GROOVES

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Highlights

Rock/Pop

YB02 (Japan), 400 Blows, Wadsworth at The Fold 5/17. (Silverlake Lounge). Japanese underground 80’s supergroup plays America for the first time!
Superstring at McCabe’s. An all-star session, featuring D.J. Bonebrake (X’s drummer) on vibes, Woody Jackson (guitar), Don Heffington (percussion), Paul Eckman (bass), Mike Bolger (trumpet), Danny Frankel (percussion), Carey Fosse (guitar) and Davey Chegwidden (percussion). Expect some hot n’ groovy jazz with a Latin twist.

Jazz, Classical

Lou Rawls with Les McCann, Ltd, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Joey DeFrancesco at The Hollywood Bowl 5/18. Hollywoodbowl.com
Mingus Amungus at The Jazz Bakery (5/17 – 5/19)
Beth Lapides, Kathy Griffin, Moon Zappa, Patton Oswalt at The Un-Cabaret (Melrose Theater) 5/20

Reading,
Performances

Clint Catalyst, Pleasant Gehman, Shawna Kenney at Beyond Baroque 5/17, 7:30pm: Scenesters, wordsters, “fags n’ hags” make up this doozy of a show, “Not for the faint-hearted or feeble-minded, their subject matter mostly deals with dysfunctional love affairs, copious amounts of lust, illicit trysts, rock ‘n’roll, booze, thrills, chills, pills and heartache.” Catalyst, (“Cottonmouth Kisses”), Kenney (“I Was A Teenage Dominatrix”) and Gehman (“Escape From Houdini Mountain”) join forces tonight Michelle Tea (“Valencia”) and Cara Bruce (“Viscera”), from S.F. Check out Beyond Baroque’s event listings for more very cool shows. 
Earthbeat 2001 at The Electric Lodge 5/18, Venice (310.306.7546)
Sharon Olds at The Skirball Cultural Center 5/20, 2pm. Her books include “Satan Says, The Dead & The Living, The Gold Cell, The Father, The Wellspring,” and her most recent, “Blood, Tin, Straw.” 

The Week Ahead

Thursday, May 17

Tipsy at The Knitting Factory
John Lee Hooker, Etta James at The Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center
Circle Jerks, Lee Ving, Sugarcult, 7th House, Third Strike, Women of The Womb at The Warped Tour ’01 (Key Club)

Robert Cray Band at The Canyon, Agoura
Januaries, Abby Travis, Buckfast Superbee at Spaceland
Giant People, Taumbu at Temple Bar

Friday, May 18

Jack “Mr. Bongo” Constanzo at The Conga Room 
Mick Taylor, Creature of Mercy at The Roxy 
Hellride (Mike Watt, Stephen Perkins, Peter DiStefano), others at 14 Below
King Brothers Blues at Harvelle’s
Babyland at The Smell

Saturday, May 19

Hothouse Flowers at The Knitting Factory
The Specials, Untouchables at The Galaxy
Acid King, Betty Blowtorch, Operator Generator/Cookie at The Garage
The Spaniels, the Tokens, The Edsels, The Cleftones, The Classics, The Jacks/Cadets and The Monte Carlos at The Universal Ampitheatre
Paul Warren (Joe Cocker, Tina Turner) & the Wreckers at Harvelle’s

Sunday, May 20 

Radio Bemba at The Playboy Latin Jazz Jam (Conga Room)
The Lettermen at Cal State Northridge (3 & 7pm) 818.785.8885
Blues Traveler, Pete Yorn at The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
Badly Drawn Boy at The El Rey (also 5/21)
Todd Snider at McCabe’s

Wednesday, May 23

Mahotella Queens at The Conga Room. Incredibly cool vocal music from South Africa.

Clubs

14 Below – 1348 14th St., Santa Monica 310.451.5040
Club Sugar - 814 Broadway Ave., Santa Monica. 310.899.1989 www.clubsugar.com
Harvelle’s Blues Club – Downhome westside spot since 1931. Tuesdays: Bad Boy Jones. 1432 Fourth St., Santa Monica 310.395.1676 
Liquid Lounge - Gotham Hall presents. (800) 384-8865 ext. 0 or go to www.gothamhall.com or www.salsasundays.com
Lush - 2020 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica. 310.829.1933
McCabes – (see above). Sunday of every month at 7pm, free Talent Night. 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 310 828.4403 www.mccabes.com.
Rusty’s Surf Ranch - Every other Thursday: Women Who Cook. 256 Santa Monica Pier 310.393.PIER
Scruffy O’Shea’s – 822 Washington Blvd., Marina Del Rey 310.821.2653
St. Mark’s - Live Reggae every Wednesday. 23 Windward Ave., Venice Beach. 310.289.3256 www.fiendish.org or call 323.660.6663.
Temple Bar –1026 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica 310.393.6611
The Friendship - 112 W. Channel, Santa Monica.
The Gig W.L.A. - 11637 Pico Blvd. 310.444.9870
The Joint – 8771 W. Pico Blvd. 310.275.2619
The West End - 5th & Arizona in Santa Monica. 310.313.3292 www.westendclubs.com

