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like the class pet by being in their office hours all the time? There’s an event that takes off that pressure. On Sept. 20 A nIGHT OUT Program Board’s Academic Culture Assemblies (ACA) hosted its annual event “Beyond the Books.” This event was at USC Town and Gown from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The evening allowed ON CAMPUS students to break the classroom barriers with their professors and interact with them in a more relaxed setting. Its goal was USC Events to Look Out For for students to establish relationships with their professors and learn things that can’t be taught in the classroom. b l y e isa hernandez USC continues to put on events such as these, so to help my fellow Trojans out I decided to give you the scoop on Ev er find yourself with nothing to do on what’s to come. APASA hosts Night Market Sept. 23 at McCarthy Quad. the weekends? Well, USC has a lot to offer as far as events go. If class gets too stressful, students can take a break on Fall semester is full of student festivities, from tailgating for Sept. 23 for the “Night Market” hosted by Program Board’s calling to all my basketball stars. If you think you got game, football games to having an evening with Maya Angelou. Asian Pacific American Student Assembly (APASA). This make sure to check out Program Board’s Black Student Students at USC need to be aware of what they’re missing event will be taking place on McCarthy Quad from 6:30 p.m. Assembly’s (BSA) event, “Somerville Shoot-Out Basketball and take advantage of the events that are put on by USC’s to 8:30 p.m. Take this opportunity to blow off some steam by Tournament.” It will be hosted at the Lyon Center on Oct. 21 Program Board. Program Board is incorporated by different enjoying game booths and prizes and free food. It’s a fun way at 7 p.m. assemblies and committees dedicated to putting on the best to meet new people and have a safe fun night on campus with This event is open to all students, so grab four of your venues for the student population. classmates and friends. closest friends and head out to the court. Teams do have to In the first couple weeks of September alone, Program If you want to sit and relax, but don’t have time to catch register before this event at uscbsa.com, but don’t let that scare Board’s committee “Trojan Pride” put on a Fall Sports Rally, free movie screening, mark your calendar for Sept. 24 and you off: The winner of the tournament gets to take home $500. which allowed students to be informed of all the Fall Sports. 25 as the AMBULANTE Film Festival is coming to the Ray These are only some of the events being put on that It emphasized the importance of school spirit and supporting Stark Family Theater (SCA108) at USC. AMBULANTE is a students and faculty, along with their friends and family, are student athletes. The event attracted thousands of USC film festival hosted by Program Board’s very own Latina/o more than welcome to attend. It’s important to make the best students who were able to win prizes such as a flat screen TV Student Assembly (LSA). The festival focuses on international of your experience here at USC, and by broadening your views and even a chance to run out with the football team at a game. documentaries, and this year four documentaries from and attending something you normally wouldn’t, it’s a really Just one week later, on Sept. 7, Program Board’s Speaker Argentina, Mexico, France and Colombia will be screened, rewarding experience. Committee put on an event called, “An Evening with Maya followed by a discussion with the filmmakers themselves. This Whether you’re catching a free movie or eating free Angelou” that attracted thousands of USC students, faculty is a great opportunity for cinema students to get a different food, take advantage of every opportunity. Venues are and staff. I myself attended this event, and it was one of the outlook on independent films, as well as other students to see subject to chance, so make sure you keep up to date with most inspirational moments I’ve had at USC. a movie not incorporated with mainstream media. upcoming events by visiting Program Board’s Web site at Ever connected with a professor, but didn’t want to seem Switching from movie sets to the basketball court, I’m uscprogramboard.com.

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“The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity” toss ideas on how to sell this Indian wonder, it is decided he Now-Oct. 9 @ Geffen Playhouse will be called “The Fundamentalist!” Mace leaves the slums The adrenaline pumps in your veins, and a rush of excitement and takes a shot as manager. They will walk to the ring, turban fills the air. The lights go out, the crowd cheers. The announcer and mariachi (Mace is after all Puerto Rican.) hand in hand to takes his place in the middle of the ring as blue lights flash win the audience’s hate. Hate always sells. and dazzle. Fast music begins to pump and vibrate the seats. A Full of insulting yet hilarious wit, “The Elaborate Entrance stylish, robust man walks forward; hanging from his neck is the of Chad Deity” will leave everybody entertained. The audience word “Deity” written in diamonds. Like any egotistical wrestler will soon see this play isn’t about the face of wrestling, it’s who speaks in the third person, he begins to speak of Chad about the person that makes it happen, It’s an insightful look Deity’s greatness. The crowd listens, like disciples, entranced into a man’s shattered dream, as he seems to be the only real with this man, this prophet. His magnetic force and strength person left in the wrestling industry. A man, who believes is too great for himself to handle; the crowd demands Chad in the community of wrestling, must sell his soul in order to

Deity. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the elaborate entrance of do what he loves. Destroyed by the sport of selling an image Michael Lamont Chad Deity. and capturing every moment on national television, Mace Making its West Coast debut at Geffen Playhouse, “The confronts the thing he loves most and must choose between Terence Archie and Desmin Borges star in “The Elaborate Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity” slams racism, globalization his dream and his dignity. Entrance of Chad Deity” at Geffen Playhouse. and the manipulation of American viewers, in this case, —Nataly Chavez through the wrestling industry. Geffen Playhouse is located at 10886 Le Conte Ave., Los Angeles. artist, Ashley seeks refuge at home. Nevertheless, she never Kicking it off is Macedonio Guerra (a.k.a. Mace), Puerto For more information, visit geffenplayhouse.com. truly finds it. In fact, more challenges appear on her path to Rican-born and raised in the Bronx, he looks back on all those recovery. Ashley, who was abandoned by her lesbian lover, Saturday mornings watching WWE with his brothers. It was “To Carry the Child” goes through a series of unfortunate events with the family. then that he realized he wanted to be in the big league. Well, Now-Oct. 16 @ Raven Playhouse Her father acts as if he does not care about anything. Sissy is he got there, only to be the fall guy for big-shot wrestler Chad I must admit that theatrical dramas can get intense at times, pregnant, and Lib is too focused on the upcoming birth of the Deity – not for lack of talent I can tell you that. but that does not mean they are not enjoyable. Jon Courie’s “To grandchild. Ultimately, Ashley gains peace in some areas but is Mace divulges a lengthy but brutally honest explanation of Carry the Child” is powerful in so many ways. Set in Carapace defeated by cancer. the superficial and stereotypical strategy the wrestling industry Isle, N.C., this play is vigorously demanding for an audience Pamela Daly plays Lib, a gorgeous Christine Haeberman follows in order to lure fans. Mace never gets a chance to prove member. It requires detailed attention and a true passion for is Sissy, Meg Wallace gives an unforgettable performance as himself worthy or to have a signature move, instead he’s the acting. Ashley and Cal State Northridge alum Justine Woodford is guy that makes the bad guy look good, he’s the guy that sells Based on a poem of Steve Smith by the same title, “To Diane (Ashley’s lover). Robin Nuyen plays Bo and delivers an the bad guy’s image. And he’s happy to do it, all in the name Carry the Child” centers on a near dysfunctional family, with above-par performance. and love of wrestling. parents Bo and Lib and their daughters, Ashley and Sissy. After —Marvin Vasquez When he discovers Vigneshwar Paduar he sees his ticket romantic turmoil in New York, Ashley comes home to her Raven Playhouse is located at 5233 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood. out. As Mace and his shallow and profit-making boss, EKO, roots. Battling cancer and struggles in her career as a young For more information, visit collaborativeartistsensemble.com.

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“White Knight Chronicles II” The new “White Knight Chronicles II” brings the best of both the RPG and M.E.N.T.E. AT MMOG worlds. The game’s story takes place one year after the end of the first “White Knight” game. UCLA The main character of Leonard seeks to stop Magi from finding the I nspiring Youth fifth arch knight and thus cause the final awakening. The game invites those b y tien thuy ho new to the series as well as fans with a remastered version of the first game Ke e ping in mind their struggles to acquire included on the system. the resources that have aided them to where they are today, good Despite the effort to engage new friends Felipe Hernandez and Laura Romo co-founded M.E.N.T.E. players, the game remains PS3 exclusive (Mentors Empowering and Nurturing Through Education), which for now. Those who already played the became an official organization at the two branches UCI and first game or who just don’t wish to play UCLA in Winter 2011. Because both have worked diligently despite it can just as easily skip the first one limited resources and are both attending four-year universities, with or without save data. Hernandez and Romo feel that not only do they have the capacity The largest change to the game to help high school students carve paths towards higher education is in its battle system, which gives the but also believe their calling is to aid and counsel students. game a quicker pace. These changes go They are determined to bridge paths between high school beyond the action gauge refilling faster. students who might have disadvantaged backgrounds and colleges regarding higher education, life and their career. The first section Following true role-playing game mode where dreams will be achieved. Hence, M.E.N.T.E.’s mission is to will be an interactive lecture the topics covered that day which range the type of character will also affect help students engender a vision of their futures; the organization from the California university system to life as a college student. gameplay. will present resources that bolster each student’s confidence toward The second component will be dedicated to personal development The new attention on accuracy is transforming a vision into reality. where guest speakers and/or activities that not only will motivate an example of the changes. Distance The catalyst that motivated Hernandez and Romo to act on and encourage them to pursue higher education but will serve as and range will matter for characters their plans to effectively promote higher education is their own soul enriching activities that stimulate civic engagement, analytical to deal damage as well as what type of success in college. They first-handedly experience the impact of thinking, community involvement, leadership development and weapon the character employs. attending college. They know that having an education puts them a that ultimately help the students figure out who they are and what Attention to areas such as this has step ahead of others who do not. Hernandez and Romo believe that their purpose is. During the last interval, the student, alongside even led to new skill sets to meet with education should be accessible to everyone. their parent and mentor, will work on a “College Action Plan” which the ways of combat, such as lightweight Once they realized that they wanted to create M.E.N.T.E., includes, in writing, personal statements, financial budget sheet(s), characters being able to dash up to they establish the foundation of the organization in writing with scholarship application(s), proposed class schedule, major/career an enemy to strike. Weight class of a program description, proposal, workshop curriculum and time line and other important information. M.E.N.T.E’s vision is characters will as well determine how constitution. Then they articulated their plans to their networks to create an army of educated, passionate and caring individuals easy it is for them to be knocked down. of support including family members, professors, supervisors, that together will instill positive change in the world through their This method promotes teams, as directors, advisors, students, other organizations and principals. own mechanisms. heavier characters will best for charged Even though at times both felt intimated and discouraged M.E.N.T.E. also strives to help to the students’ parents acquire attacks, which require build-up time, because the process of creating an organization was challenging a lucid vision of what entails a college education. Parents can while lighter characters can attack more and strenuous, they kept going. They had volunteer mentors who participate in the workshops that will explain the process of applying often but also be more vulnerable. This supported them and demonstrated so much initiative on their own to colleges in addition to the costs and benefits. The availability of becomes increasingly important in the fronts. After researching the high schools around L.A. County and bilingual speakers of English and Spanish will increase the number online version of the game. how the college application process works, they set out time apart of parents participating. Significantly, M.E.N.T.E. will match up a The online component makes from their heavy coursework to meet with principals and directors current undocumented college student with an undocumented high an interesting addition to the RPG- to prove their dedication to M.E.N.T.E. school student to provide as many resources and training available. styled game. Players cannot play with Both believe wholeheartedly that their calling is to help guide Upon financial resources of the organization, transportation to the main storyline characters in the online as many students to cal-states, UCs, vocational schools and four- locations of the Saturday Academies will be provided including version, but the studio promises that year/two-year colleges as they can. M.E.N.T.E. has evolved into an supplies, food, scholarships and internship opportunities. through abilities and items, one can organization of student and non-student mentors who have an Lastly, M.E.N.T.E. will give tours of college campuses and even make similar characters. unfeigned passion to support those students who want to attend site visits to places of employment such as engineering, law, medical The game does allow the player college. and research firms. There will be panels of professionals to speak to transfer from “White Knight This program is unique because it also targets those students about their experiences in each industry. Interview techniques, Chronicles,” however, their character who may not want to attend college, who are unaware, or who are resume building, public speaking techniques and leadership along with money, equipment and on the fence. In doing so, they change the mindset of these students, strategies will be provided at these workshops as well. guild ranks. their parents and school faculty by making them realize that they Hernandez and Romo are excited to start the program and aver One of the most interesting parts of (the students) have unlimited potential to obtain their dreams but that their program will expand larger and larger as more students online play is that players design their all they need is a new vision. will want to join. Their blithe disposition has helped them go a long own arch knight with a wide choice of M.E.N.T.E. is compiled of seven crucial aspects to the process way from mapping out a structure of the organization to recruiting ways to customize – from their choice of applying to college: community service, scholarships, tutoring, enough high school students to put their program into action. of weapons, body types, color schemes information sessions and workshops, field trips to college campuses Both hold a firm belief that the vision of learning should not be and looks. Playing along with six others and professional offices, mentorship and support systems. Support ephemeral but rather a lifelong pursuit. (an upgrade from four) allows players systems include parents, teachers, alumni from colleges/respective Hernandez and Romo are very thankful for the amazing work even more choices of how to best battle high school, elected officials and community leaders. that their executive cabinets have done at UCLA and UCI as well enemies, as two players in a group can During the Fall quarter, The M.E.N.T.E. at UCLA branch will be as all of the volunteers, mentors, advisers, program supporters use their knights at a time. working with Animo Locke No. 1 High School, a charter school in and school site representatives. With the encouragement of these Other changes to online play are Watts. M.E.N.T.E. will host 10/11 Saturday academies (Information supporters, M.E.N.T.E strives to establish crucial partnerships an increase in the number of guild session and workshop) for 30 to 50 high school juniors and seniors within the college community, school site community and California ranks and online voice chat. It will be who are on the track to graduating by the summer. These Academies to provide the students not only with education resources but also interesting to see which becomes more will be held at various locations: UCI, UCLA, the Mendez Learning with career and life services and opportunities. Most importantly, popular: the game’s RPG side or the Center and Locke High School. M.E.N.T.E.’s vision is to change the mindset entire communities online MMOG. The Saturday Academy consists of three components that will by empowering all students, parents, school faculty and mentors —Alexandre Johnson provide students with comprehensive knowledge, skills and training through education.

