LA Film Festival is back next week! Gear up for awesome indie flicks all next week cause we are going to bring you the reviews and all you need to know about the hottest films. WE ARE GIVING AWAY TICKETS!
Jun 08, 2011 | Categories: RADAR | Tags: art culture downtown la, art party, Best of Downtown LA, Culture DTLA, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, Events in Downtown LA, film independent, free tickets, indie flicks, june 16-26, LA Film Festival, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles Times, movies, show, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, what's hot in Downtown | Leave A Comment »
If you were worried that the Last Book Store on 4th and Main went out of business because of the recent boarded up windows, have no worry. They’ve actually grown in business and they made a big move into a larger space in the Spring Arts Building on Spring and 5th. The Last Book [...]
Jun 08, 2011 | Categories: LIFESTYLE | Tags: 4th and main, acoustic band, art culture downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, book community, book store, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, Events in Downtown LA, internet cafe, live event, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, Music, reasonable prices, spencer, spring and 5th, Spring Arts Building, the last book store moves, things to do DTLA, unique books, used record store, what's hot in Downtown | Leave A Comment »
FIRST FRIDAYS, the provocative series in which live music, discussion and curatorial tours converge in an after-hours event, concludes its 8th season on Friday, June 3. This final evening will center on Dr. Luis Chiappe’s talk “The Dinosaur in Your Backyard.” Dr. Chiappe is head of NHM’s Dinosaur Institute and curator of the upcoming Dinosaur [...]
Jun 01, 2011 | Categories: RADAR | Tags: art culture downtown la, art party, Best of Downtown LA, concert, Culture, Culture DTLA, dirty beaches, Downtown LA, dr.luis chiappe, first fridays, gayngs, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles events, Music, natural history museum, things to do DTLA, what's hot in Downtown | Leave A Comment »
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. [...]
Jun 01, 2011 | Categories: CULTURE | Tags: art culture downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, dancing, Downtown LA, Free dance lessons, live music, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Music Center Plaza, things to do DTLA | Leave A Comment »
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 [...]
May 23, 2011 | Categories: CULTURE, LAbuzz | Tags: Antonin Dvořák, Art, art culture downtown la, art party, Arturo Márquez, Béla Bartók, Best of Downtown LA, Catherine Ransom Karoly, classical, colburn school, complimentary ice cream, concert, Culture, Culture DTLA, David Parmeter, Downtown LA, Elizabeth Futral, folk, Gregory Cohen, Håkan Rosengren, Jeremy Cavaterra, Julie Ann Smith, june 18th, kevin kumar, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, maia jasper, Mark O’Connor, Maurice Ravel, Music, Robert Brophy, Rod Gilfry, salastina music society, scoops gelato, thayer hall, things to do DTLA, Three Neruda Arias, Timothy Landauer, what's hot in Downtown | Leave A Comment »
On May 21st, 22 short films about Los Angeles will be screened as a the final round of the New LA FilmMaker’s On Location Project, a video contest highlighting Los Angeles. The short film LA: A City in FLUX directed by Jamie Schwartzman highlights the vibrancy and excitement of Downtown LA. LA: A City in [...]
May 20, 2011 | Categories: RADAR | Tags: $10 tickets, 22 films, Ambassadors of LA, art culture downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, community outreach multimedia program, Downtown LA, downtown la film, DTLA, Jamie Schwartzman, LA INC, LA Weekly, Los Angeles events, los angeles video project, may 21st, mr.downtown, New FilmMakers LA On Location Screening, party, Santee Villag, short film LA: A City in FLUX, Sunset Gower Studios, things to do DTLA, Tom Gilmore, what's hot in Downtown | Leave A Comment »
The annual invasion of the Lobsters is back and better than ever! Break out your lobster bib and polish off your lobster crackers – you’re gonna need ‘em! The 12th Annual Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival is serving up a heaping portion of sizzling entertainment Sept. 17, 18 and 19 with eighteen bands, comedy [...]
