David Cotner

Andell Family Sundays rides again with Art of the Samurai — a chance to take your little shogun assassins to experience LACMA’s groundbreaking installation “Art of the Samurai: Swords, Paintings, Prints and Textiles.” After immersing yourself in swords, armor, robes and battle-soaked woodblock prints in the underrated Pavilion for Japanese......

Charging out of its sesquicentennial, the 126th annual Rose Parade’s theme this year is “Inspiring Stories.” As such, the Olympian and Unbreakable subject, World War II POW Louis Zamperini, was supposed to be Grand Marshal, but unfortunately he died in July. Yet his talent for surmounting obstacles continues: He’s still......

You’ve worked your ass off all week — now stick it back on and dance it off at Masterbeat XV. This club has everything: 3-D LED walls, lasers, acrobats, stilts, gladiators and music from DJ GRIND (San Francisco’s Stephen Massey, whose compulsively compelling tribal beats set the house rules) and......

Rave in the New Year with OMFG! NYE, which delivers unto you all the colors of the PLUR rainbow. Sample the husky grooves of West Covina’s Deorro, the French nu-disco of Madeon, the forward-thinking dance fusion experiments of Sydney’s What So Not, San Diego’s trap-scene guru Ookay, L.A.’s bedroom breakout......

Whether you love animals or just hate people, the 26th annual Tournament of Roses Equestfest will fill you with joy when you preview the equestrian units scheduled to march in the Rose Parade. You’ll see horses and riders dancing, jumping and roping for hours in the showgrounds, and when it’s......

Now that you’ve recovered from your understandably baffled rage at the networks for canceling Saturday morning cartoons, bop on down and be reborn as the Alex Film Society presents The Greatest Cartoons Ever! Animation historian Jerry Beck introduces and discuss cartoons from the 1930s through the ’50s that are seldom......

The fifth annual Hollywood Club Crawl is upon us in these waning days of the year, so pull yourself together and re-enter the sociological mainstream on Hollywood Boulevard tonight. Dress to impress — or depress, depending on either your couture or hauteur — and voyage with 50 to 100 other......

If you’re a Jew between the ages of 25 and 55, looking for a nice Jewish date or just wanting to escape the Christmas madness, Matzoball is the place for you. Founded in 1987 by impresario Andy Rudnick (who also founded the Society of Young Jewish Professionals), it’s a chance......

In light of the turmoil of Gamergate and the huge gender imbalance in Hollywood, Cinefamily’s Animation Breakdown: Women in CGI is especially relevant. Hosted by Vice film columnist Jennifer Juniper Stratford, it’s a rare presentation of early works by 87-year-old computer animator Lillian Schwartz and game developer Ashley Zeldin, and......