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PAGES The Art of Fielding (Little, Brown) Men in groups abound on the campus of Westish College, where Chad Harbach sets his brilliant, intensely readable first novel,The Art of Fielding. Its president, Guert Affenlight, besides being a Melville scholar, is the author of a bestselling historical study of “the cult of male friendship in 19th century America. Boys’ clubs, whale boats, baseball teams.” The book’s own version of such a cult is the Westish Harpooners (fittingly, a baseball team named after men in whaleboats), and the team’s interlocking friendships provide a context for Harbach’s main plot, the story of shortstop Henry Skrimshander’s obsessive struggle not only to become the finest infielder ever to play the game but to attain his “one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect” in all things. Henry’s particular friends include Schwartz, the team’s catcher and spiritual leader, who is sleeping with President Affenlight’s daughter, Pella; Henry’s gay roommate, Owen, who is sleeping with Affenlight. Hovering over Henry is the presiding spirit of one Aparicio (as in Luis) Rodriguez (as in A-Rod?), a former major-league shortstop whose Zen-like treatise, titled The Art of Fielding, is his bible. But the short, interwoven chapters devoted to these subsidiary stories all lead back to Henry’s quest for perfection. That quest comes abruptly to a halt when Henry develops a malady that’s something like writer’s block in an outdoor setting: Henry almost kills Owen with a wild throw and is suddenly plunged into a state of Prufrockian paralysis every time the ball comes his way. Instead of letting go of the baseball, he lets go of himself: He quits the team, toys with suicide, stops eating, starts smoking dope, becomes reclusive and listlessly allows Pella to seduce him, thus estranging himself from Schwartz, and eventually from Owen and Pella, too. Harbach, whose knowledge of baseball is encyclopedic but never ponderous, resists the temptation to which many other baseball writers – Malamud, Roth, Kinsella – have succumbed: to write not a novel but a version of the core baseball myth, the game as a pastoral vision of America, in which the heroes and villains, the fictional stand-ins for the Babe and the Say-Hey Kid and Shoeless Joe, enact predestined roles. Instead, Harbach finds analogies in other literary genres: the epic, the picaresque, the coming- of-age story, the self-scrutinizing memoir. Along with Melville, whose footprints are everywhere, he invokes Homer, Eliot, Emerson and Whitman as guides, though never without undercutting it: Affenlight reminds himself, and us, that dwelling on literature rather than life is a futile practice that turns us into jerks. In the end, in an endearingly traditional way, he subordinates the ironic commentaries and the mirroring influences to the tender, funny, poignant story of Henry’s travails and their unexpected resolution. —Richard Horwich, Newsday (MCT) © 2011 Newsday. Distributed by MCT Information Services. The Night Circus (Doubleday) Erin Morgenstern’s debut novel, The Night Circus, is quietly, enchantingly perfect. In 1873, two men who may or may not be immortal make a bet. In a world that does not believe in magic, they will stage a grand magical contest. Each will train a student in the magical arts and then set one against the other. The competition will last for years. One man chooses his daughter, Celia. He trains her in a form of magic that draws its power from her emotions – rage, passion, delight. The other man chooses an orphan, Marco. He trains him in a magic that owes its power to the intellect – mathematics, history, physics. The arena for the competition must be one where the average person, expecting sleights of hand, will not recognize real magic: the Circus. And so, across the fin de siecle, cities and towns around the world are visited by a circus. Out of nowhere, black- and-white striped tents appear in a field. A sign hangs on the gate, explaining that visitors are welcome between nightfall and dawn. When twilight arrives, the circus comes to life. “Stretched across the top of the gates, hidden in curls of iron, more firefly-like lights flicker to life ... When the final bulb pops alight, and the smoke and sparks dissipate, it is finally legible, this elaborate incandescent sign. Leaning to your left to gain a better view, you can see that it reads: Le Cirque des Reves.” The Circus of Dreams. Indeed, reading this novel is like having a marvelous dream, in which you are asleep enough to believe everything that is happening, but awake enough to relish the experience and understand that it is magical. Morgenstern is an artist as well as a writer, and her novel is lusciously visual. Every scene is like a medieval painting, saturated with color and detail; each realistic facet only enhances the mystical strangeness of the whole. As the competition between Celia and Marco develops, the circus tents come to house more and more fantastical sideshows. Soon their rivalry gives way to admiration and collaboration. Their sponsors – the two old men who watch from the sidelines – begin to get worried. Will the age-old fight – between mind and body, passion and intellect, male and female – be undone by the affection of one performer for another? But this is and is not a story of love conquering all. The other circus performers also begin to worry. The magic, which they only vaguely recognize, is altering them, leading them further away from reality. The burgeoning mystery of the circus is becoming too top heavy for the humdrum world of railways and factories that it relies on for its existence. Like all good art, including novels that must lead us through to a final, beautiful page, the circus’ triumph lies in its legacy rather than in its survival. —Bethany Schneider, Newsday (MCT) ©2011 Newsday. Distributed by MCT Information Services.

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“WE MUST BE WILLING PROJECTIONS TO GET RID OF E.T. THE LIFE WE’VE PLANNED Sept. 24 @ Hollywood SO AS TO HAVE THE LIFE Forever Cemetery THAT IS WAITING FOR US.” b ty kris ina bravo –JOSEPH CAMPBELL V iolent alien movies are fun to watch, but sometimes, it’s A FILM BY nice to see a friendly earth visitor whose M.O. is not to invade the planet and obliterate all PATRICK TAKAYA SOLOMON of humankind. In comes Cinespia. This year, it chose the perfect movie to close its summer series with: E.T. You know the one, the ’80s movie brimming with overwhelming cuteness that makes you forget all about Drew Barrymore’s troubled childhood (Cigarettes at nine? Check. Marijuana at 12? FINDING JOE Check. Cocaine at 13? Oh my. Don’t worry, she’s fine now.) Everyone’s favorite extra-terrestrial, the most adorable alien in the history of film was actually inspired by Steven Spielberg’s imaginary friend that he created after his parents’ divorce. E.T. is also filled with references to the director’s childhood such as Elliott tricking his mother into thinking that he was sick by putting the thermometer near a lightbulb – cunning, but smart. The movie remains timeless from its first release in 1982; who knew a nice, heartwarming film with a great story can be found without all that CGI technology? So if you’re looking for a nostalgic trip down memory lane, head on to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery to see it on a big screen projection amongst other Angelenos. Make sure to bring FeATuRINg: DeePAK ChOPRA, some snacks (some Reese’s Pieces candy perhaps?) and plenty of thick blankets, because MICK FLeeTwOOD, TONY hAwK, DIRECTOR RAShIDA JONeS, LAIRD hAMILTON whether you like it or not, cold temperatures are definitely creeping in as summer comes IN PERSON AND MANY MORe. to an end. Opening Weekend Movie starts at 8 p.m., and Cut Chemist will deejay before and after the screening. $10 at select shows donation tickets will be available at the gate, and picnic reservations and parking passes WWW.FINDINGJOeTHemOVIe.COm are also available online. Daily Showtimes Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood. For more THEATRICAL PREMIERE LaemmLe’s mONICa 4 week of 9/30-10/6: information, visit cinespia.org. 1332 2nd St.• Santa Monica • 310-478-3836 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45 SEPTEMbER 30TH! Tickets on sale now in advance at: www.laeMMle.coM & 9:55PM

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that went on. We got really fascinated by the area and the real- life stories.” ROOM WITH A As writers, Allison and his fellow producers had also been influenced by Asian horror The ( Ring, Audition) as well as good old-fashioned Victorian ghost stories. “We want the show BOO to be really scary,” he says. “We want these stories to be edge-of- your-seat, like movies. We want our show to properly have that “Bedlam” amps up the scares constant sense of foreboding and darkness to it.”

The pilot I screened in advance had plenty of jolts, for Sky Living Jonathan Ford on BBC America. particularly one bathtub scene in which landlady Kate (the gorgeous Charlotte Salt) has a run-in with a ghost that likes b y hiko mitsuzuka to get wet. for several years before it ever made it to air, Allison and his “She found it quite unpleasant and cold and horrible, producers had lived with the characters for a long time and W hen one moves into a posh apartment pretending to be drowning,” Allison rehashes. “I wasn’t on set had a clear idea of what they were like, particularly Jed. “When complex inhabited by gorgeous 20somethings and run by an that day, but [I heard] she was not very happy.” we saw the screen test for Theo, we were like, ‘Oh, this is him.’” attractive landlady (à la “Melrose Place”), one wouldn’t expect A face familiar to many Anglophiles, “Pop Idol”’s first “Bedlam” looks to blend standalone ghost stories with evil spirits to be included on the lease. winner Will Young, also takes up residence in the spooky serialized dramas packed with “Lost”-inspired mythology. Such is the case with the luxury flats on BBC America’s complex. Who knew the singer had added acting to his “Yes, we have an endgame planned,” Allison promises. upcoming horror drama, “Bedlam,” a place where the repertoire? Allison did, especially after catching him in “The biggest character is the building and the family who owns neighbors harbor sinister secrets, the bathtubs try to drown his debut opposite Judi Dench in the 2005 BBC film Mrs. the building … so there is lots of history … There are things you and pissed-off apparitions appear in every window – just Henderson Presents and his notable role in an episode of that we resolve in season one.” the type of cozy place one would want settle in, if you’re into “Skins” last year. And for anyone wondering, season 2 is already in the that sort of thing. “I swear to God, he just did the best audition,” Allison says. middle of shooting. Why no one has brought this compelling premise to “We heard that he was interested … simple as that. It wasn’t “We want it to be a ride, be a thrill, and we wanted to hit television before remains a mystery to me. In fact, while like we were reaching out trying to get some pop name or a star the ground running,” Allison tells, “and I think American TV is partaking in the geektastic festivities at Comic-Con down in of some kind, it just worked out that way.” really good at that. We wanted to be visceral and scare people San Diego, I had the chance to sit down with David Allison, However, taking center stage on “Bedlam” is newcomer properly … and to have a proper British sensibility.” one of the creators behind this supernatural soap about Theo James, Britain’s sexier answer to James Franco (go ahead But of course. an abandoned insane asylum that’s been renovated into and Google him). “He’s definitely going to be going places,” the residences. Naturally, I had to ask where the idea came from. show’s producer predicts. “Bedlam” premieres Oct. 8 at 9 p.m. on BBC America. Turns out, “There’s an asylum in particular where I live,” Theo plays Jed Harper, a drifter who can see ghosts and Allison says. “I started looking at the online records of all the finds himself shacking up with the supernatural spookies in For more pop cultural ramblings, visit thefirstecho.com and patients, and it was amazing, grim and terrifying, the things Bedlam Heights. Since the show had been in development hotterinhollywood.com.

