Events on Thursday, March 25

Marion Hodges & Mario Cotto present Confection

Music: DJ

Confection

Thursday 3/25 @ Medusa Lounge

Apparently, their day jobs as popular KCRW DJs and already-prolific impresarios of dance nights around town aren't keeping Marion Hodges' or... 

826LA Book Club: <em>Consider the Lobster</em>

Books: Reading

826LA Book Club

Thursday 3/25 @ 826LA East

While 826LA is dedicated to developing the writing skills of kids under 18, the nonprofit org opens its doors to readers... 

The Low Anthem w/ Timber Timbre, and The Barr Brothers at Bootleg

Music

The Low Anthem w/ Timber Timbre, and The Barr Brothers at Bootleg

Thursday 3/25 @ Bootleg Theater

Listen to Timber Timbre and you might peg the band for natives of Louisiana swampland, True Blood territory; the sound is... 

Written in California: Michelle Huneven

Books: Reading

Written in California: Michelle Huneven

Thursday 3/25 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

Co-sponsored by Vroman’s Bookstore, the series features some of the state’s most acclaimed authors. Michelle Huneven, author of Round Rock, Jamesland,... 

She & Him w/ the Living Sisters

Music

She & Him w/ the Living Sisters

Thursday 3/25 @ El Rey

The She & Him story begins when in 2006 , renowned one man band M. Ward, recorded a duet with a... 

The Nadas

Music

The Nadas

Thursday 3/25 @ The Mint

The Nadas   If you’ve ever taken a road trip headed West... 

<em>Big River Man</em>

Film: Documentary

Big River Man

Thursday 3/25 @ The Cinefamily

VIEW CLIP Every once in a while, an amazing human feat that tests the boundaries of endurance actually makes you go... 

Dan O'Bannon Tribute: Director's Cut World Premiere THE RESURRECTED + DARK STAR

Film: Double Feature

Dan O'Bannon Tribute: Director's Cut World Premiere THE RESURRECTED + DARK STAR

Thursday 3/25 @ Egyptian Theatre

 Dan O'Bannon Tribute: When filmmaker Dan O'Bannon died in December at the age of 63, the American genre cinema lost... 

KLEZMER EN BUENOS AIRES: LERNER MOGUILEVSKY DúO

Music: Global

KLEZMER EN BUENOS AIRES: LERNER MOGUILEVSKY DúO

Thursday 3/25 @ Skirball Cultural Center

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Workshop/Class

Documentary Survival Guide for Filmmakers

Thursday 3/25 @ Egyptian Theatre

ALL DOC'D OUT: A DOCUMENTARY SURVIVAL GUIDE SEMINAR Learn how to keep your film alive and thriving in the competitive world... 

The Drop: Shooter Jennings

Music

The Drop: Shooter Jennings

Thursday 3/25 @ The GRAMMY Museum

Be among the first to hear Southern rocker and country music scion Shooter Jennings discuss his new album, Black... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Fool's Journey: The History and Symbolism of the Tarot</em>

Art

The Fool's Journey

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

Design Loves Art, West Week, and Avenues of Art & Design

Art

Design Loves Art

Thursday 3/25 @ Pacific Design Center

This week's confluence of West Week, the Avenues, and tonight's kaleidoscope of new art exists in perfect synergy, with most PDC... 

<em>Puppetry of the Penis</em>

Performing Arts: Puppetry

Puppetry of the Penis

Thursday 3/25 @ Coast Playhouse

A "bone"-ified smash. With "organ" accompaniment. Now that that's out of the way, yes, Puppetry of the Penis is exactly what... 

The Last Chapbook Project

Books: Reading

The Last Chapbook Project

Thursday 3/25 @ The Last Bookstore

While we certainly wish them all the luck in the world, we hope that the Last Bookstore's name proves un-prophetic. A... 

<em>Breach of Peace</em>: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge

Special Event

Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

<em>The Never-Ending Story: Fairytale, Fantasy, Obsession</em>

Art

The Never-Ending Story

Thursday 3/25 @ Royal/T

It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the... 

Victor Gastelum: <em>Selected Works</em>

Art

Victor Gastelum

Thursday 3/25 @ Track 16 Gallery

Courtesy of the freshly re-opened Track 16 Gallery and curated by Elizabeta Betinski of the recently closed and much-missed Overtones Gallery,... 

Timothy Nolan, Jaime Scholnick, and Osvaldo Trujillo: <em>Axis Mundi</em>

Art

Axis Mundi

Thursday 3/25 @ CB1 Gallery

The current exhibition — just the second at Downtown's freshly-minted CB1 Gallery — is a three-person show of diverse works in... 

<em>Focus Daily</em>

Art

Focus Daily

Thursday 3/25 @ The Continental Gallery

Between their individual projects and their extensive collaborative undertakings, the six artists in Focus Daily operate in photography, painting, fashion, video,... 

Rosanna Gamson/World Wide: <em>Tov</em>

Dance

Rosanna Gamson/World Wide: Tov

Thursday 3/25 @ REDCAT

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<em>Fractured Perspectives</em>

Art

Fractured Perspectives

Thursday 3/25 @ Affinity Galleries

Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,... 

