Fri, October 3, 2008, 9:00 am

Writing with Light

Arts & Entertainment, San Diego
Organizations/Sponsors: Museum of Photographic Arts
Venue: Museum of Photographic Art

MoPA is proud to present the youth exhibition entitled Writing with Light, on view from September 13 to February 1, 2009. The exhibition will illustrate the connection between photography and literacy. Using the photographic arts as inspiration, students will interpret literary works of fact and ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 9:00 am

A Literacy of Images: Nancy Newhall and the Art of Photography

Arts & Entertainment, San Diego
Organizations/Sponsors: Museum of Photographic Art
Venue: Museum of Photographic Art

Best known for writing text to accompany the photographs of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall was also a widely published writer on photography, conservation, and American culture. During her marriage to Beaumont Newhall, former director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 9:00 am

Picturing the Process: Landscape Through Time and Space

Arts & Entertainment, San Diego
Organizations/Sponsors: Museum of Photographic Art
Venue: Museum of Photographic Art

Since its invention in 1839, the unique power of photography has been utilized to record, report, and inform. Representing selections from the museum’s comprehensive Permanent Collection, Picturing the Process is an endeavor of the Education Department to present an evolution of the landscape ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

9th Annual Public Safety Appreciation Barbecue

Events, Downtown
Organizations/Sponsors: Downtown Center Business Improvement District
Venue: 7th and Fig Shopping Center, Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Center Business Improvement District (DCBID), Central City Association (CCA) of Los Angeles and more than 50 Downtown Los Angeles businesses will host the 9th Annual Public Safety Appreciation Barbecue to honor the men and women of the LAPD, LAFD, FBI, CHP, LADOT, Sheriff’s Department, ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 4:30 pm

SYNAPLEX

Shabbat, Beverly Hills
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills
Venue: Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills

The idea behind SYNAPLEX is that, much like a multi-screen theater, we provide different choices. Each individual has a unique way of approaching his/her own spirituality, and therefore SYNAPLEX provides varied ways to experience Shabbat. We offer several services including our Healing Service, Tot ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 5:45 pm

Wine Tasting for Young Professionals

Shabbat, Beverly Hills
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills
Venue: Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills

Enjoy a great buffet of wines and cheeses, become a part of Temple Emanuel’s emerging group of young professionals, stay for the one of a kind “Shabbat Unplugged” musical Shabbat ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 6:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Baby Tattooville 2008

Arts & Entertainment, San Bernardino
Organizations/Sponsors: Baby Tattoo Books
Venue: Mission Inn Hotel and Spa

Baby Tattooville is a weekend-long event geared toward the art community. The event is being called a “Limited Edition Retreat” because only 50 paying attendees will be allowed to spend the weekend participating in both scheduled and spontaneous experiences with the event’s featured artists, ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The Catalina Island Jazz Trax Festival

Arts & Entertainment, Long Beach
Organizations/Sponsors: Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce
Venue: Avalon Ballroom

This three weekend event features 30 different smooth jazz stars performing Unplugged at the Ranch and in the historic Casino Ballroom. Art Good features the newest and best talent in the smooth jazz ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Young Professionals High Holiday Recovery Shabbat

Shabbat, San Fernando Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Valley Ruach at Adat Ari El
Venue: Adat Air El, David Familian Chapel

Just when you think one more minute at shul will make you scream, we have a solution! Valley Ruach’s High Holiday recovery shabbat, featuring the People Problem Person contest.  Join Valley Jews in their 20’s and 30’s for a short, lively guitar-accompanied service followed by an optional ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm

“GEM OF THE OCEAN”

Arts & Entertainment, Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: The Fountain Theatre
Venue: The Fountain Theatre

“Gem of the Ocean” is the play that begins it all - the first chronological installment in August Wilson’s unprecedented decade-by-decade cycle that dramatizes the African American experience in the 20th century.  Ovation and NAACP Award-winner Ben Bradley (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone) directs ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 1:00 pm

“GEM OF THE OCEAN”

Arts & Entertainment, Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: The Fountain Theatre
Venue: The Fountain Theatre