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Marshall Fine, THE HUFFINGTON POST Corinth Releasing “EXHILARATING! Marie (Sebastian Urzendowsky) and Gretel (Karoline Herfurth) in Berlin ’36 ROBERT DE NIRO IS SUPERB!” RICHARD ROEPER Berlin ’36 (Corinth) “A TOP-NOTCH, I was a bit unsure about this German period drama based on the various still shots in the beginning of the film. As the story progressed, I began to appreciate Berlin ’36, which is based on a true story set in 1936 ADRENALINE-PUMPING Berlin – where Germany is on the cusp of holding their first summer Olympic Games. ACTION THRILLER! Directed by Kasper Heidelbach, Berlin ’36 tells the story of how politics managed to get entangled into sports, especially after the meteoric rise of Adolf Hitler sweeping into power some three years before the ” games. Following his ascent to power, the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games were used as a platform to further his party’s racial superiority agenda, extending his prejudice and discrimination propaganda campaign Shawn Edwards, FOX-TV toward the Jews by not allowing them to compete for Germany. When the United States threatened to boycott the games, the Germans had to make concessions. This meant that the world’s best high jumper at the time, the Jewish Gretel Bergmann (Karoline Herfurth), is coerced back by the Führer to represent Germany for the games. Although, she finds it near impossible to show love and pride in representing a country that doesn’t love her back. Gretel’s chief rival both in training and the eventual competition is Marie Ketteler (Sebastian Urzendowsky), not that the Germans had any real intent to allow Gretel to make it all the way to the Olympics proper. Their rivalry soon turns to friendship, as both Gretel and Marie find themselves under intense pressure as they’re forced into the media spotlight as poster girls for Germany’s efforts. As their friendship develops, Marie shares a deep, dark secret with Gretel, which, if revealed, could have severe facebook.com/KillerEliteMovie @Killer_Elite consequences for the Germans. The chemistry between the cast members – especially Herfurth and Urzendowsky – makes the film a success. Heidelbach not only tackles the issue of the Nazis’ extreme discrimination but presents a thought-

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performance by this year’s most ubiquitous (and welcome) onscreen presence, Jessica Chastain.

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (Magnet Releasing): Tucker and Dale (Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine) are just a couple of good ol’ boys, hanging out in the mountains of West Virginia having hillbilly fun at their cabin retreat, when a chance encounter with a group of college kids turns into a bloody, deadly misunderstanding. This horror-comedy hybrid made quite a splash during its debut midnight screening at Sundance 2010.

What’s Your Number? (Twentieth Century Fox): A woman (Anna Faris) unwilling to go over 20 sexual partners and risk being labeled a slut, revisits old flames, hoping one of the men might have been her true love. Luckily she’s assisted in her quest by her super hot neighbor, Chris Evans. Wonder if he’ll be lucky number 21? If you miss this one, you can always rent “The Ex List,” a short-lived TV series with a similar premise. OCT. 7 Melinda Sue Gordon Dirty Girl (The Weinstein Company): Road trip! Two high Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill star in Moneyball. schoolers from Oklahoma – “dirty girl” Danielle (Juno Temple) and closet-case Clarke (Jeremy Dozier) – hit the road Puncture (Millennium Entertainment): Chris Evans stars as a for Los Angeles to find Danielle’s dad and to keep Clarke away drug-addicted lawyer who takes on the case of a comely young from being sent to military school. fall fILM ER nurse (Vinessa Shaw) who was pricked by a contaminated needle while on the job. Taking a turn to The Pelican Brief/ The Ides of March (Columbia): George Clooney directed and Erin Brockovich territory, as the case deepens a conspiracy co-wrote this political drama about a wunderkind political preview 2011 emerges, pushing the young lawyer to his breaking point. strategist, played by Ryan Gosling, which is loosely based a play (“Farragut North”) that’s loosely based on Howard b y sasha perl-raver SEPT. 25 Dean’s unsuccessful 2004 presidential run. With a supporting cast that includes Paul Giamatti, Phillip Seymour Hoffman SEPT. 23 Red State (Smodcast): Kevin Smith’s dark, controversial and Marisa Tomei, it’s an early Oscar contender across the departure from the realm of Jay and Silent Bob, headlined by board. Abduction (Lionsgate): Can Taylor Lautner headline a movie? Michael Parks, Melissa Leo and John Goodman, was inspired Will there be life after Twilight? With this action flick from by Smith’s fear of fundamentalist religious groups. A twisted Real Steel (Walt Disney): Remember Rock ’Em, Sock ’Em John Singleton, we’re going to find out. Lautner stars as a man and politically charged horror film about a woman who lures Robots? Well, imagine they made them about 15-feet high forced to go on the run after he discovers he was kidnapped as three teen boys to her home with the promise of sex, only to and bouts were as watched as Monday Night Football. Set a child and may be at the center of a vast conspiracy. capture them for her ultra-violent fundamentalist preacher. in the future, where 2,000-pound humanoid robot boxing is The film screens one night only at the New Beverly Cinema. as big as reality TV, a struggling promoter (Hugh Jackman) Dolphin Tale (Warner Bros.): A heartwarming family film thinks he’s found a champion in a discarded robot. about a boy who befriends a dolphin who lost her tail in a SEPT. 30 crab trap. With the help of Morgan Freeman, a prosthetic OCT. 14 appendage is created for the dolphin who becomes an 50/50 (Summit Entertainment): A well-conceived and inspiration to people with special needs. Based on a true moving dramedy about a play-by-the-rules, color-inside-the- The Big Year (Fox 2000): Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve story, it’s like Free Willy and How to Train Your Dragon and lines 27-year-old (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who finds out he’s Martin star as bird watchers competing to spot the most rare Flipper all rolled into one … and we’re already tearing up! battling a rare form of cancer with a 50/50 survival rate. Also birds in North America at a prestigious annual event. starring Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick. Killer Elite (Open Road): When his mentor (Robert De Footloose (Paramount): If you haven’t kicked off your Sunday Niro) is taken hostage, a retired member of Britain’s Elite Dream House (Universal): After Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) shoes with Kevin Bacon (and you really should), then you Special Air Service (Jason Statham) is forced to do what he and his family (including Craig’s new real wife, Rachel Weisz) might not know that Footloose is the story of out-of-towner (begrudgingly) does best: kick ass and kill people. De Niro relocate to a quaint New England town, they discover a Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormald, stepping into Bacon’s as a damsel in distress playing second fiddle to Statham? mother and her two children were murdered in their new – dancing shoes), who moves to a small town where rock ’n’ roll Sadly, Killer Elite looks neither killer nor elite, but rather a you guessed it – dream house. While most everyone thinks and dancing have been banned. But once he hooks up with the continuation of De Niro’s recent trend of picking subpar the killer is the husband who survived the incident, Will preacher’s daughter (Julianne Hough) everybody cut loose, material (Righteous Kill, What Just Happened, Stone). works with a local woman (Naomi Watts) to piece together footloose. While we’ve seriously hit the wall on remakes, the an even more disturbing puzzle. As lamely Amityville as the involvement of director Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow) gives Machine Gun Preacher (Relativity Media): Based on the story sounds, Dream House was directed by six-time Oscar us the tiniest glimmer of hope that this movie might not suck, true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who nominee Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, In America, unlike the sacrilege known as the recently announced Dirty found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese My Left Foot), and that makes it a must see. Dancing remake with Kenny Ortega at the helm. children forced to become soldiers, the film stars Gerard Butler and was directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Margaret (Fox Searchlight): After sitting on a shelf since The Skin I Live In (Sony Pictures Classics): A thriller about a Monster’s Ball). 2007, Kenneth Lonergan’s tale of a NYC high school student plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) who has been conducting (Anna Paquin), who may have played a role in a fatal bus experiments on a human subject (Elena Anaya) while trying Moneyball (Columbia): Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, accident, finally arrives in theaters. Co-starring Matt Damon, to perfect an artificial skin to use to treat his severely burned the unorthodox general manager of the Oakland A’s who Matthew Broderick and Mark Ruffalo, who previously starred wife. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her, Volver, put together his baseball club on a shoestring thanks to in Lonergan’s critically lauded debut, You Can Count on Me. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) it seems a computer-generated analysis. While it could swing toward foregone conclusion that this will be an Oscar nominee for Major League or The Natural territory, we’re guessing it’ll Take Shelter (Sony Pictures Classics): Winner of the Critics Best Foreign Film. be closer to the latter considering it was directed by Bennett Prize at Cannes this year, Michael Shannon stars as a man Miller, in a long awaited follow up to 2005’s Capote, with a haunted by visions of a coming storm, a nightmare that Texas Killing Fields (Anchor Bay): The Debt co-stars Sam screenplay adaptation courtesy of Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin drives him to build a shelter in his backyard, an obsession Worthington and Jessica Chastain, along with Jeffrey Dean (The Social Network). that starts to drive people away. Featuring another standout Morgan and Chloë Moretz, star in the debut feature by Ami

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Canaan Mann (a.k.a. Michael Mann’s daughter). A film so dark Danny Boyle, the guy who directed a feature about a dude who cut his own arm off, said it couldn’t be done, the story centers on two detectives in small-town Texas chasing down a serial killer.

The Thing (Universal): A prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic about an alien life form with the ability to mimic anyone it ingests, this reboot takes place three days before the original kicks off in snowy, secluded Antarctica. Starring poised-on-the-brink Joel Edgerton (also see Warrior) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Trespass (Millennium Entertainment): 8mm cohorts Joel Schumacher and Nicolas Cage reunite for this tale of a husband (Cage) and wife (Nicole Kidman) being held at gunpoint. OCT. 21

