NYLON - May 2008 - (Page 112) BOOKMARK: PLAY Following on the high heels of STREET and PRETTY comes PLAY (Universe), NYLON’s first music book, and it’s packed cover-to-cover with some of our— and your—favorite musicians. PLAY pays homage to the looks of stylish music icons such as Amy Winehouse, Beth Ditto, and Stevie Nicks, features custom-crafted mixtapes from the likes of Kate Nash and Thurston Moore (who knew he loved the Monkees?), and has a special music street style section. There’s an entire chapter of rockers like Jenny Lewis and Peaches talking about their influences, and we even had the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, the Horrors’ Faris Badwan, and Steve Aoki, among others, design special music posters touting their dream concert lineups. What more can we say? PLAY on. CLARA LEONARD EDITED BY KATE WILLIAMS MORNING BENDERS Talking Through Tin Cans (+1 Records) At a bite-sized half hour, the Morning Benders’ debut full-length, Talking Through Tin Cans, is hardly longer than their two preceding EPs, Loose Change and Boarded Doors. But that’s just enough for this youthful Bay Area quartet to hit the listener with its quick succession of easy-to-digest pop morsels. Strung through with jangly guitars and delicate shouts courtesy of vocalist and principal songwriter Chris Chu, Talking is the sound of exuberance barely out of its teenage years. “Dammit Anna,” which opens the record, could contend with early ‘90s college bands who were so good at articulating a search for love that goes wrong. But then “Patient Patient” has a jocular bounce showcasing Chu’s sense of humor; and while Talking mostly retains its optimism, it switches gears and goes acoustic with the bare-boned “Heavy Hearts” and the revealing “Wasted Time.” If this were the old days, the “A-side” of Talking would be the upbeat half, and the “B-side” its ballad half—and that would work just fine. But as it is, the sharp downward turn of the tone of Talking is a little too steep for comfort, especially in so short a space. LILY MOAYERI SILVER SCREEN GEMS Sick of seeing big-budget blockbusters in a generic theater with 76 screens? Head to Los Angeles’s iconic, eccentric movie houses for films that are classic, quirky, and sometimes even silent. By Naomi Nevitt CINESPIA Only in Los Angeles can you watch a classic film while sitting in the graveyard where the lead actor is buried. Screening movies every summer in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Cinespia shows favorites like Vertigo and Harold and Maude under, and above, the stars. Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., cinespia.org MANN VILLAGE THEATRE Located just across the street from UCLA, the Village has original ’20s Spanish Mission-style architecture and a state-of-the-art projection system. 961 Broxton Ave., manntheatres.com CINERAMA DOME AT ARCLIGHT CINEMA Built in the early ’60s with the advent of the widescreen Cinerama format, for which the theatre is named, this is the city’s only curved-top movie theatre. 6360 Sunset Blvd., arclightcinemas.com AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE In the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, the American Cinematheque screens rare films year round, and hosts festivals such as Mods and Rockers and Burlesque on Film. Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave.; Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., egyptiantheatre.com GRAUMAN’S CHINESE THEATRE Grauman’s Chinese offers everything a Hollywood movie theatre should: beautiful original architecture and a killer projection system. The real show, though, is out front on Hollywood Boulevard, where tourists flock to see stars’ hand- and footprints. 6925 Hollywood Blvd., manntheatres.com/chinese SILENT MOVIE THEATRE The Silent Movie Theatre offers a variety of specialty movie nights (Music Thursday, Asian Sundays), while honoring its namesake with silents every Wednesday. 611 N Fairfax Ave., silentmovietheatre.com REDCAT Located inside Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, Redcat is CalArts’ Los Angeles-based venue for the performing arts, which holds screenings of avant-garde films by artists such as Paul McCarthy, Carolee Schneemann, and Mike Kelly. 631 W. 2nd St., redcat.org UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE The UCLA Film and Television Archive holds one of the largest movie collections in the United States, and, luckily, the department offers public screenings of many of its films. 10899 Wilshire Blvd., cinema.ucla.edu SANTA MONICA DRIVE-IN AT THE PIER Catch a movie at the Santa Monica Pier during the summer film screenings, and not only will you see an eclectic range of films from Who Killed the Electric Car? to The Muppet Movie, but you’ll also be afforded a view of one of the most breathtaking sunsets in the world. santamonicapier.org silver screen gems illustration by elise flory for tvsion. http://manntheatres.com/chinese http://cinespia.org http://silentmovietheatre.com http://manntheatres.com http://redcat.org http://arclightcinemas.com http://cinema.ucla.edu http://egyptiantheatre.com http://santamonicapier.org
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