Events on Friday, February 24
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Friday 2/24 @ Egyptian Theatre
Sergio Leone may have pioneered the spaghetti western with his "Dollar Trilogy," but the Italian director's true masterpiece is the dark,...
Friday 2/24 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Troma's comic slasher Father's Day, directed by Astron-6 (Adam Brooks and Jeremy Gillespie, with sketch-comedy duo Matthew Kennedy and Conor Sweeney),...
Dyed Soundorom, Droog & Clovis
Friday 2/24 @ Los Globos
LA dance music favorites Droog recently ventured into the unknown setting up shop at Los Globos last month in Silverlake. This...
Women, Surrealism, California, and Beyond
Friday 2/24 @ LACMA
Martica Sawin, noted authority on surrealist artists during the 1940s, chairs a panel discussion in conjunction with the special exhibition In...
Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts Of 2011
Friday 2/24 @ Egyptian Theatre
Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts Of 2011. Distributed by Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures. The American Cinematheque presents all of the 2011 Oscar-nominated...
Friday 2/24 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
Led Zepagain is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1992 by David Swan Montgomery. The band...
Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts Of 2011
Friday 2/24 @ Egyptian Theatre
Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Shorts Of 2011. Distributed by Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures. The American Cinematheque presents all of the 2011 Oscar-nominated...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/24 @ Drkrm
Ansel Adams was famous for his signature series of landscapes, spindling trees, ominous clouds and cliffs, but he also had bills...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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,...
Monica Nouwens and Jason Trucco
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Komida
Komida, the new, casual fusion-taco restaurant at Hollywood and Highland, is led by Brock Kleweno, the executive chef who recently updated...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
The Cacophony Society Zone Show
Friday 2/24 @ 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
Friday 2/24 @ Zengo
Zengo is Richard Sandoval's Latin-Asian fusion restaurant in Santa Monica. Each season Zengo unveils a few new recipes revealing the influences...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ ANN 330 Gallery
ANN 330 Gallery showcases this group photography show delving into the theme of saudade, a deep, melancholic sense of loss or...
Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ OHWOW Los Angeles
Terry Richardson’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, titled TERRYWOOD, presents over 25 of his latest photographs. Inspired by the multiple...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ LACMA
While their male counterparts' focus was diverted with masturbatory hallucinations of women as objects, the female Surrealists delved freely into the...
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ NextSpace Culver City
After photographing celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Michael Cera, Paris Hilton, Joe Jonas, and Giada De Laurentiis, photojournalist and editorial photographer...
Scott Belcastro: Brighter Doom
Friday 2/24 @ iam8bit
Iam8bit Gallery is proud to present Brighter Doom, a solo exhibition of new works by Los Angeles artist Scott Belcastro. Brighter...
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Critters & People: and Things of That Sort
Friday 2/24 @ WWA Gallery
WWA gallery is giving everyone a great reason to come out of hibernation this February with the breakout show Critters &...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Corey Helford Gallery
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Art of Motion Picture Costume Design
Friday 2/24 @ FIDM Museum
FIDM Museum and Galleries' yearly salute to the artistry of costume design is back. Over 100 outfits from the films of...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Friday 2/24 @ LACMA
Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the...
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
College Art Association's 100th Annual Conference
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Zes and Retna: Excavated Revelations
Friday 2/24 @ Known Gallery
LA graffiti artists Zes and Retna are longtime friends and linchpins of the renowned MSK graffiti crew. Highly influential on both...
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Naya Sunset
"Naya," the Sanskrit word for "new," befits the new incarnation of the Silver Lake Indian restaurant previously known as Tantra. The...
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ LACMA
Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form...
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Meiji: Japan Rediscovered explores the connection of Japan and the West in the mid to late 19th century through the early...
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings
Friday 2/24 @ LACMA
American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Born in Newburgh, New...
Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Mariano Pensotti: The Past Is A Grotesque Animal (El pasado es un animal grotesco)
Friday 2/24 @ REDCAT
“Blisteringly funny...a compelling portrait of the self-obsession of his own generation that achieves that rare feat of profoundly moving an audience.” Plays...
Friday 2/24 @ REDCAT
Opening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pm For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of...
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Born in Tehran and educated in California, Ligvani focuses his art on ideas of life and evolution. As the artist wrestled...
