All events on Saturday June 14

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Music: Jazz/Blues
Playboy Jazz Festival
Saturday June 14 (2:30pm) @ Hollywood Bowl More times »
Jazz great Louis Armstrong once said, "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know." Those looking for enlightenment, big-band style, should hit... View details »
Playboy Jazz Festival
Performing Arts: Dance
From B-Boys to Ballerinas
Saturday June 14 (7pm) @ Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum More times »
Free
Dance Camera West hits its stride with the second week of its monthlong festival that breaks from the proscenium and enters the silver screen. From... View details »
From B-Boys to Ballerinas
Music: Rock/Pop
Mad Caddies
Saturday June 14 (9pm) @ The Troubadour
Tonight, Santa Barbara's Mad Caddies usher in the summer season with easygoing reggae vibes. Recalling Sublime with a darker edge, this five-piece knows how to... View details »
Mad Caddies
More Flavor: Festival
Pasadena Chalk Festival
Saturday June 14 (10am–7pm) @ Paseo Colorado More times »
Free
Grab your dad and spend this Father's Day at the 16th annual Pasadena Chalk Festival. Paseo Colorado is the site of the world's largest street-painting... View details »
Pasadena Chalk Festival
Art
HK Zamani
Saturday June 14 (6–8pm) @ SolwayJones More times »
Opening
Free
HK Zamani is best known to LA art lovers as Habib Kheradyar, the peripatetic multimedia artist, one-time owner of Post Gallery, and relentlessly curious individual... View details »
HK Zamani
Performing Arts: Theatre
Toy Theater Festival
Saturday June 14 (8:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Giveaway
When you think of puppetry, you might think of kids, but this tabletop art increasingly serves a more sophisticated audience (or, uh, not — Team... View details »
Toy Theater Festival
Art: Photography
This Side of Paradise
Saturday June 14 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens More times »
If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses spin many a word.... View details »
This Side of Paradise
Music: Rock/Pop
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Saturday June 14 (8pm) @ Greek Theatre
As Neil Young famously sang, "it's better to burn out than it is to rust." It seems that the lesson has thankfully been lost on... View details »
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Music: Hip-Hop
[CANCELLED] RJD2 w/ GZA
Saturday June 14 (8:30pm) @ Orpheum Theatre
Canceled!
With a hometown like Eugene, Oregon, and a name like Ramble John, an upcoming DJ is sure to stand out. So, perhaps it was inevitable... View details »
[CANCELLED] RJD2 w/ GZA
Art
Mariah Anne Johnson
Saturday June 14 (7–10pm) @ Little Bird Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Blame it on her traditional Southern upbringing, but Mariah Anne Johnson (born and raised in Arkansas) has an affinity for her own family history. The... View details »
Mariah Anne Johnson

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Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Saturday June 14 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art
Make Art/Stop AIDS
Saturday June 14 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
Before red ribbons became de rigeur accessories at televised awards ceremonies, artists from around the globe inspired and provoked the radical awareness that the AIDS... View details »
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Saturday June 14 (5:30pm–1:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art
The Color of Life
Saturday June 14 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Villa More times »
Free
Looking at tony museum collections of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, one might think that the whole of antiquity existed only in tones of white... View details »
The Color of Life
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Saturday June 14 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art
Dave McKenzie
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Free
Jamaican-born artist Dave McKenzie's first solo show in Los Angeles is a multimedia affair that asks multifaceted questions about where a single cell fits within... View details »
Dave McKenzie
Art: Photography
Newer Topographics
Saturday June 14 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside More times »
This exhibition juxtaposes the work of idealist photographers Jeremy Kidd and Eric Curry, both of whom use digital manipulation in arresting multimedia and photographic works.... View details »
Newer Topographics
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Saturday June 14 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
Mexican Calendar Girls
Performing Arts: Theatre
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Saturday June 14 (8pm) @ Rogue Machine More times »
Jeffrey Hatcher's critically acclaimed comedy takes it first LA bow at Theatre Theatre's brand-new Rogue Machine stage. Inspired by a real Shakespearean-era actor named Edward... View details »
Compleat Female Stage Beauty
Art
Anna Dusi
Saturday June 14 (10am–6pm) @ The Loft at Liz's More times »
Free
Long known for fantastic salvage store Liz's Antique Hardware (a favorite with high-end interior designers and industry art directors), Liz Gordon has also created a... View details »
Anna Dusi
Art
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Saturday June 14 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo, both making their solo debuts in Los Angeles, meditate on the meaning of objects in human life. Lopez's The Year... View details »
Michelle Lopez and Vishal Jugdeo
Art
DREAM(land)
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ JAIL Gallery More times »
Free
The globally diverse artists in JAIL's latest endeavor have one thing in common: their work ignores the ugly cable-news cycle of reality in favor of... View details »
DREAM(land)
Art
Blood & Glitter
Saturday June 14 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
Co-curated by Patrick Painter Gallery's Heather Harmon and Bandini's own Ashley McLean Emenegger, Blood & Glitter is a group exhibition about the seductive dangers of... View details »
Blood & Glitter
Art
Culmination
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ Morono Kiang Gallery More times »
Free
As Internet galleries and portfolio sites make it increasingly easy to navigate the deep waters of the international emerging art scene, the prevalence of Chinese... View details »
Art
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Saturday June 14 (11am–6pm) @ See Line Gallery More times »
Free
In the midst of war, there seems to be no shortage of news on the subject. But though we may often feel aware of present... View details »
Liat Yossifor and Aaron Sandnes
Performing Arts: Opera
Tosca
Saturday June 14 (7:30pm) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Still feeling the love from last month's star-studded tribute to his 40 years in Los Angeles, Plácido Domingo returns to the stage to conduct Giacomo... View details »