Victor Friedman: <em>Captured and Constructed</em>

Art: Photography

Victor Friedman

Thursday 3/25 @ Jeanie Madsen Gallery

A 79-year old society hairdresser, New York photographer Victor Friedman has been moonlighting as a photojournalist for 45 years. Now, he... 

<em>Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward</em>

Special Event

Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward

Thursday 3/25 @ 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,... 

Sumi Ink Club: <em>Sumi Room</em>

Art

Sumi Ink Club: Sumi Room

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

<em>London Eight</em>

Art

London Eight

Thursday 3/25 @ SCI-Arc

After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,... 

<em>Revolutions</em> feat. TC-5

Art

Revolutions

Thursday 3/25 @ Crewest Gallery

The Cool 5, better known as TC-5, were responsible for the graffiti, fashion, and all-around scene-making that made the NYC outdoor... 

<em>How Many Billboards? Art in Stead</em>

Art

How Many Billboards? Art in Stead

Thursday 3/25 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

In New York, street art is tagged on the sides of buildings and pasted on empty storefronts. In Los Angeles, a... 

<em>The Ballad of Emmett Till</em>

Theatre

The Ballad of Emmett Till

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

Channa Horwitz: <em>Sequences and Systems</em>

Art

Channa Horwitz

Thursday 3/25 @ SolwayJones Gallery

In this dual-venue mini-retrospective of works mainly from the mid-'70s and early '80s, SolwayJones and Kunsthalle L.A. set up an intriguing... 

<em>Body and Soul</em>

Art

Body and Soul

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

Nick Cave: <em>Meet Me at the Center of the Earth</em>

Art

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

Thursday 3/25 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found... 

Mery Lynn McCorkle: <em>Silence</em>

Art

Mery Lynn McCorkle

Thursday 3/25 @ Jancar Gallery

Los Angeles artist Mery Lynn McCorkle exhibits new mixed-media works combining rich, saturated colors with visceral, almost topographic textures, distressed surfaces,... 

Hollywood Bowl Poster Artshow

Art

Hollywood Bowl Poster Artshow

Thursday 3/25 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks

Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the... 

Ed Templeton: <em>The Seconds Pass</em>

Art

Ed Templeton

Thursday 3/25 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

Photographer, painter, installation artist, and skate legend Ed Templeton is a natural documentarian, first coming to the art world's attention with... 

The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943

Art

The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

<em>The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River</em>

Art

The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River

Thursday 3/25 @ 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.... 

<em>Night Lights</em>

Art: Photography

Night Lights

Thursday 3/25 @ DNJ Gallery

The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight.... 

Travis Somerville: <em>...A Portion of that Field</em>

Art

Travis Somerville

Thursday 3/25 @ Charlie James Gallery

Travis Somerville is one of the west coast's fastest-rising art stars, first coming to national attention as the winner of the... 

DreamWorlds

Art

DreamWorlds

Thursday 3/25 @ Art Center College of Design

Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring... 

Michael Salerno: <em>Selected Works 1992-2009</em>

Art

Michael Salerno

Thursday 3/25 @ Downtown Center East/West Gallery

Michael Salerno has been a pillar of the artistic community of writers and painters that has made Downtown LA the epicenter... 

<em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</em>

Film

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Thursday 3/25 @ Various LA Theatres

In the Scandivanian cinema storytelling tradition of greats such as Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, The Girl With the Dragon... 

Mary Heebner: <em>Intimacies/Intimisimos</em>

Art

Mary Heebner

Thursday 3/25 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture

At a time when the country of Chile is foremost in the world's thoughts for tragic reasons, Mary Heebner's long-planned exhibition... 

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

Special Event

Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

<em>Migrations of the Mind</em>: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection

Art

Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection

Thursday 3/25 @ The Getty Museum

Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past... 

<em>Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II</em>

Art

Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II

Thursday 3/25 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Art Against Empire, culled from the extensive holdings of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, offers over 100 selected... 

Miller Updegraff

Art

Miller Updegraff

Thursday 3/25 @ Michael Benevento Los Angeles

Updegraff's debut exhibition with Michael Benevento is an elegant evolution of the artist's exploration of the power-play between subject and author,... 

David Levine: <em>Hopeful</em>

Art: Photography

David Levine

Thursday 3/25 @ François Ghebaly Gallery

Although he was born in New York and lives and works in Berlin, there is something about David Levine's long-term found-photo... 

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

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Art

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

<em>45365</em>

Film

45365

Thursday 3/25 @ Downtown Independent Theater

digital, 90 min, 2009
dir. Bill Ross, IV

45365 explores the congruities of daily life in an... 

Kim Dorland: <em>1991</em>

Art

Kim Dorland: 1991

Thursday 3/25 @ Mark Moore Gallery

On the heels of his solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Kim Dorland returns to LA with nearly... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

<em>Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres</em>

Art

Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres

Thursday 3/25 @ 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... 

Reload Thursdays

Music

Reload Thursdays

Thursday 3/25 @ Cinespace

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

Gravity Works

Theatre

Gravity Works

Thursday 3/25 @ Cinespace

Gravity Works is a professional caberet/vaudeville/comedy troupe created by producer/director Russell Boast out of a desire to create a unique performance... 

Ax Plays Chopin

Music: Classical

Ax Plays Chopin

Thursday 3/25 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Beloved pianist Emanuel Ax performs Chopin’s first-composed Piano Concerto as part of his tribute to the 200th...