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The Show Comedy Central Stage : 8:00 p.m. October 16
The The Show is not a tribute to the British band that did the song "Uncertain Smile," but instead comedian Mo Welch's showcase of L.A. comedy laboring incessantly on the fringes. Sounds more interesting, no? Through improv, grammatical gymnastics and character creation, it packs into a... More >>
Hollywood	Comedy

Atoms for Peace Hollywood Bowl : 8:00 p.m. October 16
Atoms for Peace is the super-est of supergroups. Composed of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, along with that band's uber-producer Nigel Godrich, The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, R.E.M./Beck's Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, the group's collective love of Fela Kuti–style Afrobeat spawned Atoms... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Haim The Fonda Theatre : 9:00 p.m. October 16
The trio of sisters (and recent L.A. Weekly cover stars) known as Haim returns to L.A. for a show that probably will feel more like a grand homecoming than a typical gig. Guitarists Danielle and Alana and bassist Este Haim are on the verge of mainstream success with the late September release... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Diamond Head, Raven, Volture, Gypsyhawk, Night Demon, Savage Reign The Vex Arts L.A. : 8:00 p.m. October 17
New Wave of British Heavy Metal pointmen Diamond Head are among the more prominent victims of the music industry's fickle hand of fate. Formed in 1976, they were a hugely palpable influence on the fledgling Metallica, who debuted in L.A. five years later and covered numerous DH tunes (including... More >>
East L.A.	Music

Levitated Mass Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) : Every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.
Just when you thought you'd figured out what art really is, Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer is where modern art and the Protestant work ethic weirdly intersect, which is to say that a 340-ton granite megalith painstakingly transported over two weeks from Riverside sits in a 456-foot-long slot,... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Arts, Art - Museums

Chris Lipomi: Clothed Ascension; Jedediah Ceasar LAXART : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 19
When designer Halston partnered with JC Penney early in the 1980s, it was something of a first: a couture name making clothes for the masses. The ads for the match all said, "You're Looking Smarter Than Ever." One showed a lady in bold pink pantyhose, a matching pink dress and white hat... More >>
West L.A.	Arts, Art - Galleries

Ivan Morley Richard Telles Fine Art : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 12
Ivan Morley's A True Tale paintings were painted onto cracked glass, then peeled off and affixed to aluminum, but it might not matter much whether you know this or not. You'll still get that sense of a shattered surface when you looked at them, and the twisty shapes and colors that vaguely... More >>
Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax	Art - Galleries, Arts

Devin Troy Strother: Look at all my shit! Richard Heller Gallery : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 26
Some of the collaged-together paintings in Devon Troy Strother's show "Look at all my shit," on view at Richard Heller Gallery, have mouthfuls for titles. One of the longest belongs to the painting in which pitch-black figures with afros ride tangerine-colored cheetahs among multiple layers of... More >>
Santa Monica	Arts, Art - Galleries

John Mason: Crosses, Figures, Spears, Torques David Kordansky Gallery : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 26
From the late 1950s through the '70s, John Mason made monuments that sometimes riffed on the prehistoric, like his 1957 ceramic Vertical Spear form. Or sometimes he made pop products seem prehistoric, like the 1959 ceramic Blue Wall, which looks like petrified blue jeans spread across a wall.... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Arts, Art - Galleries

Steel Magnolias East West Players : 2:00 p.m. every Sun. until October 6
Robert Harling's comedy-drama about female friendships has seen many stage incarnations since its debut in 1987, not to mention a popular film version with Dolly Parton. Now comes a sparkling revival from East West Players with an all–Asian-American cast. Hiwa Bourne does the honors as... More >>
Downtown	Theater - Large, Theater

Gogol Bordello The Fonda Theatre : 8:00 p.m. October 7; 8:00 p.m. October 8; 8:00 p.m. October 9
One of the great things about the sprawling, three-ring circus known as Gogol Bordello is that no animals are ever harmed during their riotous performances. Except for human animals, that is. Lead singer Eugene Hutz usually remains unscathed when he flings himself about the stage, climbs into... More >>
Out of Town	Music

BODYTRAFFIC The Broad Stage, Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center : 7:30 p.m. daily from October 11 until October 12
Sometimes the planets align in the best possible way. And so it is with L.A.'s own BODYTRAFFIC. It was a significant coup when the contemporary dance troupe's artistic directors, Lilian Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett, persuaded New York's choreographer of the moment, Kyle Abraham, to... More >>
Santa Monica	Dance

KT Tunstall Hollywood Forever Cemetery : 9:00 p.m. October 11; 9:00 p.m. October 12
It's hard to stand out in a sonic landscape where singer songwriters are a penny a dozen, especially when armed only with an acoustic guitar. But for the past decade, Kate Victoria Tunstall, better known as KT Tunstall, has defied the odds. Tunstall's breakout track, 2005's "Black Horse and a... More >>
Hollywood	Music

