CALENDAR
Friday, June 18
Schools Out, & So Is the Trial! Go ahead & pack up the kids’ overnight bags… Sleepovers @ Neverland Ranch are a go! B.Y.O. Jesus Juice.
Iron and Wine at Webster Hall: Amazing singer/ songwriter. Sounds like a good night of tunes. (
Batman Begins: If you haven’t seen this movie yet we strongly recommend it. Little known up & comer Katie Holmes is in it.
20/20 (ABC): Elizabeth Vargas takes an exclusive look inside the ever-controversial spiritual movement, Kaballah. Does the extent of your knowledge on Kaballah lie in the red string bracelet you purchased at Kitson? You might wanna tune in. You can also check out www.radaronline.com where the first of four installments dissecting the subject appears written by Mim Udovitch. Claiming ,among other things, that Kabbalah Centre founder Philip Berg & his wife Karen, who’ve tried to tear Kabbalah away from its Jewish roots, have used Craigslist to solicit freelance ghostwriters to help the Bergs write “scholarly” books on Kabbalah. Yikes. And … how much they payin?
Saturday, June 19
Coffee Talk Producers (
Festival of the Horse @ the Museum of the
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Opening this weekend at LACMA. From 1976-1979 the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit toured the United States, attracting more than eight million visitors and inventing the phenomenon of the blockbuster museum show. A larger selection of items from the famed Pharaoh's fabulous tomb goes on a 27-month
Spanglish: A surprisingly good rental. Had no desire to see this, watched it last night and laughed out loud (tragically rare for a judgmental/bitter/surprisingly single girl like me) and cried throughout. Cast: Adam Sandler (I know, I know), Tea Leoni (so great), Cloris Leachman (amazing) & Paz Vega (kinda looks like Penelope Cruz but can act!)
VH1 Classics Present: Rock Never Stops, featuring Cinderella, Ratt, Quiet Riot & Firehouse: Oh my! These rock/metal giants from the ’80s want you to Come On Feel The Noise! Tix: $44. @ The Greek Theatre. (www.greektheatrela.com)
Vivian Green at the Roxy.
New York Doll (LA Film Fest): Much-talked-about flick following Dolls bassist Arthur “Killer” Kane, whom director Greg Whiteley found 30 years after his attempted suicide living in L.A., where he’d become a a born-again Mormon dreaming of a band reunion. @ DGA Theatre 1. (www.lafilmfest.com)
Sunday, June 20
Fathers Day: If brunch w/your dad isn’t a possibility (and we say, why do the obvious?), here’s a suggestion for the ladies. Why not hook up w/a random fella, have unprotected sex and get knocked up with his baby? Then, next year…have brunch with him on this special day! Cool, huh?! You can thank us later.
3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Real Men Cook at Exposition Park Community Center: If you're a foodie looking for a place to sample over 150 dishes, score some free food and drinks, and hang out with celebrity cooks like Judge Joe Brown, Shang and many more, then you've hit the motherlode.
5:00 p.m.
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Game 5, NBA Finals (ABC)
The Sunday Show @ O’Brien’s Irish Pub: Really good bunch of comics do standup for you and yours at this free show (where they’ve got Stella & Guinness on tap—beat that, biyatch). (
Tuesday, June 21
Spoon at the Avalon
Cindy Alexander,Garrison Starr & Saucy Monkey @ The Troubadour (all ages)
Eddie Pepitone & Sean Conroy & others @ the Fake Gallery. This super-strong team of comics you’ve seen on TV have put together a night of great stand up, sketch & videos with other folks you’ll recognize from TV. Tickets: $5. @
Sneak Preview: Dredg @ the Henry Fonda Theatre, Friday, 6/24 @
JE-C’S
Batman Begins
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes and Gary Oldman
Synopsis: Bruce Wayne has been seeking vengeance since childhood for his parents' deaths. He heads to the East, where he trains with ninja Ra's Al-Ghul and his aide, Henri Ducard. Upon returning to
Thoughts: This movie opened Wednesday, and I was there. All I have to say is, WOW. I guess I would even go as far as saying it may even be better than the Tim Burton Batman. Also, I heard rumors that they have signed on for two more movies and are already shooting. GO
The Perfect Man
Starring: Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth and Mike O'Malley
Synopsis: Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her mom Jean suffers a broken heart at the hands of some second-rate loser. With her mother on the brink of dating yet another zero, Holly takes action, conceiving the perfect plan for the perfect man: an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her shaky self-esteem. Holly's plan begins to unravel, however, when Jean becomes smitten with her mystery man. With no choice but to produce a suitor, Holly borrows her friend’s charming and handsome Uncle Ben as the face behind the e-mails, notes and gifts.
Thoughts: CHICK FLICK ALERT!!! CHICK FLICK ALERT!!! I HOPE I
HOLLY’S CORNER
Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run (1975): When was the last time you surrendered—just flat lay down and gave it all up—to the Phil Spector-esque majesty and glory of Springsteen's breakthrough masterwork about the heroic losers and no ones railing against the daily indignities who're caught between the gears of the grind and the urban desolation of invisibility? The way the melodies surge and press, the way bravura arrangements that build to dizzying temples of glory, the lyrics that are barbed-wire knots that clip inside and leave you reeling with the rusty details that make it all too real, Clarence Clemons' sax blowing a slightly torn elegy for the moment, is a reason to believe in music's transformative power. Yes, the title track was the rev-'em-up, incite-'em-to-jettison-the-shackles-to-make-it-happen hit, but "
THE RISE OF CHAPPELL ROAN: BEHIND THE SCENES
Here's how it happened. An oral history by Craig Marks. (8/30a)
A SIZZLING HITS LIST
Hot off the grill. Pairs well with your brewski of choice. (8/30a)
GUY MOOT AND CARIANNE MARSHALL: THE HITS INTERVIEW
Publishing's dynamic duo (8/28a)
THE COUNT: A LABOR (DAY) OF LIVE-MUSIC LOVE
Your other option is staying home and watching college football. (8/30a)
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THE GRAMMY SHORT LIST
Who's already a lock?
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
ALL THE WAY LIVE
The players, the tours, the enormous beers.
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