# Thursday, June 27, 2013

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Frankly Speaking About Lung Cancer:  Lunch & Learn

Programs , West Los Angeles

Frankly Speaking About Lung Cancer:  Lunch & Learn This FREE workshop is intended to help improve the lives of those with cancer and their caregivers. Join Ani Balmanoukian, MD of The Angeles Clinic for this free workshop that will cover the latest treatments for lung cancer. Side effects,...

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...

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 –...

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 - 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...

All Day

Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit” An Intimate Look At The Legend

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

Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit” An Intimate Look At The Legend, back by popular demand at The Hollywood Museum, celebrates the fabled actress’ life and the 51st anniversary milestone of Monroe’s passingThe scope of the exhibition encompasses Marilyn Monroe’s costumes from her films, publicity...

All Day

Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit” An Intimate Look At The Legend

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

Marilyn Monroe: The Exhibit” An Intimate Look At The Legend, back by popular demand at The Hollywood Museum, celebrates the fabled actress’ life and the 51st anniversary milestone of Monroe’s passingThe scope of the exhibition encompasses Marilyn Monroe’s costumes from her films, publicity...

9:00 am

Early Stages Create-a-Play Summer Theatre Camp 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!...

9:00 am

ADVENTURES IN ACTING! SUMMER THEATRE CAMP for Kids 7-12

Gay & Lesbian , Santa Monica
Organizations/Sponsors: Santa Monica Group Theatre
Venue: Santa Monica Playhouse

“One of the best in the country!” raves Daily Variety – a spectacular all-day theatre camp where young people make friends, expand their imagination and have fun as they act, sing, dance, play theatre games, and work with costumes and make-up, lighting and sound, sets and props, to help...

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...

4:30 pm

Grandmothers of the Universe

Arts & Entertainment , Hollywood
Organizations/Sponsors: The Hollywood Fringe Festival
Venue: The Open Fist Theater

What’s it like to be an African American woman? One actor, seven characters tell the story.  The main character begins by explaining that the answer can only be explained by sharing the songs, stories and poetry of her ancestral grandmothers. Throughout the course of the play she embodies the...

4:42 pm

Learn Krav Maga

Sports , Los Angeles
Venue: {REL[9085][cal_event_venue]CO7PR09BREL}

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....

6:00 pm - 4:00 am

Thursday Rooftop Happy Hour at The Empire Hotel Rooftop

Events , New York
Organizations/Sponsors: Ericvirgil
Venue: Empire Hotel Rooftop

Thursday Rooftop Happy Hour at The Empire Hotel Rooftop located 44 West 63rd Street between Broadway and Columbus Avenue Every Thursday Doors Open at 6pm til 3am Music: Live Dj playing Top40, House, Classics, Hip-hop & Mash ups Admission: Everyone free on Eric Virgil’s guestlist.  To rsvp go...

6:00 pm

FIU Argentinean Night Networking Cocktail Reception

Events , Beach Cities
Venue: Siga La Vaca

The Florida International University Architecture + The Arts is hosting the Argentinean Night Networking Cocktail Reception. Come and win a round trip to Argentina! The event takes place on June 20, 2013 at Siga La Vaca Argentinean Restaurant, 121 Alhambra Plaza, Coral Gables, FL 33134....

7:00 pm

Yiddish Book Club with Samuel Spinner

Adult Education , Westwood
Organizations/Sponsors: UCLA Center for Jewish Studies
Venue: {REL[236][cal_event_venue]CO7PR09BREL}

Explore the breadth of modern Yiddish literature from European classics to American masterpieces with Samuel Spinner, the Ross Visiting Professor of Yiddish at UCLA. Discussion will be based on English translations of works by Chaim Grade, I.B. Singer, Sholem Asch, Lamed Shapiro, I.L. Peretz and...

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

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...

8:00 pm

Dead Man’s Cell Phone

Arts & Entertainment , Long Beach
Organizations/Sponsors: International City Theatre
Venue: International City Theatre

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative and off-center romantic comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient, Pulitzer Prize...

8:00 pm

Keshet@30 - Behind the Scenes

Arts & Entertainment , Bel Air
Organizations/Sponsors: Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble
Venue: American Jewish University

We are taking down the curtain, removing the makeup, and turning down the music for a real look at what happens, Behind the Scenes! Join us to celebrate 30 years of Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble. Featuring Celebrity Host Yafit Josephson and Introducing Meshi Kleinstein. Get tickets at:...