HK Zamani: Remembering and Forgetting; Susan Silas: RAVEN CB1 Gallery : Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until October 13
Susan Silas' found birds series involves, as the title suggests, finding birds on sidewalks, alleys or lots. They've already died by the time Silas takes them home to photograph over a period of time. Often she treats them like sacred specimens, placing them against a white backdrop and... More >>
Downtown	Art - Galleries, Arts

Vintage Fashion Expo Los Angeles Convention Center : October 12; October 13
As tempting as it is to don a Halloween costume that reflects popular culture -- an orange-faced John Boehner, a green-egged Ted Cruz or a twerking Mylie -- why not make an effort to stand apart from the undulating asses? Seek out an authentic period costume at the Vintage Fashion Expo. Better... More >>
Downtown	Fashion and Style, Expos

Beyond Eden Art Fair 2013 Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) : 5:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. October 12; 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. October 13
The Beyond Eden art fair began in 2008 as East of Eden. By its sophomore installation, however, the name had been changed to relect the fact that the new contemporary art movement had outgrown the Eastside geography that was its L.A. spawning ground, occupying galleries all over town and... More >>
Los Feliz	Art - Openings and Events

Breath and Imagination: The Story of Roland Hayes Colony Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 13; 2:00 p.m. every Sun. until October 13; 3:00 p.m. every Sat. until October 13
Daniel Beaty's West Coast premiere revives the lost-to-history account of Roland Hayes, a son of former slaves and the first internationally lauded African-American classical singer. Raised in the South on hard work and spirituals, Hayes (Elijah Rock) overcomes early tragedy to perform in... More >>
Burbank	Theater

Gary Numan Hollywood Forever Cemetery : 9:00 p.m. October 17; 9:00 p.m. October 18
It's sometimes forgotten today, but when Gary Numan first emerged as a solo performer from the ashes of his breakthrough band Tubeway Army, in 1979, rock critics initially dismissed the English singer as a mere clone of David Bowie. At the time, the classic-rock establishment was seriously... More >>
Hollywood	Music

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Sacred Fools Theater : 8:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 19
Any adaptation of a novel is a compromise of approximation whose objective should be to faithfully capture the spirit and ideas of the prose in a dramatically compelling way. Which is why Philip K. Dick fans, who have repeatedly suffered the indignity of having their favorite sci-fi author... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Theater

Big Top Los Angeles State Historic Park : 7:00 p.m. October 17; 7:00 p.m. October 18; 7:00 p.m. October 19; 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. October 20
Four Days With the Circus The circus is coming to town and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, the psychedelic folk band behind "Man on Fire" and "Home," are playing ringmaster. Sick of the soulless system of touring, the L.A.-based band, in conjunction with Live Nation, has created a musical... More >>
Downtown	Circus

Neïl Beloufa Francois Ghebaly Gallery : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until November 2
Ghebaly Gallery, the space run by François Ghebaly, started out in Chinatown, moved into a muffler shop in Culver City in 2009 and now has an impressively big space by the Dames and Games nightclub downtown, adjacent to the space the young-and-growing Night Gallery opened in January.... More >>
West L.A.	Arts, Art - Galleries

The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later Davidson Valentini Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until November 16; 7:00 p.m. every Sun. until November 16
The original production of The Laramie Project rode on the wave of passion and grief spawned by the murder of Matthew Shepard. The current work, which looks at Laramie and the related issues as they appear 10 years after the fact, is necessarily more contemplative and thoughtful, but it builds... More >>
Hollywood	Theater

Talk of the Town: Portraits by Edward Steichen From the Hollander Collection Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) : Every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until December 8
From 1900 through the 1960s, Edward Steichen photographed gowns, buildings, artists, actresses and aircraft characters. Usually the images had an air of seriousness, even if they were melodramatic, like the one of sculptor Auguste Rodin staring at (and posed like) his iconic sculpture The... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Arts, Art - Museums

Low End Theory The Airliner : 10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. every Wed.
Remember life before Low End Theory? So quiet. So normal, even. Seven years ago, if you wanted your head to explode, you really had to work at it. But then Low End revealed itself as a new beginning, as founders Daddy Kev, Nobody, Gaslamp Killer, Nocando and edIT (later succeeded by D-Styles)... More >>
Downtown	Music

Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism From California Collections Pasadena Museum of California Art : Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until January 5
Late in the 1950s, when David Rockefeller decided Chase Manhattan Bank should have an art program, Sam Francis was one of the first painters the bank enlisted. The abstract expressionist, who had just started to establish himself, painted in primary colors. The shapes he rendered look like... More >>
Pasadena and vicinity	Arts, Art - Museums