There are plenty of great places to enjoy music and a picnic this summer. Here are a few hot spots.
Music in the LA Zoo
On Friday, July 24, from 6-9 p.m., the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens will be filled with the sounds of classic rock for an event called Music in the LA Zoo. [...]
Help Inner-City Arts celebrate 20 years of free arts education for at-risk youth at a party on Saturday, July 25. There will be music and dancing from 7 p.m. to midnight at the school’s downtown LA campus. Son y Clave, an LA Latin music band, will perform, with world champion dancer Enio Cordoba on hand [...]
With each passing day, the Los Angeles Film Festival grows more exciting. In Westwood Village, Broxton Avenue was closed in order to accommodate a makeshift theater complete with a Michelin Man-like portable movie screen and a pretty good sound system. Friday’s feature? “Ghostbusters.” It’s a rare weekend indeed when I get to see a film [...]
I like festivals. I like the dynamic of people coming together in a celebratory atmosphere enjoying a unifying aspect, be it cuisine, ethnicity, or art. From pie eating contests to star-studded galas to actual cash prizes, festivals offer moments in time that don’t happen in our day-to-day lives, not even in Hollywood. And once again [...]
Cirque Berzerk’s big top event is nothing short of amazing. Parts rock show, horror show, burlesque, vaudeville, and gothic opera, it is an intricately drawn stage show with a dark, sexy, and surreal twist. You won’t be able to take your eyes off the athletic and gorgeously sculpted acrobats, aerialists twirling on ribbons, and burlesque [...]
The Hollywood Bowl season opens Friday, June 19, at 8:30 p.m. with celebs and fireworks. The evening kicks off with a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. This year’s honorees are legendary opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and internationally renowned singer Josh Groban. The first-ever Hollywood Bowl Hall [...]
“Séraphine,” a new film written and directed by Martin Provost, is a fascinating and sensitive portrait of an artist, Séraphine Louis (known as Séraphine de Senlis), working as a cleaning lady when she is discovered by German collector Wilhelm Uhde. Fittingly, this film about art is also a fine example of artistic cinema; not surprisingly, [...]
On Thursday, June 11, Causecast will officially launch “A Cause for Comedy,” a live and live-streamed monthly comedy series that raises money for charity. The June 11 show will take place at the Hollywood Improv with 100% of the proceeds from ticket sales benefiting L.A. nonprofit NextAid. Hosted and produced by Ben Morrison, Ashton Kutcher’s [...]
Choreography meets cinematography at the Dance Camera West Film Festival, which kicks off at REDCAT tonight. In addition to hosting a party, DCW presents the world premiere of a Canadian film “Becoming,” along with eight other international short films totaling 73 minutes. In an elevator, on a conveyor belt, in a cornfield and other locales, [...]
The Downtown Comedy Club brings Peter Berman to the stage on Friday and Saturday, May 29 and 30, at 9 p.m. We’re not sure what Berman’s latest material is like, but the clips (some from his Comedy Central special) on his Myspace page about relationships, winning the lottery, and being forced to do math all [...]
