Los Angeles Events Date: Tue Apr 9th - Los Angeles Entertainment Guide

Recommended Events
Tom Sizemore Book Soup : 7:00 p.m. April 9
Tough-guy character actor Tom Sizemore's mind-boggling devotion to the fine art of self-destruction has long been legendary. With his new tell-all memoir, By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There, Sizemore details his life as a meth-head so resolute that in 2006 alone he managed, while living in... More >>
West Hollywood	Literary Events

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

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

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

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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

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

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

Trisha Brown: Floor of the Forest Hammer Museum : Every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. until April 21
West L.A.	Art - Museums

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

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

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

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

New Material With Kevin Nealon The Laugh Factory : 8:00 p.m. every Tue.
The Weeds star and former SNL standout does hilarious standup on a weekly basis, with bits on fatherhood and other touchstones of modern-day living. More >>
West Hollywood	Comedy

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

Put Your Hands Together Upright Citizens Brigade Theater : 8:00 p.m. every Tue.
The Put Your Hands Together comedy showcase was conceived to present only one thing: 75 pulse-pounding, mind-melting, spine-shattering minutes of laughter inspired by some of the best comics in Los Angeles. Produced in conjunction with aspecialthing records -- the rare record label that still... More >>
Hollywood	Comedy

Vance Sanders' Open Mike of Love Westwood Brewing Company : 8:00 p.m. every Tue.
Mr. Sanders can be counted on to bring a quality group of comics to his weekly "Open Mike of Love" standup show. Lineup varies and is subject to change. It's also subject to occasionally not being all that funny, but for the most part, the comics are top-notch, or just below top-notch. Just go... More >>
West L.A.	Valentine's Day, Comedy

The Lady Eve Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) : 1:00 p.m. April 9
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Film

Music in My Heart Skirball Cultural Center : 1:30 p.m. April 9
Out of Town	Film

Kip Moore, The Wild Feathers El Rey Theatre : 7:00 p.m. April 9
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Music

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Off The Fonda Theatre : 7:00 p.m. April 9
Out of Town	Music