Aug 29, 2010 | Categories: EAT DRINK, FOOD, Los Angeles | Tags: AWOLnation, country folks Leslie Stevens & the Badgers, Dengue Fever, Devon Eisenbarger, Fitz & The Tantrums, Gram Rabbit, John Doe Exene Cervenka, Judson & Mary, KROQ, LA Weekly, Long Beach, Long Beach festival, Long Beach Lobster, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles festival, Los Angeles lobster, Miss Derringer, OC Weekly, Pirates of the Red Swan, Port of Los Angeles, Port of Los Angeles Lobsterfest, Saint Motel, Spider Problem, Talking Sleep, The Country, The Daily Breeze, The Growlers, The Section Quartet, Tijuana Panthers, Venue Infers, We Barbarians, X | Leave A Comment »
The Red Bull Flugtag has lived in infamy for years now, mainly as one of the most literal translations of a marketing line ever. Red Bull celebrates years and years of giving you wings by allowing you to give something wings and fly it off the 30-ft high flight deck, straight into the waters below. [...]
Aug 18, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz, Los Angeles, Sports | Tags: Burning Man, Flugtag, flying machines, free events, human-powered flight, LA Decom, Long Beach, Long Beach events, Long Beach Flugtag, Long Beach summer events, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles Flugtag, Los Angeles free events, Los Angeles Red Bull, Los Angeles sports, Rainbow Harbor, Red Bull, Red Bull Flugtag, Red Bull Long Beach, soapbox derby, Sports | Leave A Comment »
Ladies and Gentlemen, Nisei Week is go! If you haven’t been to Little Tokyo yet to check out all the Japanese goodness, strap on your jetpack and go! Saturday boasts such OMG fanfare as the Queen’s Coronation Dinner, a car show (not just any car show, a Show Off Car Show – if you ain’t [...]
Aug 14, 2010 | Categories: Culture, Los Angeles | Tags: eating contest, JANM, Japanese culture, Little Tokyo, Little Tokyo grand parade, Little Tokyo Los Angeles, Los Angeles cultural festival, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles Japanese culture, Next Generation Remix, Nisei Week, Nisei Week car show, Nisei Week Film Festival, Nisei Week Los Angeles, Ondo, sake, sushi, Sushi Mac, Taiko | Leave A Comment »
Soup Kitchen Rocks, the collective of misfits who put on some of the best underground shows in all of LA is doing it again this Sunday at the Talking Stick in Venice, and they’re throwing it down chick-style with a mainly girl line-up. This kitty’s got claws, though. Fierce ladies like Mather Louth, Jessie Payo, [...]
Apr 20, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, Culture, Culture DTLA, Diamonds Under Fire, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, Electric Children, film screenings, films, girl rock, Guitar Player Magazine, indie films, Jayme Langford, Jessie Payo, LA Artwalk, Lady Gaga, live music, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles events, Lupe Fiasco, Marilyn Manson, Masque Films, Mather Louth, Nirvana, punk, Radio Noir, rockabilly, S.O.U.P Kitchen, Sandra Powers, SOUP Kitchen rocks, Soup Kitchen Rocks 7, Soup Kitchen Rocks 8, Soup Kitchen Rocks 9, Talking Stick, The Black Eyed Peas, The Talking Stick, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, Vans Off the Wall, venice, Venice events, Viva Las Vegas | 1 Comment »
The LA Times 2010 Festival of Books is hosting their weekend book and book-lovers matchmaking fair this weekend at UCLA. Reconnect with that old media you forgot about ever since the dawn of your Facebook account! Your books miss you, and somewhere, deep down in your technologically-hardened heart, you miss them. Get down to the [...]
Apr 20, 2010 | Categories: FASHION | Tags: book fair, book party, books, Festival of Books, foreign books, free events, international books, LA Times, literary, Los Angeles, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles literary events, Los Angeles Times, storytelling, UCLA, weekend | Leave A Comment »
Masque Films’ Inevitable Unveiling on Saturday night did a great job of setting the aesthetic tone of Masque Films. Taking place in the ASTO Museum in a begotten part of Lincoln Heights, the unveiling immediately enveloped the audience into the Masque world – a dark, delicate, and hauntingly beautiful place filled with furtive, sidelong glances, [...]
