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Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/25-5/28/17)-
Thursday
Band of Horses are playing at the Greek Theatre with Frightened Rabbit
At LACMA artist Michael Mandiberg and artist/researcher Lior Zalmanson will discuss “the connection between digital arts and online labor including its recent manifestations: crowdsourcing and the gig economy” (free)
The New Division are playing at Union Nightclub with FYOHNA opening
The Oracle Film Series continues at The Broad with Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s film Kappa, a collaboration with artist Mike Kelley, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Sud Pralad (Tropical Malady)
Pantha du Prince is playing at The Echo with Telefon Tel Aviv and Newman Wolf
No Parents are playing a show at The Hi Hat with C ROY, Dumb Fucks, Enemy and Musty Boyz
Friday
Constitutional Happy Hour returns to the Hammer Museum– the topic this week is immigrant rights
Ab-Soul is playing at the El Rey Theatre
It’s the last of the four part series Subject: Los Angeles at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. The theme this week is Los Angeles on Shifting Ground and “will examine the city’s habit of erasure, as well as forms of collective recall, through disaster footage, visualizations of local wind patterns, documentation of lost neighborhoods and landmarks, contemporary marketing schemes for “historic downtown,” and a 16mm presentation of Thom Andersen’s GET OUT OF THE CAR (2010), with an introduction from Thom.”
Moaning are playing with Prettiest Eyes and more at The Smell
Wafia is playing at The Echo with Demo Taped opening
Saturday
Sleepy Sun are playing at The Hi Hat to celebrate their new record Private Tales, with Big Search opening
Artists Pippa Garner and Zackary Drucker will be in conversation at Redling Fine Art
The Bowtie Project is hosting Beginnings Marathon,” a performative collage of beginnings and unfinished narratives” with artist Vlatka Horvat. Bring your favorite book and read aloud from the first page ( it can be from any genre, and in any language) or you can just listen to the performance and enjoy s’mores around the fire pit.
Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is the film this week at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Or you could see Pulp Fiction outside of The Autry
Feminist collective PLAG (Play Like A Girl) is having an all ages, all day, all female and non-binary fronted music event at the Echoplex with Kitten headlining
Sunday
L.A. Zine Fest is at the California Market Center (free)
You can get your Memorial Day beach trip in and enjoy a festival at Fiesta Hermosa, the annual Hermosa Beach event (also Saturday and Monday)
French Vanilla are playing with Peach Kelli Pop, Mommy Long Legs and Rotten Blossom at The Smell
The Lovely Bad Things are playing at The Hi Hat with Wild Wing, The Red Pear, and Joos