Santa Monica Civic Center

Weekday Food Events: Food Fare 2013 Grilled Cheese Night

Food Fare 2013 Planned Parenthood's annual fundraiser Food Fare 2013 is back today with 100 participating restaurants and purveyors, featuring Joe's Restaurant, Bar Pinxto, the Beer Chicks, The Corner Door, and The Tripel. Other restaurants setting up at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium include Ang ... More >>

22 Years in Pictures

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Septemberfest, Beauty and the Barrel, March of Dimes Signature Chefs Luxury Chocolate Salon

Septemberfest Billed as America's answer to Oktoberfest, this beachside festival will feature more than 150 beers, plus food trucks and live performances by Petty Cash and Black Crystal Wolf Kids. WHAT: Septemberfest WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 22, 2-6 p.m. WHERE: Santa Monica Pier COST: $40

Avicii - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - 9/14/12

Avicii Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 9/14/12 See also: Avicii Performs in Santa Monica Tonight: Here's Our Interview Better Than: the Sahara Tent at Coachella. Avicii, the baby-faced boy king of the new EDM generation, brought the house down last night with a relentlessly aggressive set that fou ... More >>

Everyone at This Convention is Greener Than You Are

The AltBuild Alternative Building Materials & Design Expo, in its ninth year, is regarded as a place for the "green-curious" to make the leap to "green-committed." For people who had already waded past compact fluorescent bulbs deep into eco-consciousness territory, however, it was the place to ... More >>

Santa Monica Spends Earthquake Plum on Ritzy Projects

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Planned Parenthood Food Fare, French New Orleans, Bacon & Sides, Beer Festival, Foie Gras Dinner, Paris Cookbook Fair

Planned Parenthood Food Fare If watching male politicians go into overdrive trying to limit women's access to birth control left you with a queasy feeling, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Planned Parenthood Food Fare. The headliner is chef Suzanne Goin (Lucques, AOC, Tavern) along with an e ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Food Fare: Great Chefs, Great Cause

If watching a gaggle of the country's most arrogant, clueless and regressive men discuss the reproductive fates of millions of American women -- with almost no input from women themselves (apparently, we aren't "qualified") -- left you utterly appalled, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Plann ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week: From Lenin on La Brea to a Cactus Drawn by Barry Goldwater

Pacific Standard Time's "Performance and Public Art" and Liz Glynn's "Spirit Resurrected," two performance art festivals, happen this month, so for once the event and performance lineup will outshine the exhibitions. 5. How I Learned to Draw A tombstone made of rye bread and eaten with cream cheese ... More >>

GV30: Social Distortion, X, Adolescents - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - 12-16-2011

Javier CabralMike Ness, still a bad ass.​See also: *GV30: An Epic Interview With Social Distortion's Mike Ness *Goldenvoice: The Hazy Punk Rock Early Days. Founder Gary Tovar recalls the unlikely beginnings of the influential concert production company For the celebration of Goldenvoice's 30 ... More >>

GV30: An Epic Interview With Social Distortion's Mike Ness

​See also: Goldenvoice: The Hazy Punk Rock Early Days. Founder Gary Tovar recalls the unlikely beginnings of the influential concert production company Thirty years in, Social Distortion are as vital and voracious as ever. Their shows continue to sell out, and their material still speaks to p ... More >>

Music Picks: The Descendents, Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Show,, Princess Pangolin, Brian Setzer

Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others

Five Most Beautiful Parking Garages (Yes, Parking Garages) in Los Angeles

MOCA Facebook page​ Los Angeles is a city in thrall to automobiles (though there is evidence that's beginning to change) so it's not surprising some of our best design comes in the form of parking garages. What's especially intriguing about some of these structures is their public art that app ... More >>

The 32nd Annual Planned Parenthood Food Fare

photo courtesy of Border GrillMary Sue Milliken, Susan Feniger and Julia Child​ This Thursday, March 10th, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles will hold their 32nd Annual Food Fare at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. One of the longest-running food events in L.A., the event has come a long way si ... More >>

