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® OCTOBER 11-17, 2019 VOL. 41 / NO. 47 LAWEEKLY.COM Making wine and music with Tool — it’s all the same creative dimension • By Katherine Turman 2 LEX PRESE FAIRP NTS WEEKLY WEEKLY LA | October 11 - 17, 2019 | WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS FAIRPLEX OCTOBER 1101 W. MCKINLEY AVE. (21+ ONLY) POMONA, CA 91768 October 11 & 12, 18 & 19 6 p.m. - midnight • Buy Tickets Online and Save! Great food and beer, live Oom Pah Pah Band, contests, prizes, a live DJ and this weekend only DSB (Journey Tribute Band)! Buy tickets at Fairplex.com/Oktoberfest L October 11-17, 2019 // Vol. 41 // No. 47 // laweekly.com 3 LA WEEKLY WEEKLY Contents | October 11 - 17, 2019 | WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM 15 GO LA...4 FILM...17 L.A. Comic Con, a spectacular Dia de Los Joaquin Phoenix isn’t clowning around in Muertos-themed art show, National Pasta Joker. BY ASHER LUBERTO. NATHANIEL BELL Day, and more to do and see in L.A. this explores the movies opening this week, week. including animated The Addams Family. FEATURE...9 TELEVISION...19 Whether making wine or music, it’s all part The normalcy of LGBTQ characters and of the same creative process for Tool. BY themes in The Politician is the next step KATHERINE TURMAN. toward LGBTQ inclusivity on TV. BY MICHAEL COOPER. EAT & DRINK...12 The group behind Momofuku brings Fuku MUSIC...20 Fried Chicken to Santa Monica. BY MICHELE Our guide to the best music shows in L.A. STUEVEN. this week. ARTS...15 ADVERTISING Todd James’ show at Over the Influence CLASSIFIED...22 mines the analog era and pop culture. BY EMPLOYMENT...22 TRINA CALDERÓN. REAL ESTATE...22 CULTURE...16 BULLETIN BOARD...23 Fear not, the famous Happy Foot/Sad Foot sign formerly of Silver Lake has found a new On The Cover: home in Los Feliz Village. BY MARTIN ROY. photography by Travis Shinn L.A. WEEKLY (ISSN #0192-1940 & USPS 461-370) is published weekly by LA Weekly LP, 724 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90015. Periodicals postage paid at Los Angeles, CA. 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But fans might know Nosrat better as star of her Netflix’s 2018 travel-cooking series of the same name where she visits different countries and explores cooking’s WEEKLY WEEKLY four basic elements, whether it’s making tortillas in Mexico, focaccia in Italy or tahdig rice with her LA Persian mom in her hometown of Berkeley. For $250, you can meet Nosrat at a benefit lunch at Open Face Food Shop restaurant in West Adams, hosted by the Center for the Art of Performance UCLA. If that’s too much dough for you, CAP UCLA also hosts Samin Nosrat in Conversa- tion with Lindy West, author of another famed book, 2016’s Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, which inspired the hit Hulu series. Maybe now you can find out if Nosrat’s show will have a second season. Royce Hall, UCLA; Sun., Oct. GO 13, 7 p.m.; $59-$79. (310) 825-2101, cap.ucla. edu. —SIRAN BABAYAN | October 11 - 17, 2019 | CULTURE PHOTO BY Going Underground Much like how an aging (and even not-so-ag- ing) actor rearranges his bones to maintain the aesthetic and material hybrid of past and future, art, you’ll be sure to reach deep into the moment illusion of youth, Hollywood’s only cemetery analog and digital, also yields more experien- and feel the energy of one of the most vital urban underwent a big makeover when it changed tial works such as light-activated sculpture and centers on the West Coast. You’ll get everything owners in 1998, including a name upgrade from more ethereal immersions. UTA Artist Space, from art to music to food to wine to electric Hollywood Memorial Park to the presumably WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM 403 Foothill Road, Beverly Hills; opening recep- conveyances to scores of businesses both big dreamier and more glamorous Hollywood For- tion: Fri., Oct. 11, 6-8 p.m.; Tue-Sat, 10 a.m.