Events on Saturday, February 13
Lucent L'amour Visionary Love Fest
Saturday 2/13 @ Shrine Expo Hall
LA-based interactive art purveyors, The Do LaB return for their fifth annual art and music festival, Lucent L'Amour 2010. The massive...
The Album Leaf accompanied by Magik*Magik String Quartet with Sea Wolf
Saturday 2/13 @ El Rey
Creating a sparkling, pastel type of bedroom music, The Album Leaf — the recording name of Jimmy LaValle (of concurrent Tristeza...
West Indian Girl w/ Pollyn at Bootleg
Saturday 2/13 @ Bootleg Theater
Appropriately, indie-rock band West Indian Girl were named after a potent strain of acid briefly popular in the mid-'60s, and their...
Saturday 2/13 @ Hyperion Tavern
Like the reflex aberration for which it's named, the Hiccup monthly reading series isn't your regular breathing exercise; it's an opportunity...
Saturday 2/13 @ The Wiltern
Badfish is the ultimate tribute act dedicated to the music of the legendary but short-lived band Sublime. Badfish rocks out on...
Saturday 2/13 @ Hollywood Palladium
One of the most important bands to rise to fame during the grunge era, "Alice In Chains" is legendary for metal-tinged...
Intimate Lighting w/ director Ivan Passer in person
Saturday 2/13 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP Watching Intimate Lighting is like having drinks with an old, rarely seen friend on a warm summer night --...
Saturday 2/13 @ Skirball Cultural Center
HFS 2009 Super Secret Screening Party
Saturday 2/13 @ The Cinefamily
We’re keeping this one a secret. Come on by, and see the single most mind-boggling, jaw-dropping, eye-popping, face-melting, bone-shattering, ass-blasting, gut-busting,...
Weekend Series: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Saturday 2/13 @ LACMA
Saturday 2/13 @ LACMA
An Evening with Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Saturday 2/13 @ The Mint
8pm Doors 8:30pm DJ ROME 9:30pm Dirty Dozen Brass Band (2 sets) For a band that has always been known...
Saturday 2/13 @ Book Soup
"What could be more fun than a trip to Las Vegas with your gay best friends? Rob Rosen's Divas Las Vegas...
Romance Onscreen: WINGS OF DESIRE & EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
Saturday 2/13 @ Egyptian Theatre
WINGS OF DESIRE, 1987, Janus Films, 127 min. Wim Wenders’ most fully-realized cinematic vision follows Damiel (Bruno Ganz), an angel having...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/13 @ Pantages Theatre
The story of Celie, a young black woman growing up in a minefield of abuse, racism, poverty, and deceit, who perseveres...
Saturday 2/13 @ Zephyr Theatre
David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Saturday 2/13 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Saturday 2/13 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Known for his video and photography manipulations of monumental news imagery, including the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center,...
Saturday 2/13 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Saturday 2/13 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
International Yoga Asana Championships
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Saturday 2/13 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Andres Guerrero and Albert Reyes
Saturday 2/13 @ Subliminal Projects
From two LA artists comes a dual exhibition about the way individuals perceive themselves and the world around them, when nothing...
Saturday 2/13 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Saturday 2/13 @ 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 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Sherman Gallery
Cannibal Flower and Thinkspace are staples of the East Side/Downtown independent art scene, favoring a certain kind of edgy, urban romanticism...
Saturday 2/13 @ Glendale Civic Auditorium
Appealing to history buffs, decorators, and retro-revivalists alike, the Vintage Paper Fair is a nice way to spend a few hours...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Saturday 2/13 @ 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 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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"...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Saturday 2/13 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ JAUS
Mexico City-based Anibal Catalan transforms the exterior of the Jaus house with a complex gray-scale mural referencing the incandescent wings of...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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
Saturday 2/13 @ 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,...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Valentine Bash
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Sam Lee Gallery
Remote warfare, military drones, and other robotic tools of destruction used to be the stuff of science fiction novels but now...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
The Women of Women: The Female Form
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
J. David Carlson and Michael Dotson
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
IMAGES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Student Voices
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Jaxon
Painter Eric R. Doolin has something of the heart of a nature photographer, captivated as he is by the hyper-saturated palette...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 2/13 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
ROAD TO FREEDOM: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 2/13 @ 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 2/13 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
The mounting musical surges of Ravel's lushly scored ballet are erotic beyond words – this from a...
Oscar Nominee IN THE LOOP Limited Engagement
Saturday 2/13 @ Egyptian Theatre
IN THE LOOP, 2008, IFC Films, 106 min. Dir. Armando Iannucci. ...
Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Kim Rugg: Please Remain Calmand Josh Azzarella: Untitled #100 (Fantasia)
Saturday 2/13 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13, 5-7p On View February 13 – March 13, 2010 Featuring DJ MoreDillon...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Downtown Independent Theater
WAITING FOR ARMAGEDDON
2009, 35mm, color, 74min
"Evangelicals need to see this movie to understand the...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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 2/13 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
Saturday 2/13 @ Egyptian Theatre
IN THE LOOP, 2008, IFC Films, 106 min. Director/writer Armando Iannucci and writer Tony Roche will appear in person at the...
