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pot for the holidays •Betye saar is everywhere • Billie Eilish is ready to roq ® DECEMBER 7-13, 2018 / VOL. 41 / NO. 3 / LAWEEKLY.COM OliviaBEYOND de Berardinis nds power PINUPS and beauty in the female form L L pot for the holidays •Betye saar is everywhere • Billie Eilish is ready to roq ® DECEMBER 7-13, 2018 / VOL. 41 / NO. 3 / LAWEEKLY.COM OliviaBEYOND de Berardinis nds power PINUPS and beauty in the female form L L 2 LA WEEKLY LA | D - , | WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM Receive up to 8 weeks free rent on select LIFE IN MOTION apartments! Mention this piece and receive What is life in motion? It’s high-end apartment an additional $1,000 off move in costs living in a highly desirable location. It’s having elevated when you lease on your fi rst visit. amenities and fi ne-tuned features at your fi ngertips. And it’s being steps away from the Metro Gold Line, putting the best of Monrovia, Pasadena, and Los Angeles within easy reach. 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BY JIMI DEVINE. the new and classic films worth seeing this week. BY NATHANIEL BELL. FEATURE...13 Artist Olivia de Berardinis finds power MUSIC...26 and beauty in the female form. BY LINA Teenager Billie Eilish is gearing up to play LECARO. KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas. BY BRETT CALLWOOD. Plus: listings for ROCK EAT & DRINK...19 & POP, JAZZ & CLASSICAL and more. Heather Tierney is reviving classic Venice haunts such as Roosterfish and the Waterfront Venice on the Boardwalk. BY MICHELE STUEVEN. ADVERTISING ARTS...21 CLASSIFIED...34 At 92, Los Angeles artist Betye Saar is EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT...35 almost certainly busier than you are. REAL ESTATE/RENTALS...35 : BY SHANA NYS DAMBROT. tickets and info BULLETIN BOARD...35 holidayicerinkdowntownla.com On The Cover: Artwork © Olivia de Berardinis TITLE SPONSOR OFFICIAL TICKETING PARTNER NON-PROFIT BENEFICIARY OF LOS AN Y GE IT LE C S D E P A R S T K M R E A N P L.A. 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LAWEEKLY PHOTO BY MARTHA BENEDICT .COM renewal soak the senses. And who doesn’t Dec. 8-9, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; free. comicartsla. liminal but luminous way. ere’s also a pop- need that? e Grammy-nominated com- com. SHANA NYS DAMBROT up panoramic environmental immersion poser-percussionist (who played drums installation. And strangest of all, Sweden’s LA12/7 with e Pretenders and led the electro H O LIDAYS/FOOD&DRINK infamous Disgusting Food Museum posits fri OPERA act Moodswings) has created a hypnotic questions of nature versus nurture when it presentation with animated art curated Ho Ho Ho! comes to epicurean revulsion and eccentric From Paris to Highland Park from artists around the world and his own Dust o your Santa suit because the spirit delicacies. We’re talking fruit bat soup, Jell-O Pacic Opera Project’s barely faithful stimulating soundtrack. Los Angeles Center of Christmas is in the air, and it isn’t just for salad, fermented sh and roasted bull penis. makeover of Giacomo Puccini’s classic Studios, 450 S. Bixel St., Westlake. Fri.-Sat., children at Santacon. e annual day (and, Fortunately for attendees of the opening opera La Bohème would appear to be just Dec. 7-8, 14-15 & 21-22, 7:30 & 9 p.m.; if you’re game for the aerparty, night) of reception, DOAP Kitchen’s catering will not a joke, and its popular production is oen Sun., Dec. 9, 16 & 23, 4 & 6 p.m.; $29-$59. red-clad revelry and carousing starts bright be based on these dishes. A+D Museum, 900 ridiculously da. e local company has eventbrite.com/e/ mesmerica- live-a-visual- and semi-early at 11 a.m. at a location to be E. Fourth St., downtown; opening reception: updated librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe music-journey-the-vortex-dome-los- angeles- revealed the day before. ere will be “rein- Sat., Dec. 8, 7 p.m.; exhibit: Wed., 2-6 p.m., Giacosa’s tragic, sentimental story about tickets-52230734533. LINA LECARO deer games,” gis and, if history is any indi- u.-Fri., 2-8 p.m., Sat.-Sun., noon-7 p.m., a dying seamstress, Mimi (alternately cator, improved Christmas carols (last year’s thru Feb. 17; $10. (213) 346-9734, aplusd. portrayed by Maya Rothfuss and Kerri Ann event featured the likes of “Oh Come All org. SHANA NYS DAMBROT Otaño), and relocated the action from Paris sat 12/8 Ye Perverts” and “I’m Dreaming of a White to modern-day Highland Park, necessitating C O N VEN T I O N Russian”). Bring your Metro pass, and don’t a title change to e Hipsters. But Puccini’s be a Grinch or that relative who hits the sun 12/9 melodies are still a sucker punch to the heart Power of the Pen bottle too hard on Christmas, because what ART amid the churro carts and trendy bars of With 120 artists, workshops, drawing is Santacon about if not spreading holiday Northeast L.A., thanks to POP’s high-ying, sessions, talks and signings, Comic Arts cheer? Sat., Dec. 8, 11 a.m.-10 p.m; free. You Control This Exhibition oorboard-stomping crew of comically LA’s h annual edition is its biggest yet facebook.com/events/703423610014250/. Utilizing a gesture sensor, camera, monitor attuned yet emotionally persuasive vocalists. — but this is nothing like its epic -Con AVERY BISSETT and computer, Glendale artist Ken Salter has Highland Park Ebell Club, 131 S. Avenue 57, cousins. Instead, the focus here is on looped together a mosaic of repeating im- Highland Park; Fri.-Sat., Dec. 7-8, 8 p.m.; grassroots-level inclusivity, inspiration ART ages, whose patterns shi when triggered by u.-Sat., Dec. 13-15 & 20-22; $15-$160. and support for the upcoming generations the viewer’s motions, resulting in a mirror- (323) 739-6122, pacicoperaproject.com. of graphic voices. With workshops on What Makes for a Delicacy? like kaleidoscope of vibrantly colorful, FALLING JAMES nurturing creative instincts, the inuence e downtown Arts District staple A+D Mu- psychedelic pictures. “When people move of manga and anime on global comic cul- seum (that’s architecture plus design) opens their hands, it changes the geometry of the ART ture, and highlighting representations of four new exhibitions this week, a far-rang- mosaic,” Salter says about his new interac- queerness, parenthood and communities ing assembly of disciplines that touches on tive exhibition, “e Garden of Strange Escape From L.A.