Weekly What To Do: Thank Your Mom, Sunday!

Queen Mary’s Night Market
Thursdays Starting May 9th

Free Admission with Reservation.

Back by popular demand! Queen Mary’s Night Market. This event is about bringing the community and local businesses together. Great for a family night out, date night, or a hang out destination with friends of all ages. Guests can enjoy different food types and tastes from various chef extraordinaire, do a little shopping with pop-up boutiques, relax and hang out, drink a cocktail in the beer garden, and listen to live music from local artists and bands.  

 

Poolman Q&A
Filmmaker & Star In Person!
Friday, May 10, 2024, from 7:00 PM to 11:30 PM

Landmark Sunset

$

 

Filmmaker and star Chris Pine will appear in person at Landmark Sunset on Friday, May 10 for a Q&A after the 7:00pm show and to introduce the 9:45pm show.

POOLMAN tells the story of Darren Barrenman (Chris Pine), an unwavering optimist and native Angeleno who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live.

Gary Oldman: An American Cinematheque Retrospective
Fri. May 10 - Wed. May 29, 2024
Aero Theatre, Egyptian Theatre and Los Feliz 3

The American Cinematheque is thrilled to welcome actor Gary Oldman in person for a retrospective almost as wide-ranging as he is. With near supernatural acting abilities, one might wonder what the secret is to Gary Oldman’s outrageous success. In fact, the secret is that there is no secret, just a lot of hard work. No matter how many times he plays the villain, Oldman is nothing short of a Hollywood hero, not only for his sheer talent, but for his unwavering dedication to the craft.

Retrospective includes: MANK, DARKEST HOUR, SLOW HORSES, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA and ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

 

Late Night! Wild Things Are Happening

Friday, May 10, 6:30–10:30 pm

Skirball

$10 General$7 Seniors, Students, and Kids

FREE to Members

 

Let the wild rumpus start! With food, drinks, music, and fun, come celebrate the imaginative worlds of Maurice Sendak with special late-night gallery access and programming.

 

O-Launch Exhibition Weekend 

May 10-12

Otis College

Free 

O-Launch is a weekend of in-person and virtual programs showcasing the future of art and design through the work of Otis College’s talented graduating students. Highlights include the campus-wide Annual Exhibition, the Fashion Show and Industry Night, and the commencement ceremony featuring special guest speakers and honorary degree recipients.

 

ARTIST ALLEY @GameRealms

May 11th, Saturday, at 12 PM to 6:30 PM

@GameRealms in Burbank

Meet various artists and creators, purchase art and artsy merch!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ikebana: A Sasaku Kusuriyubi Solo Exhibition

May 11, 2024 - May 26, 2024
Opening Reception / May 11, 5:00PM - 8:00PM

 

 Sasaku Kusuriyubi arrives with a new set of original acrylics and watercolors. Original works will be on display and available for sale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Freaky Friday
May 11, 2024 8:00 PM
Live Music by:
Mediocre
The Autry Museum

 

Outdoor screening of the film ...on Saturday?

 

 

INVENTING WORLDS & CHARACTERS
Rotation opens May 12, 2024
Rolex Gallery East/West, Level 3

Academy Museum

$ Admission

Part of the museum’s core Stories of Cinema exhibition, Inventing Worlds and Characters takes visitors on a journey through animation, special and visual effects, and encounters with famous characters and objects from fantasy, horror, and science fiction films. The Animation gallery will feature concept artwork, layout drawings, animation cels, character maquettes, and other objects from films such as The Skeleton Dance (USA, 1929), Pinocchio (USA, 1940), Begone Dull Care (Canada, 1949), Asparagus (USA, 1979), Akira (Japan, 1988), WALL•E (USA, 2008), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (USA, 2022), and more. The Effects gallery will look at three approaches to transforming the human form into a monstrous one in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (USA, 1931), An American Werewolf in London (USA, 1981), and scenes featuring the Hulk in the Avengers film series (USA, 2012–2019). In the Encounters gallery, objects such as spaceship miniatures from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (USA, 1977), a costume worn by Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix Reloaded (USA/Australia, 2003), and porg puppets and animatronics from Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (USA, 2017) will offer unique opportunities to view fantastical elements previously experienced only onscreen.

