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Los Angeles Weekend Planner 10-15-15

Oct 152015

The War on Drugs- Red Eyes

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/15-10/18/15)-

Thursday

The Flux Screening Series returns to the Hammer with short films, music videos, filmmaker presentations and a DJ after party

Yacht is performing a free set at Amoeba Records and signing their new record

Kickstarter Film Festival is on the east side in Los Feliz (free with RSVP)

Alt-J is at the Hollywood Bowl with Best Coast and San Fermin

Friday

The War on Drugs are playing The Greek Theatre with Christopher Owens (of Girls) opening

LACMA is showing the film Metropolis with live musical accompaniment ($10)

Odd Nights, the Autry’s free monthly market/music/food/drink event is on

Lianne La Havas is performing at the Fonda Theatre

Fartbarf are playing El Cid at midnight

Friday and Saturday

Florence and the Machine are at the Hollywood Bowl

Saturday

A benefit for 826LA at Echo Park Travel Mart– Life Into Art Into Art: Memoirs Adapted for Television and Film With Susan Orlean, Jerry Stahl, Stephen Elliott, and Evan Wright- has the authors discussing the adaptations of their memoirs ($15)

LA Times arts writer Suzanne Muchnic talks with KCRW art critic and journalist Hunter Drohojowska-Philp about her new book LACMA So Far (free)

Saturday and Sunday

The Beverly Hills Art Show is a nice way to spend the day walking around Beverly Gardens Park (free)

37 artists are participating in Santa Monica Art Studios open studios event (free)

The Festival for All Skid Row Artists is a two-day festival of performing and visual art and music from Skid Row residents (free from 1-5)

Sunday

LA Commons is having Found LA which offers several free neighborhood walks all around Los Angeles. Many are sold out but there tickets for a few left like a photo walk in DTLA and historic Hollywood area tour

Artist Doug Aitken is in conversation with novelist Steve Erickson at the Family Bookstore for Aitken’s new book of sculptures

Ciclavia is back and in downtown LA

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 10-8-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Oct 082015

Tennis System- Such a Drag

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/8-10/11/15)-

Thursday

Tennis System are opening for Talk in Tongues at the Echo

Downtown LA’s Artwalk is on for this month with a fashion/textile theme

Beirut are playing at the Hollywood Palladium

Gary Indiana’s exhibition is opening at 356 Mission and he will be performing tonight with Walter Steding

The Fratellis are playing at the Wiltern

Wild Child are playing at the El Rey Theatre

Thursday-Saturday

Culture Collide Festival is happening at various venues around Los Angeles with bands from around the world including Ladyhawke, Ash, The Juan Maclean and more, with $20 daily tickets and $10 passes for the International Showcases and smaller shows

Friday

Pasadena’s biannual ArtNight is a great chance to check out many of the area’s museums and cultural institutions for free as well as catch performances and live music. Free shuttles take you to all the destinations

The Rooftop Film Club is showing The Shawshank Redemption on top of the Montalban Theater in Hollywood

Funeral Party are headlining a show at The Satellite

Saturday

Street artist Hanksy organized over 50 artists to paint inside an abandoned mansion somewhere in Los Angeles for an event called Surplus Candy. The address will be released on Saturday so keep checking this link to go

Design East of La Brea (deLaB) is hosting 10 Feet: Art Meets the River with the LA River Public Art Project “pairing seven river
sites with practicing artists, who will present a range of two and three dimensional work, including a music piece and pollinator garden” (free)

NELA’s monthly Art Gallery Night is on in Highland Park

Battles are playing at the Regent Theater with Buke and Gase

Tenacious D’s Comedy/Music Festival Supreme is back at the Shrine with a ton of performers including Die Antwoord, Dan Deacon, The Kids in the Hall, Big Freedia, Amy Poehler, and many more. It’s not cheap ($95+ $22 fees) so you may want to pick up tickets at Amoeba Records, Origami Vinyl or the Shrine Box Office to save on the fees

Sunday

Matthew Barney is discussing his film River of Fundament with scholar Homi K. Bhabha at Tateuchi Democracy Forum at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (online tickets are sold out but there will be additional tickets released at the event)

Brentwood Art Festival has over 120 artists participating

Thundercat is playing at the Regent Theater

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 10-1-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Oct 012015

Gal Pals- Ex-Marionette

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/1-10/4/15)-

Thursday

Craft Night at the Craft and Folk Art Museum has artist Meghan Gordon hosting a night of socializing, drinking and collaborating through clay. Objects made will be fired and glazed and picked up at a later date- $8 but make sure to RSVP

