Weyes Blood- Grapevine
This song is from Weyes Blood‘s 2022 album, And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow.
Weyes Blood is playing at The Ace Hotel in Los Angeles on Thursday and Friday (12/8 and 12/9).
Dec 052022
Dec 242019
It’s almost Christmas and if you are in Los Angeles- celebrate the season at Grand Park’s Winter Glow. Several light installations are on display in the park until 12/25/19.
Mar 312016
Elvis Costello & The Attractions- (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding
This song was written and produced by Nick Lowe with Costello’s version released on the B-side of Lowe’s 1978 single American Squirm. Elvis Costello released the song on the American version of his 1979 album Armed Forces.
Costello is playing two shows at The Theatre at The Ace Hotel in Los Angeles this weekend 4/2 and 4/3.
Oct 242015
Halloween is a big deal in Los Angeles with tons of fun things to do. Here are a few suggestions-
Haunted Attractions
Running until Halloween is the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride in Griffith Park. It has five attractions this year including a maze, the House of Shadows, and a Trick or Treat “experience” ($30 for the hayride or $43 for all attractions)
Dark Harbor on the Queen Mary provides haunted horror with monsters and mazes on the boat until Nov. 1st ($20 for “happy haunting hour” or $24 and up depending on extras)
A unique take on being scared is The Alone Experience. After signing a waiver that says you can get wet, be touched, painted on- you are immersed in a 45 minute walk through (and at times crawl through) alone. This review will give you more of an idea of what the experience is like. Running through Nov.1st. ($50)
If women’s issues frighten you there is KillJoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House based on the Christian hell house. An un-dead Valerie Solanas splits you into groups and gives an introduction to what you are in for followed by a feminist zombie folk sing-a-long in the courtyard. Afterwards a crazed women’s studies major leads you on a tour through various rooms filled with “gender-queer apparitions, ball-busting butches, and never-married, happy-as-hell spinsters” among many other frights. Get there by 8:30pm to guarantee entrance. It runs from Oct.23-25, and Oct. 28-30 (free)
The amusement parks also have Halloween themes –Knott’s Scary Farm, Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights and Six Flags Fright Fest will all work hard to scare you.
Horror Movies
Electric Dusk Drive-In is showing Rosemary’s Baby on Oct. 24th ($9 for astroturf, $13 for your car)
Starting Tuesday (10/27) on the roof of the Montalban Theater in Hollywood Rooftop Film Club is showing movies with a horror theme including The Thing, Nightmare on Elm Street, Psycho, Friday the 13th and on Halloween, Beetlejuice ($17)
The Wiltern is showing An American Werewolf in London, The Cabin in the Woods, The Descent and Demons for their pre-Halloween bash, Wiltern Night of Horror. There will also be a costume contest and dance party. ($30)
Oct.30th the New Beverly Cinema has a horror triple feature- Curse of the Demon (1957), Carnival of Souls (1962), and Night of the Living Dead (1968) all for $8
On Halloween (10/31)
West Hollywood’s Halloween Carnaval is a huge free event with a large part of Santa Monica Blvd closed to traffic for costumed chaos. This year’s theme is the Rocky Horror Picture Show. There are also six stages of live music and entertainment if the bars and people watching are not enough.
