Joke of the week: Jane Borden

In celebration of the late Bob Baker’s 95th birthday, the namesake theater is hosting a pop-up celebration at Los Angeles State Historic Park. The free fest, which runs from 10am to 5pm, features puppet performances throughout the day, as well as DJ sets that feature music from the Bob Baker archives and performances by King Kukulele and Tiny & Mary. Explore a vendor village of sweets, crafts and workshops from the likes of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, Miracle Mile Toy Hall, Bohemian Kitten, Stone Cold Style LA, Coast to Coast Vintage, Oddly Weird, Calaveras Paintings and Pins, Clover Scout, the Los Angeles Guild of Puppetry and more.

Forget selfies: Spend a little extra coin and have a professional photographer capture you at your best—which, in this case, is in a fluttering shower of confetti. The Confetti Project, as its name implies, allows visitors to pose for photos within a sparkly setting. The touring photo op is stopping by Santee Alley’s Apex Studios for a single day of open studios. The project comes from Jelena Aleksich, who created the “confetti therpay” process as a means to grieve for the loss of both her roommate and father. Each time slot begins with a brief Q&A about what you choose to celebrate in your life, followed by a confetti-filled photo session. Though the photos are primarily meant for solo subjects, you can your friends can buy multiple tickets and have a group shot taken as well (up to four people).

When the Supreme Court struck down key sections of the Voting Rights Act, then law student Shana Knizhnik was outraged. But in the blistering dissenting opinion of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Khizhnik found hope and the possibility for a better day. And so, the Notorious R.B.G. was born—a cheeky, DGAF interpretation of the justice on Tumblr that would a few years later inspire a biography from Knizhnik and journalist Irin Carmon. But beyond that crown-wearing caricature is the story of a woman with a tireless and tenacious approach to social change, as Skirball curator Cate Thurston puts it. Through letters, recordings, outfits and photo ops, the exhibition balances that irreverence with an easy-to-understand primer on Ginsburg’s ongoing legal career, as well as a very personal portrait of her life.  “The Notorious RBG” positions Ginsburg not as a feminist, but as a tireless advocate for the rule of law, fairness and equality who’s pressed against discrimination at every turn, in both her personal life and her law career. Hands-on installations encourage visitors to not just play dress-up, but to imagine themselves in her role: You’ll listen to Supreme Court recordings, step into a recreation of Ginsburg’s childhood Brooklyn bedroom and be able to throw on a robe and a collar to pose behind a facsimile of the Supreme Court bench. The exhibition—which will later tour to Philadelphia, San Francisco and Skokie, Illinois, with two more locations to be announced—comes at a tim

For those of us too lazy to learn proper bowling technique—who instead plop the ball down and let physics handle the rest—Gudetama, Sanrio’s lazy egg mascot, is our bowling spirit animal. It makes Highland Park Bowl’s latest collaboration the perfect pairing: The apathetic egg is all over the alley, with decorative banners and projections. In addition, you’ll find Gudetama egg-topped pizza and themed straws for cocktails, along with swag like bowling socks ($10) and pins ($5). All of the previously mentioned items are also bundled in an all-inclusive, unlimited food and drink two-hour lane reservation ($275 for two people), which also includes a 10% discount on other merch, plus use of yellow bowling balls with Gudetama’s grimacing face on them (available for purchase for $200). The takeover runs through February 2019, with to-be-announced pop-up events along the way.

Travel back to an era when seemingly every hip-hop hit started with Jermaine Dupri giving a shoutout to So So Def during this career-spanning examination of the rapper and producer and his platinum-producing label. The exhibition showcases Atlanta’s rise as a hip-hop–tied cultural influencer with objects and videos from performers like Bow Wow, Mariah Carey, Da Brat, Jagged Edge, Kris Kross, Usher and more.