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SIRAN BABAYAN WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM ART/CULTURE Post-Apocalyptic Performance Art LA9/20 “Capitalism will fall, then we will have a ball,” fri CULTURE striking teachers chanted in Oakland earlier this BODYTRAFFIC PHOTO BY LEE GUMBS year. e slogan inspired local artists to envision Happy 45th Birthday! what such a celebration would be like, so organizer Hello Kitty is 45 and at this point in her life, the cat Martabel Wasserman and friends are holding their lady knows how to throw a party. She’s going global ed in 1919: the aermath of WW I, Paris Peace org. SHANA NYS DAMBROT own Post-Capitalism Ball. Saluting “the queer to celebrate this year with the Hello Kitty Friends Conference, passing of women’s right to vote, a u spirit of turning melancholy and mourning into Around the World Tour, a 10,000-square-foot pandemic, etc. e exhibit also explores signicant FILM fantastical resistance and reimaginings of the pop-up featuring ve backdrop jaunts to London, moments related to local history, including those world,” the ball is described as a kind of “post-apoc- Paris, New York, Honolulu and Tokyo, and goodies of founders Henry E. and Arabella Huntington, Transgressive Movie Night alyptic performance-art fashion show” that in- galore along the journey, including a commem- and how they transformed their private estate Kenneth Anger is a transgressive lmmaker who cludes speculative readings and performances by orative passport (stamped at each destination), and collection into a public institution. e Hun- has long found dark beauty and strangeness in local writers and artists. 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LA ART Moon). In addition to a discussion of his work, Sun., Sept. 22, 7-10 p.m. (747) 888-2728, facebook. Plaza Village, 555 N. Spring St., downtown; Mon.- Anger will wave his magisterial hands and con- com/events/472952166892072. FALLING JAMES Wed., 11 a.m.-8 p.m., u.-Fri., 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Indie Publishers, State TV jure sounds from a theremin as Technicolor Skull Sat. 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun., 10 a.m.-8 p.m; through e Wende Museum is brilliant at pairing histor- with accompaniment from guitarist Brian Butler. Oct. 20.; tickets are timed, $22-50/children under ical cultural objects from the Cold War era with e Regent eater, 448 S. Main St., downtown; mon 9/23 3 free. HelloKitty45.com. LINA LECARO salient contemporary art, music, lm, and litera- Sat., Sept. 21, 9 p.m.; $25-$55. (323) 284-5727, BOOKS ture — and this weekend is no exception. While spacelandpresents.com. FALLING JAMES their current exhibition Watching Socialism: e Meet the Cast of Longmire sat 9/21 Television Revolution in Eastern Europe (on view FOOD&DRINK rill to the wonders of wolves and Wyoming at ART through October 20) answers the question of what An Evening with Craig Johnson, where he’ll dis- was on TV in the Soviet Bloc, Saturday aernoon Get Your Lederhosen Ready cuss his latest book, Land of Wolves ($28, Viking). A Big Year also aords the chance to turn o the telly and pick When the air catches that sudden chill and the Johnson’s mellers about Wyoming detective Walt e Huntington, recently renamed e Hunting- up a book.