To Do: Your Weekend In Bullet Points
Friday
· If your idea of Fashion Week involves the boys wearing more make-up than the girls, Heatherette is putting on a fashion show at ATOMIC on Santa Monica Blvd. Be there are be squarely unfabulous.
· Shag with a Twist opens at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown LA, and from what we can tell by clicking around the website (besides that all sites that insist on playing music should have "off" buttons), it's a musical murder mystery set at a Tupperware party. Or something. Sounds interesting, though.
Saturday
· The American Cinema Foundation and the L.A. Press Club present "Mass Market, Smart Content," a panel discussion "about how some successful writers manage to keep their distinct viewpoints even while writing for the mass market medium of TV." Paul Feig ("Freaks & Geeks" "Arrested Development"), Scott Kaufer ("Gilmore Girls”), Rob Long (“Cheers"), and Tim Minear (“Angel") head up the panel at the American Film Institute in Los Feliz.
· Graham Coxon (formerly of Blur) and the 22-20's play the Troubadour, but you're going to need to find a generous soul on Craiglist, a scalper, or some compromised morals to get in.
Sunday
· The Aero Theatre has a double feature of director Peter Medak’s movies. First up is Negatives, which "follows the antics of a middle class young couple and the strange role-playing games they resort to make their boring, marginal lives bearable." The second part of the bill is Romeo is Bleeding, with Medak popping in for a discussion between films.
· The Unhappy Hour and Literati Cocktail Urban Lit Lounge present local writers Brendan Constantine, Teka-Lark, Elizabeth lannaci doing the spoken word thing at the Parlour Club. Check it out and see if it suddenly devolves into a very literate game of The Dozens.