# Friday, May 31, 2013

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...

All Day

Mazeltov.com Announces the 2013 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Video Contest “What It Means To Me!”

Events , Agoura
Venue: Internet

2013 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Video Contest - First Prize is a Round-trip ticket on El Al Airlines to Israel (from Los Angeles or New York City) or $1,000! We are asking upcoming Bar/Bat Mitzvah boys and girls to shoot a 2-3 minute short video that expresses what the occasion means to them. We are...

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

“Glamour for Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party”

Arts & Entertainment , Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: SHARE, Inc.
Venue: The Hollywood Museum

The Hollywood Museum’s unique exhibit “Glamour for Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party” debuts on Wednesday, April 3, at 6:00 p.m. with a wine and Hors d’Oeuvres reception.  The retrospective explores a series of glamorous Boomtown Events with prestigious celebrities...

All Day

Let Me Show You Around:A Project by Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger

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

Everyone is welcome at the Skirball Cultural Center, yet every encounter is unique, inflected by culture, age, and origin. This is the theme of a new site-specific mural created by Antje Schiffers and Thomas Sprenger as part of their Let Me Show You Around project. To create the large-scale wall...

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Stogie Kenyatta’s The World is My Home – THE LIFE OF PAUL ROBESON

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

Powerful and poignant, heartfelt and humorous, and in honor of Paul Robeson’s birthday, Santa Monica Playhouse is proud to present a special limited run of film, television and stage personality Stogie Kenyatta’s acclaimed show about African-American artist-activist Paul Robeson. Robeson –...

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Walk With Ease

Seniors , Culver City
Organizations/Sponsors: OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center
Venue: OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center

Experience the Walk With Ease Program. Arthritis Foundation Certified. Doctor Recommended. The Arthritis Foundation Walk with Ease Program is an exercise program that can reduce pain and improve overall health. If you can be on your feet for 10 minutes without increased pain, you can have...

All Day

Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open

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

Enter the fantastic world of artist, illustrator, animator, and toy designer Gary Baseman in this first major museum exhibition of his life and work. Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open explores the influences of Baseman’s Jewish family heritage and American popular culture on his exuberant,...

8:00 pm - 3:00 pm

MY MOTHER’S KEEPER

Arts & Entertainment , Venice/Marina DR
Organizations/Sponsors: The Electric Lodge
Venue: The Electric Lodge

My Mother’s Keeper, written by Jane Press and directed by Robin McKee, will perform at the Electric Lodge Fridays – Sundays, May 10 through Sunday, June 16, 2013 with a benefit performance on Thursday May 9. Part of the proceeds from the May 9 performance will benefit 50/50 Leadership with the...

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The Crucible

Arts & Entertainment , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: The Antaeus Company
Venue: Deaf West Theater

The Antaeus Company, L.A.’s multiple award-winning classical theater company, presents an untraditional staging of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Set in 1692 and written in reaction to the McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s, Arthur Miller’s parable of mass hysteria offers a...

8:00 pm - 3:00 pm

“My Mother’s Keeper”

Arts & Entertainment , Venice/Marina DR
Organizations/Sponsors: Electric Lodge
Venue: Electric Lodge

My Mother’s Keeper, written by Jane Press and directed by Robin McKee, will perform at the Electric Lodge Fridays – Sundays, May 10 through Sunday, June 16, 2013 with a benefit performance on Thursday May 9. My Mother’s Keeper moves fluidly back and forth between 1914 and the present,...

All Day

Samantha Spade, Ace Detective - “Slingin’ the Slang”

Kids , Beverly Hills
Organizations/Sponsors: TADA! Youth Theatre
Venue: Online

Samantha Spade, Ace Detective is a film-noir-detective-story-musical-multi-media project about a little girl who does not fit in, except in her black and white film-noir fantasies. In preparation for the Off-Broadway show to be produced at TADA! Youth Theater, we’re shooting a short film based on...

All Day

Costa Rica Trip for Jewish Singles

Singles , Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Greener Travel Co. LLC
Venue: Costa Rica

Join us on a unique adventure with other Jewish Professionals, May 24-June 2, 2013 and enjoy: • Tropical beaches on the Caribbean • White water rafting in the jungle (Pacuare River- Class III-IV Rapids) • Zipline Canopy Tour • Culturally and ecologically friendly rainforest guided treks...

