# Saturday, February 23, 2013

9:30 am - 11:00 am

Qigong

Programs , Santa Monica

Qigong for Cancer Patients and Their Families in Clover Park, Santa Monica This FREE class is intended to help improve the lives of those with cancer and their families. Come strengthen your body, mind and spirit with the practice of qigong with instructor and brain cancer survivor since 2000,...

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Gospel Fusion- Gershwin and Beyond

Arts & Entertainment , San Gabriel Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Los Angeles Jewish Symphony

Gospel Fusion- Gershwin and Beyond A Celebration of the Historic and Contemporary Connections Between African-American and Jewish Music of the Spirit Monday, April 29, 2013, 8:00 pm, Ann & Steve Morgan Auditorium, University of La Verne The program will feature a wide variety of participants,...

All Day

Voices and Visions

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Skirball Cultural Center
Venue: Skirball Cultural Center

Drawing on the power of the visual arts to communicate humanistic ideals, this exhibition presents a series of poster images inspired by Jewish texts, both ancient and modern. The words of Jewish luminaries from Hillel to Maimonides to Susan Sontag are newly interpreted and graphically transformed...

6:00 pm - 8:15 pm

THE ANNUAL ALL-NEW ONE-TIME-ONLY NEW YEAR’S EVE MUSICAL REVUE!

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

“One of the Ten Best New Year’s Eve Events in LA” raves LA Weekly. A scrumptious and sumptuous complimentary buffet supper starts off the evening, then it’s “on with the show!” as internationally acclaimed Actors’ Repertory Theatre brings you a highly entertaining, family-friendly...

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Charlie Kaplan - Sculpture, Pleasing Curves

Arts & Entertainment , Downtown
Organizations/Sponsors: PYO Gallery LA
Venue: PYO Gallery LA

PYO Gallery LA is pleased to announce “Sculpture, Pleasing Curves” a solo exhibition of works by Charlie Kaplan. The exhibition opens on January 19 and continues thru March 9, 2013. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, January 19, from 6 to 8pm. PYO Gallery is pleased to present...

All Day

Leaving the Land of Roses

Arts & Entertainment , Venice/Marina DR
Organizations/Sponsors: Shulamit Gallery
Venue: Shulamit Gallery

Shulamit Gallery is pleased to launch our second inaugural exhibition Leaving the Land of Roses, which explores the contemporary Iranian Jewish story. This exhibit is an official satellite show of the Fowler Museum’s Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews. This partnership aligns...

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Shirley Valentine

Arts & Entertainment , Burbank
Organizations/Sponsors: Falcon Theatre
Venue: Falcon Theatre

Falcon Theatre is proud to present Shirley Valentine written by Willy Russell and directed by Andrew Barnicle, the fourth production of the Falcon Theatre’s 2012-2013 Subscription Season. This critically acclaimed Tony-nominated one-woman show stars DeeDee Rescher, who is best known for her...

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Elementary Hebrew Conversation Classes and Intermediate Hebrew Conversation Classes

Classes , Pico/Robertson
Venue: AISH LOS ANGELES

Beginning: For those with zero background-we will start from the alphabet and work our way up to basic conversation for a variety of life settings such as travel to Israel, in the workplace, shopping, restaurants and Jewish themes. Speaking, reading, writing and listening are stressed with equal...

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Elementary Hebrew Conversation Classes and Intermediate Hebrew Conversation Classes

Classes , Pico/Robertson
Venue: AISH LOS ANGELES

Beginning Hebrew: Wednesday evenings from 7-8:30PM For those with zero background-we will start from the alphabet and work our way up to basic conversation for a variety of life settings such as travel to Israel, in the workplace, shopping, restaurants and Jewish themes. Speaking, reading,...

All Day

Neil Simon’s Proposals

Arts & Entertainment , South Bay
Organizations/Sponsors: Norris Center for the Performing Arts
Venue: Norris Theatre

Neil Simon’s romantic story of tangled loves and lives, is one of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Neil Prize-winning playwright’s latest works, and is filled with Simon’s legendary wit and humor. Hearts are at the core of the dramatic comedy, which explores love in its many forms. The play tells...

