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Ziggy Stardust Puts on His Red ShoesToday he’s a celebrated choreographer and artistic director of the respected contemporary dance troupe Complex-ions, but during Dwight Rhoden’s teen years the music of David Bowie was his soundtrack. Rhoden pays tribute to Bowie with the West Coast premiere of Stardust, the centerpiece of the company’s visit. Slowly simmering in Rhoden’s creative juices for some time, the project had moved to a front burner before Bowie’s death in 2016. The resulting love letter draws on nine Bowie songs including “Lazarus,” “Changes,” “Life on Mars,” “Space Oddity” and “Young America.” While “Stardust” is the big draw, the program also includes Exploration of Love and Alliances, plus Gutter Glitter, a title Bowie undoubtedly would have liked. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown; Fri.-Sat., April 20-21, 7:30 p.m., Sun., April 22, 2 p.m.; $34-$138. musiccenter.com. —Ann Haskins

M A R I J U A N A / F I L M

High TimesCheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke was released 40 years ago this year, man. The plot, as best — cough — we can remember, follows two stoners who meet in a car with license plates that read “MUF DVR,” and spend the rest of the movie chasing weed while being trailed by narcs. The Grammy Museum’s latest exhibit, Cheech & Chong: Still Rollin’ — Celebrating 40 Years of Up in Smoke, salutes not only the first stoner film ever made and its accompanying 1979 soundtrack, which featured the classic single “Earache My Eye,” but the history of one of comedy’s greatest duos, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. Items on display include an original marked-up script, master tape for the album, comedy sketches and limited-edition anniversary smoking devices, in addition to art guitars from Marin’s curated collection, Blazing Chicano Guitars. Grammy Museum, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., downtown; Fri., April 20, 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; runs thru spring 2019; $10.95-$12.95. (213) 765-6800, grammy museum.org. —Siran Babayan

M A R I J U A N A / F I L M

Shop and SmokeIt’s the first 4/20 since California legal-ized recreational marijuana — what better way to celebrate something you won’t remember in the morning than with tonight’s screening of seminal pot- sploitation comedy Pineapple Express at 420 Fest? After the film — which cel-ebrates its 10th anniversary this year and is presented by delivery service Herb — you’ll enjoy local vendors eager to gain a foothold before the rise of Big Marijuana, as well as a general overall sense of relief that you won’t have to keep looking over your shoulder. For now. The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Koreatown; Fri., April 20, 7 p.m.; $14.20 VIP, $4.20 general admission. (213) 531-0588, wiltern.com. —David Cotner

M A R I J U A N A / A R T

Come Along for the Ride Prepare to be dazzled at the Magic Bus Experience. Not to be confused with everyone’s favorite school bus–centric Saturday morning cartoon, “L.A.’s largest immersive psychedelic event” brings its unique brand of trippy fun to town with a “Hotbox” white-out maze, giant coloring book, games of skill, Bean Bag Cinema, minstrels, magicians and circus perform-ers. In addition to the Make-Believe Bar, there will be food trucks and a “munchie mountain,” while VIP guests will be able

to avail themselves of a chicken nugget and tater tot bar. There will be a desig-nated smoking area outside. The Reef, 1933 S. Broadway, Historic South Central; Fri.-Sat., April 20-21, 11:30 a.m.-4:20 p.m. & 6-11 p.m.; $45, $65 VIP; 21+. magicbusex-perience.com. —Avery Bissett

sat 4/21O U T D O O R S

Strolling Through HistoryIn 1978, you more or less took your life in your hands when you went walking in downtown Los Angeles. See how much things have changed during today’s 40th Anniversary L.A. Conservancy Walking Tour. You’ll visit three sites — the U.S. Bank Tower, the Los Angeles Central Li-brary and the PacMutual Building — all of which have been integral to the his-tory of the Conservancy itself. It all ends at the OUE Skyspace L.A. observation deck high atop the Tower, with the glass majesty of the Skyslide, which you can slide down if you’re feeling particularly fearless and condescending. Pershing Square, 532 S. Olive St., downtown; Sat., April 21, 4 p.m. (also May 12); $30 gener-al, $25 Conservancy members & ages 17 & under. (213) 623-2489, laconservancy.org/events/40th-anniversary-walking-tour. —David Cotner

M U S I C

Nature PerfectedDai Fujikura is hardly a nature boy. “Birds sing (if you can call that singing!) annoy-ingly, and insects make terrible noise,” the Japanese-British composer wrote about walks in the woods. But in his 2008 work Secret Forest, which receives its U.S. premiere tonight from the L.A. Chamber Orchestra, Fujikura has reordered the natural world more to his liking as “an imaginary forest where birds and insects make only my favorite sounds, and my nose gets never blocked” from allergies. Thickets of strings wrap themselves boldly around evocative flurries of woodwinds, blending a majestic melodi-cism with avant-garde daring. French pianist David Fray also stirs up Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, and guest conductor Karina Canellakis invokes Beethoven’s delightful Second Symphony. Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Ave., Glendale; Sat., April 21, 8 p.m.; $27 & up. Also at Royce Hall, 340 Royce Drive, Westwood; Sun., April 22, 7 p.m. (213) 622-7001, ext. 1. laco.org. —Falling James

B O O K S

Calling All BibliophilesWhile we continue to debate the chang-ing face of the publishing industry, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, an L.A. mainstay since 1996 and the largest literary festival in the country, attracts 150,000 visitors annually. Among the more than 500 authors and perform-ers appearing across nine stages this year are Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Mosley, Reza Aslan, Dave Eggers, Maria Shriver, Patton Oswalt, Ed Asner, Valerie Bertinelli, Whitney Cummings, Mike Epps, Jenna Fischer, Gabriel Union, Vivica A. Fox and Laila Ali. As always, the weekend also promises live music, poetry, kids activities, Spanish-language programs, cooking demonstrations, art installations, food trucks and 200-plus exhibitors. New to the schedule is the inaugural Newstory, which features podcasts, screenings, virtual reality and more music led by Moby, Lucinda Wil-liams, Mayim Bialik, The Second City and others. USC, University Park; Sat., April 21, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., April 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; free. events.latimes.com/festivalo¢ooks. — Siran Babayan

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Land of the Rising SunIf you haven’t made it to downtown’s secret Japanese Village — a cultural gem and passion project of costume designer Peter Lai, tucked away in an Arts District loft — there’s still time. But not much: Lai tells us he’ll be closing his beloved museum for good when developers turn the building into a hotel, likely sometime next year. The eccentric Hong Kong–born designer, dancer and collector be-gan his love a�air with Japanese culture on a trip to the country at age 18 and has been collecting ever since, culminating in this 5,000 square-foot space, filled to the brim with costumes, furniture, curios and artistry. This Sunday, Atlas Obscura’s hosted tours are sold out, but you can make an appointment starting from 2:30 p.m. Refreshments, guided shopping and “charming company” included. Peter Lai’s Japanese Cultural Village, 500 S. Alameda St., downtown; Sun., April 22, 2:30 p.m.; $30. (626) 375-2040, peterlai.design. —Beige Luciano-Adams

F O O D / F I L M

Waste Not, Want NotAccording to Nari Kye and Anna Chai’s 2017 documentary, Wasted! �e Story of Food Waste, one-third of food grown for human consumption in the world every year — 40% alone in the United States — goes uneaten, yet millions of people don’t have enough to eat. Narrated by Anthony Bourdain and featuring Mario Batali, Dan Barber, Danny Bowien and Mark Bitt-man, the film looks at how excess food is handled on farms and in restaurants and supermarkets and its e�ects on the environment, as well as how chefs, com-munity activists and entire countries are trying to solve the problem. This screen-ing is followed by a panel discussion with local chefs Neal Fraser, Nyesha Arrington and Michael Cimarusti and a reception with food provided by restaurants Preux and Proper, Huntington Hospitality by Bon Appetit and others. The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino; Sun., April 22, 1-4 p.m.; $95, RSVP required. (626) 405-2100, huntington.org. —Siran Babayan

mon 4/23F O O D

Eat Your Veggies — for FreeWhile it may be a myth that Los Angeles is a climatological desert, it’s neverthe-less a city with food deserts. Thou-sands of residents face food insecurity, a malady that does not exempt our schools. To combat this, UCLA is host-ing its first Free Produce Fair. Come through with your own bag (maximum: 15 inches by 15 inches by 7 inches) and fill it with fresh, free produce, courtesy of Food Forward, a SoCal nonprofit that

rescues surplus produce otherwise destined for the bin — supply meets demand. Various organizations will be o�ering educational material as well. UCLA Wilson Plaza, 120 Westwood Plaza, Westwood; Mon., April 23, 9 a.m.; free. (323) 989-7073, facebook.com/events/165455427428752/. —Avery Bissett

MU S I C

Life Imitating ArtIt seems like a mad idea, to create “a per-formance structured around an absence,” but American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton pays homage to her former companion, Belgian avant-garde feminist filmmaker Chantal Akerman, in a most inventive fashion with her new piece Chantal? Wieder-Atherton works up mu-sic by Béla Bartók alongside images from the films of Akerman, who killed herself in Paris in 2015. The cellist’s music and even her physical gestures literally mir-ror the movements of the filmmaker. “I wanted to play along with her, her every move, her silences, her dancing at once burlesque and deadly serious,” Wieder-Atherton has said about the unusual work. REDCAT, 631 W. Second St., down-town; Mon., April 23, 8:30 p.m.; $12. (213) 237-2800, redcat.org. —Falling James

E D U C AT I O N

Greed Isn’t So GoodArmchair Marxists, take note: Cel-ebrated economist Richard Wol� will be at Occidental College this evening to discuss “Trump, Capitalism’s Crisis and a New Way Forward.” Both symptom and pathogen of that crisis, the Trump presi-dency is doing wonders for systemic inequality and corporate greed. Better understand the malaise and, presumably, end on a hopeful note, as Wol� focuses on “basic social change” currently under-way, as well as an exit strategy “if we stop denying capitalism’s decline as the problem we must solve.” A prolific and animated professor, speaker and radio host, Wol�’s recent talks have tackled the opioid crisis, budget deficit, net neutrality and gender pay gap. Hosted by L.A. Progressive. Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Choi Auditorium, Eagle Rock; Mon., April 23, 7-9:30 p.m.; suggested admission $25 general, $12.50 seniors, free for Oxy students, faculty and sta�. (213) 434-4643, eventbrite.com/e/richard-wol�-trump-capitalisms-crisis-and-a-new-way-forward-tickets-44354613844?a�=e�eventtix. —Beige Luciano-Adams

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Good ReadsAt Walter Nelson’s Victorian Literary Par-lour, the bricky Mr. Nelson unveils the un-heralded gem that is Anne Brontë’s novel, Agnes Grey. With more than 60,000 novels published during the Victorian era (1837-1901), chances are you’ve scarcely

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wed 4/25F I L M

Superhero ImmersionAt some point, movies will be jacked directly into the cerebral cortices of the au-dience, but until then, the Avengers: Infinity War Marathon — and a catheter — is about as close as you’ll get to total cinematic immersion. Lucky ticket holders will spend nearly 30 hours watching 11 Marvel superhero films in chronological release-date order — starting with 2008’s Iron Man and culminating in the hotly anticipated Avengers: Infinity War — and will nab valu-able trinkets such as posters commemo-rating the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first decade, a costume contest (Go Blade!

Boo, everyone else!), hexagonal popcorn tubs, special guest appearances and more. Through Thursday. El Capitan Theatre, 6838 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood; Wed., April 25, 1 p.m. (doors 11:30 a.m.); $100. (818) 845-3110, elcapitantheatre.com/film-info/marvel-marathon. —David Cotner

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Refugee StrugglesEvery silver lining has a cloud: When President Trump issued an executive or-der halting entry into the United States by refugees from seven, mainly Muslim coun-tries, millions protested — but the caps on those refugees remained. To address this moment of stagnation and inertia, author Viet Thanh Nguyen presents his essay collection �e Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives ($25, Abrams). Discussing the compilation with writer and Ethiopian refugee Meron Hadero and Abrams execu-tive editor Jamison Stoltz (Displaced’s co-editor), Nguyen showcases the work of 17 notable contemporary writers to clue you in on all the fear, uncertainty and hassle that has visited their lives. Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Feliz; Thu., April 26, 7:30 p.m.; free. (323) 660-1175, skylight-books.com/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-discusses-essay-collection-displaced-contributors-meron-hadero-and-co-editor. —David Cotner

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BY MADISON MARGOLIN

Marijuana policy would have us thinking there are only two ways to use cannabis: medically, for severe conditions,

and recreationally, for adults who just want to get high. Of course, the medical-versus-recreational dichotomy fails to account for the variety of other nuanced reasons to consume cannabis — reasons that, in fact, are increasingly becoming the primary motivation behind cannabis consumption.

So picture this: a cannabis ceremony that defines the herb as sacred and in-vites participants to journey inward. As with other plant ceremonies, be it cacao or ayahuasca, the ceremony is musical and honors the plant’s inherent wisdom and spirit — as unfamiliar as that notion may be to those who’ve experienced only the clinical atmosphere of a medi-cal dispensary, or the commercialism of adult-use cannabis.

Cannabis for spirituality and wellness — to nourish the soul, if you will — goes beyond pure recreation or specified medical purposes. Putting aside any judgments about hippie-dippie rhetoric, spirituality and wellness are increas-ingly the driving factors behind today’s “new” cannabis consumption.

“Cannabis is a sacred plant that you need to commune with and properly respect,” says Sari Gabbay, who leads a cannabis ceremony at her annual retreat, Cannabliss, happening April 19-24 in Malibu. “Cannabis brings you

to yourself, to come home to where you are. When you do a ceremony and sit with intention, it allows you to reveal aspects of you that you need to look at, contemplate, feel and observe. It’s a healing and ritualistic way of working with cannabis.”

Founder of creative agency Redefin-ing Cannabis, Gabbay’s life work is of-fering a new spin on the cannabis plant. Through her branding and marketing work, alongside curating the Cannabliss retreat, Gabbay is modernizing the im-age of cannabis by drawing on ancient wisdom about wellness and sacred plant-based medicine.

This isn’t about the latest vape-pen technology or breeding technique — it’s about updating the image of cannabis as a tool for self-knowledge and self-improvement. “The beauty of cannabis is that it allows you to tap into so many facets of your life, so there’s the edu-cational, scientific, physical, creative and spiritual aspect of it,” Gabbay says. “Look at how many people use cannabis and yoga together and why, meditate with cannabis and why, who are bring-ing that spiritual aspect in.”

The whole premise is that cannabis has a psychoactive e�ect — an oppor-tunity to engage a di�erent sense of self. “How many people have actually asked themselves, ‘How can this allow me to really benefit?’ instead of just, ‘Oh, I’m high,’” she says. “How many conversations do you have that are deep and meaningful [under the influence of cannabis]? That in itself outlines the un-derlying spiritual aspects of cannabis.”

At the six-day Cannabliss retreat, guests from around the country will not only tap into the spirit of the plant but also learn about its scientific and medicinal components through Kanna-Kare, a certification program created by Dr. Ira Price to provide education on the endocannabinoid system (a network of cannabinoid receptors throughout the body, regulating appetite, pain, mood, sleep and other physiological func-

tions). Alongside yoga, hot tubbing, infused meals and healing arts, guests also will be able to participate in semi-nars with speakers such as cannabis licensing attorney Ariel Clark or pro-cannabis NFL player Eben Britton.

As the retreat shows, being a respon-sible, conscious cannabis consumer means not only knowing how to choose the right strain for yourself but also

staying socially and politically aware of the context surrounding the plant.

“When I first started working as a physician in cannabis in 2010, nobody wanted to have the conversation, I was waving my own banners,” Price says. “In the past couple years, people are rec-ognizing the benefits [of cannabis] and seeing that cannabis makes our toolbox for treating a lot of diseases much deeper. We’re decreasing the stigma — it’s not just about big blunts and getting high but about mindful consumption and the medicine of cannabis.”

Legal weed o�ers a clear distinction between medical and adult use; but within the scope of adult use, there’s a growing divide between cannabis for the sake of getting high (and in its own right, recreation is a form of wellness) and cannabis to promote a healthy lifestyle. With more and more newcom-ers to the cannabis space — the elderly, baby boomers, people who may have only smoked pot 40 years ago in college, or people who’ve never smoked at all — the emphasis is shifting away from merely getting high.

We see that with the onslaught of non-psychotropic CBD products or non-psychoactive topical salves. Even trends in cannabis breeding are geared toward more CBD and more diverse terpene (aromatic chemical) profiles, rather than merely having the most THC.

“For me it’s about cannabis in every medicine chest, making it a part of every day life, removing the stigma,” says Aliza Sherman, founder of Ellementa, a national network for women to educate one another about cannabis. Through regular meetings in cities throughout the country, Ellementa o�ers women the opportunity to discuss personal matters like PMS and menopause, which canna-bis can help. They introduce one another to products that might be helpful and incorporate conversations about the plant into conversations about women’s health and purchasing decisions for a healthier lifestyle.

“We have women who care for their entire circle of family and friends, searching for [something for] their ailing parents or child with epilepsy or girlfriend with breast cancer,” Sher-man says. “That’s the beauty of these gatherings — we have the woman who has never heard of 4/20 and who doesn’t know what dabbing is sitting in a room with a woman going to 4/20 fes-tivals and taking dabs every day. It’s a dynamic and empowering experience.”

The meetings also o�er information on why cannabis was made illegal in the first place — mostly on account of racist politics to incriminate black and brown people, rather than because of anything based in science.

“While it’s eye-opening to under-stand the truth about cannabis, it’s also frightening how many lies we’ve be-lieved,” Sherman says. “For us, we love to talk about cannabis being an ancient healing plant that has been utilized by women for centuries.” And it’s a return to that ancient wisdom that’s rejuvenat-ing the modern-day image of cannabis.

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“FOR ME IT’S ABOUT CANNABIS IN EVERY MEDICIN CHEST, MAKING IT A PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE, REMOVING THE STIGMA.” —ALIZA SHERMAN, FOUNDER OF ELLEMENTA

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to put the 33-foot-long, 3-D doobie atop the Roxy, which makes sense not only because of the abundance of big ads on the Sunset Strip and his ownership of the club but because it was a frequent spot for his buds — the inimitable Cheech & Chong — to perform.

Alas, the permit requirements in West Hollywood appear to be too rigid, so at press time he was still looking for a spot. Adler’s 1978 fi lm, Up in Smoke, celebrates its 40th anniversary this week with a DVD/Blu-ray re-release, so he, Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin have joined forces with the Grammy Museum for an exhibit to mark the milestone: “Still Rollin’ — Celebrating 40 Years of Up in Smoke” opens Friday, April 20 (4-20).

Though the fantastic fatty is meant as marketing for the fi lm, if it gets to be seen in L.A., it will punctuate more than the iconic movie. In many ways it will be a testament to Cheech & Chong’s role in bringing marijuana into the mainstream and ultimately, in its legalization.

In the past four decades since, Cheech & Chong have sparked attention for can-nabis culture like no other, fi rst as part of their live stage show, then on records and fi nally in fi lms — Up in Smoke, Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie, Nice Dreams, Things Are Tough All Over, Still Smokin’, Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Broth-ers, Get Out of My Room, and Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie.

“It was something that no one had ever seen before,” says Chong, who credits the almost psychic connection he shares with Cheech for the success of their vari-ous projects. “We’re both amateur mind readers. Our lowbrow humor was very easy for each of us to read and under-stand. I can say a word or even just a look and we both know what we’re thinking. We developed that while we were on the road doing our live act, doing records and in the studio. It was all fun and games. We just love being with each other.”