Apr 05, 2010 | Categories: Parties | Tags: art party, ASTO, ASTO Lincoln Heights, ASTO Museum, beer, burlesque, independent films, indie, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles film, Los Angeles filmmakers, Los Angeles independent filmmakers, Masked Meow, Masque, Masque Films, Masque Productions, Mayfield, Mayfield beer, Mayfield Brewing Company, party, Sandra Powers, The Inevitable Unveiling, Tuvalu, underground | 1 Comment »
The 2nd Annual Beer Fest is on! Set for April 10, 2010, you can check out tons of brews for less than an average night at the bar…If you can drink 9 beers in 3 hours, and each beer is over $5. Easy and simple! Last year was the 1st Annual Beer Fest, spread out [...]
Mar 24, 2010 | Categories: DRINKS, EAT DRINK | Tags: 40 oz to Freedom, beer, Beer Fest, beer festival, Bud, Bud Light, Culver City, Culver City bars, Culver City beer, Fireman's Brew, Los Angeles, Los Angeles bars, Los Angeles beer, Los Angeles beer fest, Los Angeles events, Pabst, Petty Cash, Sony Studios | Leave A Comment »
That rug really tied the room together…Build up your tolerance for White Russians, find your best stained cardigan, and break out your bowling shoes – the Lebowski Fest is set to hit LA! Complete with the occassional acid flashbacks. Lebowski Fest returns to LA with a screening of The Big Lebowski at the Wiltern on [...]
Mar 24, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz | Tags: bowling, Cal Lanes, events in Los Angeles, Jeff Bridges, Lebowski Fest, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles parties, movie party, movie screening, movies, parties in Los Angeles, The Big Lebowski, The Dude, The Wiltern | Leave A Comment »
Get ready for this year’s Pamper Me Fabulous event, from 11am – 5pm on Sunday, Mar. 28 at the Vibiana in Downtown LA. It’s a perfect way to give yourself a break from the daily grind and just relax. Pamper Me [...]
Mar 22, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz | Tags: beauty treatments, Bliss Spa, brow shaping, downtown Los Angeles, facials, hand massage, Lierac Paris, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles red carpet, Los Angeles spa, Pamper Me Fabulous, red carpet, red carpet treatment, relax, retail therapy, Roman Salon, spa, spa treatment, Step Up Women's Network, stress, Vibiana | Leave A Comment »
You’ve heard of all its cheesy goodness, now come and take a bite for yourself! Check out the 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational! Bread. Butter. Cheese. Epic Win. You and your home grillin’ skills are up against professional chefs. The judges will deem the cheesiest of cheese and the winner lives in cheese-related infamy for [...]
Mar 22, 2010 | Categories: EAT DRINK, FOOD | Tags: downtown Los Angeles, Fat Tire, grilled cheese, Grilled Cheese Invitational, Grilled Cheese Truck, Los Angeles eats, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles food, Los Angeles grilled cheese, Los Angeles Restaurants, Stone Brewery, underground | Leave A Comment »
It’s been said before, and I’ll say it again – SOUP Kitchen does Rock! SOUP Kitchen Rocks 8 is booked and ready to rock the Unknown Theater like it’s never been rocked before! They’ve got Death Hymn Number 9, The Terrapin, and The Midnight Scene – three different bands with three different styles, so whatever [...]
Mar 18, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz | Tags: Death Hymn Number 9, Hollywood, Hollywood concert, indie, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, Midnight Scene, Music, party, S.O.U.P Kitchen, show, SOUP Kitchen 8, SOUP Kitchen rocks, Terrapin, underground, Unknown Theater, Unknown Theater concert | Leave A Comment »
Continuing in the aural tradition of Vaud and the Villians, Mather Louth and Radio Noir, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Cirque Berzerk; multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer Mark Growden brings back the dark big band soul of old whiskey drinkers and scalawags in his new album release “Saint Judas”, whose national record release party is being [...]
