Events on Saturday, October 1
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Various LA locations
Los Angeles is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own its own story. On October 1, from 9 am -...
Ooh LA L.A. Festival: Birdy Nam Nam / DJ CAM / FEADZ / Chateau Marmont
Saturday 10/ 1 @ El Rey
Ooh La L.A ! is a several-day celebration showcasing French artists from the best of the indie pop/rock/folk & electronic scene....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Linda Ramones and JRA Chief of Staff John Cafiero present the 7th Annual Johnny Ramone Tribute. Special guests: The Misfits and...
Members' Opening for Under the Big Black Sun
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum members are invited to the opening of Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981, the most comprehensive survey exhibition...
James Farm featuring Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt, Penman, Eric Harland
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Broad Stage
James Farm is a quartet- renowned saxophonist Joshua Redman, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman, drummer Eric Harland- whose evolving style...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Although they were initially grouped with the legions of pop-metal bands that dominated the American heavy metal scene of the '80s,...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Veggie Grill
Veggie Grill has ably filled a void with their delicious, affordable vegan comfort food that appeals to vegans and meat-eaters alike....
Leonardo da Vinci Museum Exhibit
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Hollywood & Highland Center
Bring the world of Leonard da Vinci to life with a visit to the Da Vinci Hollywood Exhibit. Visitors can actually...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Eclectic Company Theatre
Preposterous explores the subjects of love, old friendships, and excessive drinking. The long-format drama is about a group of friends whose...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Bluewater Sailing
When you need a break from the stresses of Los Angeles, escaping to the Pacific Ocean is a perfect, peaceful getaway....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ La Luz de Jesus
La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood presents its new exhibition, Rob Reger: The Encyclopedia of Hallucinations. The psychology behind Reger's...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Royal/T
East Village West, at Culver City's esteemed art gallery and cosplay café Royal/T, is a collection of works from the late...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Michael's Restaurant
Michael's Restaurant in Santa Monica is a long-venerated pioneer of California cuisine. Michael's now enters the artisanal cocktail arena with a...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Corey Helford Gallery is pleased to present new works by internationally-collected California artist Nataly (Kukula) Abramovitch. Digital artist Natalie Shau will...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ La Luz de Jesus
In The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses, Dr. Paul Koudounaris gives us an intimate understanding...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Daily Grill
Daily Grill, long known for its dependable menu of classic American fare, revitalized their Downtown location with the opening of Public...
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Saturday 10/ 1 @ LACMA
Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Analog Salon
The idea of Hollywood has intrigued and inspired image-makers for the last century and it’s no different today. Photographers find themselves...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Kodak Theater
French artistic director, dancer, and choreographer Philippe Decouflé came up with the concept of Iris almost a decade ago, during a...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Various Santa Barbara Venues
In 1976, the Judgment of Paris rated California wines superior to French chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon. Since then, the global reputation...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Laemmle's Monica 4-plex
Mythologist Joseph Campbell's influence has been far reaching. Since his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces was published in 1949,...
How the West Was Worn by... Michael Jackson
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Autry National Center of the American West
Since much of Michael Jackson's enduring legacy and pop-culture influence is based on a "wild west" aesthetic, it should come as...
Fabulous! Ten Years of FIDM Museum Acquisitions
Saturday 10/ 1 @ FIDM Museum
Fabulous! at the FIDM's Museum is an exquisitely curated selection of 175 fashion pieces donated to or purchased for the museum....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Caña Rum Bar
Caña Rum Bar is a glamorous throwback to 1930s Havana. Secreted within the historic Petroleum Building, with an entrance hidden in...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ La Luz de Jesus
Some of the most impassioned artwork to emerge in America during the past 150 years was conceived in our conflicted South....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Downtown Standard Hotel
In recent years, the Standard, Downtown LA has fashioned itself as a bit of an adult playground. Well, if you've gotten your...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Yujean Kang
With an elegant, creative take on Chinese cuisine, Yujean Kang's has been a Pasadena institution for 20 years. Kang was born...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ François Ghebaly Los Angeles
Escape to Shit Mountain is Joel Kyack's second solo exhibition with Francois Ghebaly. He will present five new sculptures and seven new...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Saint Felix
Located at the former home to Citizen Smith, Saint Felix is an elegant yet unpretentious new addition to Hollywood's Cahuenga Corridor....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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...
