal Antlers. Sun: Jason Mraz, Bushwalla, The Makepeace Brothers, Justin Kredible.

Mon: China Forbes, Lael Alderman. Tue: Marie Digby, Tim Myers. Wed: Miss Derringer, War Tapes, Jail Weddings.

UnUrban Coffee House, 3301 W Pico Bl, Santa Monica, (310) 315-0056. Unurban.com. Fri: UnUrban Open Mike, 7:30.

Viper Room, 8852 Sunset Bl, West Hollywood, (310) 358-1880. Viperroom.com. Thur: Porterville, Plush Gun, Iglu & Hartly, Walter Meego, 8:30. Fri: Hollwood Roses, No Thanks, Blacklist Union, Confederacy of Horsepower. Sun: Free Form Orchestra, Infinite, 8:30. Mon: My Pet Saddle, The Growlers, Golden An-

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JAZZ, BLUES, LATIN Arcadia Blues Club, 16 E Huntington Dr, Arcadia, (626) 447-9349. Arcadiabluesclub.com. Fri-Sat: Chris Cain.

Babe’s & Ricky’s Inn, 4339 Leimert Bl, Leimert Park, (323) 295-9112. Bluesbar.com. Thur: Jam Session with Mama’s Boys. Fri-Sat: Mighty Balls of Fire. Mon: Jam Night, Mickey Champion.

Back Room at Henri’s, 21601 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, (818) 348-5582. Shows at 8. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

The Baked Potato, 3787 Cahuenga Bl, Studio City, (818) 980-1615. Thebakedpotato.com. Shows at 9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Thur: Scott Kinsey Group. Fri: Casmosquad. Sat: Rafael Moreira on Acid Guitar. Sun: Shogun Warrior. Mon: Monday Night Jammmz. Tue: Cartaya’s Enclave. Wed: Otmaro Ruiz Band.

B.B. King’s Blues Club, 1000 Universal Center Dr, Universal City, (818) 622-5464. La.bbkingclubs.com.

Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Blue Café, 210 Promenade, Long Beach, (562) 9837111. Thebluecafe.com. Call for showtimes. Thur: Natural Vibrations, 9; In the Blue: Live Music. Fri: Shaun Piano; In the Blue: Live Music. Sat: Walter Trout; In the Blue: Black Tongued Bells, 8:30. Sun: Six Pack to Go, 9:30; Hellbound, Heyride, CHOP TOPS, 11; In the Blue: Al & The Black Cats, 9:30; Fast Otto, 11. Tue: Mic Check Tuesday; In the Blue: Live Music. Wed: Live Music; In the Blue: The Pleasure of Merely Circulating, 9.

Café Boogaloo, 1238 Hermosa Av, Hermosa Beach, (310) 318-2324. Boogaloo.com. Fri: Finis Tasby.

Sat: Jeffrey Halford & The Healers. Tue: Southern Fried Chicken.

Café Metropol, 923 E Third St, downtown L.A., (213) 613-1537. Roccoinla.com. Fri: M Quartet, 8. Sat: Los Angeles Jazz Collective Launch Festival, 8.

Catalina Bar & Grill, 6725 Sunset Bl, Hollywood, (323) 466-2210. Catalinajazzclub.com. Shows at 8:30 & 10:30 unless noted. Thur: Barbara Morrison and Alistair Tobert. Fri-Sat: Charmaine Clamor. Sun: Polly Segal. Tue: L.A.C.H.S.A. Wed: Marcy & Zina.

Charlie O’s, 13725 Victory Bl, Van Nuys, (818) 9943058. Charlieos.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Cozy’s Bar & Grill, 14058 Ventura Bl, Sherman Oaks, (818) 986-6000. Cozysblues.com. Thur: Michael Williams Band. Fri: Paul Oscher. Sat: Billy Vera & The Beaters.

Csardas, 5820 Melrose Av, Hollywood, (323) 9626434. Thur-Wed: Call for more info.

