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Sparks Hollywood Forever Cemetery : 9:00 p.m. April 16
On their critically hailed “Two Hands One Mouth” tour, the, well, yes, legendary Sparks offer something so unusual, so artistically conceived and so wittily executed and fun that you’d be an utter fool to miss it. (We suspect you’re aware of that.) Mustachioed... More >>
Hollywood	Music

The xx Fox Theater Pomona : 8:00 p.m. April 17
Though allegedly influenced by club music, any party-hearty echoes on The xx’s 2012 sophomore album, Coexist, are almost literally that. Even when Jamie Smith’s beats get bulbous (and the kick drum certainly is cranium-cracking in places), their humble place in the mix makes them... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Public Enemy House of Blues Sunset Strip : 8:00 p.m. April 17
Even if Public Enemy had never existed in the late 1980s and early ’90s, when the New York rappers released their most famous albums, they’d still have to be considered one of the most important hip-hop (and rock) groups of all time. How is that possible? While critics and fans seem... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Autumn Martin Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood : 7:00 p.m. April 18
It’s been a hectic five years since Seattle chocolatier Autumn Martin founded Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery, a purveyor of organic American comfort desserts (a pleasant pleonasm if ever there were one). As if becoming pastry master at Seattle’s Canlis restaurant and head... More >>
Santa Monica	Literary Events, Food & Drink

La Roux The Fonda Theatre : 9:00 p.m. April 18
Amid the cold-ass, high-style world of electro-pop, there’s something refreshingly real and warm about La Roux. When the English duo, singer Elly Jackson and co-writer/producer Ben Langmaid, debuted with their eponymous 2009 album, it was hailed for the supple, soulful athletics of... More >>
Out of Town	Music

End of the Rainbow Ahmanson Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until April 21; 2:00 p.m. every Sat. until April 21; 1:00 p.m. every Sun. until April 21
Judy Garland's legendary triumphs and tragedies, dish and dirt have been chronicled so often and in so many forms, it would seem no nuance is left to be unearthed. Then there is Tracie Bennett, a performer whose colossal vocal and emotional power in End of the Rainbow pull us eagerly into a... More >>
Downtown	Theater - Large, Theater

Remembrance Theatre 40 at the Reuben Cordova Theater : 8:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat. until April 21; 2:00 p.m. every Sun. until April 21
There's a memorably tender moment, in this production of Graham Reid's 1984 Irish play, when two widowed seniors, Bert (Mik Scriba), a Protestant, and Theresa (Diana Angelina), a Catholic, kiss for the first time. The two always meet in a cemetery, where they regularly tend the graves of their... More >>
Beverly Hills	Theater

Brad Eberhard: (dis-solve) Thomas Solomon Gallery : Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until April 20
In Brad Eberhard's 4-foot-tall oil painting Entrar, a large group of small figures wearing colored shirts, skirts or pants walks along an inclining expanse of greens, while green, blue and mauve shapes loom above the figures, some dripping down on them as stalagmites might. In Colored Dirt,... More >>
Chinatown/ Elysian Park	Arts, Art - Galleries

One Night With Janis Joplin Pasadena Playhouse : 2:00 p.m. every Sun. until April 21; 8:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until April 21; 4:00 p.m. every Sat. until April 21
The seductive appeal of this musical hagiography by writer-director Randy Johnson is no mystery. Nineteen-sixties rock acts have proved effective boomer bait for fundraising PBS stations for years. That the trend should have morphed into the tribute-concert stage musical merely speaks to... More >>
Pasadena and vicinity	Theater - Large, Theater

S.O.E. Atwater Village Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Sat., Sun. until April 15; 7:00 p.m. every Mon. until April 15
Build a better mousetrap, it is said, and the world will beat a path to your door. Or at least to Atwater Village, where playwright Jami Brandli's clever, three-character riff on the venerable West End murder mystery The Mousetrap is attempting to give Agatha Christie a run for her money. Call... More >>
Northeast L.A.	Theater

Meg Cranston: Emerald City; Alex Israel: Lens LAXART : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until April 20
Every year, Pantone, the 50-year-old company famous for forecasting which colors will be popular when, names a color of the year. This year, it's emerald green, a color of "elegance and beauty" that enhances "our sense of well-being." Artist Meg Cranston follows such forecasts closely, and, for... More >>
West L.A.	Arts, Art - Galleries

Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke Catalina Bar & Grill : 8:30 p.m. daily from April 9 until April 13; 7:30 p.m. April 14
Pianist-composer Chick Corea’s 59 Grammy nominations are the third most of any artist in the history of the awards, and his 20 wins tie him with guitarist Pat Metheny for the most by a jazz musician. Bassist Stanley Clarke has been with Corea off and on since Corea’s first award for... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Dialogues: An Exhibition of Drawings and Models ForYourArt : Every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu. until April 16
For Your Art, a space inside a gallery across from LACMA, continues to present eclectic pop-up projects, including the current interdisciplinary group show, DIALOGUES: Los Angeles-Paris/Art-Architecture. For the latest in an impressive run of programs from the Ceci N’est Pas ...... More >>
Hollywood	Art - Galleries