“Gem of the Ocean” is the play that begins it all - the first chronological installment in August Wilson’s unprecedented decade-by-decade cycle that dramatizes the African American experience in the 20th century.  Ovation and NAACP Award-winner Ben Bradley (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone) directs ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Kronos Quartet

Arts & Entertainment, Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: UCLA Live
Venue: UCLA Live at Royce Hall

Southern California Premiere: One of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time returns to Royce Hall in an extraordinary concert that demonstrates the restorative power of music. First performed on the fifth anniversary of September 11th, this deeply moving meditation commemorating ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Kronos Quartet — “Awakening: A Musical Meditation on the Anniversary of 9/11”

Arts & Entertainment, Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: UCLA Live
Venue: UCLA Live at Royce Hall

Southern California Premiere: One of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time returns to Royce Hall in an extraordinary concert that demonstrates the restorative power of music. First performed on the fifth anniversary of September 11th, this deeply moving meditation commemorating ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Barrie Kosky

Arts & Entertainment, Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: UCLA Live
Venue: UCLA/Freud Playhouse & MacGowan Little Theatre

U.S. Debut: With an illustrious career that spans the fields of opera, theater and contemporary music theater, Australian-born Barrie Kosky is recognized as one of the most exciting, creative and controversial directors and writers of his generation. Kosky brings his uniquely dark and penetrating ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Conversations With My Father

Arts & Entertainment, Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Theatre Guild
Venue: Morgan-Wixson Theatre

The Santa Monica Theatre Guild at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre presents “Conversations With My Father” by Herb Gardner. The show runs September 26 through October 25, 2008 (Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm). A powerful and humorous story about the conflict between tradition and ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 1:00 pm

FAITHFUL

Arts & Entertainment, Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Ruskin Group Theatre
Venue: Ruskin Group Theatre

The suspense of an unabashed assault takes an astonishing turn somewhere between comedy and drama.  A rejected wife and a hit man, hired by her husband, expose their quirky bonding on the darker side of love.  This strange and spirited, yet oddly familiar, exchange between the characters reveals a ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 6:00 pm

“EARTH SUCKS”

Arts & Entertainment, Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: Citizens of Earth Productions
Venue: art/works Theatre

When a renegade Earth girl falls for a fugitive alien lead singer, their love - and their music - are all that stand between an evil pop diva and the destruction of the universe.  Get ready for the Intergalactic Premiere of the hilarious, touching rock musical “Earth Sucks.” Featuring an alien ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 1:00 pm

LITTLE BLACK LIES

Arts & Entertainment, North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: Avery Schreiber Theater
Venue: Avery Schreiber Theater

Sphere presents a comically tragic look at the morality modifications we make in today’s society.  In this world premiere production of LITTLE BLACK LIES, Steve Stajich offers two components one-acts to an entertaining pairing of contemporary conflicts.  The Ointment, a new-fashioned morality ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Made Me Nuclear, the Operetta

Arts & Entertainment, Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse - Main Stage

They radiated him, but they couldn’t silence him - Charlie Lustman, surviving cancer one song at a time. Made Me Nuclear, Lustman’s pop music operetta is based on his album of the same name about surviving cancer. Blending humor and intimacy this is a show for anyone who has faced a challenge ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 2:00 pm

It’s the Housewives!

Arts & Entertainment, San Fernando Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: The Whitefire Theatre
Venue: THE WHITEFIRE THEATRE

Move over ‘Spinal Tap.’ Three young moms get their humble start at the PTA talent show, then go on to “clean up” as the most celebrated, yet unlikely girl group in history with their ‘domestic’ brand of rock ‘n roll.  It’s the world premiere of “It’s the Housewives!” a comic rock musical with side ...

Fri, October 3, 2008, 7:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Razorback

Events, Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Rogue Machine
Venue: ROGUE MACHINE in Theatre Theater

Los Angeles, CA – 20 years ago, Deano Goretti left a life of crime to start over in a quiet Maine town with a new wife and a new son.  When his buried past comes knocking on his door, the two worlds suddenly collide with a vengeance.  The plot twists and turns like a snake moving towards a ...