Street Food Cinema is showing Shaun of the Dead at Exposition Park
The Aero Theater in Santa Monica is showing The Shining
Cinespia is showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery ($25)
El Capitan is showing The Nightmare Before Christmas in 4D (it’s pretty magical when it snows in the theater) through Nov 1
One of the more expensive options is Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Live with Danny Elfman at the Hollywood Bowl. Elfman is playing with the orchestra as the film is shown and the Bowl will be decorated like Halloween Town (as of this writing cheapest tickets available were $80)
The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock is having a Haunted House in a former library with local high school students doing the scaring ($10)
The Well is hosting a Halloween party at the Figueroa Hotel with a long list of musical performers on 3 stages ($40)
The Ace Hotel Downtown is having a Black & White Ball for Halloween with DJs Daniel T, Peanut Butter Wolf, And Vitto and Druzzi. Tarot readings, aura photography and more. Black and white attire required. ($25)
Oct 222015
Slothrust- 7:30 AM
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/22-10/25/15)-
Thursday
Slothrust is opening for Heartless Bastards at the Fonda Theatre- http://www.goldenvoice.com/#/event/278599
LACMA is hosting Digital Memory and Memorials, a talk with artists Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Joseph DeLappe and scholar Marita Sturken (free but standby only)- http://www.lacma.org/event/digital-memory-and-memorials
YACHT are performing at the Teragram Ballroom- http://www.teragramballroom.com/event/927083-yacht-los-angeles
John Fleck: Blacktop Highway begins at REDCAT- a one man show with horror themes, just in time for Halloween (running through Sunday)- http://www.redcat.org/event/john-fleck-blacktop-highway
Friday
Brooklyn band Small Black is playing at the Roxy with Painted Palms- http://www.theroxy.com/event/913931-small-black-west-hollywood/
You can watch Guardians of the Galaxy and get some fresh ocean air at the Santa Monica Pier (free)- https://www.facebook.com/events/1489885368002360
Candis Cayne is hosting Le Bal: A One Night Only Drag Extravaganza at the Ace Hotel- http://www.acehotel.com/calendar/losangeles/le-bal
Saturday
Día de Los Muertos at Hollywood Forever claims to be the biggest in the country. This year Lila Downs is headlining, and there will be dance performances, art shows and altars as well as food and drink all around the cemetery to celebrate ($20)- http://www.ladayofthedead.com/
Grand Ave Arts All Access has several events going on from 10am-5pm including a working orchestra rehearsal of LA Opera’s production of the new opera Moby-Dick, architectural tours of the Broad Museum, free entrance to MOCA and more- http://grandavearts.tumblr.com/
If you are downtown you can also attend the free Sixth Street Bridge Farewell Festival and Concert with performances by War, Aloe Blacc, and others and a fireworks show at the end to say goodbye to the iconic bridge that will soon be demolished- https://www.facebook.com/events/923096777770808/
Dimond Saints are playing at the El Rey Theatre- http://www.theelrey.com/events/detail/281565
Hammer Museum is having Hammer Bash to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions of work by Frances Stark and Lawren Harris. DJs, drinks and food from 8-10 (free)- http://hammer.ucla.edu/hammerbash/
Saturday and Sunday
The Observatory in Santa Ana is hosting the awesome 2-day event Beach Goth 4– bands include The Growlers, Grimes, Die Antwoord, Juicy J, The Drums, FIDLAR, DIIV, Cherry Glazerr, Warpaint, and many, many, more ($100 for both days)- http://www.observatoryoc.com/events/beach-goth-4
Luna are playing at the Teregram Ballroom with Quilt. For Sunday’s show the band will be the performing album Penthouse in its entirety- http://www.teragramballroom.com/event/851763-luna-los-angeles
Sunday
LACMA is having a special screening of Claes Oldenburg’s “Possibly a Special on the Bag” which goes behind the making of his famous giant ice bag (free)-http://www.lacma.org/event/possibly-special-bag
Artist Frances Stark will discuss “the political subtext and artistry” of the film Casa de mi Padre starring Will Ferrell. He will be there along with the director, writer and producer “for a post-screening conversation about the distinctly unfunny
consequences of America’s appetite for drugs, including drug-related violence in Mexico”(free)- http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2015/10/casa-de-mi-padre/
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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- https://www.acehotel.com/calendar/losangeles/pop-up
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)– http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/epfc-filmcicle-and-metro-present-the-exiles-at-union-station/
Cut Chemist are playing in Venice at the Del Monte Speakeasy for $3 if you RSVP with Redbull Sound Select- https://www.redbullsoundselect.com/events/2015/09/red-bull-sound-select-presents-los-angeles
OOFJ are headlining a show at Arts At Play II- http://www.ticketfly.com/event/921367-oofj-muna-sahy-uhns-los-angeles/
Friday
Glass Animals are playing at the Wiltern- http://www.wiltern.com/events/eventdetail/?viewNav=/eventdetail eventId=09004EA4D62942D6&oid=0
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)- http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2015/09/genesis-breyer-p-orridge-simon-reynolds/
