6A — Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Arts
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By Bryant White
©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
03/11/20

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

03/11/20

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020

ACROSS

1 School of thought
4 1972 Kentucky 

Derby winner __ 
Ridge

8 Landlocked 

African country

12 Sense of balance
15 Half of a folk-rock 

duo

16 *Orson Welles’ 

role in “The Third 
Man”

17 Public square
18 Court answers
19 Org. promoting 

fluoridation

21 State of calm 

attentiveness

22 Fair-haired
23 *James T. Kirk 

player, in recent 
“Star Trek” films

26 Kareem, once
27 Deli order
29 Police trickery
30 Koala’s hangout
32 Crest container
34 “Bus Stop” 

playwright

35 Dollar bill, e.g. 

... and what 
the ends of 
the answers to 
starred clues 
have in common

38 Curly top
40 Landlocked Asian 

country

41 “Elephant Boy” 

boy

45 Jigsaw unit
47 Color printer 

refills

49 “What’s shakin’?”
50 *“Pogo” 

cartoonist

52 Finds the right 

words, say

54 Step into 

character

55 It may need 

massaging

56 Crouch down
57 Word with ice or 

cookie

59 *“Damn 

Yankees!” star

63 Wetland birds
64 Pushing to the 

limit

65 “Put a tiger in 

your tank” brand

66 Babe in the 

woods

67 LP successors

DOWN

1 “More or less” 

suffix

2 Desktop item
3 “The Big Sleep” 

private eye

4 Most populous 

Arabian 
Peninsula city

5 Pandora’s boxful
6 Sundial seven
7 PIN point
8 End of a soldier’s 

URL

9 Jaw-dropping

10 Cough drop
11 Absurd
13 WWII light 

machine gun

14 Class ring 

number

15 Acting fitfully
20 Talk smack 

about

22 Deli order
23 Pitiless
24 Boot stud
25 Legendary 

Hollywood hot 
dog restaurant

28 French summer
31 “Snowy” bird
33 Black shade
36 Houston NBA 

team

37 “Try me”
38 Cochise followers
39 Instagram 

overlays

42 Like some lions
43 Rifle handle
44 Good times
46 Brain scan inits.

48 Costume spangle
50 Fritter away
51 They may be 

drawn

53 Country duo 

Brooks & __

56 Bandleader Artie
58 Rock producer 

Brian

60 DOJ division
61 Bikini half
62 Some NFL 

linemen

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SUDOKU

“There’s, like, two people here. 

Oh my God, this is hilarious,” 
my 
friend, 
Annie, 
said 
in 

between 
forced 
chuckles 
of 

disappointment. The two of us 
were standing in an endearingly 
short line for an EDM concert 
outside of Detroit’s Magic Stick 
Theatre. 

We had been anticipating this 

concert ever since Annie sent me a 
manic string of texts last semester, 
exclaiming 
in 
all 
uppercase 

that one of her favorite EDM 
artists, BAYNK, was performing 
in Detroit the first weekend of 
spring break, and that we “NEED 
TO GO!!” Though I never really 
enjoyed EDM music, the idea of 
checking out a rave-ish scene 
and visiting Detroit for the first 
time seemed exciting. So I obeyed 
Annie’s frenzied text messages 
and bought a ticket. 

Annie spent the few weeks 

leading up to the big night talking 
me through her crash-course on 
EDM/rave culture. She passed 
on many a disclaimer, preparing 
me for a colorful concert crowd of 
rave-junkies decked out in spandex 
and fishnets mixed in with your 
classic, more basic-looking EDM 
connoisseurs. Fashioning herself 

as a kind of expert on all things 
EDM, she was quick to warn me 
that the crowd would be high on 
drugs of all kinds and we might 
have to stand our ground should 
moshing ensue. She was hoping 
for a packed venue to give me a 
sufficient first impression of EDM 
concerts, which have always been 
one of her greatest loves.

Finally, the night came. We 

found our way to a street in 
Midtown 
Detroit 
flickering 

with the neon lights of clubs, 
theatres and bars, all pulsing 
with the spirits of intoxicated 
Michiganders. Annie let out a 
nervous giggle as we approached 
the theatre just a few minutes 
before the doors were supposed 
to open; there were a mere two 
people waiting outside. 

“BAYNK 
hasn’t 
been 

discovered yet. So only, like, true 
EDM people will be here tonight,” 
she assured me as a big guy with 
lots of tattoos made his way down 
the line checking people’s IDs. He 
gifted the small group of concert-
attendees in front of us with neon 
wristbands while Annie and I 
got big black “X”s marked on our 
hands with a fat Sharpie.