Angel City Jazz Festival 2011: Global Jam
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Various LA venues
LA's only non-commercial jazz and new music festival is a celebration of World Jazz at seven exciting venues stretching over a...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Synchronicity Space
The images in TOTEMS transcend their seemingly everyday subject matter. Strange narratives develop among the groupings of photographs, with symbols subtly appearing...
Lucille Ball at 100 and "I Love Lucy" at 60
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Hollywood Museum
Lucille Ball at 100 and "I Love Lucy" at 60 honors both Lucille Ball's centenary and the 60th anniversary of I...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Montalbán Theatre
Having played everything from a drag queen to a plumber from a video game to a Shakespearean villiain, John Leguizamo's strong...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ LA Metro Buses
Short personal videos are presented in the unusual context of the Los Angeles County Metro bus system. On Transit TV, we...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Kopeikin Gallery
Admit it — try as you might to dislike Moby for all his super-green, achingly sweet, tea-peddling cuddlyness, you haven't been...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Honor Fraser
A graffiti artist, painter, illustrator, sculptor, toymaker, and product designer, Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS, made his name altering public advertisements with...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Michael's Restaurant
Michael's Restaurant in Santa Monica, a much-lauded pioneer of California cuisine, has a new executive chef at the helm, John-Carlos Kuramoto....
Saturday 10/ 1 @ C.A.V.E. Gallery
In the late 1980s and early '90s, the Pixies redefined the alt-rock genre with melodic, stripped-down tunes, biting lyrics, and an...
MANCAVE: New Work by Rives Granade
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Duncan Miller Projects Gallery
LA-based artist Rives Granade uses a variety of media to create abstracted narratives, where the experience of viewing often becomes part...
Miranda July: Eleven Heavy Things
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Miranda July moves between the worlds of film (Me and You and Everyone We Know, 2005), writing (No One Belongs Here...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Public School 612
The latest addition to Downtown's burgeoning bar scene is Public School 612, a traditional-meets-contemporary gastropub soft opening March 8 in the...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ La Sandia
La Sandia is owned by chef Richard Sandoval. Sandoval, who grew up in Mexico City and is often referred to as...
Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
Sam Maloof (1916–2009) was a woodworker born and raised in Southern California who became a nationally recognized leader of the American...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Various LA locations
The week-long, multi-venue Angel City Jazz Festival is a sampling of LA's most innovative and avant-garde jazz acts. The extended jam...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Geffen Playhouse
Take equal parts wrestling and theatre, shake vigorously, and you have The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a unique stage production...
Masters of Illusion: Jewish Magicians of the Golden Age
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The period between 1875-1948 is known to magic enthusiasts and connoisseurs as the Golden Age of magic, when Houdini and many...
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 presents an alternative perspective on the Black Power movement of the late '60s: the perspective of...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Cliff's Edge
Silver Lake's gorgeous Cliff's Edge has been enlivened with the recent addition of a new chef, Frenchman Benjamin Bailly. 29-year-old Bailly...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Dragonfly
Point Break LIVE! turns cinematic lemons into lemonade, raucously skewering the cult-classic film by casting an unrehearsed audience volunteer to fill...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
Best recognized around the world for his otherworldly voice and black sunglasses, Roy Orbison was both Rock & Roll pioneer and...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Freehand Gallery
The Eighties includes vintage work of established craft artists who, at the time, were fresh out of local Southern California art...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
LA's most progressive art spaces converge at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in historic Barnsdall Park, and they're bringing their favorite...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Lot 613
Fountain built its brand as a brashly independent, vibrant, and, while we're at it, very "Brooklyn" alternative art fair. Homegrown in...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ AndrewShire Gallery
AndrewShire Gallery is pleased to present Discovery Linescape, a solo exhibition by emerging artist Carol Sears, who, after 50 years of...
Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Nativat Canopy Adventures
SoCal adrenaline junkies celebrate a new source of thrills: Wrightwood's Navitat Canopy Tour. Zipline in a harness along ten aerial lines...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ La Traviata
La Traviata is an elegant but unstuffy restaurant in downtown Long Beach presided over by Mario, the gregarious long-time restaurant owner...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Architecture + Design Museum
Charles and Ray Eames inspired us to appreciate the world by honoring "the uncommon beauty of common things." This exhibit uses...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Fountain Theatre
A Bakersfield trailer-park denizen buys a $3 thrift-store painting she believes is a Jackson Pollock, leading to a clash with an...