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)- http://www.timeout.com/newyork/shop/sept-pulp-fiction-1994
Mew are playing with The Dodos at the Fonda Theatre- http://www.goldenvoice.com/#/event/279569
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)- http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/
Titus Andronicus are playing a free “stripped down, intimate, brunch set” at Permanent Records at noon before their sold out Roxy show- https://www.facebook.com/events/967128923310334/
Tarfest is back at the La Brea Tarpits with bands, performances and live painting by artists including Greg “Craola” Simkins (free)- http://www.launchla.org/tarfest/
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- http://www.chinatownla.com/calendar.php?eventcategoryId=4&date=2015-09-26&eventId=331
Shamir is performing at the El Rey Theatre- http://www.theelrey.com/events/detail/280664
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- http://hammer.ucla.edu/instruments/
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)- http://www.wattstowers.org/#!events/c1rvj
Sunday
A supermoon full eclipse is happening tonight (not to happen again until 2033) and Griffith Park is hosting a viewing party with live piano music- http://www.griffithobservatory.org/events/Lunar_Eclipse_September_2015.html
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)– https://www.facebook.com/events/446412388871682/
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)- http://www.lacma.org/event/lavin-and-gehry
Abbot Kinney’s annual festival is on- http://www.abbotkinney.org/
As of today there are still seats at the Hollywood Bowl for the Grace Jones and Future Islands show- http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/grace-jones-future-islands/2015-09-27
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Oct 302014
Iceage- The Lord’s Favorite
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend- non-Halloween edition- (10/30-11/2)-
Thursday
Experimental filmmaker James Benning is giving a lecture at the Hammer Museum (free) – http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2014/10/ucla-department-of-art-lectures-james-benning/
Representatives from arts journals mono.kultor (Berlin) and ANP Quarterly (Los Angeles) will be discussing their publications. This coincides with mono.kultor’s retrospective at KK gallery in Chinatown- http://www.acehotel.com/calendar/losangeles/monokultur
Free acoustic performance of the score of Invisible Cities in Union Station- http://thesource.metro.net/2014/10/27/metro-presents-invisible-cities-to-perform-acoustic-opera-at-union-station/
Friday
Yelle at the Fonda Theatre- http://www.fondatheatre.com/events/detail/249102
Friday through Sunday
Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo at the LA Convention Center- http://comikazeexpo.com/
Saturday
USC is screening The Punk Singer followed by a discussion with Kathleen Hanna (the subject of the film) after-free with RSVP- http://web-app.usc.edu/web/ecal/event/detail/909625?calendar_id=113
Cinefamily is showing Mulholland Dr. at midnight- http://www.cinefamily.org/films/heavy-hitter-midnites/#heavy-midnites-mulholland-dr
Saturday and Sunday
Iceage at the Echo- http://www.theecho.com/event/641671-iceage-los-angeles/
Sunday
Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow Up is at the American Cinematheque – http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/blow-up-0
Frankie Rose at the Bootleg Theatre- http://foldsilverlake.com/event.cfm?id=163040&cart
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Feb 202014
We Were Promised Jetpacks- Human Error
Things to do in and around Los Angeles this weekend 2/20-2/23:
Thursday-
Thomas Struth is speaking at LACMA- http://www.lacma.org/event/thomas-struth
Thursday through Saturday–
LA Dance Project at the Ace Hotel- Three pieces, including one sneak peek- one choreographed by Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan), another with visual concepts by Barbara Kruger and Sterling Ruby- http://tickets.ticketforce.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1222
Tales From Two Cities- Writing from Los Angeles at Los Angeles Central Library- http://writingfromca.com/schedule.html
Friday–
We Were Promised Jetpacks at El Rey- http://www.theelrey.com/events/detail/246549
2 Chainz, Pusha T and August Alsina at the Hollywood Palladium- http://concerts.livenation.com/event/09004B84BA83533B?tm_link=artist_msg-0_09004B84BA83533B&crosssite=TM_US:1615064:73794
Shadow of a Doubt at LACMA with an intro by Bill Hader- http://www.lacma.org/event/shadow-doubt-0
Saturday–
Phantogram at the Hollywood Palladium (moved from the Wiltern)- http://concerts.livenation.com/event/09004C2A924C6519?crosssite=TM_US:1384147:73794
A.S.Berman talks about and signs his book about the groundbreaking TV show Soap at Book Soup- http://soapcompanion.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/book-event-this-saturday-feb-22/
Screening of A Raisin in The Sun with special guest Mamie Hansberry (sister of the film’s writer) at Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum- https://www.facebook.com/events/675105575868937/?ref=22
Pomona Art Walk- http://www.downtownpomona.org/events-calendar/art-walk/
Saturday and Sunday–
Snow Days at the LA Zoo- There will be snow in some animal habitats and sledding for humans- sleds are provided- (2/22 and 2/23)- http://www.lazoo.org/snowdays/
Sunday–
Jacob Hashimoto is speaking at MOCA Grand Avenue (his show opens on 3/1)- http://edu.moca.org/calendar/2014-02-23#mevent-7967
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)