Aceyalone’s omnipresent ambition

Aceyalone wants to make hip-hop an art form, he says. So it makes sense that he’s doing a poetry book, and that he has ambitious ideas about what an album should be. 1998’s A Book of Human Language was literary to the hilt—different tracks are chapters, not songs, and he recites Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” [...]

Pick up some swap meet socks for Rakaa Iriscience

Rakaa Iriscience is half the voice of Dilated Peoples and a grinder undeterrable, with 10 years since he, Evidence and Babu released “Third Degree” and began a slow takeover of the neglected space between hard-ass street-rap and avant-experimental art-rap. Since last full full-length 20/20—sped-up soul samples, tactile [...]

Cedric the Entertainer: More observations about everyday life from one of the Original Kings of Comedy. 3&7pm. $27.50-60.
CERRITOS CENTER 12700 Center Court Dr, Cerritos 90703. 562.916.8501; cerritoscenter.com.
Art and Craft Fair: Belmont Shore hosts its art and craft fair which features over twenty five local artists hocking their wares. 10am-4pm.
BELMONT SHORE Various locations. belmontshore.org.