Joke of the week: Jane Borden
I was watching Jeopardy once, and the answer was, 'This leader did some sightseeing in a newly defeated Paris in June of 1940.' The contestant said,...
I was watching Jeopardy once, and the answer was, 'This leader did some sightseeing in a newly defeated Paris in June of 1940.' The contestant said, 'Who is Adolf Hitler?' and Alex Trebek replied, 'That is correct.' Really? That's the answer to the question 'Who is Hitler?': A guy who went antiquing through Europe? Because I feel like I know that name from something else.
Jane Borden performs at Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill on January 7th at 8pm, the Pleasure Chest on January 8th at 8pm and M.I. Westside Comedy Theater on January 9th at 10pm. Tickets are under $10.
This weekend
Amber Rose Slut Walk
Model Amber Rose leads this impassioned walk from Pershing Square in the name of ending sexual injustice, victim blaming, derogatory labeling and gender inequality.
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Noon to Midnight
Kick off the LA Phil's Green Umbrella series with an entire day of performances throughout the Walt Disney Concert Hall. You'll find pop-up performances from local ensembles in the performance center's entrance hall, garden and main auditorium, followed by the "Four World Premieres" program in the evening. The afternoon takes place in a decidedly festival-like atmosphere that includes food trucks and beer. Noon to Midnight also marks the beginning of Yuval Sharon's (the man behind Hopscotch) three-year residency as Artist-Collaborator with the unveiling of the cloud-like multimedia installation Nimbus.
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Rooftop Film Club
The masters of al fresco rooftop movie viewing are returning for their second season of screenings on the Montálban's rooftop, and we have the exclusive details. Known for excellent film choices and a steady supply of snacks and booze, Rooftop Film Club is your snazzy, comfortable and less stressful alternative to other outdoor movie screenings. Taking full advantage of the Montálban rooftop's beautiful city view, RFC promises to offer some of the most unique and incredible movie-going opportunities for film lovers throughout April. You don't even need to bring your own blanket or camping chair—Rooftop Film Club provides you with your very own comfy lawn chair, as well as blankets on request for the ultimate cozy experience. And instead of listening to the movie over loudspeakers, you'll get a set of wireless headphones so you never have to miss a word. The series is packed with a wide selection of audience favorites, kicking things off in April with Star Wars: The Force Awakens on opening night, and hitting up everything from teen movie favorites like Clueless and Dirty Dancing to classics like Casablanca and Sunset Boulevard in the weeks that follow. The first batch of general admission tickets is on sale now—click the film title below to purchase general admission tickets for $17 (plus a $2 booking fee). Doors open at 6pm each night and all screenings begin at 8pm. See you on the rooftop!
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NOMO FOMO: An Art Show about Broads in the City
Wait out Broad City's 2017 return with this tribute art show from Jane Dope, Hussy Whipped, and Sleazy Bake Oven. The trio behind Eat Your Art Out will transform NerdMelt into the streets of Broad City with more than 75 pieces of the show's most impressive fan art. The free show runs through October 7, including an opening night "Narnia of Party-as" on September 30 with DJs, bucket drummers, food, drinks, a photo booth and more.
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Eastside Food Festival
The Eastside Food Festival is back for its third year of celebrating the Eastside's food culture. More than 25 hand-selected vendors will be serving their best bites, including Little Beast, Homestate, Jeni's Ice Cream, Sticky Rice, Starry Kitchen, Buttonmash, Knuckle and Claw, Pok Pok, Lord Jones and more. Between noshing on food, attendees will be entertained with popular LA musicians and DJs, discussion panels, demos and tastings. There will also be a raffle to benefit PATH, an organization working to end homelessness.
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Mad Decent Block Party
Summer is prime time for block parties, but we're guessing the ones on your street won't play host to Kesha, so this one is, admittedly, mad decent. (Actually, the name comes from Diplo's Mad Decent record label.) The touring concert's stop at LA Center Studios will also feature Diplo, Henrik the Artist, Tropkillaz and more.