Margin Call (Roadside Attractions): Set in a large investment Mountain Peter bank in the 24 hours that may or may not have triggered our nation’s economic meltdown, first-time director J.C. Chandor Amber Heard and Johnny Depp star in The Rum Diary. has assembled a cast of heavy hitters, including Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons and Stanley Tucci, but buzz following the film’s international assassins. Hijinks, no doubt, will ensue. a Manhattan high-rise realize they’ve fallen victim to the premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival was lukewarm. Ponzi scheme of one of the residents, they conspire to rob his Like Crazy (Paramount Vantage): Winner of the Grand Jury penthouse. Brett Ratner directs a flurry of names including Martha Marcy May Marlene (Fox Searchlight): After Prize in both acting and dramatic competition at last year’s Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller. Sundance last year, this indie about a girl (Mary-Kate and Sundance, the film stars Felicity Jones (who won the acting Ashley’s younger sister, Elizabeth Olsen) haunted by painful prize) as Anna and Anton Yelchin as Jacob, college students in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Warner Bros.): memories and increasing paranoia after fleeing a sexually Los Angeles who become a couple. Anna is a British exchange Finally, a sequel in 3D we can’t wait to see! You know the drill, abusive cult, turned the youngest Olsen into an industry student who overstays her visa after it expires on graduation. stoner buddies Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn), darling. She returns home to London, and when she flies back to Los with an assist from Neil Patrick Harris, go on an adventure Angeles she is turned away by customs officials, throwing the where things go hilariously off the rails. Set six years after their Paranormal Activity 3 (Paramount): Reportedly, the third couple into a long-distance relationship. Guantanamo Bay adventure, this time they’re unleashed on film in the Paranormal franchise takes place in 1988, when New York on the hunt for a Christmas tree after inadvertently sisters Katie (Katie Featherston from the first film) and Kristi The Rum Diary (FilmDistrict): Johnny Depp again channels burning down Harold’s father-in-law’s prize pine. (Sprague Grayden from the second film) were kids. Kicking Hunter S. Thompson in this film adapted from the writer’s it old-school, VHS style, while the girls are making video early novel about a journalist who moves to Puerto Rico and Nov. 9 proof of Bloody Mary, they become the first confronted by falls in love with a beautiful woman (Amber Heard), who is the monstrous demon that has haunted them throughout already entangled with a sleazy real-estate developer (Aaron J. Edgar (Warner Bros.): We couldn’t be more excited to see the series. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, Eckhart), while drinking a whole hell of a lot of rum. Leonardo DiCaprio slide into a pair of heels to play J. Edgar who caught heat for what was suspected to be a staged Hoover in Clint Eastwood’s creative “biopic” about the FBI documentary, Catfish. Sleeping Beauty (Sundance Selects): A sexually charged director, with a script by Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black offering that divided critics following its Cannes debut, it (Milk). Could this be the film that earns DiCaprio his Academy The Three Musketeers (Summit Entertainment): A 3D, stars Sucker Punch star Emily Browning as a college student Award? Very possibly. Co-stars Armie Hammer, as Hoover’s steampunk-inspired reimagining of the well-known tale of who answers an ad that lands her the lead role in a sex game. right hand man and supposed lover, and Naomi Watts. three inseparable friends who live by the motto, “One for all, Offering explanation for the title, the idea is she takes a drug all for one!” which has previously inspired seven animated that puts her to sleep while paying customers do whatever NOV. 11 adaptations and over 20 live-action interpretations. This one they want with her limp body with the only rule being no – directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Resident penetration, which isn’t a problem for most customers who Immortals (Relativity Media): Newly minted Man of Steel, Evil) – stars Anderson’s wife, Milla Jovovich, as well as prefer to abuse her body. Henry Cavill, stars as a mortal man chosen by Zeus (Luke Christoph Waltz, Luke Evans and Orlando Bloom. Evans) to lead the fight against the ruthless, bloodthirsty NOV. 4 King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), who is on a rampage across OCT. 28 Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity. We’re My Week with Marilyn (The Weinstein Company): Starring hoping this one is more 300 than Conan, but either way, Anonymous (Columbia): Was Shakespeare a hack? This Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe and Kenneth Branagh expect abs and togas galore. political thriller, set at the cusp of the Essex Rebellion against as Sir Laurence Olivier (naturally), the film is set during Queen Elizabeth I, centers on the Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans), production of The Prince and the Showgirl, when Colin Clark Jack and Jill (Columbia): Who wants to see Adam Sandler who may have been the real author of Shakespeare’s plays. (Tony winner Eddie Redmayne), an assistant on the film, in drag? Well, too bad, because here it comes. Sandler stars spent a week escorting Marilyn around London, giving her as Jack, a successful ad executive with a beautiful wife (Katie In Time (Twentieth Century Fox): Set in a future where super the briefest respite from the pressures of Hollywood. Based Holmes), who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving hot people like Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake die on the stills alone, which show a transformed Williams, we’re visit of his twin sister Jill (also played by Sandler). Celebrity at 25 unless they’re rich enough to buy more time. When a calling early Oscar nominations for this one. cameos reportedly include Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Ryan poor young man (JT) is accused of murder after inheriting a Gosling, Tom Hanks, Jeff Bridges and George Clooney, to fortune in time, he’s forced to go on the run. This is gonna be Puss in Boots (DreamWorks Animation): The best thing name just a few. Surrogates bad or Blade Runner good – seeing as it’s directed about the last two Shrek movies gets his own franchise. Voiced by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, S1m0ne), it’s a toss-up. by Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek and Zach Galifianakis, Melancholia (Magnolia): Perhaps best known as the film this spin off is set before Puss in Boots met Shrek and his which director Lars von Trier was promoting when he Johnny English Reborn (Universal): Mr. Bean (a.k.a. Rowan friends, as the feline hero teams up with Humpty Dumpty made comments that got him banned from the Cannes Film Atkinson, a.k.a. the British Buster Keaton, a.k.a. Johnny (Galifianakis) and the street-savvy Kitty (Hayek) to steal the Festival, that performance overshadowed the fact that Kirsten English) stars in this follow-up to the 2003 James Bond spoof. famed Goose that lays the Golden Eggs. Dunst actually won Best Actress honors for her performance This time Johnny, a top agent in the British Secret Service, in this film about a woman grappling with the appearance of is dispatched to save the Chinese premier from a pack of Tower Heist (Universal): When the hard working staff of a nearby planet that threatens to destroy Earth.

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At that point, CYHSY had already proven to the rest of the music industry that it doesn’t take record labels or public relations agencies to gain fame anymore. Online opinion, rather, had become a strong enough vehicle to carry a young indie band’s name from coast to coast. “I was more hoping to find a group of people to play certain songs,” Ounsworth recalls about when he first started CYHSY. “None of us knew what we really had. I didn’t even know it was a band at first.” Yet with Some Loud Thunder struggling to hook listeners in the same way CYHSY’s initial offering did, no one knew what was in store for a band still searching for its identity. Two years later, more questions regarding CYHSY’s longevity were raised when Ounsworth decided to take time off to work on a solo album and the debut release for his other band, Flashy Python. “It sounds sort of ridiculous, but we just weren’t feeling the energy or the passion to make a record together at that particular time,” Ounsworth explains. “If we’re ready to make a record and if it seems to make sense, then we should. And if there’s any doubt, then there’s no reason to go into a studio and force the record. I don’t think that’s fair to anyone.” So in the meantime, the other members of CYHSY began working on their own projects. While keyboardist/guitarist Robbie Guertin and bassist Tyler Sargent formed the band Uninhabitable Mansions, drummer Sean Greenhalgh started producing records for other indie rock outfits such as Takka Takka. Guertin also joined Radical Dads to play drums and sing, and keyboardist/ guitarist Lee Sargent (twin brother of Tyler) took his talents to Hollywood, performing on James Lavino’s score to the Alex Karpovsky film, Woodpecker. Nevertheless, the band’s public hiatus left fans skeptical of an eventual reunion, only to be reassured in May with the announcement of a third album that CYHSY wasn’t headed for a breakup after all. “I didn’t want to dictate the pace of anybody’s life,” admits Ounsworth, who was born and raised in Philadelphia and still resides there today. “But it just so happened that when I was ready [to make another record], everybody seemed to be as well. That sort of set the tone.” On Hysterical, that cohesion Ounsworth speaks of comes through quite clearly.

Pieter van Hattem Not only does CYHSY rediscover the melodic energy and spirit that first captivated the blogosphere back in 2005, but it also treads into unchartered territory with sophisticated, provocative balladry on tracks such as “Misspent Youth,” “In people do, but you gather what you can from people who a Motel” and “Siesta (For Snake).” have come before you.” “It would have been one thing if we had taken a break CLAP YOUR Maybe that’s why Ounsworth has heard the comparisons and for everybody to just sit around and wait for the next before. record, not doing anything with music or anything creative,” From the time he started Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with Ounsworth says. “It’s another thing that everybody remained HANDS SAY four friends from Connecticut College, the frontman has active and actually saw a lot of new angles of how to approach often been pegged as a David Byrne sound-alike. records in that period.” Truthfully, it’s an analogy that isn’t complete hogwash. The album’s singles, “Same Mistake” and “Maniac,” stand YEAH Ounsworth’s vocal style is certainly reminiscent of out as some of the band’s best material to date. Byrne’s distinctive yelp – with traces of Tom Verlaine Like early favorites “Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away” R ediscovers Identity with (Television), Paul Banks (Interpol) and Jeff Mangum and “The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth,” CYHSY fuses (Neutral Milk Hotel) also interspersed. thumping rhythms with beautiful harmonies and buzzing Hysterical As a matter of fact, it wasn’t long after CYHSY started synths to make you realize that this isn’t just your typical touring that Byrne was spotted at some of its shows. indie rock fluff. But don’t make the mistake of simply classifying the For a control freak like Ounsworth, striking that balance b osy j h herwitt Brooklyn band as some sort of modern-day Talking Heads. has taken him and his band mates nearly six years to perfect. The quintet, instead, squashes that notion on its latest And now that they’ve found it again, there’s no looking studio album, Hysterical, after spending more than two years back. A lec Ounsworth hasn’t ever tried to fol– with producer John Congleton on the project. “I feel like I really know what this project is,” he says. low in someone else’s footsteps. What materialized on the 12-song LP is a more polished, “Over the years I think I’ve been able to step back, relax and Like most musicians nowadays, though, he has had his focused sound that many critics expected to hear in 2007 understand that there is something special about this project own collection of influences since he began writing and with the release of Some Loud Thunder. that I can’t put my finger on, but I’m just going to roll with recording songs as a teenager. CYHSY’s sophomore effort, however, received mostly it.” “There are certain models that I like to keep in mind as mixed reviews after watching its self-produced, self-titled I’m doing this,” he says. “Sort of ‘where do I see myself in debut spread like wildfire across the Internet and earn Hysterical is currently available. For more information, visit 10 years?’ And not to say I want to do precisely what other sweeping praise just a couple years earlier. clapyourhandssayyeah.com.

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M arc Anthony is just like a fine bottle of wine that keeps getting better and better as it gently ages. Of Puerto Rican descent but born in New York City, this prominent music figure is scheduled to deliver two spectacular concerts at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal CityWalk this coming Saturday and Sunday. Arguably the best voice the genre of salsa has ever witnessed, Anthony sports a fabulous musical repertoire. Having already sold over 11-million albums universally, he is truly considered an influence within the industry – and beyond. Anthony is also an entrepreneur and actor, who has appeared in several popular films. He is a minority owner of the Miami Dolphins of the NFL. He can be seen alongside Denzel Washington in acclaimed director Tony Scott’s Man on Fire (2004) and Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead (1999). However, one of Anthony’s unforgettable acting performances comes via his role as salsa legend Héctor Lavoe in El Cantante, where Jennifer Lopez played his wife Puchi. Music made him, though, and it is what has elevated his professional career beyond normal success. Anthony reached triple platinum in 1999 with his first English record titled Marc Anthony. This album featured the hit single “I Need to Know,” which became known the world over. Once recognized in New York Magazine’s Top 10 list of most influential New Yorkers, Anthony has released numerous salsa albums and singles. Starting with “Valió La Pena” (It Was Worth Discounts only apply to pre-purchased tickets prior to the day of the event. Discounts based on full price Halloween Horror Nights general admission of $62. Restrictions apply. SCREAM 4™ & © 2011 The Weinstein Company LLC. All rights reserved. Ghost Face® mask used by permission under copyright license from Easter Unlimited, Inc./Fun World Div. Ghost Face® is a registered trademark of Easter Unlimited, Inc./Fun World Div. It), a melody that is too rich in rhythm to describe, it is considered All Rights Reserved. Dimension Films ©2011. All Rights Reserved. TM & © 2011 Screen Gems, Inc. and Lions Gate Films Inc. All Rights Reserved. THETHING ©2011 Universal Studios. one of his most epic songs. And one cannot ignore crowd favorites All Rights Reserved. 11-LOC-11159 “Tu Amor Me Hace Bien” (Your Love is Good to Me), “Que Precio Tiene El Cielo” (What’s the Sky’s Price), “Celos” (Jealousy) and “Ahora Quien” (Now Who). All are pieces that Anthony is sure to sing at the upcoming shows. Free Film Screenings – Contests – Exclusive Savings Whether he showcases his traditional salsa tunes, classic covers from Lavoe’s career, popular ballads or his English tracks, Anthony is prepared to deliver unforgettable musical displays to Los Angeles.

