L.A.'S Burlesque Scene Is Thriving • by Lina Lecaro & Nikki Kreuzer
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Hauser & surrounded by the colorful characters of the L.A.’s and contentment involved in Delicious Little To- Wirth, 901-909 E. 3rd St., downtown; Sat.-Sun., alternative music scene (centered around the leg- works composed and choreographed by women kyo 2019. You’ll get two days of gustatory delights, sat 7/20 July 20-21, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; free. (213) 943-1620, endary coeehouse and music hub called Jabber- including but not limited to free stu, cooking ART hauserwirth.com/events/25139-litlit-little-liter- jaw). ough his band Possum Dixon was a fave throughout the 2019-20 concert season. demonstrations and workshops. From the 13th ary-fair. DAVID COTNER in rock circles, Zabrecky is best known today as a Annual Saké and Food Tasting Extravaganza to Independent Radio Renegades magician and web host (Other Side With Zabrecky the Little Tokyo Society’s Food Walking Tour to Modern mainstream radio is a vast wasteland MUSIC/FILM features one-on-one seances with famous gures Miso Ball Making 101, you’ll be sure to come of corporate music programming and emp- and the spirit of their choice). For this book event away with a greater appreciation of this constantly ty-headed talk-radio partisans preaching to the Setting the Score moderated by L.A. historian Chris Nichols, “a unfolding culinary blossom prospering in the converted, but there’s a secret universe of local e L.A. Live Score Film Festival is an annual unique presentation” is promised. With Zabrecky heart of the city. Little Tokyo; Fri., July 19, 7 p.m. underground radio stations that supply the ac- event that aims to pair short lms with original (who grew up in the San Fernando Valley before & Sat. July 20, 9 a.m.; prices vary. (213) 365-0605, tual soundtracks to our lives. At Zebulon’s Open music scores, which are performed live during succumbing to Hollywood and Silver Lake’s sub- golittletokyo.com/delicious. DAVID COTNER Transmission, the focus is on four independent screenings by Helix Collective, which presents versive charms) and Nichols coming together at CHAPMAN CELEBRATES SCHOLARSHIP GALA radio stations — KXLU, Dublab, KCHUNG and the fest with the Academy of Scoring Arts. is a venue like the Valley Relics Museum, expect DRAG Orange Radio — that champion “the most unique, year, Ion Legarda’s lm about free diving, A Deep history, hilarity and maybe a ’lil hocus pocus too. Chapman’s scholarship gala will be “Celebrating the Female Voice” in obscure, diverse and at-times bizarre artists [who] Breath, is matched with music by Cali Wang. Valley Relics Museum, 7900 Balboa Blvd., Hangar November as proud Chapman parent, Vanessa Williams, receives the Everybody Loves Connie shi the cultural landscape of the city.” Turn on, Director Vaibhav Arora’s Enigma (which in- C3 & C4, Van Nuys; Sun., July 21, 5-7 p.m. $12. If you don’t “love Connie” aer seeing the androg- tune in and drop out as DJs, musicians and artists volves a man “suering from the illusion that (818) 616-4083, valleyrelicsmuseum.org. LINA Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award. ynous artist and performer in action at the Cavern TBA celebrate college station KXLU, the sampling he transcends space and time”) is soundtracked LECARO Club, we don’t want to know you. Connie is dance. experimentalists at Dublab, arty Chinatown radio by composer Philip Timofeyev. Other directors Connie is comedy. Connie is love. Connie is life! station KCHUNG and rap-minded Orange Ra- include Meaghan Hellmers, Marco Martínez, ART e vivacious character created by John Cantwell dio. Zebulon, 2478 Fletcher Drive, Elysian Valley; Devaughn Hooper, Jonathan Samukange and (formerly of the improv group e Nellie Ole- Sat., July 20, 7 p.m.; free. (323) 663-6927, zebulon. Vionna Lam, with music by such composers as Creative Cash and Carry sons) worked it out for an exercise challenge on la.FALLING JAMES Lasse Elkjaer, Sergei Stern, and Isabelle Engman Part open studio, part ne art and artisanal de- RuPaul’s Drag Race last season, but she has been & Gerardo Garcia Jr. Barnsdall Gallery eatre, sign market, painter Renée Fox’s Hot Shop series mesmerizing L.A.’s small theater stages for years, BOOKS/ART 4800 Hollywood Blvd., East Hollywood; Sat., July turns your Sunday aernoon into an art acqui- For details, visit Chapman.edu/voices or contact the box office at (714) 997-6624.