HELPING A CAUSE
volume 28, number 450, Aug. 28 - Sept. 4, 2014
LIVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Living Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Starshine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Food & Drink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
A&E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
25|COVER STORY
Arts Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Ha Ha, Very Funny
LOL Comedy Festival Hits Downtown (Independent Staff) on the cover: Artwork by Ben Ciccati. above: Russell Peters.
NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
OPINIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Angry Poodle Barbecue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Pop, Rock & Jazz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Positively State Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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Arts & Entertainment Listings . . . . . . . . 52
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FILM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Movie Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
ODDS & ENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Evictions and other funny business down on Anacapa Street . . . . . independent.com/news Harley Hahn breaks down the GDP in great detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . independent.com/hahn
Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . 59 The Restaurant Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
FUNK ZONE
ECONOMICS EXPLAINED
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Dining Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
CHELSEA LYON
THE WEEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
When the ALS Golden West Chapter tapped The Indy for the ice bucket challenge, our “yes!” was tempered by our waterless state: douse ourselves with glitter, newspaper confetti, or Cristal instead? (Yeah, right, Jackson.) Buckets of icy water on civic lawns? The shore of East Beach! Brilliant. Seawater on ice soaked 20 Indyites — here demonstrated by Marianne Partridge, our editor in chief, with a helping hand from a gleeful Joe Cole, our publisher — with the money to benefit the Walk to Defeat ALS on October 5. Check out the challenge video (and a link to Salud Carbajal’s waterlogged reply to ours) at independent .com!
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Chess wizard Agata Bykovtsev (above) takes on the world . . . . . . . independent.com/agata
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dozens of press releases published daily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . independent.com/pr
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