Los Angeles Events - Los Angeles Entertainment Guide

Recommended Events
The Moth's Story Slam Los Globos : 7:30 p.m. May 21
When novelist George Dawes Green founded the Moth in 1997, it was an attempt to escape the nonstop noise of New York City and re-create the quiet nights of his Georgia youth, where friends would gather on the porch and share stories while moths flittered through the screen door. Sixteen years... More >>
Silver Lake	Literary Events

The Black Angels The Mayan : 7:00 p.m. May 21
The Black Angels bring a different musical inspiration into focus on each album. For their latest, Indigo Meadow, that would primarily be The Doors, as "Always Maybe" with its shuddering keys and poetic strain and the crazed organs of "I Hear Colors (Chromaesthesia)" sound like The Black Angels... More >>
Downtown	Music

Laura Marling Hollywood Forever Cemetery : 9:00 p.m. May 21
At 16, Laura Marling moved from her Southeast England home to London to join the nu-folk movement. Now 23, the young English folk star sings like she's had a lifetime of experience. Quiet and guarded, Marling doesn't actually fancy bringing up her age but seems comfortable with the woman she is... More >>
Hollywood	Music

Temple Grandin Los Angeles Central Library : 7:15 p.m. May 22
There are very few genuine mysteries left in our over-developed 21st century, but autism stands as one. The pervasive neurological disorder casts a punishing shadow over an ever-increasing number of families, yet the available science on its cause or the reason for its effects is about as... More >>
Downtown	Literary Events

Youngblood Hawke The Avalon : 8:00 p.m. May 22
Youngblood Hawke has one of those inspiring stories about how we all gotta take some knocks on our way to the top, keep our chins up while we're getting there and maintain the faith that it's all gonna happen, and soon. That A for Attitude aids and abets the L.A. quintet's campaign for world... More >>
Hollywood	Music

Tele Novella, Raw Geronimo, Las Brujas Bootleg Theater : 9:00 p.m. May 22
Let's check in on Laena Geronimo, so named probably because she wouldn't be scared for even a second if she had to parachute from an airplane 8 miles up. It's that kind of free-fall fearlessness she brings to Raw Geronimo, the L.A. band that makes loop-the-loop punk-pop songs bristling with... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Turbonegro The Observatory : 8:00 p.m. May 23
In a shrill, flaccid world of candy-ass rock & roll wannabes, venerable Nordic sensations Turbonegro have always stood apart. With an abusively frantic drive, dirty, desperate tone and absurdly negligent lyrical content, the band has long since established itself as a legitimate pox in the... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Farmer Dave Scher Del Monte Speakeasy : 9:00 p.m. May 23
Since it's the dude's birthday, let's use this spot to send Beachwood Sparks' Farmer Dave Scher some well wishes, and maybe some well whiskey, too. Besides his regular gig as sideman to the stars, Ol' F.D. is pretty much the animating spirit and wise --or was that wise-crackin'?-- elder of a... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Boris, Deafheaven, Ides of Gemini The Echoplex : 8:00 p.m. May 24
Japanese experimental rockers Boris have spent their entire 15-year career making sure that their fans are unable to predict what will come next from the band. One album could consist of thrashing heavy rockers (2011's Heavy Rocks), the next could consist of dreamy, atmospheric, shoegaze-laden... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Lupillo Rivera Nokia Theatre : 8:00 p.m. May 24
Talk about larger than life. Chicano singing star Lupillo Rivera, who rose from the absolutely nowheresville Long Beach barrio to conquer the highly charged realm of traditional Mexican corridos (managing it all with an admirable swagger and a set of powerhouse pipes), has survived both a... More >>
Downtown	Music

The Detroit Cobras The Down & Out : 9:30 p.m. May 24
Not since The Rolling Stones got their start in the early '60s has a mere cover band made as big an impact as The Detroit Cobras have. Of course, the Stones eventually went on to write their own songs, but the Cobras have zealously stuck to reinterpreting both certified soul classics and R&B... More >>
Downtown	Music

Los Angeles Indie Improv Festival Artworks Theatre & Studios : May 25
L.A.'s improv community assembles again for the second annual Los Angeles Indie Improv Festival. The one-day, 12-hour event will be jam-packed with laughs as more than 125 improv groups perform across three stages in Hollywood. The festival is produced by indie comedy shows Crashbar Improv, the... More >>
Hollywood	Comedy

Subhumans, Total Chaos, Naked Aggression, Mundo Muerto The Vex Arts L.A. : 7:00 p.m. May 25
In the early days of punk rock, two different bands with the same name emerged. Making things more confusing, both groups were fiercely radical, with ultra-leftist politics and lyrics, and both were massively influential in the punk underground in their own strikingly different ways. The... More >>
East L.A.	Music

