Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Weekly What To Do: You Have The Freedom To Watch Movies Outside

Art

Yung Lenox Presents LA's Most Wanted
Opening: Thursday, May 8
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Gallery 1988 West

 Art from a 7-year-old on the subject of rap music.











Opening: Friday, May 9
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Iam8bit

2147 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles,
California 90026
An ALL WOMAN art show at iam8bit.
Opening: Saturday, May 10
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm   
Rothick Art Haus 
170 S Harbor Blvd
Anaheim, CA 92805
"Video game themed pop art by the artist collective POPzilla in Anaheim, California. The show is called "POPCADE" and will be featuring artwork from all sorts of video games - classic to contemporary. Possibly OC's largest collection of video game themed art ever as 50+ artists will be doing their own take on all your favorite video game characters!"
Sunday, May 11, 2014–July 6, 2014
Resnick Pavilion
LACMA

"This is the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the story of Chinese paintings in Japan over the course of six hundred years, featuring nearly forty masterpieces of the Tang (618–906), Song (960–1279), Yuan (1260–1368), and Ming (1368–1644) dynasties. Most of these paintings, owned by Japanese museums, have never been displayed outside of Japan."
Film
Thursday, May 8 
8pm

The Downtown Independent
251 S Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
$10

The monthly film screening series that's just as weird as the Found Footage Destival happening the same night.
May 8-9  
9pm
New Beverly Cinema
7165 West Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
$13
Find the weirdest of the weird and laugh at celebs at their worst at the found footage festival.

May 9-18
Multiple locations

TTDILA use to love this festival with amazing movies plucked from Japan. Year after year the selection gets more and more depressing. All we recommend is it getting better support and perhaps start earlier in April so it doesn't compete with the LAAPFF Film Festival.

Eat See Hear and Cinespia begin their Summer film screening series Saturday, May 10. Eat See Hear will bounce around with classic and cult favorites. Cinespia will stalk the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.









Zombie Lake
Saturday, May 10
Nerdist Showroom
$8

"Your hosts for the evening, JOHN MATHOT (Disney's Phineas & Ferb), SUSAN WRIGHT (The Because Show podcast), and special guest co-host ADAM SPIEGELMAN (Proudly Resents podcast) will present 1981's "ZOMBIE LAKE"! Nazi zombies rise from their haunted lake to exact revenge on the French town that doomed them..."








Community

May 10, Saturday
7:30pm - 12:00am
Nrdfit
13131 Sherman Way, Unit #109, 
North Hollywood, California 91506
Free
The new gym with Nrds in mind opens up. Work-out poindexter!

Sunday, May 11
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Old Zoo - Griffith Park
5333 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles, California 90027
Free
Learn the rules before going
Celebrate Mother's Day with a nerfgun fight.










Saturday May 10, 4-11PM
UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion
$17.76
Empower yourself and learn about your freedoms which happens to have a lot of music involved.

Food & Drink
Los Angeles Spirits Expo
May 10 -11
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Los Angeles Center Studios 
1201 W 5th St
+21
$60-$75

"Los Angeles Spirits Expo seeks to define the Spirits industry in Southern California by creating a unique experience that brings craft bartenders, spirit enthusiasts, restauranteurs, consumers and the business community together."

OC 626 Night Market
May 9-11
OC Fair and Event Center
$5 Admission.  $7 Parking.
Children 6 and under are free.

Music and food from the ever growing stronger 626 Night Market. The one for LA isn't until June.

Saturday, May 10 11am-6pm
The Queen Mary
General Admission: $10 online/$15 at the door (must have a ticekt to enter)
Child (4-11): $5 (Children 3 and under are free)
Parking: $12
BBQ Tasting Tickets: $2 each/2oz (NO REFUNDS) 

There will be a watermelon and cobbler eating contest at this celebration of the best in BBQ.

Hero Worship

From Caped Crusader To Dark Knight
Fri, May 9, 2014 - Sat, May 10, 2014
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028 Map

Screening of the classic Batman movies, old chum.




Eagle-Con
May 8-9
CSULA

A convention exploring thoughts on the diversity in comics.