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Feb 152018
Feb 152018
Doug Tuttle- A Place For You
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/15-2/18/18)-
Thursday
Getty Museum is hosting Sexuality, Sanctity, and Censorship: A Conversation with Artist Ron Athey (free but ticket required)
Gabriella Cohen is playing a free show at Zebulon with Full Flower Moon Band
As part of FLAX (France Los Angeles Exchange)’s event programming, The Dialectic of the Stars – Wrong Ped Xing, LACE is hosting a program in 3 sections- a screening of Teherangeles by Arash Nassiri, a performance by Geneva Skeen, and a motorcycle concert by Fouad Bouchoucha
The Hammer Museum is having a free screening of short videos by artists included in their exhibition Stories of Almost Everyone
Gavlyn is headlining a night of bands at the Echoplex that includes Girl Pusher, Wasi and Blimes Brixton
Curls are playing with Fatal Jamz and Gabriel Delicious at the Moroccan Lounge
Feels are playing at The Echo with Los Bolos and MANE
LACMA has a free screening of The Party and a conversation with writer/director/actor Sally Potter
Friday
Jazz percussionist Antonio Sanchez will recreate his Grammy winning score for the Oscar winning film Birdman while it plays on screen at UCLA’s Royce Hall
Los Angeles Poverty Department is screening I Am Not Your Negro, the documentary about author James Baldwin, at the Skid Row History Museum and Archive (free and free popcorn and coffee)
Shame are playing at The Echo with Egrets on Ergot and Goon opening
Diet Cig are playing with Great Grandpa and The Spook School at the Lodge Room
Orchin, Justus Proffit, Matter Room, and The Chonks are playing a show at The Smell
Saturday
Doug Tuttle is opening for Morgan Delt at The Hi Hat
Head to Chinatown to celebrate the Lunar New Year and see the 119th Golden Dragon Parade
Long Beach’s Shoreline Village and Rainbow Harbor is having a free Mardi Gras celebration with live music, art and a parade
Royal Blood are opening for Queens of the Stone Age at The Forum
Dan Auerbach & The Easy Eye Sound Revue ft. Robert Finley are playing at The Wiltern
Sunday
For the closing week of Lezley Saar’s exhibition at CAAM, artist Maurice Harris, founding creator of floral design company Bloom & Plume, will activate the exhibition with a performance featuring spoken word as well as readings of passages from books that inspired Saar’s surrealist works, including Madwoman in the Attic and Monad
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are playing at The Echo with Steady Holiday opening
The Egyptian Theatre is showing a double feature of Mystery Date and Secret Admirer
Feb 092018
Spendtime Palace- Sonora
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/8-2/11/18)-
Thursday
Roger Guenveur Smith is will be presenting his solo performance Frederick Douglass Now at CAAM (get there early- they are expecting a large turnout!)
LACMA has a free screening of Anna Deveare Smith’s film of her performance piece, Notes from the Field, with a discussion with Smith to follow (free)
Art historian Thomas Crow will be discussing religion in contemporary art at Hammer Museum
Fu Manchu are playing a free live set at Amoeba Hollywood before their show at The Troubadour on Friday
Friday
Dead Prez are playing at The Roxy with Lyrics Born opening
YACHT are playing at the Lodge Room with French Vanilla opening
Writer Laurie Penny will be discussing science fiction, sexual liberation, intersectional feminism and more at The Last Bookstore (free)
The Big Pink, Collapsing Scenery and Palm Springsteen are playing a free show at Zebulon
Saturday
Artist Catherine Opie will be in conversation with architect Michael Maltzan, and deputy director and curator of LAXART Catherine Taft at Regen Projects
Picture This, at The Virgil, is a live comedy show where the stand-ups are drawn live by animators and cartoonists with unpredictable results (free)
For Rock Lottery, taking place this time at The Echo, 25 different musicians meet at 10 am and are divided into groups of five to create and rehearse songs that are then played at a show that night. This event’s musicians include Mikal Cronin, Mike Watt, Patty Schemel, and Kelcey Ayer.
