Events on Friday, February 17
Friday 2/17 @ Doheny Mansion
Taking its name from musica da camera (a 17th-century Italian term for chamber music), the Da Camera Society uncovers hidden SoCal...
Friday 2/17 @ The Federal Bar
Taking their name from various indie-rock buzz bands, Black Crystal Wolf Kids cover songs by the likes of MGMT, the Pixies,...
Friday 2/17 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Fronted by former Escape the Fate frontman Ronnie Radke, Falling in Reverse is a post-hardcore band based out of Nevada. The...
Play It As It Lays (1972) / The Projectionist (1971)
Friday 2/17 @ Egyptian Theatre
Play It As It Lays, 1972, 99 min. Dir. Frank Perry. In this adaptation of Joan Didion’s scathing portrait of early...
Friday 2/17 @ House of Blues Anaheim
Boston, Massachusetts is a uniquely divided city, consisting not of amorphously defined neighborhoods like the ones that make up Manhattan, but...
Friday 2/17 @ The Broad Stage
Portuguese vocalist Ana Moura, whose soul- ful and riveting interpretation of her land’s captivating fado style has made her a star...
Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts Of 2011
Friday 2/17 @ Egyptian Theatre
Distributed by Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures. The American Cinematheque presents all of the 2011 Oscar-nominated documentary shorts. English subtitles if...
Friday 2/17 @ House of Blues Anaheim
GOT OC is presenting the HOUSE of 80's at the House Of Blues in Anaheim! All 80's music, style, attitude, all...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/17 @ The Getty Museum
Part of the Getty's ongoing series that highlights photographs from the museum's permanent collection, In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980 is the last...
Friday 2/17 @ Palm Springs, CA
The seventh-annual Palm Springs Modernism Week is an extended celebration of mid-century American style. With clean lines and a distinctive form,...
Friday 2/17 @ Corey Helford Gallery
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Friday 2/17 @ NextSpace Culver City
After photographing celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Michael Cera, Paris Hilton, Joe Jonas, and Giada De Laurentiis, photojournalist and editorial photographer...
Friday 2/17 @ ZLA Pop-Up Shop
ZLA's "human bean" is an urban creation drawn from the streets, destined to survive the city's tough times. The anonymous designer's...
Friday 2/17 @ Il Tramezzino
Joseph Lopez's photo series, Nightwork, embodies the under-appreciated elements of our (and possibly any) city and presents it to us in...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Maximo González recycles materials such as devalued currency, vintage aluminum household items, and plastic kitchen items to create new modes of...
Friday 2/17 @ Various LA locations
Take a trip into Hollywood's Golden Age with a tour celebrating 100 years of Tinseltown. The Felix in Hollywood Tour Company...
Art of Motion Picture Costume Design
Friday 2/17 @ FIDM Museum
FIDM Museum and Galleries' yearly salute to the artistry of costume design is back. Over 100 outfits from the films of...
Zes and Retna: Excavated Revelations
Friday 2/17 @ Known Gallery
LA graffiti artists Zes and Retna are longtime friends and linchpins of the renowned MSK graffiti crew. Highly influential on both...
Friday 2/17 @ Greenway Court Theatre
I Love Lucy Live on Stage, a tribute to the most popular sitcom of all time, is back for a second...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Palmilla Cocina y Tequila
Palmilla Cocina y Tequila is a sophisticated departure for Hermosa Beach. Featuring a glamorous décor designed by Gulla Jonsdottir, famed for...
Friday 2/17 @ Mezze
Mezze, a Mediterranean-influenced restaurant and bar in West Hollywood, is a great place to begin an evening or indulge in a...
The Cacophony Society Zone Show
Friday 2/17 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
The Cacophony Society Zone Show is a retrospective look at the Cacophony Society, a national collective of guerrilla artists, dada pranksters,...
Friday 2/17 @ Urban Masala
Urban Masala is a new casual Indian restaurant in the heart of Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Opened by three gents from...
Friday 2/17 @ Salt Fine Art
Saltfineart is proud to present its most daring and intense show to date ¡CUBA! featuring 11 artists living and working within...
Friday 2/17 @ LACMA
While their male counterparts' focus was diverted with masturbatory hallucinations of women as objects, the female Surrealists delved freely into the...
Friday 2/17 @ Catalina Zip Line Eco Tour
Take in the beauty of the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island’s terrain while hurtling through the air at speeds of up...
Monica Nouwens and Jason Trucco
Friday 2/17 @ Annie Wharton Los Angeles
LA-Based Dutch photographer Monica Nouwens’ work examines the noir starkness of Los Angeles’ utopian dreams on the verge of collapse or...