Coffeehouses
and Other Spaces

Anastasia’s Asylum – Live music nightly, no cover. 1028 Wilshire, Santa Monica. 310.394.7113
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center - Critically acclaimed events, and weekly reading groups. Events: Thu 5/17, 7:30pm: Clint Catalyst, Pleasant Gehman, Shawna Kenney (See Readings). Fri 5/18, 7:30pm: Eleni Sikelianos, Michael Ondaatje. Sielianos’ books and chapbooks include “to speak while dreaming,” The Lover’s Numbers, The Book of Tendons, and Earliest Worlds. For the past decade, she has been teaching workshops in prisons, homeless shelters, and public schools, as well as at Jack Kerouac School’s summer writing program at Naropa. Ondaatje’s best-selling work “fuses jazz rhythms, film montage technique, bravura poetics, memoir, and experimental fiction. Ondaatje’s “The English Patient” explored those areas history seldom investigates, intersecting four lives at the end of World War II. “Anil’s Ghost” is the story of a forensic specialist in Ondaatje’s birth country, Sri Lanka, “on a complex and emblematic human rights assignment.” Sun 5/19, 7:30pm: Karen Chase, Elena Karina Bryne. Chase is the author of the award-winning poetry collection, Kazimierz Square (CavanKerry). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Norton Introduction to Poetry. Byrne is Director of the Poetry Society of America in Los Angeles, and directs the PSA series at the Getty. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. Sun 5/20, 8pm: BEYOND MUSIC: Matt Rogalsky, Ron Kuivila, Doug Harvey. The first performance of Romantic Landscape since 1995. Rogalsky is a composer and intermedia artist working in “live electronic performance and installation, via responsive and algorithmic computer-controlled sound, video, and light elements.” Kuvila works with electronic instruments of his own design. Harvey will present Romantic Landscape #17, a continuation of his “turntable-based performative sound installations; each landscape redeems trickle-down technology and cast-off vinyl into a narrative, theatrical structure.” Thursdays, 8pm: Beat Writing Class with with Venice West poets Philomene Long & John Thomas. “Beat writing,” says Philomene, “is a distinctly American literary form inspired by the rhythms of jazz and the controlled accident of Zen. I will start you off in this process. I will not promise I can stop it.” For info/registration, call (310) 822-3006. Saturdays, 10-1pm and Sundays at 11am: “Life Stories” with Terrie Silverman. Mondays, 8pm: Trinie Dalton’s Fiction Workshop, focusing on short stories, stories, and novels. Tuesdays, 8pm: Venice: Cindy Bailey, Creative Non-Fiction Workshop. FREE. Mondays: Monday Reading Circles, hosted by Will Slattery & Betzi Richardson. 310.822.3006. 681 Venice Blvd., Venice.
Duttons Books Brentwood – Critically acclaimed readings and events. Events: Thu 5/17, 7pm: Jo-Ann reads and signs “Bad Girl Creek.” Fri 5/18, 7pm: UCLA Extension Master Sequence in Novel Writing. Sat 5/19, 3pm: Tama Janowitz reads and signs “Hear That?” Sun 5/20, 2pm: Kate Gale and Bart Edelman read their fiction and poetry, including,“Lake of Fire and Fishers of Men,” “The Gentle Man.” Mon 5/21, 7pm: Carole Simone reads “The Goddess of Fifth Avenue.” 11975 San Vicente Blvd, 310.476.6263,or for more info, go to duttonsbrentwood.com 
Legal Grind – Award winning coffee house offers legal help with your coffee. www.legalgrind.com, or call 310.452.3160. 7640 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica, 90405. 
Metro Rags & Java – Tuesdays: Philosopher’s Café. 1630 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, 90405. 310.396.8356
Midnight Special Bookstore - Open and featured readings, political discussions & groups, renowned authors and reading circles, computer and technology groups, science fiction book club and much more. Events: Thu 5/17,7:30pm: Dr. Christina Fink will read & discuss LIVING SILENCE: Burma Under Military Rule. Fri 5/18, 8pm: Open Poetry (sign ups 7:30). Sat, 5/19, 3:30pm: The Institute for the Study of the Science of Society. This month’s book for discussion is “Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James W. Loewen. Sun, 5/20, 2pm: Julie Rivett and Josephine Hammett Marshall (Hammett’s daughter and granddaughter), will read & discuss their new book THE SELECTED LETTERS OF DASHIELL HAMMETT. Sun, 5pm: 5/20 Gerald Nicosia will read & discuss HOME TO WAR: A History of the Vietnam Veteran’s Movement. Mon 5/21, 7:30pm: Sharing Real Ability sponsored by the Westside Center for Independent Living. This month’s program: The History and Philosophy of the Independent Living Movement. Mailing list: Send a blank e-mail to internet@lists.MSBooks.com with SUBSCRIBE as the subject. 1318 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, or go to www.msbooks.com.