El Floridita, 1253 N Vine St, Hollywood, (323) 8718612. Elfloridita.com. Fri: Jam Sessions with Orques-

T h e W o r ld- Fa m o us C i rc us, Is home to some of the Largest and hottest parties in the city Los Angeles! Every week Circus brings the best DJs to the decks! Circus is LA's largest nightclub featuring 40,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor clubbing. The sound at Circus is HUGE featuring a 120,000-watt EAW Avalon sound system. Circus also features seven separate areas, ten fully stocked bars, outdoor patio, private bungalow and VIP lounge.

A big new night of Big Top electro and house attractions:

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CIRCUS is located at 6655 Santa Monica Blvd.

2 blocks east of Highland Ave. Behind Arena

323.462.1291 • www.circusdisco.com 9pm-4am • 21+ • Tickets available at groovetickets.com APRIL 3~9, 2008

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CONCERTS APRIL 3-9 Note: Unless otherwise indicated, tickets are available through Ticketmaster, (213) 480-3232 or Ticketmaster.com.

Herb Alpert, Lani Hall, Thur-Fri, REDCAT, 631 W Second St, downtown L.A., at 8:30. (213) 237-2800.

Automatic Loveletter, Thur, Crash Mansion, 1024 S. Grand Av, downtown L.A., at 8. (213) 747-0999.

Face to Face, Slick Shoes, Chaser, Thur-Fri, Glass House, 200 W Second St, Pomona, at 7. (909) 8653802.

Kansas, Thur, The Grove of Anaheim, 2200 E Katella Av, Anaheim, at 8. (714) 712-2700.

Dead Man’s Party, Fri, Crash Mansion at 8.

L.A. Jazz Collective Launch Festival, Fri, Pasadena Jazz Institute at Paseo Colorado, 260 E Colorado Bl, Ste 206, Pasadena, at 8. (626) 398-3344.

Les Claypool, Fri, The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Bl, L.A., at 9. (213) 380-5005.

THEATER CRITIC’S CHOICE ED KRIEGER

ta Charangoa. Sat: Salsa bands. Mon: Johnny Polanco y Su Orquesta Amistad. Wed: Cuban Jam Session with Conjunto Guama.

JAX, 339 N. Brand Bl, Glendale, (818) 500-1604.

Jaxbarandgrill.com. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

The Jazz Bakery, 3233 Helms Av, Culver City, (310) 271-9039. Jazzbakery.com. Shows at 8 & 9:30 unless specified. Thur-Sat: Crescent Boogaloo Band.

Sun: Jake Bloch Quintet, 4; Liela Avila. Tue: Marcos Ariel. Wed: Jimmy Scott.

La Granada, 17 S First St, Alhambra, (626) 2272572. Letsdancela.com. Thur: Salsa Dance. Fri: Salsa Dance, 10. Sat-Sun: Salsa Central. Mon: Ballroom, 5:30. Tue: Salsa Dancing, 10. Wed: Disco Hustle, 8:30.

La Vé Lee, 12514 Ventura Bl, Studio City, (818) 9808158. Laveleejazzclub.com. Shows at 8:30 & 10:30.

Thur: Kenny Aronoff, Marcos Mendoza & Friends. Fri: Freddie Ravel. Sat: Paris Escobedo.

Mama Juana’s, 3707 Cahuenga Bl W, Studio City, (818) 505-8636. Mamajuanas.com. Shows at 7. Thur-Wed: Call for details.

Miceli’s, 1646 N Las Palmas Av, Hollywood, (323) 4663430. Micelisrestaurant.com. Live performances at 6. Thur-Wed: Call for info.

2nd Street Jazz, 366 E Second St, downtown L.A., (323) 680-0047. Myspace.com/landon2ndstreetlivejazz.

Thur-Wed: Call for info.

Spazio, 14755 Ventura Bl, Sherman Oaks, (818) 7288400. Spazio.la. Shows at 8. Thur: Francisco Aguabella Latin Jazz Quartet. Fri: Dave Mackay Trio. Sat: Stacy Rowles Quartet. Sun: Sunday Brunch with Ernie Draffin & Bill Markus; Tateng Katendig Trio. Mon: Jon Mayer Trio. Tue: John Pisano’s Guitar Night with Ron Eschete. Wed: Joe Bagg Trio.