Art critic and historian Hal Foster is reading from his latest book, Bad New Days at MOCA Grand Ave (free)

Gary Numan is performing his album Telekon in its entirety at the Teregram ballroom

Ultimate Painting are playing at the Satellite with Morgan Delt and the Dreamboys

LACMA is screening the first two episodes of the second season of the series The Knick for free (with a reserved ticket). There is a reception afterwards

Makthaverskan is playing with Roses at The Smell

Gal Pals are headlining a free show at Acerogami in Pomona

The Gaslamp Killer Experience is at the Regent Theater

THE SIDE PROJECT screening series will be focused on Music & Sound and The Moving Image, “exploring the integration of visuals with music and sound”. Eight short films will be shown with the last one being a virtual reality film. Additional event info here RSVP here

Thievery Corporation are at the Greek Theatre with Cypress Hill

Saturday

Learn about screenprinting and make your own print inspired by the excellent Corita Kent exhibition currently on view at the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art (free with admission $7 or go metro and pay $5)

MOCA is hosting a book launch for Outside the Lines, Too: An Inspired and Inventive Coloring Book by Creative Masterminds, with over fifty artists on site to sign the book as well as music by Money Mark and activity/coloring stations

LACMA is having several speakers discuss the themes behind the new exhibition New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic 1919–1933, including the curator Stephanie Barron

The Bread and Puppet Theater is performing FIRE at Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver City at 7pm (free but limited seating- RSVP)

A Day in the Desert Festival is a concert/music event taking place in an open space in Pioneertown near Joshua Tree. Simian Mobile Disco are headlining the event that takes place all day Saturday, although you can camp there all weekend. $150 is a little steep but it includes food, snacks and yoga. There is a limited capacity of 250 people.

Night Terrors of 1927 are playing at the Troubadour with Machineheart

Saturday and Sunday

Fall 2015 Brewery Art Walk and Open Studios event is a fun way to see artists’ work where they create it. Free entrance and free parking with a beer garden and food as well

Sunday

Artist Magdalena Fernández will be speaking with Alma Ruiz about her work in conjunction with her first U.S. solo museum exhibition at MOCA Pacific Design Center (free)- http://www.moca.org/program/art-talk-magdalena-fernandez-and-alma-ruiz

KCRW is hosting the 7th Annual Good Food Pie Contest at the Fowler Museum. Music, pie tasting and more

homeLA is having another site specific dance performance- this time at the foundation of a home at sunset

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 9-24-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Sep 242015

Glass Animals- Hazey

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/24-9/9/27/15)-

Thursday

Pop Up Magazine is an evening of music, true stories, photography, documentary film,radio, and more presented live onstage at the Ace Hotel Theater and sponsored by LA TImes California Sunday Magazine

Echo Park Film Center is showing The Exiles, a film about young Native Americans in Bunker Hill in the late 1950s, at Union Station (free)

Cut Chemist are playing in Venice at the Del Monte Speakeasy for $3 if you RSVP with Redbull Sound Select

OOFJ are headlining a show at Arts At Play II

Friday

Glass Animals are playing at the Wiltern

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, of Throbbing Gristle (who is also performing on Saturday), will be speaking with writer Simon Reynolds at the Hammer Museum (free)

The Rooftop Film Experience is showing Pulp Fiction on the roof of the Montalban Theater in Hollywood. $17 gets you a chair, headphones and blanket (although that last item will probably not be necessary)

Mew are playing with The Dodos at the Fonda Theatre

Saturday

Museum Day Live!, hosted by the Smithsonian Magazine offers free admission to several museums around the country with a ticket. In Los Angeles The Grammy Museum, Museum of Latin American Art, Autry Muesum, and more are included (sign up for your ticket)-

Titus Andronicus are playing a free “stripped down, intimate, brunch set” at Permanent Records at noon before their sold out Roxy show-

Tarfest is back at the La Brea Tarpits with bands, performances and live painting by artists including Greg “Craola” Simkins (free)-

Chinatown’s 77th Annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival has a moon viewing (with telescopes from Griffith Park Observatory), artisans, cooking demos, food trucks, a beer garden and bands including Funeral Party

Shamir is performing at the El Rey Theatre

Saturday and Sunday

ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AGREE: an exhibition or a concert is “back-to-back live performances by local, national, and international sound artists, music collectives, art bands, and visual artists whose practices extend to the production of sound” alternating between two outdoor stages in the Hammer courtyard. Participating artists include industrial music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Cairo-based artist Hassan Khan, whose live-mixed multi-track work Taraban will be performed for the first time in the U.S.; and GLITTERBUST, a new project by Kim Gordon and Alex Knost