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old shops. “The only difference between this band and all the other kingso g bands out there is intrinsically a link to vinyl and old records,” says Kings Go Forth co-founder and bassist Andy Noble. “The Kings Go Forth sound and its mere existence owes a lot to the foRth record store and not the least because I met Black Wolf, the singer, at my store.” A New Generation’s Soul Black Wolf is his own character on stage. You can find

video clips of the band online and see how his persona is often Jim Newberry Revival lifted by the sounds created by the 10-piece band. There’s a tremendous respect Noble has for King’s lead vocalist, who b ei y d n s guerra often can improvise and transform his voice to each song’s is subconscious. A lot of people think I’m trying to create complex set of arrangements. this ’70s-style group, but they were formative years for me A ll this dire news of wars and a troubled “The reason why we were friends at first was because we because it was the sound I heard around me. I think what I economy, I need a pick-me-up. Give me a heavy rhythm, fast were trying to find all these old records,” says Noble. learned about myself musically is that the music I heard from beats, loud horns and a smooth voice, and I’m shaking to Keeping true to soul’s past, Noble and Wolf create my first years of life really influenced me.” Kings Go Forth. songs about love and despair, and moving lyrics that inspire Noble is mellow on the phone, but his music is far from Kings Go Forth is a soul and rock jam fest of various motivation past life’s obstacles. Songs such as “Paradise that. He is the group’s main sound arranger, kind of like the instruments smashed together in amazing synchronicity; Lost,” (off their full-length debut, The Outsiders Are Back) composer of the piece who is in charge of layering different playing all at once, both loud and funky. You may think that which is about a prisoner’s lament, a stark contrast to its musical sets one on top of the other. It can be a complex piece only hardcore fans of the underground soul music subculture upbeat tempo. Along with genres like jazz, soul is like one of of work for anyone. A typical rock set layers a drum and a may be aware of Kings Go Forth, but their fan base ranges the founding fathers to today’s contemporary sound. Older guitar, maybe a keyboard. But with Kings go Forth, Noble is from Sharon Jones to Radiohead listeners. In fact, they listeners will be able to immediately identify Kings Go Forth in charge of layering several percussion beats, with horns and have a pretty big following in Europe, where there’s a dress from a broad palette of classic R&B (mid-’60s Chicago, early- trumpets, bass, vocals, background vocals and keyboards all code specifically for going to soul concerts. Even the most ’70s Philadelphia and other more obscure sources). together. incredulous listener will find a little piece of soul in a lot of “Hip-hop kids got into it because soul was the foundation If you haven’t heard the finished masterpieces, then popular music today. of sample material, rock kids liked its high energy and old you’re missing out. Kings Go Forth is not only emotional, but Soul music may have come forth from the Civil Rights people never stopped liking it,” explains Noble. their music creates a force in your body to make you move movement and with it an integration into the mainstream Noble was born in 1975 and took the music of that and shake without notice. And if that ain’t pure soul, than I rock sound as a whole. To many, the stereotype of soul as decade straight into the 20th century. His vast (let’s stress the don’t what it is. strictly a black genre may be surprised to learn that Kings Go word vast) collection is his formidable time capsule keeping Forth was born from a white kid from Milwaukee who was the long-forgotten soul singers alive. Kings Go Forth performs Sept. 27 at the Echo. For more inspired by collecting old records from basements, attics and “I was a child of the ’70s,” says Noble. “Kings Go Forth information, visit kingsgoforth.com.

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that in life?” Another track off the record is “For the First Time,” a THE sCRIPT melody of the troubles in a relationship because of the poor economy. Yes, the recession has reached the entire world, Setting Passion to Music including Europe. “We all have quite a bit of complaints,” Powers states of b ry ma vin vasquez this particular tune. “There is the global financial crisis … we had to write it. It is a great song about those events.” Pe rhaps it is their passion for music and The Script has a track record for great songs. Their passion songwriting, or even their desire to produce good times is instilled within each track’s lyrics and musical beats. for their audiences that makes the Script memorable. Most “Passionate, honest, emotional … those words really likely you can recall and even identify with their hit single describe who we are, but above all honesty,” Power admits. “Breakeven” from their 2008 self-titled debut album. And you With regards to musical influences, the Script has many, are probably already singing the song’s chorus: “I’m falling but there is one particular instance with a certain group that

to pieccceeeeesss.” “Breakeven” has sold over 1.7 million instantly comes to mind and can never be forgotten by the Westenberg Kevin downloads in the U.S. alone. Furthermore, it reached No. 1 on band members. Billboard’s Adult Pop Songs radio airplay chart. Had enough “In our home country of Ireland, we got to play along of a refresher course? with U2 at Dublin’s Crone Park,” a sincere, yet thrilled Power “90210,” “Ghost Whisperer” and “The Hills.” An Irish alternative rock band from the majestic city of confesses. “That was humbling … believe me, that was rather The Script, who met years ago on working holiday in Dublin, the Script is back on the industry’s scene. Consisting monumental for us … of course, we got to meet Bono. It was the City of Angeles, has an upcoming L.A. concert at the of the dark-haired charismatic vocalist Danny O’Donoghue, a crazy, crazy event for us.” Hollywood Palladium on Saturday, Sept. 24, that is part of ebullient guitarist Mark Sheehan and ferociously passionate Power and the rest of the crew have also taken the stage their Science & Faith Tour. drummer Glen Power, the Script released their sophomore with Take That and Sir Paul McCartney. The Script opened at “The American crowd is respectful, and they hang around effort, Science & Faith, last year. New York’s Citi Field for McCartney, and they feel blessed to after our show,” shares Power. “When we visit Los Angeles and The album’s latest prominent single is “Nothing,” a have performed such an honor. Other influences include the New York, we walk around the streets … we are happy to get romantic yet gradually up-tempo tune that will truly rock hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, Queen, the Neptunes, the opportunity to play there.” you. “I’m smiling, but I’m dying trying not to drag my feet,” Timbaland, Van Morrison and the Police. Quite frankly, we Whether or not you partake in their tour or listening to sings O’Donoghue, but he does it in such a manner that can can begin to understand why each member of the Script is their repertoire, these three Dubliners indeed know how to calm your heart and soul. It romantically fuels one’s believes so intensely passionate and devoted to their music: Their cultivate the true meaning of music. In that sense, they are of romance, relationships and life. musical influences represent that as well. beyond powerful. “It is about what people can relate to and an emotion to The Script’s music has been included in video games connect to,” Power explains, adding that it primarily stemmed and several well-known television shows. Some of these The Script performs Sept. 24 at the Palladium. For more from an anecdote from O’Donoghue’s life. “Who has not done are “Waterloo Road,” “EastEnders,” “The Vampire Diaries,” information, visit thescriptmusic.com.

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L.A.UNDERGROUND MUSICINTERVIEWS Thomas O’Brien the bROTHER derek needtobreathe blues band Settle into Success with The Reckoning Musical Thoroughbreds b tepy s hanie choi b uoy s zi f x Pe rhaps the most overused and misused word bands choose to describe themselves is understandably “unique,” since novelty often makes or breaks a T hey considered calling themselves the Five Blind Boys of band. However, considering how long music has been around, originality has thus become Alhambra, but after ESPN ran a special on horse racing, they stole the name “Brother a tall order. Still, South Carolina rock band Needtobreathe refuses to be pegged down to Derek” off a stud in Kentucky. Come to find out that the horse was named after a a particular musical genre and rocks out its newest album, The Reckoning, hitting stores Mormon missionary. this week. The Brother Derek Blues Band is a collection of professional actors and gifted “The last record we did was called The Outsiders, that was motivated by us feeling that musicians featuring Chris Flanders on guitar/vocals, Drew Wicks on bass/vocals, Kahlil we didn’t really fit into any part of the music industry. The record was about us owning Sabbagh on drums/vocals and Ginger Smith, vocal performer-extraordinaire/blonde up to that and embracing it,” says drummer Joe Stillwell. “After the release of that record, hottie. Each one has an impressive talent rap sheet. Smith is known for her roles in “Loves we gained more recognition; we could definitely feel a lot more anticipation going into the Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder,” “ASC-DCI StEM,” “The Jamie Kennedy making of this new record. ‘Reckoning’ means a settlement of something, and this album Experiment” and Sister Act 2. Flanders’ acting career has landed him on “24,” “Law and is our way of proving to fans that we can live up to their expectations.” Order,” “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” “The United States of Tara,” “Brothers The band was formed when brothers Bear and Bo Rinehart joined with drummer and Sisters” and more. Wicks has appeared on national ad campaigns for Big Red gum, Stillwell and bassist Seth Bolt to form Needtobreathe while attending different colleges. Budweiser, Mercedes-Benz, Taco Bell, Tropicana and Keystone Beer. He’s been on shows “We had started a band by freshman year, but it wasn’t until maybe my senior year that like “Scrubs,” “Angel,” “3rd Rock From the Sun” and “Kisses and Caroms.” Sabbagh, has we realized we could be something more,” comments Stillwell. acted in films such as “ASC-DCI Stem,” Callback, Legend of the Mummy, Turbo: A Power With Bolt, who had received a degree in recording engineering, they recorded their Rangers Movie, Demolition University and Dissent. As a music consultant he worked on earliest EPs at Bolt’s Plantation Studios. The band got its break when it came to the the TV series “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and as a composer, writer and producer on the attention of Atlantic/Lava Records, with whom they signed in 2005. A year later they award-winning film “Boyz Up Unauthorized.” As an outside interest, the guys in the band released their debut full-length album, Daylight, followed by tours with Train, Collective are all triathletes, and together have done the Iron Man and other local races. These guys Soul and Will Hoge. Even with influences from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, can play all night. Smith boasts that her marathons involve running around the block. Radiohead and Coldplay, Needtobreathe manages to hold its own musical flavor, with a At gigs, the Brother Derek Blues Band runs until midnight to 1 a.m. This is when they heavy southern-ness to it. “We’re like a sponge. Our music doesn’t sound like anything; it’s allow any brazen drunk to sing on stage with them. just good old rock ’n’ roll,” they say. Sabbagh clarifies, “It’s our way of giving back to the community.” The band is currently on tour with Taylor Swift as the opening act to the North The drummer, who is Lebanese, fancies himself a “combination of Robin Williams American leg of her Speak Now World Tour, which started in May in Omaha, Neb., after meets Tony Robbins.” If true confessions were to be told Kahlil would tell you, “Blues is having been handpicked by the country songstress. only fun for me if I’m playing and really, I feel it is my mission in life to help white people “One day Taylor contacted our management, out of the blue, and asked us to join her become better musicians.” on her tour. We’ve heard from Twitter and some blogs that she was a fan of the band, but Wicks shares, “We look forward to playing together because we have a good time it was still a surprise because we’ve never met her in person,” tells Stillwell. “It’s cool that going through tunes, and there’s a drive to hit new territory, especially with Ginger whose instead of just bringing out another country act, she wanted to bring a band that she really got a driving ambition to break new ground.” liked and wanted to share with the fans.” Their first album, Cold Shot, is in homage to Stevie Ray Vaughan’s song. In his Apart from the big shows with Swift, Needtobreathe has been performing at various somewhat misspent youth, Flanders, a rabid fan of the bluesman, stole one of Vaughan’s smaller local venues. guitars. He later named his own son Vaughn. His wife asked him, “So we named our son “These are little intimate shows, and they’re great. It’s an hour and a half of sweat, after a coke-snorting, whiskey-drinking guy?” “Exactly, but he got clean before he died. energy and just banging out good music. The live shows have been such a big part of how And it’s better than calling him Dime Bag Flanders,” exclaimed Flanders. we’ve built ourselves up for the past years, so we put everything into each,” says Stillwell. Their next album will showcase Smith, who has become the principal songwriting Indeed, the band has a reputation for putting out amazing live sessions, but what force for their material. Those who have influenced Smith musically include Becky is more impressive is its wide range of fans, in Stillwell’s words, from “teenagers, college Barksdale, Lou Ann Barton, Ella Fitzgerald, Janis Joplin, Etta James, Suzy Williams and students, people in their 50s and 60s, and even little kids listening to [their] music on the Teresa Tudury. Her vast experience in musical theater, vocal arts performance, voiceover way to school in their mom’s car.” work, R&B and jazz make Smith a powerhouse entertainer. “I think that’s an indication of the honesty that we try to put into our music. We It’s clear they love performing. Smith explains, “We can change our vocals dramatically just try to write songs that come from the heart and from where we are, and people can each time because our style gives us a lot of freedom.” They create an experience for their genuinely connect with that,” notes Stillwell. audiences through their performances on stage knowing they can do something different Over the past years that Needtobreathe has been around, the band has been playing every time. One evening Sabbagh wanted to share some news publicly about Wicks and and experimenting with different styles of sound and has thus modified and refined their turned to get the OK from him before speaking. Wicks, assuming Sabbagh was going to music while staying true to their identity. announce the good news of his most recent gig in a Regents Bank commercial gave the “I feel like we’ve gotten better over the years since we’ve started out; our music has nod to go ahead. Little did Wicks realize that the “news” Sabbagh decided to share was been growing and evolving, and the good thing is that our fans have come along with us. I the fact that Wicks had just gotten a vasectomy. He just thought the people would want think we’ve developed a culture with our fans that if we came up with a country song, our to know. fans would still dig it,” says Stillwell. “All in all, it feels really good to be 12 years into it and still doing it and loving it.” Brother Derek Blues Band performs Sept. 29 at TRiP in Santa Monica. For more information, visit reverbnation.com/brotherderek. The Reckoning is currently available. For more information, visit needtobreathe.net.