Mar 14, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: Americana, Andrew Bird, blues, caberet, concert, Devendra Banhardt, Hollywood, Hotel Cafe, Jazz, Kurt Weill, Leonard Cohen, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles record release, Mark Growden, Mather Louth, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Raputina, record release, underground, Vaud and the Villians | Leave A Comment »
I checked out the Rock n’ Roll Fantasy Camp show at the Key Club the other night, not knowing what to expect. I heard Bret Michaels and Kip Winger would be there, and all my endless hours of watching Metal Mania at 2am prompted me to somehow think this would be cool. Or at least [...]
Mar 02, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Bloody Holly, Bret Michaels, Bulldozer, concert, Hollywood, Kip Winger, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles musicians, Metallica, Michael Anthony, Mike Patton, Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, Rock n' Roll Fantasy Camp, rock star, Steel Cactus, The Unlikelies, Too Big To Fail, Van Halen | 1 Comment »
The most anticipated awards show of all time is taking place here in Los Angeles on April 8 at Club Nokia. The Revolver Golden Gods awards show, presented by Epiphone may well be one of the most epic awards show, and definitely one of the most entertaining. It’s an awards show chock full to the [...]
Feb 23, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz | Tags: Andrew WK, As I Lay Dying, Brian Posehn, Chris Jericho, Dave Mustaine, Fear Factory, heavy metal, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles awards show, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles metal show, Megadeth, metal music, Music, Revolver Golden Gods, Rob Zombie, The Devil Wears Prada, Zakk Wylde | Leave A Comment »
Remember Megadeth and how much they absolutely rocked ever since frontman Dave Mustaine got kicked out of Alcoholica for being alcoholic, got pissed off and vowed to create a bigger, better monster than Metallica, and then, as if by magic or a decree from above, the world was blessed with Megadeth? Remember that? Get ready [...]
Feb 23, 2010 | Categories: Culture, Music | Tags: Alcoholica, Hollywood, Hollywood Palladium, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles metal, Los Angeles metal show, Los Angeles music, Megadeth, metal music, Metallica, underground | Leave A Comment »
Haven’t donated to Haitian relief yet? Can’t decide between all the Haiti benefit concerts, art shows, comedy shows, etc, et al? Here’s one you don’t want to miss – the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Family Guy come together on Feb. 12 for a live stage show. Tickets start at $60, but [...]
Feb 03, 2010 | Categories: Culture, Parties, Play | Tags: Family Guy, Gibson Theatre, Haiti, Haiti benefit, Haiti relief effort, Hollywood, indie, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Los Angeles comedy, Los Angeles events, party, underground | Leave A Comment »
After a long, long, long, wait, you can wait for the long-awaited SOUP Kitchen 7 no more! SOUP Kitchen 7 features, once again, the absolute best in LA’s emerging art, music, and film, performed live right before your very eyeballs! SOUP Kitchen 7 @ Neon Venus Theater 7023 Melrose Ave @ La Brea (by Pink’s!) [...]
Jan 20, 2010 | Categories: Art, Culture, Music, Parties | Tags: Art, Brooke Trout, Bumtech, festival, film, free, indie, jam, Jeff Klarin, live music, Liz Brizzi, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles Soup Kitchen, Music, Neon Venus, party, Pink's Hot Dogs, pop, Push to Transmit, Rebecca Johnson, rock, S.O.U.P Kitchen, Saturday, Shakey Graves, show, SOUP Kitchen 7, Stoned Koalas, techno, The Anchormen, The Big Bad, Totally Serious, underground | Leave A Comment »
It’s what Baccanalia is all about – a swirling festival of art, live music, live painting, art installations, with cheese and wine flowing all around. The Daydream Republic has started off 2010 with a bang, moving into a bigger space at 4500 West Jefferson – remember the tiny gallery space they had in 2009 on [...]
Jan 12, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz | Tags: art party, Bacchanal, Cannibal Flower, concert, Crystal Sylver, Culver City, Culver City art, Culver City art opening, Culver City nightlife, Daydream Republic, indie, John Culqui, Lane Shih, Laura Diamond, LC, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art party, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles music, Los Angeles nightlife, Mason Quality, Meterhead, Mr. Numberonderful, Music, NS David, Prince Parise, Projections/Orgone, Saturday, Shady Hasty, show, techno, Thinkspace, underground, Uri Averbuch, Vladimir Zimakov | Leave A Comment »