10:00 pm - 3:00 am

Grand Opening of Tenjune’s Digital Underground

Events , New York
Organizations/Sponsors: Eric Virgil Inc.
Venue: Tenjune

Friday, February 22nd, 2013 Digital Underground Fridays at Tenjune 26 Little West 12th Street between Washington Street and 9th Avenues New York NY 10014 Music by: Dj Seabiscuit and The Fancy Cats spinning EDM Guest list: Ladies free til 12am, Reduced after on Eric Virgil’s guestlist Guys...

10:00 pm - 3:00 am

Electric Candy Land: Static & Bass, Sazon Booya and Ken Loi @ Stage 48 NYC

Events , New York
Organizations/Sponsors: Eric Virgil Inc.
Venue: Stage 48

Electric Candy Land: Static & Bass, Sazon Booya and Ken Loi @ Stage 48 NYC On Friday, February 22, Static & Bass, Ken Loi, Sazon Booya and Hyperbits will take us on a musical journey into Electric Candy Land at Stage 48 NYC… where you will experience a world unlike any other. A world where...

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Purim Events

Family , San Fernando Valley

Purim exhibition designed and planned by the preschool children and their children.  Throughout the week of Feb. 19 - 22 we will have on display many of the exciting arts and crafts that the children made telling the story of Purim.  Also, a Young Family Service at 5:15pm on 2/23/13....

9:00 am

ACTING PERFORMANCE LAB FOR TEENS – now enrolling for Spring!

Classes , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse

“She got cast at Disney because of you!” exclaims mom and former Armani model Christina Silvers. Grandma Christella Cain raves, “You are proof that dreams and possibilities are endless when you believe in yourself.” In this specially designed workshop program for teens 12 to 17 students...

10:00 am

Early Stages Create-a-Play Spring Theatre Classes for Kids 4 to 6

Classes , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse

“She LOVES the class! Thank you for being so much fun and professional!” raves workshop mom L. Forkin. “I could see so much joy and happiness in my daughter’s eyes and she told me ‘Mommy, I can’t stop smiling cheek to cheek!’ ” exclaims B. Alvarez. Acting! Singing! Dance! Crafts! Make-up!...

12:45 pm

Cuban-American Relations: Past, Present and Future

Politics , Los Angeles

Teo Rui, Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA and a 2012 recipient of the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama, will speak about Cuban-American relations....

1:00 pm

Temple Judea Purim Carnival 2013

Family , San Fernando Valley
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Judea
Venue: The Old Michael’s Parking Lot

Come to the Temple Judea Purim Carnival.  Huge carnival rides for all ages.  Midway Carnival Games and KidZone for little ones with fabulous prizes.  Delicious Kosher BBQ and Vendor Marketplace with incredible crafts and services from local businesses. All proceeds go toward school and camp...

2:00 pm

Walking the Tightrope

Arts & Entertainment , Downtown
Organizations/Sponsors: 24th Street Theatre
Venue: 24th Street Theatre

Unveiling the centerpiece of its 2012-13 season of sophisticated and provocative theater that appeals to and is appropriate for kids while maintaining the look and emotional depth of adult theater, 24th STreet Theatre presents the West Coast premiere of a highly theatrical and stylized tone poem...

3:00 pm

CINDERELLA: THE MUSICAL RETURNS

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse - The Other Space

“An enchanting Cinderella!” raves LA TIMES, “And she’s no slouch with a slightly risqué put-down, either!”  “Magical!” exclaims DRAMA-LOGUE. The hilarious, family-friendly Rudie-DeCarlo reworking of the classic fairytale is back for the holidays only. The single most requested...

4:42 pm

Learn Krav Maga

Sports , Los Angeles
Venue: {REL[9085][cal_event_venue]A0GdZdmxREL}

Friends, please come and try a krav maga class as my guest.  This is self defense system of the Israeli military, special forces and anti-terror units. Easy to learn, hard to forget and a fun workout.  Suitable for men and women aged 14 and up.  Class is Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 7-8pm....

