Jun 042015
 

Hanni El Khatib- Moonlight

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/4-6/6/7/15)-

Thursday

Artist Andrea Fraser will be discussing William Pope L.’s exhibition at MOCA (Geffen Contemporary)

UCLA’s award winning student poets are reading at the Hammer Museum

Friday

Hanni El Khatib headlines the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays with a concert outdoors this time

Palma Violets are playing at the newly opened Teragram Ballroom

Martin Solveig is at Create Nightclub in Hollywood for Noize Fridays

Saturday

Make Music Pasadena is a huge FREE music festival- this year’s lineup includes Kishi Bashi, Sir Sly, How to Dress Well, and tons more

Harold and Maude is the movie this week at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

MOCA is screening Marlon Rigg’s documentary Tongues Untied in conjunction with his new exhibition

Saturday and Sunday

If you like the idea of being in a horror movie, The Great Horror Campout is back in Griffith Park with different levels of intensity, including a Chicken Zone where you just watch horror movies without creatures disturbing you throughout the night

Ooga Booga has cool stuff and this weekend is having a warehouse sale

Catcon describes itself as ComicCon for cat people ($25)

The biannual Parachute Market which focuses on design is downtown at One Santa Fe ($10)

Sunday

Venice Art Block is having its fifth open studio tour

Nick Brandt is at Art Catalogues at LACMA to talk about art and activism with Kathryn Bigelow, and to sign books (free)

Cinespia is showing Disney’s Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 to benefit the Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation at the TCL Chinese Theater (formerly Grauman’s Chinese Theater) with drinks in between shows ($35)

Sep 182014
 

Beck- Heart is a Drum

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/18-9/21/14)-

Thursday

Neutral Milk Hotel, The Breeders, Daniel Johnston play the Hollywood Bowl

DesignLAb at the Pacific Design Center is having an opening reception for 10 new exhibits featuring artists and designers

Cloud Cult are playing two sets at the Troubadour (one acoustic, one electric)

Friday

Author Junot Diaz will be reading from This is How You Lose Her at Skylight Books

The 2nd Annual Afterglow Summer Video Series ends tonight at Pieter Performance Space with work from four LA-based video artists including Harry Dodge and Aimee Goguen

Jungle with Beaty Heart at The Fonda

Saturday

It’s Tarfest at the LaBrea Tar Pits Park- live bands include Hunter Hunted and The Moth & the Flame; there will be live painting by Craig ‘Craola’ Simkins, Nicola Verlato, and devNgosha; as well as food, drink and activities (FREE)

Artist Oliver Payne’s CHILL OUT performance at 356 Mission begins at 7pm- make sure you can follow the rules!

Total Slacker are playing with Paws at The Echo

Saturday and Sunday

Beck is at the Orpheum

Parachute Market biannual design fair is at JF Chen showroom

Sunset Strip Music Festival is a two-day festival with Janes Addiction, Empire of the Sun, Cold War Kids, Big Freedia, Killer Mike, and tons more playing

Sunday

Daniel Joseph Martinez is speaking at LACMA and signing his book

It’s the last day to see the video installation, Drumroll, that won Steve McQueen (director of 12 Years a Slave) the Turner Prize, at MOCA Pacific Design Center

LA Feline Film Festival featuring the Internet Cat Video festival is in Exposition Park

Zammuto are playing at The Satellite

Mar 202014
 

The Orwells- Mallrats (La La La)

Things to do in (and around) Los Angeles this weekend (3/20-3/23/14)-

Thursday

The Orwells are at the Observatory (Santa Ana)

Live read of Groundhog Day with director Jason Reitman at LACMA

Yung Jake is at MOCA Grand Ave streaming his favorite selections from the internet and premiering his film for MOCAtv, Unfollow- (free)

Friday

The Black Lips are playing at El Rey

Sabrosonico is a free concert at the Hammer celebrating “the music and imagery of alternative Mexico”

Saturday-

Free screening of a film mentioned on this site previouslyFinding Vivian Maier at Cinefamily

Saturday and Sunday

Burgerama two day music fest at the Observatory– bands include- FIDLAR, The Growlers, Death, The Black Lips, Allah Las, Bleached, Tijuana Panthers and many more

Cherry Blossom festival at Descanso Gardens

Selected Shorts 2014: Drama at Dinner at the Getty– (3pm and 7 on Saturday, 3pm on Sunday) Robert Sean Leonard hosts live performances based on short stories with a food theme – including Christopher Lloyd in “A Mad Tea Party” from Alice in Wonderland- $35 includes wine and small bites along with the show

Parachute Market Design Fair

Sunday-

Dan Harmon and members of the Harmontown podcast are having a garage sale at Meltdown Comics to benefit 826LA

All weekend (3/21-3/23)-

YoungArts Los Angeles (YoungArts is featured in the HBO documentary  Masterclass) will be having public exhibitions and performances of their work at the Los Angeles Theater Center

Reverend Horton Heat is playing at the Roxy