EXPERIMENTAL* Starting today, Machine Project hosts three days of banjo trance. Here’s how they describe it: “Conducting light particles passing through the Machine Project window, Emily Lacy will give a 3-day musical performance concerning the speed of light, gravitation, and matter, utilizing banjo, guitar, and violin.” 8 pm // Machine Project // 1200 D. North Alvarado St., Los Angeles // Free. ART Dan Cameron is the director and curator of Prospect.1 New Orleans, an......

Tuesday nights in LA can be slow in the Spring; the energy of activation to get prettied up and brave the slick streets is much higher than that required to crack open a beer and settle on the couch. But when a heat wave hits with its concomitant restlessness, suddenly a weeknight outing is not only desired but sorely needed. It was in this fitful state I found myself making my way down a......