Soon, the doors opened and 

we made our way upstairs to the 
concert venue. We spent the next 
thirty minutes or so before the 
show started observing the other 
hyper-punctual concert-goers.

Those milling about Magic 

Stick that night were a funny mix 
— there were couples sipping on 
canned beers and frat-looking 
guys in their usual sweatshirt-
and-jersey-uniforms and, just as 
Annie promised, there were the 
token rave-kids who didn’t seem 
to catch the memo that BAYNK’s 
sets are more low-key than other 
EDM artists. The ravers quickly 
marked the far right side of the 
venue as their territory as they 
unpacked their circus toys and 
light-up trinkets. Annie, I, and 
the frat boys all looked on in 
wonderment as the nearly-naked 
bunch assembled their own mini-
rave in the corner, meticulously 
wrapping themselves in neon 
ropes like they were practicing an 
art form. 

“Guess we’ll just stand here and 

watch them like it’s the show,” 
Annie said. I couldn’t help but 
laugh at how this whole night 
was turning out; it’d probably 
be another hour or two before 
BAYNK actually came on and all 
of Annie’s build-up would come 
into fruition. Though, for now, 
we were stuck in a nearly-empty 
venue, entertaining ourselves by 
observing the ravers like they 
were animals in a zoo. 

Annie takes me to a rave

BAYNK

GRACE TUCKER

Daily Arts Writer

MUSIC NOTEBOOK
MUSIC NOTEBOOK

As I settled into the new 

Netflix original drama “All the 
Bright Places,” directed by Brett 
Haley (“Hearts Beat Loud”) and 
adapted from (and co-written 
by) Jennifer Niven’s popular YA 
novel of the same name, it quickly 
seemed like it would be another 
mawkish romance populated by 
tired gender tropes. 

Starring Elle Fanning (“20th 

Century Women”) as Violet, a 
teenage girl who recently lost 
her sister in a car accident, 
and Justice Smith (“Detective 
Pikachu”) as Finch, an eccentric 
loner labeled a freak by his peers, 
the film follows the relationship 
kindled by the two high schoolers 
after Finch talks Violet down 
from jumping off a bridge, grief-
ridden after the death of her 
sister. Nothing’s sexier than grief 
and fresh trauma after all! That 
the story did a gender-swap of 
another trope and made Finch 
into a sort of Manic Pixie Dream 
Boy didn’t entirely help either.

At 
first, 
this 
“meet-cute” 

seemed to establish yet another 
tale of a sad girl with sad problems 

who really only needs a boy to 
swoop in and set things right for 
her. But “swooping in and setting 
things right” isn’t quite so simple. 
The film delicately navigates 
themes of mental health, suicide 
and teen angst in a way that 
doesn’t betray reality in the usual 
saccharine and sanguine way of 
many teen romances. It’s quick 

to sunder the cliché it seemed to 
be settling itself into: Finch is not 
there to fix everything, as he has 
a lot in his own boat, possessed 
by dark moods and childhood 
trauma that compel him to 
disappear for days at a time. 

But this also isn’t a story 

of broken people finding that 
they fit each other like two 
serendipitously-fractured puzzle 

pieces — neither is it some ode to 
the mystical medicinal properties 
of love. That would not do justice 
to the sort of baggage that people 
like Violet and Finch carry, or to 
the lived experiences of any given 
person. Love is great and all, but 
even in love (maybe especially 
in love) people say the wrong 
things, do the wrong things — try 
to help when they shouldn’t and 
don’t when they should. Finch is 
pushy and doesn’t seem to think 
about context or boundaries all 
the time; Violet isn’t prescient 
enough or as helpful about Finch’s 
ordeals as she probably should be. 
Solace is found together, some 
growth is made, but it isn’t a cure-
all.

The story is punctuated by 

idyllic scenery as Finch and 
Violet explore this solace, biking 
along Indiana trails, dancing 
in country fields, swimming in 
secluded lakes. Those looking for 
the cute antics of a burgeoning 
couple will be satisfied by the 
many sweet moments brought 
to life by the light, awkward and 
natural chemistry shared by 
Fanning and Smith.

All the Bright 

Places

Netflix

Now Streaming

JACOB LUSK
For The Daily

‘Bright Places’ manages to 
break from gender tropes

NETFLIX

FILM REVIEW

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