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Taste of Italy
Glorious amounts of authentic Italian cuisine will take over DTLA for the eighth-annual Taste of Italy come October 1. If your mouth is already watering from thoughts of Parmigiano-Reggiano, homemade pasta, Napolitano style pizza and flowing red wine, you’re not alone. Scores of the region’s best restaurants (think Valentino, Drago Centro, DiStefano Cheese, Prova Pizzeria, and more) are set to attend, alongside Italian and California-Italian wineries, live entertainment, demonstrations and celebrity guests. Expect live performances from the LA Opera, Jasmine Tommaso Trio with renowned jazz bass player Giovanni Tommaso and others, while "Shotgun Tom" Kelly is the Master of Ceremonies. All proceeds will go towards the Italian American Museum’s exhibitions and the Italian Hall. Tickets for general admission include six food and six wine tastings (swoon), while premiere tickets offer ten food and ten wine tastings, a VIP gift bag and red carpet entrance. Head to 424 North Main St for this annual Italian grande festa (we suggest wearing loose pants).
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Big Bear Lake Oktoberfest
Head to the mountains for the 46th annual Oktoberfest at Big Bear Lake, where you'll be able to clink steins every weekend from now until the end of October. There will be beer flowing, a Hans' German Cantina, and plenty of knockwursts, plus a special Oktoberfest "Unplugged" on 10/16, where guests will be treated to a five-course German beer pairing dinner, live entertainment, a commemorative stein and weekend access to the fest.
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Street Food Cinema
For your one-stop-shop in LA summer entertainment, follow the food trucks. Saturday evenings throughout the summer and fall, Street Food Cinema throws together an epic outdoor party, complete with live music, tasty street fare and a screening of your favorite movie. The screenings are held in parks throughout LA, which vary from week to week, so make sure to check the schedule for deats before schlepping your dog, friends and picnic supplies all over the city.
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LA Beer Hop
LA's craft beer scene has grown exponentially in the past few years, leaving beer fiends to wonder not if there's a brewery they want to check out, but when and how many. That's where LA Beer Hop comes in. Started by husband and wife Hal and Cindy Mooney, Beer Hop offers brewery tours on the weekends, offering three tours that focus on different LA neighborhoods: East/Central LA, South Bay and Long Beach. Tours last for 4-5 hours and are led by a knowledge Beer Hop guide, driving each group to three breweries while providing fantastic information along the way. No two tours are alike: on a South Bay excursion, you may be taken to Monkish, Three Weavers and Phantom Carriage one weekend, and King Harbor, The Dudes and Absolution Brewing on another. East/Central LA tours traverse the city from Mumford to MacLeod to Eagle Rock Brewery, while the Long Beach tour might include Beachwood Brewing, Timeless Pints and Smog City Brewing. And at $65, the tours are a steal—not only do you have a built-in designated driver, but each brewery includes a sizeable flight, letting you try a wide variety and leaving you thoroughly tipsy (at the bare minimum). The Beer Hop bus arranges for pick-up at metro stops to ensure as little driving on your part as possible. And your fellow tour members? Well, that can all depend, but after a flight or two we're sure you'll all be singing together on the bus in no time.
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Spring Street Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest is the unofficial and un-American holiday that we so eagerly await—and desperately try to remember after the fact. Start the month of October on a good note by heading to DTLA for the Spring Street Oktoberfest. Beelman's Pub and Spring St Bar will be offering eight German beers on tap, plus meaty eats like the sausage gouda sandwich and Spring St Brat. The festivities run throughout the day, with a very special cask of Paulaner Ceremonial Beer to be hand-tapped at 3pm. The coveted barrel hails from an official Oktoberfest brewery in Germany and is one of the only four Ceremonial casks distributed to California.
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Monday night residencies at the Satellite
Silver Lake's legit little music venue offers up some of the best local music in the city every Monday night... for free. Check out LA bands that are about to make it big (acts like Fitz & the Tantrums, Superhumanoids and even Local Natives have graced the residency stage) without spending a dime—well, except on maybe a beer, or a round for the folks onstage. Check the Satellite calendar to see who's on the bill each month. Acts often have a rotating cast of openers, so you can see different bands each week while watching the main act work on material, become more comfortable onstage and find their rhythm as the month goes on. Then a few years from now, you can say "I saw them when...."
