Events on Wednesday, February 22
Wednesday 2/22 @ El Rey
The undeniably charismatic band Ra Ra Riot is gracing LA for a one-night-only show at the El Rey. From the delightful...
Wednesday 2/22 @ La Cita
This blazing nine-piece ensemble of spiritual time-travelers is on tour to promote the release of their new album, NONE OF THIS...
Wednesday 2/22 @ The Viper Room
Terraplane Sun, named for a song by blues master Robert Johnson, is influenced by folk, the blues, and 60s rock. Formed...
Wednesday 2/22 @ House of Blues Anaheim
Hot Chelle Rae took shape in 2005, balancing the polished sounds of mainstream pop with energized, guitar-heavy dance-rock. Vocalist Ryan Keith...
Roncovacoco w/ South Central Skankers, The Delirians, and Pachamama
Wednesday 2/22 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Founded in February of 2001, this 10 piece Latin Reggae Ska band has been conquering hearts for a quite a while...
Ongoing Events
Art of Motion Picture Costume Design
Wednesday 2/22 @ FIDM Museum
FIDM Museum and Galleries' yearly salute to the artistry of costume design is back. Over 100 outfits from the films of...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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,...
Zes and Retna: Excavated Revelations
Wednesday 2/22 @ Known Gallery
LA graffiti artists Zes and Retna are longtime friends and linchpins of the renowned MSK graffiti crew. Highly influential on both...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Yujean Kang
With an elegant, creative take on Chinese cuisine, Yujean Kang's has been a Pasadena institution for 20 years. Kang was born...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
The Cacophony Society Zone Show
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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,...
Test Kitchen: Shanghai-São Paulo
Wednesday 2/22 @ Zengo
Zengo is Richard Sandoval's Latin-Asian fusion restaurant in Santa Monica. Each season Zengo unveils a few new recipes revealing the influences...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Drkrm
Ansel Adams was famous for his signature series of landscapes, spindling trees, ominous clouds and cliffs, but he also had bills...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Veggie Grill
Veggie Grill has ably filled a void with their delicious, affordable vegan comfort food that appeals to vegans and meat-eaters alike....
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Urban Masala
Urban Masala is a new casual Indian restaurant in the heart of Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Opened by three gents from...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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....
Wednesday 2/22 @ Salt Fine Art
Saltfineart is proud to present its most daring and intense show to date ¡CUBA! featuring 11 artists living and working within...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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....
Lecture by Bill Butler: Albert Frey
Wednesday 2/22 @ Palm Springs Art Museum
The seventh-annual Palm Springs Modernism Week is an extended celebration of mid-century American style. With clean lines and a distinctive form,...
Wednesday 2/22 @ ANN 330 Gallery
ANN 330 Gallery showcases this group photography show delving into the theme of saudade, a deep, melancholic sense of loss or...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Critters & People: and Things of That Sort
Wednesday 2/22 @ WWA Gallery
WWA gallery is giving everyone a great reason to come out of hibernation this February with the breakout show Critters &...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ LACMA
While their male counterparts' focus was diverted with masturbatory hallucinations of women as objects, the female Surrealists delved freely into the...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Komida
Komida, the new, casual fusion-taco restaurant at Hollywood and Highland, is led by Brock Kleweno, the executive chef who recently updated...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Caña Rum Bar
Caña Rum Bar is a glamorous throwback to 1930s Havana. Secreted within the historic Petroleum Building, with an entrance hidden in...
College Art Association's 100th Annual Conference
Wednesday 2/22 @ Los Angeles Convention Center
The College Art Association’s 100th Annual Conference, taking place February 22–25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, brings together thousands of...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Corey Helford Gallery
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Wednesday 2/22 @ NextSpace Culver City
After photographing celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Michael Cera, Paris Hilton, Joe Jonas, and Giada De Laurentiis, photojournalist and editorial photographer...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Naya Sunset
"Naya," the Sanskrit word for "new," befits the new incarnation of the Silver Lake Indian restaurant previously known as Tantra. The...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Greenway Court Theatre
I Love Lucy Live on Stage, a tribute to the most popular sitcom of all time, is back for a second...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ LACMA
Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form...
Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Meiji: Japan Rediscovered explores the connection of Japan and the West in the mid to late 19th century through the early...
Wednesday 2/22 @ REDCAT
Opening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pm For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of...
Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting
Wednesday 2/22 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum is pleased to present the special exhibition Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting. Korean folk painting during the Joseon...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience a groundbreaking new exhibition inspired by the critically acclaimed book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,...
46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
