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flip the paper over for the Influencers issue ® APRIL 11-18, 2019 VOL. 41 / NO. 21 LAWEEKLY.COM So Tukker return to Coachella with a fresh look and a new “Fantasy” BACK TOBy Brett THE Callwood DESERT 2 WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM | A - , | LA WEEKLY 3 LA WEEKLY | A - , | WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM 4 WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM | A - , | LA WEEKLY april 11-18, 2019 // Vol. 41 // No. 21 // laweekly.com 5 L WEEKLY LA PUBLISHER AND CEO Brian Calle ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER AND COO Erin Domash EDITORIAL - , | | A EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR Darrick Rainey ARTS EDITOR Shana Nys Dambrot CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Lina Lecaro Contents FOOD EDITOR Michele Stueven MUSIC EDITOR Brett Callwood COPY CHIEF Lisa Horowitz LISTINGS EDITOR Falling James (music) CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lisa Beebe, Nathaniel Bell, Michael Cooper, Lisa Derrick, Alex Destefano, Jessica Donath, Shirley Ju, Beige Luciano-Adams, Matt Miner, Lily Moayeri, Jordan WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM Riefe, Nick Walker, Jonny Whiteside CALENDAR WRITERS Siran Babayan, David Cotner, Ann Haskins, John Payne, Jason Roche CREATIVE SERVICES PHOTOGRAPHERS Anne Fishbein, Star Foreman, Tyler Hagen, Danny Liao, Shane Lopes, Timothy Norris, Ryan Orange, Ted Soqui, Levan TK, Hannah IT’S COACHELLA TIME ON THE FLIP SIDE: Verbeuren AGAIN ... 13 THE INFLUENCERS MARKETING Sofi Tukker return to the desert festival with Turn this week’s issue over and start at a fresh look and a new “Fantasy.” the back for a list of the top social media MARKETING ASSOCIATE Joel Lara BY BRETT CALLWOOD. influencers.BY SARA TARIQ, BRIAN CALLE AND NICK WALKER. 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PHOTO BY JACK MITCHELL/COURTESY GETTY IMAGES LA4/12 fri FILM show in the gallery space with a Friday night new play, Roller Dynasty. Set in Marfa, Texas’ reception, and both kids-centric and grown-up roller disco, the show delves into the complex- Puppets for Grown-Ups writing workshops and activities on Saturday ities and layers of female friendship, following e art of puppetry is oen dismissed as light aernoon. e gallery show continues through two young women who work at the local rink entertainment only for children, but the pre- April 28. Highways Performance Space, 1651 on an unforgettable night as the world may or sentation of Mementos Mori at the Broad Stage 18th St., Santa Monica; celiacenterartsfestival. may not be ending. e production stars Sarah promises to be something entirely dierent. org. Fri., April 12, 6 & 8 p.m.; Sat., April 13, Grace White, who seems to be following in the e aptly named performance group and lm- noon, 4 & 8 p.m.; free-$20. eventbrite.com/e/ footsteps of her mother, Katey Sagal, with a slew video production company Manual Cinema voices-of-the-fostered-and-adopted-celia- of TV and stage credits. And unlike the play’s devises a live movie that mixes together shadow center-arts-festival-2019-tickets-51995221106. characters, there’s no end in sight for her. Actor’s puppetry, actors, music and multiple overhead SHANA NYS DAMBROT Company/e Other Space, 916-A N. Formosa projectors and screens to create an artfully mor- Ave., West Hollywood; u.-Sat., April 11-13, bid work. e piece is an examination of death D ANC E $15. rollerdynasty.brownpapertickets.com. and technology that portrays a ghost experi- LINA LECARO encing the aerlife through her iPhone, a child The Best of L.A. Dance confronting her own mortality, a lm projec- is year’s lineup of top L.A.-based dance com- tionist seeing life anew, and death itself taking panies cements the Los Angeles Dance Festival sat 4/13 an unexpected vacation. e Broad Stage, Santa as SoCal’s preeminent dance event. Curated by A RT Monica College Performing Arts Center, 1310 Deborah Brockus, the monthlong fest’s main 11th St., Santa Monica; Fri.-Sat., April 12-13, draw is this weekend’s three shows with Diavolo, Art Lovers Field Trip 7:30 p.m.; Sun., April 14, 2 p.m.; $35-$55. (310) paired with String eory, BODYTRAFFIC and Every spring the galleries of Bergamot Station 434-3412, thebroadstage.org. FALLING JAMES Ate9 (Friday), Invertigo Dance eatre joined throw an all-day fête, in which all are welcome by Kybele, Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, to make this now-classic contemporary art A RT Backhausdance and BrockusRED (Saturday), outpost their cultural destination. With exciting and CARLON with Kevin Williamson + Com- current shows at eclectic venues like Building Fostering Art pany and Pennington Dance Group (Sunday). Bridges Art Exchange, Skidmore Contempo- e Celia Center’s mission is to create safe and is festival is a must for anyone who wants to rary and Richard Heller, new shows opening engaging conversational space around the know who’s who in L.A. dance and what is going and special talks and events, if you’ve not been adoption and foster family experience, especially on in our increasingly nationally proled dance to the Berg in a while, this is the best possible across cultures, using the arts as an entry point. community. Luckman Fine Arts, 5151 State way to get caught up. Lora Schlesinger and is year’s Voices of the Fostered and Adopted University Drive, East L.A.; Fri.-Sat., April 12- Craig Krull have catalog sales; and Krull hosts Celia Center Arts Festival pursues these ideas 13, 8:30 p.m.; Sun., April 14, 6:30 p.m.; $25-$45. two artist talks keyed to new publications. in a special weekend-long interdisciplinary sto- ladancefest.org. ANN HASKINS Several galleries have talks and walkthroughs, rytelling, performance and visual art program which begin around 1 p.m. and are staggered that highlights the voices of direct experience T HEAT E R throughout the aernoon; for something a little across myriad creative practices. Free to the dierent, Lois Lambert Gallery has a Spanish public except for a ticketed, mature-audiences It’s the End of the World As We guitar player from 2:30 to 5 p.m. If your visit theatrical performance on Friday and Saturday Know It skews toward the end of the aernoon, between nights, the festival includes a multiformat group Prepare for a groovy apocalypse in Ryan Drake’s about 5 and 7 p.m., Craig Krull, Leslie Sacks and 8 WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM | A - , | LA WEEKLY Luisotti galleries all have opening receptions community equality. e exhibition’s curators company is gone but for Cunningham’s cente- for new exhibitions by Don Bachardy, Carol from the Slanguage collective organized it as nary, the trust he created to protect and promote 9 Es, Gwynn Murrill, Marc Katano and Simon a conversation between the art in the perma- his dance works chose three theaters for a WEEKLY LA Norfolk. Plus, there’ll be food trucks. Bergamot nent collection of the museum and a slate of semi-simultaneous, one-night event. Along with Station Art Center, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa invited artists whose visions could be seen as New York and London, UCLA’s Royce Hall was Monica; Sat., April 13, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; free.