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Legendary Times of Bulgakov
Saturday June 14 (8pm) @ Art|Works Theatre More times »
American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory produces interdisciplinary events that illuminate Russia's darkly poetic, politically charged history. Now, ARTEL focuses on the legacy of Mikhail Bulgakov... View details »
The Legendary Times of Bulgakov
Art
Jerome Witkin
Saturday June 14 (10am–5pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts More times »
Free
Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an unerring eye for detail,... View details »
Jerome Witkin
Art
The Puppet Show
Saturday June 14 (11am–8pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art More times »
SMMoA gathers an eclectic array of work by 30 impressive artists — from Kara Walker to Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, and Kiki Smith — in... View details »
The Puppet Show
Art
Don Ed Hardy and Michael McCabe
Saturday June 14 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery More times »
Free
If you live in California, you've most likely heard of Don Ed Hardy — or at least of his ubiquitous fashion label, Ed Hardy, known... View details »
Art
Vexing
Saturday June 14 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark in East LA. Although... View details »
Vexing
Art
Juan Uslé
Saturday June 14 (11am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
The life and experiences of Spanish painter Juan Uslé meet his vision of abstraction in this new series of paintings. Including over a dozen canvases... View details »
Art
Under the Radar
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ Grind Gallery More times »
Free
Including comic-book writers, fashion photographers, and magazine illustrators, the eclectic collection of emerging artists at the Grind Gallery may be under the radar, but most... View details »
Art
Tiffany Bozic
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Tiffany Bozic's paintings and drawings are interpretations of the natural world — as seen through a warped microscope, in brilliant color, with Mozart's Rex Tremendae... View details »
Art
Cadence Pearson
Saturday June 14 (9am–noon) @ Kara Wily Pilates More times »
Free
When dancer and art enthusiast Kara Wily wanted to open her own Pilates studio (having learned the ropes from the movement's founder himself) she always... View details »
Cadence Pearson
Art
COLA Artist Fellowships
Saturday June 14 (noon–5pm) @ Barnsdall Art Park More times »
Free
The Cultural Affairs Department recently issued a statement to declare its unprecedented satisfaction with the state's arts budget — proof that our programs are hale... View details »
Art: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Saturday June 14 (11am–8pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who diCorcia usually finds through... View details »
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Art
Tillman Kaiser
Saturday June 14 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
Painter Tillman Kaiser invokes the legacy of dadaist Marcel Duchamp, who famously flipped a ceramic urinal on its side, signed it R. Mutt, and called... View details »
Tillman Kaiser
Art
Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
Saturday June 14 (11am–5:30pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
In New Jersey-based artist Jon Rappleye's world, eyeless horned owls flit around a cluster of vultures, deer, and snakes while, in the distance, dozens of... View details »
Jon Rappleye and Amy Mahnick
Art
Steve Olson
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery More times »
Free
Back in the late 1970s, Steve Olson became a celebrity in the world of professional skateboarding for his vertical-shredding ability. He's since made his name... View details »
Steve Olson
Art
Piot Brehmer
Saturday June 14 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
Piot Brehmer's hyperrealist-inspired paintings at Samuel Freeman may owe a nod to painters like Philip Pearlstein and Eric Fischl, but there's a certain allure to... View details »
Piot Brehmer
Art
Four
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Jason Shawn Alexander, Sarah Folkman, Melissa Forman, and Karen Hsiao make up the "four" artists of this exhibition, which brings together locals working within the... View details »
Four
Art
Kori Newkirk
Saturday June 14 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle: a mural of a... View details »
Kori Newkirk
Art
Oksana Badrak
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery More times »
Free
Russian-born artist Oksana Badrak creates worlds where disparate mediums and settings collide, merging traditional with modern, Eastern with Western, and so on. Drawing on her... View details »
Oksana Badrak
Art
Terence Koh
Saturday June 14 (10am–6pm) @ Peres Projects More times »
Free
Anyone who can sell his own bodily fluids for thousands of dollars on the art market has "made it" as an artist. Of course, there's... View details »
Film
Poultrygeist
Saturday June 14 (1:45, 4:30, 7:15 & 9:45pm) @ Laemmle's Sunset 5 More times »
Serving up buckets of undead breasts and extra-slimy special sauce, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead keeps Troma Entertainment's traditions of sex and dismemberment alive.... View details »
Poultrygeist
Art: Photography
LA Nude X
Saturday June 14 (10am–3pm) @ A&I Hollywood More times »
Free
LA's most industry-beloved photo lab, Photo Impact, officially closed when its owner went in with A&I, but the group show LA Nude X at A&I's... View details »
LA Nude X
Performing Arts: Theatre
One-Act Play Festival
Saturday June 14 (8pm) @ Studio/Stage More times »
Those suffering from art attention-deficit disorder should appreciate Moving Arts' 14th Annual One-Act Play Festival, a yearly roundup of short 'n sweet theatrical pieces. This... View details »
One-Act Play Festival
Art
Sculpture Part One
Saturday June 14 (11am–5pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Sculpture is LA's latest claim to art-world fame, and the medium's reemergence is due partly to the city's new generation of sculptors. Western Projects' two-part... View details »
Sculpture Part One
Art
Ginger
Saturday June 14 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
New Image Art's latest group exhibition packs a powerhouse list of participants. Vets of the gallery — including indie-rock man-of-the-moment Devendra Banhart, Sean Cassidy, Nico... View details »
Ginger
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Chorus Line
Saturday June 14 (8pm) @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Director and co-choreographer Michael Bennett spins this well-loved tale of Broadway gypsies and would-be stars who lay their souls on the line in pursuit of... View details »
A Chorus Line
Performing Arts: Theatre
Point Break LIVE!
