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TV Junkie: Thankful That the 'True Blood' Premiere and 'Breaking Bad' Finale Don't Conflict


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Published June 11, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
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8:00pm Friday Night Lights NBC - Coach searches for a strategy to shut down their toughest opponent yet; Tim reconnects with Lyla; Vince discovers he has a gift for car theft; ... 8:00pm Real Time With Bill Maher HBO - Bill Frist, Rachel Maddow, Jon Meacham, Queen Noor, Oliver Stone ... 8:00pm 2010 FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert ABC - Soccer ... 9:00pm Stargate Universe Syfy - Season Finale ... See out interview with series star Alaina Huffman ... 9:00pm I Am Comic

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Meet Henrik Schwarz: German House With Soul


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Published May 8, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
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LAist: What do your DJ sets sound like these days? ... Henrik Schwarz: For the past few years, I’ve only play live, and don't do DJ sets anymore ... I have all my own productions, remixes and own tracks in thousands of little pieces on my laptop and recombine them in real-time into something new ... Whats an old favorite that regularly ends up in your live sets? ... Moondog “Jazzbook #2” (Henrik Schwarz Version)  ... What's your relationship with Los Angeles' electronic dance music

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Pencil This In: Theater in Open Houses, NHM First Friday, Taxidermy as Art


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Published May 7, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
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MORE THEATER ... How did a childhood chicken-choker from a poultry farm in rural Georgia end up working in a soulless Seattle office space? Well, she believes it’s because she’s actually the angel of death. Dan Dietz's tempOdyssey is the darkly satirical story of Genny, her epic journey and what it all means ... Now receiving its west coast premiere in the acclaimed needtheater company's production at the ArtWorks Theatre space in Hollywood--following runs in DC, Texas, the Jersey shore and

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Week In Rock: Les Savy Fav, Flying Lotus, The Tallest Man On Earth, Two Door Cinema Club


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Published May 2, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
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Les Savy Fav - "Sweat Descends (Live)" ... Flying Lotus - " ... And The World Laughs With You (feat. Thom Yorke)" ... The Tallest Man On Earth - "Troubles Will Be Gone" ... Monday ... Lupe Fiasco, B.o.B. @ House of Blues Sunset Strip (Sold-Out) ... Broken Social Scene, Julie Doiran @ Henry Fonda Music Box (Sold-Out) ... Chris Cornell Benefit @ The Roxy ... The Hold Steady @ The Grammy Museum LA ... Two Door Cinema Club @ Bardot ... Owen Pallett @ Fingerprints (RSVP Only) ... War Tapes, Jack

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Midnight Movie: Depeche Mode Meet Griffith Park


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Published May 1, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.
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Not all that long ago, it seemed that music videos for songs from films always featured footage of those films ... This Tamra Davis-directed Depeche Mode video for "But Not Tonight" was one such piece ... The footage of Los Angeles, and shiny actors playing in it, was from 1986's "Modern Girls" ... While this pop effort is less edgier than the band's seminal fare from the same year, it seems to me that this fluffiness wasn't a weak spot, but showed that Depeche Mode could create many types of

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Husband of Catherine Bach Found Dead after Apparent Suicide


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Published April 30, 2010 at 5:55 p.m.
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"The Dukes of Hazzard" star Catherine Bach--she played Daisy Duke--apparently called police this morning saying her husband had shot and killed himself at their Encino home. When paramedics arrived to the home around 11:30 a.m. on the 15900 block of Woodvale Road, Lopez was already dead. Police are investigating it as a possible suicide ... Peter Lopez, one of Michael Jackson's music attorneys, married Bach in 1990 and had two children with her. In 1998, Lopez founded “C.O.A.C.H. For Kids,"

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Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Opens Today, Comes Downtown Next Week


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Published April 29, 2010 at 2:36 p.m.
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SYoun Yuh-Jung, Lee Mi-Sook, Choi Ji-Woo, Ko Hyun-Jung, Kim Min-Hee, Kim Ok-Vin of "The Actresses." The South Korean film closes the 2010 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on Saturday, May 8 ... Photo by ... The 2010 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival opens this evening in Hollywood, the start of a weekend highlighted by programming that celebrates Bruce Lee's 70th birthday ... On Monday, the festival action moves Downtown, with an extensive slate of screenings split between the

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Plimsouls' live CD is a Sunset Strip time capsule


Published March 23, 2010 at 3:07 p.m.


If you've seen the iconic 1983 movie "Valley Girl," starring Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman, you've seen the Plimsouls. They perform a couple songs in the movie, including their minor hit "A Million Miles Away." The band was a fixture on the L.A. music scene in the early '80s and a new CD "Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal" captures it at full power.

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Week In Rock: Andrew Bird, Mirah, Cold Cave, Dios


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Published Feb. 15, 2010 at 9:30 p.m.
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Monday ... Teddy Thompson @ Largo at the Coronet (Little Room) ... Princeton, Le Switch, Wade Ryff & Friends, Adam Stern @ Spaceland (FREE!) ... Red Arrow Messenger, Maxim Ludwig, He's My Brother She's My Sister @ Bootleg Theater (FREE!) ... Useless Keys, Aushua, We Barbarians, Science @ The Echo (FREE!) ... Gamble House, Horse Stories, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, La Font @ Silver Lake Lounge (FREE!) ... Arrington De Dionyso’s Malaikat Dan Singa, Emily Lacy, Whoa Hunx, Peg Leg Love @

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Michael Jackson's doctor faces four years in prison if convicted on involuntary manslaughter charge; pop star's family arrives in court [Updated]


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Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 3:57 p.m.

Prosecutors on Monday charged Michael Jackson’s personal physician with involuntary manslaughter in connection with administering a combination of surgical anesthetic and sedatives blamed in the music legend’s death last summer. The complaint filed by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s ...

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