Fleetwood Mac Hollywood Bowl : 8:00 p.m. May 25
Given their jam-packed treasure box of pop-rock smasheroos, it'd be hard for the reunited Fleetwood Mac to disappoint their legions of fans, now wouldn't it? The core unit of drummer-founder Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, guitarist-singer Lindsay Buckingham and vocalist Stevie Nicks will... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Gilles Peterson, Jeremy Sole, Wiseacre 333 Live : 9:00 p.m. May 25
DJ and culture curator Gilles Peterson has what the pros call a "real sweet gig": Go strolling around the world, pry undiscovered and awesome records out of attics, dollar bins and possibly shipwrecks, then play them for audiences and stand back and smile at the fireworks as minds across the... More >>
Downtown	Music

Korean BBQ of Giant Proportions Susan Feniger's Street : 12:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. May 26
Step away from the hot dog and hamburger buns! Something far more interesting awaits you this Memorial Day weekend as Street serves up Korean fare from chefs Susan Feniger and Kajsa Alger at Korean BBQ of Giant Proportions. If you're a Food Network fan and cookbook connoisseur, you'll recognize... More >>
Hollywood	Food & Drink

The Damned El Rey Theatre : 8:00 p.m. May 26
As their overly obscure Live Shepperton 1980 album ably demonstrates, The Damned were one of first-generation Brit punk's most compelling concert draws. Raucous and irreverent yet musically deft, they were capable of everything from confrontational, violence-inciting chants to meandering... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Music

Walk for Warriors Veterans' Administration West Los Angeles Healthcare Center : 7:00 a.m. May 27
The third annual Walk for Warriors 5K run/walk, produced by nonprofit New Directions, assists homeless veterans. This Memorial Day is the perfect day not only to commemorate their sacrifice but also to show those who served that you are there in the morning, on a holiday, to honor them with... More >>
West L.A.	Health & Fitness

Troy Walker, Big Mike & Blues Deluxx Viva Cantina : 8:00 p.m. May 27
Troy Walker is one of the Los Angeles music underworld's most gleefully infernal practitioners. This rafter-rattling, big-voiced, outrageous, gender-bending entertainer first flipped wigs along the Sunset Strip some 50 years ago, when his fans included Gregory Peck, Ethel Merman and Elvis... More >>
Burbank	Music

Mystery Skulls, Mars Argo, Gothic Tropic, Emika, DJ Jeremy Burke Bardot Hollywood : 9:00 p.m. May 27
Echo Park-based trio Gothic Tropic join Chris Douridas' distinguished School Night to showcase their quirky psych-pop. Currently recording the full-length follow-up to their 2011 Awesome Problems EP, the group's instinctive, down-to-earth mindset carries into their music, establishing a... More >>
Hollywood	Music

Eve Ensler All Saints Episcopal Church : 7:00 p.m. May 28
If there's one thing you should take away from watching (or reading) the fantastic play The Vagina Monologues, it should be this: Eve Ensler does not shy away from talking about the female body. The playwright and author gets even more personal in her memoir, In the Body of the World, sharing... More >>
Pasadena and vicinity	Literary Events

Lissie Hollywood Forever Cemetery : 9:00 p.m. May 28
When Elisabeth Corrin Maurus first came to attention with early releases Catching a Tiger and EP Why You Runnin', her folk-pop songs had a restlessly rootsy intimacy. Lissie's arrangements were relatively stripped down, moving from stark country folk to more overtly poppy settings. At her best,... More >>
Hollywood	Music

Inara George, Van Dyke Parks, The Brazil You Never Heard Largo at the Coronet : 8:00 p.m. May 29
Van Dyke Parks is the celebrated arranger-pianist best known for his collaborations with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, although he's also worked with everyone from Tim Buckley to Frank Zappa and has attempted to create his own hybrid of distinctively American pop and classical forms. Tonight... More >>
West Hollywood	Music

The Kids, The Stitches, Cyclops, Black Mambas Los Globos : 9:00 p.m. May 29
One of their best songs was "This Is Rock & Roll," but Belgium's Kids were as punk as it gets -- especially on their first two, relentless 1978 LPs, which matched The Damned's velocity with Ramones-style, punch-in-the-gut riffs. Ludo Mariman was more a flamethrower than a singer, and whether it... More >>
Silver Lake	Music

Billy's Fish Fry & Community Social: The Literary Event La Luz de Jesus Gallery : 8:00 p.m. May 30
For the last year or so, longtime Los Angeles merchant Billy Shire has been presenting a "21st-century salon" at his monthly Thursday Night Fish Fry & Community Social, featuring poetry, performances and music. The 14th edition, "The Literary Event," promises memorably unhinged prose to boot.... More >>
Los Feliz	Literary Events