Events on Thursday, October 15

The Devil Makes Three, Old Man Markley & He's My Brother, She's My Sister @ Echoplex

Music

The Devil Makes Three, Old Man Markley & He's My Brother, She's My Sister @ Echoplex

Thursday 10/15 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Like the Violent Femmes before them, Santa Cruz's the Devil Makes Three infuse their country-bluegrass swing with a raucous punk spirit.... 

Dan Deacon and Nuclear Power Pants @ Echo

Music

Dan Deacon and Nuclear Power Pants @ Echo

Thursday 10/15 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Madcap songsmith Dan Deacon usually performs solo, convincing sweaty audience members to engage in dance-offs, group chants, and mass fits of... 

Elizabeth Mason Celebrates <em>Valentino: The Last Emperor</em>

Fashion/Style

Valentino: The Last Emperor

Thursday 10/15 @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Fashion and charity walk hand in hand at tonight's gala benefiting the host of this year's Downtown LA Fashion Week, MoCA.... 

Leslie & the Badgers

Music

Leslie & the Badgers

Thursday 10/15 @ The Hotel Café

Local whiskey-whistling alt-country troupe Leslie & the Badgers conjure early Natalie Merchant, were she to join forces with Jenny Lewis, playing... 

Iris Nights: Gillian Laub, Everything is Personal. Tales of Intimate Engagements.

Art: Photography

Iris Nights: Gillian Laub, Everything is Personal. Tales of Intimate Engagements.

Thursday 10/15 @ Annenberg Space for Photography

Gillian Laub approaches photography like an anthropologist with a camera.  She began photographing her family ten years ago as a student... 

Portable Payback featuring Soup & Marc7 from Jurassic 5 TONIGHT!!

Music: Hip-Hop

Portable Payback featuring Soup & Marc7 from Jurassic 5 TONIGHT!!

Thursday 10/15 @ The Mint

8pm DJ SMILES DAVIS 10:30pm Portable Payback Slick talk, fly walk, let the legend begin. So starts the story of
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Up Close and Personal: Iranian Filmmakers in Their Own Words

Film

Up Close and Personal: Iranian Filmmakers in Their Own Words

Thursday 10/15 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy and the UCLA Film & Television Archive will present... 

Christian Siriano is FIERCE! and so are you.

Books: Reading

Christian Siriano is FIERCE! and so are you.

Thursday 10/15 @ Book Soup

 spanHigh School Hell Triple Feature: Slumber Party Massacre (1982)/Graduation Day (1981)/The Reedemer: Son Of Satan (1979)

Film: Double Feature

High School Hell Triple Feature: Slumber Party Massacre (1982)/Graduation Day (1981)/The Reedemer: Son Of Satan (1979)

Thursday 10/15 @ The Cinefamily

WATCH TRAILER FOR "SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE"!

Slumber Party Massacre
It may come as some surprise that the... 

Books: Reading

Alicia Silverstone is All About the Kind Diet

Thursday 10/15 @ Book Soup

Alicia Silverstone presents and signs The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Losing Weight, Looking Great,... 

Night of the Creeps Directors Cut & Director In Person

Film

Night of the Creeps Directors Cut & Director In Person

Thursday 10/15 @ Egyptian Theatre

NIGHT OF THE CREEPS Fred Dekker In-Person! Director’s Cut!, 1986, Sony Repertory, 88 min. When a couple... 

Ongoing Events

Black Dahlia Theatre and Chalk Repertory Theatre presents <em>Stray</em>

Theatre

Stray

Thursday 10/15 @ Black Dahlia Theatre

The Black Dahlia Theatre and Chalk Repertory come together to present Stray, an award-winning contemporary dramatic play about international child adoption... 

Mac and Retna: <em>Vagos y Reinas</em>

Art

Mac and Retna

Thursday 10/15 @ Robert Berman Gallery

Mac and Retna are a pair of artists who regularly collaborate on monumental outdoor murals and other graffiti-based public art installations.... 

Christopher Janney: <em>Sonic Forest</em>

Art

Sonic Forest

Thursday 10/15 @ USC University Park Campus

Think about a hybrid of that awesome piano toy from Big and the kind of motion-responsive light sculptures you might find... 

<em>Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art</em>

Special Event

Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art

Thursday 10/15 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual... 