Simian Mobile Disco and Matthew Dear are playing DJ sets for the LAMP 5 year Anniversary party at 1720
Sunday
Spendtime Palace are playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Santoros, The Bash Dogs, and Bear Call opening
Broken Hearts Circus at Angel City Brewery will combine drinks and food with games, a stilt walker, circus performers, live music and more (free)
Froth are one of the bands playing at Part Time Punk’s My Bloody Valentine Nite at The Echoplex
Feb 022018
Jay Som- The Bus Song
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/2-2/4/18)-
Friday
Beastie Boys Mike D and Ad-Rock will be at the Egyptian Theatre for the double screening of Fight for Your Right Revisited and AWESOME; I FUCKIN’ SHOT THAT
Habibi are playing at The Factory downtown
UC Santa Barbara professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse is giving a lecture on contemporary art and globalization at the West Hollywood Public Library as part of Cal Arts WHAP! Lecture Series
Girlschool 2018 runs all weekend at the Bootleg Theater with panels, workshops and bands that tonight include Kristin Kontrol, Drum & Lace, Marian Mereba and more
Saturday
Forest Lawn is hosting a free performance for Black History Month of WITNESS: The John Edgar Wideman Experience (also you can hear him discuss the work at CAAM on Sunday)
The Annenberg Space for Photography is hosting a film screening of Run Across Cuba– a film which follows Cuban born professor and marathoner Alexis Garcia as he runs more than 1000 miles, from the eastern most tip to the western most tip of Cuba. A Q & A with Garcia and his wife will follow. ($12)
Mind Monogram are giving a free live performance at Pop Obscure Records
Sunday
Jay Som, Moon Honey, Soccer Mommy and more are playing at tonight’s Girlschool 2018 event at the Bootleg Theater
Writer John Edgar Wideman will be in conversation with former LA Times book editor David Ulin at CAAM
The Good Works Executive Director Elsa Longhauser will be at ICA LA to give a tour on the opening day of Harald Szeemann’s legendary exhibition Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us
The Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to the Regent Theater
Jan 252018
Sugar Candy Mountain- Eye on You
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/25-1/28/18)-
Thursday
designLAb is having an art opening at the Pacific Design Center with numerous galleries showing work
The Wombats are playing at the Fonda Theatre with Future Feats and Nation of Language opening
Co-curator of A Universal History of Infamy, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, is giving a walkthrough of the exhibit at LACMA
The Love Language are playing at Harvard & Stone
Artist and Seeld Library co-founder Thomas Hutton is giving a free guided tour along the periphery of MOCA Grand Avenue
Sean Gadd is playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Blackpaw and Pavo Pavo opening
Friday
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is hosting a Welcome Party for the 2018 PEN Emerging Voices fellows with short readings by the authors
Anna Meredith is playing at the Bootleg Theater with Silentshout opening
The Mynabirds are playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Doe Paoro and Hayley Coupon opening
The High Curbs, The Ombres, Ariel View and The Chonks are all playing at The Smell
Sun Seeker are opening for Jessica Lea Mayfield at The Echo
Saturday
Night on Broadway is a great annual free arts and music event starting at 3pm with many of the theaters opening their doors for performances and art installations as well as outdoor stages on Broadway and musical performances that include- The B-52s, War, La Santa Cecilia, Madame Gandhi, Buyepongo, Combo Chimbita + tons more things to see and do
As part of Night on Broadway’s free programming- the Orpheum Theatre has a great list of bands playing including Sugar Candy Mountain, Morgan Delt, Frankie and the Witch Fingers and The Entire Universe
Lyle Ashton Harris will be signing his book as well as having a discussion with Walead Beshty, Charles Gaines and Naima J. Keith at Arcana Books
Hammer Museum is having an opening celebration for its Winter Exhibitions (free but register)
Facial and dimber are opening for Piebald for The Hi Hat’s 2nd Anniversary
Lawrence Rothman is playing at the Lodge Room
Sunday
