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  Joffrey Ballet Documentary Screens Wednesday

  The Los Angeles premiere of the feature length documentary Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance will take place at Zipper Concert Hall in The Colburn School this Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 8:00pm. This is the first film to chronicle how the legendary Joffrey Ballet revolutionized American ballet by daringly combining modern dance with traditional ballet and is directed by Bob Hercules.

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  Get Out: Soundscapes Inspired By Landscapes, Womynhouse & Readings From the (Emotional?) Tundra

  Get out so you can enjoy local authors, soundscapes and womyn.

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  Family of Irvine Teen Killed In Drunk Driving Accident Donates Her Organs

  After suffering an irreversible brain injury following a car crash caused by a drunk driver, the organs of Irvine teenager Ashton Sweet have been donated to six people, reports the OC Register. Sweet was injured when she was sitting in the backseat of a car with three other friends, driven by one of their fathers. The car was hit by Irvine resident Austin Jeffrey Farley, 26, as it passed through an intersection and Farley ran a red light.

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  Get Out: 23rd Annual Los Angeles International Pen Show, Altadena Urban Farmers Market, Dublab At Cinefamily

  Photo by -Gep- via Flickr Don't Write Me Off: It's real. It's now. It's the 23rd Annual Los Angeles International Pen Show. Really. And it sounds amazing. What I would do for a stash of special pens... you know... that lux medium point perfect weight pen that feels sooo good writing on newsprint while doing the crossword puzzle... yessssssss. The LA Weekly reports there'll be new fancy pens from around the world and old...

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  Get Out: Art Walk, Tour de Fat, One Night Only Art Show, Cabaret Benefit Performance, Mourning Tours

  Photo by Musique Nonstop via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Arts District Art Walk The Arts District Art Walk is a Free, self-guided tour of more than 60 local artist studios, museums, galleries and project/exhibition spaces within the original Arts District area of Downtown LA. This Studio and Gallery Art Walk is intended to introduce a wider audience to the area’s growing art and cultural scene, which includes Downtown’s Original Arts District,...

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  TV Junkie: 21+ Premieres This Weekend; 'Dexter' & 'Bored To Death' Are Sunday's High Points

  One last megablast of premieres this weekend with at least 21 series and season premieres over the next 3 days. We have our eyes on "Dexter" and "Bored To Death". Also, "Saturday Night Live" returns with Amy Poehler as host.

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  LAist Film Calendar: Handsome Harry & Sexy Stephen

  'Handsome Harry'...Because 'Cutesy Kelly' Was Already Taken | Photo courtesy of Worldview Entertainment There may no longer be a country for old men, but Handsome Harry proves there's still kino for them. Harry plants itself proudly in the old boys' club, where women are no good, sons are all-too-wayward and there's nothing a bottle of scotch won't fix. When retired sailor Harry Sweeney (Jamey Sheridan) receives once-crewmate Tom Kelly (Steve Buscemi)'s dying wish for...

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  Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to Host the Oscars

  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this afternoon that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the 82nd Academy Awards next year. Martin earned an Emmy nomination after he hosted the 73rd Academy Awards. He also hosted the 75th ceremony. Baldwin has never hosted the show. The Oscars will be aired on ABC on Sunday, March 7, 2010, from the Kodak Theatre. As for the Golden Globes next January, Ricky Gervais...

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  Get Your Fez Out! The Museum of Kitsch is Launched!

  Allee Willis is a lot of things - songwriter, artist, director, performer, hostess extraordinaire, and owner of a fab mid-centry modern home -- the list goes on. Personally, I love her for introducing me to Bud Cort and for writing "Boogie Wonderland". Just try to listen to that song and not boogie. Now Allee is taking on the internet. Her videos have already gone viral on YouTube, but this week she debuts the spectacular online...

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  Box Office Review: Meh...

  The Labor Day weekend is typically a slow time for the movie business as everyone makes one final attempt to catch some elusive summer magic (e.g. sleep with unattainable lust object). As such, The Final Destination was the best of a weak bunch as it nabbed $12.4M ($47.5M) to top the weekend box office. Terrible newcomer All About Steve finished a reasonably close second ($11.2M) just ahead of the steady Inglourious Basterds ($10.8M | $91M)....

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  NOW Festival Makes its 6th Return to Downtown

  Ayana Hampton | Photo: Blackantphotography The 6th Annual New Original Works Festival opens this week and runs for three weekends at REDCAT, the theater at the basement of Disney Hall downtown. Programming an assortment of dance, theater, and music events to share a single performance, the festival’s history has been adventurous and the LA Weekly calls it "one of the city's more eclectic and vital performance festivals." The mission of the festival isn’t to...

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  DVD Tuesday: Clint Ascendant!

  I was a big fan of Gran Torino when it originally dropped in theaters last year. The one complaint I constantly heard from those who didn't like it was that the young Asian actors weren't very good. My reply to them was that within the universe of the film, these kids had a less than perfect grasp of English so naturally they would struggle to speak. At any rate, Gran Torino was a great flick...

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  Pencil This In: Nanci Griffith Speaks, An Accordion J.A.M. @ the Ford

  The Hollywood dodgeball league starts tonight. / Photo by polaroid-girl via LAist's flickr pool. MUSIC TALK* The Grammy Museum’s new live series “The Drop” interviews artists with new albums. Tonight at 8 pm the museum welcomes Nanci Griffith to discuss her new album, The Loving Kind, the day before its release. She’ll be in coversation with museum Executive Director Robert Santelli about the songwriting, newsworthy inspirations and studio approach to the album. After the...

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  A Scavenger Hunt throughout all of Los Angeles

  Scavenger contestants celebrate at the end of the day | Photo by Mark Dienger By Mark Dienger, Special to LAist In the never-ending quest to find fun things to occupy my weekends, a friend turned us on to Race/LA They organize a number of events from urban scavenger hunts to a simulated leg of the "Amazing Race." Having personally participated in two Race/LA events (one CityRace and a special one-off event called "The Quest"),...