GROOVES

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Center Stage: Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men (w/Christy McWilson)

Highlights

Rock, Pop

Kanary at Bigfoot Lodge, 5/6. Described as “a more rockin’ early version of Heart through the eyes of Detroit and a tab of LSD” Featuring Mary Kay (The Dogs) on bass, Leslie Knauer on vocals and guitar, and Tony Matteucci on drums.
Afrika Bambaataa, Slum Village, Phat Kat at The El Rey, 5/2
The Brothers Johnson at The House of Blues, 5/2
Double Naught Spy Car, Ferdinand at The Alterknit Lounge (Knitting Factory), 5/2
Eighteenth Street Lounge with Ursula 1000, Nicola Conte at The Echo, 5/2
“Drinking with Frank Booth” at Bigfoot Lodge, 5/2
Elvis & Miss Thing at 1650, 5/2
X, Adz, Starvations at Beatfest 2002 (Knitting Factory), 5/3
Guitar Shorty at Harvelle’s, 5/3
Frank Black & The Catholics at The Knitting Factory, 5/5
Wadsworth, Nostradumbass at Club Snack Sac (Zen), 5/6

Jazz, Classical

Jason Moran Trio with Tarus Mateen & Nasheet Waits at The Jazz Bakery, 5/5
Omega Dog with Matt Piper, Dan Lutz, Dan Morris at Rocco
Benny Green Trio at Catalina Bar & Grille
Gerald Wiggins Jazz Quintet at The Santa Monica College Concert Hall, 5/3, 7 & 9pm.
Althea Waites in the Sanctuary of First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica, 5/8, 1008 11th St. This piano recital is the final mid-week recital of the season.
Arts In The Park at Topanga State Park, 5/4 & 5/5. Art and music in the park, including 30 artists, blues, food, hiking and park projects.
The Pacifica String Quartet at The Music Guild, 5/5, 3pm. More info, call (31) 552-3030

Readings,
Performances

Jean Rouverol’s Refugees From Hollywood: A Journal of The Blacklist Years at The Santa Monica Public Library, 5/7, 1:30pm. Jean Rouverol and her husband Hugo Butler, two of the “Hollywood Ten” denounced as “Communists” by the House of Representatives’ UnAmerican Activities Committee in 1951, avoided jail time by fleeing to Mexico with their four young children. In Mexico, they had two more children and lived a life on the run. Rouverol details this ordeal in her “poignant and unapologetic…memoir [which] juxtaposes the support they found south of the border with the unrelenting weight of living as fugitives.”
Snapshots Literary Troupe’s Original Voices at Village Books, Pacific Palisades (310) 454-4063
Ulysses: The UCLA English Dept. Marathon Reading at UCLA’s Rolfe Hall Sculpture Garden, 5/2, noon (through Friday, noon) Twenty four hours in the life of James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom, read in 24 hours. (More info: www.english.ucla.edu)

The Week Ahead

Thursday, May 2

Ray Manzarek, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men (w/Christy McWilson), Wirgin Shaw, Michael C. Ford at Beatfest 2002 (Knitting Factory)
Afrika Bambaataa, Slum Village, Phat Kat at The El Rey
Double Naught Spy Car, Ferdinand at The Alterknit Lounge (Knitting Factory)
Just Dave & The New Family at Harvelle’s
Peter Semple, “Lemmy – Dinosaur of Rock n’ Roll” at the Goethe Institut. (323) 525-3388
“Drinking with Frank Booth” at Bigfoot Lodge
James Angell, Minnow at The Silverlake Lounge
Hayden, Clairvoyants at The Troubadour
SugarCult, Nerfherder, others at The Roxy
DJ Babu at Amoeba Music, 7pm
Elvis & Miss Thing at 1650
Superbees at The Three of Clubs
More Real Ray, Willard, Soren Grey, Down & Dirties at The Garage
Brenden Benson at Spaceland
Eighteenth Street Lounge with Ursula 1000, Nicola Conte at The Echo
Andy Vargas (Santana) at The Conga Room
The Brothers Johnson at The House of Blues
Cold Medina, others at 14 Below

Friday, May 3

X, Adz, Starvations at Beatfest 2002 (Knitting Factory)
Altan, Kate Rusby at Royce Hall, UCLA
Guitar Shorty at Harvelle’s
Gerald Wiggins Jazz Quintet at The Santa Monica College Concert Hall, 7 & 9pm.
Butcher Holler, Lisa Marr Experiment at The Silverlake Lounge
Marley’s Ghost, Van Dyke Parks at McCabe’s
Johan F, Sank Finatra, Clockwork at Nova Express (323) 969-4616
Fireball (Deep Purple Tribute) at Paladino’s
Goldenboy at The Derby
Celeste Moreno, New Poor, Virgin Shaw, Jon Vanderslice, Sharp Ease at Spaceland
Martin Sexton, Chris Trapper at The House of Blues
The Distillers, Manic Hispanic, Union 13 at The El Rey
Dictators, others at The Troubadour
Marley’s Ghost at McCabe’s
Alanis Morissette, Ryan Adams at The Universal Amphitheatre
Dichotomy, Trigger, Swingin’ Hippies, Cycle Hum at 14 Below
Lila Downs at The Irvine Barclay Theatre
Comedy on Rye, Lesser Gods, Aaron Cuadra at Canter’s Kibbitz Room

