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St. Aug. Hamp Fest Music Festival Thu.-Fri. Sept. 27-28| Morris Day and the Time headlines Hampfest, named for Edwin H. Hampton, founder of St. Augustine High School’s Marching 100 band. Proceeds support scholarships. Other performers include Kermit Ruffins, Howard Hewett, Free Agents Brass Band and others. Day performs Friday. At St. Augustine High School. PAGE 51. Timecode:NOLA/FF One Thu.-Sun. Sept. 27-30 | Timecode NOLA, a local filmmaker’s collective, holds its inaugural film festival featuring screenings of new short projects shot locally as well as the documentaries Satan’s Angel, about historic and new burlesque dancers, and The Farm, about the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Various locations. PAGE 55.
Animal Collective Sat. Sept. 29 | Love Animal Collective’s 2009 hit machine Merriweather Post Pavilion? You can keep on listening to it. Centipede Hz (Domino), the new LP from the Baltimore merrymakers, is as discordant and abrasive as its predecessor is radio-ready. Micachu and the Shapes opens at House of Blues. PAGE 51. Kendrick Lamar Sun. Sept. 30 | When N.W.A released its 1988 landmark Straight Outta Compton, Kendrick Lamar was two months shy of his first birthday. Today he’s a rising star and South Central L.A.’s best storyteller. AbSoul and Jay Rock open at House of Blues. PAGE 51.
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Looper | Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in Looper, a sci-fi
action film in which the Mob sends assassins back in time to change the course of history and clean up unwanted problems. But the assassins have complicated lives of their own, and not every mission works out as planned. PAGE 57.
Sharon Olds Mon. Oct. 1 | Award-winning poet Sharon Olds has distinguished herself with vivid and unflinching accounts of her personal life. Her most recent collection, Stag’s Leap, reveals the awkward process of realizing her husband is cheating and about to leave her. She reads at Tulane University’s Freeman Auditorium. PAGE 67.
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Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Sat. Sept. 29 | Download a ticket from www.smithsonian.com/museumday and get two free tickets for one participating museum on Saturday — the Contemporary Arts Center, National World War II Museum, NOMA, Ogden Museum and others. PAGE 67.
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