Dec 172015
 

Vince Staples- Señorita

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (12/17-12/20/15)-

Thursday

Thee Oh Sees, Fuzz, and WAND are playing A Holiday Homeless Charity Event at Teragram Ballroom with proceeds going to LA Kitchen. It’s sold out, but there are always ways to find tix.

The Center for the Arts at Eagle Rock is hosting The Winter Solstice Sound Bath, which “offers audience members the opportunity to achieve a deep meditative state through the experience of pure sound” ($25)

For some different, less meditative sounds, EDM DJ Dillon Francis is at The Shrine with T-Pain, Valentino Khan, Anna Lunoe & Neo Fresco (or see him Friday with ILoveMakonnen)

Friday

Vince Staples is worth taking a trip to Santa Ana for, where he’ll be playing at The Observatory

At the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) gallery they are having the opening for the exhibit Molybdomancy followed by a Holiday Party with Night Gallery which will have performances, DJs, and hot cider

Get in the holiday spirit with The Music Center’s free outdoor Holiday Sing-along (tickets are distributed to the line at 6pm)

J Fernandez is playing at the Bootleg Theater

Can’t get enough of Star Wars?- you can participate in Light Saber Battle LA 2015 in Pershing Square (if you have one- they have sold out) or just check it out (free)

Fishbone are playing at The Roxy

Pity Sex are at The Echo with Colleen Green and Eskimeaux

Friday and Saturday

At REDCAT, The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts is having its annual Winter Dance Concert

Saturday

Artists Risk and Axis are live painting from 3-5pm at Buckshot Gallery

Moving Units are playing at The Roxy

The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica has a holiday double feature showing of Elf and Bad Santa

The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood is showing National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Scrooged as its double feature

The Bots are at The Echo with Buttertones and Thee Commons

Sunday

Dan Harmon and Jeff B. Davis are hosting Harmontown at Nerdmelt in Hollywood

The Aero Theatre and the Egyptian Theatre are both showing holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life

All weekend

Check out the recreation of Seinfeld’s apartment on Melrose from 10am- 7pm (free)

Nov 202014
 

Nosaj Thing- Eclipse/Blue

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/20-11/23)-

Thursday

Authors Geoff Dyer and Ricky Jay are speaking at the Hammer- http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2014/11/geoff-dyer-ricky-jay/

Capital Cities are at the Fonda Theatre with Night Terrors of 1927 (also Friday)- http://www.fondatheatre.com/events/detail/253748

Friday

It’s opening night of the No Budget Film Festival and the feature film is The Past is a Grotesque Animal, a portrait Kevin Barnes of of Montreal, after which there will be a talk with the director and editor and later a cocktail reception with DJs and visual projections at the Vortex Immersion Dome. Events run all weekend- https://streamingmoviesright.com/blog/no-budget-film-festival/

Saturday

The annual Great LA Walk will take on the Valley walking 17 miles along Ventura Blvd from Woodland Hills to North Hollywood (free)- http://greatlawalk.blogspot.com/

LACMA has a Woody Allen double feature for $5- Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway- http://www.lacma.org/event/bullets-over-broadway

Peter Hook & The Light are at the Fonda performing New Order’s Low Life & Brotherhood in their entirety and an opening set of Joy Division material- http://www.fondatheatre.com/events/detail/248789

The Bots are playing at the Bootleg- http://foldsilverlake.com/event.cfm?id=176095&cart

Found Magazine’s Re-Ignition Tour and Book Release Party with editor Davy Rothbart and friends at the Bootleg ($10 includes the book)http://foldsilverlake.com/event.cfm?id=179628&cart

Sunday

Nosaj Thing is playing with Mangchi, Upsilon Acrux at the Smell- http://thesmell.tunestub.com/event.cfm?id=182599&cart

Artist Pierre Huyghe and Emma Lavigne, curator of contemporary art at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, housed in the Centre Pompidou will be in conversation at LACMA- http://www.lacma.org/event/pierre-huyghe-conversation

Biz Markie, Peanut Butter Wolf, J.Rocc, and Break Beat Lou are djing at the Echoplex- http://www.theecho.com/event/708433-ultimate-breaks-beats-los-angeles/

Oct 162014
 

The Bots- 5:17

Things to do in and around Los Angeles this weekend (10/16-10/19)-

Thursday

The Bots are playing a free show at Amoeba Hollywood-http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/upcoming/detail-3126/

Of Montreal are performing at the Mayan theater- http://www.clubmayan.com/events_calendar/event/60

Jim Hodges’ collaborative film Untitled, being shown at the Hammer, is a montage of clips from news organizations, and pop entertainment footage which looks at queer activism and the AIDS epidemic. There will be other showings at the Hammer but this is the only one in the evening- http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2014/10/untitled/

Paradise Magazine is having a free event (with free wine) and performances at Akbar- https://www.facebook.com/events/498446293592301/

Massive attack are at the Greek Theater- https://www.greektheatrela.com/events/event_details.php?id=2896

Thursday- Saturday

Culture Collide Festival is at various venues and includes bands from around the world including Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah; Cloud Nothings; Fractures; Quantic; and Monokino; among numerous others- http://www.culturecollide.com/festivals/losangeles/lineup/

Friday

The New Pornographers are playing along with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at the Wiltern- http://www.livenation.com/events/372262-oct-17-2014-the-new-pornographers

Friday and Saturday

All you can eat free pancakes at Pancakes & Booze Art Show, there will also be, as the name suggests- booze and art, as well as live painting, music and a free photo booth, not bad for $5- https://www.facebook.com/events/673049362743408

Saturday

Nas is performing Illmatic (for its 20th anniversary) at The Orpheum theater- http://www.livenation.com/events/387857-oct-18-2014-hennessy-v-s-presents-nas-time-is-illmatic-tour

We’re getting closer to Halloween and Barnsdall Art Park is showing Carriehttp://www.barnsdall.org/events/outdoor-movie-nights/

The Moon Block Party is an all day music festival in Pomona- acts include Spoon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Lips and more- http://moonblockparty.org/

Saturday and Sunday

The Beverly Hills Art Show- http://www.beverlyhills.org/exploring/beverlyhillsartshow/?NFR=1

Saturday night and Sunday afternoon Santa Monica Art Studios is having its 10th annual Open Studios event- https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=bXNzYjFjZm1lZ2p1dGsyMTM0aDlrM2hoZGsgc2FudGFtb25pY2FhcnRzdHVkaW9zQG0&ctz=

Sunday

Nicole Miller: Believing is Seeing, the artist’s video project is showing at LACMA – http://www.lacma.org/event/nicole-miller-believing-seeing-5