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Late summer is shaping up to be a busy time for Los Angeles music fans. The latest addition to the seasonal festival lineup is the H20 Music Festival, slated to go down in Los Angeles State Historic Park near Chinatown on August 25.
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Dance flick fourquel Step Up Revolution & android assemblage documentary Convento bring visual energy to the screen. Meanwhile, Todd Solondz' Dark Horse is on standby to bring you down with pitch-black, uncomfortable comedy.
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Sure we all love a good "Drive" or "21 Grams" now and again, but if you need a break from that sinking feeling in your gut at the end of dark or depressing film, North Hollywood may have an answer. From August 3 to 5, NoHo's Arts District will host the fifth annual Hollywood Feel Good Film Festival, which is dedicated solely to screening films with happy endings, plenty of laughs and a focus on the hopeful and beautiful- in case anyone was getting disillusioned with humanity.
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TGIF! We found a few great events happening around town tonight if you're not into watching the Olympics opening ceremony on tape delay. The Craft Study Center hosts and evening of politically themed poetry, music and performance; there's a zoo party with live world music; a Rod Serling retrospective screening series starts tonight; and for the bacon lovers out there, we found a bacon and wine pairing in Hollywood. Read on for all the details.
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Beloved funnyman Fred Willard appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and, naturally, the number one topic was his arrest for lewd conduct at a Hollywood porn theater. Fallon asked what movie he saw, "The movie you went to see.. was it The Firm? Was it Free Willy? Was it Anaconda?" Willard said, "Sadly, it was Get Shorty."
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The Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater, aka REDCAT, brings its 9th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival to the stage beginning this Thursday and continuing through the next three weekends.
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As the Jackson family drama continues to unfold, one thing has become abundantly clear: the Jackson children are not to be fucked with. Up until the recent discord, which involved their grandmother going to Arizona and not contacting them, Paris, Prince and Blanket have been relatively docile and quiet in the public sphere. But over the past few days, that's all changed...
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Yesterday brought a whole boatload of Jackson family crazy to our doorsteps, and today, the drama continues: Since the family's matriarch, Katherine Jackson, has been in Arizona for over a week and hasn't had contact with her grandchildren, Paris, Prince and Blanket during that time, she's temporarily lost guardianship of them.
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At this particular moment in history, when houses are being foreclosed upon left and right and the thundering gong of the recession is still ringing in our ears, we're probably not as inclined to read amusedly about who in Hollywood owns a private island.
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Want to shoot like a pro? On August 12, National Geographic Traveler will give you the change to with their "Simply Beautiful Photographs" all-day seminar at the Skirball Cultural Center.
