Friday's Scoop: Liza and '70s New Age Spirituality

Greetings and welcome to City Scoop. Today is Friday, August 10, the 223rd day of 2012. Here’s what’s going on in West Hollywood today.

Double Your Liza

Liza Minnelli may be performing Saturday at the Hollywood Bowl, but get a preview tonight as Liza tribute artist Peter Mac becomes the lady with the Z. Mac not only performs Liza’s signature songs like “Cabaret” and “New York, New York,” he also chats with the audience as Liza about her famous parents, career and marriages. Mac starts spreading the news at 8 p.m. at the And if you can’t make it to the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, Mac clicks his heels together three times at the French Market to become Judy Garland.

70s New Age Flashback

The New Age spiritual movement has evolved greatly over the years, but here’s a chance to see what it looked like 35 years in Southern California. Aliens from Spaceship Earth is a 1977 documentary interviewing various spiritual leaders like Ram Dass, Yogi Bhahan, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Elizabeth Clare Prophet as well as actors like Cybill Sheperd, Raymond Burr, Martin Landau and Leigh Taylor-Young. Footage includes people being kidnapped by “deprogrammers,” people engaging in tantric sex and thousands of followers walking barefoot over hot coals. Aliens from Spaceship Earth screens at 8 p.m. at the Silent Movie Theatre, 611 Fairfax Avenue. Director Don Como will do a Q&A following the screening.  

Dance the Night Away

Dancing Queens have plenty of choices on a Friday night in Weho. From the giant dance floor at the to the two floors of dancing at with , , Ultra Suede and in between, there’s always a room on the dance floor for guys, and gals, who want to shake their booty.

Bands Playing in Town

• Long Beach Rehab with the Constant Change, Moral Defect and Blueprint Graffiti at the Whisky a Go Go. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
• Lostprophets Cherri Bomb, Kill the Complex and Life Down Here at the Roxy Theatre. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
• The Lonely Drunks Club Band with The Public Trust, Little Miss Nasty, Bronze Swagger, 7 Horse, Swimming in Trees and Ben Levin at the Viper Room. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
• Fang Island with Zechs Marquise and Adebisi Shank at the Troubadour. Doors open at 8 p.m.
• Me First and The Gimme Gimmes with Old Man Markley and Runny at the House of Blues. Doors open at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m.

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