Events on Saturday, August 29
Saturday 8/29 @ The Hotel Café
Though overshadowed by her day job as hit songwriter-for-hire, Maia Sharp has carved out a critically-acclaimed music career — and a...
Akron/Family w/ Howlin' Rain, Lucky Dragons
Saturday 8/29 @ El Rey
Experimental freak-folkers Akron/Family have certainly evolved: what began as a wild college-rock act (see the 2006 collab with fellow experimenters Angels...
Saturday 8/29 @ Surfas
Join Disneyland's executive pastry chef Jean-Marc Viallet for a chocolaty treat that promises to be more complex than unwrapping a Hershey's....
Saturday 8/29 @ Corner of Mission Inn & Lemon
Long before Animal Planet hooked audiences on the reality series Whale Wars, Captain Paul Watson had been battling illegal whale hunters...
Saturday 8/29 @ Hollywood Bowl
Relegate Liza, if you must, to the "gays and the grays" set, but those who haven't seen the icon in the...
Saturday 8/29 @ The Broad Stage at Santa Monica College
UK alt-rocker Billy Bragg has been cranking out a heady blend of punk, folk, and protest music for over 30 years,...
His Orchestra w/ Soul Puppet and Kenneth Pattengale
Saturday 8/29 @ Bootleg Theater
HIS ORCHESTRA “His Orchestra sounds like the chamber group you’d take to the arcade. Growing out of the coffeehouse duo of...
Progressive Nation 2009: Dream Theater and Zappa Plays Zappa
Saturday 8/29 @ Greek Theatre
New York progressive metal pioneers Dream Theater are set to embark on their North American leg of the 2009 "Progressive Nation"...
Jazz Bakery Presents: From Blues to Bossa
Saturday 8/29 @ The GRAMMY Museum
Join us for this tribute to assist in the relocation of beloved LA jazz club, the Jazz Bakery! Held in...
Summer Camp Summer Camp (Series: HFS: Summer "Camp")
Saturday 8/29 @ The Cinefamily
It's time for the Summer "Camp" grand finale, and we're blowin' it out with SUMMER CAMP SUMMER CAMP!, an all-night summer...
Mark Rudd Goes Back Underground
Saturday 8/29 @ Book Soup
Mark Rudd presents and signs Underground: My Life with SDS and The...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Subliminal Projects
Weekend warriors find their more enlightened alter ego in Weekend Pacifists, a group show featuring the work of five artists —...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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...
Pictures of the Year International: The World. In High Resolution
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre
In today's volatile political climate, questions abound as to what, if any, limits on free speech and civic protest exist —...
Saturday 8/29 @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery
In her latest series of photographic and video projections, Nicole Cohen expands upon previous subject matter and technological complexity, constructing layered,...
Kime Buzelli and Suzannah Sinclair
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Various East Side Venues
Celebrating the spirit of the bicycle through film, art, and music, the Bicycle Film Festival rolls into LA for the sixth...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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...
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ The Gas Company Lofts
Mear One's legendary psychedelic, often graffiti-inspired surrealism and Michael Pukac's baroque, almost classically narrative paintings — and their shared interest in...
Saturday 8/29 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary
Saturday 8/29 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 8/29 @ 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...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Malibu Country Mart
Seven Los Angeles-based contemporary art galleries spread their wings and cruise with the Malibu seagulls for the inaugural edition of a...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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...
Saturday 8/29 @ Japanese American National Museum
Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda has a lot on his mind — literally. His parallel career as a visual artist often finds...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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...
Sweets & Treats: Wayne Thiebaud in the Collection of the Norton Simon Museum
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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...
Saturday 8/29 @ The Landmark
Adapted from Stefan Aust's 1985 publication, The Baader Meinhof Complex chronicles the reckless idealism and hectic resolve of Germany's Red Army...
The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Honor Fraser
Curated by arts critic and writer Emma Gray, Honor Fraser's annual group show features works by 14 female artists based in...
Saturday 8/29 @ Hollywood Bowl
Relegate Liza, if you must, to the "gays and the grays" set, but those who haven't seen the icon in the...
Saturday 8/29 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Saturday 8/29 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Exene Cervenka and Wayne White
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Downtown Independent Theater
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You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
Saturday 8/29 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Exceptionally Gifted: Recent Donations to the Norton Simon Museum
Saturday 8/29 @ 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...
Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The tour explores the social, cinematic, and architectural history of the largest National Register Historic Theatre Districts in the country. The...
Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ The Getty Museum
The Chimaera of Arezzo traces the myth of Bellerophon and the Chimaera - the legendary fire-breathing monster comprised of a lion,...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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 8/29 @ 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...
Saturday 8/29 @ 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...
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes
Saturday 8/29 @ The Getty Museum
This selection of over 40 drawings from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute highlights...
