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hat do electronic dance music and big green expanses of grass have in common? Find out from 2-10 p.m. on May 26, when Sunday Sessions takes over Grand Park. Electronic music guru Eduardo Castillo from The Elechtech oversees an afternoon and evening of beats in the 12-acre space, with food trucks and cocktails by Pattern Bar. There will be DJ sets from Castillo, Wolf + Lamb with Baby Prince, No Regular Play, Garth, Jeniluv and Wiseacre. Grand Park is between Spring, First and Temple streets and Grand Avenue. More info at grandparkla.org.
May 20, 7:30 p.m.: Cornelius Herring on piano. May 21, 7:30 p.m.: Down Home Blues Jam Session. May 22, 7 p.m.: N’Tense Soul. May 23, 7:30 p.m.: The Villines Quintet. May 24, 7 p.m.: Big Papa TCB Blues Swing Band. May 25, 7 p.m.: Sam Webster Group. May 26, 11 a.m.: Sunday Brunch with Jay Jackson. One-Eyed Gypsy 901 E. First St., (626) 340-3529 or one-eyedgypsy.com. May 21, 7 p.m.: Alex Reznik pop up dinner with big band Olive and the Mob. May 22, 9 p.m.: RT N the 44s, spreading their honky tonk joy. May 25, 10 p.m.: AK and Her Kalashnikovs. May 26, 9 p.m.: Nate Weiner and the L.A. River Band. Redwood Bar and Grill 316 W. Second St., (213) 652-4444 or theredwoodbar.com. May 21: Paper Sails and Rocky Punch. May 22: John La Fayette Ramsey & The Orchestra. May 23: The Obsessed, Backbiter and Ultra Electric Mega Galactic. May 24: Blackwater Jukebox, Fathers & Suns, Burly Temple and Grit. May 25: RVIVR, Toys That Kill, Benny the Jet Rodrigues and Indigenous Robot. May 26, 3 p.m.: Trotsky Icepick. May 26: Labretta Suede, Lightnin’ Woodcock and F.U. Marylou. Seven Grand 515 W. Seventh St., (213) 614-0737 or sevengrand.la. May 20: The Ron King Quartet is back again to spread their love of glamour poses and trumpet based jazz. May 21: The Makers are looking mighty mayoral with their inclusive brand of improv jazz. May 22: Two stepping jazz and funk amalgam outfit The Vibrometers are back. The Smell 247 S. Main St., alley between Spring and Main
streets, thesmell.org. May 23: Battle Show V pits So Many Wizards vs. Palm Reader, Stab City vs. Batwings Catwings, Heller Keller vs. The Meow Twins and TxxxxFxxxxR vs. Exotic Dancer Feline. May 24: Xiu Xiu, Moses Campbell, Whitman and Michael Vidal. May 26: The Beets, Colleen Green, Sea Lions and Corners. Staples Center 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7326 or staplescenter.com. May 20, 8 p.m.: Still going strong, the Rolling Stones’ wealth and prestige are the greatest refute to anti-drug rhetoric we’ve seen since Michael Phelps.
FILM Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com. May 20, 5, 7 and 9 p.m., May 21, 5 and 7 p.m., May 22, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. and May 23, 3 and 5 p.m.: Terence Nance’s debut feature, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, documents the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic. May 23, 7 p.m.: Mindshare LA Presents Beauty
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Is Embarrassing. In conjunction with the screening will be a Q&A with the filmmaker and his subject, artist Wayne White. May 24, 5:30 and 7 p.m., May 25, 3:30 and 5 p.m., May 26, 7:45 p.m., May 27, 5:10 and 6:45 p.m.: In Shunji Iwai’s Vampire, our undead protagonist works as a teacher so he can search for suicidal female students and seduce them before sucking their blood. IMAX California Science Center, 700 State Drive, (213) 7442019 or californiasciencecenter.org. Explore the remnants and wisdom of an ancient empire in Mysteries of Egypt. Ice and polar bear enthusiasts will likely dig To the Arctic 3D. Experience the gripping story full of hope, crushing disappointment and triumph in Hubble 3D. Pershing Square 532 S. Olive St., (213) 485-1645 or laparks.org/ pershingsquare. May 24, 8 p.m.: Molly Ringwald’s second appearance Downtown this week as Pretty In Pink screens. REDCAT 631 W. Second St., (213) 237-2800 or redcat.org. May 20, 8:30 p.m.: Experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon’s catalogue and his “Elegiac Visions” get the
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