Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Weekly What To Do: tHE vOiD is here

Well, tHE voID is back, the time of year when X- Mas rolls in and virtually nothing happens in LA. Here's what's left...Oh, and Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!

Metro free rides on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve

  • Tuesday, Dec. 24, starting at 4 a.m. through Wednesday, Dec. 25 at   
    3 a.m.  
  • Tuesday, Dec. 31, starting at 4 a.m. through Wednesday, Jan. 1, at 3 a.m.  
Start Wed Night Dec 25 4:30 pm to 5:30 PM
Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, California CA
Free
 
Celebrate the Festival of Lights during the Hanukkah season with nightly menorah lightings on the 1200 block of Third Street Promenade (located between Santa Monica Blvd. and Broadway). Each night is sponsored by a different group and features a different program.
 
THURSDAY, DEC. 26 | 5:00 P.M.
The Culver Steps, 9300 Culver Blvd, Culver City 90232
This is a free event.
Complementary one-hour parking will be offered during this event.

Celebrate the festival of Chanukah at The Culver Steps with a Grand Menorah Lighting!

Enjoy live music, a magic show for all ages, caricature artist, hot latkes, doughnuts, chocolate gelt, crafts and activities for kids, free raffles, and a free gift for every child!
 
more happening
Sunday, December 29
Grand Chanukah Gelt Drop!
 
Wednesday, December 25 · 4 - 6pm
Toyota Training Center LA Kings Practice Rink
555 Nash Street El Segundo, 90245
$17.85
 
Skate around a giant menorah.
 
 

UCB For The Holidays:
All taking place @
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 5919 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Boxing Day with Flow
December 27 @ 8:30 pm - 9:45 pm
$15

 Flow (Monika Smith & Nnamdi Ngwe) invites you to join them for a special holiday-themed comedy show with some of the best improvisers in town!

Instead of a single word from the audience inspiring the show, your unwanted gifts are encouraged! The performers will use the gifts as inspiration for hilarious scenes, songs, dances, and whatever else they are inspired to do in the show.

Wreck The Halls
December 27 @ 10:00 pm - 11:15 pm
$10

The Holidays are a time full of jubilant memories, beautiful traditions, and cherished loved ones – but what if those memories, traditions, and loved ones were actually super fucked up?!

You’re about to find out! Come share your most beautiful holiday stories with our stacked lineup of improvisers and we’ll recreate them, then WRECK ’em.

It’s gonna get wild!

It’s a Wonderful Sketch, Live and LIVESTREAMED!
December 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
$10.00 - $15.00 

Come to Bedford Falls for a night of sketches lovingly tearing apart Frank Capra’s holiday classic!

Every time an audience laughs, a comedian gets external validation! An evening of sketches all centered around the greatest 2-hour-and-10-minute box office flop about a suicidal banker that barely mentions Christmas ever turned into a holiday tradition!

Curl up around the UCB fireplace and celebrate the holidays with an “It’s a Wonderful Life” themed sketch show!

F This Year, Live and LIVESTREAMED!
December 29 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
$10.00 - $20.00 

Come to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre on December 29th and tell us about your shitty year. Our veteran cast of improvisers will take your stories and turn them into a fully improvised comedy show.

Join us as we stick our middle fingers in the air and send 2024 screaming into the sun.

Extra:
 
Free Hours at the Autry
Every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m.

Let the Autry cover your next visit with Free Hours at the Autry. Every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m. will be free to all Autry visitors. Enjoy access to all the Autry's exhibitions including Imagined Wests, Reclaiming El Camino and more by reserving your spot today!
 

Thanks to the generous support of the Autry Foundation, Free Hours at the Autry* are every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m.
 
UCB, a cheapo comedy show almost every night, see comedians before they make podcasts and have
stories about the UCB and before they hit the big time.
 


American Cinematheque-A celebrated independent theater group that brings both the talent and catalog of films to make for some of LA's best movie nights.
 

Street Food Cinema-Outdoor cult or recent hits you'll love.

Check out classics and cult movies just a few stories above street level. Rooftop Movies at The Montalbán.


 New Bev-Tarantino owned independent theater with old school style

Cinelounge - Hollywood based tiny theater, showing off indies you've never heard of
 
Brain Dead Studios-manages to fill its schedule almost every night
611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
 
Vidiots -A one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and everyone curious about cinema. A small theater is more than made-up for with the constant content and special screenings.
4884 Eagle Rock Blvd
 
Art
 
Now-2025
Japanese American National Museum
100 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Admission $

Giant Robot Biennale 5 features artists Sean Chao, Felicia Chiao, Luke Chueh, Giorgiko, James Jean,
Taylor Lee, Rain Szeto, and Yoskay Yamamoto, among others. Since 2007, JANM has partnered with Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, to produce the Giant Robot Biennale, a recurring art exhibition that highlights diverse creative works celebrating the brand’s ethos.