 

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LA County Fair: Stars Stripes and Fun

May 3-27
Fairplex 1101 W McKinley Ave
Pomona, CA 91768 

$

 

The 16-day event opens May 3. Don’t miss new attractions, the thrills of the carnival, musical entertainment in every corner of the fairgrounds and, of course, lots and lots of food.

 

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.

 

Smorgasburg Los Angeles

Every Sunday 

10am-4pm at @rowdtla
Free Entry, Family Friendly Beer Garden, No Pets.

 
Smorgasburg is the largest weekly open-air food market in America, with markets in Los Angeles attracting 50,000 people each weekend to eat from a hundred local vendors.

 

 

 

Largo, known for comedy shows. Grab some tickets before everything sells out. Many new shows from some of LA's top comedians. We see Bill Burr, Patton Oswalt, Pete Holmes and Sarah Silverman performing here to name a few.

 

Film

Cine Insomnia@Nuarte

Do you have Cine Insomnia? We have the cure! Join us at Landmark's Nuart Theatre for midnight weekend programs ranging from classic anime and horror to sci-fi favorites, offbeat musicals, cult sensations and more!

 

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.

The Montalban Rooftop Movies

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

& Rooftop Cinema Club

 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

 

Giant Robot Biennale 5

March 2-Sept 1
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.

 

 

 Yes, KAWAII is Art
-EXPRESS YOURSELF-

05.02.2024 (Thu.) – 11.03.2024 (Sun.)

JAPAN HOUSE Gallery, Level 2

Free

 

 “Yes, KAWAII is Art -EXPRESS YOURSELF-” is the first exhibition in which Masuda, known as the “King of Kawaii,” brings together multiple artworks unravelling the concepts within the phenomena while introducing his personal story of sharing kawaii with the world. Through his collection of artifacts from the origins of the culture and dazzling immersive art installations, visitors are invited to explore the cultural context and significance of the kawaii movement and step into the colorful world to feel the aesthetic for themselves, emphasizing its role in fostering a sense of joy, innocence, and community as a tool for self-expression and representation of a worldwide tribe to which we can all belong.

 

Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form

March 9, 2024 – September 8, 2024

Bowers Museum 

$ Admission

 

 Never-before-seen at a museum and making its American debut, Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form presents the largest ever selection of original artworks from Asian comics, displayed alongside their printed, mass-produced forms. This exhibition is a vivid journey through the art of comics and visual storytelling across Asia. From its historical roots to the most recent digital innovations, the exhibition looks to popular Japanese manga and beyond, highlighting key creators, chara

Meow Wolf LA 2026

Meow Wolf is coming to LA! That's all we get and that the newest experience seems to be set at the site of a former movie theater and will involve something about a ritual, set for a 2026 launch. 

 

For those who don't know, Meow Wolf is the name of art collective that has built fascinating experiences to wander an explore. It's like a special theme park attraction you can keep coming back to. Sadly, it isn't free, so expect to grab tickets when it opens a few years from now.

The closes Meow Wolf experience to us now is Vegas' Omega Mart, a parody of the giant retailers like Costco or Walmart with a store with no limits in the sense of  a sci-fi twist. The store is all kinds of weird and seems like it's connected to other dimensions and houses things that shouldn't exist.

Whatever Meow Wold LA has planned is given scant details it the piece in the LA Times' Meow Wolf supercharged the way we experience art. Is L.A. ready for the wild ride?

 

Whatever crazy nonsense it is, we can't wait for it!

It's Mad That Kerry Callen Doesn't Get His Own Comic/Series at DC

 

If you checked out Free Comic Book Day, last Saturday, we're sure you noticed the free Mad comic featuring bare-chested Superman. If you read what was inside you'd be hit with laughs from the work of Kerry Callen, who also did the cover. Seeing his collected work over the years and how much attention his cover drew, it's crazy DC doesn't give him a comic or series. He's so good at poking fun at the DC's heroes.

