Friday
See the results of some of the city's most talented high schoolers' week spent with creative luminaries during YoungArts Los Angeles. Head to the Los Angeles Theatre Center on Friday for a free photo exhibition, followed by a ticketed jazz and writers' readings performance.
Just up Spring Street in Chinatown, scope out works from up-and-coming artists at the Chocolate and Art Show. The delectably titled exhibition is heavier on art than it is sweets, but the promise of free chocolate should be enough to get you in the door.
Pick up your proton pack and make it a late night at the movies as the Nuart Theatre screens the original Ghostbusters a few months ahead of its reboot.
Saturday
Dart around Downtown in your undies—for a good cause, of course—on Saturday at Cupid's Undie Run. This Valentine's-themed run—apparently there was some other big run last weekend—kicks off with a party at noon at the Belasco Theater, followed by the run at 2pm.
If you'd like to chase that runner's high with a food coma, then proceed to the California Market Center for LA Weekly's The Essentials. The all-you-can-eat food and drink event includes samples from the likes of République, Redbird, Jon & Vinny's and more.
Witness big air and big musical acts like J. Cole, HAIM and All Time Low during the first day of Shaun White's Air + Style. Catch snowboarders pull big tricks off of a massive slope set up in Exposition Park.
If you're looking to spend your evening with a more refined sense of style, splurge on a ticket to the Young Literati Eighth Annual Toast. Busy Philipps, Colin Hanks and Demetri Martin, among others, have curated a lineup of comedians, directors and writers to perform at Avalon during this annual benefit for the LA Public Library.
Sunday
Fit in some retail therapy on Sunday at Artists & Fleas. The market assembles all sorts of handcrafted goodies each month in the Arts District—and will expand to Abbot Kinney next month.
Lunar New Year may have already passed, but who can pass up a Chinese New Year celebration at the Huntington Library's beautiful Chinese gardens? The San Marino estate will have lion dancers and martial arts demonstrations along with calligraphy and bonsai displays.
Wrap up your weekend at the opening day of Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957. Examine the short-lived experimental college's legacy as the Hammer Museum presents more than 250 objects from the school that gave rise to the likes of Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage.
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