Los Angeles Events Date: Mon Apr 8th - Los Angeles Entertainment Guide

Recommended Events
Rihanna Staples Center : 7:30 p.m. April 8
The Barbadian pop rebel joins forces with musical cohorts Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa, Illy Da King and A$AP Rocky for the Los Angeles stop of her Diamonds World Tour. Although recently panned by some critics and fans for a very public reunion with former abuser Chris Brown, she remains... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Write Club Los Angeles Bootleg Theater : 7:00 p.m. April 8
Fight Club is so passe; these days, even word lovers hold clandestine get-togethers for the sake of a good (literary) fight. Celebrating a year going strong, Write Club Los Angeles tonight hosts another unique showdown where brave souls put their writing chops to the test. Two writers get two... More >>
Out of Town	Literary Events

Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside The Troubadour : 8:00 p.m. April 8
Usually, when songwriters are as wickedly intelligent as Thao Nguyen, they tend to write morbidly gloomy and/or overly serious anthems of great meaning and purpose. That's not to say the Virginia native doesn't have her grand and heavy mood swings -- sometimes every few seconds in the same... More >>
West Hollywood	Music

360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story Grammy Museum : Daily until October 31
Dig Columbia Records' short list: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen and Willie Nelson. Sean Wilentz -- America's hippest historian -- has written an epic tome called 360 Sound: The... More >>
Downtown	Arts, Art - Museums

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

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The Happy Hour Story Experiment The Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill : 6:30 p.m. every Mon.
Comedian Melinda Hill and writer Eve Sturges' "experimental hour of storytelling with their fancy, famous friends and exciting newcomers." This week: Anna David and Jillian Lauren. More >>
Out of Town	Comedy

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

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

Stanley Kubrick Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) : Every Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until June 30
After the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's joint acquisition with the Getty of Robert Mapplethorpe's art and archives proved to be a major coup, LACMA now holds the distinction of being the first U.S. art institution to host an exhibit dedicated to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. The... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Arts, Art - Museums

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

Fantasy: A Fantasy-Themed Art Show Nerdist Showroom at Meltdown Comics : Daily until April 18
For many people, knowing what Dungeons & Dragons is and finally getting on board with Game of Thrones is about as deep into the realm of fantasy as they've gotten. But there's no denying -- between the wildly resurgent popularity of titles like The Lord of the Rings, Dragon Age and Zelda, and... More >>
Hollywood	Art - Galleries

Cristopher Cichocki: Epicenter Pacific Design Center : Every Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri. until May 10
A fresh round of gallery exhibitions opens at the Pacific Design Center's Blue Building this week, with curious crowds ascending to its second floor for a rare Tuesday-night group of receptions (pushed up a few days to make room for this year's West Week events). Highlights of the March crop... More >>
West Hollywood	Art - Galleries

What's Up, Tiger Lily? The Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill : 8:00 p.m. every Mon.
Pull your chair up to the comedic campfire and enjoy a great (free!) show featuring top comics and maybe a famous drop-in. Maria Bamford and Melinda Hill bring excellent standups every week — really, like Blaine Capatch, Patton Oswalt, Matt Besser -- you get the idea. More >>
Out of Town	Comedy

Keep It Clean Comedy 1739 Public House : 10:00 p.m. every Mon.
While you were busy swing dancing, JC Coccoli's been hosting a night of "speakeasy-esque" standup comedy. Hear her explain why Keep it Clean Comedy came to exist. "Working comics in L.A. were in dire need of a speakeasy spot to work their showcase material. Prepping for performances on Leno,... More >>
Los Feliz	Comedy

Neighboring Sounds Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre : 4:45 p.m. April 8
Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax	Film

Documental: Essay Films UnUrban Coffee House : 6:00 p.m. April 8
Santa Monica	Film

Jacqueline Winspear Vroman's : 7:00 p.m. April 8
Pasadena and vicinity	Literary Events

Julia Sweeney Book Soup : 7:00 p.m. April 8
West Hollywood	Literary Events

Troy Walker, Big Mike & Blues Deluxe, Dan Dobb & Off the Record Viva Cantina : 7:00 p.m. April 8
Burbank	Music

Suddenly, Last Summer Aero Theatre : 7:30 p.m. April 8
Santa Monica	Film

A Child Is Waiting / Come Back, Little Sheba Hammer Museum : 7:30 p.m. April 8
West L.A.	Film

Jellyfish Eyes Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) : 7:30 p.m. April 8
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Film

Bullet Made Statues, Bite the Buffalo The Viper Room : 7:30 p.m. April 8
Out of Town	Music

Members Only: An Evening With Cheech & Chong Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre : 8:00 p.m. April 8
Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax	Film

Ryan Hobler Genghis Cohen Restaurant : 8:00 p.m. April 8
West Hollywood	Music