Ben Browning- Friends of Mine

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/30-8/2/15)-

Thursday

Wye Oak are playing at Club Bahia

REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival begins tonight (running through Aug 15)

Tom Of Finland: Up Close and Personal, a discussion with Durk Dehner (President, Tom of Finland Foundation), Dian
Hanson (Editor, TASCHEN’s Tom of Finland XXL), F. Valentine Hooven III (Author, Tom of Finland: Life and Work of a Gay Hero) and moderated by Joakim Andreasson is happening downtown at Austere

The Suffers are the headliners for this week’s Summer of Soul concert series at the Hammer Museum (free)

Baths is playing at the Echoplex with Wrestlers and OOFJ as part of Red Bull Sound Select- RSVP and it’s $3

Friday

Ben Browning (of Cut Copy) will be performing songs from his new solo project at the Regent Theater along with Moullinex, L.A.Girlfriend, Deep Chills, and Maikol

Opening today and running this weekend and next is CA 101 2015 an artist exhibition taking place at the historic AES Power Plant in Redondo Beach

Porcelain Raft and Tennis System are at the Echo

Saturday

Wet Hot American Summer is the outdoor movie at The Autry this week

Or you could see Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark at the Electric Dusk Drive-In downtown (only lawn seating available)-

OR Hollywood Forever Cemetery is showing Apocalypse Now (which has a Harrison Ford cameo)

Grand Performances has Rocky Dawuni and Blitz the Ambassador in concert

Sunday

Artist Mark Bradford and law professor Anita Hill will be discussing “feminism as a gateway to activism and social justice, and their interdisciplinary methods for speaking truth to power” at the Hammer Museum (free)

Rock ‘N’ Roll Flea Market is on at the Regent Theater

Or you could check out the flea market at Pasadena City College which has a little bit of everything

*This weekend Much Ado About Nothing opens at the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival and it’s set in Italy in 1945