Chris Verene: <em>Family</em> and Jona Frank: <em>Boys</em>

Art: Photography

Jona Frank and Chris Verene

Thursday 10/15 @ DNJ Gallery

Two very different photographers take on aspects of growing up in America. Jona Frank extends her intimate yet clinical style of... 

<em>Steeped in History: The Art of Tea</em>

Art

Steeped in History: The Art of Tea

Thursday 10/15 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea... 

May Jong: <em>registered</em> and Echo Park Film Center: <em>This is the LA River</em>

Art

May Jong

Thursday 10/15 @ Happy

Los Feliz Art and Design District's own home and lifestyle shop, Happy also spotlights local and international artists in a series... 

(H)it Week LA

Festival: Music

(H)it Week LA

Thursday 10/15 @ Various locations

LA is about to learn how to celebrate life Italian style as H(it) Week LA, a six-day mini-festival of the most... 

The Other Venice Film Festival

Festival: Film

The Other Venice Film Festival

Thursday 10/15 @ Various Venice locations

The sixth annual Other Venice Film Festival might be less international than Italy's version, but it's no less prestigious. Past Maverick... 

<em>Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting</em>

Art

Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting

Thursday 10/15 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

Perhaps no pop artist is as famous for his window shopping as Wayne Thiebaud. Known largely for his pale palette oil... 

<em>In Focus: Making a Scene</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: Making a Scene

Thursday 10/15 @ The Getty Center

Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of... 

<em>Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art</em>

Art

Intelligent Design

Thursday 10/15 @ Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside

Twenty international artists who explore human interaction with domesticated, imaginary, laboratory, or wild animals contribute work in media from video installation... 

David LaChapelle: <em>The Rape of Africa</em>

Art: Photography

David LaChapelle

Thursday 10/15 @ David DeSanctis Gallery

David LaChapelle is one of the most well-known and controversial photographers working today, who recently retired from a career in fashion... 

<em>The Search for the Visceral Realists</em>

Art

The Search for the Visceral Realists

Thursday 10/15 @ Federal Art Project

Independent artist/curator York Chang has spent years researching the elusive history of an obscure, but by all accounts virulent, aesthetic movement... 

<em>Parade</em>

Theatre

Parade

Thursday 10/15 @ Mark Taper Forum

The Donmar Warehouse production of Parade currently playing at Mark Taper isn't conventional music theater. Like Tony Kushner's Caroline or Change,... 

Chris Jordan: <em>Running the Numbers...Continued</em> and Laura Ball: <em>Boundary of the Interior</em>

Art: Photography

Chris Jordan

Thursday 10/15 @ Kopeikin Gallery

Despite their beauty, Chris Jordan's photographic prints are visual ecological statements we'd rather not see. Like much of his early work,... 

Salon No. 2: Works 030-065

Art

Salon No. 2

Thursday 10/15 @ Marine

One silver lining to art-world downsizing is the resurgence of the private salon, made famous by the 19th and 20th century... 

Tony Philippou: <em>Mary in Bronxzooland</em>, Esao Andrews: <em>Farewell Avery</em>, Joshua Mays: <em>Tempo Momento</em>

Art

Tony Philippou, Joshua Mays & Esao Andrews

Thursday 10/15 @ Thinkspace Gallery

In life, as in art, the more the merrier, so the thinkers at Thinkspace regularly present multiple one-person shows.  Tonight's trio... 

<em>TOOLS</em>

Art

TOOLS

Thursday 10/15 @ Art Center College of Design

Although some of the objects in TOOLS may seem familiar, they are most definitely far from from ordinary. Jointly organized by... 

Gary Lang: <em>Circles Lines Grids</em> and Jay Mark Johnson: <em>Spacetime</em>

Art

Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson

Thursday 10/15 @ ACE Gallery

It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions... 

<em>The Pop of Colors</em>

Art

The Pop of Colors

Thursday 10/15 @ POVEVOLVING

"Pop colors" are the theme in curator Yasmine Mohseni's The Pop of Colors at Chinatown's POVevolving. Bright, slightly disconcerting color scripts... 

<em>Sweets & Treats</em>: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Special Event

Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum

Thursday 10/15 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently... 

Claire Oswalt: <em>Peril In Perfection</em>

Art

Claire Oswalt

Thursday 10/15 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery

While it's easy to become unhinged in our current economic climate, artist Claire Oswalt takes it to the next level, fashioning... 