Vibrato Grill Jazz, 2930 Beverly Glen Circle, Bel Air, (310) 474-9400. Vibratogrilljazz.com. Thur: Robert Kyle Quartet. Fri: Carol Robbins Trio. Sat: Carl Saunders. Sun: John Proulx. Tue: Chris Dawson. Wed: Jarrett Cherner Trio.

–Ed Carrasco

‘Brownstone’

DOROTHEA HARAHAN AND KIM SHIVELY ~

Catherine Butter field pulls off the formidable challenge of writing and directing three engrossing plays in one, set in the same Upper West Side brownstone in different decades, then gently tying them together in an epilogue. It’s the sort of stor y that you expect to unfurl in a 10-hour miniseries, but Butterfield does it in little more than two hours. In 1937, a young couple (Deborah Puette and Brian Rohan, ver y Hepburn and Stewar t) tries to figure out how to defy her rich father. In 1978, two fledgling actresses (Kim Shively, Dorothea Harahan) – also with father issues – look for their first break. In 2000, the ascent of a young power couple (Laurie Naughton, Gino Anthony Pesi) encounters an unexpected obstacle. The story darkens with oblique references to public events. Despite the many time shifts, not a moment is unclear. Butter field’s plays (Joined at the Head, The Sleeper) are getting better and better, and Laguna Playhouse deser ves credit for commissioning this one.

–Don Shirley

Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach, (949) 497-2787.

Lagunaplayhouse.com. Tues.-Fris. at 8 p.m.; Sats. at 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Suns. at 2 p.m.

Additional perfs. Apr. 10 at 2 p.m., Apr. 20 at 7 p.m. Closes Apr. 27.

Don Rickles, Fri, The Grove of Anaheim at 8.

Arturo Sandoval, Fri, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Dr South, Cerritos, at 8. (800) 300-4345.

The Watson Twins, Castledoor, Fri, Natural History Museum, 900 Exposition Bl, Exposition Park, L.A., at 8. (213) 763-3466.

“Bamboozle Left,” Sat-Sun, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Dr, Irvine, at noon. (949) 855-8095/6111.

Russell Brand, Sat-Sun, Paul Gleason Theater, 6520 Hollywood Bv, Hollywood, at 8. (323) 871-8082.

Artie Lange, Sat, Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk, 100 Universal City Pl, Universal City, at 8:15. (818) 622-4440.

Andy Milne and Dapp Theory, Sat, REDCAT at 8:30.

RBD, Sat, Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen, 2575 Glen Helen Pkwy, Devore, at 8. (714) 740-2000.

Sonny Rollins, Sat, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts at 8.

Build an Ark with Dwight Trible, Sat, Harold M. Williams Auditorium at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr, L.A., at 8. (310) 440-7300. Also Sun at 3.

Moving Picture Show, Mon, Crash Mansion at 10.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, Mon-Tue, Honda Center, 2695 E Katella Av, Anaheim, at 7:30.

(714) 704-2400.

Julio Iglesias, Tue, Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk at 8:15.

Living Legends, The Grouch, Tue, Amoeba Music, 6400 W Sunset Bl, Hollywood, at 7. (323) 245-6400.

Baby Bash & Pitbull, Wed, Crash Mansion at 8.

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STAGE OPENINGS THIS WEEK Act of Love. Comedy about the dysfunctional family of a newly-divorced insurance salesman. Written

by David Landsberg. Directed by Casey Stangl. With Susan Sullivan. Falcon Theatre, 4252 Riverside Dr, Burbank, (818) 955-8101. Falcontheatre.com.

Opens Fri at 8. Weds-Sats at 8; Suns at 4. Closes Apr 27.

Boats on a River. A radio theater production of a play about sex-trafficking in southeast Asia through the eyes of Western aid workers at a rescue shelter. Written by Julie Marie Myatt. Directed by Michael Bigelow Dixon. Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N Sepulveda, L.A., (310) 827-0889. Latw.org. Five perfs only: Wed-Apr 11 at 8; Apr 12 at 3; Apr 13 at 4.

