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Learn how to navigate the admissions and financial aid processes to make graduate school a reality. GO LA...5 MUSIC...17 Enjoy complimentary continental breakfast and lunch. An opera about fashion designer Alexander Respect marks its 20th anniversary as the McQueen, a sale of Dungeons & Dragons art, most committed drum & bass festival in We will be giving away a $200 bookstore gift certificate. a feminist Wikipedia edit-a-thon and more North America. BY LILY MOAYERI. to do and see in L.A. this week. March 22, 2019 | 9:30 am — 4:00 pm 801 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA FEATURE...9 Nancy Silverton celebrates 30 years of La Brea Bakery. BY MICHELE STUEVEN. ADVERTISING Featured Presentation CLASSIFIED CULTURE...13 ...22 by Dr. Siri Sat Nam EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT...23 The Pocket Guru Suspiria star Jessica Harper unravels her BULLETIN BOARD...23 childhood in her new podcast, Winnetka. Guidance and Mantras for Spiritual BY NATHANIEL BELL. 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For those weaned on of Many ings is their way to give back, in the for Broken Hearts) and readings by Yezmin Vil- the more mainstream presentation of World Wres- form of a party with art, games and auctions, LA3/1 larreal, Vivian Martínez and Féi Hernandez. Fun tling Entertainment and its personalities such as proceeds of which benet the surviving creators fri OPERA surprises for new and old Dummies are promised. Dwayne “e Rock” Johnson, the bloody mayhem of Dungeons & Dragons. Because even the most e Smell, 247 S. Main St., downtown; Fri., March presented on a Game Changer Wrestling show can powerful wizards can use a little help from their McQueen Sings 1, 7 p.m.-mid.; donations requested at the door; be a culture shock. e winners and losers are still friends sometimes. 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At their next event, To Live worlds of fashion and music align in composer/ For the 33rd year, the good people of La Luz de and DIE in L.A., Game Changer Wrestling stars Modern Magic designer Kentaro Kameyama and librettist Wil- Jesus Gallery present their mammoth annual such as Nick Gage and Alex Colon will literally Of all of W.A. Mozart’s operas, e Magic Flute liam Nedved’s intriguing new opera, e Passion group show, Laluzapalooza. With no planned bleed for their art, though if you are a wrestling remains the most charming and playfully de- of McQueen, which is presented by director Di- theme except to choose the exceptional, the fan whose preferences lean away from the bloodier lightful of his vocal works. One of the Queen of ana Wyenn in a staged concert performance for open-call jurors scoured “tens of thousands of aspects of the form, undercard matches involving Night’s birdlike arias, “Der Hölle Rache,” is an just one night. e Industry’s David Castillo stars submissions from commercial illustrators, graphic SoCal wrestling stars such as Joey Ryan and Jun- operatic mainstay, and Emanuel Schikaneder’s alongside mezzo-soprano Peabody Southwell, designers, tattooists, scenics, students, street tag- gle Boy will provide over-the-top — literally and fanciful libretto about the adventures of Pamina, who portrays Isabella Blow, the magazine editor gers, animators and working gallery artists,” so guratively — action before the gorier part of the Prince Tamino and Papageno has always been who championed McQueen before her own sui- you don’t have to. All you have to do is show up show. Burning World Studios, 1704 S. Hooper Ave., a delightful musical fairy tale that evokes … oh, cide in 2007. Boston Court, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Friday night and discover the year’s most wacko downtown; Sat., March 2, 7:30-10:30 p.m.; $25- wait. It says here that Pacic Opera Project has Pasadena; Fri., March 1, 8 p.m.; $30. (626) 683- salon, comprising the 70-ish artists who made the $75. livediegcw.eventbrite.com. JASON ROCHE decided to update this beloved, classic story by 6883, bostoncourtpasadena.org. FALLING JAMES grade, at this mashup of newbies and veterans, setting it in the 1980s and populating it with Super lowbrow painters and pop surrealists, taxidermists ART/SHOPPING Mario Brothers–like characters from video games. Z INE S and photographers and everything in between Schikaneder’s gentle libretto has been shredded in that always makes its waves. 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