Saturday, May 4

X, Throw Rag, The Angoras at Beatfest 2002 (Knitting Factory)
David Beardsley, Ensemble of The 31 Birds (Erin Barnes, Geoff Brandin, Kraig Grady), Swallow, Voice of The Bowed Guitar at The 2nd Annual World Out of Tune (W.O.O.T.) Festival. 742 N. Highland (323) 466-1507
Huayucaltia at The Ford Ampthitheatre
CubaFest 2002, SMC Symphony Orchestra’s “An Evening of Cuban Delights” at First United Methodist Church, 1008 11th St., Santa Monica. Pre Concert lecture at 6:30pm.
James Intveld at Crazy Jack’s
Buffalo Daughter at The Troubadour
Blowin’ Smoke & The Fabulous Smokettes at Harvelle’s
Paul McCartney at Arrowhead Pond
Concrete Blonde, Group Therapy at The Wiltern
David Wilcox at The Smothers Theatre (Pepperdine), 8pm.
Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa, Steve Vai) and Which One’s Pink? (Pink Floyd Tribute) at Paladino’s

Sunday, May 5

Frank Black & The Catholics at The Knitting Factory Cinco De Mayo! With Lila Downs at Amoeba Music, 2pm
Lila Downs at The Conga Room (evening show)
Peter Alsop Children’s Matinee at McCabe’s (11am)
Peter Semple, “Keno Extreme” at the Goethe Institut. (323) 525-3388
Powered By Rock: DJ Young & AJ Ramone at Bigfoot Lodge

Monday, May 6

Wadsworth, Nostradumbass at Club Snack Sac (Zen)
The Coup, Kenny Muhammed, The Adrenaline Theatre Film Festival at The House of Blues
Q-Burns Abstract Message at Club Twister (The Derby)
Stefano Scodanibbio at LA County Museum of Art
Bryerton, Fuchs, Smith, Chris Heenan, Line Space Line at Salvation Theatre. 1512 Griffith Park Blvd, 8pm.
BetsyAnn Faiella – No Ordinary Thing at The Gardenia

Tuesday, May 7

SMC Appied Music Program Student Recital, at Santa Monica College Concert Hall, 11:15am. (FREE)
Cubanismo at The Conga Room
The Knack at The House of Blues

Wednesday, May 8

Mean Street: Promise Ring, Weakerthans, others at The Knitting Factory
Ed Harcourt, Eileen Rose at The El Rey
Face to Face at The House of Blues
Robert Walker, Stanton Moore, others at The Troubadour
Yvette Freeman, “Queen of The Blues” and “Dinah Was,” at The Skirball Cultural Center, 8pm. “ER’s” Yvette Freeman reprises her Obie award winning role as Dinah Washington for LA Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing live radio series.

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
Temple Bar –1026 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica (310)393-6611
The Friendship - 112 W. Channel, Santa Monica.
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 FREE Workshops & Readings. Events: Sun, 5/5, 5pm: Dina Hardy, Charles Ardinger. Amelie Frank hosts this reading, which includes poet Ardinger, author of A Summer and Scenes From, as well as the recording THE WHO. Sign ups for open reading is at 4:45 pm. FREE. 5/18: Lisa Jarnot and Harryette Mullen. LIFE STORIES Performance Workshop, 10 week session, classes Sat 10-1 or Sun 11-2. $250. Call 310.281.3175. “A writing workshop utilizing spontaneous writing, music, movement, and drawing to mine autobiographical stories for memoir or performance.” 1ST SUNDAY OPEN READING - 5 PM, sign-up 4:45. MONDAY NIGHT FICTION - 8 PM Led by TOM BURKETT, the workshop will focus on short shorts, stories, and novels. TUESDAY NIGHT CREATIVE NON-FICTION - 8 PM Bring works of creative non-fiction, memoir, and prose. Led by CINDY BAILEY and WAYMAN BARNES. WEDNESDAY NIGHT POETRY - 8 PM The West Coast’s longest running, free workshop, this month, led by JOHN HARRIS. MONDAY POETRY READING CIRCLE - 8 pm Led by BETZI RICHARDSON, 1st & 3rd Mondays, 2nd & 4th Mondays, critiques and exercises, bring your own work. FREE. (310)822-3006. 681 Venice Blvd., Venice.
Duttons Books Brentwood – Critically acclaimed readings and events. Call for this week’s schedule. 11975 San Vicente Blvd.
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, 5/2, 7pm: Sisterhood Reading Group. All books read are by women authors and cover a wide range of experience. This month’s book is: Diary of a Political Idiot by Jasmina Tesanovic. Fri, 5/3, 8pm: Open Poetry reading, sign ups at 7:30pm. Sat, 5/4, 5pm: David Grand will read & discuss The Disappearing Body, a “noir thriller and a literary excursion into urban America between the wars…a tale of drug dealing and union-busting, murder and mayhem on both sides of the law that combines the atmospheric richness of Dashiell Hammett and the irresistible, subversive humor of Thomas Pynchon.” Sun, 5/5, 2pm: Political activist and candidate Blase Bonpane will discuss “Building a Peace System” and will share “his philosophies of peace as related to his book ‘Guerrillas of Peace’ and to our current political climate.” Sun, 5/5, 5pm: Shirley Nicholson will read & discuss Love of Nature, which Max Oelschlaeger called “a creative account of the challenges we face as members of an ecologically dysfunctional society and the opportunities to heal ourselves and the world.” Mon, 5/6, 7:30pm: Gus Russo will read & discuss The Outfit: The Role of the Chicago Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America. This book tells the story of the Chicago crime syndicate which became the “puppet master of Hollywood, Las Vegas and Washington D.C.” Tues, 5/7, 7pm: FAIR, the media watch group, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting presents their monthly program on the role of the media in shaping our views. 1318 3rd Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401, v310.393-2923 f:310.394.6123 | books@msbooks.com | www.msbooks.com.