5:30 pm

PURIM IN BIG BEAR

Holidays , Big Bear
Organizations/Sponsors: B’NAI BIG BEAR
Venue: B’NAI BIG BEAR

Hamantashen, Candy, Dinner & Friends in Big Bear, located in the pristine heart of the San Bernardino Mountains DRIVING DIRECTIONS: http://bnaibigbear.org/directions.html...

7:00 pm

Water & Oil Do/n’t Mix

Arts & Entertainment , Burbank
Organizations/Sponsors: Artist Co-op7
Venue: Creative Arts Center Gallery

Burbank, CA:  Seven exceptional Los Angeles artists present monotypes, oils, and watercolors which uniquely demonstrate Artist Co-op 7 philosophy of discovery and creative expression. Members are: Adria becker, Rita Borofsky, Judy Dekel, Caren J. Gafni, Susan Gesundheit, Jeanne Hahn, Linda Taibi....

7:15 pm

Celebrate Purim with Sam Glaser & Temple Beth Am

Holidays , Pico/Robertson
Organizations/Sponsors: Temple Beth Am

Adults and children of all ages are invited to a special Purim Megillah Celebration at Temple Beth Am! The festivities begin at 7:15 p.m. Costumes are encouraged! We will chant from the traditional text of Megillat Esther and be treated to a guest musical performance by the one and only Sam Glaser....

8:00 pm

TIED UP IN KNOTTS – LIFE, LOVE AND GROWING UP WITH A FAMOUS DAD

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse - The Other Space

“A loving, joyous celebration of growing up with Don Knotts, TIED UP IN KNOTTS humorously reveals the joys and sorrows of Karen Knotts’ life as she discovers her true talents,” says The Tolucan Times. Actress, singer, comedian, clown, magician, puppeteer and ventriloquist Karen Knotts,...

8:00 pm

The Grand Irrationality

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: The Lost Studio
Venue: The Lost Studio

Developed at the National Theatre in London, Jemma Kennedy’s new comedy kicks off the New Year by making its world premiere at the Los Studio in Los Angeles. In astrology, the Grand Irrationality is when the planets are all out of alignment and nothing adds up – a pretty fair description of...

8:00 pm

The Snake Can

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

Welcome to middle age… proceed with caution! Jane Kaczmarek and Gregory Harrison star in the world premiere of a comic drama that proves growing older doesn’t always mean growing wiser. Three successful women and the men in their lives challenge themselves to find love and personal fulfillment...

8:00 pm

Paradise - A Divine Bluegrass Musical Comedy

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

From the company that brought you eight glorious sold out months of Sideways The Play, comes the never before staged musical comedy extravaganza PARADISE - A Divine Bluegrass Musical. Catapulted from coalmine to prime time, a small town sees hope for salvation. On the verge of living the American...

8:00 pm

A Heap of Livin’

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

Playwright and Emmy Award winner, Elliot Shoenman will return to the Odyssey Theatre with his newest play A Heap Of Livin’, which includes original music by David Shire (Oscar/Grammy Award, multiple Tony/Emmy noms). Elliot’s work, the Ovation Award nominated AfterMath, starring Annie Potts,...

8:00 pm

A Family Thing

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Echo Theater Company
Venue: STAGE 52

A felon. An addict. A writer. Three estranged brothers reunite to settle unfinished business in the world premiere of a darkly funny new drama about the meaning of family by Gary Lennon (The Interlopers). Saverio Guerra (CBS’s Becker), Johnny Messner (Tears of the Sun, Hostage, The Whole Ten...

8:00 pm

Dirty Filthy Love Story

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Rogue Machine
Venue: The Skylight Theatre

The Katselas Theatre Company and Rogue Machine are extending the run of the current hit, DIRTY FILTHY LOVE STORY (CRITIC’S CHOICE - LA Times).  The popular Skylight Theatre, at 1816 1/2 N. Vermont in Los Angeles, is the new venue for the show.  Due to overwhelming demand, this production will now...

