A week from today, Los Angeles will shut down, becoming a ghost town until January 6. So pack your shit in until that day! How? CHECK THE RECAP!!
Friday, December 13
• Mignardises has an amazing pop-up dining concept now.
• Catch a rad puppet documentary–for a good cause!
• Homeboy have the opening of an art show, Downtown.
• AHHHHH: THE NEW FAIRFAX PLAN CHECK IS OPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Go for a Luminaria holiday walk, friends.
• Go see LA Opera’s Magic Flute! It sounds so great.
• Celebrate Friday the 13th with Surly Goat and their Black Christmas holiday.
• Lisa Solberg’s very reflective show is now open.
• Your girl Rhonda is taking it to space.
• Check out puppet-y documentary screening Welcome To The Circus.
• Grist & Toll are open today for holiday goodies.
• Catch a quick musical version of Home Alone.
• Time for a punk rock show at Subliminal.
• Bye, The Getty middle school photo show.
Saturday, December 14
• New Chinatown wine store Ling’s Market is having a holiday sale. Seems cool!
• Dude: make a FRANKENSWEATER at CAFAM today. Neat!
• This Michelle Guintu show at New Image seems rad.
• More Mignardises pop-up dining concept!
• Shop this holiday sale and party with TENOVERSIX and Ram.
• Decorate cookies and stuff in Malibu.
• Check out the Holiday Boat Parade in Marina Del Rey, if you are out there.
• Time for the Cinefamily Telethon. DONATE!!!
• Go for a ride as a part of that Chrome bike show.
• FYI: Los Feliz’s Steven Alan has a sweet shirt deal.
• Drink some wine and party with JMSN tonight at The Mint.
• Help MAK “unforget” LA, contemporary art people.
• THE NEW MUJI IS OPEN!!!!
• Get this, peeps: a yoga book release is happening at SMMOA. Love the illustrations!
• There’s music and a book release/signing at Family tonight.
• Make butter? Do aerobics? Make friends? Yes.
• Project Gallery is having a holiday market today.
• More Grist & Toll action today.
• Fruitique is having a fruity party today.
• Liz Glynn is giving her next to last LACMA performance, yo.
• It’s time for some Renegade Craft Fair.
• Check out this gathering and fun with MIA.
• El Ten Elven are hitting the El Rey.
• Bergamot Station is having a Holiday Open House all day today.
• Otherwild is at a Flaunt show in Long Beach.
• Bye, William Turner group show.
• Bye, Gary Baseman show—and he’s giving an artist’s talk, too.
• Bye, Tom Lieber at JF Chen. Great show!
• Bye, Melissa Manfull at Taylor De Cordoba!
Sunday, December 15
• Like The Amazing Race? Do this thing! We have a deal where you can do it for free.
• Check out this Jimmy 2014 calendar release. It will be refreshing and fun.
• This will be sweet: new Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia!
• This Jingle Jangle sale would be a great thing to support.
• Time for more Renegade Craft Fair.
• There’s a poetry slam at CAFAM.
• VIA is having a holiday celebration.
• Get more Home Alone…well, a thirty minute version!
• Crossroads is having another chef dinner.
• Last chance to enter that Muji Instagram contest.
• Urban Hike in Burbank today, yo.
• Electronic dude George Fitzgerald is in LA.
• Help Fallen Fruit make art today!
• More Cinefamily Telethon.
• Last chance to get your Commandment Couture entry in.
• Last chance to see the new Drew Droege show.
• MIA has a special gathering today.
• Bye, really amazing version of Magic Flute.
• Bye, little Slow Culture Never Press show.
• Bye, limited showing of Reasons To Be Pretty.
• Bye, The New Normal art show.
Coming Up This Week
• Monday, America Martin’s new book is out.
• Monday, get your AirTalk internship application in ASAP.
• Monday, another Westside Comedy Central showcase.
• Monday, enjoy some Little Bear beer, y’all.
• Tuesday, enjoy a Judy Collins Christmas.
• Tuesday, this LAND dinner sounds nice.
• Tuesday, more Westside Comedy Central standup.
• Wednesday, holiday happy hour in Culver City.
• Wednesday, enjoy a holiday organ spectacular at the Concert Hall.
• Wednesday, it’s a Cowboy Lunch at the Autry.
• Thursday, another lusty storytelling event is happening.
• Friday, the Craft In America show debuts its holiday something on PBS. How rad!
• Friday, it’s time for a Chanticleer Christmas at the Concert Hall.
• Friday, it would be fun to do a holiday Luminaria walk.
• Friday, it’s the start of the Farmers Market holiday time.
• Friday, the new Newport Fig & Olive opens.
• Friday, is Banksy actually in LA? Doubt it. Then again, do we care?
• Friday, more Grist & Toll.
• Bye, sexy looking Night Gallery show.
• Friday, bye 18th Street Westside show.’
• Friday, last chance to help the Green Gravel Festival.
Selected Ongoing Items
• Enjoy our holiday gift countdown, those looking for gifts.
• You need to go to Ouli in Echo Park for holiday gifts.
• Adore this new Otaat and Myers Collective collaboration as much as we like it.
• Check out the new DWR.
• Check out these artsy deer for charity!
• Enter this Channel Island contest, yo.
• LOOK AT THESE DOGS!!!!
• Cheap Steven Alan shirts, guys and gals!
• Want to get a house in LA? Read this.
• The Sisters Of Los Angeles have a kiosk at The Grove. Neat!
• Check out the Heath clock show—and it’s great.
• KPCC has a new iPad app.
• Missed Arts ReSTORE? Don’t fret: Fallen Fruit and Iron Curtain Press have extended their stays!
• Catch Future Desert at Mohawk.
• Check out this water show at the Natural History Museum.
• Check out this Tanya Aguiniga show at Reform Gallery.
• Get to the Westside to catch this rad Dutch pop-up.
• Check out rad little gift store pop-up in Echo Park, Ouli.
• Lari Pittman’s show at Regen is pretty rad.
• Digging this local art blog.
• Love this Colby Printing documentary.
• We LOVE this LA video by Andy Rementer.
• Play this James Turrell at LACMA video game.
• Be on the lookout for Share Shelf, peeps.
• Look out for this!
• Wear these!
• Gift this!
• Get drinks from this!