It’s SoCal Museums Free-For-All Day and a good chance to check out participating museums that include the Grammy Museum, MOCA, LACMA, and Descanso Gardens
Artist Skip Arnold will be giving a free talk at the Institute of Contemporary Art in conjunction with his exhibition Truffle Hunt
Curatorial Associate Rebecca Matalon is leading a walkthrough of Welcome to the Dollhouse, the current exhibition at MOCA Pacific Design Center
There are still tickets to Ty Segall’s show at the Teragram Ballroom with Lamps opening
Boy Harsher are playing with High-Functioning Flesh and DIN at the Echoplex
Here Lies Man are opening for Combo Chimbita at Resident
All Weekend
Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair returns to Barkar Hangar and while you are there check out Santa Monica Art Studio’s open studios event More Art Here across the street
stARTup Art Fair returns to Los Angeles- this time the independent artists will take over rooms at The Kinney Hotel in Venice Beach
Jan 182018
Jan 182018
Joyce Manor- Last You Heard Of Me
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/18-1/21/18)-
Thursday
Tennis System and Souvenirs are opening for Teenage Wrist at The Hi Hat
Artist Gala Porras-Kim will be discussing her work from A Universal History of Infamy with curator Megan O’Neil, at LACMA (free but ticket required)
Also at LACMA is a screening of John Carpenter’s classic They Live
Guards and Veronica Bianqui are opening for The Soft White Sixties at The Echo
At REDCAT, LA-based performers Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez will be performing VARIEDADES, “an interdisciplinary performance that brings together music, spoken word, theater, comedy and the visual arts, loosely based on the Mexican vaudeville shows of early 20th century”
Friday
Surfer Blood are playing at The Hi Hat with Terry Malts opening
Sociologist and writer Greg Snyder will be discussing his book SKATEBOARDING LA at The Last Bookstore with some of the professional skateboarders profiled in the book joining him (free)
De Lux are playing with The Juan Maclean at The Regent Theater
Suno Deko is performing at the Bootleg Theater with special sets/collaborations with Zach Tetreault, Cyrus Gengras, Alex Somers, and Julianna Barwick
iHeartRadio ALTer Ego 2018 is happening at The Forum with Beck, The National, Spoon, and more
Saturday
The Women’s March is taking place in downtown LA- moving from Pershing Square to City Hall
Joyce Manor are playing two shows at Union Station– tickets are still available for the earlier one (3pm) with Surf Curse and Peach Kelli Pop
For the final weekend of Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999-2011 at Hauser & Wirth, Extended Organ, Lonely Street and Telecaves will be performing (free)
There are still tickets available for the later show at The Broad of En Cuatro Patas: The Formaldehyde Trip, a work by Mexico City artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo, that includes songs and videos dedicated to murdered Mixtec activist Alberta “Bety” Cariño, performed live with props (part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA)
Wolf Parade are playing at The Fonda Theatre with Charly Bliss opening (also Friday)
Sondre Lerche is performing at Largo
Sunday
Worn-Tin is playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Small Forward and runnner opening
Hammer Museum is showing the experimental short films of Narcisa Hirsch as part of Los Angeles Filmforum’s Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (free)
Death of Lovers (members of Nothing) are playing at the Echoplex with Choir Boy opening
Jan 122018
Shannon Lay- Asa
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/11-1/14/18)-
Thursday
Shannon Lay is opening for Ablebody and So Many Wizards at The Hi Hat
MOCA Grand Avenue and LA Film Forum are hosting the film screening- Estrellas de Ayer: Latin Camp– “a new constellation of Latina/o American fascination with Hollywood starlets: José Rodríguez Soltero’s classic Lupe (1966); the celebration of decadentism in the Colombian film Pasión y Muerte de Margarita Gautier (1964), by Enrique Grau & Luís Ernesto Arocha; and other films that pay homage to Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Lupe Vélez, replete with campy nods to the star system” ($15)
The LA Art Show opened yesterday and continues today until Sunday