They’ve been through a lot along the way, too. Chong, of course, went to jail for selling bongs on his website. Then he got cancer. Currently cancer-free, he

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credits pot with playing a part in his recovery. Marin went on to star in the classic movie Born in East L.A. without his partner, though the original song was from a Cheech & Chong album. It was a huge hit and allowed the actor to later score roles that transcended the stoner stereotype and his Mexican background (such as a detective on Nash Bridges, Hurley’s dad on Lost and several Disney cartoons, most memorably voicing one of the hyenas in The Lion King). Chong’s best-known role post-C&C was more to type, as an aging hippie on That ’70s Show, though he was forced to take the last two seasons o� due to the bong bust.

Now that weed is legal in California, where both Cheech and Chong live, no one has more right to take advantage. Hocking a lot more than the smoking vessels that put him the slammer, Chong now sells Chong’s Choice, high-quality medical cannabis sourced from local growers available via his website in prerolls, fl ower jars, THC oil and infused breath strips. Marin, meanwhile, touts Cheech’s Private Stash, o� ering buds and prerolls via his own site.

“I went to jail for the sins of the world,“ the 79-year-old Chong says, jokingly, by phone last week, though his nine months behind bars was no joke. “But it all worked out well. I enjoy being a martyr.”

Clearly, Chong’s arrest in 2003, during the federal investigations code-named Operation Pipe Dreams and Operation Headhunter, was intended to make an example out of his celebrity, but it may have backfi red. Attempting to trace drug tra� c and users through businesses sell-ing paraphernalia, the operations were criticized as a waste of time and money, and the public consensus was mostly on Chong’s side.

In 2014, when he competed on Danc-ing With the Stars at age 76, the oldest celebrity at the time to do so, he made it to the semifi nals thanks to his popularity with the viewing public. The unfavor-

able clichés associated with cannabis were slowly but surely dissipating, and the “stoner comedy” genre, pioneered by Up in Smoke, and continuing with Friday, Dazed and Confused, Pineapple Express and the Harold and Kumar fi lms, portrayed the drug for what it was — a relatively harmless recreational choice that enhances mood, perspective and conversation. Of course, in the movies, smoking too much could still get you into some crazy situations.

Marin, 71, speaking with L.A. Weekly by phone as well, says even though Cheech & Chong started as a stand-up act and

had comedy records, fi lm was the forum they were always meant for.

“When I fi rst saw the dailies, I just knew this was it. I could never really under-stand how we were so big on records when we were really a stage act,” he says. “It was new for us, and unlike stage it was so intimate. You know, the camera gets right up close next to us. Film was our ultimate medium and we recognized that right away.”

Adler, who directed and produced Up in Smoke, saw the potential for fi lm greatness immediately. “I remember very clearly the fi rst performance I saw from them. Somebody told me I had to see

them,” he says. “The fi rst thing I saw as I entered the main room was both of them on their knees smelling each other’s butts going round and round — their dog act. “

Already a successful music producer, Adler told friends and colleagues that night that he wanted to record Cheech & Chong. “They looked at me like I was to-tally nuts,” he says. “Also it was a comedy album, which was not what I was doing at the time.”

What he saw beyond the dogs, and the spaced-out banter, was storytelling and improvisation and chemistry, chemistry that he knew had to be captured some-how. “I saw all of their routines and I saw how visual the audio was,” Adler explains. “So when the comedy routines were com-plete for the album, I thought of doing what I call ‘ear movies’ and I added sound e� ects as opposed to a stand-up comedy album. So we were on our way to a movie from the very fi rst album.”

A script was written with the two lead characters, Chong as Anthony “Man” Stoner and Marin as Pedro De Pacas, meeting on the road and proceeding on a madcap, marijuana-driven adventure that takes them to an L.A. courtroom, to Tijuana and back, where they encounter a manic Vietnam vet, an over-zealous cop and a couple of gals who convince them to compete in a “Battle of the Bands” show at the Roxy. They win the contest (and a recording contract) with a rendition of their song “Earache My Eye,” and the movie ends with Pedro and Man in a car, talking about their future careers as rock stars. Man lights up some hash and accidentally drops the lit roach in Pedro’s crotch, causing him to swerve down PCH, a trail of smoke behind them as the movie’s theme song, “Up in Smoke,” plays and the credits start to roll.

The duo recently rerecorded the movie’s theme song, changing out lyrics to refl ect legalization. Example: “Up in Smoke/It seemed/so long ago/

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Though the narrative was pretty structured, what makes Up in Smoke so special is the dialogue, some of which was improvised on the spot, according to Marin. “We were creating with a unique approach. We were doing improv, so that intimacy and spontaneity was kind of new for the era.”

Also unique and daring for the time were the pot-centric themes themselves. Though smoking grass was a popular activity during the 1970s, when Cheech & Chong emerged, few spoke of or depicted its use so openly. Cheech recalls, “We were just chronicling what was happen-ing in our generation at that time, with the people we hung out with. We saw it as the new norm, and you know, everybody was doing it even if nobody was talking about it. So we were right out front with it, blatantly, because it’s what we saw

everywhere.”Of course, it was a controversial con-

cept for the time, and Adler says the film wasn’t easy to get made. He had to do a negative pickup, meaning he paid for the film himself and then would turn it over if the studios wanted to distribute it. “You’re president of Paramount Studios, I come in o� the street. I’m a record producer and I say I’d like to make a film about marijuana with a Chinese man and a Mexican. Are you jumping out of your seat to make it?” But his risk paid o�.

For fans wondering if the pair smoked for real during filming, the answer is no — and yes. Fake weed was used, but Chong assures there were some o�-set breaks, which surely enhanced the pair’s creativity and ability to play o� each other throughout.

And although some have questioned whether Cheech & Chong’s depiction of stoners has been a positive one over the years, the absurdity of their con-versations and situations was heady, sometimes deceptively deep, even when

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The satiric nuance of their work is more evident than ever upon repeated viewing of the 40-year-old film, which has stood the test of time, going from cult hit to a proper classic, not unlike some of Adler’s other releases, which include The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains.

Rocky Horror, of course, became and remains a phenomenon, and Up in Smoke stands right alongside it in terms of cultural significance. With the release of the anniversary DVD and Blu-ray pack-age this week, Up in Smoke is primed to reach a whole new generation of comedy fans and marijuana enthusiasts. Though younger generations will watch the movie through a less stigmatized lens in terms of smoking and toking, they’ll find

the film is no less impactful or enjoyable than viewers did 40 years ago, and that is due to the brilliance of its two stars.

“People should come away from the exhibit and the movie today with this: Abbott & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, and Cheech & Chong,” says Adler, who donated much of his personal collection to the Grammy Museum exhibit, includ-ing movie stills, marketing materials, letters, promo and rare ephemera, to be displayed alongside art from Marin’s traveling Chicano art show. “They are important comedians. That gets lost a bit in the smoke.”

“Cheech & Chong Still Rollin’ — Cel-ebrating 40 Years of Up in Smoke” opens Friday, April 20, at the Grammy Museum, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., downtown; (213) 765-6800, grammymuseum.org.

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L.A.’s mixologists are cooking up drinks that make creative use of CBD oil

BY MICHELE STUEVEN

Once considered an exotic and provocative ingredient, cannabi-diol oil has become commonplace in Los Angeles restaurants. Spring downtown

o�ers a delicious three-course prix fixe CBD Power Lunch for $37, which prom-ises to lift your mood and give a boost to your day.

The oils have a subtle e�ect that di�ers from person to person, but there defi-nitely is an e�ect.

Bartenders and mixologists, for their part, are competing to find the perfect mix of spirits and low-THC hemp oils for the ultimate yin and yang. Here are some of our favorites.Bluebird Brasserie

Bluebird Brasserie, the recently opened Belgian brewpub in Sherman Oaks, o�ers a CBD cocktail called the Gentle Monk ($16). It’s inspired by two classics, the Vesper martini and the sour.

The Vesper martini is a variation of the classic dry martini, invented by writer Ian Fleming in 1953’s Casino Royale, where James Bond ordered a vodka martini shaken, not stirred.

What makes the Gentle Monk so gentle

is that little squeeze of CBD. It features St. Georges absinthe verte, Citadella gin, lemon juice, aquafaba, Italicus, orange juice, Cocchi Rosa Americano, simple syrup and a CBD tincture.

13730 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks; (818) 849-6970, bluebirdbrasserie.com.Otium

As part of Otium’s exquisite and diverse cocktail program, bar director Chris Amirault has created the Pineapple Express ($18). He shared his recipe with L.A. Weekly … or you can just belly up to the bar with a view of the Broad and have them make it for you: Pineapple Express¾ oz. Sipsmith Gin½ oz. Farmer’s Gin 1 oz. pineapple-infused Campari ½ oz. Lustau Vermut ¼ oz. vanilla syrup 1 dasher of Coconut CBD Oil Orange Twist

Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker, shake it up and pour over ice.

Otium, 222 S. Hope St., downtown; (213) 935-8500, otiumla.com. Spring

In addition to CBD oil on Spring’s food menu, the organic elixir can be added to any cocktail for an extra $5.

“This is a great way to enjoy an alco-holic beverage without the fear of future

headache that often comes with enjoying cocktails. And the CBD elixir lowers the chance of waking up with a hangover,” says Spring assistant manager Victor Moreno. “CBD also almost instantly improves your mood and increases an overall feeling of wellness without that sluggish feeling that can come with drinking.”

Will Kleidon, founder of supplier Ojai Energetics, recommends it for your mimosa ($13).

Spring, 257 S. Spring St., downtown; (213) 372-5189, springlosangeles.com.

Pattern Bar Pattern Bar in the Fashion District was

the first downtown bar to serve CBD cocktails and infusions. The bar sta� pairs their surroundings with specialty cocktails named after their favorite fashion designers, like the Chanel ($12) and the Lagerfeld ($13); there is a yummy selection of tapas as well.

“With one sip of the Armani ($18), our signature CBD cocktail, you will be capti-vated with its bursting flavors of Floren-tine elderflower liqueur, New Amsterdam gin, muddled lime, lemon, orange and mint. It’s like sunshine in a glass,” general manager Eduardo Peres says.

The bar will add CDB to any cocktail for $5; that includes non-alcoholic drinks. “We believe the benefits of CBD provide our Pattern Bar customers with a unique experience because it has been proven to help with numerous health elements including anxiety, pain, depression and inflammation,” Peres says.

Pattern Bar, 100 W. Ninth St., down-town; (213) 627-7774, patternbar.com. Prank

A couple of blocks from Staples Center in South Park, Prank is L.A.’s first indoor/outdoor two-story walk-up bar welcom-ing foot traªc through its floor-to-ceiling glass doors.

Signature cocktails include the Mon Frere ($16), made with Plymouth gin, coc-chi Americano, limonene terpenes and Regan’s orange bitters; and the Hilaria ($26), a refreshing concoction of Papalote mezcal, sherry, watermelon, honeyed

apricot, citrus, limonene terpenes, bitters and herbs.

Terpenes are oils derived from can-nabis but they contain no THC; they’re said to o�er medicinal properties ranging from anti-carcinogenic to anti-inflam-matory. Prank owner Dave Whitton says limonene terpene may be beneficial in protecting against various cancers, and that orally administered limonene is currently undergoing clinical trials in the treatment of breast cancer. Some swear that limonene has been found to help promote weight-loss.

Four-legged furry friends are welcome in the dog-friendly patio.

Prank, 1100 S. Hope St., downtown; (213) 493-4786, prankbar.com.Gracias Madre

We must pay homage to one of the city’s most recognized mixologists, Jason Eisner, who together with beverage director Maxwell Reis launched the CBD cocktail craze in L.A. at Gracias Madre. It’s still going strong with these libations, at $20 each:

Stoned Fruit: agave gin, black plum, apricot, yuzu, orange aperitif, cannabi-noids

Sour T-iesel: tequila blanco, lime, agave, mint, matcha, aquafaba, cannabinoids

Rolled-Fashioned: mezcal anejo, bour-bon, house sarsaparilla, aromatic bitters, cannabinoids

Stoney Negroni: gin, carpano, Turin Aperitivo, port wine, orange oil, canna-binoids

Gracias Madre, 8905 Melrose Ave., WeHo; (323) 978-2170, graciasmadrewe-ho.com.

Bonus: If you’re just looking for a cup of joe, Erewhon Natural Food stores throughout the city will add a dose of their wide variety of cannabis oils to any co�ee or smoothie. There’s a Good Day Shot of coconut milk, maca (a medicinal root from the Andes), espresso and CBD oil for $6. You can also enjoy a bottle of Hempermint, a 16-ounce minty, medici-nal combination of raw hemp milk spiked with coconut water and CBD, for $16. erewhonmarket.com.

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L.A.’s mixologists are cooking up drinks that make creative use of CBD oil

BY MICHELE STUEVEN

Once considered an exotic and provocative ingredient, cannabi-diol oil has become commonplace in Los Angeles restaurants. Spring downtown

o�ers a delicious three-course prix fixe CBD Power Lunch for $37, which prom-ises to lift your mood and give a boost to your day.

The oils have a subtle e�ect that di�ers from person to person, but there defi-nitely is an e�ect.

Bartenders and mixologists, for their part, are competing to find the perfect mix of spirits and low-THC hemp oils for the ultimate yin and yang. Here are some of our favorites.Bluebird Brasserie

Bluebird Brasserie, the recently opened Belgian brewpub in Sherman Oaks, o�ers a CBD cocktail called the Gentle Monk ($16). It’s inspired by two classics, the Vesper martini and the sour.

The Vesper martini is a variation of the classic dry martini, invented by writer Ian Fleming in 1953’s Casino Royale, where James Bond ordered a vodka martini shaken, not stirred.

What makes the Gentle Monk so gentle

is that little squeeze of CBD. It features St. Georges absinthe verte, Citadella gin, lemon juice, aquafaba, Italicus, orange juice, Cocchi Rosa Americano, simple syrup and a CBD tincture.

13730 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks; (818) 849-6970, bluebirdbrasserie.com.Otium

As part of Otium’s exquisite and diverse cocktail program, bar director Chris Amirault has created the Pineapple Express ($18). He shared his recipe with L.A. Weekly … or you can just belly up to the bar with a view of the Broad and have them make it for you: Pineapple Express¾ oz. Sipsmith Gin½ oz. Farmer’s Gin 1 oz. pineapple-infused Campari ½ oz. Lustau Vermut ¼ oz. vanilla syrup 1 dasher of Coconut CBD Oil Orange Twist

Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker, shake it up and pour over ice.

Otium, 222 S. Hope St., downtown; (213) 935-8500, otiumla.com. Spring

In addition to CBD oil on Spring’s food menu, the organic elixir can be added to any cocktail for an extra $5.

“This is a great way to enjoy an alco-holic beverage without the fear of future

headache that often comes with enjoying cocktails. And the CBD elixir lowers the chance of waking up with a hangover,” says Spring assistant manager Victor Moreno. “CBD also almost instantly improves your mood and increases an overall feeling of wellness without that sluggish feeling that can come with drinking.”

Will Kleidon, founder of supplier Ojai Energetics, recommends it for your mimosa ($13).

Spring, 257 S. Spring St., downtown; (213) 372-5189, springlosangeles.com.

Pattern Bar Pattern Bar in the Fashion District was

the first downtown bar to serve CBD cocktails and infusions. The bar sta� pairs their surroundings with specialty cocktails named after their favorite fashion designers, like the Chanel ($12) and the Lagerfeld ($13); there is a yummy selection of tapas as well.

“With one sip of the Armani ($18), our signature CBD cocktail, you will be capti-vated with its bursting flavors of Floren-tine elderflower liqueur, New Amsterdam gin, muddled lime, lemon, orange and mint. It’s like sunshine in a glass,” general manager Eduardo Peres says.

The bar will add CDB to any cocktail for $5; that includes non-alcoholic drinks. “We believe the benefits of CBD provide our Pattern Bar customers with a unique experience because it has been proven to help with numerous health elements including anxiety, pain, depression and inflammation,” Peres says.

Pattern Bar, 100 W. Ninth St., down-town; (213) 627-7774, patternbar.com. Prank

A couple of blocks from Staples Center in South Park, Prank is L.A.’s first indoor/outdoor two-story walk-up bar welcom-ing foot traªc through its floor-to-ceiling glass doors.

Signature cocktails include the Mon Frere ($16), made with Plymouth gin, coc-chi Americano, limonene terpenes and Regan’s orange bitters; and the Hilaria ($26), a refreshing concoction of Papalote mezcal, sherry, watermelon, honeyed

apricot, citrus, limonene terpenes, bitters and herbs.

Terpenes are oils derived from can-nabis but they contain no THC; they’re said to o�er medicinal properties ranging from anti-carcinogenic to anti-inflam-matory. Prank owner Dave Whitton says limonene terpene may be beneficial in protecting against various cancers, and that orally administered limonene is currently undergoing clinical trials in the treatment of breast cancer. Some swear that limonene has been found to help promote weight-loss.

Four-legged furry friends are welcome in the dog-friendly patio.

Prank, 1100 S. Hope St., downtown; (213) 493-4786, prankbar.com.Gracias Madre

We must pay homage to one of the city’s most recognized mixologists, Jason Eisner, who together with beverage director Maxwell Reis launched the CBD cocktail craze in L.A. at Gracias Madre. It’s still going strong with these libations, at $20 each:

Stoned Fruit: agave gin, black plum, apricot, yuzu, orange aperitif, cannabi-noids

Sour T-iesel: tequila blanco, lime, agave, mint, matcha, aquafaba, cannabinoids

Rolled-Fashioned: mezcal anejo, bour-bon, house sarsaparilla, aromatic bitters, cannabinoids

Stoney Negroni: gin, carpano, Turin Aperitivo, port wine, orange oil, canna-binoids

Gracias Madre, 8905 Melrose Ave., WeHo; (323) 978-2170, graciasmadrewe-ho.com.

Bonus: If you’re just looking for a cup of joe, Erewhon Natural Food stores throughout the city will add a dose of their wide variety of cannabis oils to any co�ee or smoothie. There’s a Good Day Shot of coconut milk, maca (a medicinal root from the Andes), espresso and CBD oil for $6. You can also enjoy a bottle of Hempermint, a 16-ounce minty, medici-nal combination of raw hemp milk spiked with coconut water and CBD, for $16. erewhonmarket.com.

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Healthy Oasis in Hyde Park HANK’S MINI MARKET SHIFTS FOCUS TO FRESH PRODUCE, BETTER CHOICES

Kelli Jackson is out to change the food choices in Hyde Park in South L.A., one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

Jackson and her father, Hank, with help from the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, California Fresh-works Fund and Sweetgreen restaurant, have taken the family’s rundown corner liquor store and transformed it into a market with healthy choices and fresh produce available to the community.

Located about a mile from the closest grocery store and across the street from a recycling center, Hank’s Mini Market has undergone a two-year remodel inside and out, punctuated with a mural by street artist Aiseborn celebrating Jackson’s mantra: “Stronger together.”

The store reopened on Saturday, April 7, with a celebration that included free food, including salads from Everytable and Jamaican patties from Baba’s Vegan Cafe, all a welcome sight to many of the neighborhood’s homeless who came to the event. Children expressed themselves at the art table while a DJ filled the street with music. Paper lanterns in Hanks’ signature orange draped the front doors and bounced in the breeze.

“I’m the second generation of Hank’s Mini Market — we’ve been here for 20 years,” the soft-spoken Jackson told L.A. Weekly. “My dad, Hank, started this busi-ness in 1997, and it was always his dream to have his own business. He lived in the

area for over 40 years, so he was part of the community and the history here. Now it’s my opportunity to take it to the next level, in a creative and innovative way, more reflective of my background, which is combining food with art.”

Jackson, who has a master’s from USC in public art studies and also studied com-munity development, became passionate about how art could help create a healthy oasis in Hyde Park. “Working with the L.A. Food Policy Council, I realized how art and food can uplift and inspire the community. Bringing those things together helps build a better community,” she said.

Sweetgreen, a healthy fast-casual res-taurant chain based in Culver City, came in and helped make Hank’s a successful and sustainable business, Jackson said. The chain, which is dedicated to commu-nity outreach, helped with the reconstruc-tion and provided the healthy items now stocked on the freshly painted shelves.

