Events on Friday, October 7
Friday 10/ 7 @ Abbot Kinney First Fridays
Septerhed makes the visual equivalent to the noise of a screeching jet engine about to take off. By taking Internet memes,...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Ford Amphitheatre
The (Hollywood) hills are alive with the sounds of French musique ce soir. Singer/songwriter Amanda McBroom (she wrote "The Rose") and singer...
Cymbals Eat Guitars w/ Hooray for Earth
Friday 10/ 7 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Cymbals Eat Guitars are an indie rock band from Staten Island, New York, United States, who formed in 2005. They consist...
Plain White T's with the Summer Set, the Downtown Fiction and Allison Park
Friday 10/ 7 @ El Rey
In some of the most quantifiable ways, the Plain White T's count as a veteran outfit. After all, the band formed...
John Leguizamo in Person: Moulin Rouge (2001)
Friday 10/ 7 @ Egyptian Theatre
Moulin Rouge, 2001, 127 min. Director Baz Luhrmann’s phantasmagorical musical is one of the most visually inventive and kinetic films in...
Friday 10/ 7 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Hailing from Coral Springs, FL, the punk-pop band New Found Glory was formed in mid-1997. Having recently graduated from high school,...
Friday 10/ 7 @ House of Blues Anaheim
Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime is a tribute band dedicated to playing the music of Sublime. The group is named after...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/ 7 @ Annie Wharton Los Angeles
Bobbi Woods received her MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions include Pleasure at LAXArt at...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Bluewater Sailing
When you need a break from the stresses of Los Angeles, escaping to the Pacific Ocean is a perfect, peaceful getaway....
Masters of Illusion: Jewish Magicians of the Golden Age
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Leonardo da Vinci Museum Exhibit
Friday 10/ 7 @ Hollywood & Highland Center
Bring the world of Leonard da Vinci to life with a visit to the Da Vinci Hollywood Exhibit. Visitors can actually...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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....
Friday 10/ 7 @ Daily Grill
Daily Grill, long known for its dependable menu of classic American fare, revitalized their Downtown location with the opening of Public...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Saint Felix
Located at the former home to Citizen Smith, Saint Felix is an elegant yet unpretentious new addition to Hollywood's Cahuenga Corridor....
Friday 10/ 7 @ Vincent Price Art Museum
Last year, in fall 2010, ten East Los Angeles College students, together with students from Santa Monica College, Pierce College and...
Friday 10/ 7 @ AndrewShire Gallery
AndrewShire Gallery is pleased to present Discovery Linescape, a solo exhibition by emerging artist Carol Sears, who, after 50 years of...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ La Luz de Jesus
For the past 25 years, art collector Billy Shire and his art gallery, La Luz de Jesus, have showcased the best...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Annie Wharton Los Angeles
Kenneth Anger protégé Brian Butler has produced several of the renowned occultist filmmaker's most recent works, and is responsible for bringing...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Montalbán Theatre
Having played everything from a drag queen to a plumber from a video game to a Shakespearean villiain, John Leguizamo's strong...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Adi Da Samraj is known for his monumental works meant to draw viewers into an ecstatic experience and connect them to...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Vincent Price Art Museum
Los Angeles-based artist Pearl C. Hsiung's diverse practice in painting, sculpture and video is being featured in a large-scale solo show....
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ LA Metro Buses
Short personal videos are presented in the unusual context of the Los Angeles County Metro bus system. On Transit TV, we...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
How the West Was Worn by... Michael Jackson
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Kodak Theater
French artistic director, dancer, and choreographer Philippe Decouflé came up with the concept of Iris almost a decade ago, during a...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Honor Fraser
A graffiti artist, painter, illustrator, sculptor, toymaker, and product designer, Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS, made his name altering public advertisements with...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Veggie Grill
Veggie Grill has ably filled a void with their delicious, affordable vegan comfort food that appeals to vegans and meat-eaters alike....
Friday 10/ 7 @ The One-Eyed Gypsy
The One-Eyed Gypsy is the latest watering hole from Dana Hollister, owner and designer of Villains Tavern, 4100 Bar, Cliff's Edge,...
Miranda July: Eleven Heavy Things
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Vincent Price Art Museum
Los Angeles-based artist Trang T. Lê’s artwork is featured in the HOY Space, a new project gallery at the Vincent Price...
MANCAVE: New Work by Rives Granade
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Architecture + Design Museum
Charles and Ray Eames inspired us to appreciate the world by honoring "the uncommon beauty of common things." This exhibit uses...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Synchronicity Space
The images in TOTEMS transcend their seemingly everyday subject matter. Strange narratives develop among the groupings of photographs, with symbols subtly appearing...
Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken
Friday 10/ 7 @ Armory Center for the Arts
This landmark exhibition brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation for the very first time. Berman and...
Friday 10/ 7 @ La Traviata
La Traviata is an elegant but unstuffy restaurant in downtown Long Beach presided over by Mario, the gregarious long-time restaurant owner...
Fabulous! Ten Years of FIDM Museum Acquisitions
Friday 10/ 7 @ FIDM Museum
Fabulous! at the FIDM's Museum is an exquisitely curated selection of 175 fashion pieces donated to or purchased for the museum....
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Friday 10/ 7 @ The Geffen Playhouse
Take equal parts wrestling and theatre, shake vigorously, and you have The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a unique stage production...
Friday 10/ 7 @ JF Chen
Visitors to this exhibition will have the pleasure of seeing and learning about the largest and most diverse Eames collection in...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Caña Rum Bar
Caña Rum Bar is a glamorous throwback to 1930s Havana. Secreted within the historic Petroleum Building, with an entrance hidden in...
Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
For The Record: Tarantino In Concert
Friday 10/ 7 @ Barre VT
Since Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut, the director has created films in which the music is as essential a component...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Various Echo Park locations
FILTER Magazine's Second Annual Culture Collide Festival will once again be concluding its four days of music, film and events with...
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Friday 10/ 7 @ LACMA
Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Yujean Kang
With an elegant, creative take on Chinese cuisine, Yujean Kang's has been a Pasadena institution for 20 years. Kang was born...
Friday 10/ 7 @ The Second City Theater
LA's answer to Chicago's iconic home of improv and sketch comedy, The Second City Hollywood presents Google My Tweet, a laugh-out-loud...
Lucille Ball at 100 and "I Love Lucy" at 60
Friday 10/ 7 @ Hollywood Museum
Lucille Ball at 100 and "I Love Lucy" at 60 honors both Lucille Ball's centenary and the 60th anniversary of I...
Friday 10/ 7 @ La Sandia
La Sandia is owned by chef Richard Sandoval. Sandoval, who grew up in Mexico City and is often referred to as...
California Armenian Pacific Standard Time
Friday 10/ 7 @ Garboushian Gallery
The Armenian Diaspora, comprised of immigrants and their descendants, is centered predominately in Los Angeles and the Central Valley regions of...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Avalon Hollywood
If Yukimi Nagano's breathy voice and enigmatic presence aren't enough to lure you into Little Dragon's den, the foursome's cinematic arrangements...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Komida
Komida, the new, casual fusion-taco restaurant at Hollywood and Highland, is led by Brock Kleweno, the executive chef who recently updated...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Vincent Price Art Museum
After The Gold Rush: Reflections and Postscripts on the National Chicano Moratorium of August 29th, 1970 is an exhibition that looks...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Freehand Gallery
The Eighties includes vintage work of established craft artists who, at the time, were fresh out of local Southern California art...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Sacred Fools Theater
Four Clowns gives freaky Freudian insight into each of us. These clowns are the filthiest, bawdiest, and the most emotionally unbridled...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Meiji: Japan Rediscovered explores the connection of Japan and the West in the mid to late 19th century through the early...
Roland Reiss Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Common Objects: Pop Art From the Collection
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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"...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Crew Call 2011: Celebrating the Crafts
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Faustin Linyekula/Studios Kabako: more more more… future
Friday 10/ 7 @ REDCAT
Three exceptional male dancers led by renowned Congolese choreographer/director Faustin Linyekula join with a raucous on-stage band in this fervent celebration...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ The Standard, Downtown LA
Prost! We are thrilled to announce the opening of The Biergarten on The Rooftop! With the blessing of master chef Kurt...
The Completely Different Late Show
Friday 10/ 7 @ The Groundlings Theatre
Looking to avoid another average weekend? Of course you are. Start your weekend off right with this hilarious hybrid of short-form improv &...
40 Years of Building the Pacific Asia Museum Collection
Friday 10/ 7 @ Pacific Asia Museum
In honor of its 40th Anniversary, the Pacific Asia Museum will share the extraordinary range and quality of its art collection...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Actors' Gang
To inaugurate its 30th Anniversary season, The Actors’ Gang announces that acclaimed director Dominique Serrand will direct the Gang’s sizeable ensemble...
Love Never Fails: The Art of Edouard and Luvena Vysekal
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
The Personal is Political: Women Artists from the Collection
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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
Friday 10/ 7 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 7 @ Pacific Asia Museum
A series of informal Friday afternoon get-togethers give visitors a chance to learn more about featured items in the exhibition 40...