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Artists & Fleas Venice
The newest flea market on the block, the Venice outpost of this artisan/craft-focused flea market mini-empire is bringing records, vintage and vintage-inspired clothing, cosmetics, jewelry and more to the Westminster Avenue Elementary School. A handful of small batch confectioners provide sweet treats to snack on or take home, while food trucks and nearby restaurants provide heartier bites. Though relatively small in size, owing perhaps to its prime location bookending the neighborhood’s famed Abbot Kinney stretch, vendors hawk a diverse range of hand-made and expertly curated wares that seems to simultaneously fit in and stand out in one of the nation’s most unusual neighborhoods.
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Picture This!
Animation meets live comedy at this stand-up series from Brandie Posey and Sam Varela. Comedian perform on-stage as local artists sketch them—and cross their fingers for a smooth reveal of the drawing. Of course, since this is LA, you can expect top-notch talent among both the comedians and animators.
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Smorgasburg LA
Indulge your inner foodie and shopaholic at this weekly market. The Brooklyn export has landed in the Arts District and it's a hotbed of fantastic food and retail vendors, some coming from the original Brooklyn iteration of Smorgasburg and others that have been focusing on pop-ups and catering events in Los Angeles.
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Harvest Festival Original Art & Craft Show
The Harvest Festival isn't your average humble craft fair: over 24,000 original works, from hand-pressed olive oil to handmade jewelry, invade this long-running seasonal fest. Play in a pumpkin patch or get your purchase personalized while you're there—a single ticket is good for the entire weekend, and you can get $2 off by bringing a canned good. The fest will make three stops in the LA area: the Ventura County Fairgrounds and Anaheim Conventin Center in October, and the Pomona Fairplex in December.
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Paramount After Dark Tour: Tales From the Other Side
Take a two-and-a-half-hour guided tour of the Paramount Studios, as well as the neighboring Hollywood Forever Cemetery, during this after-hours experience. The tour digs up the dirt on Hollywood's dearly departed and comes with a personalized souvenir photo and remembrance rose, as well as complimentary champagne and candy and popcorn hosted in an eerie location.
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Kubo and the Two Strings
For impeccably crafted tearjerkers, leave yourself in the capable hands of Pixar. For something a few notches darker—like this dazzling Edo-period–set animated movie concerning a Japanese fable of devotion and bravery—the wildly inventive stop-motion group Laika has you covered. Its visual stunner Kubo and the Two Strings—directed by Travis Knight, the lead animator of Laika’s The Boxtrolls and ParaNorman—follows our hero Kubo (Art Parkinson), a resourceful, one-eyed 12-year-old with unrefined powers he inherited from his mother, a god. Carrying the mantle of his deceased samurai father, Kubo draws on his exceptional storytelling gifts, aided by an abundance of colorful origami figures that magically materialize and gracefully fold themselves into his tales. He also scrapes together funds from townspeople to care for his loving, somberly depressed mom, a lonely widow. Still furious about her marriage to a mere mortal (over though it is), Kubo’s relatives vow vengeance. There are his creepy, immortal twin aunts (Rooney Mara), whose every appearance rivals the unsettling sisters from The Shining, as well as a malicious maternal grandfather (Ralph Fiennes). They decide to track down our young hero to steal his remaining eye and make him “as blind to humanity as they are.” But joined by a quick-witted, protective monkey (Charlize Theron) and a friendly warrior cursed with an erased memory (Matthew McConaughey), Kubo embarks on a journey to retrieve a suit of armor that could sa
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Monday night residencies at the Echo
It's free music every Monday when sponsored, up-and-coming local bands call the Echo stage home for a one-month stint, honing their stage presence and giving various opening acts a chance at the spotlight as well. If you're worried a Monday night will fill up to capacity, you can RSVP on the Echo website for VIP entry. When a band is on its third or fourth Monday and killing it, this is a pretty convenient way to make sure you're in on the action.