Jackson says she keeps the prices af-fordable to provide residents easy access to healthy food. “There are a lot of things this community is going through, and they need to know that eating healthier is going to make them feel better on a daily basis,” she said.

The mini-market property owned by the Jackson family is just down the road from Inglewood Park Cemetery, one of the oldest in Los Angeles and the final resting place for a number of notable citi-zens, including Mayor Tom Bradley, Dock Ellis, Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald.

Jackson says she has faith in her neigh-borhood and the corner store.

Hank’s still sells liquor and lottery tick-ets, but you have to get past the broccoli and bell peppers first.

“There were a lot of fast food stores and liquor stores, but no access to healthy food. It was a food desert,” she said. “So I started studying and taking interest in this community, and I realized I didn’t need to wait for somebody else to come in here and solve these problems. It was time for us to step up and make change within our store and push that out to the community.” —Michele Stueven

Hank’s Mini Market, 3301 W. Florence Ave., Hyde Park; (323) 751-1816.

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Everytable Provides Healthy, Tasty Meals for the Same Price as Fast FoodSam Polk, the founder of an innovative new business, Everytable, that brings nutritious food to underserved areas, would never have found his calling if not for the Great Recession.

Polk was a young hedge fund trader in the go-go years of the housing bubble, when greed reached its vertiginous limits. Then everything imploded in the fall of 2008. For Polk, it was a blessing in disguise.

“I was climbing up the ranks, and by 30 I was the senior trader for one of the largest hedge funds in the world,” he recalls. “I was there during the crash, watching Wall Street freak out over los-ing a lot of money.”

It was a moment of reckoning for Polk. “I didn’t like where I was in the world, and I was reading Taylor Branch’s books about Martin Luther King and the Freedom Riders. I had a desire to do something other than make more money for rich people.”

Even as a child, Polk wasn’t completely unaware of America’s class inequities. “I grew up in Glendale. My mom was a nurse practitioner and she used to take us down to Skid Row to give us some perspective.”

He also vividly remembers the unrest following the Rodney King trial in 1992 and the devastation that changed the face of South L.A., robbing it of many grocery stores and other vital retail services.

In 2013, Polk started Groceryships. “It was a nonprofit that helped parents living in food deserts get themselves and their families healthy,” he says. The holistic, community-led program addressed health issues in myriad ways: cooking classes, nutrition education, emotional support groups. “There’s a direct relationship between depression and childhood trauma and unhealthy eating,” Polk points out.

In 2014, a private equity trader named David Foster was pulled into Polk’s orbit. Like Polk, he was looking for a way to give back to his community. “He had left his private equity job and had read my

writing,” Polk recalls. “He volunteered for Groceryships and that went well, so he came on board full-time.” It was an excellent fit. “David has one of the smartest financial minds I’ve ever seen,” Polk says.

The two launched Everytable in 2015. “We wanted to test a simple but revo-lutionary for-profit model that makes it possible to create healthy food from scratch for roughly the same price as fast food.”

All of the Everytable food is prepared at a central kitchen by veteran chefs, then packaged in grab-and-go contain-ers and distributed to its five stores in downtown L.A., South L.A., Baldwin Hills, Century City and Santa Monica (there will be five more within the year). The restaurants are small, typically 500 to 1,000 square feet, with no in-house kitchen. “They cost $200,000 to build out, versus $1.5 million for a typical res-taurant,” Polk says. This stripped-down approach requires only two employees per shift.

Working with local growers and sup-pliers, Everytable creates nutritious and tasty meals for about the same price per serving as fast food: as little as $4.50 to $6 in areas where families earn well below the citywide average salary. In other locations, prices are higher, set by the financial demographics of the neighborhood.

In the South L.A. location, at 1101 W. 23rd St., one of the most popular items — Jamaican jerk chicken with coconut rice and beans, kale, carrots, plantains and a spicy barbecue sauce — sells for $4.95.

Polk imagines his model being dupli-cated wherever there’s a need. “Every-table could be replicated thousands of times. Healthy food is a human right. In some places, you get hungry for lunch and there’s nothing healthy to buy.” Even investors more motivated by money than empathy are impressed with Every-table, Polk says. “It’s easily franchise-able and inexpensive. We are able to access capital from major restaurant investors and several foundations. This is an incredibly scalable model.”

Underneath it all, though, the desire to do good is inevitably a big motivator for everyone. “It’s a deeply social mission–driven business,” Polk says. “People identify with that.” —Paul Hodgins

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Cannabis is for more than just medical or recreational use, as these products attest

BY JONNY WHITESIDE

The news that Republican former Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined the advisory board of Acreage Holdings, which cultivates and dispenses cannabis in 11

states, makes it jaw-droppingly clear that marijuana is not just for stoners anymore.

With weed’s upgrade from life-destroy-ing felony to mainstream commodity oc-curring at a meteoric rate, the wide array of the plant’s non-intoxicating uses and applications provides the most telling illustration of how absolutely wrong-

headed the prohibition of marijuana and hemp was.

There is no shortage of weird and engaging non-recreational uses, breed-ing a feverish new era of all-American go-getter conceptualizing, just like the sort that produced one of the most strik-ing examples decades back — Henry Ford’s Hemp car. The legend of Ford’s early 1940s Hemp Mobile, constructed of a plastic made from hemp (marijuana’s masculine, non-flowering cousin) and designed to run on a special hemp-based fuel, strikingly underscores this.

While the vehicle wasn’t exclusively

made from hemp (soybeans and flaxseed also were used), this was the original model for sustainable transport. So, natu-rally, the concept and prototype model were destroyed and deep-sixed by Ford’s Motor City mogul chums.

Hemp, hailed as “America’s New Bil-lion Dollar Crop” by Popular Mechan-ics in 1938, has more than 5,000 poten-tial di�erent uses. It’s a tremendous resource that’s being shrewdly used in a variety of ways, including pet care prod-ucts — everything from tug-and-chew toys to leashes, collars and bedding are being made from hemp. Even as the “should medical marijuana be legalized for pets?” debate rages (and it does), these eminently practical day-to-day uses can keep Fido in good condition for the time being.

And it must be noted that after 77 years of ridiculous prohibition, 2014’s Industri-al Hemp Act allows farmers to once again legally grow the amazing crop.

Dazey Hemp, run by rad Alabama bombshell Tonya Watts, exemplifies the weed’s bold new 21st-century application, o�ering everything from Hemp & Dead Sea Mineral beauty crème, touted as a mi-raculous compound when applied to the hide, to a variety of loungewear and yoga apparel. “Cannabinoid creams will be the next big thing for anti-aging,” Watts says. “The good news is they really work, and we will be seeing a lot of these cannabis beauty products in the near future.”

Comic-actor Whoopi Goldberg’s medi-cal cannabis venture, Whoopi & Maya, has a line that features bath salts for aching muscles and menstrual cramps and a body balm for menstrual pain that promises to have that monthly discom-fort evaporating like a cloud of smoke. As Goldberg told L.A. Weekly, “This isn’t about getting [women] high, it’s about getting them to be able to go to work and school and to function.”

Papa & Barkley Releaf Balm is another prime medical product. The CBD-infused cream, ballyhooed as being “tougher than pain,” is an all-natural, botanical balm that is infused in a coconut oil soak process said to be unmatched for potency and terpene content. The balm also can be useful as an anti-inflammatory — the user may cop a light buzz but the focus here is to stave o� discomfort, not induce a soporific state of sofa-hogging turpi-

tude.CBD oil is the true profound up-and-

comer. The non-intoxicating extract is proving almost miraculously e¥cacious in treating epileptic seizures and also has produced dramatic anecdotal results in autistic children, according to reports. Following a few days of low CBD doses, 3-year-old Puerto Rican Kalel Santiago went, in a case reported in 2016 by Free Thought Project, from a completely nonverbal state to full-blown babbling speech, telling his parents “I love you” for the first time. With an entire spectrum of potential applications, CBD has emerged as one of the most powerful and benefi-cial uses of cannabis.

For those more focused on the recre-ational side, what could be more innova-tive than ARC Innovations’ electric self-igniting pipe? This allows you to eschew the vape’s infamous proclivity to explode in your face when relying on good old-fashioned caveman-style fire. After inventor Lou Cirillo watched a buddy fumbling with a lighter while attempting to light up on a ski chairlift, he said, as a joke, “‘The pipe should just light itself.’” Putting word to action, he whipped up a prototype, quickly perfected it and subse-quently took a $50,000 purse at a recent cannabis convention’s Shark Tank–style competition.

From the practical to the ridiculous, Dutch company Cannadom produces green condoms infused with a cannabis flavor. Despite the fact that it’s a simula-tion (cannabis oil would essentially melt any latex prophylactic), these are so popular that they are perpetually sold out, apparently taking the pursuit of pro-tection to an even “higher level.”

Then there’s Foria’s Pleasure Oil, a THC-laced lubricant that promises to not only stimulate the nether regions but also significantly elevate the intensity and du-ration of user climaxes. A blend of sundry cannabinoids and coconut oil, the stu�’s user reviews tout a variety of refreshingly lurid claims (“multiple orgasms over a 15-minute span,” and the more blunt “Holy Shit, is this STILL Happening?”). Just for sheer mystique alone, Foria defi-nitely takes the cake (and eats it, too).

With cannabis, the sky’s the limit. As Dazey Hemp’s Watts says, “I wear it, drink it, juice it, eat it, vape it, smoke it and condition my hair with it!”

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LOSS LEADERSAn African-American funeral parlor becomes a battleground in a searing new play

BY BILL RADEN

Before getting to the whats of The Willows, Kerri-Ann Mc-Calla’s family drama about melancholy and traumatic loss, which is getting a pol-ished world premiere at Boot-leg Theatre, it may shed some

light to talk about the what-it-is-nots.For one thing, though its narratives inter-

sect at the African-American Willows Fu-neral Home (courtesy of designer Amanda Knehans’ elegant wallpaper and woodwork set pieces) and center on two well-heeled black families — one with the surname Black, the other led by a white husband/father — the play has little to say about race. McCalla’s script is so culturally nonspecific, its natu-ralistic language so insistently neutral, that it’s easy to imagine a cast of any color play-ing the two families and an audience being none the wiser.

Perhaps that’s because The Willows is after something more universal and fundamental to our humanity — the dynamics of grief. It gnaws at the ailing funeral director, Mr. Black (Thomas Silcott), as he irritably grooms his still-unmarried son Mark (Napoleon Tavale)

to take over the family business. And it fairly paralyzes the Johns, who arrive at the un-dertaker to bury their only son and brother, Georgie Jr., whose body has been flown back from Toronto after a fatal car crash.

But the emotional void left by the unex-pected death also underscores the role the deceased man played as a kind of family linchpin. It has left mother Lena (Lorinda Hawkins Smith) unusually dependent for support on daughter Pie (Kacie Rogers), and that has triggered the abrasive jealousy of over-controlling sister Christine (Cloie Wyatt Taylor), who fancies herself a kind of family fixer. The most inconsolably dis-traught of the family, however, is George Sr. (a persuasive Paul Dillon), whose own recent diagnosis of age-related dementia seems to only aggravate the loss.

An unexpected connection between the two families emerges in the person of the pregnant Maya (Stefanée Martin), Georgie’s Toronto widow, who several years before played host to Mark during a romantically charged layover in the Canadian metropolis. That still-smoldering attraction is enough for Maya to open up to him about Georgie’s relapse into alcoholism, his chronic marital

infidelity and the couple’s separation just days before Georgie’s drunken car accident. But in the eyes of the Johns, the tumultuous backstory looks suspiciously like Maya’s failure to stand by her man, and she quickly finds herself a convenient lightning rod for the family’s torrent of guilt and anguish.

For such a realistic, plot-driven drama, that turns out to be a lot of storytelling balls to keep in the air, and McCalla’s juggling skills aren’t always what they could be. Much of the conflict between Mark and his father, for example, is based on an ignorance of the elder Black’s medical condition that gets confusingly contradicted later in the play. Likewise, the John family’s angry Act 2 rejection of Maya unconvincingly ignores the glaring fact that she’s carrying Georgie’s sole namesake/heir. And if the Mark-Maya romance shows o� McCalla’s knack for win-somely metaphoric love scenes (especially in a charmingly realized rap-soul karaoke duet), its reliance on flashback feels unduly wound-ing to the momentum of the main event.

Happily, Hanna’s uniformly muscular en-semble brings the script’s sometimes poeti-cally lean language to roaring life. Standouts

include Silcott, who delivers a heart-achingly familiar portrait of taciturn dignity collaps-ing under inexpressible despair. As the John family heavy, Wyatt Taylor is superb at sug-gesting the warring hurts that whet her razor-like talons. And Dillon is especially poignant as a grieving father all too aware that his cherished memories will shortly be erased by the coming Alzheimer’s fog.

What may be most intriguing about the play is the choice to produce it. On the heels of last year’s similarly themed I Carry Your Heart by Georgette Kelly, it suggests that Bootleg is consciously exploring an over-looked if therapeutic dimension of the stage through what might be called the Theater of A�ect. McCalla nails the paradoxical dynam-ics of how families respond to catastrophic loss, and how simple misunderstanding can fan smoldering fears, quiet insecurities and petty resentments into full-blown conflagra-tion. Comprehending such searing emotion-al truths are the first step toward healing.

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The news that Republican former Speaker of the House John Boehner has joined the advisory board of Acreage Holdings, which cultivates and dispenses cannabis in 11

states, makes it jaw-droppingly clear that marijuana is not just for stoners anymore.

With weed’s upgrade from life-destroy-ing felony to mainstream commodity oc-curring at a meteoric rate, the wide array of the plant’s non-intoxicating uses and applications provides the most telling illustration of how absolutely wrong-

headed the prohibition of marijuana and hemp was.

There is no shortage of weird and engaging non-recreational uses, breed-ing a feverish new era of all-American go-getter conceptualizing, just like the sort that produced one of the most strik-ing examples decades back — Henry Ford’s Hemp car. The legend of Ford’s early 1940s Hemp Mobile, constructed of a plastic made from hemp (marijuana’s masculine, non-flowering cousin) and designed to run on a special hemp-based fuel, strikingly underscores this.

While the vehicle wasn’t exclusively

made from hemp (soybeans and flaxseed also were used), this was the original model for sustainable transport. So, natu-rally, the concept and prototype model were destroyed and deep-sixed by Ford’s Motor City mogul chums.

Hemp, hailed as “America’s New Bil-lion Dollar Crop” by Popular Mechan-ics in 1938, has more than 5,000 poten-tial di�erent uses. It’s a tremendous resource that’s being shrewdly used in a variety of ways, including pet care prod-ucts — everything from tug-and-chew toys to leashes, collars and bedding are being made from hemp. Even as the “should medical marijuana be legalized for pets?” debate rages (and it does), these eminently practical day-to-day uses can keep Fido in good condition for the time being.

And it must be noted that after 77 years of ridiculous prohibition, 2014’s Industri-al Hemp Act allows farmers to once again legally grow the amazing crop.

Dazey Hemp, run by rad Alabama bombshell Tonya Watts, exemplifies the weed’s bold new 21st-century application, o�ering everything from Hemp & Dead Sea Mineral beauty crème, touted as a mi-raculous compound when applied to the hide, to a variety of loungewear and yoga apparel. “Cannabinoid creams will be the next big thing for anti-aging,” Watts says. “The good news is they really work, and we will be seeing a lot of these cannabis beauty products in the near future.”

Comic-actor Whoopi Goldberg’s medi-cal cannabis venture, Whoopi & Maya, has a line that features bath salts for aching muscles and menstrual cramps and a body balm for menstrual pain that promises to have that monthly discom-fort evaporating like a cloud of smoke. As Goldberg told L.A. Weekly, “This isn’t about getting [women] high, it’s about getting them to be able to go to work and school and to function.”

Papa & Barkley Releaf Balm is another prime medical product. The CBD-infused cream, ballyhooed as being “tougher than pain,” is an all-natural, botanical balm that is infused in a coconut oil soak process said to be unmatched for potency and terpene content. The balm also can be useful as an anti-inflammatory — the user may cop a light buzz but the focus here is to stave o� discomfort, not induce a soporific state of sofa-hogging turpi-

tude.CBD oil is the true profound up-and-

comer. The non-intoxicating extract is proving almost miraculously e¥cacious in treating epileptic seizures and also has produced dramatic anecdotal results in autistic children, according to reports. Following a few days of low CBD doses, 3-year-old Puerto Rican Kalel Santiago went, in a case reported in 2016 by Free Thought Project, from a completely nonverbal state to full-blown babbling speech, telling his parents “I love you” for the first time. With an entire spectrum of potential applications, CBD has emerged as one of the most powerful and benefi-cial uses of cannabis.

For those more focused on the recre-ational side, what could be more innova-tive than ARC Innovations’ electric self-igniting pipe? This allows you to eschew the vape’s infamous proclivity to explode in your face when relying on good old-fashioned caveman-style fire. After inventor Lou Cirillo watched a buddy fumbling with a lighter while attempting to light up on a ski chairlift, he said, as a joke, “‘The pipe should just light itself.’” Putting word to action, he whipped up a prototype, quickly perfected it and subse-quently took a $50,000 purse at a recent cannabis convention’s Shark Tank–style competition.

From the practical to the ridiculous, Dutch company Cannadom produces green condoms infused with a cannabis flavor. Despite the fact that it’s a simula-tion (cannabis oil would essentially melt any latex prophylactic), these are so popular that they are perpetually sold out, apparently taking the pursuit of pro-tection to an even “higher level.”

Then there’s Foria’s Pleasure Oil, a THC-laced lubricant that promises to not only stimulate the nether regions but also significantly elevate the intensity and du-ration of user climaxes. A blend of sundry cannabinoids and coconut oil, the stu�’s user reviews tout a variety of refreshingly lurid claims (“multiple orgasms over a 15-minute span,” and the more blunt “Holy Shit, is this STILL Happening?”). Just for sheer mystique alone, Foria defi-nitely takes the cake (and eats it, too).

With cannabis, the sky’s the limit. As Dazey Hemp’s Watts says, “I wear it, drink it, juice it, eat it, vape it, smoke it and condition my hair with it!”

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BY DAVID FUTCH

Cannabis aficionados know from experience that smoking a doobie makes everything bet-ter; food, sex, every-thing. That’s especially true of movies where

the colors are brighter and the sound of music is heightened. And if it’s a cold, rainy day in Los Angeles — if it ever is — there’s nothing better than to stay in bed, fire up a fatty, tune in, turn on and enjoy the show.

But first, a warning: This is not about the best stoner movies. (If it was, then Sean Penn’s Spicoli would win hands-down, of course.) Instead, this is about the best movies to watch and rewatch when you’re stoned. And there are no rank-ings — the titles are in alphabetical order — because it’s impossible to compare, for example, a road-trip picture with a cartoon. So we aren’t even going to try. But we are going to roll another one.

Here are L.A. Weekly’s top 20 movies to watch while enjoying California’s legal-ization of recreational cannabis:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece. Evolution. Existence. A spaceship tango set to “The Blue Danube Waltz.” Betrayed by HAL, Dave rockets through a psychedelic wormhole. “It’s full of stars!” Are you experienced?

Airplane (1980): This silly and time-less parody spoofs disaster films. Every

stereotype gets a few minutes of fame as an alcoholic pilot and his ex-girlfriend attempt to make an emergency landing.

A Clockwork Orange (1971): Alex (Mal-colm McDowell) and his Droogs make their way through a future England drinking psychedelic milk and doing a bit “of the old ultraviolence.” Another classic from director Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel.

Easy Rider (1969): An entire generation of stoners saw this flick and then went in search of marijuana. Thank you, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Terry Southern and Jack Nicholson.