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

An Inspirational Shabbaton with Rabbi Jonathan Rietti

Shabbat , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Westwood Kehilla Synagogue
Venue: Westwood Kehilla Synagogue

The Westwood Kehilla PresentsAN INSPIRATIONAL SHABBATON WITH Rabbi Jonathan Rietti May 31st & June 1st, 2013 FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER – 7:00PM Kabbalah #101: The Science of Reality & The Recycling of Souls SHABBAT MORNING DRASHA- 10:30AM The Greatness of Being Tested LUNCHEON – 12:30PM Free Will...

All Day

An Inspirational Shabbaton with Rabbi Jonathan Rietti

Shabbat , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: Westwood Kehilla Synagogue
Venue: Westwood Kehilla Synagogue

The Westwood Kehilla PresentsAN INSPIRATIONAL SHABBATON WITH Rabbi Jonathan Rietti May 31st & June 1st, 2013 FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER – 7:00PM Kabbalah #101: The Science of Reality & The Recycling of Souls SHABBAT MORNING DRASHA- 10:30AM The Greatness of Being Tested LUNCHEON – 12:30PM Free Will...

7:30 am

The Israel Conference

Events , West Los Angeles
Organizations/Sponsors: The Israel Conference
Venue: Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard in Bel-Air

Join us for our 5th year of bringing Israel-facing companies together to increase business and investment opportunities between Israel and California.  The Israel Conference™ is a business conference that brings together leading technology innovators and investors in High Tech / Media and...

10:00 am

A New HARRY POTTER Collection Illuminates The Hollywood Museum

, Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: The Hollywood Museum
Venue: The Hollywood Museum

Harry Potter’s legendary wizardry lives on at The Hollywood Museum, the official museum of Hollywood, located in the Historic Max Factor Building. The Museum’s new collection of sorcery includes acquisitions from the Harry Potter film franchise, considered among the highest-grossing films of...

4:42 pm

Learn Krav Maga

Sports , Los Angeles
Venue: {REL[9085][cal_event_venue]9ZSGNV0pREL}

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

NoHo Dine Out Fridays

Events , North Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: KCT Organization
Venue: The Parking Lot

Music, Foodtrucks & More @ The NoHo Dine Out Join us each Friday night at The NoHo Dine Out free community event. Each dine out will feature a variety of food trucks, local craft vendors, live entertainment and dog adoptions. Parking is free, just drive right into the lot 11458 Burbank Blvd,...

6:00 pm

Glamour For Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party and Funding Reception

Arts & Entertainment , Hollywood
Venue: The Hollywood Museum

The Hollywood Museum’s unique exhibit “Glamour for Good: Celebrating 60 Years of SHARE’s Boomtown Party” debuts on Wednesday, April 3, at 6:00 p.m. with a wine and Hors d’Oeuvres reception.  The retrospective explores a series of glamorous Boomtown Events with prestigious celebrities...

7:00 pm

Friday Night Shabbat Dinner - $28, $38 and $49pp - Only at Talia’s Steakhouse!

Shabbat , New York
Organizations/Sponsors: Talia’s Kosher Restaurant - New York
Venue: Talia’s Steakhouse

New Concept!  Friday Night Shabbat Dinner for $28, $38 or $49pp. Talia’s, the premier Glatt kosher steakhouse on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, offers the most affordable, pre-paid, prix-fixe Friday night Shabbat dinner options that fit perfectly into almost anyone’s budget. Challah, wine for...

8:00 pm

Heart Song

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

Three friends embark on a joyous journey of sisterhood, discovering their inner ‘duende’ through a flamenco class for middle-aged women. In this hilarious and moving new comedy/drama, Rochelle, a Jewish woman struggling with a crisis of faith, is convinced to join a flamenco class for out of...

8:00 pm

Bald Soprano > The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco directed by Jamie Sweet

Arts & Entertainment , Long Beach
Organizations/Sponsors: The Garage Theatre and Alive Theare IN COLLISION
Venue: Garage Theatre

Opening Friday, 10 May 2013, we have The Bald Soprano & The Chairs, written by Eugene Ionesco, and directed by Jamie Sweet.  Eugene Ionesco was the Grandfather of the Absurdist movement.  He wrote luminary plays such as Rhinoceros, The Future Is In Eggsand The Killer.  Along with Samuel Becket,...

8:00 pm

We Are Proud

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

We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 — The West Coast premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s brave, chilling and very funny new work about a group of actors who lose...

8:00 pm

Ionescopade, A Musical Vaudville

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

Taken from the plays, playlets and poetry of “Theatre of the Absurd” playwright Eugène Ionesco (Rhinoceros, The Bald Soprano, Exit the King), Ionescopade is a zany musical vaudeville featuring mime, farce and parody – all hilariously balanced on the edge of madness. May 31-August 11; Odyssey...