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The Magnificent Seven
If you wanted to point to the perfect Hollywood Western—not necessarily the most complex or delicately shaded, but tallest in the saddle—John Sturges’s iconic 1960 oater would be hard to outgun. It sweeps you up in manly camaraderie, has a killer cast of rising action stars (Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn) and gallops along to the most exhilarating opening theme ever composed for a movie. Don’t blame Training Day’s Antoine Fuqua for wanting to remake it. His sturdy new version, starring a flint-eyed Denzel Washington as bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (a role once filled by Yul Brynner, passing for “Cajun”), plays closer to the original’s source material, Akira Kurosawa’s smoky Seven Samurai. Like the best Westerns, it's also timely: A tale about a black hero and his six men who clean up a besieged town from rapacious businessmen, it feels like an unambiguously fond farewell to the Obama years. And if Peter Sarsgaard’s villain isn’t in the same league as the first film’s Eli Wallach, he brings some serious scowl to the proceedings. Today’s Magnificent Seven is a vehicle for wall-to-wall action, including one devastating sequence with a hand-cranked Gatling gun that calls to mind Sam Peckinpah’s gory The Wild Bunch. If Fuqua and his screenwriters (including True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto) slightly botch the underlying theme of redemption—Ethan Hawke’s haunted ex-Confederate sharpshooter could have been more developed—it still makes good on its ideas of community pri
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8th Annual Kokoro Craft Boutique
Japanese crafts and culture come together at the 8th Annual Kokoro Craft Boutique at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Offered for sale by more than 50 vendors will be a wide variety of unique Japanese wares, from authentic kimonos to jewelry and ceramics, from stylish handbags to Giant Robot products — yes, Giant Robots! Think of it as an early opportunity to get your year-end holiday shopping done in classic Japanese style. The best part is, proceeds will benefit educational programs at the Museum. And, spend $10 and get a 10% discount at participating eateries in Little Tokyo during the month of October. Taiko drums round out the entertainment for a fun-filled Sunday afternoon for the entire family.
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Bridget Jones's Baby
Clever old Bridget (Renée Zellweger). There’s been a hell of a lot criticism of her for crimes against feminism, but here she is, triumphantly returning in her forties, funnier, wittier, and—perhaps most importantly—happier with herself. And unlike the last film in the series, 2004’s The Edge of Reason, you don’t need to knock back several large glasses of chardonnay for this one to make you laugh. Bridget Jones’s Baby picks up a few years after her relationship with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) went south. Bridge is now 43 and single. But instead of crying into her cardigan about dying alone, she has thrown herself into her brilliant career as a top TV news producer. (Honestly, she can even pronounce the names of obscure genocidal dictators.) Her friends have all settled down and babied-up, so she’s got a new bestie, hard-partying millennial Miranda (Sarah Solemani). After declaring that she’s past her sexual sell-by date, Bridget has two drunken one-night stands and finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. Is the dad emotionally constipated Mark? Or sexy American billionaire Jack (Patrick Dempsey)? The screenplay is a team effort by Dan Mazer (who’s worked with Sacha Baron Cohen), Helen Fielding and Emma Thompson, who writes herself a hilarious role as a sharp-tongued doctor and gives herself the best line in the movie: Kicking men out of the delivery room, she tells them: “My ex said it was like watching his favorite pub burn down.” Smartly, and without harping on about it, th
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Blink-182
Pop-punk heavyweights Blink-182 underwent an unlikely renaissance a few years back thanks to its 2011 comeback album, Neighborhoods. Cofrontman Tom DeLonge has since departed, and though his trademark hyperexaggerated whine is nigh impossible to replicate, Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba brings a fresh perspective to the band as his replacement. Tonight you’re sure to hear all the hits plus cuts from its latest album, California, with a loaded roster of openers warming up the crowd: Florida metalcore combo A Day to Remember and emo punk stars All Time Low.
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Butterfly Pavilion at the Natural History Museum
Nature lovers rejoice! Spend a day at the NHM's Butterfly Pavilion, which will open for the season with more than 30 butterfly and moth species and an assortment of California plants. The seasonal outdoor exhibit allows for adults and children alike to witness nature up close—we're talking having bufferlies take flight and land on your arms or shoulders. Prime time for these unique butterfly flight experiences are between 10-11am each morning.
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Phantogram
Phantogram is one of those bands that your grandmother has probably heard, based solely on the number of times its songs have been placed in advertisements for cars and razors. Melding taut hip-hop beats with shoegazing synths and Sarah Barthel's crisp pop vocals, the duo has worked its way from indie label obscurity to collaborations with Big Boi (under the name Big Grams).
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