Two events at Watts Towers– The 34th Annual Watts Towers Day of the Drum Festival (Saturday) & The 39th Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival (Sunday) with food, vendors and activities as well as the musical performances (free)-

Sunday

A supermoon full eclipse is happening tonight (not to happen again until 2033) and Griffith Park Observatory is hosting a viewing party with live piano music

Or you could check out the eclipse in Frogtown at the Bowtie Project on the LA River while picnicking, eating s’mores (provided) and listening to “slightly spooky stories” at Reading By Moonrise. Telescopes will also be provided ($5)

Gehry and Art: Irving Lavin and Frank Gehry in Conversation at LACMA is sold out but there will be a standby line starting at 12pm (free)

Abbot Kinney’s annual festival is on

As of today there are still seats at the Hollywood Bowl for the Grace Jones and Future Islands show

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 9-17-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Sep 172015

Le Butcherettes- Demon Stuck in Your Eye

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/17-9/20/15)-

Thursday

Le Butcherettes are playing a free acoustic set at Amoeba Hollywood to promote their new album A Raw Youth which includes contributions from John Frusciante and Iggy Pop

designLAb is having its public reception for sixteen art and design exhibitions at the Pacific Design Center

Jerry Stahl will be at The Last Bookstore to read from Permanent Midnight, his now 20 year old memoir about drug addiction along with writers Joe Clifford and Ryan Leone who will also read from their books about addiction

Friday

The students from Ghetto Film School Los Angeles will be screening 10 short narrative films (non-dialogue, six minutes each) at LACMA followed by a Q&A with the students (free)

Cinefamily is paying tribute to the late Roddy Piper with a double feature of They Live and Hell Comes to Frogtown

Dapper Day encourages guests to don their vintage finest at Disneyland, there is also a free Dapper Day Expo at the Disney Hotel

Nosaj Thing, Tourist, Jacques Greene, George Maple, Durante are all playing at the Wiltern for The Sound You Need

Ibeyi are performing at the Mayan Theater

Saturday

#YESALLWOMEN is an art auction and fundraiser for the East Los Angeles Women’s Center ($20 ticket includes two drinks)

Start getting in the Halloween mood with Cinespia’s showing of Carrie at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery

LA Cider Fest is at Raleigh Studios with general admission including 2.5 hrs of cider and beer tasting for $65 or sign up for Goldstar and get the VIP for the same price (or $35 for general admission)

The Music Center is hosting late night party Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours to celebrate DUBLAB’s 16th Anniversary with DJ’s, dancing, silk screening, video and lighting installations, live music and more with artists Devendra Banhart, Peaking Lights and many others scheduled to participate (free but standby only)

Groundhog Day is the outdoor movie this week at Barnsdall Park ($15 or for $25 include the wine tasting)

Mac McCaughan (of Superchunk) is playing songs from his solo record at the Getty for Saturdays off the 405 (free but parking is $10 after 5 $15 before)

Saturday and Sunday

Mad Decent Block Party is back and performers include Cut Copy, Major Lazer, Vic Mensa and Diplo

Sunday

Bob Colacello, Vanity Fair writer and former editor of Interview magazine is talking with photographer Catherine Opie about his book, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, and her book, 700 Nimes Road, at LACMA Art Catalogues (free)

At Luz de Jesus Gallery author Alix Sloan will be discussing and signing her book Launching Your Art Career: A Practical Guide for Artists along with a panel of artists who contributed to the book

Angel City Brewery is having Oktoberfest in September with a full day of festivities

Danish band Mew are performing a free show at Fingerprints Records in Long Beach

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 9-10-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Sep 102015

The Drums- There Is Nothing Left

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/10-9/13/15)-

Thursday

MOCA is screening Stan VanDerBeek: Newsreel of Dreams at their Grand Avenue location ($12)

For the last free concert of the summer at Santa Monica Pier, the tUnE-yArDs are performing along with Avid Dancer

The Hammer is having a forum titled 9/11, The Saudi Connection with Senator Bob Graham and Robert Baer. Baer was the CIA veteran played by George Clooney in Syriana

Downtown’s Artwalk is back for its monthly event

The Church are playing at the Roxy

The Drums are playing a free show (with RSVP) along with Nathaniel Rateliff @ The Night Sweats in Laguna Beach

The More Than A Cone Art Festival, a benefit for animal advocacy groups, is taking place at the Autry and includes a runway show, live music, live painting and an art show. $35 includes beer/wine