8:00 pm

“Thresholds”

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Jacaranda Music
Venue: First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

This program of breakthrough compositions, all premiered in 1912-13, unites Stravinsky’s revolutionary ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” and Arnold Schoenberg’s then-shocking 1912 “Pierrot Lunaire” with equally innovative chamber music from the same years by Alban Berg (Four Pieces) and...

8:00 pm

To the Source

Arts & Entertainment , Culver City
Organizations/Sponsors: Culver City Symphony Orchestra
Venue: Culver City Veterans Memorial Auditorium

  An orchestra starts somewhere, at a certain time, at a certain size. The CULVER CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents a concert “To the Source” since we began as a string orchestra, and in our Fiftieth Year in the orchestra’s 2011-12 Season we return to the source with a concert of music for...

8:00 pm

Complete

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

Jennifer Chambers directs the West Coast premiere of Andrea Kuchlewska’s fast-paced comedy, a time-splitting wrangle over the power and perversion of language. Two obsessive linguists and a nine-year-old zealot meet head-on with the magnetic leader of an “est”-like group training seminar....

8:00 pm

“Thresholds: The Scandals of 1912-13”

Arts & Entertainment , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Jacaranda Music
Venue: First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Jacaranda Music: Thresholds: The Scandals of 1912-13 Sat., Feb. 23, 2013 — 8 p.m. Jacaranda’s Feb. 23 concert, “Thresholds: The Scandals of 1912-13,” will tell the story of the most concentrated period of innovation in music history. 4handsLA, the piano duo of Danny Holt and Steven...

8:00 pm

Sexsting

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Katselas Theatre Company
Venue: The Skylight Theatre

Winning a Guthrie Theatre commission, and chosen for development by The Katselas Theatre Company’s INKubator program, the West Coast Premiere of SEXSTING is the inaugural production for KTC’s 2013 season. Opening at the popular Skylight Theatre Complex on February 23rd, the stellar cast...

8:00 pm

Robert Randolph presents The Slide Brothers plus special guest Otis Taylor

Arts & Entertainment , Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA
Venue: 314 Royce Hall, UCLA

Robert Randolph—the exciting pedal-steel guitar player known for an effortless mix of blues, gospel and funk—presents a new project with the Slide Brothers, the legendary masters who first inspired Randolph’s commitment to “Sacred Steel.” This sub-genre was born when steel guitars were...

8:00 pm

Purim in the Valley

Events , North Hollywood

The ONLY Purim Carnival exclusively for young Jewish professionals in the San Fernando Valley is BACK! -More INFLATABLE MAYHEM than ever before with the ever-popular Gladiator Joust, Arcade Basketball, and more! -More chances to win AMAZING PRIZES by competing in our annual COSTUME CONTEST,...

8:30 pm

Sally meets Stu

Arts & Entertainment , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Ate9 dANCEcOMPANY
Venue: Los Angeles Theatre Center

After 8 years dancing for Ohad Naharin in the BatSheva Dance Company, Israeli born choreographer Danielle Agami has embarked on her own journey. In June 2012 she launched Ate9. “Sally meets Stu” is the first product of the company. The unique synergy between a captivating soundtrack, entrancing...

9:00 pm - 3:00 am

Haunted Hotel Halloween Pool Party on Sat, 10/27

Events , New York
Venue: D.I.P. Aqua Bar and Lounge

The Haunted Hotel Pool Party at DIP Aquabar and Lounge located inside The Room Mate Grace Hotel 125 West 45th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue Music by: Dj Perry & Dj Martin spinning House and Top 40 Vodka Open Bar from 9pm to 10pm To purchase Tickets or Packages, Please click link Below:...

10:00 pm - 2:00 am

Purim in Heaven

Holidays , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: AMIT
Venue: Chabad of SOLA

Join AMIT and SOLA for: Purim in Heaven - Bringing Heaven Down to Earth WHEN: Sat. Feb 23rd. Doors Open at 10pm WHERE: SOLA - 1627 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035 COST: $10 (if in costume), $15 (without costume) Megillah reading every hour, Full Bar, Live DJ’s, Hookah & chill out room...