May 262016
May 262016
Rush Midnight- Crush
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/26-5/30/16)-
Thursday
The Writers Guild Foundation is hosting Inside the Writers Room with Better Call Saul with the writers discussing their process and the move from Breaking Bad
San Fermin are playing at the Teragram Ballroom
Lynne Cooke, senior curator of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is giving a lecture at MOCA Grand Ave (free)
Braids are playing at The Echo with Morgan Greenwood
Friday
designLAb’s is hosting a number of new art and design exhibition openings at the Pacific Design Center
Moving Units are at the Teragram Ballroom with Billy Changer, Vision, and Glass Spells
U.S. Girls are headlining a show at The Satellite
Friday through Sunday
Cinefamily is showing Pippi in the South Seas at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater with DJ Lance Rock (Yo Gabba Gabba) hosting and a marionette opening act
Saturday
Rush Midnight are playing at El Cid with MODE and The Great Void
The Big Lebowski is playing outside of The Autry Museum in Griffith Park
Or you could watch Singin’ In The Rain at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
The Peach Kings are at The Hi Hat
Saturday through Memorial Day
Hermosa Beach’s Fiesta Hermosa has tons of vendors, beer & wine garden, live music and more
Topanga Days, the three day festival in Topanga Canyon, has bands, traditional games (like pie eating, musical chairs and egg toss), craft and food vendors, and a parade on Monday
Sunday
Downtown Modernism, the biannual Los Angeles vintage design furniture market returns ($5)
Big Black Delta are playing at The Regent Theater with Fartbarf
Apr 282016
Deap Vally- Bad For My Body
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/28-5/1/16)-
Thursday
If you can get on line or know someone who can you might be able to get $30 tickets to see Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at the Troubadour
MOCA Grand Ave is free tonight and is also having a panel discussion presented with Zocalo Public Square tonight titled Were the ’90s L.A.’s Golden Age?
Also in the area, REDCAT is having a free screening of student work from the CalArts School of Film/Video (on Friday and Saturday evening as well)
Iggy Pop is playing at The Greek Theatre with the lineup from his new album, Post Pop Depression, that includes Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen and Dean Fertita(Queens of the Stone Age), Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys) and Matt Sweeney
Friday
The LA Dodgers are playing the San Diego Padres and there will be fireworks
Melissa Brooks and The Aquadolls are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Summer Twins, So Many Wizards, and Jurassic Shark
Friday through Sunday
Photo Independent returns to Raleigh Studios with lots of good programming in addition to the exhibitors. ($15 or discounted tickets on Goldstar)
Saturday
The Regent Theater is having Dance in A Panic, a monthly “British Style Rock N’ Roll dance party”. For this one, Deap Vally, Le Butcherettes & KAV will be performing and Andy Rourke of The Smiths will DJ
Eternal, an exhibition of artist Tina St Clair’s (tfail) final works, opens at 1621 N. Cahuenga Blvd from 7-11pm
De La Soul are headlining Rhyme Fest at the Belasco Theatre
The West Hollywood Design District and Parachute Market are having their first outdoor marketplace called A Street Af(fair)
The Night Sea are performing a “sonic and visual experience” at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (free with RSVP)
Atlas Genius are playing at the El Rey Theatre with Skylar Grey and The Young Wild
Saturday and Sunday
Jackalope Art and Craft Fair returns to Pasadena (free)
Sunday
HOLYCHILD, Reggie Watts, Theophilus London, Mayer Hawthorne, and Fortpolio are all performing at the Teragram Ballroom for Berniebash, with all proceeds going to the Bernie Sanders campaign
The Rock ‘N’ Roll Flea Market is back at The Regent Theater
Apr 162016
Mara De Luca, “INDIO”, 2015 (image courtesy Edward Cella Art & Architecture)
Mara De Luca, “INDUSTRY”, 2014 (image courtesy Edward Cella Art & Architecture)
Today (4/16/16) is the last day to see Mara De Luca’s solo exhibition Driving Sunset at Edward Cella Art & Architecture.
From the press release–
An MFA graduate of CalArts, De Luca explores the conceptual and expressive potential of process-driven abstract painting. Her works are informed by her study and re-appropriation of art historical conventions, her visual interpretation of literary sources, and the recurring visual tropes of contemporary high-end fashion advertising. Inspired by Los Angeles’ stark contrasts, a place where beautiful natural landscapes coexist alongside endless freeways and countless billboards, De Luca reveals a depth in the superficiality of surface, and an emotive complexity in formal concision.
The show’s title is a reference to Joan Didion’s novel Play It as It Lays, in which the main character drives around Los Angeles aimlessly while trying to clear her mind. There’s a sense of that sought after calm in these paintings, whose colors and dark cloud-like shapes bring to mind the skies and sunsets of California.
Apr 142016
For more work by these artists, check out their Instagram accounts- Fin Dac and Starfightera (Christina Angelina)
Apr 142016
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
Apr 072016
Apr 072016
Froth- Nothing Baby
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/7-4/10/16)-
Thursday
Froth is playing a live set as part of the free (with RSVP) event, Drinking the Sunlight on Thursday, at Resident with DJ sets by Kevin Morby and two of the members of FIDLAR
The second of the Monument performances at MOCA Grand Ave pairs musicians Metal Rouge and Palmbomen II with specific works in the gallery (free)
For Craft Night at CAFAM this week, guests will create black light paintings ($8 includes materials, food and drink)
Pop Up Magazine returns with its “live magazine” to the Theatre at the Ace Hotel with Daniel Alarcón, Ava DuVernay, Doreen St. Félix, Lindy West as part of the line up
Friday
Gothic Tropic are headlining a night of bands at The Hi Hat in Highland Park
The Aero Theatre is showing all three of Richard Linklater’s films Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight in one triple bill
For Covering Fashion: The Changing Runway Story, “fashion journalists Tim Blanks, editor-at-large of The Business of Fashion, and Booth Moore, fashion journalist and former fashion critic of the Los Angeles Times, discuss fashion journalism and the history and culture of runway shows with Sharon S. Takeda, LACMA’s senior curator and department head of costume and textiles” at LACMA (free)
Acid Dad are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Melted and Plum opening
Saturday
NELA Art Gallery Night is Northeast LA’s monthly art event and a great way to check out the area’s art scene and you can stop by Eastside Handmade market beforehand
Meth Dad and Terror Pigeon are both playing at Los Globos
Saturday and Sunday
The Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books is at the USC Campus and there are numerous free and ticketed author talks throughout both days as well as performances, cooking demonstrations, a travel section, children’s activities and so much more.
Sunday
It’s the second Sunday of the month so Rose Bowl Flea Market is open for treasure hunting
Missing Persons are at the Echo with Panthar and Fatal Jamz opening
DMX is playing at The Novo (formerly Club Nokia) for $15
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.
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For more of Anthony Lister’s work, check out his website.