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We look forward to helping you. | | JUNE , // VOL. // NO. 5 | LA ICONTENTS ⁄⁄ WEEKLY // June 22 - 28, 2018 // www.laweekly.com 13 GO LA... ENTERTAINMENT... LACMA celebrates Korean art and culture, TONY MOSTROM reviews an unusual new Leimert Park hosts the Day of Ancestors Festival memoir from David Lynch. of Masks, Reprise is revived with musical Sweet Charity and more to do and see in L.A. this week. FILM... The dinosaurs are back in Jurassic World: Fallen NEWS... Kingdom, and they’re not staying on their island Cannabis as a tool for reparations. BY MADISON this time, plus other movies OPENING THIS MARGOLIN. WEEK, and YOUR WEEKLY MOVIE TO-DO LIST. FEATURE... MUSIC... The Los Angeles Latino International Film The Fontaines are calling it quits, but they’re Festival returns, after a five-year hiatus. BY LINA going out with a blast. BY BRETT CALLWOOD. LECARO AND MICHELE RAPHAEL. Plus: listings for ROCK & POP, JAZZ & CLASSICAL and more. EAT & DRINK... 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SPRING ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90015. | 6 | www.laweekly.com // June 22 - 28, 2018 // LA WEEKLY | 7 | Week of LA JUNE WEEKLY 22-28 IGO»LA ⁄⁄ // June 22 - 28, 2018 // www.laweekly.com P. 7 P. 7 P. 8 P. 9 LACMASAT CELEBRATES KOREAN REMEMBERSUN YOUR ANCESTORS REVIVTED REUEPRISE RETURNS PACIFITC OPERAHU PROJECT ART AND CULTURE IN LEIMERT PARK WITH SWEET CHARITY PERFORMS RARE ROSSINI Hollywood Carnival Parade: See Saturday. Vortex, 2341 E. Olympic Blvd., downtown; fri 6/22 Sun., June 24, 7-11 p.m.; $20. restlessnites. com/dolores. —Lina Lecaro FILM/HORROR LITERATURE Chilly Scenes of Murder Start your weekend out right with a near- Why Do People Pull the Trigger? suicidal level of dread when you go see Why shooters shoot is the question at New England Nightmares. All three films hand when author Daniel J. Patinkin are set in New England and summon up discusses e Trigger: Narratives of the the finest cinematic nihilism ever to ooze American Shooter ($25, Arcade). Much as across the screen. The triple bill of From some people aren’t bad people but are Beyond (1986, with all its gory pineal gland instead bad at being people, these are not shenanigans), In the Mouth of Madness so much violent individuals as they are (1994, with its horrifying Lovecraftian self- individuals doing violent things — with fulfilling prophecies) and The Mist (2007, 15,000 gunshot deaths in 2017 alone. with Laurie Holden) includes a post- You’ll hear about a kid who shot his way screening conversation with From Beyond through a drug deal in South Carolina, a producer Brian Yuzna and producer Tennessee teen who killed her abusive Sandy King Carpenter introducing In the father as he slept, and an o-duty cop in Mouth of Madness. Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Chicago trading fire with a gunman on Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood; Fri., June 22, COURTESY LOS ANGLES CULTURE FESTIVAL the loose. Diesel Books, 225 26th St., Ste. 7:30 p.m.; $15 general, $13 Cinematheque reuse. These approaches to art, design, art in the nation — but that’s not all. Tea #33, Brentwood; Sun., June 24, 3 p.m.; free. members. (323) 466-3456, american architecture and really just about ev- tastings! Korean ceramics! Art making! A (310) 576-9960, dieselbookstore.com/ cinematheque calendar.com. —David Cotner erything speak to a zeitgeist of environ- mini-fashion show! Bibimbap and bulgo- event/sunday-june-24th-300pm-daniel- mental awareness and an aesthetic of gi! Complimentary Korean sweets! Soju! j-patinkin-discusses-and-signs-trigger. resourceful uniqueness. For Liz Gordon, Not being in North Korea! Los Angeles —David Cotner sat 6/23 owner of legendary vintage-fixtures County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire mecca Liz’s Antique Hardware, harvest- Blvd., Mid-Wilshire; Sat., June 23, 7-9 p.m.; CULTURE ing the treasures from what other people free. (323) 857-6000, lacma.org/event/ CULTURE/FOOD throw away is more than a job, it’s a voca- korean-inspiration. —David Cotner Block Party tion. So a decade ago, she hosted the first Leimert Park is one of the most vibrant, From Every Corner of the World annual “Diverted Destruction” exhibition richly textured and historically artistic Hollywood becomes the epicenter of mul- in the art gallery above her store. Beyond 6/24 parts of L.A., and its recent high-profile ticultural marvels at the L.A. Culture Fes- the joy of eccentric creativity, “Diverted sun resurgence as an appreciated gem of local tival and Hollywood Carnival Parade, a soi- Destruction: e Human Condition” fea- culture is a joy to experience. Once a year, rée showcasing the cultures of the world tures a sociological overtone, as a diverse PERFORMANCE ART the exuberant creativity of this commu- with a display of native costumes, global group of women artists were invited to in- nity comes together for a daylong festival arts and crafts, and music you never even terpret “The Human Condition” through Bittersweet Beauty of mask-making, music, dance, food, art knew existed until you stumbled upon a the double history of themselves and When L.A. performance art legend Ron and, above all, history, as a block party sensation like this. The parade starts at their found raw materials. Loft at Liz’s, Athey saw sword swallower/activist Mis- and procession honor the community’s the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard 453 S. La Brea Ave., Mid-Wilshire; Sat., sa Blue’s piece Black Madonna, he started firmament of ancestors across the “global and Normandie Avenue, with parade par- June 23, 7-10 p.m.; free. (323) 939-4403, to think about how an Afrodeutsche village” of the African diaspora. For the ticipants dancing to every rhythm from theloftatlizs.com.—Shana Nys Dambrot sword swallower’s expression of pain and eighth Day of Ancestors: Festival of Masks, soca to samba, reggae to reggaeton and sorrow might resonate backdropped by the organizers at L.A. Commons spotlight Indian to East Indian. It ends at the Cul- CULTURE heart-searing vocals, specifically those of Brazil and its thriving ethnic and artistic ture Village with libations, celebrations local queer Mexican performer San Cha.