Things to do in L.A. this weekend

You can’t visit Party’s pastel wonderland, Sottobosco, right now. But you can view 11 watercolors of treetops that the artist has painted while holing up in upstate New York thanks to this virtual exhibition from Hauser & Wirth.

The Grammy Museum routinely hosts some stellar talks and performances—but there’s a good chance you’ve never been able to scoop up tickets before these intimate events sell out. But now we can all partake thanks to the institution’s Museum at Home site. Every couple of days, you can look forward to conversations with and performances from the likes of Billie Eilish, Greta Van Fleet, Andrea Bocelli, Common, Los Tigres del Norte, Courtney Barnett, Ben Platt and more. Plus, each week the museum is reviving some of its former exhibitions online, including retrospectives on Jenni Rivera, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

The organization behind New York’s famed Tribeca Film Festival is headed to L.A. for a series of drive-in movie screenings and comedy shows this summer. The Tribeca Drive-In will be setting up at the Rose Bowl parking lot each weekend in July. The series, which is also being staged in New York and Texas, includes screenings of classics new and old, like Jaws, E.T., Girls Trip, The Neverending Story, Do the Right Thing, Space Jam, Wonder Woman, Mean Girls, Beetlejuice and Creed. Plus, from July 9 through 12, the venue will flip into a comedy club with sets from Dave Helem, Ester Steinberg, Daniel Webb and Erica Rhodes—indie producer Comedy Dynamics will be recording each show to release as a special later on. You’ll pay a flat $30 for each vehicle, and though many nights have two movies showing, your ticket is only good for one of them (depending on how many people you bring, this makes it a bit pricier than L.A.’s longstanding drive-in theaters, where a single ticket gets you admission to a double feature). And if you’re looking at some of the early showtimes and wondering how that’ll work, the series is setting up an LED screen in the stadium’s parking lot, where the screenings are held, that’ll be visible in the daytime.

The parking garage at the Americana has some surprisingly spectacular views from its top level, which makes it the perfect spot for this pop-up drive-in movie theater—which makes its return this summer after year’s residency atop the Grove’s parking garage. For a couple of evenings in July, the Glendale shopping center is hosting screenings of flicks like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians, in partnership with Street Food Cinema. In addition to complimentary popcorn, water and boxed candy, you can opt to pre-order a meal from restaurants like Bourbon Steak Los Angeles, Katsuya and Shake Shack. Reservations are already all booked for the many of the screenings, so be sure to step on it for the others.

The Music Center offers a free, joyous mash-up of music and dancing all summer long—though this year it’s being held online—with different themes (K-pop, line dancing, cumbia, etc.) and free dance lessons. Head to the Music Center’s YouTube channel every Friday night at 7pm and join in the fun—no dance experience required.

Outdoor movie season isn’t canceled—it’s just headed to the drive-in. Seasonal fave Street Food Cinema is making some social-distancing–friendly tweaks to its schedule this summer and parking itself at a pair of locations for drive-in movie screenings. The series—which includes flicks like 500 Days of Summer, The Sandlot and The Princess Bride—will host free screenings at Ontario International Airport’s Lot 5, as well as paid ones ($20 per car plus $8 per person) at the Brandeis-Bardin Campus in Simi Valley. And yes, the usual rotation of food trucks will thankfully still be showing up to screenings. There are some important rules you’ll need to follow: Guests must remain in their vehicles (except for when going to the restrooms or food trucks) and wear masks when interacting with staff. Cars must park one space apart from each other. And though outside food and beverages are permitted, dogs are not. Stay tuned for some screenings closer to L.A. (think spots like DTLA, Pacific Palisades, Glendale and Pasadena) to arrive in mid-July, with drive-in screenings extending through November. Street Food Cinema is also hoping to revive its more traditional outdoor screenings with socially-distanced picnic-style screenings in parks as early as August.