Great Expectations. Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel. Adapted by Margaret Hoorneman. Book by Brian VanDerWilt and Steve Lozier; music by Richard Winzeler; lyrics by Steve Lane. Directed

by Jules Aaron. Hudson Backstage Theatre, 6539 Santa Monica Bl, Hollywood. Info: (323) 960-4442 or Plays411.com/greatexpectations. Opens Fri at 8.

Fris-Sats at 8; Suns at 2. Closes Apr 27.

The Immigrant. L.A. premiere of the musical based on the play about a young Jewish couple who flees pogroms and lands in Texas. Book by Mark Harelik; music by Steven M. Alper; lyrics by Sarah Knapp.

Directed by Hope Alexander. The Colony Theatre, 555 N Third St, Burbank, (818) 558-7000. Colonytheatre.org. Opens Sat at 8. Fris-Sats at 8; Suns at 2 and 7. Closes May 4.

In The Wings. A writer and his producer-wife experience tension in rehearsal for a play about their own infertility struggles. Written by Jerry Sroka. Directed by Don Eitner. With Mariette Hartley. Whitefire Theatre, 13500 Ventura Bl, Sherman Oaks, (323) 960-7735. Plays411.com/wings. Opens Fri at 8. FrisSats at 8; Suns at 3. Closes May 11.

Measure For Measure. Shakespeare’s comedy involving smug government officials, young lovers in trouble, clowns and a young heroine willing to risk everything to save the day. Directed by Morgan K. Nichols. The Eclectic Company Theatre, 5312 Laurel Canyon Bl, Valley Village, (818) 508-3003. Eclecticcompanytheatre.org. Opens Fri at 8. Fris-Sats at 8; Suns at 6. Closes May 18.

Mixed. Solo show about people who are multiracial. Written and performed by Maya Lilly. The Actor’s Group Theatre, 4378 Lankershim Bl, North Hollywood, (323) 960-7714. Plays411.com/mixed.

Opens Fri at 8. Fris-Sats at 8. Closes Apr 26.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Comedy about an imagined chance meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein at a bar in Paris. Written by Steve Martin. Directed by William Keeler. Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E Main St, Ventura, (805) 667-2900. Rubiconteatre.org. Opens Sat at 7. Weds at 2 & 7; ThursFris at 8; Sats at 2 & 8; Suns at 2. Closes Apr 27.

Snake in the Grass. Salem K Theatre Company presents a play about a man’s death, and the re-

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Tom Lillard choreographs a grim, dehumanizing but remarkably riveting spectacle. Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2055 S. Sepulveda Bl, West L.A., (310) 477-2055. Odysseytheatre.com. Thurs-Sats at 8; Suns at 2. Closes Apr 13. (DS) Culture Clash in AmeriCCa. The comedy trio (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, Herbert Siguenza) presents a fresh edition of a revue based on interviews with a variety of Americans on both coasts, now including some recent Orange County material directed

by David Emmes. It’s a rich harvest of giddy laughs, authentic sentiment, and biting wit. South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Dr, Costa Mesa, (714) 708-5555. Scr.org. Tues-Fris at 7:45; Sats-Suns at 2 & 7:45. No perfs Apr 8-9. Apr 12 at 7:45 only; Apr 13 at 2 only. Closes Apr 13. (DS) Don Juan. See Stage feature review.

The Dying Gaul. See Stage feature review.

Fafalo! Ziggurat Theatre presents Stephen Legawiec’s lively, tongue-in-cheek tale about an ancient kingdom where a conniving janitor (Joe Monastero) inherits the throne, only to face dire danger from a neighboring monster (John Achorn). Everyone is masked in wondrous creations by Nyoman Setiawan and dressed in vivid colors by Suzanne Scott. Miles Memorial Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Bl, Santa Monica, (310) 842-5737. Ziggurattheatre.org. Fris-Sats at 8; Suns at 3. Closes Apr 13. (DS) Henry IV Part One. Shakespeare’s history play receives a sturdy, intelligent staging by Geoff Elliott – who doubles as Falstaff – and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, but it never quite surprises with unexpected insight. Freddy Douglas is an amused Prince Hal, perhaps a bit too centered from the get-go, while J. Todd Adams is a blisteringly hot Hotspur. A Noise Within, 234 S Brand Bl, Glendale, (818) 240-0910 x1. Anoisewithin.org. Call for performance schedule. Closes May 18. (DS) Invasion of the Minnesota Normals. At a Chicago suburban cocktail hour in 1953, the pressures of conformity become all too obvious and heavy-handed in Jen Ellison’s one-act, which isn’t nearly as funny as the title might imply. Melissa Denton directs a strong cast for Buzzworks Theater, but a few anachronistic phrases don’t sound quite right. The Lounge Theatre, 6201 Santa Monica Bl, Hollywood, (323) 960-5771. Plays411.com/mninvasion. Thurs-Sats

