Los Angeles Weekend Planner 2-26-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Feb 262015
 

La Luz- Call Me in the Day

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/26-3/1/15)-

Thursday

Artist and critic Lorraine O’Grady,  probably most famous for her first performance piece Mlle Bourgeoise Noire,  is giving a free talk at MOCA Grand Ave

Mayor Garcetti’s favorite movie is Airplane!?- When Zócalo and KCRW asked him to pick a movie to screen at The Million Dollar Theater, this comedy classic was his selection. Tonight he’ll be there along with Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker (the trio who directed, wrote, and produced Airplane!) to discuss it after the film (free with registration)

Dan Snaith aka Caribou is playing three nights at the Fonda Theatre starting tonight

Cathedrals are playing with Empires, LANY, and Rush Midnight at the Echo (advanced tickets are sold out but there may be tickets at the door)

Friday

Seattle band La Luz are at the Bootleg HiFi with The Shivas and The Lovely Bad Things

If you haven’t seen the fascinating Los Angeles Plays Itself, why not check it out for free in Union Station, one of the many iconic locations seen in the film clips. Q&A with the director will follow

King Tuff is playing with Sonny and the Sunsets for CouchTrippin’ 2015: Los Angeles which will also have live art and Lagunitas beer- free with RSVP at Mack Sennett Studios

Jon Brion is playing at Largo

Craft Spells are at the Echo

Saturday

The area around Santa Monica and Highland has gradually become its own arts district and ForYourArt is hosting A Hollywood Walk of Art: The Awards Shows– a free self guided tour of the area (and a few other Hollywood galleries) with events that include free donuts at Donut Time

Robert Williams will be discussing his exhibition SLANG! Aesthetics at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park-

Sunday

Dengue Fever are playing a free set at Amoeba Hollywood

Composer and musician William Basinski performs his latest concert-length ambient soundscape The Deluge (2014) at MOCA Grand Ave (free)

No Joy, Nightmare Air, and Flaamingos are playing at the Echo

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 2-19-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Feb 192015
 

Kendrick Lamar- i

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/19-2/22/15)-

Thursday

British painter John Currin’s first Los Angeles show in over ten years opens tonight at the Gagosian gallery

If you missed checking out John Craig Freeman’s interactive work in progress at LACMA last week, you have another chance and later Dru Donovan (former student and studio manager of Larry Sultan) is doing a gallery walk-through of Sultan’s exhibition

Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky will be performing and giving a talk at the Central Library

Friday

The Egyptian Theater has several Oscar Themed events including a screening of the nominated documentary shorts, live action shorts, and animated shorts. There are also two free events- one a conversation with the Oscar nominated film editors, the other a panel discussion with nominated production designers and set decorators

Saturday

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year! The Annual Golden Dragon Parade takes place in Chinatown to celebrate the year of the sheep/ram

Situation Room is a new gallery space in Eagle Rock. For their opening they will be screening over 50 from video artworks

Artist talk: David Schafer is in conversation with Lauren Mackler at Diane Rosenstein Gallery discussing his current exhibition of sound sculptures

Saturday and Sunday

Kendrick Lamar is headlining the Air+Style music and sports festival at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Other acts include Steve Aoki, Cults, Phantogram, Tennis System, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and more. Sports will include snowboarding and skiing competitions

Sunday

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park has a new show opening today- Robert Williams in SLANG Aesthetics! in conjunction with 20 Years Under the Influence of Juxtapoz. Today there is also a free screening of Mr. Bitchin with Williams there in person

Poetic Research Bureau in Chinatown is screening  Amiri Baraka’s recently rediscovered documentary The New Ark

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 2-12-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Feb 122015
 

Mrs. Magician- The Dead 80’s

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/12-2/15/15)-

Thursday

John Craig Freeman is previewing and discussing his project EEG AR: Things We Have Lost at LACMA. Viewing devices will be provided to check out the virtual objects he’s created. If you miss this, you could also visit on Saturday and participate in this work by conjuring images with your brainwaves (equipment provided)

Downtown Artwalk is tonight and this time there is an art show celebrating the life of producer J Dilla-

Create:Fixate 13 Year Anniversary Celebration- I Art You event in Venice is an art show and benefit- there will also be cocktails, music and other entertainment (20$)

Friday

Mrs.Magician are opening for Swami John Reis and The Blind Shake at the Satellite

Hollyhock House in Barnsdall Park will re-open (after major renovations) from 4pm to 11am on Saturday for free self-guided tours. The house has made appearances in Blade Runner, Karate Kid, and The House on Haunted Hill