Fantasia (1940): Walt Disney’s experi-mental extravaganza brings together ani-mation and classical music. Beethoven, Stokowski, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky. Hip-pos in tutus performing ballet, dancing flowers, Mickey Mouse having a helluva time with mops and buckets.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982): Sean Penn gets his start as Spicoli, the reefer-mad surfer who mixes it up with his straight-edge teacher, Mr. Hand (Ray Walston).

Ferris Bueller’s Day O� (1986): Because sometimes you just gotta say fuck it and pass the joint. Bueller (Matthew Brod-erick) cuts high school classes and gets away with it, borrowing a Ferrari, going to a Cubbies game and crashing a Michigan Avenue parade while doing his best lead-ing the crowd in “Twist & Shout.”

Fritz the Cat (1972): In the first X-rated animated feature to come out of Hol-lywood, writer-director Ralph Bakshi

brings to celluloid life R. Crumb’s under-ground sex-crazed cat. A trippy journey through the pot-fueled anti-establish-ment era.

Mystery Science �eater 3000 or MST3K (1988-96, with later reincarnations): Joel Hodgson created this TV series for a local Minneapolis station; it then moved to Comedy Central and became a cult favor-ite. MST3K stars Hodgson as Joel Robin-son, a janitor trapped in the year 3000 by mad scientists on a spaceship called the Satellite of Love. He’s forced to watch re-ally bad 20th-century B-movies. To cope, he builds robot companions Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot and Gypsy. Together they watch the movie and ri§ on it.

Pineapple Express (2008): Stoner Dale Denton (Rogen) and his dealer (James Franco) are running from a drug lord (Gary Cole) and a crooked cop (Rosie Perez).

Pink Floyd — �e Wall (1982): Drugged-out musician Pink (Bob Geldof) goes insane in a Los Angeles hotel room. He constructs a metaphorical wall to protect himself from emotions and the world in general. Mostly animation fused with real-life situations. Written by Pink Floyd singer-bassist Roger Waters.

Pulp Fiction (1994): Quentin Tarantino reinvents the buddy movie as hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) “retire” their victims with impunity. The storyline shifts as often as Vincent and Jules reload their hand cannons.

All of the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies

except Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, where Kate Capshaw and the kid scream throughout.

Reefer Madness (1936): It’s hard to believe when you’re laughing so hard you think you really are busting your gut, but when this movie debuted, it was intended to be taken seriously. By the 1970s, it had become a staple of late-night weekend movie showings at colleges.

Shane (1953): The gold standard of Westerns. Conflicted good guys and really, really bad guys. The George Stevens film follows gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd) into a Wyoming town that he cleans up. Jack Palance makes his acting debut as a bad guy you can’t wait to see gunned down. Honorable mention: The Outlaw Josey Wales, Silverado, Open Range.

The entire Star Trek series and the Star Wars movies except Episode 2: Attack of the Clones — that’s the one with Jar-Jar Binks.

�e Big Lebowski (1998): Je§ Bridges is “the Dude” and Ethan and Joel Coen are at their best. When someone with the same name as Je§ Lebowski gets ripped o§, it’s time for the Dude to find out the answer because he’s being blamed. That sends him spiraling into the Los Angeles underworld.

All of �e Lord of the Rings movies, because who doesn’t like big-footed little dudes working out their fantasies in a hostile dragon- and sorcerer-filled world.

Up in Smoke (1978): The classic stoner movie. Negatively received when it came out, it’s credited with establish-ing the stoner-comedy genre. Unem-ployed drummer Anthony “Man” Stoner (Tommy Chong) and his buddy Pedro de Pacas (Cheech Marin) end up smuggling a van made of marijuana from Tijuana to Los Angeles.

We’re the Millers (2013): Pot dealer David (Jason Sudeikis) gets ripped o§. His druglord buddy says he can pay o§ his debt by bringing “a smidge” of cannabis back to L.A. from Mexico. His foolproof scheme involves creating a fake fam-ily that’s on a fake vacation in a large recreational vehicle. Jennifer Aniston is his pole-dancer wife, Will Poulter is the neighbor’s son and Emma Roberts is a street waif turned “daughter.”

Woodstock (1970): The three-hour rockumentary won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. More than 500,000 people gathered Aug. 15-18, 1969, at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for three days of peace and love and music. Headliners included Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Carlos Santana, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Country Joe McDonald, Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, Sha Na Na, Je§erson Airplane, Janis Joplin and Sly & the Fam-ily Stone.

Here are some that didn’t make the cut but are superior films for stoners to watch. They include Beetlejuice, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Blazing Saddles, Animal House, Almost Famous, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Ted, The Third Man, The Fifth Element and Elf.

So roll a big fatty, stroke it up, sit back and lose yourself in celluloid.

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GO GHOST STORIES Ghost Stories, co-directed and written by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson, ingeniously strings together three shorts with the story of a skeptic who professionally debunks paranormal claims. Equal parts spooky and cheeky, this film nails its black humor and finds a bizarre but satisfying conclu-sion to manage all the loose ends. We enter Ghost Stories via a television show, starring Nyman as Professor Goodman, the debunker, whom we see catch a psychic shyster in the act, Cheaters-style. Then Goodman addresses the TV cam-eras to explain that his hero, Dr. Charles Cameron, was a notorious skeptic who unmasked charlatans until he one day promptly disappeared, leaving his car and possessions behind. Goodman tells us he’s received a sudden invite from the mysterious Cameron to come and visit. Soon, he’s presented with three cases that Cameron could never solve, ones so shocking they rattled him and made him a believer. It’s up to Goodman to prove him wrong. The cases are quite simple: A night-watchman (Paul Whitehouse) is haunted by an asylum’s specters; a businessman (Martin Freeman) is visited by a ghoulish version of his wife; a boy (Alex Lawther) is terrorized by the demon he hit with his car. But a too-complex plot has been known to doom a horror short; the best tend to be straightforward, sometimes with a twist, and always with a couple of scares. Humor is nice, too, and Ghost Stories has plenty. When Goodman visits the nightwatchman, the two dance around the idea of payment until the latter squeezes the professor for 50 quid. Ultimately, it’s the acting that sells this anthology. (April Wolfe)

GODARD MON AMOUR Michel Hazana-vicius’ exploration of Jean-Luc Godard’s immersion in radical politics is con-structed as a giddy homage to Godardian affectation. That’s no surprise: He’d recreated candy-colored spy spoofs in two OSS 117 films and won an Oscar for The Artist, that maudlin reimagining of silent comedies and Hollywood myth-making. In this affectionate dissection, Hazanavicius undercuts a pompous Godard (Louis Garrel) with little bits of slapstick (repeat-edly shattering his trademark eyeglasses) and grand ideological takedowns. Garrel’s scathing, insightful and prickly perfor-mance details the filmmaker’s midlife crisis, exacerbated by the civil unrest in 1968 France. Godard had married Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin), star of his Maoist love letter La Chinoise, but when the revolution he long desired arrives, the leftist student activists of his young wife’s generation roundly reject him. Although writer-director Hazanavicius based the biopic on Wiazemsky’s memoir Un an apres (One Year Later), Wiazemsky here is portrayed as a passive observer, a minor character in her own story. The Nouvelle Vague icon, by contrast, is lauded throughout for Breathless and Contempt, with no mention of the seven features he made with former wife Anna Karina. When

Wiazemsky steps into those muse’s shoes, she learns to walk a fine line between inspiration and compliance, a relationship more intricate than Hazanavicius’ facile analogy of a long submarine journey (from blissful isolation to suffocating reliance). Hazanavicius spends more time gazing at Martin’s nubile form than revealing how an adoring, dependent 19-year-old — who married an acclaimed, confident artist but found herself with a petty, insecure man — struggled to establish her own identity. His immersion in Godard’s mindset results in the erasure of Wiazemsky’s experience. (Serena Donadoni)

THE HEART OF NUBA The Heart of Nuba opens like a Sudan travelogue — a chicken struts, a woman sifts grain, a plane flies overhead. That turns as small children panic and pack into an improvised foxhole, in fear of the anti-rebel Antonov about to drop its bombs over the Nuba Mountains. The heart of this documentary is Tom Catena, the lone physician at a makeshift Catholic hospital and a sort of less cyni-cal, less hard-drinking Hawkeye Pierce, who treats maladies from war wounds to infant cancer. “Doctor Tom” maintains a sense of humor and belief in humanity, reserving bile for Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s terror campaign. What isn’t clear is why he’s been left there for a decade to labor without adequate help, a question never posed to the bishop who helped build the hospital and who acknowledges how onerous the job is. If Catena has flaws, filmmaker Kenneth Carlson declines to feature them, perhaps because they’ve been friends since their Brown University days 30 years ago. Still, the doctor has earned the adulation, and a visit to a leper colony shows why. Amid a quick medical explanation, he grasps his patients’ hands. “It’s very important to touch these people,” he says. “[They] have been rejected by society, they watch their bodies disintegrating. You can come and touch them, shake their hands, pat them on the back and joke with them … they’re a part of the human race, like anybody else.” (Daphne Howland)

IN THE INTENSE NOW Immersive, involving, sometimes revelatory, sometimes curi-ously naive and on occasion thuddingly ob-vious, Joao Moreira Salles’ found-footage study of revolutionaries in the streets of Paris, Prague and other countries in 1968 would stand as an invaluable assemblage on the basis of its archival finds alone. That Salles muses in voice-over as his exhumed film clips — from amateur sources, TV broadcasts, previous documentaries — survey the streets of ’68 proves both boon and bane. He’s hushed, whispering tensely, reaching for poetry, occasionally pausing on a frame so that he can draw our attention to some detail that has caught his eye. He might pull you in; he might push you away — especially when his attention wanders to Chairman Mao’s China, which he regards not with a documentarian’s scrutiny but a son’s enchantment for his mother in her youth. (She shot the footage he uses while on vacation there in ’66.) As we watch Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the other student leaders of the not-quite-leaderless social revolu-tion of May 1968, Salles considers the

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ways that the radical spirit would soon be co-opted if not quite crushed; how Cohn-Bendit understood himself to be playing something of a character; and, most pressingly, how the movement, as medi-ated through press coverage and even the amateur footage that Salles has collected, developed a quite traditional conception of its lead actors and its own extras. Women and minorities often went unheard in ’68 France. And they also were tellingly over-looked by the people filming the scenes that Salles features. At its best, Salles’ analysis sometimes makes the obvious ar-resting, even moving. (Alan Scherstuhl)

THE JUDGE (SADIYATA) Palestine’s chief justice thought Kholoud Al-Faqih was kid-ding when she told him that she wanted to join the bench. Only men adjudicated Sharia law. It’s not that Al-Faqih is opposed to kidding. As seen in the documentary The Judge, she’s an adorable wife and mother with a delightful sense of humor. But she’s also a learned and tenacious lawyer. Eventually, the chief justice rec-ognized that her sharp mind would be an asset to his court, and she became the first female Sharia law judge in the Middle East. Sharia law is caricatured beyond recognition in the United States. But, in simple terms, it’s a set of edicts based on the Koran and other texts that, like

Jewish law in Israel, guides not only many traditions but also policies and disputes in contractual realities like marriage, divorce and child custody. It is at once a mundane and all-important system that depends on judges not just well-versed in the law but also humane in their application of it. Director Erika Cohn has created her film with such care that we are privy to many aspects of Al-Faqih’s life — her childhood, her home, her intellect, her work. We meet feminists, scholars, petitioners, family and friends. We witness the breakdown of justice and the reclamation of hope. The Judge is packed tight; it’s enlightening and suspenseful and paced for maximum enjoyment. In the end, it’s not just about Kholoud Al-Faqih, but you’ll be glad to have met her. (Daphne Howland)

KODACHROME Netflix’s Kodachrome is good fall-asleep-with-the-TV-on fare, and I mean you should snooze out immedi-ately unless you want to be subjected to a criminally mediocre family drama. It’s about the last-minute reconciliation involving a dying father (Ed Harris) and his estranged adult son (Jason Sudeikis) after a bonding road trip in which sparks fly between the son and his dad’s attractive young nurse (Elizabeth Olsen). There’s not a single surprising turn in the Mark Raso–directed film (penned by Jonathan

Tropper). Though Sudeikis’ Matt has built up years’ worth of resentment against Ben (Harris), the father who abandoned him, we know immediately they’ll find common ground. Both live archaically: Ben is a photographer who initiates the road trip in order to develop his film at the old-timey Kodachrome photo center in Kansas before it closes; Mark is a record-label exec who does things the old-fashioned way — he cares about the authenticity of the music. Just as Ben had been absent from his family’s life, Matt, too, had issues with his ex: “She said I had a tendency of living in the past instead of embracing the present.” In a suspiciously breezy series of events, Matt is offered a sit-down with a coveted band if he agrees to join his dad on this road trip. There’s definitely a scene where Ben’s nurse, Zooey (Olsen), gives Matt a whole spiel about how “you’re scared to open yourself up” to Ben. And while Matt initially laughs it off, he, well, ends up opening himself up to his father. In between are long stretches of road scenes set to a Garden State–lite soundtrack. (Kristen Yoonsoo Kim)

LITTLE PINK HOUSE Courtney Balaker’s Little Pink House dramatizes a true story of working-class America under attack: Big money, big pharma and big government want to huff and puff and blow down

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More Noir and Malena Szlam FilmsFriday, April 20Noir City heads into its final weekend of classic crime movies with a humdinger of a Joseph Losey triple fea-ture. �e Prowler, which premiered at the American Cinematheque several years ago, is still one of the most significant “finds” in its class — a downbeat yet gripping thriller with deep insight into the postwar American psyche. �e second feature, M, is Losey’s remake of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece about the hunt for a child murderer, shot in and around L.A.’s Bunker Hill. Rounding out the evening’s program is �e Big Night, the director’s last film before absconding to England to avoid the HUAC-induced blacklist. John Barrymore Jr. plays a teenager who embarks on an all-nighter to confront the man who beat up his father. All three films will be presented in 35mm, as is customary; Ed-die Muller of the Film Noir Foundation will introduce the program. Egyptian �eatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood; Fri., April 20, 7:30 p.m.; $15. (323) 466-3456, americancinemathequecalendar.com.

Lucrecia Martel visits Los Angeles to premiere her first film in nine years. Zama is a free adaptation of Argentine author Antonio di Benedetto’s novel about an 18th-century o�cer in the Spanish army and the existential crisis that arises from his request for a pro-motion. Martel’s previous work, including �e Headless Woman and �e Holy Girl, identified her as a master of mood and cinematic tempo, and this hotly anticipated film arrives on the West Coast following a successful round of festival screenings. UCLA’s Billy Wilder �eater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood; Fri., April 20, 7:30 p.m.; $10. (310) 206-8013, cinema.ucla.edu.

Chilean-born, Montreal-based experimental film-maker Malena Szlam will visit the Echo Park Film Center for a retrospective of her work, Inexistent Time, pre-sented by Los Angeles Filmforum. According to Becca Keating, Szlam’s films “explore notions of time, self, the natural world and materiality” via a number of formats (35mm, 16mm, Super 8). A “special screening” will be announced at the show. Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado St., Echo Park; Fri., April 20, 8 p.m.; $10. (213) 484-8846, echoparkfilmcenter.org.

Saturday, April 21The Aero continues its hat-tip to French New Wave luminary Jean-Luc Godard with a double feature. First up is Breathless, his most widely seen and consistently enjoyable experiment in genre deconstruction. Whether driving around Paris in a stolen convertible or flirting in bed after an afternoon nap, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg remain one of world cinema’s coolest couples. Anna Karina headlines the second feature, Band of Outsiders, which draws from the same well of influences, namely American crime movies. This is the one that features the “minute of silence” and sprint through the Louvre, and is Exhibit E or F in the case for Godard being the most exciting filmmaker of the 1960s. Aero �eatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica; Sat., April 21, 7:30 p.m.; $12. (323) 466-3456, americancinemathequecalendar.com.

�ursday, April 26Bob Rafelson’s satiric time capsule Head, reportedly conceived over a weekend in Ojai involving large quanti-ties of cannabis, and then adapted into screenplay form by Jack Nicholson while under the influence of LSD, e�ectively ended the career of �e Monkees. A box of-fice flop in 1968, the film has resurfaced as a cult item worthy of wider recognition. It will screen at the Bing �eater in conjunction with Film Independent at LACMA. LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Mid-Wilshire; �u., April 26, 1 p.m.; $10. (323) 857-6000, lacma.org. —Nathaniel Bell

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ARENA CINELOUNGE SUNSET 6464 Sunset Boulevard - Lobby Level (323)924-1644Corbin Nash Fri., 9:30 p.m.; Sat., 8 p.m.Edge of Isolation Fri., 6 p.m.; Sat., 4:30 p.m.; Sun., 6:15

p.m.; Mon., 9:15 p.m.; Tues., 8 p.m.; Wed., 9:15 p.m.; Thurs., 8 p.m.

Let’s Kill Grandpa This Christmas Fri., 7:45 p.m.; Sat., 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 4:30 p.m.; Mon., 7:30 p.m.; Tues., 6:15 p.m.; Wed., 7:30 p.m.; Thurs., 6:15 p.m.

Min Min and the Magic Garden Fri., 5 p.m.; Sat., 2 p.m.; Sun., 3:45 p.m.; Mon., 5:15 p.m.; Tues., 5:30 p.m.; Wed., 5:15 p.m.; Thurs., 5:30 p.m.

Vampire Clay (Chi o s˚ nendo) Fri., 11:15 p.m.; Sat., 2:45, 6:30 p.m.; Sun., 8 p.m.; Mon., 6 p.m.; Tues., 9:45 p.m.; Wed., 6 p.m.; Thurs., 9:45 p.m.

ARENA CINEMA 1625 North Las Palmas Avenue (323)924-1644 Call theater for schedule.ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD Sunset Blvd. at Vine (323) 464-4226Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 7:15, 7:30, 8, 8:15,

8:30, 9, 9:30, 10:15, 10:30, 11:15, 11:45 p.m., 12:15, 12:45, 1:30, 2:30 a.m.

Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D Thurs., 7, 8:45, 10:45 p.m., 12 mid.

I Feel Pretty Fri.-Sun., 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri., 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:15

p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11:45 a.m., 2:30, 5:30, 8, 10:15 p.m.LOS FELIZ 3 1822 N. Vermont Ave. (323) 664-2169Blockers Fri.-Mon., 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:50 p.m.; Tues.-Wed.,

1:30, 4:15, 7 p.m.; Thurs., 1:30, 4:15, 9:50 p.m.A Quiet Place Fri.-Wed., 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 p.m.;

Thurs., 1:45, 4:30, 9:50 p.m.You Were Never Really Here 1:45, 4:30, 7:20,

9:50 p.m.TCL CHINESE 6 THEATRES 6801 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 461-3331He Got Game Tues., 8 p.m.TCL CHINESE THEATRE IMAX 6925 Hollywood Blvd. (323) 461-3331 Call theater for schedule.PACIFIC’S EL CAPITAN Hollywood Blvd., west of Highland (323) 467-7674Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 10 p.m., 1:45 a.m.Avengers: Infinity War Marathon Wed., 1 p.m.PACIFIC’S THE GROVE STADIUM 14 189 The Grove Dr., Third & Fairfax (323) 692-0829Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 8:30, 9 p.m., 12:30 a.m.;

Thurs., 7, 10:45 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7:30, 9:30, 11:15 p.m.I Feel Pretty Fri.-Sun., 10 a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30

p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Sun., 10:30 a.m., 1, 3:30, 6, 8:30,

10:45 p.m.VISTA 4473 Sunset Dr. (323) 660-6639Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 10:30 p.m.Isle of Dogs Fri.-Wed., 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 p.m.

