Fat White Family- Whitest Boy On The Beach
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/14-4/17-16)-
Thursday
If you missed Fat White Family in Los Angeles you can still catch their crazy live show at The Observatory in Santa Ana with Gateway Drugs
Fahrenheit Gallery downtown is screening Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman with a panel discussion to follow
MOCA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth is leading a walk through of the exhibition Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA (free)
Artists Auriea Harvey and Eddo Stern are at LACMA to discuss video games and virtual reality as forms of expression (free but standby)
Downtown Art Walk is celebrating World Art Day with a special exhibition
Friday
Cinefamily is showing Penelope Spheeris’ 1983 film Suburbia, her story of disillusioned suburban LA youth
Peaking Lights and Gavin Hardkiss are playing a Batiste Rhum Party at Resident downtown
Goldie is playing at Los Globos
Odd Nights at The Autry is a free monthly event combining live music, art, a market and a beer garden
The English Beat are playing at The Roxy
Saturday
It’s Record Store Day and there are a bunch of fun events- Amoeba Records has Toby Dammit, Lance Rock and Fred Armisen doing guest DJ sets during the day and then moves the party to Space15Twenty where MNDSGN and Best Coast will DJ and Kevin Morby will perform
It’s also Obscura Day where Atlas Obscura plans multiple offbeat events in cities around the world including Los Angeles
Keith Rocka Knittel’s Everything Must Go! Swap Meet is happening from 5-9pm at Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown with DJ sets, churros, drinks and potentially some things to buy
Saturday and Sunday
Downtown Burbank Arts Festival has over 100 artists showing their work on the four blocks of San Fernando Boulevard between Angeleno Avenue and Magnolia Boulevard
Sunday
MOCA Pacific Design Center is having a screening of the Elizabeth Taylor film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, to coincide with the Catherine Opie exhibition 700 Nimes Road, which features pictures from Taylor’s Bel-Air home (free)
Dilly Dally, Feels, and The Tissues are playing at The Echo