To see his comics check out his blog or read one of our favorites by him, Halo & Sprocket. Which, funny enough, we were introduced to his work on Free Comic Book Day. The latter is a comic about an Angel, a robot and a young woman living together like a sitcom.

Free Comic Book Day 2024 @ Revenge Of

 

Had fun getting out free comics for Free Comic Book Day over at Revenge Of on Saturday. If you are lucky enough to find parking nearby, it's beyond worth going to. It's not just comics, they have quite the pinball collection. A Lot Sale is coming May 18th.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM

 

It's crazy how these Japanese companies revive a series for a movie so very long after it's over. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom is out this week, choose from either Subbed (May 7) or Dubbed (May 8).

Indika Review: Whose This Nun Lady?

By Jonathan Bilski

Hello Darkness,

My old friend. Why are you in a nun outfit?

Indika might sound like a hard to find Crayola color or a Ukrainian model doing Verizon ads. She's actually the protagonist of her own game and kind of has the devil in her. In an alternate time-line Russia you'll be puzzle solving around Indika's bleak, but farcical adventure through what looks like a place that lost a war. The game captured our eye and hopefully yours through its multiple trailers showing old-school pixels in a modern looking game. Elements of 16-bit sync in when you pray, collect items and earn points. And, even Indika's memories are in 16-bit. So, let's ask some deeper damning questions about Christianity and get into the game.

Indika, does not start off fun, it's almost the same problem I had with Harold Halibut. In Indika's monastery, she is not liked but the other nuns. They treat her pretty bad and you'll feel that the second you start playing. However, you don't stay here for very long. After, a great opening title sequence, that has you being pushed out from the place, you'll meet your walking companion and captor/ friend Ilya. He's got an arm going gangrene and some different thoughts on Christianity and maybe a mission from G-d.

 

Too bad, you've got the devil in your ear. 

Indika has the problem of hearing possibly her own thoughts or possibly for real, the devil. The devil and Ilya allows for some great theology lessons and maybe some hard questions about the Christian faith in-between walking around devoid-of-zombies Resident Evil 4 villages.

You have some pretty depressing towns and factories to walk through and solve puzzles in. They look great and are the perfect place for some platforming or some head-scratching puzzles to solve.

Head-scratching might be in two-fold as a few times you need the devil in you for the world to split in two, which allows some interesting ways to platform. When the world splits, it opens other paths and therefore you can get somewhere you couldn't before.

It's one of many puzzles and gimmicks you'll have to figure out to complete the game.

Indika herself, as well as the devil are both great to listen too and ponder with as they try and make it through not the brightest of situations. Really superb voice-acting.

 

I didn't realize how short the game was till I got to the end, I beat it around seven and a half hours, but took some breaks in-between the tougher puzzles.

 

Along the way, I was always fascinated by the collecting of sacred artifacts, lighting candles to pray or earning points in a 16-bit style. That, with chip tune soundtracks that flow in the game, mash well-together and give the game it's own strange style.

 

Memories from our fair nun all take place in 16-bit, a fun sort of take on flashbacks from tv shows and anime. Instead of being in black-and-white or being fuzzy to denote a memory they're 16-bit like games to play. It's a novel concept and one I hope other games emulate.

Our time with Indika might be brief, but not forgettable. Be it the conversations she has, some of the surreal landscapes or puzzles or any of those 16-bit moments it was well worth it to play as a nun in alternate unfriendly 18th century Russia. I mean how many games can you say you were playing a nun who was also the devil?

 

The points don't matter, but that won't ever stop you from collecting them!

 

Get INDIKA on:
Steam | GOG | Epic | PlayStation | Xbox

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Game provided by publisher for review purposes

Yes, KAWAII is Art x Starbucks

 

"As a special kawaii treat, JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles teamed up with Starbucks to create an exclusive, limited-edition beverage in honor of the “Yes, KAWAII is Art -EXPRESS YOURSELF-” exhibition. The special beverage will be available to purchase at select Hollywood Starbucks locations from May 7 – May 31 and in August as a special collaboration celebrating this exhibition and its message of embracing creativity, self-expression, and community spirit. Refresh yourself with the cutest beverage in town!"