PICTURE PERFECT

Before You Make Your Own Turkey for Thanksgiving, Roast One for the Homeless

Photo by Colin Young-Wolff ​ If you're just now looking into volunteer opportunities for Thanksgiving Day, we hate to break it to you: You might be too late. Many volunteer lists are already full, especially for those photo-op moments of scooping out corn niblets and ladling gravy for a sea of ... More >>

Connecting Field to Field: Food and Farming Veteran Career Fair

​Veterans returning home face many problems of transition, and in this economy, just finding a job can be one of them. According to PR Newswire, currently more than 250,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are unemployed, and the rate of unemployment for veterans ages 18 to 24 ... More >>

The T.A.M.I. Show: Santa Monica Rock City

L.A.'s pre-Woodstock music summit, finally on DVD

Whisky Live: They Came, They Sipped, They Went Home Bleary-Eyed

Last night's Whisky Live tasting in Santa Monica was a rather buttoned-up affair in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - at least for the first hour. Tastings were politely dolled-out in exchange for drink tickets all night (a sort of grown up carnival ride system), thus cleverly keeping the tossing- ... More >>

Whisky Live Coming to Santa Monica: Some Single Malt To Enhance That View of the Pier

If you're the sort of person who stocks bottles of Oban and Talisker and Bunnahabhain the way some people hoard cans of soup, you're in serious luck. Whisky Live is coming to Los Angeles for the first time this month. It may sound like a sadistic fraternity drinking game, but it's really a rather ge ... More >>

Cat Fanciers Unite in Santa Monica

Nicole Kidman, lanky and ascetic as a hairless sphynx, slinks by with child

Crazy Cat Ladies and Pussy Galore: Photos from the Santa Monica Cat Show

If you live or drive around the Westside, you may have seen the big yellow signs saying "Cat Show" posted on fences and telephone poles. A Cat Fanciers Association cat show came to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium this past weekend. And man, were there cats. Big cats, small cats, fat cats, thin cat ... More >>

Ten Coachella Picks: Ariel Pink, Genghis Tron, Vivian Girls, Mastodon

Plus, A Place to Bury Strangers, Mexican Institute of Sound, Gui Boratto, MSTRKFT and more

My Bloody Valentine to Play the El Rey on Thursday Night?

Timothy NorrisMy Bloody Valentine last year at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium That's what Scenestar is reporting.

Rock Picks: Holly Golightly, Sergio Mendes, Wu-Tang Clan

Also, the Hanson Brothers, Oasis, Azure Ray and others

My Bloody Valentine in Santa Monica: How Could Something So Loud Be So Subtle?

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the church of sonic destruction. Click photo for slideshow. During the “crescendo” of My Bloody Valentine’s final song last night at the Santa Monica Civic Center, “You Made Me Realise,” I started looking for cracks in the ceiling, for shit wobbling on wa ... More >>

Rock Picks: Detour Music Festival, Dandy Warhols, David Byrne, Die Rockers Die

Also, Henry Butler, Deerhoof, Eagle Rock Music Festival, Global Drum Project

Rock Picks: Pacha Massive, Calexico, Juliana Hatfield

Also, We the People Festival, Temple Bar farewell, Mad Juana and more

Rock Picks: Ice Cube, Bob Dylan, Dog and Pony Show

Also, Chuck Berry, Southern Culture on the Skids, Paul Weller, and more

This Weekend: The Mae Shi, Fleet Foxes, T.A.M.I. Show at Cinespia

Tonight at Sugar in Silverlake, the Mae Shi play at the Spectrum art opening (see below). The Fleet Foxes, of Seattle, bring their harmonies to the Echo on Saturday and Spaceland on Sunday. Also check out my interview with singer Robin Pecknold in this week's print edition.

My Bloody Valentine announces two LA shows in the fall

That would be Wednesday and Thursday, October 1 and 2 at the Santa Monica Civic Center. My Bloody Valentine's high-water mark: "Soon."

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Rilo Kiley at the Santa Monica Civic

With Under the Blacklight , their first major label album out in August, the L.A. band played a sold out show Monday night at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Timothy Norris was there to shoot the shindig. Click here for more photos. The Bird and the Bee, Greg Kurstin and Inara George, opened ... More >>

Rock Picks: Akron/Family, Duncan Sheik, PJ Harvey, Jill Scott

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