Made in Space Night Gallery : Every Tue., Wed., Thu. until April 15
In "Made in Space," curated by Laura Owens and Peter Harkawik at Night Gallery, Jedediah Caesar's bricks of resin run along the floor near where the wall meets it. Mungo Thompson's two mirrors, which have Time magazine's logo at the top and its classic red border along the edges, hang opposite... More >>
East L.A.	Arts, Art - Galleries

T. Kelly Mason: Atmospheric (Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary action) Cherry and Martin : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until April 13
T. Kelly Mason's Typology of Glasses shows a line of casual-looking glassware painted against a baby blue background. The painting is inside a lightbox, backlit by gels and covered with glass. Above that glass, Mason has outlined his glassware in marker, so that the drawing begins to seem... More >>
West L.A.	Arts, Art - Galleries

Eben Goff: New Sculpture; John M. Miller: All or Nothing (At All) Diane Rosenstein Fine Art : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until April 13
There's an awful story in art-world lore about the marriage of Ana Mendieta, the elegant earth artist, and Carl Andre, the clean-edged minimalist. She fell from a window one night, possibly pushed by him, and didn't survive. Sometimes this seems like a metaphor for how their sensibilities were... More >>
Hollywood	Arts, Art - Galleries

Monsterpalooza Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel & Convention Center : 6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. April 12; 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. April 13; 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. April 14
Whether scaly, one-eyed, furry, slimy, winged, shambling or even undead, monsters are a near-universal fascination. Yet lurking among us are a cult of zealots for whom they have almost religious significance. For that sickly sect, Monsterpalooza is like a three-day Christmas in Hades.... More >>
Out of Town	Festivals, Conventions

Marilyn: My Secret Macha Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Sat. until April 14; 3:00 p.m. every Sun. until April 15
Though iconic Hollywood bombshell Marilyn Monroe's story has been examined and re-examined from almost every possible angle over the years, Marilyn: My Secret, Odalys Nanin and Willard Manus' take, treads ground yet unworn as it explores the star's bisexuality and lesbian affairs. Just after... More >>
West Hollywood	Theater

Los Angeles Dance Festival Diavolo Performance Space : 8:00 p.m. April 13; 9:00 p.m. April 14
In a season filled with wonderful out-of-town companies dropping in for a bit of SoCal spring, only to take the ticket proceeds back to entertain their home audiences, L.A.’s own bring it all home with the second edition of the Los Angeles Dance Festival. Co-sponsored by Diavolo Dance... More >>
Downtown	Dance

Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Empire Polo Club : 12:00 p.m. April 12; 12:00 p.m. April 19
Although it’s unlikely that the Rolling Stones and their sprawling entourage will descend on this sun-baked music festival for a surprise set, as was rumored earlier this year, there are still many intriguing storylines scattered among the scores of performers making the trek to Indio... More >>
Riverside County	Music

Won Ju Lim: Selected Sculptures Patrick Painter, Inc : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until April 20
Artist Won Ju Lim studied architecture before she studied sculpture and began her career in the early aughts with crisp, colorful models of stacked cities and local landmarks. Her Broken Landscapes series, which she exhibited for the first time circa 2007, felt darker. She would re-create local... More >>
Santa Monica	Arts, Art - Galleries

The 4 & 20 All Star Lanes : 8:00 p.m. every Tue.
Against all odds, there is yet another reason to frequent Eagle Rock's All Star Lanes. If glow-in-the-dark bowling, embarrassment-indifferent karaoke and recession-friendly drinks aren't enough to tempt, here's another delight: novice comedy. The 4 & 20 is a weekly selection of four of the... More >>
Out of Town	Comedy

Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain Orange County Museum of Art : Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until May 5
"It seems like you love [paint] more than anybody I know," Dennis Szakacs, the Orange County Museum of Art's director, said to artist Richard Jackson a few years ago. "I buy more of it than anybody I know!" Jackson replied. Szakacs has curated a Jackson retrospective at OCMA, "Ain't Painting a... More >>
Out of Town	Arts, Art - Museums

The Grapes of Wrath A Noise Within : 8:00 p.m. April 11; 8:00 p.m. April 12; 2:00 p.m. April 20; 2:00 p.m. April 21; 8:00 p.m. May 3; 2:00 p.m. May 11
There are no weak links in Michael Michetti's staging of The Grapes of Wrath. It is a study of characters adrift, American refugees of the Great Depression, starting with the decision of the Joad family to leave Dust Bowl–cursed Oklahoma for California. On the horizon of the dusty plains... More >>
Glendale	Theater - Large, Theater

Ends and Exits: Contemporary Art From the Collections of LACMA and The Broad Art Foundation Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) : Every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until August 4
You have to walk through Cady Noland's Office Filter, a metal gate with a jacket hanging on one end of it, to get into the second gallery of LACMA's "Ends and Exits" show. There you'll find a yellow tarp across which Keith Haring painted his red, rambunctious characters, and the dress of white... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Arts, Art - Museums