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August 30 - September 12 , 2012 | Vol. 22 Issue 16 | Always Free It’s never a BORING DAY IN L.A. Explore the City of Angels Like Never Before! ©2012 CAMPUS CIRCLE • (323) 939-8477 • 5042 WILSHIRE BLVD., #600 LOS ANGELES, CA 90036 • WWW.CAMPUSCIRCLE.COM MIKE BIRBIGLIA IN PERSON OPENING WEEKEND! TICKETS ON-SALE NOW WWW.LANDMARKTHEATRES.COM! From the producers of THIS AMERICAN LIFE “ffff! Here’s something fresh– the coming-of-funny fi lm.” –Joshua Rothkopf, TIME OUT NEW YORK “ONE OF THE BEST FILMS ever made on the subject of stand-up comedy.” –Jacob S. Hall, MOVIES.COM “BRILLIANT COMEDY.” –James Mullinger, GQ “I COULD HAVE WATCHED IT FOR ” TEN HOURS. –Judd Apatow Mike Birbiglia Lauren Ambrose sleepwalk A FILM BY with me MIKE BIRBIGLIA LANDMARK THEATRES EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT NUART THEATRE 11272 SANTA MONICA BLVD. STARTS FRIDAY, 8/31 (310) 281-8223 LOS ANGELES 2 Campus Circle 8.30.12 - 9.12.12CA Campus Cilrcle Film | Music | Culture ursday, 8/30 1/2PgV(4.875x12) Color TABLE OF CONTENTS Teach English in Japan August 30 - September 12, 2012 WHAT’SINSIDE Vol. 22 Issue 16 Live and work in Japan teaching English at one of AEON’s 300+ branch schools throughout Japan Editor-in-Chief • 270,000 Japanese Yen monthly starting salary Sean Bello [email protected] • 3 one-week paid vacations per year + 5 personal days • Subsidized, furnished apartment Managing Editor • Contract completion bonus Sydney Champion • Health insurance • Paid training in Japan [email protected] 5 9 22 Art Director / Food Editor Interviewing year round at our Los Angeles Office Sean Michael Beyer Apply today! [email protected] NEWS Film Editor [email protected] 04 The Latest from L.A. and Beyond www.aeonet.com Music Editor [email protected] Calendar Editor FILM Frederick Mintchell 05 Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy Sports Editor Marvin Vasquez [email protected] ‘gang up’ in Lawless Editorial Interns 08 DVD Dish Ann Au, Aviel Chang, Susan Deng, Kathy Le, Nicki Spencer, 08 Margaret movie on DVD Olivia Stiglich Contributing Writers Tamea Agle, Scott Bednoe, MUSIC Sean Michael Beyer, Zach Bourque, Kristina Bravo, Mary Broadbent, 09 Gotye: Get Him to the Greek Brenda Camberos, Nataly Chavez, Amanda D’Egidio, Sola Fasehun, 09 Havana Brown: Suzi Fox, Jacob Gaitan, Denise Guerra, Kelly Hargraves, Josh Herwitt, Doing what she loves. 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Andrew Lu of EFFECTIVE SEPT. 6 been hugely influential in spearheading the experimental FindLaw.com traces its origins all the way back to the real estate It’s official - the L.A. City Council has passed a decree ordering movement in music, and ranks among the more mainstream bubble of 2008. A good metaphor I’ve found for understanding the closure of all dispensaries in the city of Los Angeles by performers in the genre’s roster. They will be joined on- the situation, and one I find particularly relevant to residents September 6. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed the ban stage by the likes of fellow experimental acts Flying Lotus of L.A., is looking at it from the perspective of the 2008-2012 into effect on Thursday, August 2. Since then, an estimated and Huun Huur Tu. The members of Animal Collective are global recession being an earthquake... bear with me. From this 1,774 documents citing the required closure of all marijuana performers in the truest sense of the term, known to bring standpoint, we might consider the numerous ramifications dispensary operators in L.A. have been sent out to different to their shows a consciously crafted set design infused with which ensued from it to be comparable to aftershocks - one pot shops around the city. Ordinance No. 182190 officially stunning technicolor imagery and dreamlike psychedelic of which being homebuyers’ and bankers’ increased caution repeals and replaces Article 5.1 of Chapter IV of the L.A. graphics - a consummate complement to the band’s congruent in the respective acceptance and entrusting of home loans. As Municipal Code, which originally regulated the operating of soundscape. The performance will be just as much a theatrical such, qualifying for a mortgage has become exceedingly more marijuana collectives in the city of Los Angeles. The penalty experience as it will be an opportunity to witness some great, difficult. Lu also asserts that “unless your credit score falls closer for resisting closure is outlined in the Ordinance, which states live music. Tickets are on sale now on Ticketmaster. to 800 than 700, you could have a hard time getting a mortgage.” that there will be a fine of $2,500 per day each day a marijuana With less people being approved for mortgages, less people are dispensary is open past September 6, as well as a prosecution FORBES RANKS L.A. IN TOP 10 WORST CITIES IN concurrently able to buy homes, forcing them to opt for renting for a misdemeanor, which would result in a $1,000 fine and a AMERICA FOR RENTERS instead. And given the basic principles of supply and demand, six-month jail sentence. It should come as no surprise to most apartment-dwelling more people renting equates to a hike in the cost of renting. The Angelenos that L.A. ranked at the nine spot in Forbes’ list for current average cost of rent is at $1,398 per month in L.A., and ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, FLYING LOTUS AND HUUN HUUR “Worst Cities for Renters” in America this year. Certainly, this though this number may not seem exorbitant by any means, TU COMING TO THE BOWL ranking won’t go filed in L.A.’s pile of pride-bearing accolades, consider the inclusion of certain outlying properties in more Psychedelic rock group Animal Collective is set to take the howbeit it’s one worth mentioning given the recent boom in rundown parts of the city. Many L.A. renters are wondering if Hollywood Bowl stage on Sunday, September 23 as part the renter’s market. Which brings to surface another issue: Why the cost of rent will ever stop rising? 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On August 29 his much-anticipated next film, Lawless, hits the big screen.