Events on Saturday, August 22
Hotel Horrors and Main Street Vice
Saturday 8/22 @ Cafe Metropol
LA's resident offbeat tour company, Esotouric, takes bold bus riders into the bowels of seamy, seedy post-Prohibition era Los Angeles, zeroing...
Diana Krall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Saturday 8/22 @ Hollywood Bowl
Inspired by the bossa nova records of the 1960s, Diana Krall's lush new album, Quiet Nights takes viewers on a hazy,...
Saturday 8/22 @ Echo Curio
East Side experimental pop act Eagle and Talon head to the microscopic Echo Curio for a belated celebration of their debut...
Saturday 8/22 @ Egyptian Theatre
Indiana Jones Marathon
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, 1981, Paramount, 115 min. Archaeologist Harrison Ford battles occult-obsessed Nazis...
Bad Meaning Bad with Nick Thune
Saturday 8/22 @ Cinespace
Writer/Director Jason Reitman and Mateo Messina cleverly spin an eclectic mash of pop music that creates the ultimate soundtrack for your...
Of All The Things (Series: Don't Knock the Rock 2009)
Saturday 8/22 @ The Cinefamily
TRAILER
The most unique comeback story of the year. Dennis Lambert...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Mint
Kevin Sandbloom is a man who has one thing on his mind. Playing music. He has been doing it ever since...
Susan Shapiro's Speed Shrinking
Saturday 8/22 @ Book Soup
Susan Shapiro presents and signs Speed Shrinking: A...
Saturday 8/22 @ Treepeople, Coldwater Canyon Park
TreePeople welcomes The Animal Guys back to the S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre in Coldwater Canyon Park! As seen on Animal...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/22 @ Various Hollywood locations
Co-produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Tom Salamon, Accomplice: Hollywood sends teams of intrepid folks along Hollywood Boulevard and its environs...
Saturday 8/22 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Joseph Cornell's surrealist shadowboxes reconfigured found objects into multidimensional creations, classified as neither sculpture nor collage, but as assemblages. The Craft...
Saturday 8/22 @ Sunset Junction
The Sunset Junction Street Fair turns 29 this year and the headlining acts are an apropos mix of the nostalgic and...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Loft at Liz's
A diverse group of emerging LA artists join forces to give your garbage a new lease on life. Work in the...
Diana Krall & the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Saturday 8/22 @ Hollywood Bowl
Inspired by the bossa nova records of the 1960s, Diana Krall's lush new album, Quiet Nights takes viewers on a hazy,...
Saturday 8/22 @ Happy
There's no excuse to feel glum when you're at Happy, a home and lifestyle nook in Los Feliz that features well-designed...
Saturday 8/22 @ Thinkspace Gallery
In honor of ModArt's 20th issue, Thinkspace hosts a group show curated by the folks at the revered European art magazine,...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
The brainchild of RESfest founder Jonathan Wells and designer, gallerist, and writer Meg Wells, Flux has been providing culture-lovers with a...
Saturday 8/22 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
The Billy Shire Fine Arts gallery brings together the work of three different minds to its Culver City space. While the...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Saturday 8/22 @ Take My Picture Gary Leonard
Ever since taking a photograph of the Dodgers as a little boy in 1959, Gary Leonard has documented the mercurial landscape...
Saturday 8/22 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Saturday 8/22 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
The second most consumed drink next to water, tea has also been frequent theme in art history. Guest curated by tea...
Saturday 8/22 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 8/22 @ Theatre of NOTE
Theatre of Note's current "Season of the Passion Plays" continues with this original noir production of Kill Me, Deadly! Loaded with...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Saturday 8/22 @ Western Project
Daring frontwoman of arguably the coolest punk band ever, X, Exene Cervenka has considerable talents off the stage as well, starting...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ Sea and Space Explorations
Multipurpose culture zone Sea and Space Explorations doesn't feel the need to respect the boundaries between the senses, with the result...