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(March 21-April 19)

(April 20-May 20)

mountaintop" your power metaphor of the week. Blend sacredness and nakedness in any way that appeals to your imagination, especially if it's in high places or makes you high.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22)

The feats you're pulling off may not appear spectacular to a casual observer. But in my view, they are some of the most interesting accomplishments you've enjoyed in a while. Here's a brief description of some of your subtly glorious breakthroughs: 1. You've made yourself less susceptible to being manipulated by guilt or pushed around by bullies or fooled by phonies. 2. You're getting smarter about how you treat the people and things you love. 3. You're at the peak of your ability to discern the difference between rash risks motivated by fear and smart gambles driven by authentic intuition.

Financial columnist Bill Fleckstein says that by its very nature, capitalism continually cycles through periods of boom and bust. You can't have one without the other. The American economy is in trouble because for many years the federal government suppressed the down times in an effort to create a state of perpetual boom. The backlogged busts are now kicking in all at once. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, in the hope that you won't make a comparable mistake in your own sphere. Some tightly wound part of your life needs to unravel for a while. I advise you to consider going on a brief hiatus or sabbatical.

Using a stopwatch, a sports statistician once figured out that the average baseball game has about nine minutes of action. The proceedings may last three hours from beginning to end, but the ball is actually in play just five percent of the time. What happens during the remaining 95 percent? Mostly a lot of standing around. I believe it'll be that kind of week for you, Virgo. The good news is that when the flurries of activity do erupt, they will be packed with drama and intrigue that you can really use.

GEMINI

LIBRA

(May 21-June 20)

Even if you have no plans to get married, I suggest you enter the Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest, in which rival designers compete to create beautiful bridal gowns using bathroom tissue.

You just might win, thereby earning the cash prize.

Why do I say that? Because according to my reading of the omens, you now have a special skill at conjuring up cheap elegance in service to your urge to merge. You have an unusual knack for turning things of little apparent worth into valuable aids to intimacy.

VIRGO

(June 21-July 22)

In recent years there has been a rash of climbers shedding all their clothes on Mount Everest. A sherpa by the name of Lakpa Tharke claims the world's record for high-altitude nudity, having stood skyclad for three minutes at the 29,035-foot summit. Some Nepali authorities are seeking a ban on such displays, believing that it defiles the revered mountain. "How would Westerners feel about people stripping in church?" they ask. Not meaning any disrespect to them, I urge you, Cancerian, to make "in the buff on the holy

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

SAGITTARIUS

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

IIn her book Waiting for God, French mystic and political activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) wrote a passage I'd love for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks: "When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen have this fine expression: 'It is the trade entering his body.' Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the order and beauty of the world that are entering our body." I encourage you, Scorpio, to adopt this redemptive attitude about the suffering you have been experiencing.

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In his memoir, radio talk-show host Michael Krasny notes that he is "the inverse of writer Saul Bellow, who said that he was a bird and not an ornithologist." Even if you are usually more like Krasny, Sagittarius, I suggest that you be like Bellow in the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, you need to be an embodiment of wild nature, not an observer and appreciator of wild nature. It's time for you to be a geyser, not an architect who critiques fountains; a bonfire, not a candle-gazer; a horse, not a gambler who bets on the ponies.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

A new Hawaiian island is in the process of creating itself. Called Loihi, it's an active volcano that still lies beneath the sea. As it vents lava in the millennia to come, it will eventually accumulate enough mass to rise above water level and make itself available for trees to grow on and animals to nest in and humans to dance on. In the coming days, Capricorn, I invite you to regard this as an important symbol. Think about what part of your life has a metaphorical resemblance to the threshold that Loihi will be approaching about 10,000 years from now: emerging out of the depths and breaking above the surface.