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b vy ke in wierzbicki Osbourne started writing the Dr. Ozzy columns last year after he had his DNA mapped to determine if science Batman: Arkham City – The Album could explain how he’s survived nearly four decades of drug Panic! At the Disco, Coheed and Cambria and Black Rebel and alcohol abuse. So far the scientists have no explanation, Motorcycle Club are among the artists who’ve contributed although they did find variants in his genome that they had new original songs to Batman: Arkham City – The Album, never seen before. Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy hits stands Oct. 11. the musical companion piece to the videogame of the same name. Each artist approached their contribution to the My Chemical Romance Drummer Fired album with their own unique interpretations of the stories Michael Pedicone, the drummer for My Chemical Romance, surrounding Batman. has been fired for stealing from the band. The band issued Claudio Sanchez, the frontman for Coheed and Cambria the following statement on its Web site: “The relationship says, “I write in a very conceptual format with the stories between My Chemical Romance and Michael Pedicone that surround Coheed and Cambria, but Batman has a much is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band larger defined history and rules that go along with it. My goal and confessed to police after our show last night [Sept. 5] in was to find universal themes from Batman’s existing history Auburn, Wash. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs Batman: Arkham City - The Album hits stores Oct. 4. to help give the lyrics legs and dimension so that the song over this entire situation. The band has no intention of could live within that world.” pressing charges or pursuing this matter any further than The third disc is packed with classic cuts from bands like The Duke Spirit, Blaqk Audio, Daughtry, Serj Tankian we have to. We just want him out of our lives. The people Lacuna Coil (“Heaven’s a Lie”), Eyehategod (“30$ Bag”) and and the Damned Things are some of the other acts who play in this band are a family, and family should not Despised Icon who represent with “Retina.” Metal For The represented, and buyers of the collector’s edition of the take advantage of each other like he did. We are currently Masses Vol. 9 is available for $8.99 exclusively at Hot Topic. videogame will get a download of the album with the bonus moving forward and hope to have a new drummer in place cut “In the Shadow” by A Place to Bury Strangers. The album [to finish the tour.] The show must go on.” Jarrod Alexander Array Vol. 1 drops on Oct. 4, and the game drops on Oct. 18. of Los Angeles band Dead Country has since been enlisted as Autonomous Music is offering an eighteen-track compilation MCR’s interim drummer. of their artists for free download. The label promises that Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy Array Vol. 1 is loaded with fresh beats, current ideas and Ozzy Osbourne is about to release a new book, a follow-up Metal For The Masses Vol. 9 massive instrumentals from Empty Space Orchestra, Octopus to last year’s best-selling memoir I Am Ozzy. Osbourne has Century Media has just released Metal For The Masses Vol. 9, a Nebula, the Polish Ambassador, Dr. Israel, Etheric Double been writing a medical advice column for Rolling Stone for specially-priced triple-disc set containing 48 songs. The set’s Soundsystem, Natasha Kmeto, Resident Anti-Hero and many quite some time and Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy: Advice from first disc features Century Media acts like Suicide Silence, others. Autonomous is primarily a management and booking Rock’s Ultimate Survivor contains some of the best material Vampires Everywhere!, Arch Enemy, Winds of Plague and company, but the Autonomous Music label is a 100-percent from those columns along with survival stories not found Arsonists Get All the Girls, while the second disc is made up free label so there’ll be more coming; for now grab your no- in the memoir, his answers to celebrities’ medical questions, of cuts from acts signed to Nuclear Blast including Sepultura, charge copy of Array Vol. 1 at autonomousmusic.bandcamp. charts and sidebars and more. Belphegor, All Shall Perish, Symphony X and Amorphis. com.

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news. But as the award proves, there is a reason Harvey should remain in the music world’s consciousness. PJ HARVEY Harvey won the same prize 10 years ago for her honest, haunting album Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea. One advantage Harvey has over Adele is that of experience. wins mERCURY Comparing all of her albums to try to define her sound is like taking pieces from different puzzles and trying to put them together. Harvey’s talent for songwriting and her willingness prize to explore even the most difficult of topics stays constant, but the sounds change from album to album. W hy You Should Give Her a Let England Shake, the album that won her the Mercury Prize this year, is an album that deals with the ugliest parts of

Listen war and the complexities of being of proud of your nation. Seamus Murphy Some might argue that this is exactly why she was given the b vcy e a re inos award: She created an entire album revolving around her PJ Harvey’s unique talents won her a second Mercury Prize. country. But whether or not this skewed the decision of the O ne of the biggest British singer-song– judges – which is highly unlikely since Harvey doesn’t hold So despite the fact that her winning comes as a bit of a writers on the American music scene right now is Adele. back on describing the horrors of war – there is still a lot to be surprise to some, it proves there is a certain brand of talent that Her chill-inducing voice, undeniable honesty and heartfelt found in the album besides political statements. Something Harvey possesses. The U.K. music industry figures who voted songwriting have gotten her tracks blasting from hundreds of about the tracks, starting with the eerie and engrossing “Let for Harvey’s album seem to want to point us in the different of car radios over the past few months. England Shake,” separate them from a lot of music being something new, something we perhaps haven’t heard playing So it can’t help but come as a surprise that one of the created today. everywhere we go. Adele has unremarkable talent, but this win biggest prizes for British music, the Barclaycard Mercury These are not safe, easily digested tracks. They are is not about comparing talent but rather about giving a nod Prize, did not go to the talented nominee Adele. The prize is frequently haunting; some tracks have a beautiful delicacy that to another album, besides 21, that was well-crafted and poetic given to the person with the best album of the year, and if makes them seem as if they could fall apart at any moment. and left a visible mark on the music critics of the world. we went by numbers, Adele’s 21 was the first album of the Even the album cover, a flurry of blackbirds gathering behind As L.A. Times writer Ann Powers, who gave the album four year to sell a million copies. Beyond that, it was difficult to go chunky white letters, gives the impression that this album out of four stars, puts it, “Polly Jean Harvey is rock’s master anywhere without hearing “Rolling in the Deep,” being played might take you to some places you won’t want to go, but it’ll polymorph.” Tracking the career of this highly interesting from some speaker. do so with a sincerity and passion that you can’t shake off. singer will show us different sides and prove that there is Yet despite all these strong qualifications, the award went Tracks like “The Glorious Land” might make it difficult for always room for a musician to continue evolving. A quick visit to another female singer-songwriter: the ever-enigmatic, all listeners to relate, but the catchiness of the track coupled to Spotify will yield you Let England Shake in its entirety and quirky PJ Harvey. Hers is not a name you’re bound to hear on with Harvey’s distinct voice make it an interesting listen perhaps make you fall in love with something you didn’t think your pop radio station or even read about in Billboard’s latest nonetheless. you would even like.

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Ape Machine album. War to Head The fourth track, “Empire Waist,” is mellifluously catchy, (Ape Machine) the kind that would play in your head all day. The 10th and The band’s name conjures the image of some sort of robo- last song, “In Your Sleep,” ends the track list on a high note, monkey, but Ape Machine came about their moniker in a concluding the album with a masterful blend of haunting completely simian-free manner. The group prefers to record vocals, addicting guitar and crisp and clean drum beats, all in on vintage equipment, and Ape Machine (“tape machine” their special, understated way. with the “t” lopped off) is merely an inside reference to their All Night the Calls Came In is refreshing against a sea of particular technical bent. in-your-face sounds permeating today’s industry, offering There is a thousand pound gorilla in the mix though; wonderfully fluid and feel-good music that is, well, music to Ape Machine plays a kind of heavy rock whose genesis can your ears. be traced directly back to one of the genre’s founders – Black Grade: A Sabbath. Singer Caleb Heinze has a way with his phrasing that —Kristina Bravo indicates he’s picked up plenty from Ozzy Osbourne; you All Night the Calls Came In is currently available. might think the influence is subconscious until you hear the band lurch through “Hold Your Tongue” and “The Sun” like Kaura Ozzy’s Iron Man is rampaging through the studio. That Which Defines Us Not everything is a Sabbath attack though; “Black Night” (Self-released) with its screeching guitar and warbling organ fills sounds like Kaura plays modern hard rock, the kind that will garner them vintage Deep Purple while the brief “No Sugar in My Coffee” radio play right along with the Sevendusts and the Seethers of demonstrates that Ape Machine, like most early hard rocks the world, but there are a couple of very noticeable differences acts, realizes that some of their best riffs are derived from the that separate Kaura (pronounced kay-aura) from the rest of blues. the hard rock heap. Small is a singer and guitar player with a background in both Grade: B Firstly their music is subtly positive; you would be hard bluegrass and Chicago-style blues, and he puts a combination —Kevin Wierzbicki pressed to hear any anger or hopelessness in the voice of of both playing styles to use for this offering of covers of War to Head is currently available. singer Malcolm Guess, even though songs like “Apathy” and famous blues tunes. “Tether’s End” lyrically deal with less than rosy situations. A version of Muddy Waters’ “Trouble No More” where Get Set Go The other thing that Kaura does here that stands out is use a Small growls out the lyrics while accompanying himself on Fury of Your Lonely Heart bunch of instruments that aren’t normally heard on hard rock Dobro is a perfect example of how the two genres overlap. (Square Tire) records or on popular records period. Small contributes just one of his own tunes, the hot- It’s a little bit ironic that Get Set Go’s brush with fame, the The album’s intro cut “Invocation” uses the didgeridoo to rodding “Boogie Woogie Guitar Man;” otherwise even the song “Wait,” isn’t even on one of their own albums; the downt eerie effect and “Sera Phi” incorporates hammered dulcimer most casual of blues fans will recognize many of the numbers empo, McCartney-esque tune is a one-off that the band into the melody. If you listen closely you’ll hear gamelan bells, here. placed on the “Grey’s Anatomy” soundtrack that came out in tabla and tribal drums sprinkled throughout; Kaura picked up With almost every song performed acoustically it’s easy to 2005, and the show’s Dr. Bailey character (Chandra Wilson) the exotic instruments during their world travels. hear Small’s talent, especially on Willie Dixon’s classic “Little sang her own version of the song during “Grey”’s “musical This debut recording comes with a bonus DVD containing Red Rooster” where he squeezes incredible tones out of a 1947 event” episode last season. videos for some of the album’s cuts along with performance Martin guitar, tossing in lightning-fast flourishes where the The band has developed a different sound over the past footage showing some of the offbeat instruments in use. song’s spare arrangement allows. half decade, and a lot of that has to do with moving viola Grade: A Small plugs in only once, cranking up his Telecaster to player Eric Summer to the forefront. “Fury of Your Lonely —Kevin Wierzbicki achieve the scratching buzz required for a cover of John Lee Heart” is a showcase for Summer, where he gets to lead the That Which Defines Us is currently available. Hooker’s “Bang Bang Bang Bang,” elsewhere its clear-as-a- song’s melody but also take some rock star-style solos; on the bell acoustic picking on chestnuts like “61 Highway,” “Catfish Celtic-flavored “Lock Up Your Daughters” Summer plays in Nurses Blues” and “Sweet Home Chicago.” the traditional Irish style and on “Stone of Suffering” he puts Dracula Grade: A his classical training to good use. (Deep Oceans) —Kevin Wierzbicki It seems that the musical partnership between Summer Aaron Chapman is the guitarist for Nurses, but he didn’t take Blacks, Whites & the Blues is currently available. and singer Mike TV is much tighter than before; even on the that role, as such, in the making of Dracula. Chapman and Police-like “We Will Be Stars” TV’s honeyed vocals are pushed band mates James Mitchell and John Bowers made Dracula Rachel Taylor Brown to another level backed by the viola. not by writing songs on guitar or keyboard in the typical World So Sweet Get Set Go is an American band, but much of this record manner; rather they collected snippets of ideas and moved (Penury Pop) sounds British, like a Verve/Hollies mash-up, due in part to them around until something formed. On Rachel Taylor Brown’s seventh release, World So Sweet, TV having a voice and relaxed singing style that recalls that The result is a Modest Mouse-y kind of record that the Portland, Ore., songwriter-singer continues to look of Graham Nash, the Englishman from Crosby, Stills & Nash. displays moments of experimental pop genius like “You at the ugliness in beauty and the beauty in ugliness: the Grade: B Lookin’ Twice” where the song was clearly built around its contradictions of the world around us. Brown’s 13 tracks —Kevin Wierzbicki quirky beat. offset often upbeat, danceable melodies with dark tales of Fury of Your Lonely Heart is currently available. “So Sweet” with its loping rhythm and airy melody sounds child abuse, religious skepticism, the death of friends and like tropicalia music from outer space, while “Trying to Reach surgical addiction. Halloween, Alaska You” heads in the opposite direction with a funky overtone Brown’s unpredictable arrangements range from an All Night the Calls Came In informed by Memphis soul. album opener, which utilizes 50 massed pianos, to sweet piano (Amble Down) Chapman is also the band’s singer, and most of his vocal pop (the Kate Bush meets the Eels cut “Modesto Waltz”) and Listening to the music of a band called Halloween, Alaska is work here is uplifting even though much of the music comes onto modest minimalism (“Scotland,” an eloquent elegy to a just how it would seem: It sounds like a cross between the off as moody. Chapman also has an unusual nuance to his deceased colleague). kookiness of the supposed freakiest night of the year and cold voice, an odd sort of helium-esque inflection that he invokes Juxtaposition furnishes potency to bouncy rock tune weather. It’s electronic, ambient, dark and upbeat all at the in a couple of places on Dracula; the way he accents “tell” “Sister Jean,” a head-nodding grabber that hides lines about a same time. during “Wouldn’t Tell” is an amazing feat that turns one real-life, teenage girl who died from parental abuse. This band from Minnesota has been around, releasing simple word into the song’s most memorable hook. Impulsively energetic alt-rocker “Taxidermy” applies the their first album in 2004, with tracks that have been featured Nurses perform Sept. 28 at the Echo. scientific presentation of dead animals as a metaphor for on the television series “The O.C.” Their latest, All Night the Grade: B people obsessed with plastic surgery. Calls Came In, is a solid effort that would sure make its way to —Kevin Wierzbicki Irony and profanity laces strangely anthemic “Mercy in the ears of old and new fans alike even without the promotion Dracula is currently available. Nebraska,” about families who used the Safe Haven Law to of a teen drama. abandon children to the government. The opening track, titled “You Are Not Well,” is just the Mark T. Small Grade: B right amount of moodiness that has a certain quiet, inviting Blacks, Whites & the Blues —Doug Simpson enough to have the listener staying tuned to the rest of the (Lead Foot) World So Sweet is currently available.

