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CALENDAR FRIDAY MAY 22 2 020 LAT IMES Jordan Curtis Hughes Spirit of the times Life, dogs, a new 1975 album. Matty Healy takes it on MattyHealy ruffled hisMohawk and took a drag from acigarette ashe gazed throughawindowat the spring-greenEnglish countryside. suppose I think of this asmy second rehab said the frontman, who spent several weeks in a Barbados facility in 2017 addressing his addiction to heroin. This time, of course, he was referring to quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic, for which holed up in a remote studio complexnorthofOxford. the beginning, the news was rolling in 24-7 and watching it like a disastermovie.

Then it kindof faded into Healy, to be touring arenas in theUnitedStates right nowbehind on aCon- ditional the brand-new follow-up to Brief Inquiry Into Online Relation- MATTY HEALY is on the fence as he awaits end. There is a new 1975 album to promote, after all. BYMIKAELWOOD POPMUSIC CRITIC Watching another cou- terrifying night out can make for a passably decent night in with Love- The filmwas initially going to premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival before a scheduled April theatrical release from Paramount, but then a pan- demic happened and it is now opening worldwide on Netflix. Which is perhaps oddly fitting, as is a movie about circum- stances and complications. Directed by Michael Showalter from a script by AaronAbramsandBrendan Gall, the film opens with the sweetandcutebeginningsof romance between Leilani (Issa Rae) and Jibran (Ku- MOVIE REVIEW Good fun for a night in Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are a couple on a crazy ride in By Mark Olsen About a year ago, Diana Kennedywas in LosAngeles towatchapreviewscreening of the biographical docu- mentary made about her life.

The crowd at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills was your regularmix of arts patrons, food aficiona- dos and figures from the competitive local food in- dustry.Manywere eager not only to watch directed by Eliza- beth Carroll, but to witness the first reactions to the film from Kennedy, one of the most admired and feared figures in food. Kennedy has a peerless reputation as perhaps the greatest living documenter ofMexicanregionalcuisines. spent some six dec- ades cataloging, crediting and preserving a pantheon of intensely complex home recipes from every state in the country, from Baja California to Chiapas. The British-born Kennedy has been decorated by the Mexican government with theOrder of the Aztec Eagle and in 2014 entered the JamesBeardCookbookHall of Fame. also known for be- ing a bit prickly, to put it lightly.

Kennedy hold back when asked about chefs or other food writers. Inan interviewwithmea few years ago, Kennedy railed against the bland reappro- priation of Mexican food in U.S. pop culture and against Feisty about food, death In Mexican-cooking expert Diana Kennedy confronts mortality. By Daniel Hernandez Filming returns soon, California Some counties could reopen as soon as Monday. L.A.

County has a longer wait. E2 Comics on TV demicbroughtonby thenov- el coronavirus has sent it in a differentdirection. Ninety-seven works have been installed all over Los Angeles County in places viewable from the street or sidewalk. Unlike other such art small but growing phenomenon, since mostmuseums and galleries closed and the migration of arttoonlinedigitalplatforms has proved less than satis- fying this one is not con- centrated inaparticularpart of the city. Instead, it em- bracesL.A.

sprawl. Sites include a bus bench, a front yard, the roll- updooronaunit inan indus- trial park, a front win- dow, a overgrown backyard, the entry to an abandoned parking garage andscoresmore. is a sign, not unlike a yard sign pro- duced during an election year. What appears to be a A chain-link fence around an urban oil field is an un- likely display space to showa work of art. In Signal Hill, however, the lo- cation Abel Alejandre chose for his punchy black and white print.

Alejandre is oneof100art- ists participating in the sprawling, shrewdly con- ceived show Are Here Here We organized by the artist-run Durden and Ray gallery in downtownLos Angeles. Small, tightly fo- cused shows have been the precedented modern pan- ART REVIEW go? brought it to you by Abel Alejandre, posted like a campaign sign on Signal Hill. Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times Roadsides, windows, lawns. Art shows up all over Los Angeles County.

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