Back to Basics: <em>MatterApp</em>

Art

MatterApp

Thursday 10/15 @ Materials & Applications

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WTF?! Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

WTF?! Festival

Thursday 10/15 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre

Given that Tim Robbins founded the Actors Gang in response to a lack of opportunities for independent writers and actors to... 

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Art

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Thursday 10/15 @ REDCAT

REDCAT presents Autoconstrucción: The Film by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas, in which the artist revisits Ajusco, his childhood neighborhood in Mexico... 

Doug Aitken: <em>migration</em>

Art

Doug Aitken

Thursday 10/15 @ Regen Projects

Doug Aitken's exhibition at Regen Projects never sleeps. During the day, the darkened indoor gallery displays light boxes comprised of images... 

Alexis Weidig Zoto: <em>Life is Relentless</em>

Art

Alexis Zoto

Thursday 10/15 @ Overtones Gallery

Through the deft and witty reconfiguration of sentimental objects such as ornate furniture, decorative garlands, household saints, wood, feathers, and hand-knit... 

L'effleur des Sens

Performing Arts

L'effleur des Sens

Thursday 10/15 @ King King

Classic French variety cabaret gets a 21st-century makeover at King King with L'effleur des Sens, helmed by Parisian creator and director... 

Michael Dee: <em>Melted Hearts and Deadly Force</em>

Art

Michael Dee

Thursday 10/15 @ Western Project

Channeling his inner Duchamp, sculptor Michael Dee combs the florescent-lit aisles of his local 99-cent store in search of plastic cups,... 

Art

Frank Kozik

Thursday 10/15 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

Ugo Wine Bar

City Gems

Ugo Wine Bar

Thursday 10/15 @ Vinum Populi

Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie... 

<em>Art of the Movie Poster</em>

Art

Art of the Movie Poster

Thursday 10/15 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Whether the product of sheer creative license or shrewd marketing heads, the movie poster has inspired as much debate as the... 

Kenny Scharf: <em>Barberadise</em>

Art

Kenny Scharf

Thursday 10/15 @ Honor Fraser

Kenny Scharf's latest one-man show, Barberadise, merges the past and future for a wistfully evocative, pop-culture infused present. The Hollywood native's... 

Nova Jiang, Len Lye, Robert Rauschenberg, Jacob Tonski, Fischli & Weiss: <em>Cause & Effect</em>

Art

Cause & Effect

Thursday 10/15 @ LM Projects

The art in this show rocks and rolls — and gets set on fire, sets off chain reactions, and invites users... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Thursday 10/15 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution

Art: Photography

Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution

Thursday 10/15 @ Annenberg Space for Photography

All year photographers have been clicking camera shutters with their lenses pointed toward the action. The 66th annual Pictures of the... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Thursday 10/15 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live

The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life... 

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Art

The Chimaera of Arezzo

Thursday 10/15 @ The Getty Museum

The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,... 

Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart

Art

Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart

Thursday 10/15 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and... 

Cloud Eye Control: Under Polaris

Theatre

Cloud Eye Control: Under Polaris

Thursday 10/15 @ REDCAT

  On a quest to preserve, inside pristine shards of ice at the top of the world, a seed containing the... 

Reload Thursdays

Music

Reload Thursdays

Thursday 10/15 @ Cinespace

The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before... 

Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City

Special Event

Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City

Thursday 10/15 @ The Getty Museum

The city of Algiers, on the north coast of Africa, historically sheltered a diverse population. During the Ottoman centuries (1529-1830), this... 

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Art

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Thursday 10/15 @ The Getty Museum

Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty... 

Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36

Art

Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920-36

Thursday 10/15 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

This new exhibition explores the career of legendary film producer Irving Thalberg, Hollywood’s original “Boy Wonder,” and... 

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Art

Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes

Thursday 10/15 @ The Getty Museum

This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights... 

Art: Photography

Irving Penn: Small Trades

Thursday 10/15 @ The Getty Museum

Irving Penn was one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century. In a career that began at the premiere... 

Population: Portraits by Ray Turner

Art

Population: Portraits by Ray Turner

Thursday 10/15 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging... 

<em>Inspired by the Ocean</em>

Art

Inspired by the Ocean

Thursday 10/15 @ Art Center College of Design

Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Thursday 10/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...