Riverside Art Museum ~ 3425 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, ~ ends July 26 ~ (951) 684-7111 riversideartmuseum.org

Greg Watanabe, Peter Wong and Michael Hornbuckle. Photo by Michael Palma.

I’ve seen the Warriors perform twice and plan on never missing one of their shows in the future. They’re naughty, smart, edgy, scrumptiously silly and I am eternally grateful to them for teaching me all the things I always wanted to know and was afraid to ask about the Asian male body. Ignorance is not bliss. To sample their mighty comedy, take a look at some of the videos clips available on their MySpace page like Video Dating, A John Woo Family Dinner and my absolute favorite: The Slow Asian American Film Festival. Or go to Little Tokyo tomorrow to see a screening of the Emmy Award winning documentary “Mighty Warriors of Comedy.” The Warriors will be there!

“18 Mighty Mountain Warriors and the ImaginAsian Center present the Los Angeles premiere of the Emmy winning documentary “The Mighty Warriors of Comedy!” produced by Kibi Anderson and Sung H. Kim.
Using a combination of personal interviews and live concert footage, “The Mighty Warriors of Comedy” takes a look at the members of this innovative all Asian American comedy troupe from the Bay Area as they struggle for success and deal with the ups and downs of life. They’ve been “Up and Coming” since 1994, but will that change as some of them make the move to Los Angeles? They’re trying to sell out but will anyone buy?

Thursday, July 17 @ 8pm at the ImaginAsian Center, 251 S. Main Street, LA, CA 90012 in Little Tokyo.

$12 General Admission
$10 groups of 10 or more

Info/Reservations:
818-754-4500 or email 18mightymountainwarriors@gmail.com or
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/38124

Including:
* MC Tamlyn Tomita!
* Live performance by 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors
* a special collaboration with the Tuesday Night Cafe Project, featuring Keiko Agena, Alison De La Cruz, Shin Kawasaki, and traci kato-kiriyama.

Here’s an event brought to you by EdgeFest you don’t want to miss! I hope Agenlinos will come out and support it. I’m posting this Sunday’s schedule. The second day of the festival is Sunday, July 20th and includes a performance by the Watts Village Theater Company, a play about the ghosts of Angelino Heights and one about the last sacred site of the Tongva people found in West Los Angeles. This line-up alone is worth the price of FREE admission!

SUNDAY, JULY 13TH SCHEDULE:

11AM
Son of Semele Ensemble
Record Storm Spreads Ruin!
By Aaron Henne
Devised by Son of Semele Ensemble
Directed by Edgar Landa
A corrupt administration. A leader clinging desperately to his power. A devastating flood.
In 1938, Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw, on the verge of being ousted from power, broadcasts over the radio airwaves to a drowning city. His citizens, some living and some dead, converge on City Hall to offer him one last chance at salvation from his past deeds, before he is overtaken by a record storm.

1PM
Circle X Theatre Company
The Chinese Massacre (Annotated)
By Tom Jacobson
Directed by Marya Mazor
Based on historical incident, the The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) chronicles the first race riot in Los Angeles history, when 19 Chinese men and boys were lynched by a mob of 500 of “people from all nations.” Resonant with more recent racially motivated Los Angeles civil disturbances (the Zoot Suit Riots, the Watts Riots, the Rodney King insurrection), The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) brings to light the remarkable, culturally diverse 19th-century Wild West town that exploded into today’s metropolis.
Note: If you’d like to make a reservation for The Chinese Massacre please call 323-667-2000 x354 and leave a message

3:30
Lodestone Theatre Ensemble
My Man Kono
(Act One: The Chaplin Years)
Written by Philip W. Chung
Directed by Jeff Liu
The story of Toraichi Kono, who worked as movie star Charlie Chaplin’s personal valet for 17 years before being arrested as a Japanese enemy spy on the eve of World War II. This is a presentation of Act One of the play which covers Kono’s years with Chaplin.

What: EdgeFest Los Angeles History Project
When: Sunday, July 13, and Sunday, July 20, 11AM, 1PM, 3:30 PM
Where: Autry National Center of the American West, Griffith Park Campus, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90027-1462
How Much: Free
Reservations: Not required.
More Info : www.edgeoftheworld.org.

“Traditional Arabic instruments like the bendir and mandolute form the backbone of his music compositions, but it is his soulful voice (singing mostly in Arabic), along with liberal sprinklings of electronica, rock, funk and punk that makes Taha’s sound, as one critic describes it, “Arabesque rock-funk fusion with a message to the world.”

Rachid Taha @ California Plaza, Saturday, July 12th @ 8pm. Go to www.grandperformances.org for schedule, venue and parking information. Admission is FREE.

“Who are you?” “Who am I?” It sounds like there’s an existential storm broiling deep inside the soul of France’s number 1 musical upsetter. ‘Tékitoi?’, the title of the latest in a long line of probing, provocative and highly original Rachid Taha releases, is a punchy piece of French street lingo whose tone actually says something more like “Who the hell are you?”. If Taha is feeling the need to ask himself and others the most basic questions, then at least he’s doing it with all the verve and vivacity of a straight-jabbing southpaw boxer.

But that’s the man all over. Some strange mutation in the Taha gene over forty-six years ago created a phenomenon as rare as as an albino tiger; a musician of Arabic origin with the courage, intelligence and insight to speak the truth as he sees it, loud and direct, without the softening comforts of metaphor, parable or nostalgia. Or perhaps this uniqueness can be put down to the simple fact that music hit Taha, and vice versa, in the first few years of the 1980s, a period when rock’n’roll still meant rebellion rather than dollars, and when young North African immigrants and sons of immigrants living in France were beginning to shake off decades of timidity with their very own equivalent of America’s Black Pride movement.”

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“I see myself in her,” said Lilia Ramirez when talking about guest curator Maria Elena Hernandez. Seeing Hernandez work diligently to organize and produce the current “Nostalgia” exhibit at First Street Studios reminded Ramirez of when she was in the same position as Hernandez.

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Wreck N Yard 2 Presented by Rekal One and The AirGraFx Shop in Long Beach. Live painting by Frame, MakeOne, Fear, Cre8 and others.

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