KCRW Summer Nights
LA Chinatown parties never seem to fail. Out of all the summer events and pool parties, KCRW presents Summer Nights has been my favorite Chinatown event all year. There’s something about the lights and smells of that small Chinatown square that make me feel like I’m on vacation somewhere farther away. KCRW Summer Nights features [...]
Summer is NOT OVER YET! FYF Fest @LA State Historic Park Rocks DTLA TODAY
If you haven’t made it to a festival this summer yet, have no fear, the only one that really matters is here, THIS SATURDAY in the LA State Historic Park (on the cusp of Chinatown in DTLA.) Be there or be square!
Best Hip Hop Show in DTLA: Monsters Full Circle @The LATC
Walking down the streets of DTLA, you would never guess that 23 year-old Leo Lam has a super human ability to dance. Lam is a testament to anyone out there who has ever dreamed of being a dancer. Since he started dancing only three years ago, he’s struggled to gain acceptance from his parents and [...]
Downtown Delivery Service Makes Life Easier
With a slogan “Making your life easier one schlep at time,” Schlep&Fetch.com is catching eyes in the Downtown scene. Schlep & Fetch “The Go‐Get‐Whatever‐You‐Need, Whenever‐You‐Need‐It Service” is now offering Downtown L.A. visitors, businesses, and residents its unique, universal, morning‐noon‐and‐night pickup, delivery, and shopping service. For a basic flat rate of only 20 Bucks + tip, [...]
Pioneer Raises Funds Through Street Art
From graffiti to break-dancing to music, Downtown LA street culture has exploded in the mainstream and continues to inspire a hungry crowd. Yesterday Pioneer partnered with MOCA to bring Art Mix, a pop-up exhibit and fundraiser featuring art made out of Pioneer DJ mixers. The tent featured 15 pieces of art created by select group [...]
Art. Food. Music: Bloomfest in Arts District This Weekend!
If you think Artwalk doesn’t come often enough, here’s an event this Saturday to hold you off until August 11 (The next Artwalk). The Downtown Arts District presents Bloomfest LA featuring live art, indie music, great brews, good food and eco-friendly fun. This really could not get more DTLA. So come and git some. According [...]
Downtown LA Summer Music Heats Up with Queztal Guerrero
As if DTLA summer’s aren’t hot enough- Summer just got hotter. Downtown resident, musician and artist Queztal Guerrero has a new album out, Coiza Boa. I heard this album at one of KCRW’s summer nights concerts at the Levitt Pavilion where Guerrero kicked off his album. Over 1,000 people partied in the outdoor amphitheater- dancing Brazilian style. It [...]
LA FILM FEST REVIEW: Attack the Block
From the producers of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block immediately caught my eye in the film guide. Producers Nira Park and James Wilson out-did themselves with Attack the Block. If you’re a freak or geek like me, every second of this movie is pure entertainment- thrilling, hilarious, heroic and bloody. [...]
RADAR L.A. Contemporary Theater Festival Next Week
From June 14- 19 Radar LA begins in DTLA. Radar LA is an international festival of contemporary theater produced by REDCAT in collaboration with Center Theatre Group and The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival (New York) Influential theater ensembles from Chile, Mexico, Japan and Australia are among the companies to be featured alongside Los Angeles [...]
Dance Under Stars: Free Dance Lessons @ Music Center
The annual series of FREE Friday night dance events is back at the Music Center Plaza. Starting this Friday, June 3rd with the Line Dance/Two Step, you can shake and groove to live music and amazing DJs. At least two Fridays a month this summer, you and your family can enjoy an active night out. [...]
Foster the People live at Amoeba Music
The Downtown LA band Foster the People played a free show at Amoeba Music the other night. I guess I should have assumed that indie tweens would flock to free concerts at Amoeba Music, but I was overwhelmed nonetheless by the amount of rompers and skinny jeans in attendance this Tuesday night. Now I’ve been [...]
Colburn School Presents Salastina Music Society
The Salastina Music Society will present a concert at The Colburn School’s Thayer Hall on June 18th, 2011 at 3 pm. The program features Artistic Directors/violinists Kevin Kumar & Maia Jasper, along with a stellar cast of instrumentalists, and offers a diverse range of music from classical, folk, and dance to a world premiere. The [...]
Art in the Streets @MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary
One of the biggest controversies in art, graffiti has finally taken a large step towards proper recognition. With the Geffen Contemporary’s newest exhibition Art in the Streets featuring street art, a sea of young people crowded the entrance forming the lengthy line I so patiently waiting in. It was worth the wait. The space was [...]
Music Center Hosts Photo Essay Contest Under the Stars
On May 21 Active Arts at the Music Center will be displaying over a 1,000 photographs featuring A Day in the Life LA, submitted by amateur photographers across LA. Viewers can cast their vote for the best photo essay submission via text. As an amateur photographer myself, I decided to submit two photo essays for [...]
MAY @Artwalk: Crewest Gallery Celebrates 9 Years
With the fairly recent explosion street art in the art buying industry, the Crewest Gallery is “OG,” when it comes to galleries formally displaying this urban art form. Located on the brink of the Old Bank District, Crewest features a variety of underground artists seeking to expose the raw beauty of street art and graffiti. [...]
Lucinda Childs Dance: An Assault at UCLA Royce Hall
Lucinda Childs Dance was staged last night at Royce Hall, bringing together Phillip Glass music and Sol Lewitt video for a full-frontal assault on the audience and the performers. The performance is intelligent; Lucinda Childs makes powerful commentary of the impact that mechanization has on humanity, which unfolds through a three-part narrative structure. This is [...]
Incognito 2011 @ SMMOA
The Santa Monica Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser, Incognito 2011 lived up to it’s reputation as a unique and viable arts awareness event. Santa Monica Museum of Art’s highly anticipated annual art exhibition and benefit, INCOGNITO, returned for its seventh year on Saturday, April 30, with original works by 500 contemporary artists. From sophisticated art [...]
Silverlake Lounge Saturday at Six: Mister Nervous – Monthlies.
Silverlake Lounge Saturday 1/8/11: Mister Nervous is up first at 6pm, The Ross Sea Party is up at 7 and The Monthlies. at 8. It’s all over by 9pm. We’re gonna give some stuff away too.
KCRW DJs pick Top 10 for 2010
Perhaps the most painful task put upon the KCRW DJs by the music publicity director. Come this time of year, they run, RUN from her. “I can’t possibly pick just ten”, they scream. She doesn’t buy it and she has a fistful of listener emails to prove people are asking. So, after much anguish, here [...]
Black Friday with Old Californio, The Sundowners and Mister Nervous at the Old Towne Pub
Black Friday 11/26 – with Old Californio, The Sundowners and Mister Nervous at the Old Towne Pub
The Damn Sons
It’s like someone put Reverend Horton Heat, AC/DC, Nirvana and T-Rex in a blender and ran it till the lid blew off.
A First-Timer Visits Berghain
Everyone tells me I have to go this club called Berghain. “It’s like probably the best club in Europe” my friend says, then thinks for a minute and corrects himself: “maybe the world.” “Bring water,” another friend offers. “And don’t show up until 2 am. Actually,” his voice raises and he smiles. “You could come [...]
Halloween Abduction!
The band is “Very Be Careful” Their music is instantly dance inducing. VBC plays old school Vallenato and Cumbia, the Colombian Caribbean blend of African, Indigenous, and European influences. Traditionally combining accordion, bass and a range of percussion, the jerky rhythmic energy and delirious melodies of the Cumbia and accordion-driven Vallenato sounds will appeal to [...]
