Pitch Perfect

'When over the rainbow's too far / Go to Largo / Go to Largo / Go to Largo." Fiona Apple wrote the song "Largo" about a magical place where she can sing and drink and stumble and know she is home. Largo at the Coronet, the loveliest, most intimate performance space in Los Angeles, is home to a handful of us misfit toys. It is owned by Mark (Flanny) Flanagan, an acerbic cherub. He's not a bigego guy—I knew him for 10 years before I learned he went to Harvard. He's an Irish toughie who happens to love music and art, and he runs a zero-tolerance joint. If he sees the light of a single cell phone, it's one strike and you're out. But the crowds at Largo know better. They're there for an experience. On Fridays, musician and composer Jon Brion wakes up at the crack of six P.M., has his morning coffee, and heads to Largo to change lives and blow minds with his show. It's magic. I mean, it's music, but—if s magic. And it's why anyone from Jeff Tweedy to Patton Oswalt to Louis CK to Aimee Mann to Adele to Paul F. Tompkins to Grant Lee Buffalo to Sara and Sean Watkins to Zach Galifianakis to Tig Notaro—I could go on forever—call it home. And, pinch me, I get to call it home, too. (For show listings, go tolargo-la.com.)

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SARAH SILVERMAN