® SEPTEMBER 6-12, 2019 VOL.41 / NO. 42 LAWEEKLY.COM Your guide to the Fall Arts Season Kick-off • Redd kross is in Rare Form With Latest Album • Interview with Wu-Tang Clan Series Star Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes resurrect a more seasoned Jay & Silent Bob By Brett Callwood 2 WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM LA WEEKLY | S - , | WE NOW DELIVER!! WE NOWDELIVER!! 3 LA WEEKLY WEEKLY BD WONG | S - , WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM A lecture on race relations in the creative industries by the star of Jurassic Park, Oz, & Law & Order The evening will conclude with a Q&A SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2019 at 8:00 PM LUCKMANARTS.ORG 323-343-6600 4 L September 6-12 // Vol. 41 // No. 42 // laweekly.com WEEKLY WEEKLY LA Contents GO LA...7 ARTS...14 A storytelling sisterhood, art all night on a L.A. Weekly breaks down the gallery world’s weekend of gallery show openings, the Long Saturday night fever as the fall arts season Beach Lobster Festival, and more to do and kicks off. BY SHANA NYS DAMBROT. see in L.A. this week. | S - , FILM...17 FEATURE...9 Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice 9 One heart attack and several years of sobriety illuminates the career of one of music’s most and fatherhood later, Kevin Smith and Jason talented and culturally versatile singers Mewes are resurrecting a more mature and highlights her support of fellow female EMPLOYMENT...26-27 Jay and Silent Bob on the big screen after artists. BY CHUCK WILSON Also, NATHANIEL MUSIC...21 REAL ESTATE...27 more than a decade-long hiatus. BY BRETT BELL explores the movies opening this week, Redd Kross is in peak form with its most BULLETIN BOARD...27 CALLWOOD. including Pennywise’s return in IT Chapter recent release and impending tour with the Two. Melvins. BY BRETT CALLWOOD. Plus our guide On The Cover: WWW.LAWEEKLY.COM EAT & DRINK...13 to the best music shows in L.A. this week. 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SIRAN BABAYAN night features a DJ, complimentary drinks and p.m. e Montalban eater, 1615 Vine St., Hol- treats from the Rad Coee Truck outside. All What’s on TV? lywood; Fri., Sept. 6, 7-11 p.m.; $10-$15. facebook. ages OK, but children must be accompanied by Still looking for a new, binge-worthy obsession to com/WeChooseArt. SHANA NYS DAMBROT sat 9/7 adults. Bearded Lady’s Mystic Museum, 3204 W. ll the void aer Game of rones? At PaleyFest ART Magnolia Blvd., Burbank. Sat., Sept. 7, 8 p.m.; Fall TV Previews, you can hang out with a small- FOOD&DRINK $12, $25 VIP for early entry. squareup.com/store/ town choir, a teen detective, an animated Mexi- Island Art BeardedLadysMysticMuseum/. LINA LECARO can-American family, Batwoman or the Wu-Tang Get Cracking “I imagine my work as artifacts discovered by a Clan. e Paley Center’s most popular, annual From sea to shining sea, the humble lobster has future archaeologist, clues to an unknown civili- ART event hosts screenings of TV and the internet’s reigned supreme — celebrate its 23rd year of be- zation,” Joy Ray oers in her bio. e Hawaiian hottest, upcoming comedies and dramas, as well nevolent rule at this year’s Long Beach Lobster artist plants enigmatic clues in her mixed-media Love Yourself on Hollywood as receptions and discussions with some of the cast Festival. Flown in fresh from Maine, this year’s artifacts, coiling owery, sinuous strands of twine Boulevard and crew, including: Perfect Harmony, Sunnyside crop of crustaceans will ll your heart with but- against an abstract but evocative and haunting col- Saturday night the stretch of Hollywood Boule- and Blu City Law (Sept. 5); Undone (Sept. 6); tery, high-caloric goodness as you dance, enjoy lision of black and white paint (Talisman: Dream vard where LACE and the WUHO Gallery are Batwoman, Nancy Drew and Katy Keene (Sept. live music, rest up in a blessedly shady tent, and Siege) and burying hints of letters, words and located turns into an activated cultural site as Free- 7); Almost Family, Prodigal Son and Bless the enjoy lobster from sliders to rolls to lobster on other attempts and vestiges of communication waves and Dis...Miss present LOVE &/OR FEAR: Harts (Sept. 9); Wu-Tang: An American Saga a stick. ere’s even a powerful drink called the under a seemingly random splatter of entropic A Celebration of Genders — gathering together and Dollface (Sept. 10); Bob Hearts Abishola and Screaming Lobster, which — and let’s not kid plaster (Artifact: Never). e two-person “Be- more than 35 artists and groups in a micro-festival All Rise (Sept. 12); e Misery Index (Sept. 13); ourselves — takes its inspiration from the moment yond/Within” exhibition also features Samuelle of engaging performance and visual art, installa- Mixed-ish, Stumptown and Emergence (Sept. 14); your lobster gets an icepick right through the Richardson’s rough-hewn cloth sculptures of tions and participations, advocacy and commu- and e Casagrandes and Disenchantment (Sept. medulla. Rainbow Lagoon Park, 400 E. Shoreline disembodied heads and wire-legged, squawking nity-building. Performers and postcard artists in- 15). A highlight this year is a screening of a classic Drive, Long Beach; Fri., Sept. 6, 5 p.m., Sat.-Sun., birds spliced up with scarlike stitches. “Inuences clude some of L.A.’s most prolic and progressive episode of Mad About You, with Paul Reiser and Sept. 7-8, noon; $5-40. (562) 495-5959, original- are numerous and come from sources that strike voices, including Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, inh Helen Hunt in attendance, in anticipation of the lobsterfestival.com DAVID COTNER me as vulnerable and o-guard,” the local artist Nguyen, Jennifer Moon, Kristina Wong, Christy sitcom’s limited-series reboot for Spectrum Orig- writes. Launch LA, 170 S. La Brea Ave., Hancock Roberts Berkowitz, Austin Young, Yozmit, Dako- inals later this year. Paley Center, 465 N. Beverly PHOTOGRAPHY Park; reception Sat., Sept. 7, 6-9 p.m.; through ta Noot, Cassils, April Bey, boychild, Alexandra Drive, Beverly Hills; u.-Tue., Sept. 5-15, various Sat., Sept. 28; free. (323) 899-1363, launchla.org. Grant, Micol Hebron, Shizu Saldamando, Julio times; $20. (310) 786-1000, paleycenter. SIRAN Historic California in Focus FALLING JAMES Salgado, #SNATCHPOWER, Marsian De Lellis, BABAYAN What started as a small group show at the Michael and Yarn Bombing L.A., along with orgs like Peace Dawson Gallery in 2010 has become an annual FILM Over Violence and Black Lives Matter. LACE (Los ART art fair celebrating both classic and contempo- Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) 6522 Holly- rary photography. Marking its 10th anniversary, Get Gory wood Blvd., Hollywood; Sat., Sept. 7, 8-11 p.m.; Under the Rainbow Classic Photographs Los Angeles at Bergamot Produced by Sam Raimi and star Bruce Campbell, free. freewaves.org. SHANA NYS DAMBROT We Choose Art has been doing some very ne Station gathers more than a dozen galleries from e Evil Dead remains a masterpiece of gore and art-centric event curations at the Montalban the around the country — even Paris and Shanghai mayhem with imagery that is, at this point, icon- ART past few years, oen with a progressive social — to showcase works by such names as Andre ic to lovers of horror and scary-lm fare. So it’s perspective, and always with cocktails. Friday Kertesz, Edward Weston, Eadweard Muybridge, no shock that Burbank’s beloved Bearded Lady Art All Night night’s RAINBOW SHIFT: A Queer Home- Bruce Davidson, Garry Winogrand and Jim Museum (know for artistic homages to haunted Just like Christmas, Muse ‘til Midnight comes coming Celebration will be the fourth edition Marshall, some dating back to the 19th century.