LACMA is playing a double bill of The Goonies and Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

Cherry Glazerr is hosting “A Very Musty Pre-Valentine’s Day Affair” at the Echo with LA Witch, The Frights, Buttertones, and Tête- advanced tickets are sold out but there may be some at the door day of

The Dodos are playing the Roxy

Saturday

NELA’s Second Saturday gallery night is a great chance to spend some time in Highland Park

Don Bachardy is speaking about his work at Craig Krull Gallery

Silverlake Flea is on at Micheltorena St. Elementary School and there will be free ice cream

LACE + Artillery are having a Valentine’s Day Party with cocktails and performances.  It’s also the last day to check out the current group show

The Growlers are at the Hollywood Palladium

Sunday

LA Zine Fest is in Glendale this year with 200 exhibitors and free

The Festival of (In)appropriation is at the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian and features a program of “cutting-edge experimental found footage shorts”, including Nothing by LJ Frezza which is 6 minutes of footage where nothing happens from the TV series Seinfeld

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 2-5-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Feb 052015
 

Tom Vek- Aroused

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/5-2/8/15)-

Thursday

The Craft & Folk Art Museum is having two events- the first is a free preview and cocktail reception for the Fourth Annual Benefit Trunk Show (also going on Friday and Saturday) and it’s Craft Night where you can learn to make paper mosaics ($8)

A little further away at Pomona College Museum of Art, the Guerrilla Girls are performing to go along with the current exhibition Guerrilla Girls: Art in Action with a reception afterwards

Echo Park Film Center is having an open screening where anyone can show their film plus there will be free pizza

John Oates (of Hall and Oates) will be performing at Amoeba Hollywood (free)

Friday

First Fridays are back at the Natural History Museum with Robert DeLong, Tom Vek, and Quitapenas playing (reserved tix are sold out but there should be some available first come, first served at 7pm at the door)

The Natural History Museum is also having an after party with Tom Vek DJ’ing at the Regent Theater

Downtown there’s also Dark Nights at LA Live with $5 food and drink specials and lots of free entertainment

Saturday

Full Exposure: Art and Pornography in Los Angeles is a panel discussion in conjunction with the Larry Sultan exhibit at LACMA. A screening of Boogie Nights follows the discussion.

Dum Dum Zine Release party with Tulips, Bloody Death Skull and So Many Wizards performing

The Egyptian Theater is showing the final director’s cut of Blade Runner

Sunday

It’s My Bloody Valentine Nite at the Echo with Heavenly Beat, The Bilinda Butchers and XO

Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (70mm print) is at the Egyptian Theater

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 1-29-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jan 292015
 

Kishi Bashi- Philosphize In It! Chemicalize With It

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/29-2/1/15)-

Thursday

The Flux Screening series returns to Hammer Museum– tonight it’s a short film by Ben Mor, a film by Ben and Joe Dempsey, and a video by Gia Coppola. There’s a courtyard after party as well.

So Many Wizards are having a free show and record signing at Amoeba Hollywood

Friday

LACMA is showing Uptight, a “seldom-seen thriller that transposes John Ford’s classic film The Informer to Cleveland in the tense days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr” written by the director Jules Dassin, Julian Mayfield and Ruby Dee- your $5 ticket includes Taxi Driver as well

Friday through Sunday

Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair is at the Barkar Hangar. Goldstar has some cheap tickets

Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair returns to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. This is free, or you could check out the preview on Thursday for $10 and see No Age and Prince Rama perform. The first 2,000 people get  Ticket Edition by Edie Fake

Saturday

Kishi Bashi is playing at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex

It’s Museums Free-for-All day and over 20 in and around LA are participating including LACMA, Skirball and more

Night on Broadway festival has a ton of events planned including a free screening of Metropolis at the Ace Theatre, as well as pop-up shops, art shows, and music – all taking place- you guessed it- on Broadway downtown

If you are downtown for that event, it’s also Arts District Night where several galleries are open late from 6-9pm

Nothing are at Jewels Catch One with Tony Molina

Anna Sew Hoy and Liz Magic Laser will be signing books at Various Small Fires gallery at 12:30pm

Saturday and Sunday

Paramount Ranch is having its second art fair. This year they are charging $5 (cash only)

Sunday

356 Mission/ Ooga Booga II is having Slider vs Sliders “a burger brunch and book party for This Equals That and Fancy Desserts. Tamara Shopsin and Brooks Headley cook up dueling sliders, plus games, prizes and a swinging salami”