Saturday 8/22 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
LA-based art and action collective Fallen Fruit uses the visual arts (specifically photography, installation, and performance-oriented actions) to examine the imbalance...
Saturday 8/22 @ Subliminal Projects
Weekend warriors find their more enlightened alter ego in Weekend Pacifists, a group show featuring the work of five artists —...
Saturday 8/22 @ LA Louver Gallery
Following three previous incarnations, the Rogue Wave group show returns to Venice's LA Louver with ten Angelenos redefining regionalism. Co-curated by...
Saturday 8/22 @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
Imagine the florid, hyper-decorative seduction of Kehinde Wiley's large-scale portraits of young black men, only rendered with an urban, folk-outsider edge,...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Saturday 8/22 @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
Whether your biggest problem with taxidermy hunting trophies is their lack of space-age resins or the rarity of significant anatomical mutations,...
Saturday 8/22 @ Pershing Square
Illuminating the wealth of creative resources within the LA art scene, Tarryn Teresa Gallery's Lights on LA strings up light bulbs...
Saturday 8/22 @ Norton Simon Museum
In the 1960s, soon-to-be Pop icon Wayne Thiebaud created a series of monochromatic, two-dimensional prints of nine pieces of pie, sufficiently...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Getty Center
Thirty staged photographs are on view at the Getty Center as part of its In Focus series, a thematic presentation of...
Saturday 8/22 @ Smooth n Purdy Gallery
Los Angeles artist Michael Hayden arrives at the Smooth n Purdy Gallery in The Complex for a solo exhibition of recent...
Gary Lang and Jay Mark Johnson
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Fake Gallery
Octomom: The Musical places pop-cultural satire in good hands. However obvious the conceit may be, director Chris Voltaire uses it well...
Saturday 8/22 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Saturday 8/22 @ New Image Art
New Image Art Gallery presents a pair of very different takes on the feminine mystique as painters Suzannah Sinclair and Kime...
Saturday 8/22 @ S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre
Working to restore greenery to the southland for over 30 years, TreePeople helps communities foster tree growth, provides environmental education, and...
Saturday 8/22 @ Corey Helford Gallery
LA native and CalArts alum Carlos Ramos merges his background in character animation with the art of classic poster design in...
Saturday 8/22 @ Patrick Painter Gallery
Rob and Christian Clayton's first hometown exhibition in over half a decade, Jumbo Fruit represents the culmination of six months' worth...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary
Saturday 8/22 @ Duncan Miller Gallery
Lens legends Jim Marshall, Baron Wolman, Henry Diltz, and Lisa Law contribute their world-class snaps of the original Woodstock festival on...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
In the '50s, blacklisted actor Will Geer opened a theater on his Topanga property for fellow performers ostracized during the McCarthy...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Saturday 8/22 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
This exhibition focuses on the life of Edith Heath and her defining influence on California design through pottery. Popular at dinner...
Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Saturday 8/22 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a selection of artworks donated to the Museum since 2002. Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the...
Saturday 8/22 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Benny Chan has worked diligently over the past few years to photograph overhead views of Los Angeles freeways during the height...
Saturday 8/22 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Art Deco tour is an in-depth look at the history, materials, and style of Art Deco architecture popular in Los...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Saturday 8/22 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Saturday 8/22 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Featuring work of five UC Davis faculty members Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley,...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 8/22 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Saturday 8/22 @ The Getty Museum
This exhibition represents an overview of three centuries of French bronze sculpture, when monarchs and private collectors came to embrace bronze...
Annie Lapin: Parallel Deliria Iteration
Saturday 8/22 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The PMCA is proud to present Los Angeles painter Annie Lapin's Parallel Deliria Iteration, which the artist describes as "a never-ending...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 8/22 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
Saturday 8/22 @ The Echo & Echoplex
L.A.'S LONGEST RUNNING DUSTY BEAT DRIVEN WORLD FUNK PARTY RELOCATES TO THE ECHO EVERY SATURDAY STARTING & IS STILL FREE FOR...