Friday 2/17 @ Naya Sunset
"Naya," the Sanskrit word for "new," befits the new incarnation of the Silver Lake Indian restaurant previously known as Tantra. The...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Komida
Komida, the new, casual fusion-taco restaurant at Hollywood and Highland, is led by Brock Kleweno, the executive chef who recently updated...
Friday 2/17 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Deconstructing Perestroika is CAFAM's exploration, in poster form, of the cultural and political events that led to the collapse of the...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Santa Monica Pier
Every step of Cirque d Soleil's new "Grand Chapiteau" is designed to enthrall L.A. From the star-laced walk (both figuratively and...
Friday 2/17 @ Royal/T
Royal/T in Culver City features an art gallery, Japanese-style cosplay café, and one of LA's best gift shops of pop-culture treasures....
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ The Actors Company Theatre
Casebolt and Smith is a multidisciplinary performance duo combining physical and musical theatre, fused together with rare humor and intelligence. The...
Friday 2/17 @ ANN 330 Gallery
ANN 330 Gallery showcases this group photography show delving into the theme of saudade, a deep, melancholic sense of loss or...
Friday 2/17 @ Cliff's Edge
While Cliff's Edge in Silver Lake is renowned for the excellent food served on its gorgeous terraced patio, the interior, now...
Friday 2/17 @ Caña Rum Bar
Caña Rum Bar is a glamorous throwback to 1930s Havana. Secreted within the historic Petroleum Building, with an entrance hidden in...
Friday 2/17 @ La Luz de Jesus
Danni Shinya Luo's sensual sketches and watercolors of the female form are often sweet, but always fraught with tension. A former...
Test Kitchen: Shanghai-São Paulo
Friday 2/17 @ Zengo
Zengo is Richard Sandoval's Latin-Asian fusion restaurant in Santa Monica. Each season Zengo unveils a few new recipes revealing the influences...
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Friday 2/17 @ LACMA
Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the...
Friday 2/17 @ Various LA Theatres
Haywire is a well-woven extravaganza of ass-kicking. Director Steven Soderbergh made the inspired decision to cast MMA champ Gina Carano as...
Friday 2/17 @ Palm Springs Art Museum
In conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative, the Palm Springs Art Museum presents a comprehensive visual survey of swimming-pool...
Friday 2/17 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
The exhibition features twenty-eight photographs from [Rhona] Bitner's ongoing Listen series, a striking body of work devoted to the continued exploration...
Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles
Friday 2/17 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Seminal photographer Weegee did the same thing in mid-20th century Los Angeles that paparazzi do today: he documented the shocking and...
Friday 2/17 @ Drago Centro
Downtown's Drago Centro has a sleek décor, featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, stone walls, and a glass wine cellar in the center of...
Friday 2/17 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Kenneth Anger is usually associated with his scandalous Hollywood Babylon oeuvre, but while the books are legendary, his filmic eye is...
Friday 2/17 @ La Sandia
La Sandia, Richard Sandoval's elegant Mexican restaurant at Santa Monica Place, offers four special month-long festivals a year, each celebrating a...
Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York
Friday 2/17 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a special installation of Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, c. 1470–75, on loan from The...
Obstacleism: Paintings by Farr Ligvani
Friday 2/17 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Born in Tehran and educated in California, Ligvani focuses his art on ideas of life and evolution. As the artist wrestled...
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Mx Justin Vivian Bond: Low Double Standards: An Entitlement Program
Friday 2/17 @ REDCAT
“Artful, gender-bending, truth-telling illusionist...The greatest cabaret artist of [this] generation.” Hilton Als, The New Yorker The ragingly multitalented Mx Justin Vivian Bond...
Friday 2/17 @ REDCAT
Opening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pm For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of...
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings
Friday 2/17 @ LACMA
American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Born in Newburgh, New...
Friday 2/17 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Meiji: Japan Rediscovered explores the connection of Japan and the West in the mid to late 19th century through the early...
Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting
Friday 2/17 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum is pleased to present the special exhibition Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting. Korean folk painting during the Joseon...
Friday 2/17 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience a groundbreaking new exhibition inspired by the critically acclaimed book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,...
Friday 2/17 @ LACMA
Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form...
46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum
Friday 2/17 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Since 1924, the Chinese-inspiried building at 46 N. Los Robles Avenue in Pasadena has been a Southern California landmark and a...
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Active Cultures: Bite-size Conversations, Bold Ideas
Friday 2/17 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Active Cultures pairs engaging speakers in a dynamic, conversational program. Each evening features two experts and two topics not necessarily sharing an...
