Events on Monday, February 20

<em>Cartopia: Mid-Century Concept Cars in Culture
</em>

Getaways

Cartopia

Monday 2/20 @ Hilton Palm Springs

The seventh-annual Palm Springs Modernism Week is an extended celebration of mid-century American style. With clean lines and a distinctive form,... 

Ongoing Events

Komida

Cultural Hybrid

Komida

Monday 2/20 @ Komida

Komida, the new, casual fusion-taco restaurant at Hollywood and Highland, is led by Brock Kleweno, the executive chef who recently updated... 

Palm Springs Modernism Week

Getaways

Palm Springs Modernism Week

Monday 2/20 @ 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,... 

<em>Unscreened 2012</em>

Performing Arts: Theatre

Unscreened

Monday 2/20 @ The Elephant Lab - Lillian Theatre

Spending an evening at the theater can be a gamble, but with a show like Unscreened, the odds are in your... 

Catalina Zip Line Eco Tour

Cultural Hybrid: Day trip

Catalina Zip Line Eco Tour

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Public School 612

Food/Wine

Public School 612

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Naya Sunset's New Bar Program

Food/Wine

Naya Sunset

Monday 2/20 @ Naya Sunset

"Naya," the Sanskrit word for "new," befits the new incarnation of the Silver Lake Indian restaurant previously known as Tantra. The... 

<em>Deconstructing Perestroika</em>

Art: Group Show

Deconstructing Perestroika

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>Monica Nouwens: Martin Luther King Bullet Wound Boulevard</em> / <em>Jason Trucco: Exhibit A</em> &nbsp;

Art: Happening

Monica Nouwens and Jason Trucco

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Miss Bala

Film

Miss Bala

Monday 2/20 @ Playing at selected theaters.

Director Gerardo Naranjo's film opens with a bang: aspiring beauty queen Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman) falls innocently into a violent Mexican... 

Danni Shinya Luo: <em>Soft Candy </em>at La Luz de Jesus<em> </em>

Art: Painting & Drawing

Danni Shinya Luo: Soft Candy

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Cliff's Edge

Food/Wine

Cliff's Edge

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

California Design, 1930-1965: <em>Living in a Modern Way</em>

Art: Installation

California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way

Monday 2/20 @ LACMA

Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the... 

The Bar at Cliff's Edge

Food/Wine

The Bar at Cliff's Edge

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States</em>

Art: Group Show

In Wonderland

Monday 2/20 @ LACMA

While their male counterparts' focus was diverted with masturbatory hallucinations of women as objects, the female Surrealists delved freely into the... 

Test Kitchen: Shanghai-S&atilde;o Paulo

Food/Wine: Tasting

Test Kitchen: Shanghai-São Paulo

Monday 2/20 @ Zengo

Zengo is Richard Sandoval's Latin-Asian fusion restaurant in Santa Monica. Each season Zengo unveils a few new recipes revealing the influences... 

<em>Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles</em>

Art: Installation

Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>&iexcl;CUBA!</em>

Art: Group Show

¡CUBA!

Monday 2/20 @ Salt Fine Art

Saltfineart is proud to present its most daring and intense show to date ¡CUBA! featuring 11 artists living and working within... 

<em>TAG you're it!</em>

Art: Group Show

TAG you're it!

Monday 2/20 @ 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.... 

Ca&ntilde;a Rum Bar

Food/Wine

Caña Rum Bar

Monday 2/20 @ Caña Rum Bar

Caña Rum Bar is a glamorous throwback to 1930s Havana. Secreted within the historic Petroleum Building, with an entrance hidden in... 

Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour

Cultural Hybrid: Day trip

Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Drago Centro

Food/Wine

Drago Centro

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Strength in Numbers

Art

Strength in Numbers

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Tamale Festival at La Sandia

Food/Wine

Tamale Festival

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Veggie Grill

Food/Wine

Veggie Grill

Monday 2/20 @ Veggie Grill

Veggie Grill has ably filled a void with their delicious, affordable vegan comfort food that appeals to vegans and meat-eaters alike.... 

<em>28 at 28</em>

Art: Photography

28 at 28

Monday 2/20 @ NextSpace Culver City

After photographing celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Michael Cera, Paris Hilton, Joe Jonas, and Giada De Laurentiis, photojournalist and editorial photographer... 

In a Place Called Hollywood: A Stroll Through the First 100 Years of Tinseltown

City Gems: Guided Tour

In a Place Called Hollywood

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Joseph Lopez: <em>Nightwork</em>

Art: Photography

Joseph Lopez

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>M&aacute;ximo Gonz&aacute;lez: </em><em>Playful</em>

Art: Installation

Máximo González: Playful

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Yujean Kang's

Food/Wine

Yujean Kang's

Monday 2/20 @ Yujean Kang

With an elegant, creative take on Chinese cuisine, Yujean Kang's has been a Pasadena institution for 20 years. Kang was born... 

<em>Haywire</em>

Film: Wide Release

Haywire

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Electric Guest

Music: Indie

Electric Guest

Monday 2/20 @ The Echo

"…She's got it bad for me…" Electric Guest sang to us last year, but we're still singing it right back to... 

<em>Kenneth Anger: Icons
</em>

Art: Installation

Kenneth Anger: Icons

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Playa

Food/Wine

Playa

Monday 2/20 @ Playa

Playa is the newest restaurant opened by John Rivera Sedlar, whose downtown restaurant, Rivera, earned great acclaim after its 2009 opening.... 

Palmilla Cocina y Tequila

Food/Wine

Palmilla Cocina y Tequila

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Michael's Restaurant

Food/Wine

Michael's Restaurant

Monday 2/20 @ 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.... 

Urban Masala

Food/Wine

Urban Masala

Monday 2/20 @ Urban Masala

Urban Masala is a new casual Indian restaurant in the heart of Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Opened by three gents from... 

Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California

Art

Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Steel Panther

Music: Rock

Steel Panther

Monday 2/20 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

Satirically pretending to be a hair metal band that missed its big break in the '80s, singer Ralph Saenz ("Michael Starr"),... 

Metropolis II

Art: Painting & Drawing

Metropolis II

Monday 2/20 @ LACMA

Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form... 

SIM Night - Service Industry Mondays

Music

SIM Night - Service Industry Mondays

Monday 2/20 @ CENTRAL S.A.P.C

*S*ervice  *I*ndustry  *M*ondays  featuring DJs every week. Happy hour all night: $3 domestic drafts & bottles, $3 PBR tall boys, $4 micro draft... 

Hans Memling's <em>Portrait of a Man</em>, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York

Art: Painting & Drawing

Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Sinead O'Connor

Music

Sinead O'Connor

Monday 2/20 @ El Rey

  There has never been mistaking Sinead OConnor for anybody else. A voice born to break as many hearts as windows,... 

The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period

Art

The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period

Monday 2/20 @ 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... 

Ming Wong: <em>Making Chinatown</em>

Art

Ming Wong: Making Chinatown

Monday 2/20 @ REDCAT

Opening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pm For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of... 

<em>Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings</em>

Art: Painting & Drawing

Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings

Monday 2/20 @ LACMA

American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Born in Newburgh, New...