What's Happening in Los Angeles
Friday, January 30
Bars
Soup Kitchen Fridays
Edison 108 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles map
Time: 5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Cost: No cover
Escape the financial crisis with free grilled cheese sandwiches & tomato soup and depression era cocktails at depression era prices. 25% of the net proceeds benefit local food banks and charities.
Clubs
The Glitch Mob/Doc Martin
Cabana Club 1439 Ivar Ave., Los Angeles map
Time: 9:00 pm-2:00 am
Cost: $20 in advance at wanttickets.com
The Glitch Mob and Doc Martin headline a huge roster of DJs. There will also be an art show, burlesque show, fashion show and stilt-walkers for your visual entertainment. 18+.
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Saturday, January 31
Festivals
Chinese New Year Festival
Chinatown 951 N. Broadway, Los Angeles map
Time: 10:00 am-8:00 pm
Cost: Free
Celebrate the Year of the Ox with food, live music and 2 stages of acts featuring martial arts, acrobatics, pole-climbing, dance and the Shaolin warriors. The parade is from 2-4 p.m. Also Sunday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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Exhibits
CSI: The Experience
California Science Center 700 Exposition Park Drive, Los Angeles map
Time: 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Cost: Free
If you like the TV show, now you can test your own forensic investigating ability.
Music: Hip Hop
Quik's Groove
Key Club 9039 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood map
Time: 8:00 pm
Cost: $30, $25 advance
West Coast rapper/producer DJ Quik performs funky old and new school hip-hop jams.
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Sunday, February 1
Sports
Dim Sum Ride
Flying Pigeon 5711 N. Figueroa St. , Los Angeles map
Time: 10:00 am
Cost: Free
Flying Pigeon bike shop in Highland Park hosts a bike ride in search of the best dim sum.
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Restaurants
Dine L.A. Restaurant Week
Time: Check website for times
Cost: $16 - $44
Over 150 restaurants all over L.A. County are drastically reducing prices on prix fixe 3 course meals. Now's your chance to get a gourmet meal at a fast food price (almost).
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Music
Ethiopian Mulatu Astatke, plus Cut Chemist
Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles map
Time: 7:00 pm-11:00 pm
Cost: $22.50
One of Ethiopia's most influential musicians, plus opening sets by Cut Chemist, Quantic and Egon. You may have heard his music on the Broken Flowers soundtrack.
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Dance
Keshet For Life
Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks map
Time: 7:00 pm
Cost: Tix start at $35.
As an alternative to football today, the premier American-Israeli contemporary dance troupe performs its most popular routines accompanied by Middle Eastern drum sounds.
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Sports
Redondo Beach Super Bowl 10K/5K Run
12 Redondo Beach Seaside Lagoon & Downtown Redondo , map
Time: 6:00 am-12:00 pm
Cost: $30
Walk, run or stroll along with 10,000 others, plus take part in or just watch the costume contest and chill at the Asahi Beer garden with live music.
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Sports
SportShorts
Little Bar 757 S. La Brea, Los Angeles map
Time: 1:00 pm
Cost: No cover
Watch the big game while tossing back 2 for 1 $3 pints of Coors Light and $5 buckets of bottled beer. At half-time, SportShorts will show a highlight reel or their online parody of cable sports shows and raffle off prizes.
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Sports
Super Bowl XLIII at X Bar
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza 2025 Avenue of the Stars, Century City map
Time: 1:00 pm
Cost: No cover
See the game on 9 screens, including the 10 foot screening wall, while enjoying half-off on draft beers and 5 fan-favorite appetizers.
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Monday, February 2
Clubs
Nightmares on Wax
Echoplex 1154 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles map
Time: 8:00 pm
Cost: $18 advance, $20 day of show
Ibiza resident George Evelyn and company, aka Nightmares on Wax, play their catalog, from hip-hop to electronica to support last September’s release of Thought So.... This might be their only L.A. gig. 18+.
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Saturday, August 29
Film
The Room
Laemmle's Sunset 5 8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood map
Time: 11:59 pm
Cost: $10, $8.50 w/ student ID
In the tradition of Rocky Horror and Showgirls, this black comedy is becoming an L.A. cult fave. Every last Saturday of the month.
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