AQUARIUS

dense, blinding fog; 2. heavily overcast skies but no fog; 3. totally bright and sunny; 4. wispy fog with sun pouring down through it, creating a blend of grey and gold; 5. partially sunny with rolling bubbles of fog visible in the distance.

Judging from your current astrological omens, Aquarius, I'm guessing that what I experienced is an apt metaphor for what your life will be like in the coming days: a quick-shifting kaleidoscope of vivid moods and rich textures. Celebrate each scene, knowing it will soon give way to a new one.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20)

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson told *The Washington Post* the following fun facts: "There are more molecules of water in a cup of water than cups of water in all the world's oceans. This means that some molecules in every cup of water you drink passed through the kidneys of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Abe Lincoln, or any other historical person of your choosing." Your assignment this week, Pisces, is to choose three heroes you'd most like to be influenced and inspired by. Every time you drink water, be conscious of the fact that some of it was once inside the bodies of those exceptional people. Say a prayer that their mojo will become available to you.

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Between 8 and 9 o'clock one morning, I made a 30-mile roundtrip from San Francisco to Marin County, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge twice in the process. In that brief time, I drove through five different micro-climates, some of them twice: 1.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening," wrote occult philosopher Aleister Crowley in his flowery neo-Victorian style. "I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning." I think that formulation will serve you well in the coming days, Libra.

There's little to be gained from clinging compulsively to your hopes and fantasies about what's true. Just the opposite: Momentous strength will rise up in you if you question everything you hold dear or assume to be fact.

SCORPIO CANCER

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In the film Fight Club, the character played by Brad Pitt storms into a convenience store with a gun, then herds the clerk out back and threatens to execute him. While the poor man quivers in terror, Pitt asks him questions about himself, extracting the confession that he had once wanted to be a veterinarian but had dropped out of school. After a few minutes, Pitt frees the clerk without harming him, but says that unless he takes steps to return to veterinary school in the next six weeks, he will hunt him down and kill him. In my opinion, that's an overly extreme way to motivate someone to do what's good for him. I wish I could come up with a less shocking approach to coax you into resuming the quest for your deferred dreams, Aries. Can you think of anything?

