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Sage Vaughn, Scandi Films, Gypsy Jazz, French Synth, and the Adventure Show!
Jan 13th, 2012 @ 11:43 am
Bored as hell? Here’s some LA fun stuff comin up this weekend!
Friday, January 13
*Awesome LA street-turned-fine artist Sage Vaughn has his first solo exhibit of the year at Known Gallery. He’s made his reputation painting gangsta birds. It’s way cooler than it sounds, trust me.
More info: Known Gallery is excited to start off this year with “Last Year”, a show of new works by Sage Vaughn and a very special guest. This will be Sage’s first solo exhibition at Known Gallery, featuring new large-scale woven editions based on paintings and collages from his ongoing ENVELOPE SERIES. Contrasting the nonchalant qualities of collage making and the painstaking exactness of woven tapestry, this work becomes part of an experiment in making art that can exist both off and outside the gallery walls.
*Helen Hunt, star of the blockbuster film Twister, performs Our Town at the Broad Stage
More info: Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe-winner Helen Hunt stars in this groundbreaking new version of Wilder’s iconic American play. Our Town tells the story of young lovers George and Emily, whose life in a small New England town becomes a microcosm of every day life. The wisdom of the play, rendered through a deceptively simple story, makes Our Town an enduring treasure of the American theater.
*LA Phil’s Mahler Project kicks off with “9 SYMPHONIES, 3 WEEKS, 2 ORCHESTRAS, 1 CONDUCTOR.” Gustavo Dudamel directs the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Mahler’s death. It’s kinda a big deal.
*80’s obsessed French synth outfit M83 plays club Nokia with rave-rockers Big Black Delta.
More info: http://goldenvoice.com/shows/details/?id=33822
*Django-fied gypsy jazzers Noah and the Megafauna perform at the Downtown Indie, and debut their new music video. Free!
*The Divide will be the Nuart’s midnight movie and actor Michael Biehn will be there in person! Ask him how he felt about being totally cut out of Terminator 2.
More info: In this unrated graphic and violent post-apocalyptic thriller, nine strangers—all tenants of a New York high rise apartment—escape a nuclear attack by hiding out in the building’s bunker-like basement.
*The B-52’ play the Grove of Anaheim R-r-r-r-rooooock Lob-sta!
Speaking of which:
*The Aquarium of the Pacific stays open late for Shark Lagoon Night where visitors can get up in the grills of some toothy predators. Free!
More info: The public is invited to get up close with the ocean’s ultimate predators at the Aquarium of the Pacific for free during Shark Lagoon Nights. Guests will have the opportunity to touch more than 150 sharks and see large sharks like the sand tiger shark at the Shark Lagoon exhibit on select Friday evenings from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Shark Lagoon brings guests closer to these predators than they ever imagined was possible. Guests can touch and learn about sharks, shop, purchase drinks and snacks, and enjoy live music during select Shark Lagoon Nights.
Saturday, January 14
*Staycations are so last year. Turn your travel dreams into reality at the Travel and Adventure Show at the Long Beach Convention Center, which features vacation deals, excursion giveaways and presentations by TV travel gurus. Make your 2012 all about escapes, not excuses.
More info: Now in its seventh year - the Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show is your ticket to discover authentic travel experiences, snap up the deals, win trips and giveaways, and be entertained and delighted at this amazing travel extravaganza. You’ll hear travel tips from the experts including travel legends Andrew Zimmern, Samantha Brown, Pauline Frommer, Patricia Schultz and more. Experience ziplining, dive in the scuba pool, and see cultural performances.
* For all those people bonkers for bonsai, the LA Arboretum presents the Baiko-En Bonsai Kenkyukai Show and Sale. Get your shrub on!
More info: The Baiko-En Bonsai Kenkyukai Society will present the only show of deciduous miniaturized trees in the US. This show features Japanese graybark elms, ginkgo, zelkova and maple trees in their dormant stage. Demonstrations each day will show how to prune the branches and roots of ordinary nursery plants, transforming them into classic bonsai planted in the traditional shallow pots. Bonsai trees, both finished and partially trained by club members, will be offered for sale.
*Golden Globe Foreign-language nominee series closes with a FREE panel discussion at the Egyptian Theater from the directors of the Golden Globe nominees including Pedro Almodovar, Jean-Pierre And Luc Dardenne, Asghar Farhadi, Angelina Jolie, and Zhang Yimou. Yeah, that’s Angelina. Will Brad show up????? ZOMG!!!
*The 13th annual Scandinavian film festival LA takes over the Writers Guild Theater. Expand your Scandiphilla beyond girls with dragon tattoos.
More info: Full lineup of films
*Indie-Americana band Wheeler Brothers leave Texas behind for the Mint theater, where they will get yer boots a-stompin!
More info: Formed in Austin, TX, the Wheeler Brothers are made up of brothers Nolan (guitar/piano/vocals), Tyler (bass) and Patrick Wheeler (drums) along with Danny Matthews (guitar/vocals), and A.J. Molyneaux (lap steel/guitar/vocals). They have quickly emerged as one of Austin’s most exciting up-and-coming bands whose style is described as “ball-of-fire Americana” by the Austin Chronicle. They will be making their way across the West Coast through the beginning of the New Year hitting SXSW, Colorado, California & Texas along the way. Wheeler Brothers are touring in support of their debut release, Portraits (Bismeaux Records), which dropped last summer and features sing along, guitar driven jams with clear, crisp vocals and plenty of down-home Southern twang.
*The Craft And Folk Art Museum presents Paper Theater, a family event to make collage stories from old magazines. Can they use my stack of unread New Yorkers? I’ve got a tower of them.
More info: Join artist and puppeteer Leslie K. Gray to explore Kamishibai, an ancient type of Japanese storytelling using picture cards. You’ll create a fascinating world of lively characters created with magazine cuttings and cardboard. Finally, perform your special stories with the group.
Sunday, January 15
Yangzhou Puppet Theater at the Chinese Cultural Arts Celebration at the Huntington Gardens. Who doesn’t love a puppet? No really. Who? I want names.
More info: Explore the music, theater, and folk crafts of China in a day-long event that celebrates the beginning of the lunar new year season, ushering in the Year of the Dragon. The event is a prelude to The Huntington’s Chinese New Year Festival, which will be held on Feb. 4–5. Artists and performers from Jiangsu Province, China, will present traditional puppet opera and demonstrate crafts such as inner-painted glass, paper cutting, and sugar sculpture. Dragon dancers and musicians will add to the spirit of celebration
*Behind Mythbusters presents those two weird guys from the show who will, presumably, bust the shit out of a myth or two, in front of a live audience at the Nokia Theater. Hope they don’t try that cannonball trick again…
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