-6 and small opening themselves to you as you ever Cemetery. Ever since, the old graveyard has p.m., Oct. 11-Nov. 16; free. utaartistspace.com. take a whole day to indulge in the shock therapy been a fairly lively place with concerts and film —SHANA NYS DAMBROT that is life experience. Downtown Culver City screenings, but the Hollywood Goes Under- LA10/11 (Washington Boulevard at Helms Avenue); Sat., ground walking tour digs deeper into the place’s fri CULTURE DANCE Oct. 12, 11 a.m.; free. (310) 287-3850, culvercity- distant past. Presented by Art Deco Society of artwalk.com. —DAVID COTNER L.A., the tour delves into the lives and deaths of The Other Comic Con Christening Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks and Mar- While L.A. Comic Con is younger and smaller When she was an undergraduate student at CULTURE ion Davies and such historical figures as Griffith than its massive predecessor San Diego Com- USC, Kate Hutter wrote a business plan for J. Griffith, who shot his wife but still got a park ic-Con, the three-day gathering has expanded in L.A. Contemporary Dance Company. After A Decade of the Dead named after him, and Harvey Wilcox, whose recent years after renaming itself following earli- graduation, she not only made LACDC a reality, Celebrating a decade of dynamic Day of the Dead wife, Daeida, dubbed the new neighborhood er incarnations, when it was known as Comikaze but established it as a major player on the LA gatherings in L.A. Antonio Pelayo’s El Velorio Hollywood but only got Wilcox Avenue named Expo and then Stan Lee’s L.A. Comic Con. This dance scene. Part of that original business plan touts the largest Dia de Los Muertos themed for him. The tour departs from the parking lot year’s guests encompass the worlds of Hollywood included turning the company over to new blood art show ever assembled (he had help from the behind the Cathedral Mausoleum at Hollywood (Elijah Wood, Ron Perlman, Felicia Day, Barry after 10 years. She did that too and her selected Weekly’s own arts editor Shana Nys Dambrot, so Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Bostwick and much of the cast of The Office) as successor, Genevieve Carson, has carried on, expect the city’s top artists interpreting Muerto Hollywood; Sun., Oct. 13, 9 a.m.; $20. (323) 469- well as comic books (with legendary artists Neal expanding the company’s profile as a repertory imagery in both traditional and irreverent ways). 1181, adsla.org/info/node/602. —FALLING JAMES Adams, Jim Starlin and John Romita Jr.). Rapper company incubating new dance, especially from But the visual elements will go beyond the gal- DMC, comedian Gabriel Iglesias, Bela Lugosi LA-based choreographers. While Hutter has lery offerings. A classic car show, live art, film CULTURE/FOOD&DRINK Jr., and a legion of cosplayers, including Maid been low profile since her “retirement” from screenings (a Carlos Almaraz documentary) of Might and disabled costume-maker/model LACDC, she has not been idle, recently opening and a fashion show will be part of the festivities Harvest Festival Amber Kohaku Chan, add to the merry distrac- of a new dance performance space The Stomp- as well as a chance to become living art yourself Beginning five days after Yom Kippur, Sukkot is a tions. L.A. Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa ing Ground. With L.A. dance troupes always via face fainting booths doing embellished skull weeklong Jewish holiday (October 13-20) where St., downtown; Fri., Oct. 11, 1-11 p.m.; Sat., Oct. in search of rehearsal/performance space at makeup for guests. Pelayo also has a knack for Jews all over the world mark the fall harvest by 12, 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 13, 9:30 a.m.-5 the same time facing many long-time venues/ crowd-pleasing music bookings to complement building booths or huts (sukkot in Hebrew), p.m.; $30-$229. (213) 741-1151, comicconla. studios falling to redevelopment and soaring his events, and this year the lineup is no excep- which symbolize the temporary shelters the Is- com. —FALLING JAMES rent increases, the new space is an occasion for tion, with headliner Los Master Plus, and Sub- raelites lived in as they wandered the desert for celebration. Aptly, LACDC stomps the new suelo, Mariachi Los Reyes, Folklor Pasion Mex- 40 years after escaping slavery from Egypt. You ART ground with terra. Performance and party on icana, Aztec dancers, DJ Chris Rox, No Where can learn more about its biblical origins and tra- Saturday is $150.