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 1-22-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jan 222015
 

Night Terrors of 1927- When You Were Mine (featuring Tegan and Sara)

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/22-1/25/15)-

Thursday

Tickets are still available to see Bill Nye (The Science Guy) and Eugene Mirman talk about science and space for StarTalk LIVE! at the Palace Theatre with special guest Tig Notaro

Or for a smaller space-related event -check out The Last Bookstore’s talk with George D. Morgan who wrote a book about Mary Sherman Morgan- America’s first female rocket scientist

Heidi Duckler Dance Theater is re-imagining Parts and Labor, 23 years later in the parking lot behind Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Also happening on Friday (1/23)

SoCal band The Donkeys are playing at the Echo

Friday

Night Terrors of 1927 are having a record release show for their debut album at The Roxy

designLAb at the Pacific Design Theater is having its first opening reception of the year with over 10 new contemporary art exhibitions

Arts District Alliance is hosting two shows at two different galleries downtown- one with artists from China, the other, artists from the Arts District- RSVP for the party at the Container Yard and a chance to meet the artists

Artist Alice Wang and curator Michael Ned Holte will be in conversation at the 18th Street Arts Center

Missing snow? Angel City Brewery is having a “snow day” complete with hot toddies in a real snow outside garden and a showing of The Goonies by a simulated fireplace before live music in the evening

FIDLAR are playing a sold out show at the Regent Theater– it might be worth hunting down tickets

Saturday

Subliminal Projects is having an opening for Agents Provacateurs, a group show of “ subversive skateboard graphics and artworks”

GRMLN are playing a free show at Origami Records

Sunday

Artist Kaz Oshiro will talk/play music at his book signing with artist and musician John Wiese at LACMA

West of Rome Public Art is debuting CANDIDATE: Execution in Progress– a performance that will include music, political theater and movement at Church of the Epiphany

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 1-15-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jan 152015
 

John Grant- GMF

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/15-1/18/15)-

Thursday

John Grant is having a free concert at the Hammer Museum and it’s the last weekend of the Jim Hodges show as well

Tennis System are performing at Amoeba Hollywood for free

Friday

LACMA is showing Network (ticket also includes admission to Klute)

Glaswegian musician Rustie is at El Rey

Saturday

Part pot luck, part slide show Slideluck LA will present the work of over 20+ photographers set to music while you eat and drink (5$ open bar-beer and wine)

Artist Chelsea Knight drove around the country having local actors read monologues and break character- tonight at ltd los angeles,  actors from LA will try to do the same, drinks will be served as well

LACMA’s film double bill today is East of Eden and The Godfather– see both for $5

Also at LACMA, as part of The Director’s Series, Michael Govan (LACMA CEO) will be speaking with Tacita Dean following a screening of Manhattan Mouse Museum, Dean’s film about the artist Claus Oldenburg in his studio

The English Beat are at The Roxy

Sunday

Photographer Mark Ruwedel will speak with author Tyler Green and sign his book at LACMA

Dead Kennedys are at the Roxy

All Weekend (Thursday-Sunday)

There are two big art fairs this weekend- Photo LA and the LA Art Show, both downtown.

Miwa Matreyek’s incredible dance/animation projection performances have been mentioned on this site before– and this weekend along with the performance group Cloud Eye Control (Anna Oxygen, and Chi-wang Yang) she will be performing Half Life at the Redcat which was inspired by blog entries by women who experienced the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 12-18-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Dec 182014
 

Fartbarf- Homeless in Heathrow

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (12/18-12/21/14)-

Thursday

Hammer Museum is showing Nightcrawler as part of its series The Contenders. Rene Russo and writer/director Dan Gilroy will be there for a Q & A after the screening

Ed Templeton is signing his book at MOCA Grand Avenue

The Music Center Holiday Sing-Along provides live accompaniment and lyric sheets, you provide the singing (free)-

For more holiday fun, John C. Reilly is hosting A Very Janky Christmas Spectacular– an additional show has been added to the sold out event

Fishbone is at the Troubadour along with The Bots and others

Friday and Saturday

The City Ballet is performing The Nutcracker with a twist as The Nutcracker Swings– this time it takes place in 1946 during WWII in Hancock Park at the iconic Coconut Grove nightclub- with music by Tchaikovsky and Duke Ellington

Saturday

Fartbarf are at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach

Stevie Wonder is performing Songs in the Key of Life at the Forum

Elf is playing at the Aero theater

LACMA is showing two of Hitchcock’s greatest films- Notorious and Vertigo. $5 gets you tickets to both