Friday through Sunday

It’s the Hollywood Bowl’s Fireworks Finale with the B-52s and the Psychedelic Furs playing with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

LACE in Hollywood is having its second Resonant Forms festival of performance art and electronic music- $20/night or $30 for the weekend

Saturday

Tokyo Police Club are playing at the Regent Theater

Outdoor movies begin in Barnsdall Park with Shaun of the Dead. $15 for the movie or spend $25 and include the wine tasting

Pasadena’s City Hall outdoor movie this week is The Princess Bride

Before the movie you could check out the Armory’s 2015 Monster Drawing Rally benefit where artwork is first created live by over 100 artists and then can be purchased for $75. Or you can just watch for $10 and there will be beer

Peach Kelli Pop are playing as part of the Razorcake Residency lineup at Pehrspace ($5)

Gap Dream are headlining a show at The Smell ($5)

Sunday

Architect Frank Gehry will be speaking at LACMA with architecture critic Paul Goldberger about his career (free but standby only, line starts at 1pm)

It’s the second and last day of Long Beach Comic Con

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 9-3-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Sep 032015

FIDLAR- West Coast

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/3-9/6/15)-

Thursday

FIDLAR is playing a set at Amoeba Records to celebrate their new record Too and signing copies afterwards

HEALTH are playing a free show at Los Globos sponsored by Fader and Coors Light

It’s Craft Night at CAFAM-this time it’s Felt Objects inspired by the L.A. River with Billy Kheel ($8)

Think Tank Gallery is having Summer Send Off and BBQ and Brew with live music, food and art, as well as a panel discussion on throwing events in Los Angeles (free)

Cinefamily is showing the work of the Quay Brothers (curated by Christopher Nolan) all weekend but tonight is the only night Nolan will be in attendance

Friday

There are still tickets left to the Barnsdall Park Wine Tasting– four selections for $30

The LA County Fair opens today in Pomona with Patti Labelle and Chaka Khan performing

Real Estate guitarist Matt Mondanile’s solo project Ducktails is playing at The Echo

Tijuana Panthers are playing at the Regent

Mystic Braves are playing at the Teregram Ballroom

The Observatory in Santa Ana is hosting Burger Records Burger-a-go-g-2- with a big list of bands including Cults, Bleached, Cherry Glazerr

The outdoor movie at the Autry this week is Fight Club with live music beforehand

The Damned are at the Fonda Theatre

Saturday-Monday

Fiesta Hermosa, calls itself the “Largest Arts & Crafts Fair in Southern California,” and is going on all weekend in downtown Hermosa Beach

Sunday

The Hollywood Bowl is showing E.T. while the Los Angeles Philharmonic performs John Williams’ score (also on Friday and Saturday)-

Diet Cig are playing at the Bootleg with Kera and the Lesbians

All weekend (Friday through Labor Day)- Chungking Road in Chinatown is having a weekend of events including art openings, BBQ, live music, art talks, and more (free)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 8-27-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Aug 272015

Fool’s Gold- The Dive

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/27-8/30/15)-

Thursday

Fool’s Gold is playing at the Echoplex as part of Red Bull Sound Select- $3 with RSVP, $12 w/o

At the Central Library downtown, filmmaker Laura Gabbert and food critic Jonathan Gold will be guest speakers for Lost & Found at the Movies: Film to Table, a discussion of the way food is used in the movies (free but standby only)

The Women’s Center for Creative Work and the Craftswoman House will be showing Vega Darling’s documentary Lost Grrrls: Riot Grrrl In Los Angeles

Friday

YACHT/5 Every Day (the app they created) are hosting Friday Flights at The Getty with a list of collaborators that includes Yung Jake and a video premiere and installation by the band ($10 to park after 5pm, $15 before, with free admission to the museum)

Del the Funky Homosapien is at the Echoplex with DJ Qbert and street artist Mear One live painting

LA Live’s Dark Nights event returns with $5 food and drink specials, live art installations and performances, music, a market, fire dancers and more (free)

Cold Showers are playing with Dunes at The Echo

Annenberg Space for Photography is hosting a panel on lifestyle and commercial photography with Gray Malin, Natalie James, Lauren Randolph and Stephanie Todaro and moderated by Ilana Saul (11am-1pm -$10)

Not to be confused with Fool’s Gold the band (listed above), Fool’s Gold Records is having its Day Off concert with headliners A-Trak, Action Bronson and Travi$ Scott at the Shrine