For The Record: Tarantino In Concert
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Barre VT
Since Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut, the director has created films in which the music is as essential a component...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Various LA locations
Art Platform—Los Angeles presents Open Platform, a curated series of art panels, conversations and discussions which investigate the dialogue around significant...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Annenberg Space for Photography
Beauty Culture is a photographic exploration of how feminine beauty is defined, challenged and revered in modern society. The exhibit features...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Adi Da Samraj is known for his monumental works meant to draw viewers into an ecstatic experience and connect them to...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ La Luz de Jesus
Lauren Gardiner's newest series of mixed-media sculptures, Misfits of the Forest, is an exposé of perverted pixies, fat fairies, inbred elves...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Laemmle's Music Hall 3
A sleeper hit at New York, Toronto and Venice film festivals, 'Silent Souls' takes on an oft-unexplored narrative in cinema: the...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Endless Summer Bar-Cafe
Inspired by the seminal, world-famous 1966 surf documentary The Endless Summer, a bar and cafe on the Santa Barbara Riviera pays...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Hacienda Hot Springs
A mission-style oasis in the Coachella Valley, Hacienda Hot Springs isn't your ordinary spa destination. Between the homemade granola and the...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Vertical Wine Bistro
Vertical Wine Bistro in Old Town Pasadena is known for their excellent bistro-style food, extensive selection of over 400 wines, and...
George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown)
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Godfather of the California assemblage school of sculpture, George Herms uses found objects to construct a poetic language without words. He's...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College
The Lebowski Cycle is a series of paintings exploring the idea of layered narratives, using masterpieces of western art and the...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5
Andrew Haigh's Weekend travels where few gay films travel - to the emotional aftermath of a one-night stand. Russell and Glen...
Roland Reiss Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Roland Reiss has been a major presence in the Los Angeles art world both as an artist and teacher for several...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
The question of performance art revisited, re-staged, reinvented, and redefined sets the platform for Los Angeles Goes Live, an exhibition and series inviting...
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Historic Downtown tour provides an overview of the historical and cultural landmarks of downtown Los Angeles. Covering a wide range...
The Personal is Political: Women Artists from the Collection
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Narrative, biography, and gender identity unite the works included in this permanent collection exhibition. Borrowing the title from a radical 1969...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Meiji: Japan Rediscovered explores the connection of Japan and the West in the mid to late 19th century through the early...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ REDCAT
For her first major solo exhibition in the US, Los Angeles-based artist Erlea Maneros Zabala re-photographs archival and journalistic images...
Alex Kritselis: Above the Fold
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Exploring how the media shapes people’s perceptions of significant events, Alex Kritselis creates a vast landscape from the issues of the...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
This traveling exhibition spans the range of Lynda Benglis's career, including her early wax paintings, her recent experiments with plastics, cast...
Broadway: Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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 10/ 1 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The first large-scale survey of California art from this period, Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 features artists working...
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period, an exhibition that looks at...
Common Objects: Pop Art From the Collection
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
In the mid-1950s, artists regularly looked to popular culture as source material for paintings, sculptures, photographs, and printmaking. This "cohesive tendency"...
Live Nude Groundlings (does not contain nudity)
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Groundlings Theatre
The legendary Groundlings Theatre troupe presents its latest and greatest main stage show. It's an evening of sketches and some improvisation,...
Crew Call 2011: Celebrating the Crafts
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy's latest collaborative exhibition with the Society of Motion Picture Still Photographers highlights the craftspeople who make magic happen on...
Love Never Fails: The Art of Edouard and Luvena Vysekal
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
This exhibition brings together the work of husband and wife Edouard and Luvena Vysekal and focuses on how the two became...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ House of Blues Anaheim
Start your Saturday morning with peace, love and good vibrations at House of Blues' Reggae Brunch. Reggae Brunch is a live...
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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...
Cy Twombly Tribute: A Scattering of Blossoms & Other Things
Saturday 10/ 1 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
A tribute to the late painter Cy Twombly (b. 1928, Lexington, Virginia; d. 2011, Rome), this memorial exhibition features eight works...
40 Years of Building the Pacific Asia Museum Collection
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Pacific Asia Museum
In honor of its 40th Anniversary, the Pacific Asia Museum will share the extraordinary range and quality of its art collection...
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California, an exhibition that explores the significance of printmaking...
Beneath the Surface: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter
Saturday 10/ 1 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Beneath the Surface is inspired by the science and technology of NASA’s Juno mission investigating Jupiter's origins and inner workings as a giant gas planet....
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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 10/ 1 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Saturday 10/ 1 @ 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 10/ 1 @ Cinespace
Saturday nights at Cinespace is the place to be for dancing and drinks on Hollywood Boulevard. Join us for the city's...