Hooded Fang are at The Smell

Saturday and Sunday

AMRA has created a multisensory (including music and aromas) art show which will have visitors led through the exhibit in the dark. It’s at Human Resources for two nights

Sunday

Drinking and collage and brunch come together at Thank You For Coming for the last Drinkollage of the year

The Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks Extravaganza! is at Nokia Live

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 12-11-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Dec 112014
 

The Dodos- Confidence

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (12/11-12/14/14)-

Thursday

Michael Auder, who was once involved with Andy Warhol’s Factory and lived in the Chelsea Hotel, will be presenting and discussing his films at Farenheit gallery

Author Joshua Wolf Shenk continues his Cheap Talk series at Clockshop this week with author Sarah Tomlinson in which they will discuss working in Los Angeles. It’s aptly titled “Collaborations with a Difficult City”($5)

Allah-Las are playing at the El Rey with Dream Boys

Downtown Artwalk

Friday

Grant recipient Rachel Sussman is speaking at LACMA in a talk titled “The Poetics of Space” (free but standby)

A former member of LCD Soundsystem makes up half of the band Museum of Love and New Build has two members of Hot Chip- both of them are playing the Regent Theater

Saturday

Luis de Jesus gallery is hosting an informal talk with artist Nicholas Grenier

Echo Park is having a holiday parade

NELA (Northeast LA) is having its gallery night- http://nelaart.org/

Barnsdall Art Center is having a free holiday art sale (or $8 with a drink and tamale)

Santa Monica’s Annual Pub Crawl benefits Westside Food Bank and participants are asked to come dressed in “Santa/Holiday attire”

American Football are playing with The Dodos at the Fonda Theatre

Saturday and Sunday

Harry Shearer & Judith Owen Present… Christmas Without Tears(Aka Does This Tree Make Me Look Fat?) at Largo is holiday fun, songs, and special guests with proceeds going to various charities

Get your local Xmas gifts at Renegade Craft Fair in Grand Park (free)

Also try the Echo Park Craft Fair

Sunday

The Dodos are at Alex’s Bar (in Long Beach)

Yusuf / Cat Stevens is playing at the Nokia Theatre

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 12-4-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Dec 042014
 

J. Cole- She Knows ft. Amber Coffman, Cults

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (12/4-12/7/14)-

Thursday

MOCA Grand Ave is screening Alternate Endings, new short videos by Rhys Ernst, Glen Fogel, Lyle Ashton Harris, Derek Jackson, Tom Kalin, My Barbarian, and Julie Tolentino, commissioned by Visual AIDS to honor the 25th anniversary of Day With(out) Art (free with RSVP)

M.Ward ( the him of She & Him) is playing at Amoeba Records (free)

Angel Olsen is at the El Rey with Kevin Morby

Thursday- Sunday

Dance, visual art and the music of Stephin Merritt combine for Performance at the Redcat Theater

Friday

J.Cole and T.I. headline Power 106’s Cali Christmas along with several other performers at the Forum

Celebrate Repeal Day (the end of Prohibition) by getting sauced on cheap booze! Los Angeles Magazine put together a great list of bars with drink specials and parties

John Waters gets into the holiday spirit and performing his one man show- A John Waters Christmas for one night at the Comedy Store

Saturday

Photo critic Philip Gefter will discuss the work of Larry Sultan at LACMA (free)

Chrissie Hynde is at the Pantages singing songs from her new album Stockholm as well as songs from the Pretenders era

Venice Christmas Boat Parade could get you in a festive mood

Silverlake Flea Market is in the Micheltorena school playground free and free parking

Artisanal LA is having a holiday market in Old Pasadena

Saturday and Sunday

Unique LA is having their holiday market at the California Market center- $10 (for entrance on both days) includes snacks, drinks and “DIY craft projects”

Sunday

MOCA Grand Ave is screening Andy Warhol’s 8 hour film Empire which is footage of the Empire State Building. RSVP for the reception to follow at 7:30. Mention Empire at the box office to receive complimentary admission

The Ace Hotel Theatre is hosting one of Cinefamily’s fundraising events Truth & Soul, Inc: Day Three Downey: Clown Prince of the Underground (hosted by Louis CK, feat. Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope)

LA Conservancy is showing Home Alone in the afternoon at the Orpheum Theatre with holiday music beforehand-

The Rock ‘N’ Roll Flea Market has vintage clothing as well as music related items

Love it or hate it CicLAvia is back- this time through South LA

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