Saturday June 14 (8pm) @ Dragonfly More times »
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill the not-so-massive shoes of... View details »
Point Break LIVE!
Art
Jasmine Murrell
Saturday June 14 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
Afrobeat pioneer and revolutionary activist Fela Kuti has influenced generations of progressives, from his native Nigeria to South Central LA, with his potently political celebration... View details »
Jasmine Murrell
Art
Mark Bradford
Saturday June 14 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
Mark Bradford
Performing Arts: Comedy
Carny Trash
Saturday June 14 (8pm) @ The Steve Allen Theater More times »
In Steve Allen Theater's latest production, Carny Trash, your fondest memories of days at the carnival with ma and pa are all fair game —... View details »
Carny Trash
Film
Recent Spanish Cinema XIV
Saturday June 14 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Although Pedro Almodovar's work tends to hog the spotlight, more and more Spanish films continue to reach crossover status. This year's ongoing Recent Spanish Cinema... View details »
Recent Spanish Cinema XIV
More Flavor: Festival
Mixed Roots
Saturday June 14 @ Japanese American National Museum More times »
Free
It's got many meanings, but as far as the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival is concerned, everyone is free to define their own version... View details »
Mixed Roots
Art
Rebel Legacy
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ Pharmaka More times »
Free
Hot on the heels of LACMA's controversial Phantom Sightings exhibition, Pharmaka Gallery tackles the issue of contemporary Chicano art with Rebel Legacy: The Abstract in... View details »
Rebel Legacy
Art
Against the Grain
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the Grain, perhaps this summer's... View details »
Against the Grain
Art
Amy Sol
Saturday June 14 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
Karmic Magic, Las Vegas artist Amy Sol's solo show with the Silverlake gem Thinkspace, features doe-eyed females, furry creatures, and sweetly whimsical, abstract narratives. Her... View details »
Amy Sol
Film
Israel Film Festival
Saturday June 14 @ Various locations More times »
The Israel Film Festival, an annual two-week movie marathon, celebrates Israel and — l'chaim! — independent film. Festival highlights include Lynn Roth's The Little Traitor,... View details »
Israel Film Festival
Art
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Saturday June 14 (8–11pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Like the Catholic-raised Mexican artist himself, Tino Rodriguez's gender-defying, allegorical paintings are torn between sensuality and conservative tradition. Inspired by the limitations of his religious... View details »
Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso
Music: Rock/Pop
X
Saturday June 14 (7pm) @ House of Blues Anaheim More times »
Not everyone agrees that punk is dead. Since catching the eye of ex-Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek back in the late-'70s, notoriously underrated punk band X... View details »
X
Art: Photography
Ten Years in Focus
Saturday June 14 (10am–9pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Getty Center presents Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera. The exhibition draws parallels between photography... View details »
Ten Years in Focus
Art
Irene Kai
Saturday June 14 (noon–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Somewhere between Edward Weston's nudes and Hermann Rorschach's ink blots lies the work of Irene Kai. The author/teacher/photographer plays with the power of suggestion in... View details »
Irene Kai
Art
Misato Suzuki
Saturday June 14 (noon–6pm) @ Sam Lee Gallery More times »
Free
Misato Suzuki is acutely aware of nature's palette and geometry. With soothing shades of yellow, orange, brown, and blue, she paints amorphous forms that are... View details »
Misato Suzuki
Performing Arts: Theatre
Talk Radio
Saturday June 14 (8pm) @ The MET Theatre More times »
Eric Bogosian made the leap from sputtering performance artist to Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright with his fiery, rant-filled Talk Radio. Known for a dark, abrasive comedic... View details »
Talk Radio
More Flavor: City Gem
Pavilion of Wings
Saturday June 14 (10am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience in Mexico can walk... View details »
Pavilion of Wings
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Saturday June 14 (10am–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Free
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence. Drawing on documentary and... View details »
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs