Old Pasadenda Film Festival: Free Flicks Al Fresco
Seen Annie Hall Lately? Beginning July 8 the Old Pasadena Film Festival kicks off with the classic Woody Allen epic flick, screened outdoors under the summer sky. Check out the whole series at the bargain price of FREE. Old Pasadena Management presents the Old Pasadena Film Festival, a free four-week movie series that unites film [...]
Zombies are Prettier in Whittier – Los Angeles
Los Angeles has long been home to some of the strangest, most creative, and wildest bar crawls this side of the San Andreas Fault Line. From the legendary Bunny Hop of Aught-Five to the bleary-eyed Christmas cheer of Santa Con, Los Angeles bar crawls tend to go down in the annals of underground city legend. [...]
J’Adore Bastille Day – Los Angeles
Who doesn’t love Bastille Day? No one doesn’t love Bastille Day, that’s who. Not only is Bastille Day an excuse to wear your most questionable of fashions and get chocolate wasted on a vat of red wine, you, but you can enjoy a day of all that is wonderful about France. Spend a languid summer’s [...]
B Movies & Bad Science – Los Angeles
Summer is when LA gets fun, sometimes in a party-all-day way, sometimes in a so-indie-it-hurts way, and sometimes in a flat out weird way. The La Brea Tar Pits and the Page Museum are offering up the latter all summer long, with B Movies and Bad Science, a summer film screening series that only those [...]
Dzi Croquettes Will Leave You Dizzy
Dance Camera West (DCW) presents an outdoor screening of Dzi Croquettes, a lively Brazilian documentary exploring the outrageous all-male cabaret group, Dzi Croquettes, who used an empowering sexuality to counter Brazil’s military dictatorship and revolutionize the gay movement worldwide during the 1970′s. Directed by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez, this revealing documentary explores the legacy [...]
Katana – Refined Post-Modern Japanese Cuisine
If you’ve ever driven down Sunset Blvd, you’ve seen it – the imposing Katana, across the street from the Standard Hotel. You’ve seen the fancily-dressed folks walking up the stairs and wondered to what heaven they are going. That gloriousness is Katana, one of the best sushi joints around. The place is a bit pricey, [...]
Grease Sing-Along! Free at Arclight June 16 only!
This just in from our friends at Paramount Pictures: Free screening of a new digitally restored, all-new, sing along version of Grease (the musicial). If you still got the hots for Travolta or Olivia, then this actually sounds like a pretty cool night out at the Arclight Theater to see this new print for free. [...]
Vaudevillian Opera through Bohemian Eyes: Timur and the Dime Museum
Timur and The Dime Museum are an operatic exploration of modern jazz and current tunes through a bohemian vaudeville looking glass. Covering songs from 1930s cabaret, Russian gypsy composer Vadim Kozin all the way to Radiohead and David Bowie, Timur and the Dime Museum present music as you’ve never heard it before, and most likely [...]
Hori Smoku is Sailor Jerry: A Film Screening
Would you let that guy tattoo you? All unsanitary with his tobacco pipe, pronounced lack of sanitary gloves, and insistent use of a rotary phone? Yes, you would in a heartbeat. He’s Norman K. Collins, king of tattoo art, and man behind the infamous Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum art. Ed Hardy is remedial compared to [...]
Soup Kitchen Rocks 10 Brings Indie Punk to CIA
Soup Kitchen is back once again with its eclectic anything-goes parties that celebrate all things art, music, film, and all things creative. This time, they’re throwing down at one of the weirdest places around, CIA in North Hollywood. Rest assured it’ll be one wild night full of off-the-wall music, indie animations, and just plain weird [...]
Micro Brew Cruise – Bring the Dramamine!
There is nothing like beer and boats to start the summer off right. If you like boats, and you like drinking, and can handle drinking on the boat, you’re going to love the Micro Brew Cruise hosted by Morry’s on June 12! Via The Rubber Duck, a 49 passenger amphibious vehicle, you will [...]
Hear NoHo Fest – The June Edition
If you’re looking to find the best in underground and undiscovered bands, look no further than the Hear Noho Music Fest! Held on the first Thursday of every month, Hear Noho presents eclectic bands that you’ve never heard of in three walkable venues in North Hollywood. This month, they’ve got 3 venues chock full of [...]
UCLA’s Jazz Reggae Fest
With so many things going on this weekend, it’s hard to choose just one! This Memorial Day Weekend brings about one of the coolest festivals around. The 2010 Jazz Reggae Festival is May 30 – 31, from 12 – 7pm, at the UCLA Intramural Field. With an annual attendance of over 30,000 and performances from [...]
Lightning in a Bottle 2010
The Do LaB Presents: Lightning in a Bottle 20105th annual music and arts festival to create sustainable dreamscape at OakCanyon Ranch, Irvine, May 28 – 31 This Memorial Day weekend, the music, arts and greenliving worlds will converge at Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine, California forThe Do LaB’s 5th annual Lightning in a Bottle Festival [...]
Nick Cave | Meet Me at the Center of The Earth NOW.
THIS IS IMPORTRANT. Really Important. Like, it’s really really important that you make plans RIGHT NOW to get to UCLA’s Fowler Musuem to see the Nick Cave exhibit: Soundsuits. Consider this a best visual experience, not to be missed if that’s at all possible. Textile arts are not nearly as well represented as they should [...]
Museum of Jurassic Technology…Does Its Thing…
Ahh, the Museum of JurassicTechnology. Somewhere between the California Institute of Abnormal Arts and Victorian showcase, you occupy a space in which being comfortable with ambiguity is a requirement to ride the ride. News about how cool MTJ is has long spread from friend to friend, so I finally made a point to stop in [...]
