Events on Friday, February 12
Friday 2/12 @ Avalon Hollywood
The Crystal Method were among the few big-beat acts able to ride the 1990s wave that saw electronic music take center...
Friday 2/12 @ The Wiltern
In their exuberant live show, STS9 blend their instrumental post-rock virtuosity with tripped-out electronic flourishes equally informed by dub, dance music,...
Friday 2/12 @ Bootleg Theater
THE CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO Chicago Underground Duo has been part of a new generation of music improvisers that emerged in Chicago...
Friday 2/12 @ LACMA
Christian Death w/ Mad Life CANCELLED
Friday 2/12 @ El Rey
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Then Christian Death turned it upside down.
Crackle.com presents The Bannen Way w/ Cast & Crew In Person
Friday 2/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
The American Cinematheque Blows Up the Internet: ORIGINAL WEB CONTENT THAT CRACKLES, 122 min. Crackle, Sony Pictures Entertainment's online video network,...
Friday 2/12 @ The Mint
8pm DOORS 10pm Chico Mann 11:30pm Boogaloo Assassins Boogaloo Assassins Formed in Los Angeles from the ashes of the...
Fleshpot On 42nd St. and The Body Beneath
Friday 2/12 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Fleshpot On 42nd St. - 8:00pm
Andy Milligan might not be as renowned or respected as Paul Morrissey,...
Friday 2/12 @ LACMA
Friday 2/12 @ Downtown Independent Theater
THE CINEFIST QUARTERLY SCREENING SERIES With the emergence of new models of production and distribution comes a new breed of interdependent...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/12 @ Fremont Centre Theatre, 1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA 91030
The musical 2116, originally written 55 years ago by legendary author Ray Bradbury, is only now finally seeing its debut, and...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Friday 2/12 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Curator Yasmine Mohseni takes advantage of the female form's captive powers in The Women of Women, a group exhibition featuring the...
Friday 2/12 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
Friday 2/12 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Scion continues its bid to outpace the NEA with its first big traveling show of 2010. They commissioned ten artists to...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Friday 2/12 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Friday 2/12 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Friday 2/12 @ Armory Center for the Arts
From 1966-2001, legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg partnered with the impressive printmakers at LA's Gemini G.E.L. to produce an astonishing 250-plus groundbreaking...
Friday 2/12 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Friday 2/12 @ The Fountain Theatre
In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime...
Friday 2/12 @ Cherry and Martin
Daniel Dove's large-scale oil paintings attempt to reconcile the duality of the world outside of the artist's studio that is in...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Friday 2/12 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ Honor Fraser
Somewhere on the formal continuum between Gordon Matta-Clark's cut-outs and the Ice Hotel in Sweden lie the architectural sculptures and interventions...
Friday 2/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
An Idea Called Tomorrow offers meditations on what should/could/would make for a peaceable and sustainable future — culturally, environmentally, and socially...
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Valentine Bash
Friday 2/12 @ Highways Performance Space
Highways Performance Space's latest venture is a tongue-in-cheek Valentine to "America's first gay president," Abraham Lincoln. The two-night event hosted by...
Friday 2/12 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
The Annenberg Space for Photography brings the entire genius of its well-appointed exhibition areas and NASA-quality digital-media resources to bear on...
Friday 2/12 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Friday 2/12 @ Pantages Theatre
The story of Celie, a young black woman growing up in a minefield of abuse, racism, poverty, and deceit, who perseveres...
Friday 2/12 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
Friday 2/12 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
Street-installation artist Mark Jenkins uses unlikely juxtapositions to shake people loose from their day-to-day expectations. The streets of world cities aren't...
Friday 2/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Friday 2/12 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Friday 2/12 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Friday 2/12 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts
Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"...
Friday 2/12 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Organized by co-curator of 2008's Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose, Projections: A Festival of Rare and Hard-to-See Films is just what it...
Friday 2/12 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
Friday 2/12 @ Bleicher/Golightly
The current group show at Santa Monica's Bleicher/Golightly Gallery is a celebration of misuse. Nine artists manipulate, rehabilitate, disguise, and deprive...
Friday 2/12 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
LA painter Kenny Harris is a modern update on the archetype of the peripatetic plein air school, an artist whose frequent...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Friday 2/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Friday 2/12 @ REDCAT
REDCAT's four-year artist-in-residence project with the Wooster Group is one of those gifts that just keeps on giving. Not content with...
Friday 2/12 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
International Yoga Asana Championships
Friday 2/12 @ Westin Los Angeles Airport 5400 W. Century Blvd., LA, CA 90045
Some will seek their lovers on Valentine's Day and others will seek to find the love in themselves through the ancient...
Friday 2/12 @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Known for putting theatre up in unique locations, Ovation Award-winning Chalk Repertory Theatre is set to bring cross-dressing, mistaken identity, general...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Friday 2/12 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
The dialogue in Playscapes and Architectonic Dreams riffs off paintings inspired by a 1980s video-game aesthetic and intricate diorama sculptures (think...
Friday 2/12 @ Synchronicity Space
Just in time for Valentine's Day, LA-based art and music collective Heard of Elephants participates in a two-week residency at Synchronicity...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Friday 2/12 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
Friday 2/12 @ American Jewish University
Each of the artists in the three-person show, Body and Soul, carries an impressive list of achievements. Featuring work by Kathryn...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Friday 2/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Recently, Art Center College of Design students directed their communications prowess towards human rights, yielding emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Oscar Nominee IN THE LOOP Limited Engagement
Friday 2/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
IN THE LOOP, 2008, IFC Films, 106 min. Dir. Armando Iannucci. ...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Friday 2/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Making its West Coast debut at the Skirball, Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 features more than...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Friday 2/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
Friday 2/12 @ Downtown Independent Theater
WAITING FOR ARMAGEDDON
2009, 35mm, color, 74min
"Evangelicals need to see this movie to understand the...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Friday 2/12 @ The Getty Museum
Telling the differenc between drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils is a centuries-old problem. A popular teacher with more than 50...
Friday 2/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
IN THE LOOP, 2008, IFC Films, 106 min. Director/writer Armando Iannucci and writer Tony Roche will appear in person at the...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
Friday 2/12 @ 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...
