Los Angeles Weekend Planner 3-30-17

 Los Angeles Events, Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Mar 302017
 

Generationals- Keep It Low

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/30-4/2/17)-

Thursday

Artist Kerry James Marshall will be in conversation with Helen Molesworth at the Colburn School (200 South Grand Avenue) which will include discussion of his MOCA exhibition (free but get there early!)

The Orwells are playing with No Parents and The Walters at the Regent Theater

Angel City Brewery is hosting the opening of “What Does DTLA Mean to You?” an exhibition showcasing the work of artists from the Arts District and Skid Row

Drill Los Angeles Music Festival at the Echo and Echoplex begins tonight with 3 day passes starting at $46.50, or you can buy tickets for the individual shows. Tonight Bob Mould is playing with Immersion and Alina Bea.

Hammer Museum is hosting a free panel discussion- The Not So Silver Screen: Black Women in Media with actress Diahann Carroll, actress and director LisaGay Hamilton and more

Kane Strang, Tracy Bryant, and Emily Edrosa are playing at the Bootleg Theater

Friday

Generationals are playing at the Teragram Ballroom

Mikal Cronin is playing with a string & horn ensemble as part of Drill Los Angeles at the Echo. Wand, Laetitia Sadler, Fitted, and more are also on the bill

The Aero Theatre is showing 2001: A Space Odyssey with a brand new 70mm print

Why? are playing at the Regent Theater with Open Mike Eagle and Rituals of Mine

Methyl Ethel are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Vorhees and BOYO

Saturday

The Getty Museum is having multiple performances of Selected Shorts: April Antics: Fictions & Foolery, a chance to see the popular podcast live with Jane Kaczmarek hosting and a cast that includes Yvette Nicole Brown, Sharon Gless, Liev Schrieber and more (also Sunday)

Meatbodies are opening for Delicate Steve at the Teragram Ballroom

International Pillow Fight Day is happening at Pershing Square with DJs and food trucks

Electric Six are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Residual Kid and VOWWS

For the last night of Drill, Wire will be performing at the Echo as well as Julia Holter, Mild High Club and more.

Sunday

CAFAM is hosting- Social (Media) Politics of Photography in the Digital Age- A Discussion with Arpad Kovacs & Ramin Talaie for “Focus Iran 2: Contemporary Photography and Video”. This is a good opportunity to check out that exhibition as well as Chapters, which includes a great variety of the book arts of Southern California. CAFAM is pay what you wish on Sunday but RSVP for the talk if you are interested.

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears are playing at the Troubadour

The Rock ‘N’ Roll Flea Market returns to the Regent Theater for its monthly event

 

 

Los Angeles Weekend Planner

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 282015
 

Diarrhea Planet- Platinum Girls

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/28-5/31)-

Thursday

The Hammer is having its Open Projector Night (free)- http://hammer.ucla.edu/open-projector-night/

Photographer Sally Mann is speaking to David Ulin at The Attic in Hollywood- tickets are $38 and include her book- http://booksoup.com/sally-mann-2015?utm_source=Sally+Mann+at+The+Attic%2C+Hollywood&utm_campaign=Sally+Mann+%40+The+Attic&utm_medium=email

ACME Gallery is hosting a launch party for Merkel Magazine- The Pit Gallery’s artist book- https://www.facebook.com/events/351393175056345/

King Tuff is playing the Del Monte Speakeasy (basement of Townhouse in Venice) for $3- RSVP here- https://www.redbullsoundselect.com/events/2015/05/red-bull-sound-select-presents-los-angeles

Robert DeLong is playing for free at Lure in Hollywood – http://www.eventbrite.com/e/lexus-pop-up-concert-series-powered-by-pandora-featuring-robert-delong-tickets-16085192243

Friday

Diarrhrea Planet are at the Echo with Lovely Bad Things and Left & Right- http://www.theecho.com/event/788449-diarrhea-planet-los-angeles/

The Getty’s Friday Night Flights continues with Total Freedom (Ashland Mines who co-produced the party Wildness with Wu Tsang)- http://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/performances/friday_flights.html

Sea Lions are playing at Ham and Eggs Tavern with Fungi Girls for $5 – https://www.facebook.com/hamandeggswine

Friday- Sunday

It’s a big weekend for design with Dwell on Design back at the LA Convention Center- http://www.dwellondesign.com/ and the Los Angeles Design Festival which has events around the city http://www.ladesignfestival.org/events-current/

Saturday

There is a closing party for A+D Museum’s exhibition Beyond Graffiti 2 and it is the last day at its current location on Wilshire. – http://aplusd.org/exhibitions-past/beyond-graffiti-2

It’s Atlas Obscura Day and all around the world are events celebrating “curious places“ – http://www.atlasobscura.com/obscuraday2015

LAMAG in Barnsdall Park is having an artist talk with Harold Greene, Alan Nakagawa, Baumgartner + Uriu (B +U) who are in the current exhibition- http://www.barnsdall.org/2015/04/18/cola-2015/?utm_source=May+11+Newsletter&utm_campaign=May+11+Newsletter&utm_medium=email

Spoon are at the Wiltern- http://www.wiltern.com/events/eventdetail/?viewNav=/eventdetail&eventId=09004E42A3DE372B&oid=0

Wire are playing at the Echo- http://www.theecho.com/event/784065-wire-los-angeles/

Sunday

The biannual vintage design marketplace Downtown Modernism is today ($5) – http://downtownmodernism.com/

CicLAvia is in Pasadena this time- http://www.ciclavia.org/

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