TAURUS

at 8. Closes Apr 19. (DS) Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress. Even Bart DeLorenzo’s direction and the gimmick of secondary characters who join Rivers in her downgraded dressing room don’t make this much more than a Rivers routine. Her jokes about sex among seniors are her funniest, but nothing rises above rather self-obsessed chatter. Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Av, Westwood, (310) 208-2028. Geffenplayhouse.com. Tues-Thurs at 7:30; Fris at 8; Sats at 4 & 8; Suns at 2 & 7. Closes Apr 6. (DS) Mask. Don’t cry, we’re told near the end of this musical version of the 1985 movie about a terminally disfigured saint (Allen E. Read) at Azusa High, his loving but speed-freakish ma (Michelle Duffy), their biker surrogate family, and a blind girlfriend. Actually, Anna Hamilton Phelan’s script is designed to jerk tears. The Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil score adds energy to Richard Maltby Jr’s staging, but the full-throttle bathos is wearing. Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S El Molino Ave, Pasadena, (626) 356-7529. Pasadenaplayhouse.org. Opens Fri at 8. Tues-Fris at 8, Sats at 4 and 8, Suns at 2 and 7. Closes Apr 20. (DS) My Thing of Love. Alexandra Gersten examines a marriage threatened when he (Josh Randall) dallies with a younger woman (Heather Fox). This well-worn turf springs to life in a terrific performance by Johanna McKay as the acerbic, angry wife. One odd scene topples into caricature, but Darin Anthony’s staging otherwise stings. Syzygy Theatre Group, 1111-B W Olive Av, Burbank, (323) 254-9328. Syzygytheatre.org. Opens Fri at 8. Fris-Sats at 8; Suns at 2; March 27 at 8. Closes Apr 5. (DS) No Child… . Nilaja Sun plays 16 characters at the fictional Malcolm X High School in the Bronx – students, teachers, the principal, the janitor – changing postures, voices and accents with unerring precision and rapid-fire dexterity. The show lasts barely an hour, but it’s a rich hour, with a natural arc that produces big laughs as well as misty eyes. Kirk Douglas Theatre, 9820 Washington Bl, Culver City, (213) 628-2772. Centertheatregroup.org. Tues-Fris at 8; Sats at 2 and 8; Suns at 1 and 6:30. Closes Apr 13. (DS) Secrets of the Trade. Theater-obsessed Andy (Edward Tournier) ages from 16 to 26, in 1980-1990, as his role models change from his parents (Amy Aquino, Mark L. Taylor) to a glamorous theatrical mentor (John Glover) – and beyond. Jonathan Tolins and director Matt Shakman enliven familiar material with wit, empathy and brilliant performances. Black Dahlia Theatre, 5453 W Pico Bl, L.A. Info: (800) 838-3006 or Thedahlia.com. Weds-Sats at 8; Suns at 7. Closes Apr 20. (DS) Sweeney Todd. John Doyle’s revival of the Sondheim/Wheeler masterpiece uses 10 performers as both cast and orchestra. The results sometimes resemble a concert more than a full staging, and story elements are muddied. Judy Kaye’s Mrs. Lovett nails every nuance, but David Hess’s Sweeney appears to be in a directorial strait-jacket. Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N Grand Av, downtown L.A., (213) 628-2772. Centertheatregroup.org. Tues-Fris at 8; Sats at 2 and 8; Suns at 1 and 6:30. Closes Apr 6. (DS) Tallgrass Gothic. Melanie Marnich’s dose of rural Midwestern adultery and its unhappy results was inspired by a 1622 play by Thomas Middleton. So it’s an old story, grimly predictable and surprisingly restrained – with no nudity and scant onstage violence. An eye-catching performance by Carrie Witta helps. Jaime L. Robledo directed, tautly. Sacred Fools Theater, 660 N Heliotrope Dr, Hollywood, (310) 281-8337. Sacredfools.org. Tues-Weds at 8. Closes May 7. (DS) Tracers. The John DiFusco-instigated Vietnam War memory play remains powerful in Leon Shanglebee’s revival for Gangbusters Theatre. Think Iraq. We see six G.I.s before, during, and after their service, along with a medic one of them befriends and their drill sergeant. The theatricality goes over the top only during an excessive strobe lit scene. Little Victory Theatre, 3326 W Victory Bl, Burbank, (818) 841-5422. Thevictorytheatrecenter.org. Fris-Sats at 8; Suns at 4. Closes Apr 20. (DS)

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The Sunshine Boys. Two aging ex-vaudeville stars reluctantly team for a network comedy special. Written by Neil Simon. Directed

by Jeffrey Hayden. With Hal Linden and Allan Miller. Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, 2055 S Sepulveda Bl, L.A., (310) 477-2055.

Odysseytheatre.com. Opens Sat at 8. Thurs-Sats at 8; Suns at 2.

Apr 6, May 11 & 25 at 7 only; Apr 16, 23, 30, and May 7 at 8.

Closes June 1.

–Daryl Paranada and Alfred Lee

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TIMELESS BEAUTY MEETS MODERN HEARTHROB

MAIN MERCANTILE LOFTS Built in 1907 in the Historic District of Downtown LA, The Main Mercantile Lofts are 35 newly modernized live/work lofts.

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Rooftop Cloud Room with stunning skyline views and fireplace Screening room w/100” screen and 7.1 surround sound

Main Mercantile Lofts put you within walking distance to the Metro, Pershing Square, The Fashion District, Art Galleries, Museums, Theatres & Grocery Markets. Close to Nightlife, Eclectic Bars, Restaurants & Dance Clubs.

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21,450 Sq. Ft with storefronts on Main Street & a wrap around Mezzanine on the Second Level.

