Events on Saturday, February 18
Charles Phoenix Retro Slide Show
Saturday 2/18 @ Palm Springs Art Museum, Annenberg Theater
The seventh-annual Palm Springs Modernism Week is an extended celebration of mid-century American style. With clean lines and a distinctive form,...
Saturday 2/18 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Everything Is Terrible!, the ever-inspired collective that reappropriates awful found footage to their own funny/bizarre ends, has been, well, awfully busy....
Saturday 2/18 @ Lomography Gallery Store LA
Tacos, drinks, art, and live music. We couldn't imagine a better way to celebrate in true LA fashion — and neither could...
Saturday 2/18 @ The Broad Stage
Jazz for the iPod era! The Japanese-born protege of legendary pianist Chick Corea, Hiromi has been heralded as one of the...
Saturday 2/18 @ Luckman Fine Arts Complex
Acclaimed Taiwanese choreographer Lin Hwai-Min founded Cloud Gate 2 to foster new talent and showcase the next generation of Taiwanese dance....
Saturday 2/18 @ Egyptian Theatre
Planet of the Apes Marathon: Planet Of The Apes, 1968, 119 min. Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, 1970,...
Saturday 2/18 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
The Slackers are a New York City band, formed in Brooklyn in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska,...
Saturday 2/18 @ House of Blues Anaheim
G. Love & Special Sauce are a Philadelphia-based trio whose laid-back, sloppy blues sound is quite unique, as it encompasses the...
Mayday Parade & We the Kings w/ The Downtown Fiction, Anarbor
Saturday 2/18 @ El Rey
Mayday Parade will not leave your stereo. Once the honesty of their lyrics and the power of their music enters your...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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....
Critters & People: and Things of That Sort
Saturday 2/18 @ WWA Gallery
WWA gallery is giving everyone a great reason to come out of hibernation this February with the breakout show Critters &...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
LA's Union Station is a true historical masterpiece that connects East and West on the final leg across the wide-open country...
Saturday 2/18 @ Urban Masala
Urban Masala is a new casual Indian restaurant in the heart of Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Opened by three gents from...
Saturday 2/18 @ Drkrm
Ansel Adams was famous for his signature series of landscapes, spindling trees, ominous clouds and cliffs, but he also had bills...
Saturday 2/18 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Ruth Weisberg: Now and Then presents paintings and works on paper by one of Los Angeles' most celebrated figurative artists since...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ Tortoise General Store
Curated by Sonoko Sakai, Common Grains will come to Tortoise with four Japanese grain themed cooking workshops in January and February...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ Veggie Grill
Veggie Grill has ably filled a void with their delicious, affordable vegan comfort food that appeals to vegans and meat-eaters alike....
Saturday 2/18 @ Naya Sunset
"Naya," the Sanskrit word for "new," befits the new incarnation of the Silver Lake Indian restaurant previously known as Tantra. The...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ NextSpace Culver City
After photographing celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Michael Cera, Paris Hilton, Joe Jonas, and Giada De Laurentiis, photojournalist and editorial photographer...
Zes and Retna: Excavated Revelations
Saturday 2/18 @ Known Gallery
LA graffiti artists Zes and Retna are longtime friends and linchpins of the renowned MSK graffiti crew. Highly influential on both...
Art of Motion Picture Costume Design
Saturday 2/18 @ FIDM Museum
FIDM Museum and Galleries' yearly salute to the artistry of costume design is back. Over 100 outfits from the films of...
Saturday 2/18 @ Salt Fine Art
Saltfineart is proud to present its most daring and intense show to date ¡CUBA! featuring 11 artists living and working within...
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Saturday 2/18 @ LACMA
Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Downtown's Modern Skyline Walking Tour
Saturday 2/18 @ Los Angeles Conservancy
The Los Angeles Conservancy's Modern Skyline walking tour explores the evolution of the Bunker Hill area and the Central Business District's...
Test Kitchen: Shanghai-São Paulo
Saturday 2/18 @ Zengo
Zengo is Richard Sandoval's Latin-Asian fusion restaurant in Santa Monica. Each season Zengo unveils a few new recipes revealing the influences...
Saturday 2/18 @ LACMA
While their male counterparts' focus was diverted with masturbatory hallucinations of women as objects, the female Surrealists delved freely into the...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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
Saturday 2/18 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ Corey Helford Gallery
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Saturday 2/18 @ 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....
Saturday 2/18 @ ANN 330 Gallery
ANN 330 Gallery showcases this group photography show delving into the theme of saudade, a deep, melancholic sense of loss or...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ Greenway Court Theatre
I Love Lucy Live on Stage, a tribute to the most popular sitcom of all time, is back for a second...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Mx Justin Vivian Bond: Low Double Standards: An Entitlement Program
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings
Saturday 2/18 @ LACMA
American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Born in Newburgh, New...
Saturday 2/18 @ REDCAT
Opening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pm For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of...
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ LACMA
Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form...
Obstacleism: Paintings by Farr Ligvani
Saturday 2/18 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Born in Tehran and educated in California, Ligvani focuses his art on ideas of life and evolution. As the artist wrestled...
Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience a groundbreaking new exhibition inspired by the critically acclaimed book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,...
Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting
Saturday 2/18 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum is pleased to present the special exhibition Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting. Korean folk painting during the Joseon...
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Meiji: Japan Rediscovered explores the connection of Japan and the West in the mid to late 19th century through the early...