The LA Launch Party for Oral History Project’s Women of Rock is tonight at Zebulon with live performances and discussion panels with artists that include Phranc, Neon Music, Alice Bag, Patty Schemel and more
Poet Srikanth Reddy will be giving a free reading and book signing at Hammer Museum
Luna are playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Big Mother Gig opening
Friday
Artist Carolina Caycedo will be speaking as part of a participatory book launch/event at LACMA that begins in the exhibition A Universal History of Infamy, and includes performances by Marina Magalhães, Isis Avalos, and Samad Raheem Guerra (free)
Sextile are playing at The Hi Hat with Flat Worms and Warm Drag opening
The Egyptian Theatre is showing a double feature of The Florida Project and Shadow of the Vampire with a discussion in between the films with Willem Dafoe
Emily Wells is playing at the Bootleg Theater with Haunted Summer opening
Red Aunts are playing with The Lamps and Des Roar at The Echo
Saturday
Sadly, gallery and event space Machine Project is closing its doors- for their final event they are having a print sale from 2-6pm, followed by a closing party with beer and surprise performances
The Bookstore at MAF is hosting a reading with writers Alissa Bennett and John Marr- Bennett will share two of her essays about dead celebrities and Marr will read from his work chronicling tragic accidents (both will be signing their respective zines after)
Neon Indian and Holy Ghost! are playing DJ sets with Gigamesh at Exchange LA
American Culture are playing with Plague Survivor at Zebulon
Sunday
The California African American Museum is hosting an all day symposium to mark the closing of the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85- with opening remarks by Alison Saar honoring her mother Betye Saar and Samella Lewis, Faith Ringgold in conversation with her daughter Michele Wallace, a workshop, a performance, a closing reception and more (free but register)
White Magic are opening for Linda Perhacs at Zebulon
Big Boi is playing at The Regent Theater with The Cool Kids opening
No Win are opening for Teenage Faces at The Hi Hat
Justus Proffit and The She’s are opening for Potty Mouth at the Bootleg Theater
All Weekend
The Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA has numerous performances happening throughout the weekend at REDCAT (many of them free)
dineL.A. is back for its winter edition and runs until 1/26
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Dec 152017
Hoops- On Top
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend 12/14-12/17/17)-
Thursday
Grizzly Bear are playing at The Wiltern
LACMA is hosting An Evening with… Willem Dafoe, which includes a screening of Light Sleeper and a conversation with the actor
Julien Baker is playing at the Palace Theatre with Half Waif and Adam Torres
Downtown Art Walk returns, this time with a Krampus Run and parade along with various galleries open late (free)
Veronica Bianqui and Kera & The Lesbians are opening for Moon Honey at the Teragram Ballroom
Night Drive and Bogan Via are playing at Resident
Friday
Saber Battle L.A. returns, this time to Grand Park- $10 in advance gets you a 6 color light saber to use for the event
Froth are playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Sasami opening
Skating Polly are playing at The Echo with Starcrawler and Pinky Pinky opening
Saturday
Hoops are playing with Jimmy Whispers and Ruby Haunt at the Moroccan Lounge
Bergamot Station is hosting a Holiday Open House and is a good chance to check out the galleries
Gabba Gallery is having a closing party for their affordable art show Wishlist 5
Power 106 is hosting Cali Christmas at The Forum with performances by Chance the Rapper, Travis Scott, Joey Bada$$, Majid Jordan, and Gashi
The artists of Iris Company are having an interactive performance/art show called BOUQUET at Basic Flowers
Sunday
Cinespia is hosting a screening of Home Alone with a pajama party at The Los Angeles Theatre
The California African American Museum is hosting the first of their Conversations for Artists by Artists series with Samira Yamin and Umar “Frohawk” Rashid with a reception to follow (free but RSVP)
The 13th Annual Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival will be screening films free throughout the day at LACMA
A Very Cassie Ramone X-Mas is happening at Bob Baker Marionette Theatre with Colleen Green, Three O’Clock Rock and, of course, puppets