All events Aug 29–31
- Music: Hip-Hop
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Little Brother
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Friday Aug 29 (7pm) @ Key Club
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Picking up where 2005's The Minstrel Show left off, Phonte and Big Pooh take Little Brother through all the growing pains of losing 9th Wonder's... View details »
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Ratcatcher
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Friday Aug 29 (7:30pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
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Although there's barely been a peep from Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay since she made her shatteringly gorgeous 2002 film, Morvern Callar, the director's relatively small... View details »
- Music: Folk/Country
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Inara George
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Friday Aug 29 (7:30pm) @ The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
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Topanga Canyon native Inara George brings it back home with a show at Theatricum Botanicum. George sings vocals for the electro-pop group the Bird and... View details »
- Film
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Drive-In Series
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Friday Aug 29 (9pm) @ The Steve Allen Theater
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Grab your best buds — or just someone you can hide behind — as the Steve Allen Theater's homemade drive-in combines LA's twin obsessions with... View details »
- Music: DJ
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Wet Pool Party
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Saturday Aug 30 (1pm) @ Custom Hotel
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The final Wet Pool Party of the summer hits Custom Hotel, the Westside's answer to Hollywood's Standard, complete with poolside lounging, fancy drinks, small plates,... View details »
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Mercedes Helnwein
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Saturday Aug 30 (8–11pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
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Austrian artist Mercedes Helnwein's darkly beautiful pencil drawings are equal parts Tim Burton fairy tale, Cindy Sherman photograph, and girlish fantasy. The women in her... View details »
- Film
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Saturday Aug 30 (8:30pm) @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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Cinespia's 2008 season in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery has featured the suspenseful, the awesomely awkward, and the straight-up strange. Tonight's film is no less unique... View details »
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Cannibal Flower
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Saturday Aug 30 (9pm–1am) @ The Firehouse
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Brace yourself for overstimulation: peripatetic art/performance collective Cannibal Flower is throwing its eight-year anniversary show. The soiree, held at downtown's Los Angeles Firehouse, includes the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
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Chiwan Choi
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Sunday Aug 31 (6–7:30pm) @ The Hotel Café
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The Tongue & Groove monthly gets a jolt of mellow soul as it welcomes writer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Les July, whose recent on-stage collaborations... View details »
- Film: Shorts
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Channel 101
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Sunday Aug 31 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Cinespace
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"Development hell" takes on new meaning at Channel 101, where television pilots do battle before real viewers, not jaded network moguls. Anyone can send in... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Silver Summit
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Sunday Aug 31 (8pm) @ Tangier Restaurant
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Brooklyn's Silver Summit are a natural fit for Language of Stone, the baroque psych-folk label run by Espers' Greg Weeks. Sondra Ow Sun-Odeon's trembling voice... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Polvo
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Sunday Aug 31 (8pm) @ Echoplex
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In the wake of a deluge of post-punk reunions (Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, etc.), descendant '80s and '90s acts are taking their turn:... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Weedeater
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Sunday Aug 31 (8pm) @ Relax Bar
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Weedeater have quite a reputation: the band boasts ex-members of the notoriously violent Buzzov-en, an album recorded by Steve Albini and released on Southern Lord... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
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Jenny Mollen-Biggs
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Friday Aug 29 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss
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When Jenny Mollen-Biggs isn't acting in films and television shows, she is exhibiting paintings that are simultaneously cute and sinister. The artist — who can... View details »
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Jerome Witkin
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Friday Aug 29 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
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Many art critics and scholars consider Jerome Witkin to be America's greatest living figurative painter. His portraits and landscapes combine an unerring eye for detail,... View details »
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No Room
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Friday Aug 29 (10am–5:30pm) @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
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Architects and international-design darlings Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee are known for innovative materials and forms. Visually and conceptually promiscuous, Christopher Grimes Gallery has invited... View details »
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Two Madmen
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Friday Aug 29 (10am–5pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design
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Clive Barker is a successful author, director, screenwriter, playwright, and poet; Myron Dyal is a classical musician. But both artists also maintain an interest in... View details »
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(Neo) Realism
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Friday Aug 29 @ George Billis Gallery
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Just like the A.O.S. song says, history repeats itself. The new exhibition at George Billis Gallery offers a refreshing take on mid-19th-century realism, as an... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Friday Aug 29 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
- Art: Photography
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This Side of Paradise
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Friday Aug 29 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
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If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses spin many a word.... View details »
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Marlene Dumas
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches and paintings that explore... View details »
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The Juxtapoz Factor
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–5pm) @ Laguna Art Museum
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To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as little surprise that some... View details »
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Rozi Demant
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–5pm) @ Tarryn Teresa Gallery
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The work of New Zealander Rozi Demant depicts feathered friends, but her birds don't always stand for things like freedom, peace, and beauty. Demant's utterly... View details »
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Sculpture Part II
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–6pm) @ Western Project
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For the second installment of its lively Sculpture series, Culver City gallery Western Projects pushes the 3-D envelope with a collection of works by Michael... View details »
