"Scream of the Bikini" Screening

Free screening tonight of "Scream of the Bikini" at Umami Burger in Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood. I know the director of this, and he is awesome. You won't regret going.

"Scream of the Bikini" screening
Umami Burger/Space 15 Twenty
1520 Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood 90028
7-10 pm (DJ Flow at 7, movie at 7:45)

Free screening of For Love of Ivy

For those of you currently sans day job, the Skirball is having a free screening of the 1968 Sidney Poitier film For Love of Ivy at 1:30pm on Tuesday, February 9th.

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Tel: (310) 440-4500

Event info here

Beauty Bar 10th Anniversary

It's celebrating with free booze time again. Open vodka and Stella Artois bar from 10-11pm.

Beauty Bar
1638 Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood

More info and DJ list here

Free screening of two short documentaries

Santa Monica Public Library is hosting a free screening of two short documentaries tomorrow night. Each film will be followed by discussion with the filmmakers.

SOUTH CENTRAL FARM: Oasis in a Concrete Desert (6:30pm)
This 24 minute documentary tells the ture story of the controversy involving urban farmers and their supporters- including celebrity tree sitters, developers and the City of Los Angeles- over the South Central Farm, the largest and most bio-diverse urban farm in the U.S. Q & A with filmmaker Sheila Laffey, farm leader Tezozomoc, and activist John Quigley will follow the screening.

SHOW ME THE WAY (7:15pm)show me the way documentary pic
Follow the stories of five urban high school kids with diverse backgrounds and needs as they navigate the challenges of home and school life while supported by a dedicated mentor. Directed by William Gazecki and Sheila Laffey, the film is 56 minutes long. A Q & A with co-director Laffey and associate producer/editor Tim Kitz will follow the screening.

When: Thursday, January 7, 2010
Time: 6:30pm & 7:15pm
Location: Santa Monica Public Library
MLK Jr. Auditorium
601 Santa Monica Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90404
Cost: Free and open to the public

Intro Improv Workshop at Second City

Second City is offering an introductory improv workshop with Artistic Director Joshua Funk. It costs $25, but if you register for classes after that, they apply the $25 to your tuition.

Saturday, August 29
2:30-4:30pm
Second City Training Center
6560 Hollywood Blvd., LA, 90028
To RSVP, call (323) 464-8542

More info at Second City's website

"Best in Show" Screening

Space 15 Twenty is having "Christopher Guest Month," which may be the most fantastic thing to happen in Hollywood all summer. Tuesday night, 8/11, they will be screening "Best in Show" at 8pm. Catherine O'Hara's wobbly knees get me every time.

Space 15 Twenty
1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood
Free screening at 8 pm

Free First Fridays at the Norton Simon Musem

Apparently they have a lot of Degas at this museum in Pasadena. I plan to see for myself on the next First Friday, which happens to be on August 7.

Admission to the museum is free every first Friday of the month, from 6-9pm, with a special tour starting at 7pm. Student admission is always free, which is lucky if you still look the same as you did on your first day of college. (And if you do, bless your heart and tell me how you do it.)

Norton Simon Museum
411 W. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91105

Phone: (626) 449-6840
Nortonsimon.org

Pride Parade

Hey guys - sorry for being AWOL. I was moving.

This weekend is LA Pride. The festival isn't free, but the parade is.

LA PRIDE PARADE
Sunday June 14, steps off at 11:00 a.m.
& Silent Celebration Sunday June 14 at 12:00 noon
Santa Monica between Crescent Heights and San Vicente

LA Pride website

Spread the love! May peace and acceptance come very soon.

Art Exhibit - free t-shirt screen!

If you bring a blank t-shirt to Fin this Saturday, graphic artists Hit+Run will screen a design onto it for free. While you're there, check out the other 15 artists at the exhibit and bounce to the DJ. Vitamin Water is a sponsor, so maybe you'll even score some nutrition.

Social Experiment presents: Fin
Saturday, May 23
7-11
Studio 1636
1636 Wilcox Ave, Hollywood, 90028 (Just south of Hollywood Blvd.)

Event website

Downtown Art Walk

Three things I like: walking, downtown, and art.

The Downtown Art Walk is a self-guided tour that showcases the many art exhibition venues in Downtown Los Angeles — commercial art galleries, museums, and non-profit arts venues.

Downtown Art Walk
The Second Thursday of Every Month in Downtown Los Angeles

Thursday, May 14, 2009

12pm - 9 pm • Free Admission

LA Weekly LA Weekend

Not sure how it happened, but you used to have to buy tickets, and now you don't.