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DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT 251 South Main Street (213)617-1033 Call theater for schedule.CGV CINEMAS LA 621 South Western Avenue (213)388-9000Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 8, 11:15 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7, 10:15 p.m.REGAL CINEMAS L.A. LIVE STADIUM 14 1000 West Olympic Blvd. (844)462-7342 4046Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 11:30 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 8, 11:45 p.m.; Thurs., 10, 11 p.m.Opening Night Fan Event - Avengers: Infinity

War in RealD 3D Thurs., 6 p.m.Fragments of Truth Tues., 7 p.m.The Cat Returns - Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 Sun.,

12:55 p.m.; 7 p.m.I Feel Pretty Fri.-Sun., 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Sun., 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 p.m.UNIVERSITY VILLAGE 3 3323 S. Hoover St. (213) 748-6321 Call theater for schedule.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, BEVERLY HILLS

AMC DINE-IN SUNSET 5 8000 West Sunset Boulevard (323)654-2217The Death of Stalin Sat., 2:45 p.m.

LAEMMLE’S AHRYA FINE ARTS THEATRE 8556 Wilshire Boulevard (310)478-3836The Cat Returns - Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 Sun.,

12:55 p.m.; Mon., 7 p.m.AIFF: Awards Gala Thurs., 8 p.m.Downrange Tues., 7:30 p.m.Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me Wed., 8 p.m.LAEMMLE’S MUSIC HALL 3 9036 Wilshire Blvd. (310) 274-6869Friday shows only The Heart of Nuba Fri., 7:10 p.m.

WESTWOOD, WEST L.A.

AMC CENTURY CITY 15 10250 Santa Monica Blvd. (888)AMC-4FUNAvengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7:05, 7:10, 7:15, 7:45,

8, 10:35, 10:40, 10:45, 11:05, 11:20 p.m.; Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.

Avengers: Infinity War The IMAX 2D Experience Thurs., 7, 10:15 p.m.

Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D Thurs., 7:30, 9:30, 10:50 p.m., 12:45 a.m.

Opening Night Fan Event - Avengers: Infinity War in RealD 3D Thurs., 6 p.m.

I Feel Pretty Fri., 9:45, 11:35 a.m., 12:25, 2:10, 3:05, 4:50, 5:40, 7:30, 8:20, 10:15, 10:55 p.m.; Sat., 9:50, 11:05 a.m., 12:25, 1:45, 3:05, 4:20, 5:40, 7, 8:20, 10, 10:55 p.m.; Sun., 9:45, 11:35 a.m., 12:25, 2:10, 3:05, 4:50, 5:40, 7:30, 8:20, 10:15, 10:55 p.m.; Mon., 10:30, 11:05 a.m., 1:10, 1:45, 3:50, 4:20, 6:30, 7, 9:15, 10 p.m.; Tues.-Wed., 10:30, 11:35 a.m., 1:10, 2:10, 3:50, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 p.m.

Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Sun., 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:45 p.m.; Mon., 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:40 p.m.; Tues.-Wed., 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:45 p.m.

Traffik Fri., 11 a.m., 1:25, 4, 6:40, 9:40 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 9:45 a.m., 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:25, 10:05 p.m.; Mon., 11 a.m., 1:30, 4, 7, 9:35 p.m.; Tues.-Wed., 11 a.m., 1:30, 4, 7, 10:15 p.m.

Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare Fri.-Sat., 10:30 a.m., 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:30, 11 p.m.; Sun., 10:30 a.m., 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 10:35 a.m., 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 p.m.

Rampage Fri.-Sun., 9:45 a.m., 2:55, 8:05 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 10:25 a.m., 12:55, 6:15 p.m.

Rampage 3D Fri.-Sun., 12:15, 5:30, 10:40 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 3:30, 9 p.m.

Rampage: The IMAX 2D Experience Fri.-Wed., 11:20 a.m., 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 p.m.

Blockers Fri., 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35, 9:55 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 10:40 p.m.

Chappaquiddick Tues.-Wed., 9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sun., 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 p.m.; Mon., 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 p.m.; Tues.-Wed., 1:20 p.m.

A Quiet Place Fri.-Sat., 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:15, 6:45, 9, 11:15 p.m.; Sun.-Wed., 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:15, 6:45, 9 p.m.; Fri.-Sun., 10 a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 10:15 a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10 p.m.

Ready Player One Fri., 9:50 a.m., 12:55, 4, 7:15, 10:20 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 9:55 a.m., 12:55, 4, 7:15, 10:20 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 10:15 a.m., 1:25, 4:30, 7:35, 9:40 p.m.

Isle of Dogs Fri.-Sun., 10:05 a.m., 12:35, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:25 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 10:15 a.m., 12:40, 3:05, 5:35, 8, 10:25 p.m.

Sherlock Gnomes Fri.-Sun., 10:15 a.m., 12:25 p.m.; Mon., 10:20 a.m., 12:35 p.m.; Tues.-Wed., 11 a.m.

Love, Simon Fri.-Sun., 10:40 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 6:55 p.m.; Mon., 10:40 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 p.m.; Tues.-Wed., 10:40 a.m., 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 p.m.

Black Panther Fri.-Sun., 10:25 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40 p.m.; Mon., 10:20 a.m., 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 p.m.; Tues.-Wed., 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 p.m.

LAEMMLE’S ROYAL THEATER 11523 Santa Monica Blvd. (310) 477-5581Discover Arts: Hitler vs Picasso (Hitler contro

Picasso e gli altri) Mon., 7:30 p.m.; Tues., 1 p.m.I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! Wed., 7:30 p.m.LANDMARK’S NUART THEATER 11272 Santa Monica Blvd. (310) 473-8530; No Texting AllowedGrace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Fri., 11:30 a.m.,

2, 4:30, 7, 9:45 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 p.m.; Mon.-Thurs., 12 noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55 p.m.

The Terminator Fri., 12:30 a.m.The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sat., 11:59 p.m.LANDMARK’S REGENT 1045 Broxton Ave. (310) 208-3250; No Texting Allowed Call theater for schedule.LANDMARK WEST L.A. 10850 W. Pico Blvd. (310) 470-0492; No Texting AllowedAvengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7:10, 10:25 p.m.IPIC WESTWOOD 10840 Wiltshire Blvd (310) 307-7003Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 7:15, 7:40, 10:50,

11, 11:25 p.m.Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare Fri.-Mon., 1, 4, 7:30,

10:30 p.m.; Tues., 1:05, 4:05, 7:35, 10:35 p.m.; Wed., 1, 4, 7:30, 10:30 p.m.

Rampage Fri.-Mon., 12:20, 1, 3:30, 4:20, 6:45, 7:45, 9:50, 10:50 p.m.; Tues., 12:25, 1:05, 3:35, 4:25, 6:50, 7:50, 9:55, 10:55 p.m.; Wed., 12:20, 1, 3:30, 4:20, 6:45, 7:45, 9:50, 10:50 p.m.

Blockers Fri.-Mon., 12:40, 3:40, 7, 10 p.m.; Tues., 12:45, 3:45, 7:05, 10:05 p.m.; Wed., 12:40, 3:40, 7, 10 p.m.

A Quiet Place Fri., 1:30, 1:50, 4:20, 4:40, 7:10, 7:20, 10:05, 10:25 p.m.; Sat.-Mon., 1:30, 1:55, 4:20, 4:45, 7:10, 7:25, 10:05, 10:30 p.m.; Tues., 1:35, 2, 4:25, 4:50, 7:15,

7:30, 10:10, 10:35 p.m.; Wed., 1:30, 1:55, 4:20, 4:45, 7:10, 7:25, 10:05, 10:30 p.m.

CULVER CITY, LAX, MARINA DEL REY

CINEMARK 18 & XD 6081 Center Drive (310)568-3394Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7 p.m.; Thurs., 7:30, 11

p.m.; Thurs., 8:30, 9 p.m., 12:01, 12:30 a.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 10:30 p.m.; Thurs., 10 p.m.; Thurs., 8, 11:30 p.m.Opening Night Fan Event - Avengers: Infinity

War in RealD 3D Thurs., 6 p.m.Cobra Kai Premiere Event feat. The Karate Kid

Wed., 7 p.m.Fragments of Truth Tues., 7 p.m.The Cat Returns - Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 Sun.,

12:55 p.m.; 7 p.m.Bharath Ane Nenu Fri.-Sun., 11:50 a.m., 3:25, 7,

10:35 p.m.RAVE CINEMAS BALDWIN HILLS CRENSHAW PLAZA 15 + XTREME 4020 Marlton Avenue (323)296-1005Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 10:50 p.m.; Thurs., 8,

11:50 p.m.; Thurs., 8, 9, 11:50 p.m., 12:40 a.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 8:30 p.m., 12:10 a.m.; Thurs., 7:30, 11:20 p.m.Cobra Kai Premiere Event feat. The Karate Kid


12:55 p.m.; 7 p.m.AMC LOEWS CINEPLEX MARINA MARKETPLACE 13455 Maxella Ave. (800) 326-3264 704Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7:45, 11:45 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7, 11 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Sun., 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 p.m.PACIFIC CULVER STADIUM 12 9500 Culver Blvd. (310) 360-9565Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 11:15

p.m., 12:15 a.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7, 10:15 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Sat., 1:15, 8 p.m.

BEACHES

Santa Monica, Malibu

AMC SANTA MONICA 7 1310 Third Street Promenade (310) 395-3030Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 8:30, 9:30, 10, 11, 11:45

p.m.; Thurs., 7 p.m.Opening Night Fan Event - Avengers: Infinity

War in RealD 3D Thurs., 6 p.m.I Feel Pretty Fri.-Sat., 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:15, 7, 9:45 p.m.;

Sun., 11:05 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:35, 9:45 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:15, 7, 9:45 p.m.

Traffik Fri.-Wed., 11:10 a.m., 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9 p.m.Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare Fri.-Wed., 12 noon, 2:30,

5, 7:30, 10 p.m.Rampage Fri.-Sat., 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:15 p.m.;

Sun., 11:30 a.m., 10:15 p.m.; Mon., 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:15 p.m.; Tues., 11:30 a.m., 7:45, 10:15 p.m.; Wed., 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:15 p.m.

A Quiet Place Fri.-Wed., 11 a.m., 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15 p.m.

Ready Player One Fri.-Wed., 11:30 a.m., 2:45, 6, 9:15 p.m.

Black Panther Fri.-Wed., 11:45 a.m., 3, 6:15, 9:30 p.m.AERO THEATER 1328 Montana Ave. (323) 466-FILM Call theater for schedule.LAEMMLE’S MONICA 4-PLEX 1332 Second St. (310) 478-3836Little Pink House 2, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 p.m.Lives Well Lived 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 p.m.The Judge 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 10 p.m.AMC LOEWS CINEPLEX BROADWAY 1441 Third Street Promenade (800) 326-3264 706Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 8, 11:30 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Wed., 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 4:45,

7:15, 9:45 p.m.Rampage Fri.-Wed., 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:15 p.m.Blockers Fri.-Wed., 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 p.m.You Were Never Really Here Fri.-Wed., 1, 3:15, 5:30,

7:45, 10 p.m.NEW MALIBU THEATER 3822 Cross Creek Road (310) 456-6990 Call theater for schedule.

South Bay

AMC DEL AMO 18 3525 Carson St., Suite 73 (310) 289-4262Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7:15, 8, 8:15, 9, 9:15,

10:45, 11:30, 11:45 p.m., 12 mid.; Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War An IMAX 3D Experience

Thurs., 7:30 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War The IMAX 2D Experience

Thurs., 11 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7:45, 8:30, 9:30, 11:15 p.m.Opening Night Fan Event - Avengers: Infinity

War in RealD 3D Thurs., 6 p.m.

Cobra Kai Premiere Event feat. The Karate Kid Wed., 7 p.m.

Fragments of Truth Tues., 7 p.m.The Cat Returns - Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 Sun.,

12:55 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 7 p.m.I Feel Pretty Fri.-Sun., 1:15, 4, 6:50, 9:55 p.m.; Mon.-Wed.,

1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:30 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri., 10:45 a.m., 1:25, 4:20, 7:40,

10:30 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 10:45 a.m., 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 10 p.m.

AMC GALLERIA AT SOUTH BAY 16 South Bay Galleria, 1815 Hawthorne Blvd., Redondo Beach 777-FILM 422Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7:30, 8, 8:45, 9:30, 10,

10:15, 11:15, 11:30 p.m., 12:30 a.m.; Thurs., 7, 10:45 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 9:15, 9:45 p.m., 12 mid, 12:15 a.m.




12:55 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 7 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri., 7:30 p.m.AMC ROLLING HILLS 20 Crenshaw & Pacific Coast Hwy. (310) 289-4262Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 7:45, 8:15, 8:30,

8:45, 9:15, 9:30, 9:45, 10:45, 11:30 p.m.; Thurs., 7:30, 11:15 p.m.

Avengers: Infinity War The IMAX 2D Experience Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.

Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D Thurs., 7:15, 8, 9, 10, 11 p.m.



12:55 p.m.; 7 p.m.I Feel Pretty Fri.-Sun., 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 4:50, 7:30,

10:10 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Sun., 10 a.m., 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8,

10:30 p.m.ART THEATER 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach (562) 438-5435The Rocky Horror Picture Show Sat., 11:55 p.m.GARDENA CINEMA 14948 S. Crenshaw Blvd. (310) 217-0505Rampage Fri., 5:30, 8 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8

p.m.; Mon.-Thurs., 5:30, 8 p.m.NAZ 8 ARTESIA 6440 E. South St. (510) 797-2000 Call theater for schedule.REGAL THE AVENUE 13 550 Deep Valley Dr., Rolling Hills Estates (310) 544-FILMAvengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 8, 11:30 p.m.

S.F. VALLEY

No. Hollywood, Universal City

LAEMMLE’S NOHO 7 5240 Lankershim Boulevard (310)478-3836Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.Starship Troopers Thurs., 7:30 p.m.Jack Herer’s The Emperor Wears No Clothes

Sat., 11 a.m.CENTURY 8 Victory Blvd. & Coldwater Canyon Ave. (818) 508-6004Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 8, 9, 10:40, 11:40 p.m.,

12:30 a.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7, 7:30, 11 p.m.The Cat Returns - Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 Mon.,

7 p.m.AMC LOEWS CINEPLEX UNIVERSAL STUDIOS CINEMA 100 Universal City Dr. at Universal CityWalk (800) 326-3264 707Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 7:01, 7:10, 7:15,

7:20, 7:25, 8, 9, 10:15, 10:40, 10:50, 10:55, 11, 11:30, 11:45 p.m.

Avengers: Infinity War An IMAX 3D Experience Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.

Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D Thurs., 7:30, 7:45, 8:30, 9:30, 10:45, 11:10, 11:15 p.m.



Fragments of Truth Tues., 7 p.m.The Cat Returns - Studio Ghibli Fest 2018 Mon., 7

p.m.; Sun., 12:55 p.m.; Wed., 7 p.m.I Feel Pretty Fri.-Sun., 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Wed., 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30 p.m.

Panorama City, Sherman Oaks,Encino

ARCLIGHT SHERMAN OAKS 15301 Ventura Blvd. (818) 501-0753Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 4 a.m., 7:15, 7:30, 8:15,

8:30, 9, 11 p.m., 12 mid, 12:30, 2:30, 3:30 a.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7, 8, 10:30 p.m.; Thurs., 2 a.m.

LAEMMLE’S TOWN CENTER 5 17200 Ventura Blvd., Encino (818) 981-9811Lives Well Lived 1, 5:20 p.m.Discover Arts: Hitler vs Picasso (Hitler contro

Picasso e gli altri) Mon., 7:30 p.m.; Tues., 1 p.m.Vakhtangov Theatre: Uncle Vanya Sun., 7 p.m.The Land of Milk and Funny Thurs., 7:30 p.m.PACIFIC’S SHERMAN OAKS 5 Corner of Van Nuys Blvd and Milbank (818) 501-5121Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 p.m.

West Valley

AMC PROMENADE 16 21801 Oxnard St., Woodland Hills (818) 883-2AMCAvengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 10,

11, 11:15, 11:30 p.m., 12 mid.; Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War The IMAX 2D Experience

Thurs., 7, 10:45 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7:30, 9:30, 11 p.m., 12:30 a.m.Cobra Kai Premiere Event feat. The Karate Kid

Wed., 7 p.m.Fragments of Truth Tues., 7 p.m.I Feel Pretty Fri.-Wed., 11 a.m., 2, 5, 8, 10:45 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Sun., 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:45, 7:30,

10:15 p.m.EDWARDS GRAND PALACE STADIUM 6 4767 Commons Way (844)462-7342 122Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 10:45 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7 p.m.LAEMMLE’S FALLBROOK 7 Fallbrook Mall, 6731 Fallbrook Ave., West Hills (818) 340-8710Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 8, 10:30, 11:30 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7, 9:30 p.m.Opening Night Fan Event - Avengers: Infinity

War in RealD 3D Thurs., 6 p.m.

Northridge, Chatsworth, Granada Hills

PACIFIC’S NORTHRIDGE FASHION CENTER ALL STADIUM 10 9400 N. Shirley Ave. (818) 501-5121Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7, 8, 10:25, 11:25 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7:30, 11 p.m.I Feel Pretty Sat.-Sun., 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:45, 7:25,

10 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m., 1:25, 3:15, 5:35,

8, 10:20 p.m.PACIFIC’S WINNETKA ALL STADIUM 21 9201 Winnetka Ave., Chatsworth (818) 501-5121Avengers: Infinity War Thurs., 9:15, 9:30, 10 p.m.;

Thurs., 7:20, 7:45, 8, 8:30, 10:50, 11:15, 11:30 p.m., 12 mid.

Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D Thurs., 8:15, 9, 11:45 p.m.; Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.

I Feel Pretty Fri.-Sat., 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 p.m.; Sun., 11:25 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 p.m.

Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Sun., 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:45, 10:10 p.m.