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Josh Dorman
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–5pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
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Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
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Adi Da Samraj
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–5pm) @ LA Contemporary
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Adi Da Samraj's images are products of mashed-together visual strategies, evoking everything from Mondrian's primary-color palette and geometric line work to Lichtenstein's fragmentation of familiar... View details »
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Peter Saul
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator of work that's part... View details »
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Vexing
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art
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In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark in East LA. Although... View details »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum
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Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
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Doug Henry & Joe Potts
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–6pm) @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
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Video artist Doug Henry and composer/audiophile Joe Potts collaborate in a major new video work honoring the 100-year anniversary of cubism and Picasso's masterpiece Les... View details »
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Omage 08
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–6pm) @ Track 16 Gallery
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In celebration of Otis College's 90th anniversary, 60 of the faculty's most renowned artists, designers, and writers are honored for their imaginative prowess and influence... View details »
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Aragna Ker
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–6pm) @ Sabina Lee Gallery
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Cambodian artist Aragna Ker can't help but poke and prod at cultural meanings until they fall apart. His elaborate mixed-media installations infuse Asian traditions of... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Jim Marshall
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–6pm) @ Duncan Miller Gallery
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During his 40-year career, rock 'n roll photographer Jim Marshall has captured some of Bob Dylan's, John Coltrane's, and Janis Joplin's most intimate moments. "There's... View details »
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Signals: A Video Showcase
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work of Mungo Thomson, Enid... View details »
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The Horror of Tradition
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Friday Aug 29 (11am–6pm) @ AndrewShire Gallery
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The five artists brought together for this end-of-summer group show have little in common — except perhaps episodes of childhood trauma involving home-ec class. They... View details »
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David Eddington
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Friday Aug 29 (11:30am–6:30pm) @ Frank Pictures Gallery
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British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific shore, but his new... View details »
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Cindy Stelmackowich
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Friday Aug 29 (noon–6pm) @ Kristi Engle Gallery
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Unless you're a goth historian, 19th-century cadavers, Victorian lace, and anatomical illustrations are not often everyday topics of interest. But Canadian artist Cindy Stelmackowich stumbled... View details »
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Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
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Friday Aug 29 (noon–5pm) @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
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Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who transform photography (decidedly two-dimensional)... View details »
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Kelly Lynn Jones
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Friday Aug 29 (noon–5pm) @ Little Bird Gallery
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Drawing on her suburban So-Cal roots, Kelly Lynn Jones depicts modern America's decay in sparse, childlike paintings. Using house paint and pencil, the artist renders... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia
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Friday Aug 29 (noon–9pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who diCorcia usually finds through... View details »
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Nathan Danilowicz
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Friday Aug 29 (noon–6pm) @ Crisp London Los Angeles
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Pawn Shop Gallery reinvents itself as the LA half of the new venture Crisp London Los Angeles with an inaugural exhibition of recent photographs and... View details »
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Kori Newkirk
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Friday Aug 29 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
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Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle: a mural of a... View details »
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Buff Monster
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Friday Aug 29 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford
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This aptly titled exhibition from Los Angeles street artist Buff Monster submerges viewers in a candy-coated, anime-inspired world. His riffs on the "Superflat" style feature... View details »
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Against the Grain
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Friday Aug 29 (noon–9pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
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Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the Grain, perhaps this summer's... View details »
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Neck Face
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Friday Aug 29 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art
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Neck Face and his ubiquitous demon motifs — scrawled all over downtowns on both coasts — enter the gallery scene and infiltrate the once-genteel medium... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Rock Docs
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Friday Aug 29 (7:30pm) @ Aero Theatre
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The American Cinematheque keeps trumping itself with über-cool event after über-cool event. The latest is Rock Docs, a five-night series that screens classic concert documentary... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Rabbit Hole
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Friday Aug 29 (8pm) @ Skylight Theatre
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Commissioned as part of South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival, David Lindsay-Abaire's wrenching drama won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and kick-started Cynthia Nixon's Tony Award-winning... View details »
- More Flavor: Party
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Bronx Zoo
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Saturday Aug 30 (3:30–8pm) @ La Cita
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Conceived as a Saturday afternoon cocktail party with art activities, Ghettogloss gallery launched its Bronx Zoo summer series in June at the delightfully dancy downtown... View details »
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James Turrell
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Sunday Aug 31 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
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It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
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Hans Burkhardt
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Friday Aug 29 (noon–4pm) @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
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Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught before his death), this... View details »
