Climb your trucks and start your engines! Monster Jam is coming to Southern California this weekend.
Some of the biggest and baddest monster trucks will compete in the thrilling event. KTLA’s Gayle Anderson has all the info, plus details on other events happening this weekend.
Monster Truck Jam
Angel Stadium
2000 East Gene Autry Way
Anaheim
714 940 2000
It’s a rip roaring weekend in Anaheim. This is MONSTER TRUCK JAM. Grave Digger® driven by Dennis Anderson, Metal Mulisha driven by Brian Deegan, Mohawk Warrior℠ driven by BJ Johnson, and more are in town for the latest round as they compete and put on a show in advance of the World Finals in March.
Presentation & Workshop @ 2 p.m.
California African American Museum
600 State Drive
Exposition Park
Los Angeles
213 744 2024
213 744 7432
In conjunction with their LOOKIN BACK IN FRONT OF ME: SELECTED WORKS OF MARK STEVEN GREENFIELD, 1974 – 2014, trained genealogist, Dr. Edna Briggs of the California African American Genealogical Society, will facilitate a hands-on workshop using available resources to unearth your family’s roots. All ages are welcome!
Road to California Quilters’ Conference & Showcase
Ontario Convention Center
2000 East Convention Center Way
Ontario
909 937 3000
Quilters call this “THE BEST IN THE WEST!” It’s the Road to California Quilter’s Conference and Showcase at the Ontario Convention Center. Be prepared to experience art, culture, and creativity.
Man-Made: Contemporary Male Quilters
Craft & Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
323 937 4230
And, while we’re on the subject of quilts, the Craft & Folk Art Museum presents Man-Made: Contemporary Male Quilters. The exhibition examines the unique aesthetics and techniques men bring to a craft long-associated with feminine arts and labor. With backgrounds in contemporary visual art, media, and fashion, the eight artists featured in the exhibition have been identified as leading makers whose quilts act as non-functional art pieces.
34th Annual Black Doll Show: A League Supreme
The William Grant Still Arts Center Presents
2520 South West View Street
Los Angeles
323 734 1165
For its 34th Annual Black Doll Show, find more than seventy-five unique handmade and collector dolls and media art of Black superheroes past and present, from comic book icons to an inspiring superhero league of jazz musicians.
The vision of A League Supreme is to not only include a more contemporary look at Black dolls, toys, and constructed images, but to move beyond gender- based toys and be inclusive of what youth see and connect with today. The exhibition includes murals by Patrick Johnson, AISE, and Jessica Reid, and dolls by Patricia Shivers, Dale Guy Madison, and Fana Babadayo, as well as the work of doll artists new to the show. The show will also include futuristic media art by visual artists Ronda Brown, Jabari Hall Smith, Sankofa and Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca.
Learn and practice doll making at a Saturday workshop February 7 from 2-4pm. The workshops will be taught by long time community members and participants in the Black Doll Show Dr. Cynthia Davis, Teresa Tolliver, and Cheryl Williams.
About the Black Doll Show:
The Black Doll Show at The William Grant Still Arts Center was started in 1980 by the Friends of William Grant Still Arts Center, with artist Cecil Fergerson as its first curator. Inspired by the “Black Doll Test” conducted in the 1940s by pioneering psychologists Mamie and Kenneth Clark that concluded that many African-American children preferred playing with white dolls over black dolls, The Black Doll Show at the Center is the longest-running display of black dolls in Los Angeles. Collectors and doll artists return time and time again to offer dolls from their collections that fit with the year’s theme. At its root, it is a time for community to come together to celebrate the collections and contributions each individual has made to doll making and collecting over the years.
The Heyday of L.A.’s Music Scene Central Library
Los Angeles Public Library
630 West 5th Street
Los Angeles
213 228 7000
Have you been to the Central Library lately? Now is a good time to visit. It’s the site of a new exhibit showcasing photographs of the artists who defined the Southern California music scene from the late seventies through the late eighties. From El Vez, “The Mexican Elvis” to Rapper Eazy-E to Eddie Van Halen.
Winter Whale Watching
Harbor Breeze Cruises
100 Aquarium Way, Dock #2
Long Beach
(562) 432-4900
Whales: Voices in the Sea Exhibit
Aquarium of the Pacific
100 Aquarium Way
Long Beach
(562) 590-3100
Marine life experts are calling this the “winter of the whale!” That’s because in addition to the migrating Gray whales, experts from the Aquarium of the Pacific and Harbor Breeze Cruises are spotting Orcas, Fin, and Humpback whales.
Whale watchers can listen to the whales they see and can learn more about whale communication by exploring the award-winning Whales: Voices in the Sea multimedia exhibit at the Aquarium.
Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area
Bald Eagle Barge Tours @ 9a.m.
Reservations Required
Vehicle Fee to Enter the Park
760 389 2281
www.dfg.ca.gov
www.parks.ca.gov
From whale watching to bald eagle watching! According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the best time of year to see bald eagles in California is during the winter, now through March. Bald Eagle barge tours happen Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. during the months of January, February and March. Reservations are required. For reservations or more information call the park office at (760) 389-2281.There is no charge for the tour, just a ten dollar vehicle fee to enter the park. Meet at the Marina launch ramp.
Park rangers say we can see hundreds of migrating eagles wintering in California, having flown hundreds or thousands of miles from breeding areas in states and provinces in the north. These winter visitors join hundreds of year-round resident bald eagles of California. On some midwinter statewide surveys, more than 1,000 bald eagles have been counted in California. The largest concentration of wintering eagles is found in the Klamath Basin, on the California-Oregon border.
Snow at the Los Angeles Zoo
Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Griffith Park
5333 Zoo Drive
Los Angeles
323 644 4200
www.lazoo.org
Is that snow? At the Los Angeles Zoo? Yep! It’s SNOW DAYS AT THE LA ZOO. The wintery fun features a rare opportunity to watch inquisitive animals exploring snowy wonderlands in several habitats, a snow play area for Zoo guests including a special sledding hill, elaborate ice-carving demonstrations, an inflatable snow globe in which guests can pose for family photo ops, a scavenger-style hunt through the Zoo for youngsters with snow-related animal facts and more. All activities are free with paid Zoo admission, which is $19 for general admission (ages 13 to 61); $16 for seniors (ages 62+), and $14 for children (ages 2 to 12). No ticket is required for children under 2. Admission for Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association members is free.
Lego Travel Adventure
National Geographic Presents: Earth Explorers
Discovery Cube Orange County
2500 North Main Street Santa Ana
Lego Travel Adventure and National Geographic Presents: Earth Explorers are open at the Discovery Science Center in Orange County.
In Lego Travel Adventure, young creators will create vehicles of all shapes and sizes that will drive, fly, or float through exotic terrains. Suit-up as a pilot, ship captain, or racecar driver to find inspiration for your vehicle or check-out a display of vehicles made from LEGO bricks, including: a spaceship, boat, motorcycle, and more. Build a vehicle with pieces from popular LEGO sets, take a photo with a kid-sized racecar made from LEGO® Duplo® blocks, and take the “Travel Challenge” to build a virtual LEGO vehicle that will travel through lava, swamps, rivers, and oceans.
The adventure continues as guests explore some of the wildest places on the planet in National Geographic Presents: Earth Explorers. Follow some of National Geographic’s explorers through this family-friendly exhibit to research some of the most extreme eco-zones on earth including polar regions, oceans, mountains and caves, rain forests, and the African Savanna. Adventurers will discover new species, study animal behavior, and learn how technology plays an important role in the exciting discoveries.
Free! Extended!
Soboroff Typewriter Exhibition
Paley Center for Media
465 North Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills
310 786 1000
This free exhibition at the Paley Center for Media is so popular, it has been extended through the end of the month. It’s the SOBOROFF TYPEWRITER COLLECTION. Los Angeles civic leader Steve Soboroff has gathered the world’s most important collection of twenty-nine original typewriters from famous (and infamous) authors and personalities. New to the collection this one. The typewriter owned by Hollywood legend and silent screen super star Rudolf Valentino known solely by his last name Valentino.
The exhibit also includes:
• The 1932 Royal Model P that Ernest Hemingway used to write letters during his time in Cuba.
• A tiny Imperial Good Companion Model T on which John Lennon banged out song lyrics years before the Beatles invaded America.
• The snappy red Underwood 4-Bank portable on which Orson Welles created the cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane.
• Jerry Siegel’s Royal Portable Quiet Deluxe. Jerry said that “one of the little known stories of Superman is that he owes a lot of his existence to this typewriter…it was the only portable I ever had or used.”
To Mr. Soboroff, a typewriter carries more meaning than the story of the hands that have touched the keys of the machine. “What the typewriter symbolizes now is timelessness, and also a slower, more thoughtful way of life,” he said. “What is made these days that will be used 60, 70, 80, 100 years from now? I don’t think there’s anything, and these typewriters have hundreds of years to go.”
“I love people who are the best at what they do,” Mr. Soboroff said. “The idea that geniuses sat there and accomplished what they accomplished on these typewriters … it gives me chills.”
To read more about Mr. Soboroff and his collection, take a look at the Los Angeles Times story.
This exhibit is free and open to the public now through January 31st, 2015.
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Have a GREAT Saturday!
Gayle Anderson, KTLA 5 News.