Events on Friday, February 3
John Beasley and Dwight Trible
Friday 2/ 3 @ Joe's Restaurant
Beginning on February 3 at 7pm, Mohr Music will present the First Fridays Jazz Series at Joe’s that will feature instrumental...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Book Soup
At age fourteen, Claire Bidwell Smith - an only child - learned that both of her parents had cancer. The fear...
Twin Sister w/ Ava Luna and Talkdemonic
Friday 2/ 3 @ The Echo & Echoplex
Since forming string-enhanced electronic duo Talkdemonic in 2003, multi-instrumentalists Kevin O'Connor and Lisa Molinaro have become indie staples, touring with such...
Studio Ghibli Retrospective: Princess Mononoke (1997)
Friday 2/ 3 @ Egyptian Theatre
New 35mm Print: Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-Hime), 1997, Studio Ghibli, 134 min. Dir: Hayao Miyazaki. A landmark of animation and a film...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Monica Nouwens and Jason Trucco
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Rodarte: Fra Angelico Collection
Friday 2/ 3 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Kate and Laura Mulleavy are a pair of 21st-century alchemists working with textiles instead of base metals. The Rodarte founders are...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Mezze
Mezze, a Mediterranean-influenced restaurant and bar in West Hollywood, is a great place to begin an evening or indulge in a...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ LACMA
While their male counterparts' focus was diverted with masturbatory hallucinations of women as objects, the female Surrealists delved freely into the...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Gagosian Gallery
Art lovers around the world rejoice as Gagosian Gallery presents Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986-2011, across eleven international locations...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Salt Fine Art
Saltfineart is proud to present its most daring and intense show to date ¡CUBA! featuring 11 artists living and working within...
Eric Joyner: It's a Jungle Out There
Friday 2/ 3 @ Corey Helford Gallery
In “It’s a Jungle Out There,” Joyner’s robots trade their domestic lives featured in “Donut Logic”—his 2010 exhibition at Corey Helford...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Friday 2/ 3 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
During a career spanning four decades, George Harrison earned a reputation as one of rock's most talented and innovative musicians and...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Gallery 1988
Cartoon Network's Adult Swim lineup can be an extremely polarizing subject, whether you're a diehard fan of Tim & Eric Awesome...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Highways Performance Space
Who’s Hungry – Santa Monica premieres at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica on January 27, 28, February 3 and 4,...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Civic Virtue: the Watts Towers Art Center
Friday 2/ 3 @ Watts Towers Art Center
Instead of artwork being isolated within a vacuum of the creative minds being represented, the paintings, sculpture, photography, film and other...
Friday 2/ 3 @ REDCAT
Early Morning Opera: Abacus is a visual investigation into imagined communities and hyped-up modern phenomena such as overblown tech conferences, televangelists,...
Civic Virtue: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Friday 2/ 3 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and other works at this dual-venue exhibition have been chosen to represent the history of two...
Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Caña Rum Bar
Caña Rum Bar is a glamorous throwback to 1930s Havana. Secreted within the historic Petroleum Building, with an entrance hidden in...
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Friday 2/ 3 @ LACMA
Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman wanted to make a documentary about a nightclub, but after a trip to the Moulin Rouge put him...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ The Broad Stage
Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe-winner Helen Hunt stars in this groundbreaking new version of Wilder’s iconic American play. Our Town tells...
Friday 2/ 3 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The first large-scale survey of California art from this period, Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 features artists working...
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings
Friday 2/ 3 @ LACMA
American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Born in Newburgh, New...
Obstacleism: Paintings by Farr Ligvani
Friday 2/ 3 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Born in Tehran and educated in California, Ligvani focuses his art on ideas of life and evolution. As the artist wrestled...
Friday 2/ 3 @ LACMA
Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