On the more quiet end of the performance spectrum, Temporary Space LA is having “An Early evening of Ambient” with performances by Daniel Lanois + Rocco Deluca, Musician’s Friend [Brian Foote + M. Geddes Gengras], and Ken Camden, as well as an open bar (free but RSVP)

Nearby LACMA is having their late night party- Muse ‘til Midnight feat. Adrian Younge and Venice Dawn with DJ’s in the galleries and a party in the plaza ($45 for nonmembers/$35 with membership)

Sunday

Thomas Dang, an artist in the Craft and Folk Art Museum’s excellent exhibition of art made by veterans, will be there all day with his pottery wheel giving demonstrations and talking about his ceramic work

Cinefamily is showing Robert Altman’s 1977 film 3 Women, his exploration of female identity starring Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall

It’s the last weekend to see Much Ado About Nothing as part of Griffith Park’s Shakepeare Festival (free)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 8-20-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Aug 202015

Ariel Pink- Dayzed Inn Daydreams

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/20-8/23/15)-

Thursday

Ariel Pink is playing along with The Mynabirds at the Santa Monica Pier (free)

As part of Cinefamily’s Don’t Knock The Rock music documentary festival they are showing Her Aim is True, Karen Whitehead’s film about the incredible life of photographer Jini Dellaccio, with the director in person

If you’re a fan of louder bands METZ, Retox and Obliterations are playing at The Echo

Friday

Hop Along are playing a free show at the Ace Hotel Downtown starting at 5pm and later there is an FYF Fest Pre Party in the theater lobby of the hotel with Purity Ring DJ’ing (but RSVP if you are going)

It’s the last of the Natural History Museum’s Summer Nights in the Garden programs

Odd Nights, The Autry’s free monthly market, fashion, food event is back with Omniflux and The Controversy performing

Saturday

YACHT are performing at Blum & Poe gallery as part of A.L. Steiner’s exhibition Come & Go

El Segundo Museum of Art is having a free movie night with two films about the artist Joseph Beuys and includes a discussion with an educator, quick draw activities, popcorn and soft drinks-

Hundred Waters are the performers for this week’s Saturdays off the 405 at the Getty Center

It’s the last of the Chinatown Summer Nights with bands, djs, food and more

Saturday and Sunday

Two day tickets are still available for FYF Fest and there are a lot of great bands playing both days including Frank Ocean, Morrissey, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Run the Jewels, D’Angelo &The Vanguard, Thee Oh Sees, FKA Twigs, Mikal Cronin and many more

Sunday

Griffith Park’s Shakespeare Festival has Much Ado About Nothing, this time taking place in Italy in 1945

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 8-13-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Aug 132015

Hibou- Glow

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/13-8/16/15)-

Thursday

Dancehall DJ and singer Sister Nancy of Bam Bam fame, is performing at the Santa Monica Pier with Jesse Royal

Downtown ArtWalk is back for its once a month event

The New Original Works Festival continues at REDCAT theater (ends Saturday)

Friday

Hibou is opening for Cayucas at The El Rey

Buzzfeed’s Hollywood Campus is having an outdoor screening of Empire Records with several of the actors from the film present for a Q&A (free with RSVP)

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic are playing the Club Nokia

Friday and Saturday

Classical Remix Weekend is happening at California Plaza as part of the Grand Performances programs. Friday features Mark De Clive Lowe and Saturday features Daedelus

Saturday

Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s live presentation of his new work “MANTRA” is happening at Blum & Poe gallery in Culver City

Cold War Kids are playing the last of KCRW’s free outdoor concerts at Annenberg Space for Photography- RSVP for entrance

The English Beat are playing at the Roxy

Perform Chinatown: Rush Hour is a free all day performance art festival

Saturday and Sunday

Celebrate Japanese American culture in Little Tokyo as part of Nisei Week with exhibits, dance and musical performances and more. There is also a parade Sunday evening

Sunday

homeLA’s dance performance will take place in an apartment in Highland Park this time. There is a limit of 8 people inside per performance which will take place on the hour from noon-8pm

All Weekend (Friday through Sunday)-

Echo Park Rising is a music event featuring multiple stages and venues with a HUGE lineup- highlights include Dengue Fever, Man or Astroman?,Fever the Ghost, Hanni El Khatib, Hannibal Buress, Tennis System, Happyness, and Tropical Popsicle. Free with a $25 VIP (for all three days) if you are feeling fancy

Berserktown II music festival is taking place at The Observatory in Santa Ana with a big lineup that includes Thee Oh Sees and a reunited Royal Trux

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