Notable Los Angeles: 5/14–5/20
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
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Posts Tagged: alice bag
Album of the Week: Alice Bag’s Blueprint
“The songs often find their inspiration in real-life moments that caused Bag to take stock and assess her own blueprint—to take a stand or fix a problem: personal, political, or both.”
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Sound & Vision: Celia C. Pérez
Allyson McCabe talks with Celia C. Pérez about her debut middle-grade novel, The First Rule of Punk, her inspirations for writing the book, and her own childhood.
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Sound & Vision: Alice Bag
Allyson McCabe talks with Alice Bag, one of LA punk’s first frontwomen in the mid-70s as the lead singer and co-founder of the Bags, and who has just released her self-titled debut solo album.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Bag
“She looks like a Babylonian Gorgon,” a reviewer once wrote of Alice Bag in a show review. Her then-band, the Bags, was at the forefront of the late seventies punk scene in Bag’s native Los Angeles.
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At RADAR productions, Alice Bag, founder of The Bags and author of Violence Girl, interviews Raquel Gutierrez, aka Raquefella, founder of queer performance group Butchlalis de Panochtitlan. Gutierrez talks about growing up between cultures, butch haircuts, theatrical influences, and upcoming projects. “So in order to suit up psychically, we had to have our best buds […]
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