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FREQUENCY b ivey br en o rly MUSICINTERVIEWS SIMS Don’t Feed the Animals b ivey br en o rly Michele Civetta Lo o king at the main– Ladytron engages Angelenos with awesomeness at the Wiltern Sept. 24. stream hip-hop scene can be a little disheartening sometimes. Polar Bear Club For all of the industry’s posturing Sept. 21 @ Chain Reaction about artists who are supposedly Not to start off by saying that everything is going to head downhill from here onward, revolutionizing the genre, at

but ... our first Frequency pick this week is kind of the best show you’re going to see in the end of the day, it’s the same Dan Monick this seven-day stretch. The Rochester-bred fivesome of Polar Bear Club are easily one of lyrical clichés with bigger egos the best up-and-coming punk bands right now who can channel the olden days of classic and bigger stage effects. Luckily, East Coast punk while still being sonically progressive with their modernization of it. unbeknownst to MTV and rap radio, there exists a movement of MCs that have Despite being every bit a gritty piss-and-vinegar style punk band, frontman Jimmy something a little more real to say. And though he’s managed to make a name for himself Stadt brings an infectious enthusiasm to the stage and an uncommon intellectualism to in that movement with the release of this year’s Bad Time Zoo, Minneapolis-bred Sims his lyrics. Likewise, his band mates can match his energy beat for beat, making for a high- will be the last one to talk himself up for it. energy set that actually gives you something to think about at the same time. Underneath “I’m not a narcissist … to the point that maybe I’m a little narcissistic about it,” he his perma-smile and skill as a wordsmith though, Stadt is still one of the most intense jokes, though not without adding, “And that might hurt my music.” front man in all of rock. Whether growling out social commentary or getting more Though he’s atypically light on bravado and hype, there really isn’t much about Sims introspective with his signature sandpaper-throated crooning, Stadt owns any mic he as a whole that lends to posturing. As a member of the hip-hop collective Doomtree, holds and any stage he stands on. alongside fellow Minneapolis native POS, Sims has a very different creative mindset than As if that’s not enough, the Club has brought out some very legit opening acts for other rhyme-slingers. this outing, with Fireworks, Balance and Composure and Make Do and Mend. All three “I rap about the stuff I think about, and the stuff I think about isn’t necessarily the of these bands bring post-punk to new levels of emotive intensity and put on a killer live easiest or lightest content. It can be difficult to make a listenable song from it,” he says. “I show to match their skillful musicianship. Enough that it’s actually worth it to make the don’t feel like I take the easy route when I write songs. For a white hip-hop artist, there’s drive to Anaheim and stand surrounded by 13-year-olds on a floor that your shoes stick a lot of easy outs, and I don’t really do those. I’m not one of those ‘I’m a crazy ass white to for three hours, in order to see this show. Seriously though. boy who doesn’t give a fuck!’ types,” he says with a laugh. “I wanted to make a record that wasn’t as heavy as my last one. I don’t know if I did that, but like with any piece of art, Colour Revolt what you intended it to be is irrelevant when you release it. It becomes the listener’s.” Sept. 23 @ The Wire While Sims may have intended to write an album that catered as much to being Sept. 24 @ The Echo blasted in headphones as being the background noise at a party with Bad Time Zoo, So … if Nine Inch Nails and Brand New had a monstrous, angst-ridden antichrist of his lyrical chops have only gotten sharper and less hesitant to bite with the album. An child together, it would be Colour Revolt. But don’t let that deter you, it’s the most badass even mix of pointed cultural commentary and sometimes unsettlingly candid emotional demon offspring this side of prog rock. Mixing elements of punk, post-hardcore and introspection, the album is Sims’ poetic elegy of the human condition in modern society, industrial for an eerily seamless mix, Colour Revolt go where even their sonic lineage angry and vulnerable as that may be. have yet to tread. Concussively hard, while still being unsettlingly raw and unfiltered, the “I read, I watch movies, I go to museums from time to time, but I can’t say there’s end effect is aggressive rock music that’s as hauntingly atmospheric as it is infectiously anything that inspires me more than listening to people talk,” he says. “What’s really catchy. interesting is when you ask someone a question that may be a little personal and you see these flags go up, these defense mechanisms. I like to try and analyze what led to that Sims/Lazerbeak/Cecil Otter defense mechanism, and create a story through that.” Sept. 24 @ Central For an album that was nearly four years in the making, however, it should be no You can already read about how awesome Sims is elsewhere in this issue, so now I’m surprise that Zoo is something of a lyrical master’s thesis on human psychology from going to spend some time talking up his label mates Lazerbeak and Cecil Otter. The Sims’ perspective. former is a master of all things beat and turntable-related, the latter an equally skillful “Lazerbeak first sent me some beats while I was on Warped Tour in 2007. We worked employer of lyrical prose. While we’re only one POS and one Dessa Darling away from on a lot of other projects in the interim, but I started collecting beats that far back. I having the Doomtree elite council in its entirety, we’ll call it even since the pseudo- wasn’t intending to make an album at the time, but some of the songs kicked around for underground hip-hop trio have gone intimate for this outing, playing a D-market bar a while,” he says. “‘Sink or Syncopate’ is one where I got the beat, would get my skateboard venue that’s really more local bar than music venue. And is about the size of my closet. out after 7 a.m. load-in at Warped, and just skate around the village in that magic hour The only thing that could possibly earn more punk cred is if they actually played in my before doors open when there’s no one there.” basement. Point being, there’s no better way to get the kind of real talk these three dudes Though, true to form, not everything in the Sims oeuvre is sunshine and magic, as he dish out than having them actually delivering it face to face with you. pulls from his own day-to-day life for firsthand inspiration as well. “‘The Veldt’ is a song that‘s reality-based but fantastical in a lot of ways because the environment I’m painting Ladytron is very metaphorical about what’s going on out on the street.” Sept. 24 @ The Wiltern Rhyming about werewolves, pigs and boars who “help themselves to more,” the Some things, us Americans just have to concede are done better overseas. Take dark imagery isn’t out of place when applied to the microcosm of the music industry either. and haunting synth-indie, for example. That’s one thing our UK counterparts have the But with a work ethic to match the hip-hop greats and a commitment to artistry and market cornered on, in a way that we just can’t possibly compete with. Not to disparage integrity that might actually put a few of them to shame, Sims is well prepared to navigate all the other great Brit bands of history, but really, some of the best UK imports are the the animal park. ones who have mastered melancholy and brooding. “I never started making music to have a lifelong job in music. But now that I have a Ladytron is of course no exception to the rule of general awesomeness and owning chance at it, the pressure of it being lifelong really starts to stack up. Like, who’s coming of the genre. Frontwoman Helen Marnie’s restrained and dreamy vocal style manages to shows gets more important,” he says. “But this may not last forever, so I’d rather just to somehow speak volumes without ever having to go above a low croon. Likewise, her be comfortable and be nice to people, and not let my career get in the way of being the production-inclined band mates are proof that when all members of a band actually person I want to be.” know authoritatively how to write, perform and record a good song, you don’t need to furiously attack a stage just to be engaging. Sims performs Sept. 24 at Central. For more information, visit doomtree.net/sims.

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be a chef. So when I heard about Chef Eastland’s background I was immediately eager to try her food. Chef Eastland and CUBE CAFé & her sous chefs, Gervais and Henry, are responsible for the seasonal, weekly menu Cube offers, and the way they put together the entrées is spot on. MARKETPLACE The changing menu is impressive. To be able to change weekly and still offer over 30 things to choose from takes 615 N. La Brea Ave., Los strong dedication, and that work ethic shows through in the food. When I visited last week, the nectarine and beet salad Angeles with watercress caught my eye. Fresh and light, the standout for this dish was the single crostini topped with a sharp, b i y er ca carter creamy bleu cheese. I paired that with a braised octopus dish with char-grilled radicchio and cipollini onion marmalade I sn’t it fun when you find a restaurant that to add a little sweetness. I could eat that dish all day, while you’ve never heard of and the food is spectacular? I have to let sipping on lemon Pellegrino of course. you in on the secret that is Cube Café & Marketplace. The panini are simple with basil pesto and farmer’s This unassuming space on the constantly traveled street market tomatoes, which you can add proscuitto, Italian tuna, of La Brea just after Melrose has a tomato red exterior with a thick sliced chicken breast or mild buffalo mozzarella to. I like wine glass painted on the top. It’s been open since 2006, and the straightforward ingredients that allow you to appreciate I’m guessing most of the business comes from the best form the quality of what you’re eating. Too many times I’ve ordered of promotion: word of mouth. panini that have so many ingredients that the taste gets lost. Angeleno’s runner up for best pastry chef, Jun Tan, runs From the outside it looks like a little run-of-the-mill, Should you fancy a pizza, don’t be surprised to find the sweet division of Cube. Chef Tan, joined the team in 2007 trendy wine store, but once you travel through the door, ingredients like peaches and bacon with mascarpone, spinach and has been setting the bar very high. From the market fresh you’ll find it’s not even close. As you step into a heavily Italian and ricotta, or black truffle with fried eggs. Again, simple strawberry and peach cobbler duo to the sinful Valrhona themed café with imported pastas, oils and vinegars alongside ingredients in unfamiliar pairings shine through. The pizzas chocolate tart with sea salt and fresh cream, you can bet there’s the wall, the smell of fresh-cut flowers permeates the small are easily sharable. something for every sweet tooth. We had the spoon cake with space alongside votive candles – so comforting and mildly You can choose from the primi menu with things like yoghurt ice cream, which may be the only one I didn’t care romantic. There’s also a wonderful bar made just for the over gnocchi, sweet corn stuffed pasta and lamb shank tortelloni. for, basically because the cake was a little too spongy, too hot 65 types of cheese they offer alongside salumi and charcuterie. Tortelloni goes well with the sweet and sour greens with pine and there wasn’t enough ice cream to make up for it. But one The chefs, like the restaurant, are bright and cheery. nuts and golden raisins. If what you crave is a good old- out of six isn’t bad, especially when you’re practically batting Executive Chef Erin Eastland is a graduate of the French fashioned hunk of beef, go for the Piedmontese burger with a thousand. Culinary Institute. I attended a party at the institute long ago, arugula and shallots, with spicy onion rings or bread-crumb and I was so impressed that I decided that I wanted to train to topped mac & cheese. For more information, call (323) 939-1148 or visit eatatcube.com.