BURBANK

THEATER BANSHEE 3435 West Magnolia Boulevard (323)404-5353 Call theater for schedule.AMC BURBANK 16 125 E. Palm Ave. (888) AMC-4FUNAvengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7:15, 8, 9, 9:45, 10:45,

11:30 p.m., 12:30 a.m.; Thurs., 7, 10:30 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War The IMAX 2D Experience

Thurs., 7:30, 11 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 8:15, 8:30, 11:45 p.m., 12 mid.Opening Night Fan Event - Avengers: Infinity

War in RealD 3D Thurs., 6 p.m.Cobra Kai Premiere Event feat. The Karate Kid


12:55 p.m.; Mon.-Wed., 7 p.m.I Feel Pretty Fri.-Sun., 11 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 p.m.Super Troopers 2 Fri.-Sun., 8 p.m.AMC BURBANK TOWN CENTER 8 210 E. Magnolia Blvd. (888) AMC-4FUNAvengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7:20, 7:45, 10:45,

11 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

Thurs., 7, 10:20 p.m.AMC BURBANK TOWN CENTER 6 770 N. First St. (888) AMC-4FUNAvengers: Infinity War Thurs., 7:30, 10, 11:15 p.m.Avengers: Infinity War in Disney Digital 3D

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|working-class houses in pursuit of money. After leaving a broken marriage, Susette Kelo (Catherine Keener) finds peace and a new identity in her fixer-upper with a river view. But her happily-ever-after has barely begun when she’s served with an eviction notice. It’s up to scrappy under-dog Susette to stand up to everyone and eventually bring her housing case to the Supreme Court. Inspired by Jeff Benedict’s book, Little Pink House offers one-note enemies for Susette to rail against. The most formidable is pearl-loving Charlotte Wells (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the ambi-tious, nonprofit leader bent on razing the neighborhood for a new Pfizer campus. Balaker pits Susette and Charlotte against each other as women with vastly different economic backgrounds but equal ambi-tion: Susette seals deals over pizza and beer while Charlotte dines on lobster and Champagne. Unfortunately, the script makes them sometimes seem more like figureheads than actual people. When Charlotte claims the new development will be “hip,” Susette quickly quips, “You mean High Income People, hip?” Like Erin Brockovich for eminent domain, Little Pink House does well to explain the thorny legal issue at its center without getting bogged down in minutiae. Although Susette’s story unfolds in small-town Connecticut, Balaker hammers the point home: This could happen anywhere. (Tatiana Craine)

LIVES WELL LIVED Inspired by her 103-year-old grandmother, Lives Well Lived direc-tor Sky Bergman set out to collect wit, wisdom and life stories from people often called “elderly” or even “the old old” — between the ages of 75 and 100. She presents her subjects as ordinary folk, but most are extraordinary in their own ways. Some have harrowing tales of childhood escapes to the United States from war and holocaust, one Japanese-American was interned at U.S. camps, many are artists. None seems to be struggling on meager Social Security checks or much debilitated by health problems. Indeed, quite a few possess a preternatural vigor. Despite their advanced age, many are still working — making mozzarella, dancing, sculpting, posing in impossible yoga positions. Their wisdom is real, though much of it is of the ilk frequently recorded elsewhere. “It’s not your numerical age, it’s your biological age,” says 86-year-old, model-beautiful Emmy Cleaves. “So think young, feel young, act young. Forget the number.” Full of such bon mots, the documentary is the epitome of positive thinking, perhaps the closest thing America has to a state religion. Still, like social worker Wendy Lustbader’s book What’s Worth Knowing, which took a similar tack years ago, it’s an opportunity to connect with souls who’ve been around more than a few blocks. “Life plays with you, doesn’t it?” says 91-year-old Barbara Dreyfuss, offering a rare war cry. “You have to take it and you have to battle it.” (Daphne Howland)

LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ, THE AUDACITY TO BE FREE Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free is an awkward mouthful of a title, but this biographical study of a trailblazing 19th-century intellectual offers a worthwhile history lesson. The first fe-male psychoanalyst, Lou Andreas-Salomé

sought out educational pursuits starting in her teen years, writing books and forming personal and professional relationships with Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sigmund Freud. The film finds the elderly Salomé (Nicole Heesters) re-counting her story to a young man writing her biography. The period settings are suit-ably lovely, and flashbacks are introduced with images of the young Salomé walking through postcards, which sounds gim-micky but actually serves as a rather clever and aesthetically pleasing transitional device. Less successful is a godly appari-tion that appears to Salomé: As a child, she sees God while praying and the image of him is made of such shoddy-looking CGI that it feels like kitsch in an otherwise seri-ous film. For most of the runtime, Salomé is played by Katharina Lorenz, who brings a pleasing confidence to the role. Salomé is a bold, feminist figure, to be sure, but she’s also presented as an intellectual dream girl — pretty much every man she encounters seems to be in love with her, which may have been accurate, given the rarity of women devoting themselves to philosophy at the time. Salomé would be better served by a story that focuses more explicitly on her intellectual life rather than her personal one, but considering how stodgy biopics can be, Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free offers a mostly engaging portrait of a charismatic and bril-liant figure. (Abbey Bender)

GO QUAY OF THE GOLDSMITHS (QUAI DES ORFEVRES) An urbane police proce-dural, a cracking whodunnit, a Golddiggers sex comedy and a stealth backstage musical, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s sprightly entertainment Quai des Orfevres (1947) concerns — eventually — the murder of a film producer who was, before his death, infatuated with Suzy Delair’s singer/paragon of sass, Jenny Lamour. She’s as forward as her name, a go-getter so adept at go-getting she actually calls herself a go-getter. We meet her auditioning as a singer in a sharpie agent’s office; mid-song Clouzot cuts, and she’s already onstage at a music hall, a star willing herself into being for the delectation of a crowd. It takes some 40 minutes before the corpse turns up, but not a scene is wasted: Clouzot and his restless camera track lives that seem already to have been unfolding before we’re invited in to regard them. Paris bustles in his backgrounds, a riotous can-can one moment and a shadowed dreamscape the next; faces pack his frames, often in arrestingly complex compositions. As in Clouzot’s Le Corbeau, none of the broke and suspicious characters are eager to involve the cops in their lives. (The police are represented by Louis Jouvet as the detective in charge of the case; Inspector Antoine, worn down by a war wound, often finds himself defend-ing the honor of police work itself, and memorably details just how much money his investigation is costing the depart-ment.) The film surges along, its pacing as modern as its morals. At one point, Clouzot crosscuts between suspect after suspect, each in heated interrogations, each insisting they weren’t involved in the murder, and a late sequence involving blood on the floor of a jail cell still stings

and surprises. (Alan Scherstuhl)SUPER TROOPERS 2 If you ever need to

sober up quick, come down hard, flush out your system, convince the cops or your boss or the feds that you’ve not indulged in marijuana, might I recommend taping your eyes wide open and taking in Super Troopers 2? The sequel is so profound a buzzkill they could sell it at GNC as a detox kit. No high can survive it. It slays fun dead, grinds cannabinoids to dust and maybe even wipes the mind of the warmth you might hold for the original Super Troopers. That chipper, defiantly inconsequential stoner comedy captured in its warm aimlessness and eruptions of dada something like the feeling of wondering, on a giggly day off, whether the edibles have kicked in yet. The follow-up, arriving 17 years later, never kicks in. It’s sober as a judge, even during its rote scenes of drug freakouts. Like the first Super Troopers, from 2001, this edition is directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and written and performed by Broken Lizard, a comedy collective distinguished by a farty, fratty, childish sensibility. The first film was more a playdate than a narrative, a what-if? goof that imagined a squad of Vermont highway patrolmen who passed their days pranking motorists. It could have been called Improv Cops. Nothing’s chill in Super Troopers 2. The film opens with a dreary fakeout, and then, with much rushed shouting, a plot kicks in, a dumb one even by the stan-dards of Super Troopers. The crew heads to Canada: Cue the fake French accents, soar-ee as “sorry,” cracks about hockey and health care and a seemingly endless bear attack scored to the roots-rock equivalent of Benny Hill’s theme. (Alan Scherstuhl)

WANDERLAND For want of a phone charger! In writer-director Josh Klausner’s peculiar indie musical, a 20-something dude wanders the Hamptons in borrowed board shorts and a sequined sash, spurred by bad luck and a failing iPhone battery. Disillusioned Alex (Tate Ellington) is lured to the Hamptons by the promise of a free weekend in a cottage away from the hustling, screen-obsessed masses of New York City. Little does he know that he’s about to embark on a mind-boggling musi-cal journey through the night. Ellington, silent for the first 10 minutes, is so charm-ingly expressive that I almost wanted him to wander mutely the full length of this bizarre trip, if only to see him emote more. However, his character must break his si-lence when confronted with his odyssey’s song-happy characters: a coven of women ominously grilling sausages; a posse of dancers whose podiatrist croons into a mic; and a lonely farmer with a penchant for challah. There’s no rhyme or reason to Alex’s journey, which makes the whole of it equally disarming and daffy. Klausner’s story seems to draw inspiration from fan-tastic tales like A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Alice in Wonderland but also the wised-up looseness of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. As the straight man to this band of Hamptons weirdos, Alex is our spiritual guide on this brow-raising misadventure that shows escaping one’s daily routines can be difficult — but mostly worth it. (Tatiana Craine)

WILDLING Fritz Böhm’s directorial debut

seeks entry into the canon of films about girls awakening to their own devastating powers upon their first menstruation cycle. Wildling, which follows a girl who’s held captive in a basement until she’s a teenager, stuns with occasional breath-taking imagery, sometimes experiment-ing with what looks to be hand-drawn storybook illustrations digitally animated. But the attention paid to images does not translate to character development, story or dialogue, leaving little emotional resonance, while making me seriously wonder if the men telling these stories understand much at all about female sexuality. With little in the way of story, Bel Powley’s expressive blue eyes are expected to do a lot of heavy lifting. She plays Anna, the captive girl, whom we meet as a very small child, played first by Arlo Mertz and then Aviva Winick as she ages, until Powley takes over. Every night, “Daddy” (Brad Dourif) tucks in Anna, and every morning, he bathes and feeds her, all the while telling her scary stories of the wildling, a creature with sharp, black nails and long, cutting teeth that has eaten all the people — except Anna and Daddy. All’s well and fine until Daddy finds blood in Anna’s sheets, and then he restrains her and injects her with something to stop her periods. Eventually, Anna’s discovered and sent to live with cop Ellen Cooper (Liv Tyler) and her teen brother Ray (Collin Kelly-Sordelet), which brings this fairy tale into the reality of a small, wooded town, with high school crushes and house par-ties. Or at least teen-movie reality. There is no interiority to these characters; there is no reason to tell this story. (April Wolfe)

ONGOING

BLUMHOUSE’S TRUTH OR DARE In the past dozen years, producer Jason Blum has energized scary movies with a string of inventive hits, including the Paranormal Activity, Insidious and Purge films, while also earning himself a ticket to the Oscars as co-producer of Get Out. Horror fans trust Blumhouse, so why waste the brand on a flick as lame as Truth or Dare? The fatal game begins for USC senior Olivia (Lucy Hale) and her friends on spring break in Mexico. Secretly pining for Lucas (Tyler Posey), the boyfriend of her lifelong friend Markie (Violett Beane), Olivia lets herself be charmed by Carter (Landon Liboiron), a stranger who soon has Olivia and her pals trekking by cellphone light to a dilapi-dated mission in the middle of nowhere. Carter suggests a party game, secrets

get revealed, including Olivia’s, and then, prompted to reveal his own truth, Carter admits that he lured everyone to the mis-sion because “I’m OK with strangers dying if it means I get to live.” Creepy mission curse duly passed on, Carter runs out into the night but not before warning Olivia that the game will follow them home, that they’re all doomed to die if they fail to play and, gosh, he’s really sorry. Back at school, Olivia finds herself surrounded by school-mates with demonically distorted faces who taunt her with the soon to be tiresome query: “Truth or dare?” Fresh ideas are rare in the horror game, and Truth or Dare quickly devolves into a riff on the Final Destination films, which had Death wittily and methodically on the hunt. There’s little precision and zero fun in director Jeff Wadlow’s action staging, which tends to be rushed and indistinct. (Chuck Wilson)

GRACE JONES: BLOODLIGHT AND BAMI Too few female role models get memo-rialized in the culture as “rock stars.” Enter Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, a documentary that resists retelling its subject’s exploits in the club scenes of the 1970s and ’80s, legends that director Sophie Fiennes says you can easily track down in books and magazines. Instead, this is an intimate portrait of the artist in recent years as she returns to Jamaica, the country of her birth and childhood, for a family reunion. She and her boister-ous family travel the island, meeting with friends, telling stories. Through these conversations, a heartbreaking story emerges, as the talk turns to a man named Mas P, who was Jones’ and her brothers’ caretaker as a child, when her parents left to live in the U.S. Though Mas P is long dead, his presence is like a ghost. His physical abuse took its toll on Jones and her brothers, but they attest to having transformed that pain into fuel for their new lives. Jones tells us that the raging masculine persona she adopted for her stage shows comes from allowing her memory of Mas P to, in a way, pos-sess her body. Fiennes then showcases that persona with interwoven segments of Jones performing a concert in 2016 of material from her most recent album, 2008’s Hurricane. Watching her on stage, you could not guess at her age. In platform heels, she struts and conquers her domain like a 20-year-old glitter-clad warrior. Her voice is robust and deep and still shakes you. The footage is so elec-tive that it prompted applause after every song in my audience. (April Wolfe)

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GLITTER GUYSDon Bolles and Noah Wallace get Wired Up! on junkshop and bubbleglam at new club night

BY LINA LECARO

Eleven years ago, Don Bolles was driving his girlfriend from a rehab facility in Costa Mesa to an AA meeting in Newport Beach, when “a pair of skinheaded Newport Beach police of-

ficers” pulled him over for a malfunction-ing tail light on his ’68 Doge van. “They searched my man-purse, and found a little weed and a small travel-size bottle of Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Liquid Magic Soap,” recalls the drummer for legendary L.A. punk group The Germs, intergalac-tic glamsters Fancy Space People and weirdo rock darlings Ariel Pink. “They handcu�ed me, put me in the patrol car, and stuck a little piece of paper into my soap to test it for drug content.”

Bolles was pretty confident they weren’t going to find anything illicit in the small bottle, just purchased from CVS, but the cop came back to his van a few minutes later with bad news. The soap rested posi-tive for GHB. Bolles proceeded to spend four days in an O.C. jail. The soap was sent to the real Crime Lab in Santa Ana, and a trial date and bail of $25,000 were set. Bolles was able to raise the money and get released thanks to a MySpace call for help, which garnered donations from the likes of Jack Black and his wife, Tanya Haden.

When he got out, the story of Bolles’ arrest was everywhere. “My flip phone wouldn’t stop ringing with calls from journalists from all over the world,” he says. “I realized this was major civil liberties fucked-ness. It was insane, but it spawned some great headlines, like my

fave, ‘Germ Busted for Soap.’”The story made international news.

Jimmy Kimmel even made Bolles the brunt of a joke on his show intro at the time. Dr. Bronner’s CEO David Bronner soon got involved, helping with legal rep-resentation; the charges were dropped when the crime lab determined that the substance in question was indeed just soap. (Our coverage when he was found innocent was pretty clever, too: “Bolles Soap Opera Over.”) Ultimately, the inci-dent became free publicity for the groovy cleansing company and the musician himself, but it also highlighted reliability issues concerning drug-testing.

Even in his punk-rock days, Bolles was never a druggie type, though. He has, however, been an avid pot smoker for decades (I call him Mr. “Bowls”) and one of L.A.’s most eccentric figures, known for donning furry hats, boas and glam makeup at gigs. It’s no coincidence that his brand-new club, Wired Up!, which he co-created and co-DJs with Hammered Satin’s Noah Wallace, debuts on 4/20 at Zebulon. Bolles says he plans some hemp-related goodies that evening; Da-vid Bronner will even be there with some product giveaways.

Truth be told, one does not need to be intoxicated in any way to trip out at either of Bolles and Wallace’s parties. The original club, Velvet Tinmine, monthly at the Monty Bar, features wild visuals, a retro vibe and, most important, cosmic ambiance via the music they spin, strictly 45s. They describe the soundtrack as “junkshop” and “bubbleglam,” two retro genres that gained a significant new fan base in recent years. Even if you recog-nize only some of the selections they play,

the flashback-ish energy will suck you in.“Junkshop glam is a term coined by

Tony Barber of The Buzzcocks, who made compilations with Phil King [The Jesus and Mary Chain, Lush, Felt] in the early to mid 2000s under the titles Velvet Tin-mine, Glitter From the Litter Bin, Boobs and Glitterbest,” Wallace explains. “It was a way to describe the records made by all the groups in the ’70s that wanted to be like and sound like Slade, Sweet, Bowie, T. Rex, Mott, Roxy Music, etc., but did not have any luck hitting the top of the

charts. It was primarily European groups. They called it junkshop because they found them for cheap in British second-hand shops in the ’90s and 2000s.”

Today these records are anything but cheap. They are rare, highly collectible and pricey, but for obsessives like Wal-lace and Bolles, well worth it. The pair play from colorful vintage record cases they haul to the club, and almost every treasured disc seems to come packaged in a uniquely colorful sleeve, depicting

shaggy-haired boys and girls you’ve never heard of in shimmering frocks and makeup, or cartoony illustrations that look like something Sid & Marty Kro�t might come up with.

“I personally got interested in junkshop glam when I started collecting glam records back in the ’90s,” says Wallace, who’s been in similarly glitzy groups out of L.A. the past few years, including Teacher’s Pet and S’Cool Girls. “Back then, prior to the Velvet Tinmine comp release in 2003, I just called it glitter rock. I found an old copy of Bomp! magazine that had a section on glitter rock that talked about Iron Virgin, Ricky Wilde, Chicory Tip, Jook and more. So when Velvet Tinmine came out, I already owned at least half the stu� on it. But I was com-pletely blown away by the stu� I didn’t yet know on those comps! I didn’t know 90 percent o� the Glitter From the Litter Bin comp and was even more blown away when that came out. These collections changed my life!”

Wired Up!’s name was inspired by a Hector song and a co�ee table book about the bands, their records and the vibrant singles’ picture sleeves, Bolles and Wallace will bring out more bubbleglam, bubblegum and junkshop sounds, plus live bands (Bolles’ silver-jumpsuited ensemble Fancy Space People play Saturday) for the night. When we visited the guys at the Monty this month, their excitement about the music and their upcoming new night was infectious. As he threw a purple boa around my neck and picked out a sliver of vibrant vinyl to spin, Bolles sought to express his excitement: “It’s super simple, mega fun, great pro-duction, a pounding beat and gorgeous sassy vocals. There’s just an undeniable feel that grabs you by the collar and yanks you out onto the dance floor, caus-ing you to jump around like a spaz and have a great time. It’s the ’70s we never got to have here in the U.S. Here, all we got was one Gary Glitter B-side, a couple of Sweet and T. Rex hits, and a Bowie song or two. Slade, one of the biggest bands in Europe, weren’t even heard here until Quiet Riot covered their songs in the ’80s!”

If two clubs celebrating the bodacious beats and glitz of the unknown ’70s isn’t enough, Wallace and Bolles hope to bring junkshop out from under the disco ball, too. The twosome (who met when both played at a roller rink in L.A.) just debuted a show on Dublab.com called Kitten Sparkles Glitterbox, broadcasting every third Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. In the debut episode, they interviewed King, who explains the genre, the subgenres and his comps in depth. So even if you can’t get out, you can check in.

Wired Up! with Fancy Space People, Dr. Bronner’s freebies, prizes for best ’70s glitter get-ups, the “Solid Tin Dancers” and DJs Don Bolles and Noah Wallace, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m.; free. At Zebulon, 2478 Fletcher Drive, Frogtown.

Velvet Tinmine at the Monty Bar, 1222 W. Seventh St., downtown; first Friday of every month.

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“THERE’S JUST AN UNDENIABLE FEEL THAT GRABS YOU BY THE COLLAR AND YANKS YOU OUT ONTO THE DANCE FLOOR, CAUSING YOU TO JUMP AROUND....”—DON BOLLES

Fancy Space People play Wired Up! at Zebulon on Friday, April 20.

