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Film & TV: “˜Touch of pink’
It’s east-meets-west hilarity when an Ismaili Canadian guy
named Alim (Jimi Mistry) gets a surprise visit from his
traditionalist mother attempting to set him up with a proper Muslim
girlfriend. But what’s not so funny is that Alim’s
mother has no idea that he’s gay, and living in London with
his English boyfriend (Kyle MacLachlan) with no intention of
returning to Canada to attend his cousin’s extravagant
wedding. It’s a romantic comedy that’s sure to make the
gay inside all of us laugh at least a little. For more
info, go to www.campusevents.ucla.edu. Thursday, oct. 14-friday,
oct. 15 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Ackerman Grand Ballroom; $2

Music: 2nd Annual korean music festival What
better way to spend Saturday night than watching a bunch of your
favorite Korean pop stars perform? After last year’s festival
sold out, the Korea Times will bring back another 20 top notch
musicians from Korea, forming an impressive line up that includes
The Rain, SEVEN, Shin Hwa, Lexy, Crenshaw Elite Choir, MBC Pops
Orchestra and many others. And, it may be worth heading over early
““ pre-concert festivities begin at 2:30 p.m. For more
info, visit www.hollywoodbowl.com or call (323)850-2000. saturday,
Oct. 16 at 6 p.m. Hollywood Bowl

Theater & Arts: The workshop from
“˜Hell’ Loosely based on Dante’s
“Inferno” (and we do mean loosely), “Hell”
is an opera about all the things we love to talk about during
presidential elections occurring during times of war. It includes
10 singers and a 15-piece orchestra, and revolves around the story
of a lower-Manhattan poet who wakes up one morning and finds
himself in a strange, strange place where people shop all day and
the land is led by a bunch of talking trees. Well, we know the
trees aren’t meant to be President Bush, because he
doesn’t own a timber company. For more info, go to
www.hammer.ucla.edu. Saturday, Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. Hammer museum;
free

FILM&TV:

“Alfie” Ackerman Grand Ballroom Oct 19, 8 p.m.

A 1960s remake about a player who faces a moral dilemma when
forced to confront his womanizing ways, this free sneak preview
offered by Campus Events is definitely worth checking out, if not
for more than the chance to win a few free posters for your dorm
room walls. Better yet, it stars Jude Law ““ so hot right
now!

“Tarnation” Landmark’s Nuart Theatre Oct. 15
to Oct. 21, 7:30 & 9 p.m.

A combination of snapshots, Super-8 home movies, answering
machine messages and video diaries, “Tarnation” tells
the story of filmmaker Jonathan Caouette’s dysfunctional
family. The first feature-length film to screen at Sundance edited
completely with Apple’s iMovie software, this movie is more
than ahead of the trend. For more information, visit
www.landmarktheatres.com

MUSIC:

Jon Brion Amoeba Music Oct. 17, 2 p.m.

In celebration of the “I Heart Huckabees”
soundtrack, Brion will be giving a free concert inside the store.
And while you can just listen to the soundtrack at home, it’s
worth venturing down to Hollywood for the chance to watch Brion
play multiple instruments at the same time. For more information
call 323-245-6400.

Bright Eyes Orpheum Theatre Oct. 14, 7 p.m.

It’s been a big year for indie rocker Conor Oberst, who
recently started his own record label, Team Love. But while he may
be trying his hand at running a label, he’s still first and
foremost a musician ““ and he’s swinging by Los Angeles.
For more information, visit www.ticketmaster.com.

Los Lonely Boys The Wiltern Oct. 15, 8 p.m.

This trio of Texan brothers create a savory treat of Tex-Mex
music that has been garnering the attention of major artists like
Willie Nelson. For more information, visit
www.ticketmaster.com.

Violent Femmes Sirona’s Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m.

Violent Femmes just won’t go away. And if you head over to
this Santa Anita outdoor park, you’ll have the opportunity to
hear “Blister in the Sun” one more time. For more
information, call (626)574-7223.

THEATER&ARTS:

“Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips”
LACMA Oct. 17 to Jan. 9

More than 50 of the world’s greatest modern paintings will
be on display for the first time in Los Angeles in the L.A. County
Museum of Art’s historic presentation of paintings from the
Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Look for works by
Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh and Picasso, just to name a
few. Log on to www.lacma.org for more information.

“Close to Home: An American Album” Getty Museum
Through Jan. 16

The newest Getty exhibit (it opened on Oct. 12.) celebrates the
family photograph as art, considering how Americans have chosen to
represent themselves to each other through modern history. The
exhibit features nearly 200 photographs taken from the 1930s to the
1960s, so you won’t have to worry about seeing yourself on
the wall. But if you’re lucky, you might find your family.
Visit www.getty.edu for more information.

“All’s Well that Ends Well” Ark Theatre
Company Through Nov. 21

The local Ark Theatre Company, located at 1647 S. La Cienega
Blvd., closes its 2004 season with Shakespeare’s comedy of
loves and loves lost. Director Paul Wagner is a professor of speech
and voice at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television,
and the cast features some UCLA students, so it may be worth your
time and money to go. Student tickets are just $15 and can be
purchased at www.arktheatre.org.

Family Festival: Caribbean! Fowler Museum Oct. 17, 12 to 5
p.m.

The Fowler Museum will host what promises to truly be a day of
fun for the whole family when it will spend the afternoon teaching
people about an area of the world people spend thousands of dollars
to visit. Instead, you can experience the culture (the music, the
dance, hair-braiding stations, candle-making workshops, etc.) for
free. Beach sand extra. Visit www.fowler.ucla.edu for more
information.