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color spoiler that makes the Challenger turns eyes when it sits at the stoplight, and dual chrome exhaust pipes give a roar 2011 DODGE that will intimidate many cars on the road. Front fog Xenon lights and windshield wipers with variable intermittent wipe provide the Challenger with safety for when you’re in less than CHALLENGER accommodating conditions. You can have confidence in any weather. The only thing with the design of the Challenger is b el y s an o iver that I wish they had more glass in the backside passenger’s view, as it provides a major blind spot. Warning to drivers: You T he 2011 Dodge Challenger Rallye engulfs must always be extra careful when it comes to switching lanes. everything a muscle car has to offer. It has one thing that Besides this, the Challenger’s design is a thing of beauty that most cars today lack: heart. The Dodge Challenger is one car you enjoy looking at even when you’re not behind the wheel. that when you step behind the wheel you know your driving Interior: The Challenger has a well-designed wheelbase, experience will be memorable. When you finally reach your which gives ultimate control on winding roads. I must destination you can’t help but to take a second look at your suggest that you go with R/T 26G preferred package upgrade. Challenger and think, ‘I really do love this car.’ The Challenger’s incredible bargain package includes The Challenger offers speed, class and style, and its power leather-trimmed bucket seats, heated front seats, six Boston is not something to be tested. The icing on the cake is that Acoustics speakers, Connect Voice Command with Bluetooth, though the Challenger has a power engine that rivals the big Bluetooth streaming audio with remote USB port, automatic has managed to create a quick muscle driving machine that boys I did not spend more time at a gas station than on the headlights, Bluetooth hands free calling, heated seats, dual- is relatively fuel efficient with the Rallye model having a road. zone automatic climate control and USB iPod integration. surprising 18 city/27 highway fuel economy. Not only is the Challenger able to compete with the The package, however, does not have navigation or a rearview Safety & Security: The Challenger not only satisfies your Camaro and the Mustang, I think it takes the modern muscle camera available, which would have been icing on the muscle need for speed, but you feel extremely comfortable driving it. car to another level. With its Pentastar system that retains car cake. Extreme precautions were taken by installing the four-wheel the vehicle’s rear wheel drive accustomed with a 3.5-liter V-6 Performance: The Challenger’s quick speed is assisted by anti lock braking system, electronic brake force distribution engine and 305 horsepower, the Challenger has a kick for a tuning the new Rallye to produce 305 horsepower and 280 with brake assist (EBD), all-speed traction control and knockout punch to the competition. The Challenger is a fun pound-feet of torque. Dodge has positioned the Challenger electronic stability control. The Challenger has the power to ride because not only does it offer speed with a sleek design, it directly between its Chevy Camaro and Ford rivals, which hit the roadways, but the intricate braking system can bring has a relatively safe and comfortable ride. produce 304 hp and 327 hp respectively. The Challenger has you to a stop in a quick hurry. Coupled with an advanced Exterior: The Challenger commands the road with a both Manual and Automatic transmission available. If you multi-stage air bag system (AABS), seat belt sensors and muscle sports car’s power but in a coupe body, which gives have a strong need for speed, the Challenger certainly does occupant sensor, front-seat mounted side-impact airbags and it a mysterious but intriguing look. Ultra cool 18-inch Rallye its job to satisfy your hunger. I was shocked at how little time front/rear curtain side-impact airbags, you feel a strong sense racing wheels provide a quick and agile ride. A body rear was spent driving back and forth to the gas station. Dodge of safety.

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PERFECT, Bruins MORE lagalaxy.com topped by texas b ry ma vin vasquez Robbie Keane celebrates the Galaxy’s win. T ewo Mik Magee goals and one from Robbie Keane propelled b ry ma vin vasquez the Los Angeles Galaxy to a 3-0 victory over the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps FC at the Home Depot Center in Carson before 22,959 fans on Saturday. Galaxy head coach Bruce USC: Junior quarterback Matt Barkley and sophomore receiver Robert Woods have been Arena did not think the result was indicative of the opponent’s performance, but he was nothing but productive this season for the No. 23-ranked Trojans. In USC’s 38-17 win over pleased with his team. the visiting Syracuse Orange at the Los Angeles Coliseum, Barkley and Woods lifted the “I don’t think that was an easy game tonight,” Arena says. “I’m pleased by our players’ Trojans. Barkley threw for 324 passing yards and a school record-tying five touchdowns, efforts tonight, obviously it’s been a pretty full week that we’ve just experienced, and we while Woods caught eight throws for 82 yards and one touchdown. will be experiencing full weeks for a little bit now. I like the attitude of our players, and Barkley completed 26-of-39 passes without an interception. He connected with eight hopefully we can try to keep a couple of them fresh as we move forward.” different receivers on the night, including five times each with Brandon Carswell and Rhett With the win, Los Angeles improves to 16-3-10 for a league-best 58 points on the Ellison, who also had a TD. With five carries, Curtis McNeal led the Trojans in rushing season; additionally, they remain atop of the Western Conference. Magee gave the Galaxy yards with 79. Marc Tyler pitched in 41 yards on 15 carries. The Trojans are now 3-0 overall a 1-0 edge at the 40th minute after assists from both Keane and David Beckham. and 1-0 in conference play. USC travels to Tempe as they face the Arizona State Sun Devils “It was great … He is dangerous at all times and even when we kind of have our on Saturday, Sept. 24, at 7:15 p.m. in a Pac-12 match-up. backs up against the wall. He’s posing a threat up there,” Magee says of the goal and about Keane’s ability to pass the leather. UCLA: The No. 19-ranked Texas Longhorns took over Pasadena over the weekend, having Keane managed to score his second goal of the campaign in the 64th-minute mark off topped the UCLA Bruins 49-20 at the Rose Bowl. an assist from Bryan Jordan before Magee added his fifth score 11 minutes later. “A year ago, we beat Texas by throwing nine passes,” Bruins head coach Rick Neuheisel “It was a fantastic goal,” Keane confesses regarding his goal. “I went to the near post says. “I thought we’d be able to run the ball and control the clock, but we turned it over.” and then pulled back outside so luckily I got picked out. It probably was not my best Texas used a 14-point lead after one quarter to gain comfortable advantages and never game, to be honest with you, happy with tonight’s score.” look back. They were up 21-0 by 11:36 in the second quarter. For UCLA, Derrick Coleman Jordan and Beckham recorded assists on the team’s third score of the night. Beckham had two touchdowns on seven carries for 47 yards. Quarterback Richard Brehaut managed now has 14 assists in 2011. 150 passing yards on eight-of-19 attempts. With the loss, the Bruins are now 1-2 overall. After a trip to Costa Rica for a CONCACAF Champions League match against LD They open Pac-12 play against the Oregon State Beavers this coming Saturday at 12:30 Alajuelense on Wednesday, Sept. 21, Los Angeles returns to MLS action on Saturday, Sept. p.m. in Corvallis. 24, as they travel to Ohio to take on the Columbus Crew at 4:30 p.m.

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consistency up until about two months ago when the hits starting coming so that now he has raised his average to .283. HOT-HITTING And then there is the “little guy,” 35-year-old Aaron Miles who has been the season’s big surprise as he become an everyday player and put up the numbers to justify it. Miles is DODGERS hitting a National League-leading .362 with runners on base. Of course when it comes to offensive production there is only one guy who immediately jumps to mind. To speak HURTING FOR of Kemp’s contributions has become redundant at this point.

Through the weekend Kemp connected for his 34th home Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT Chris Lee/St. run as he cruises to a .320 batting average. MORE TIME One instance Saturday night seemed to typify the Aaron Miles has been this season’s big surprise at bat. intensity and perseverance Kemp has demonstrated this b ovrdy d u nick season. He had just fouled a ball off his shin and was curled sphere altogether. The moon was rising over the visitors’ up on the grass in apparent agony with one of the Dodger bullpen. It had the loveliest honey-color and being not quite Lo o king over the starting lineup for trainers leaning over him. He recovered to limp back to the full, one side was softly shadowed suggesting that which was Saturday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates it occurred to box where he promptly banged the next pitch to the gap in unknown. I was not the only one touched by the sight of the me that the Dodgers were fielding only two position players left center, on fresh legs Kemp might have gone for two bases. rising moon. Fans around me started to point and murmur. from their opening day lineup. James Loney and Matt Kemp, No worries, within several pitches he was off and running to At one point even one of the Dodger videographers turned once identified as the “young core,” seem like old-timers conquer his 41st stolen base. his camera to the moon, and there upon the big screen she when compared to the likes of Justin Sellers, Dee Gordon, Explaining his quick recovery Kemp offers, “I’m always was presented, the scarred surface reflecting brightly the light Jerry Sands and Tim Federowicz, playing at second, shortstop, thinking about getting that extra base. I figured I better try for of the hidden sun. right field and catcher, respectively. the steal in before the leg stiffened up.” This strange beautiful visitation seemed like some kind Not a one of these newbies are older than 25 years of age. The Dodgers have been playing much better baseball in of mysterious omen. It seemed to speak of shifting seasons, of And while they have appeared to have proven their salt so far the last couple of months. In working themselves back up to the inevitable passage of time. Perhaps, the significance was in their minimal big league experience, the real credit for the the .500 mark they have discovered a confidence which only only that we were noticing it and not paying fierce attention Dodgers’ offensive outburst of late belongs to the “Big Kids.” consistent winning can bring. Just in time to be ... well, too to ballgame being played out by two teams all but out of According to Dodger manager Don Mattingly the acquisition late. As September games dwindle down to a precious few it is contention. But the sudden appearance of such beauty is of outfielder Juan Rivera was just the ticket to “stabilize” all but impossible for the team to remain in contention. While difficult to explain away quickly. And you feel like you have the lineup. Mattingly offered that having Rivera’s power bat the team has maintained a fighting spirit, it is hard to avoid to take note, to honor the moment. So here are your 2011 behind Kemp allowed the center fielder to see better pitches. the sinking sensation that comes with “meaningless” games. Dodgers, a .500 team packed with young dreamers and a Mattingly also noted the recent offensive contributions Ruminating on the sentiment last Saturday while handful of vets led by a first-year manager, playing amongst of Loney. The first baseman had been hurting for power and watching the ball game, my attention was caught by another the heavenly bodies.

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CALENDARTHE10SPOT TRENDBLENDER BFDEI Y RE R CK MINTCHELL EMMY FASHION b eoy dana j ng SATURDAYSEPT. 24 W d hile esigners lead the fashion world with their beautiful Matthew Morrison creations each season, it is definitely celebrities who transmit the trends to the wider Grammy Museum, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., public. Why else would there be magazines like People Style Watch that detail every outfit Downtown; grammymuseum.org a hot star wore, and why else would Lady Gaga take the cover of Vogue instead of Karlie The Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award- Kloss or Arizona Muse? Thus the reason I always look forward to Award Season: to see nominated star of “Glee” will discuss his debut how the stars (or more like their stylists) interpret the fashion trends of the moment in album, his rise to stardom and current success. their own ways. According to fashion reports and didactic magazines, this fall’s runway After an interview with Grammy Foundation has been marked by splashes of primary colors and bold touches. Now that New York and MusiCares Vice President Scott Goldman, Fashion Week has come to a close, it is time to shift our attention to the Emmys to see Morrison will take audience questions and how our favorite girls are rocking this trend. perform a selection of songs. 7:30 p.m. $20. Lea Michele WEDNESDAYSEPT. 21 feature a collegiate tournament and best Although her character on “Glee” doesn’t jermaine Jackson of California amateur tournament. Runs exactly scream “style icon,” Lea Michele always Barnes & Noble, 189 The Grove Drive, Los through Sunday. knows how to look good on the red carpet. Angeles; barnesandnoble.com Her dashing, red figure-hugging Marchesa He signs You Are Not Alone: Michael: SATURDAYSEPT. 24 gown and Manolo Blahnik shoes could not Through a Brother’s Eyes, his portrait of Septemberfest have complemented her complexion better. Michael Jackson. 7 p.m. Santa Monica Beach; drinkeatplay.com/ septemberfest THURSDAYSEPT. 22 This Americanized version of Okto– Social Media Breakfast Club berfest features food trucks, over 150 kinds Coupa Café, 419 N. Canon Drive, of beers and live music. Septemberfest Beverly Hills; smbla-sept22-autohome. supports Take Me Home, a local non-profit eventbrite.com animal rescue. 3p.m.-7 p.m. $40 (doesn’t This month’s topic is Social Media include food).

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