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CicLAvia

MacArthur Park : 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. October 6

Escape the crushing traffic this Sunday by heading to a part of the city where all motors are banned. CicLAvia is celebrating its third anniversary with the Heart of L.A., its eighth and latest attempt to liberate the people of L.A. from their steering wheels. From 9 a.m.to 4 p.m., streets will... More >>

Westlake Community Events

Way Over Yonder Festival

Santa Monica Pier : 2:00 p.m. October 6

When Conor Oberst introduced himself as Bright Eyes in the 1990s, he inadvertently launched a version of emo rock that spoke to teenagers in shadowy bedrooms around the world. Whether or not the lyrics he sang were fictional, Oberst's fixation on isolation and dark memories led him down a... More >>

Out of Town Music

Best in Drag Show

The Orpheum Theatre : 7:00 p.m. October 6

If you can't wait until the West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnaval, L.A.'s biggest cavalcade of dudes who look like ladies, there's always Best in Drag Show, which proves that it takes a real man to walk around in Lucite heels. The annual pageant spoof, benefiting nonprofit Aid for AIDS,... More >>

Downtown LGBT Events

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

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
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Becoming Los Angeles

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County : Daily

No matter how thin your wallet, every first Tuesday the 50,000-year-old Simi Valley mastodon can be your date. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's halls of herpetology, ichthyology and mineralogy are open once a month to broke Angelenos dying to keep tabs on the world's ancient... More >>

USC to South L.A. Art - Museums

ROCK/FIGHT: A Photographic Exhibition

PROJECT Gallery : Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until October 6

The perfectly titled ROCK/FIGHT brings together vintage sporting-event photography by Theo Ehret with iconic rock & roll images by photographers Edward Colver, Henry Diltz, Janette Beckman and a dozen other giants of the punk-era lens. A co-production of Morrison Hotel Gallery and Project... More >>

Hollywood Art - Galleries

Pumpkin Festival

Lombardi Ranch : Daily until October 31

With its gorgeously remote, rural setting, nestled in a ring of rolling hills, and its eye-poppingly vivid sprawl of 10,000 or so pumpkins, Canyon Country landmark Lombardi Ranch's annual Pumpkin Festival never fails to deliver plenty of seasonal kicks and idyllic, agrarian atmosphere.... More >>

Santa Clarita and Beyond Community Events

James Turrell: A Retrospective

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) : Every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until April 6

It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, painter, architect, Light and Space artist or earthwork artist. We vote for all of the above, and more. But however you cast your ballot, you can't help but be a fan of Turrell's transcendent Skyspaces -- specially built rooms (and... More >>

Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park Art - Museums

The Fifth Anniversary Group Exhibition

Offramp Gallery : Every Fri., Sat., Sun. until October 13

Some galleries are as much an art project as the exhibitions they present. In Pasadena, that's certainly true of Jane Chafin and Chaz Alexander's gallery. The Offramp Gallery Fifth-Anniversary Party will be one of the gallery's magical garden openings, unveiling improvements to the lovingly... More >>

Pasadena and vicinity Art - Galleries

Humor Abuse

Mark Taper Forum : 8:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat. until November 3; 1:00 p.m. every Sun. until November 3; 2:30 p.m. every Sat. until November 3

As the title indicates, Humor Abuse is no lighthearted evening of sidesplitting laughs. Demonstrating elaborate pratfalls, juggling and elegant comedy bits, Lorenzo Pisoni's solo clown show charts his upbringing as a fourth-generation vaudevillian and performer, focusing mainly on a... More >>

Downtown Theater - Large, Theater

Angel City Jazz Festival

John Anson Ford Amphitheatre : 4:00 p.m. October 6

Once a humble grassroots event, Angel City Jazz Festival has steadily grown into an annual powerhouse, bringing to L.A. a remarkable number of creative improvisers from the ever-evolving front lines of jazz. Now co-produced by the Jazz Bakery, ACJF plays out over the next two weekends at LACMA,... More >>

Out of Town Music

Tomorrow!

Trepany House at the Steve Allen Theater : 12:00 a.m. every Sat.

It's been seven years since Ron Lynch, along with Craig Anton, launched Tomorrow!, the wildly unpredictable midnight comedy show at the Steve Allen Theater. Brendon Small soon was added as host, and the show quickly gained a reputation for anything-goes comic experimentation. Neil Hamburger,... More >>

Los Feliz Comedy

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

Werner Herzog: Hearsay of the Soul

The Getty Center : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until January 19

His music is eerie, dreamy, jarring, richly harmonious -- an arresting blend of traditional and experimental classical motifs. Dutch cellist/composer Ernst Reijseger has long been a pioneer in jazz, improvisational and contemporary classical music, appreciated by, among other luminaries, Werner... More >>

Out of Town Art - Museums

Junipero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions

Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens : Every Mon., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until January 6

Junipero Serra, the Franciscan friar who founded the first missions in California and famously compelled Native Americans to convert through fervent chest-beating, has been exhumed multiple times since his 1784 death. Once in 1882, a friar distributed threads from Serra's dug-up burial stole.... More >>

Pasadena and vicinity Arts, Art - Museums

Shaping Power: Luba Masterworks From the Royal Museum for Central Africa

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) : Every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until January 5

The word "power" often connotes bigness -- the tallest buildings, the strongest weapons, the deepest bank accounts. So the smallness of the emblems in "Shaping Power," the debut exhibition in LACMA's newly opened African Art galleries, is striking. The show consists largely of exquisitely... More >>

Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park Arts, Art - Museums

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

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

Sixth Street Mural at the Standard, Downtown L.A.

24/7 Restaurant at The Standard : Daily until November 1

John Knuth's mural, part of the Sixth Street Mural at the Standard program, shows red-orange smoke billowing out against a black background. It's the photograph of an emergency flare against a night sky, and, seen shooting up out of the desert, or on the side of a road, it probably would have... More >>

Downtown Arts, Art - Galleries

IndieCade

IndieCade Village : 9:00 a.m. daily until October 6

Has your baby ever uttered the phrase "Don't play games with me!" in the midst of a heated debate? Well, it's time to dump that sad sack and take a new date to IndieCade, the biggest independent game festival in the nation. Arcade games, virtual games, body immersion games, board games,... More >>

Culver City Games, Arts

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

The Burnt Part Boys

Third Street Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until October 20; 2:00 p.m. every Sun. until October 20

With a hardscrabble Appalachian setting and a score that engagingly echoes the melodies of Copland, Bernstein and Sondheim, this captivating new musical (book by Mariana Elder, music by Chris Miller, and lyrics by Nathan Tysen) is both a sensitive meditation on grief and a heartfelt... More >>

West Hollywood Theater

Kin

Theatre 40 at the Reuben Cordova Theater : 8:00 p.m. every Thu., Fri., Sat. until October 27; 2:00 p.m. every Sun. until October 27

In Bathsheba Doran's elliptical comedy-drama Kin, the title becomes shorthand for the people we save and those who redeem us. Sean (Grinnell Morris) is a personal trainer and Irish émigré; Anna (Melissa Collins) is a Columbia University adjunct who's just completed her first book,... More >>

Beverly Hills Theater

The Normal Heart

Fountain Theatre : 8:00 p.m. every Fri., Sat. until November 3; 2:00 p.m. every Sun. until November 3; 8:00 p.m. every Thu. until October 24

When the AIDS plague emerged in 1981, writer-activist Larry Kramer was devastated to learn that the larger society wasn't remotely concerned that gay men were dying by the thousands, and the gay community was refusing to admit its own responsibility. He set out to call the world to account, and... More >>

Out of Town Theater
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