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fri 4/20Emily Elbert, Erin Bentlage, Molly Miller

@ HOTEL CAFÉEmily Elbert would be considered remarkable just for her guitar playing, which segues from hard-edged funk and blues to more gently subtle jazz intri-cacy. But she’s an equally adept vocalist, weaving her soulful phrasing nimbly within the rhythms and “the silence in the space between the notes” of her guitar chords. The local singer tries to reconcile the opposing worlds of creationism and evolution in three succinct lines from the title track of her Evolve EP: “There’s a force that brings us together/It’s the same one that created us all/And now the point is to evolve.” When Elbert neatly eviscerates the heartlessness of the Trump administration in “True Power,” she transmutes her rage into a coolly funky jam-rock groove. Erin Bentlage is a jazzy, meditative Vermont singer-pianist, whereas guitarist Molly Miller avoids flash in crafting skeletal, austere instru-mentals. —Falling James

sat 4/21Kinky Friedman

@ MCCABE’S GUITAR SHOPSelf-styled Jewish cowboy Kinky Fried-man formed his first band, King Arthur & the Carrots, in the 1960s, but it was his second group, Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys, that really saw him ce-ment his style. Friedman is blessed with an acerbic wit as well as a genuine gift for tapping into the human psyche when mining for lyrics. We should all be grate-ful to Willie Nelson for persuading him to return to songwriting after a 40-year break. 2016’s Resurrection EP completed the comeback, and this year’s new Circus of Life seals the deal. Kinky Friedman is well and truly back, and these current shows should be special. Michael Sim-mons completes the bill. Also Saturday, April 22, at the Echo. —Brett Callwood

Will Oldham @ THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL

Tonight, the four-time Grammy-winning chamber music sextet Eighth Blackbird will be joined onstage at the Theatre at Ace Hotel by alt-country and indie-folk troubadour Will Oldham. Oldham is acclaimed for his eccentric, often sad songwriting, which he generally performs and records under the stage name Bonnie “Prince” Billy (and, previously, as Palace/Palace Brothers/Palace Music). Half of the night will feature arrangements from Oldham’s extensive songbook; the concert also will include performances of work from noted contemporary compos-ers: Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together, Bryce Dessner’s Murder Ballades and Da-

vid Lang’s learn to fly. This special event is sponsored by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. —Matt Miner

sun 4/22ZZ Top

@ HOUSE OF BLUES, ANAHEIMZZ Top’s smash album Eliminator turned 35 years old last month, and as they rocket into their 50th year as a band, they are one of those scarcest of all possible resources in rock & roll: a band that constantly and consistently delivers. Their bangers are legion: “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Stages,” “TV Dinners,” “Got Me Under Pressure,” “I Thank You.” Cool yet inclusive, tight yet funky, slightly sleazy yet endlessly nice, ZZ Top were ahead of their time when it came to embracing new techniques and technology like syn-thesizers and music videos, even while cherishing things as basic as beards and the clamorous clangor of the peso pieces that are Billy Gibbons’ guitar picks. They are one of the greatest rock bands ever to grace this country, and even when you think you’ve hit rock bottom — you’ll always have the Top. —David Cotner

Earth Girl Helen Brown @ ZEBULON

Earth Girl Helen Brown Center for Plan-etary Intelligence Band are described as “an inclusive, expansive, nondiscrimi-natory communicative platform with a primary objective of directing energy and capital toward organizations and causes committed to longevity, peace, … respon-sible fire management … good manners,

music and the arts.” It’s perhaps no sur-prise that a spacey atmosphere pervades the sweetly cracked country ballad “Earth Elevator” and “Language of Love,” a sinu-ous, sax-laced R&B idyll that’s elevated by the breathy vocals of bandleader Heidi Alexander (ex-Sandwitches). “I have lost the use of my hands/A bitter wind is blowing in,” she sings in a foggy narcosis. “But even in these darkest of … times, you called me.” With the help of such collaborators as Shannon Lay, Ty Segall, Nora Keyes and Sonny Smith, Earth Girl Helen Brown have released a series of planetary-themed EPs. —Falling James

mon 4/23Spare Parts for Broken Hearts

@ THE ECHO“Here comes that line again/Where you and I began … severed,” Sarah Green intones solemnly over restrained guitar plucking on “Ever,” from Spare Parts for Broken Hearts’ Singles EP. “It took some time to mend/For all that shit to end.” The drums and bass come in, and the guitar mutates into an angry, fuzzy, grungy beast as Green’s vocals change from calm to furious. Many of the Long Beach trio’s other songs also alternate between contemplative melodicism and stormy hard-rock power as Green tries to find a romantic connection in the void. “Ships burning/Sail seas somehow/And I’ll call to you/And you’ll come for me,” she declares almost pleadingly on “Pleasure Delayed.” Green can be pretty intense (“If you’re gonna die, would you do it for me?”), but

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Visiting Amoeba Hollywood for an in-store mini-set and album signing!

To attend the signing, purchase her new album, Church Of Scars (Teleport/Island

Records), in-store only at Amoeba Hollywood beginning April 20th.

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THURS • APRIL 26 • 6:30PMDR. KRISTI FUNK

BOOK LAUNCH PARTY W/CINDY ALEXANDER

Celebrating the release of Dr Kristi Funk’s new book BREASTS: The Owner’s Manual. Get your copy of the book signed at this special meet & greet event; check

out a special live set from L.A.singer-songwriter, Cindy Alexander; enjoy complimentary refreshments

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Pegasus Warning @ THE HI HAT

How does one remain poised and keep cool in an era of injustice, when hate makes more sense to people than logic? What is one to make of love in a mod-ern landscape that is increasingly cold, industrialized and heartless? Pegasus Warning raises these and a hundred oth-er questions on his 2016 release, PwEP2. “Detached” is a forthright, starkly beauti-ful piano ballad about faith and love that’s arranged with Prince-ly fervor. “Read My Mind” is a freakier, funkier mindfuck that’s sliced up with intermittent streaks of electronics and psychedelic echoes. On “Building a Bridge,” Pegasus adopts a heroic persona as he tries to save his lov-er, himself and probably the entire world through the sheer force of the mantra-like chorus. Also known as Guillermo E. Brown, the singer-percussionist performs nightly with Reggie Watts’ talk-show band. —Falling James

tue 4/24Bebel Gilberto

@ MASONIC LODGE AT HOLLYWOOD FOR-EVERBrazilian songstress Bebel Gilberto’s sultry, murmuring caress is a deceptively light, easygoing style but there’s a deep undertow of craft, skill and passion beneath that facile first impression. Her evocative audio-beijo approach, the sweet fruit of a rich familial DNA bestowed by legendary father João Gilberto, has an almost mesmerizing e�ect, and when Gilberto conjures her rich bossa nova lineage and legacy and combines it with her own formidable talent and instincts, the results are reliably transportive. Her mellow-toned samba sway and lissome, steamy delivery provide the perfect anti-dote to this mad, mad, mad Los Angeles life, and carry enough straight-up sooth-ing–ness to make you forget we’re on the brink of World War III. Get it while you can, kids. —Jonny Whiteside

RZA @ PALACE THEATRE

Being the de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan means your legacy lives on forever. Whether he’s spitting, producing, acting, making films or writing books, the MC has proven his ability to perfect whatever craft he takes on. Now, RZA brings both worlds together at the Palace Theatre, where he’ll give an in-theater perfor-mance of The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. In addition to rescoring the entire film, he will sync scenes from the film with timeless Wu-Tang Clan records span-ning their considerable catalog. New York–born RZA was inspired to meld his urban roots and Shaolin, eventually as-sembling his cousins and friends to form Wu-Tang Clan. The concept led to Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) — one of the most influential hip-hop albums of all time. —Shirley Ju

wed 4/25King’s X

@ WHISKY A GO GOKing’s X formed in 1980 and was one of the first hard-rock bands to blend in ele-ments of funk and R&B, along with Dan Reed Network and Living Color (among a very few others). In Doug Pinnick, the band that was born in Springfield, Mis-souri, have a super-charismatic frontman and crazy-talented bassist who alone can hold a crowd in the palm of his hand. But he doesn’t have to, because co-lead vocal-ist and guitarist Ty Tabor is also a badass. It’s been a few years since the 2012 Burn-ing Down Boston live album, so hopefully King’s X will bless us with new material soon. But for now, they have plenty of old faves in the arsenal. —Brett Callwood

thu 4/26Giorgio Moroder

@ GLOBE THEATREYou know if Giorgio Moroder is having a birthday party, it’s going to be one for the books. The legendary producer, whose credits define disco, and who has seen a renewed musical career since Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories ode to him, “Giorgio by Moroder,” is turning 78. Don’t let the early doors fool you, this is no geri-atric a�air but a classic disco. Hosted by Giorgio’s, Los Angeles’ millennium ver-sion of Saturday Night Fever, the weekly party that’s named after the man himself moves from its home at the Standard Ho-tel West Hollywood to downtown’s Globe Theatre for this unforgettable event. Moroder himself joins Giorgio’s resident DJ, Adam 12, behind the decks. Roy Ayers will bring his classic sounds to the stage live as will Yacht, while Aeroplane pro-vides his unique blend of unpredictable dance-floor sounds. —Lily Moayeri

Diamanda Galás @ PALACE THEATRE

The volcanic singer-pianist Diamanda Galás has become known as the great avenger for the dispossessed, via pivotal works such as Plague Mass and Masque of the Red Death (for AIDS su�erers), Schrei 27 (for torture victims) and Defixiones (for the dead of the Armenian holocaust). The dark queen of extended vocal technique is the pos-sessor of multi-octave pipes awesome and frightening in their intensity and range; her voice and equally formidable piano chops are thrilling in their brazen invention and sneering disregard for restrictions of musical genre. Tonight’s program includes selections from her recent All The Way and At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem albums (Intravenal Sound Operations), which feature an intriguingly curated selection of gospel and spiritual tunes, her settings of 18th-century European poetry, classic coun-try (including a deeply moving redo of Ralph Stanley’s “O Death”), and plenty hair-raising more. —John Payne

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ROCK & POP

ALEX’S BAR: 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach. Haymaker, Bedlam Knives, 21 Gun Salute, The Shriners, The Unknown, The Lowlife Sound System, Sun., April 22, 2 p.m., $5; Espresso, Big Fun, Lunch Lady, Guilty Flesh, Sun., April 22, 8 p.m., $5. Sinister Six, Assquatch, The Swords of Fatima, Slaughterhouse, Thu., April 26, 8 p.m., $5.

AMOEBA MUSIC: 6400 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Record Store Day, with Patton Oswalt (5 p.m.), DJ Lalah Hathaway (4 p.m.), Derek Smalls (3 p.m.), DJs Moon Zappa & Rain Phoenix (2 p.m.), DJ Colleen Green (noon), Sat., April 21, noon, free. Bishop Briggs, Wed., April 25, 6 p.m., free. Cindy Alexander, Thu., April 26, 6:30 p.m., free.

BOOTLEG THEATER: 2200 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. Grateful Shred, Crazy Rust, L.A. Takedown, Fri., April 20, 8:30 p.m., $20. The Nude Party, Liily, The Pantones, Sat., April 21, 8:30 p.m., $10. Stonefield, Warbly Jets, Kate Clover, Hooveriii, Mon., April 23, 8:30 p.m., free. Kyle McNeill, Water Slice, Smokin’ Ziggurats, Tue., April 24, 8:30 p.m., $8. Ruby Boots, L.A. Edwards, Luke Scott MacMaster, Wed., April 25, 8:30 p.m., $10. Cam, Thu., April 26, 8:30 p.m.

CAFE NELA: 1906 Cypress Ave., Los Angeles. The Gears, Akrid, Angry Samoans Later Years, The Terpenes, Fri., April 20, 8:30 p.m., $8. Pedal Strike, Rough Kids, Tenement Rats, Haze Dreams, Sat., April 21, 8:30 p.m., $8. Publik Enema, The Curse Is Written, Thu., April 26, 8:30 p.m.

THE CANYON AGOURA HILLS: 28912 Roadside Dr., Agoura Hills. Wishbone Ash, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $24-$38. The Dixie Dregs, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., $38-$78. Y&T, Sun., April 22, 9 p.m., $24-$32. Hal Ketchum, Thu., April 26, 8 p.m., $24-$34.

THE CANYON SANTA CLARITA: 24201 Valencia Blvd., #1351, Santa Clarita. Y&T, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $24-$32. Wilson Phillips, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., $38-$88. The Robert Cray Band, Sun., April 22, 9 p.m., $38-$68. The Wailers, Thu., April 26, 9 p.m., $24-$48.

COAXIAL ARTS: 1815 S. Main St., Los Angeles. Prissy Whip, Curse, Pure Shit, Sun., April 22, 9 p.m., $7.

THE ECHO: 1822 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Charlie Overbey & the Broken Arrows, Pete Anderson, The Mastersons, Pearl, Bonnie Whitmore, Fri., April 20, 8:30 p.m., $12. Imarhan, Sat., April 21, 5:30 p.m., $15. Brian Whelan, Sun., April 22, 3 p.m., free & $5; Kinky Friedman, Sun., April 22, 8:30 p.m., $25. Ramonda Hammer, Holy Wars, Spare Parts for Broken Hearts, Blood Candy, Inner Oceans, Mon., April 23, 8 p.m., free (see Music Pick). Cam, Tue., April 24, 8 p.m., $20 & $50.

THE ECHOPLEX: 1154 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles. Ramirez, Ohsea, Jeff Macks, Ducey & Aleman, Shakewell, Sat., April 21, 5 p.m.

4TH STREET VINE: 2142 E. Fourth St., Long Beach. The Atomic Sherpas, Joe Baiza, Fri., April 20, 8 p.m.

GENGHIS COHEN: 740 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles. Diana Dilee, Angel Rose, Sat., April 21, 7 p.m.; The Mark Goldenberg Trio, Sat., April 21, 8:30 p.m.

THE GLASS HOUSE: 200 W. Second St., Pomona. The Drums, The Marías, Mon., April 23, 8 p.m., $32.

HANDBAG FACTORY: 1336 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. Hexpressionist, Mic Gendreau, Petit Sac, Olive Kimo Midori, AnalScubahive, War Hippy, Nephila, Baseck, Fri., April 20, 7 p.m. Witches of Malibu, Ellen Phan, Ugly, Eva Aguila, Nurse Betty, Prissy Whip, Eloe Omoe, Amps for Christ, Xina Xurner, Sat., April 21, 7 p.m. Ted Byrnes, Legg Lake, Moment Trigger, Actuary, Sun., April 22, 8 p.m.

HAROLD’S PLACE: 1908 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro. 2-Bit Whore, Los Olvidados, The Farmers, The Real Oh My, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., $5.

THE HI HAT: 5043 York Blvd., Highland Park. The Moondoggies, Erik Blood, Feisty Heart, Fri., April 20, 8 p.m., $12. Hooveriii, RFRC, Golden Grease, Sat., April 21, 8 p.m., free. The Unending Thread, Pegasus Warning, The Breathing Effect, Zach Tabori, Mon., April 23, 8 p.m., $5 (see Music Pick). Dream Phases, Send Medicine, Haunted Summer, Psychic Jiu-Jitsu, Tue., April 24, 8 p.m., $5. Goon, Thu., April 26, 8 p.m., $7.

THE HOTEL CAFE: 1623½ N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles. Forrest Day, Metronohm, Emily Elbert, Erin Bentlage, Molly Miller, Fri., April 20, 7 p.m., $10 (see Music Pick). Space Diaries, Christina LaRocca, Dannielle DeAndrea, Nitwit, Alana Sweetwater, Emma Cairo, Erik Kertes, Myra Flynn, Sat., April 21, 7 p.m. Evan Rachel Wood, Zane Carney, Liminal, Youth in a

Roman Field, Mon., April 23, 7 p.m.HOUSE OF BLUES ANAHEIM: 1530 S. Disneyland Dr.,

Anaheim. Dashboard Confessional, Beach Slang, Fri., April 20, 5:30 p.m., $33.60; Carter Winter, Fri., April 20, 7 p.m., $15. ZZ Top, The Mike Eldred Trio, Sun., April 22, 7 p.m., $65 (see Music Pick). Bunbury, Thu., April 26, 7 p.m., $65.

THE KIBITZ ROOM: 419 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles. Danny Henry, Sat., April 21, 10 p.m. Spookey Ruben, Sundays, 3 p.m., free. The Fockrs, Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

LARGO AT THE CORONET: 366 N. La Cienega Blvd. The Watkins Family Hour, Tue., April 24, 8:30 p.m., $30.

LOS GLOBOS: 3040 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Miki González, Fri., April 20, 8 p.m., $25. Eklectik Vibes, with RMB, Drugs in the Alley, DJ Ghetto Funk., Thu., April 26, 8:30 p.m., $5.

LOT 1 CAFE: 1533 W. Sunset Blvd. Mike Berg, Brian Cleary, Ryan Fuller, Wed., April 25, 9 p.m., free.

THE LOVE SONG: 450 S. Main St., Los Angeles. Faustina Masigat, Mon., April 23, 8 p.m., free; Miss Tess & the Talkbacks, Mon., April 23, 9 p.m., free. Lasers Lasers Birmingham, Davey & the Midnights, Tue., April 24, 9 p.m., free. Tommy Alexander, Evan & the Live Oaks, Wed., April 25, 9 p.m., free. Spain, Thu., April 26, 8:30 p.m., free.

THE MARKE: 3311 S. Main St., Los Angeles. The Felix Brown Band, Fri., April 20, 10 p.m.

MAUI SUGAR MILL SALOON: 18389 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana. Missing Persons, Fur Dixon’s WTFukushima, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $20 & $150. David Stucken, The Paper Hearts, Tijuana Stranglers, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., free. Tad Robinson, Ken Saydak, Mon., April 23, 8 p.m. Rockstar Prophet, Rowdy Clast, Maxwell Cary, AnnaRoll, Thu., April 26, 8 p.m.

MCCABE’S GUITAR SHOP: 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Kinky Friedman, Michael Simmons, Sat., April 21, 8 & 10 p.m., $35. See Music Pick.

THE MINT: 6010 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles. Lantz Lazwell & the Vibe Tribe, Dirty Revival, Wündergroup, Resurrection Road, Fri., April 20, 8 p.m., $16. Sara Levinson, Emily Rath, Aaron Oswald, DMGD, Sun., April 22, 7:15 p.m., $6. Kari Kirkland, Jeff Pifher & Socrates’ Trial, Mon., April 23, 8 p.m., $8; The Mint Jam, every other Monday, 8 p.m., $5. Chris Del Rosario, Ayoni, Daniel Peter, Tue., April 24, 8 p.m., $13. The Return of Sturdy Thirty, with Trulio Disgracias, Wed., April 25, 8 p.m., $12 & $17; Delta Jackson, Wed., April 25, 8 p.m., $10. Jazz Is PHSH, Rat Soup, Thu., April 26, 8:45 p.m., $20.

THE MOROCCAN LOUNGE: 901 E. First St., Los Angeles. Altar Egos, Cat Scan, The Mad Walls, Rumblepak, Fri., April 20, 7:30 p.m., $10. Foliage, Ruby Haunt, Harmless, Twen, Sat., April 21, 7 p.m., $12. Gavlyn & DJ Hoppa, Vel the Wonder, Amindi K. Frost, Sun., April 22, 7:30 p.m., $15. Still Woozy, Odie, Mon., April 23, 7:30 p.m., $10. Bahari, Moira Mack, Tue., April 24, 7:30 p.m., $10. Sloan, Wed., April 25, 8 p.m., $25. Futurebirds, Whiskerman, Thu., April 26, 8 p.m., $15.

RECORD SURPLUS: 12436 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles. Mike Randle, Sat., April 21, 2 p.m., free.

THE REDWOOD BAR & GRILL: 316 W. Second St., Los Angeles. Sabyrtooth, Birds & Arrows, Bang Feather Bang, Exploding Pintos, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $5. Battle Pussy, Ley Valentine, The Damed, Sat., April 21, 3 p.m., $5. God’s Dad Clutch the Pearls, Bitch Please, Father Figures, Sun., April 22, 9 p.m., $5. Holy Flowers, Twisted Black Sole, Egg Drop Soup, Tue., April 24, 9 p.m., $5. Temple Lake,The Buzzz, Wed., April 25, 9 p.m., $5. The Longshot, Thu., April 26, 8 p.m.

RESIDENT: 428 S. Hewitt St., Los Angeles. Jackie Jackson & Her Royal Gents, Fri., April 20, 8 p.m., free. Levitation Room, The Mad Walls, Supermercat, Grave Flowers, Sun., April 22, 8 p.m., $10. Tomemitsu, Lunch Lady, Ruby Haunt, Tue., April 24, 8 p.m., $10. Antisect, Blazing Eye, Resist & Exist, Dead Tribe, Thu., April 26, 8 p.m., $10.

THE ROSE: 245 E. Green St., Pasadena. Wilson Phillips, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $48-$88. Wishbone Ash, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., $24-$38. The Fab Four, Thu., April 26, 9 p.m., $28-$58; Yachtley Crew, Thu., April 26.

THE ROXY: 9009 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Windhand, Ruby the Hatchet, Mon., April 23, 8 p.m., $18. Gus Dapperton, Still Woozy, Tue., April 24, 8 p.m., $15. Prof, Wed., April 25, 8 p.m., $15. Jukebox the Ghost, The Greeting Committee, Thu., April 26, 9 p.m., $22-$60.

SAINT ROCKE: 142 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach. The Expanders, Dubbest, Sensamotion, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $18. Lisa Loeb, Thu., April 26.

1720: 1720 E. 16th St., Los Angeles. Slaughter to Prevail, Tue., April 24, 6:30 p.m., $15. 3Teeth,

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THE SMELL: 247 S. Main St., Los Angeles. Shark Toys, Rolex, Speck, Marcos Vaca, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $5. Homeward L.A.: A Benefit for the Homeless, with The Radioactive Chicken Heads, Mother Mare, Sun., April 22, 6 p.m., $20.

