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Los Angeles Weekend Planner 1-29-15

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”

Throwback Thursday- Spandau Ballet

Music, Throwback Thursday

Jan 222015

Spandau Ballet- True

This song, from the album of the same name, was a number one hit on the UK singles chart for four weeks in 1983. The band’s name, according to Martin Kemp’s autobiography, came from graffiti of the slang term seen by friend Robert Elms in a bar in Berlin. The term is a reference to the Spandau Prison in Germany where prisoners were often hanged by the drop method which caused them to twitch and “dance”.

Lead singer Gary Kemp and his brother Martin, who plays bass guitar for the band, are both actors, and are perhaps most famous for playing twin English gangsters in The Krays.

Spandau Ballet are playing two shows in Los Angeles this weekend (1/24 and 1/25) at The Wiltern

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

Throwback Thursday- The English Beat

Music, Throwback Thursday

Jan 152015

The (English) Beat- Mirror in the Bathroom

This song is from The Beat’s (The English Beat in America) 1980 album, I Just Can’t Stop It. The band is now split into two touring bands- the US version led by Dave Wakeling and the UK version led by Ranking Roger, both members of the original 80’s group.

The US band are playing at The Roxy on Saturday 1/17.

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

Throwback Thursday- Stevie Wonder

Music, Throwback Thursday

Dec 182014

Stevie Wonder- Superstition live on Sesame Street

This live-in-the studio version of Superstition was performed on Sesame Street in 1973.

Wonder will be playing at the Forum theater this Saturday, December 20th, for the 19th Annual House Full of Toys Benefit Concert.

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

Aimee Mann’s Christmas Carol

Los Angeles Music, Music

Dec 142014

Aimee Mann’s Christmas Carol part 1

Missed the recent return of Aimee Mann’s holiday variety show? Well, you can always get in the Christmas spirit with this four part video series from 2008, directed by Tim Heidecker. Amy plays Scrooge and is visited by the ghosts of past, present and future. Michael Penn (her husband), John Krasinski, Michael Cera, Tim Heidecker, John C. Reilly, Grant Lee Phillips, and Paul F. Tompkins all make appearances.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Throwback Thursday- The Smashing Pumpkins

Music, Throwback Thursday

Dec 122014

The Smashing Pumpkins- Tonight, Tonight

This song is from The Smashing Pumpkins 1996 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The video was directed by husband and wife team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who also created the feature film Little Miss Sunshine. It was inspired by A Trip to The Moon, Georges Méliès’ famous silent movie. The couple in the video are also a couple in real life and are both voices for animated characters. Tom Kenny is the voice of Spongebob Squarepants (among many others) and Jill Talley is the voice of Karen, Plankton’s computer wife, on the same show.

The Smashing Pumpkins are touring with a new album (although not the other original members) and Billy Corgan has been getting a lot of press recently for his candid remarks about other bands and singers in an interview in The Independent and on the Howard Stern show.

The Smashing Pumpkins are one of the bands playing at the Forum Sunday (12/14) for KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, which also features alt-J, Imagine Dragons, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Tears for Fears, Vance Joy, and Weezer.

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