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FUN 1920’S NY STYLE APARTMENTS Artiste Apartments are cool, charming flats catering to the entertainment industry. Boasting shiny parquet wood floors, explosed brick walls and high ceilings in all units. Hollywood, Weho, Slvlke, MidWishire, Koreatown & more... Bachelors starting at: $600, 2 BR starting at $1500. (See color ad this section). www.artisteapartments.com. Hotline email: artiste_renter@yahoo.com.

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TIMELESS BEAUTY MEETS MODERN HEARTHROB! Main Mercantile lofts built in 1907 in the historic core of Downtown, Los Angeles offer a phenomenal and creative living space to the discerning renter. Thirty five remarkable units make up the community ranging in size from 1,162 to 1,789 square feet. A pet friendly community with secure underground parking, Main Merc is one of Downtown L.A.’s hottest new Lifestyle properties.

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KOREATOWN: 213-3847047 $905+up Large single, ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED, Totally remodeled. A/C, Fridge, stove, refrigerator, ceramic tiles. Gated Entry, Gated Parking Available. Elevator, Laundry room. 509 S Manhattan Pl. 213-384-7047 KOREATOWN: 213-3896631 Bachelors $800 & up.

ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED. Remodeled, refrigerator, Pool, Gated Entry. Laundry Room, Gated Parking Available. 245 S Reno St.

MISSION HILLS: 818-9203753 Single $895+up. Newer building, totally remodeled, gated entry & parking, A/C, Dishwasher, Stove, Fridge, Laundry room, Balconies 9929 Sepulveda Blvd.

post your ad free online THE PLACE TO STAY IS PALMS/WEST LA ! Single $1095+up. 1BD $1370+up.

Newer Building, Gated Entry & Subterranean Parking, 2 Elevators, Air Cond. Fridge, Stove, D/W, Laundry Room, 3848 Overland 310-8393647

WEST LA: Singles $1195+up, 1BD $1495+up.

Parking, Gated Entry, Balconies, Laundry Room, Fridge and Stove, Some totally remodeled. ASK ABOUT MOVE IN SPECIALS. 1755 Purdue Ave 310-479-1079

FURNITURE 4 LESS: GRAND OPENNING. OPEN 7 days a week. 11142 Whittier Blvd.

Whittier, CA 90606. Ask for Johnny 562.695.4977

KOREATOWN: 213-3896631 Bachelors $800 & up.

ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED. Remodeled, refrigerator, Pool, Gated Entry. Laundry Room, Gated Parking Available. 245 S Reno St.

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Artiste Apartments are artsy and charming.

3 BD HOMES FROM $25,500! Foreclosures for sale! For Listings call1-800706-1785 ext. 6824 Find What You Are Looking For?

A hip place to live, we cater to the entertainment and art industry.

Children and pets are welcomed in all locations: Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beachwood Canyon, Silverlake, Mid-Wilshire & Koreatown.

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N HOLLYWOOD 818-9801277. 1 BD $1150. Newer Bldg. Totally Remodeled.

Gated entry & parking, AC, fridge, stove, dw, Pool, Laundry Room, BBQ Area 6253 Lankershim

k Bachelors $600-$900 k Singles $775-$1300 k 1 Bedrooms $1050-$1800 k 2 Bedrooms $1500 and up

NO HO ARTS DISTRICT LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE: Single $945, Jr 1 BD $985+up. ALL UTILITIES PAID, Totally remodeled.

A/C, Fridge, stove. Laundry, Balcony, Ceramic tile, Gated Entry. & Parking. 5751 Camellia Ave 818-761-6620 2 WEEKS FREE WITH ONE YEAR LEASE

TARZANA: 818-708-9554. $925 Large Jr One Bedrooms, Totally Remodeled, Air Cond, Fridge. Pool, Gated Parking & Entry, Laundry Room, No Pets. ASK ABOUT MOVE IN SPECIALS 18552 Collins St

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Research Investigators: Michael McCann, M.A. and Daniel Dickerson, D.O.

Matrix Institute, Tarzana This Research Project is sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Approved by UCLA and Biomed IRB UCLA/Matrix Site Preparation date: 9-21-07 UCLA IRB#: 07-05-072-01 Biomed IRB#:NIDA-CSP-1026

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FURNITURE 4 LESS: BIG SALE

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