THE TERAGRAM BALLROOM: 1234 W. Seventh St., Los Angeles. Guantanamo Baywatch, French Vanilla, Dumb Fucks, The High Curbs, Fri., April 20, 8 p.m., $16. Alice Glass, Zola Jesus, Pictureplane, Thu., April 26, 9 p.m., $25.

THE TROUBADOUR: 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood. The Dream Syndicate, Ford Madox Ford, Fri., April 20, 7 p.m., $20. JP Saxe, Beck Pete, Madison Malone, Kyler Slater, Sat., April 21, 7 p.m., $14. Mipso, Madison Cunningham, Pearl Charles, Tue., April 24, 8 p.m., $14. Morgan Wallen, Honey County, Wed., April 25, 8 p.m., $15. Kate Voegele, Tyler Hilton, Jake Fields, Thu., April 26, 7:30 p.m.

UNION NIGHTCLUB: 4067 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles. Ozi, Fri., April 20, 8 p.m.; DDG, Fri., April 20, 8:30 p.m.; Hashim, Fri., April 20, 8:30 p.m.; Dax, Fri., April 20, 8:30 p.m.; San E, Mad Clown, Fri., April 20.

THE VIPER ROOM: 8852 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Lancer Roscoe, Checkerneck, Adventurist, Kylaido, Man Over Matter, Fri., April 20, 6:30 p.m., $15. Rocket, Jared James Nichols, Stone Broken, Desert of the Talking Shadows, Sat., April 21, 7:30 p.m., $10. The Sunset Jam, Mondays, 7:30 p.m., free. Mariachi Manchester, The Burning Doors, ViceVersa, Dead Poet Society, Wed., April 25.

WHISKY A GO-GO: 8901 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Black Oxygen, Fri., April 20, 7 p.m. Odin, Sat., April 21, 7 p.m. King’s X, Wed., April 25, 8 p.m. (see Music Pick). Enuff Z Nuff, Thu., April 26, 7 p.m.

ZEBULON: 2478 Fletcher Dr., Los Angeles. Fancy Space People, Plastic Crimewave, Gianna Gianna, Stephanie Persephone, Professor Cantaloupe, DJ Don Bolles, DJ Noah Wallace, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., free. (See Music.) Frankie Rose, Cold Beat, Business of Dreams, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., $10. Feels, The Lentils, Keira McNally, HoneyPower, Colleen Green, in a benefit for struggling local families, Sun., April 22, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., $5 & $10; Earth Girl Helen Brown, Jack Name’s Fictional Boys, LFZ, Sun., April 22, 9 p.m., free (see Music Pick). Cory Hanson, Nicholas Merz, Marshweed Ensemble, DJ Asal Shah, Mon., April 23, 9 p.m., $10. Weirdo Night, with Dynasty Handbag, D’Lo, Julius Smack, Wizard Apprentice, Dance-y-oke, Tue., April 24, 8 p.m., $15; DJ Joel Stones, Mario Caldato Jr., DJ Wyldeflower, Sam C, Tue., April 24, 10 p.m., free. Flat Worms, Zig Zags, Wed., April 25, 9 p.m., free. Belgrado, Second Still, Generation Suicida, Thu., April 26, 9 p.m., $10.

—Falling James

JAZZ & BLUES

BURBANK MOOSE LODGE: 1901 W. Burbank Blvd., Burbank. Pete Anderson, Mondays, 8 p.m., free.

CATALINA BAR & GRILL: 6725 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Roberta Gambarini, April 20-21, 8:30 p.m. Mark Hix, Tue., April 24, 8:30 p.m. David Burnham, Thu., April 26, 8:30 p.m., TBA.

CLIFTON’S CAFETERIA: 648 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. The Bombshells, Fri., April 20, 10:30 p.m., free.

COLOMBO’S ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE & JAZZ CLUB: 1833 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock. Steve Thompson, Fridays, 5:30 p.m., free. Ernie Draffen, Saturdays, 5:30 p.m., free. The Eric Ekstrand Trio, Mondays, 4:30 p.m., free. Trifecta, Thursdays, 7 p.m., free.

DESERT ROSE: 1700 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles. The Mark Z. Stevens Trio, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m., free.

GRIFFINS OF KINSALE: 1007 Mission St., South Pasadena. Crane Lake Serenaders, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m. Barry “Big B” Brenner, Thursdays, 8 p.m., free.

LAS HADAS: 9048 Balboa Blvd., Northridge. Cool Blue, Mondays, 7-9 p.m., free. Johnny Vana’s Big Band Alumni, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., free; Mariachi Tenochtitlán, Tuesdays, 8 p.m., free. Rex Merriweather, Wednesdays, 8-10 p.m., free.

THE LIGHTHOUSE CAFE: 30 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach. The Slide FX Trombone Band, Sat., April 21, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $10. The Bruce Lofgren Big Band, Sun., April 22, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., $10. The Doug Webb Quartet, Wed., April 25, 6-9 p.m., free.

THE MIXX RESTAURANT & BAR: 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. John Pisano’s Guitar Night, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., free.

SEVEN GRAND: 515 W. Seventh St., Los Angeles. The Makers, Tuesdays, 10 p.m., free.

SPAGHETTINI SEAL BEACH: 3005 Old Ranch Parkway,

Seal Beach. Michael Paulo, Sat., April 21, 8 p.m., $40. Andy Vargas, Sun., April 22, 7 p.m., $30. DW3, Thursdays, 8 p.m., $15; Rebecca Jade, Thu., April 26, 8 p.m., $20.

VITELLO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT: 4349 Tujunga Ave., Studio City. Ann Kelly, Sat., April 21, 7:30 p.m., $20 & up. Tracy Cruz, Sun., April 22, 7:30 p.m., $20 & up.

THE WORLD STAGE: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles. Patrice Rushen, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $25.

—Falling James

COUNTRY & FOLK

BOULEVARD MUSIC: 4316 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. Miss Tess & the Talkbacks, Sat., April 21, 8 p.m., $15.

THE CINEMA BAR: 3967 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. The Hot Club of L.A., Mondays, 9 p.m., free.

COWBOY COUNTRY: 3321 E. South St., Long Beach. The Rye Brothers, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $8. Brad Johnson, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., $8. Working Cowboy, Sun., April 22, 4 p.m., free. Michael Monroe Goodman, Wed., April 25, 8:30 p.m., $5.

THE COWBOY PALACE SALOON: 21635 Devonshire St., Chatsworth. Mary White, Fri., April 20, 8 p.m., free. Michael Monroe Goodman, Sat., April 21, 8 p.m. Hollywood Hillbillies, Sun., April 22, 6 p.m. Rob Staley, Wed., April 25, 8 p.m. Jimi Nelson, Thu., April 26, 8 p.m., free.

IRELAND’S 32: 13721 Burbank Blvd., Van Nuys. Acoustic Jam, Tuesdays, 8 p.m., free.

JOE’S GREAT AMERICAN BAR & GRILL: 4311 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank. Cody Bryant, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m. Doctors & Engineers, The Living Dolls, The Ex Teens, Shplang, Sat., April 21, 3 p.m., free.

O’BRIEN’S: 2226 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica. Irish Music Session, Sundays, 8 p.m.

—Falling James

DANCE CLUBS

ALEX’S BAR: 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach. The Good Foot, third Friday of every month, 9 p.m., $5 & $7. Attitude: An Eighties Night, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., free.

AVALON HOLLYWOOD: 1735 Vine St., Los Angeles. TigerHeat, Thursdays, 10 p.m., $5.

BOARDNER’S: 1652 N. Cherokee Ave., Los Angeles. Bar Sinister, Saturdays, 10 p.m., $10-$20. Blue Mondays, Mondays, 8 p.m., $3-$7.

EASTSIDE SHOWROOM: 1300 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale. Procedure, Thursdays, 8 p.m., free.

THE ECHO: 1822 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Funky Sole, with Music Man Miles, DJ Soft Touch and oth-ers, Saturdays, 10 p.m., free-$5.

THE ECHOPLEX: 1154 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles. Bootie L.A.: Aprilween, Fri., April 20, 10 p.m., $5 & $10. Hide & Go Freak L.A., Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., $20. DJ Xian Vox, Sun., April 22, 10 p.m., $8. Dub Club, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. 143, Thu., April 26, 9 p.m., $20.

ELEVATE LOUNGE: 811 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Remix Fridays, Fridays, 10 p.m. Sultry Saturdays, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.

THE FEDERAL: 102 Pine Ave., Long Beach. Snapback Long Beach, Fridays, 10 p.m., $10. Sole Saturdays, Saturdays, 10 p.m., $10.

GOLD DIGGERS: 5632 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles. Lady Millionaire, third Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Thru April 21, free.

GRAND STAR JAZZ CLUB: 943 N. Broadway, Los Angeles. Club Underground, with DJs Larry G & Diana Meehan spinning Britpop, post-punk and new wave, 21+, Fridays, 9 p.m., $8.

LA CITA: 336 S. Hill St., Los Angeles. Punky Reggae Party, with DJ Michael Stock & DJ Boss Harmony, Fridays, 9 p.m., $5. Doble Poder, with cumbia and norteno bands TBA, Sundays, 2-9 p.m., free; DJ Paw, 21+, Sundays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., free. DJ Moist, Mondays, 9 p.m., TBA.

LOS GLOBOS: 3040 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. Club ’90s, Fridays, 10 p.m. Bootie L.A., Saturdays, 10 p.m., $5 & $10; DILF L.A. Black & Blue Ball, Sat., April 21, 10 p.m., $17.

LURE: 1439 Ivar Ave., Los Angeles. Lure Fridays, Fridays, 10 p.m.

THE REGENT THEATER: 448 S. Main St., Los Angeles. Selenamos: A Tribute to Selena, Fri., April 20, 9 p.m., $10 & $15.

THE SATELLITE: 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles. Candi Pop Dance Party, third Friday of every month, 9 p.m., $5 & $10. Dance Yourself Clean, Saturdays, 9 p.m., $5.

1720: 1720 E. 16th St., Los Angeles. Club ’90s, Sat., April 21, 8 p.m., $10.

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THAT ’80S BAR: 10555 Mills Ave., Montclair. ’80s Dance Party, with new wave, old-school and freestyle favorites, Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m.-2 a.m., $5-$10.

UNION NIGHTCLUB: 4067 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles. Tara Brooks, Lee Reynolds, Fri., April 20, 10 p.m., $12 & $20. Fabio, Taxman, DJ Profile, Fatman D, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m.; Distortion 3, Sat., April 21, 9 p.m., $20. Battle of the Salons, Sun., April 22, noon, $40-$60. Moving Channels, Bauz, Friz, Thu., April 26, 9 p.m., $8.

THE VIRGIL: 4519 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles. Funkmosphere, Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m., free-$5.

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C O N C E R T S

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

AIR SUPPLY: 9 p.m., $48-$89. Saban Theatre, 8440 W. Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills.

GO COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL: With The Weeknd, SZA, Kygo, Jamiroquai, St. Vincent, The War on Drugs, Vince Staples, Soulwax, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kali Uchis, Daniel Caesar, Deorro, L.A. Azules, Maceo Plex, The Neighbourhood, Alison Wonderland, Kelela, Bleachers, Justin Martin, Belly, Perfume Genius, Moses Sumney, Slow Magic, Moon Boots, The Regrettes, Helado Negro, The Buttertones, The Marías and others, 12 p.m., $504. Empire Polo Club, 81-800 Avenue 51, Indio.

THE DAVE TULL QUARTET: 7 p.m., $10. The Broad Stage, Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica.

LAURIE ANDERSON: 7:30 p.m. Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills.

THE WHISKYX: With Dawes, 6 p.m., $75 & up. The Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Ave., Santa Monica.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

BROKE L.A.: 3 p.m., $15 & $25. The Regent Theater,

448 S. Main St., Los Angeles. GO COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL:

With Beyoncé, Haim, Tyler the Creator, David Byrne, Alt-J, Post Malone, Fleet Foxes, Chromeo, Chic & Nile Rodgers, Børns, Angel Olsen, Jungle, Blackbear, Mø, Tasha Sultana, Marian Hill, Brockhampton, First Aid Kit, Alina Baraz, Snakehips, Alvvays, The Black Madonna, X Japan, Benjamin Booker, Jason Bentley, Oh Sees, The Bronx, AC Slater, Ron Gallo, Sir Sly, Cherry Glazerr, Kittens and others, 12 p.m., $504. Empire Polo Club, 81-800 Avenue 51, Indio.

DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL: With Beach Slang, 6:30 p.m., $38.60. Hollywood Palladium, 6215 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles.

KENNETH WHALUM, NIA ANDREWS: 3 p.m., free. Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 3650 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Los Angeles.

GO KRUSH GROOVE: With Ice Cube, Method Man & Redman, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Warren G, DJ Quik, Kurupt, 2nd II None, 7:30 p.m., $40-$175. The Forum, 3900 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood.

L.A. TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: With music from Lami, Kinglii, Haleigh Bowers, Celeste Butler, Loren Cole, L.A. Opera’s Fight on Figaro, 11:30 a.m., free. USC, USC, 665 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles. See GoLA.

LOS LONELY BOYS: 8 p.m., $30-$50. Luckman Fine Arts Complex, 5151 State University Dr., Los Angeles.

GO PORTUGAL THE MAN, CHICANO BATMAN, DEAP VALLY: 6:30 p.m., $49.50 & $55.50. Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St., Santa Barbara.

¡LA NUEVA CUBA! THE NEXT GENERATION: With Pedrito Martinez, Daymé Arocena, Roberto Fonseca, 8 p.m., $28-$53. The Soraya, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge.

SUNDAY, APRIL 22

BAD BUNNY: 6 p.m., $66.50-$156.50. The Forum, 3900 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood.

GO COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL: With Eminem, Odesza, Portugal the Man, Migos, A Perfect Circle, Cardi B, Miguel, King Krule, Illenium, Kamasi Washington, French Montana, LANY, The Drums, Jessie Ware, San Holo, FIDLAR, Princess Nokia, Hayley Kiyoko, Lion Babe, Giraffage, Japanese

Breakfast, Magic Giant, Rolling Blackouts and others, 12 p.m., $504. Empire Polo Club, 81-800 Avenue 51, Indio.

L.A. TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: With ALAJE, Tiah Giná, The Blue Agave, Mason Summit, Kinetic Winds, The Trojan Marching Band, Inara George, 10 a.m., free. USC, USC, 665 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles. See GoLA.

PARTY IN THE PARKING LOT: With Lynch Mob, Faster Pussycat, Rough Cutt, Rhino Bucket, Holy Grail, 12 p.m. Rainbow Bar & Grill, 9015 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood.

RAPHAEL: 8 p.m., $50-$109.50. Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles.

SARA EVANS: 7 p.m., $59 & $69. Downey Civic Theatre, 8435 Firestone Blvd., Downey.

TUESDAY, APRIL 24

GO BEBEL GILBERTO: 7 p.m., $35. Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles. See Music Pick.

GO RZA: 8 p.m., $33-$57. Palace Theatre, 630 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. See Music Pick.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER: 7 p.m., $29.50. The Belasco Theater, 1050 S. Hill St., Los Angeles.

BIG SEAN: With Playboi Carti, Shy Glizzy, Gashi, 7 p.m., $30.50-$100.50. The Greek Theatre, 2700 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles.

GO LILY ALLEN: 9 p.m. El Rey Theatre, 5515 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26

AMIR ELSAFFAR’S TWO RIVERS ENSEMBLE: 8 p.m., $28-$65. The Soraya, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge.

GO DIAMANDA GALÁS: 8:30 p.m., $37-$72. Palace Theatre, 630 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. See Music Pick.

GO GIORGIO MORODER’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: With Giorgio Moroder, DJ Adam 12, Roy Ayers, Yacht, Aeroplane, 7 p.m., $45-$5,000. Globe Theatre, 740 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. See Music Pick.

MADISON BEER: 7 p.m., $31. The Belasco Theater, 1050 S. Hill St., Los Angeles.

THE MEXICAN STANDOFF: 7 p.m., free. LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, 501 N. Main St., Los Angeles.

—Falling James

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APRIL

ART GARFUNKEL: Sun., April 29, 7:30 p.m. Walt Disney Concert Hall.

BAJOFONDO: Sat., April 28, 8 p.m. Walt Disney Concert Hall.

CIGARETTES AFTER SEX: Fri., April 27, 9 p.m., $27. The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

ENRIQUE BUNBURY: Sat., April 28, 8 p.m., $34-$135. The Greek Theatre.

GORDON LIGHTFOOT: Sat., April 28, 8 p.m., $48-$88. Saban Theatre.

HEAR NOW FESTIVAL: People Inside Electronics presents electronic selections by Isaac Schankler, Timothy Johnson, Ellen Reid, Tom Flaherty, Federico Llach and Hugh Levick, Fri., April 27, 8 p.m. Throop Hall. The program includes worksk by Miguel del Aguila, Eric Byers, Fahad Siadat, Pamela Madsen, Sarah Elizabeth Gibson and others, Sat., April 28, 8 p.m. The festival continues with pieces by Gernot Wolfgang, William Roper, Tomàs Peire Serrate, Anne LeBaron, William Kraft, Sharon Farber and Andrew Moses, Sun., April 29, 5 p.m. First Lutheran Church of Venice.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: Sat., April 28, 8 p.m., $60-$280. Sun., April 29, 8 p.m., $60-$280. The Forum.

GO MAVIS STAPLES: Sat., April 28, 8 p.m. Richard & Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center.

GO STAGECOACH: With Florida Georgia Line, Jake Owen, Kelsea Ballerini, Cody Jinks, Chris Janson, Chris Lane, Molly Hatchet, Lindsay Ell, The Georgia Satellites, Tanya Tucker, Jade Bird, Banditos and others, Fri., April 27, noon, $329-$1,199. With Keith Urban, Kacey Musgraves, The Brothers Osborne, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Granger Smith, Midland, Ronnie Milsap, Walker Hayes, Carly Pearce, Brandy Clark, Jillian Jacqueline, Jade

Jackson, Sat., April 28, noon, $329-$1,199. With Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Lee Brice, Brett Young, Kenny Rogers, Kane Brown, Aaron Watson, Gordon Lightfoot, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Colter Wall, Ashley McBryde, Lillie Mae, Runaway June, Sun., April 29, noon, $329-$1,199. Empire Polo Club.

THE VERDI CHORUS: Anne Marie Ketchum leads the SoCal choir through operatic selections by its name-sake, Sat., April 28, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., April 29, 2 p.m., $10-$40. First United Methodist Church.

YOUNG DUBLINERS: Sat., April 28, 9 p.m., $24-$32. Saban Theatre.

ZAKIR HUSSAIN, DAVE HOLLAND, CHRIS POTTER & SHANKAR MAHADEVAN: Fri., April 27, 8 p.m. Walt Disney Concert Hall.

C L A S S I C A L & N E W M U S I C

AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY: Carlos Izcaray leads performances of music by Revueltas, Copland and Beethoven, and premieres his own Strike Fugaz, Sat., April 21, 4:30 p.m., free. UCLA, Royce Hall, 340 Royce Dr., Westwood.

THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AT ST. MATTHEW’S: Violinists Yi-Huan Zhao and Kevin Kumar are featured on Mark O’Connor’s and Astor Piazzolla’s separate interpretations of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and Tomasz Golka also conducts Tchaikovsky’s Serenade, for Strings and the world premiere of a new piece by Nathan Wang, Fri., April 20, 8 p.m., $30. St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 1031 Bienveneda Ave., Pacific Palisades.

GO THE COLBURN ORCHESTRA: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony, Sun., April 22, 7 p.m., $15-$45. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles.

THE COLBURN YOUTH ORCHESTRA: Conductor Maxim Eshkenazy guides the teen musicians through works by Kabalevsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, Sun., April 22, 6 p.m., free. LACMA, Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd.

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