To celebrate 30 years of LA Weekly, LA Weekend "will showcase some of LA's most dynamic and colorful talent, programming a cutting edge film screening, speaker panels, art, food, music and book signings."

There is some pretty awesome stuff on their schedule - Wil Wheaton, Point Break Live, a screening of "The Heart is a Drum Machine," and something called Belvedere Lounge from noon-4 on Saturday...Belvedere is a sponsor, so perhaps that means free booze? Looks like there is a bunch of free meat as well. Everybody loves free meat.

Events 4/24 and 4/25
Nike Montalban Theatre
1615 N. Vine St.
Hollywood

LA Weekly LA Weekend website

I highly recommend taking the train to Hollywood/Vine, as parking around there is already a nightmare and the metro station is around the corner from the Montalban.

Have fun!

Freedom Snatch at iO - Week 34

They're unstoppably funny. Check it out.

Freedom Snatch in the Improv Cage Match
11 pm Thursday, 4/16
Free
iO West
6366 Hollywood Blvd.

April 15th - Look on the bright side

Tax day isn't fun for anybody. Even if you do get money back, by the time it arrives you've spent so long stressing about it and the refund is so small that it's hardly even worth it anymore. Or maybe that's just me.

If you work in Hollywood or are unemployed, Wednesday may just be your lucky day. At least as far as lunch is concerned.

Ivan Kane's Cafe Wa s is serving select menu items for absolutely free on Wednesday from 11am until 2pm. I might just have to take the day off.

Ivan Kane's Cafe Wa s
1521 N. Vine St. (Right behind Borders)
Hollywood, CA 90028

Make sure you stimulate...er...tip your waiters.

Art opening: "Charlie Foxtrot" by Daniel Newman

Eight Veil is a new gallery and publishing house on Sunset. Tonight is the opening reception of their first show, "Charlie Foxtrot" by Daniel Newman. Newman's works are "montages and drawings that illustrate the cultural amnesia of a society obsessed with the figure and representation."

"CHARLIE FOXTROT marks the inauguration of Eighth Veil, a new contemporary art exhibition and publishing house in Hollywood, California. Eighth Veil will provide artists with residencies to develop and oversee the creation of printed matter, as well as host a rotation of exhibitions and events."

Opening reception tonight, April 10, from 6-9pm
Eighth Veil
7174 Sunset Boulevard

Xicano Moratorium to the Ballad of El-Lay

I love tongue-in-cheek self reverence. Hope that's what they were going for.

Exhibit of new and less-new works by Willie Herrón. I can't make the opening, but hope to check it out before it closes. Have a free drink for me.

Beauty Bar 9th Anniversary

Beauty Bar on Cahuenga in Hollywood is turning 9. Three Olives is "hosting" the bar from 9:30-10:30. I assume that means you drink for free. DJs won't be the only ones spinning.

Beauty Bar turns 9
Sunday, April 5
1638 N. Cahuenga
Three Olives Hosted bar 9:30-10:30

Pillow Fight!

Someone Awesome has organized a city-wide pillow fight for Saturday, April 4, which is World Pillow Fight Day. Bring your own pillow. Steer clear of the ones with zippers.

3 pm on Saturday, April 4
Pershing Square
535 S Hill St
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Los Angeles Pillow Fight website
World Pillow Fight website

Freedom Snatch at iO - Week 32

Funny. Free. iO. 11pm.

"Splendor in the Grass" Screening at the Hammer

"Splendor in the Grass is the tragically romantic tale of sexually repressed and neurotic teenagers Deanie (Natalie Wood) and Bud (Warren Beatty), set in rural Kansas in 1928. The film is noted for its controversial first depiction of a French kiss in a film. (1961, 124 min., Dir. Elia Kazan)"

Screening at 7pm
Billy Wilder Theatre at the Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd, Westwood

All Hammer public programs are free. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.

Sara Lov "Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming" Release Party

Tip from a friend who heard Sara Lov on KCRW today. Release party for her new album, "Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming" tonight upstairs at Malo, 8pm.

Malo [upstairs]
4326 West Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90029
8pm til close
hors d'oeuvres & snacks
Cash Bar

DJ's will be playing music all night and also songs from the new album.

Monday night is also Taco Night at Malo, so if the upstairs free food doesn't suit, you can get $1 tacos downstairs in the restaurant all night.