Events for October 7th, 2008
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Tuesday - October 7th
Events / Film Showing
Ashes of Time Redux
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
7:30 p.m.
Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai's strangely neglected Western epic "Ashes Of Time," which hasn't been available since around 1994, gets a little modern going-over and some additional scoring from Yo-Yo Ma. The New York Times critic Manohla Dargis had this to say: "Drenched in shocking...
Restaurants / Dining Event
Fifth Anniversary Tasting Menu @ Grace
Grace Restaurant - 7360 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Grace celebrates five years with a five-course tasting menu from chef Neal Fraser. Starting May 6, the special menu will be available for the rest of 2008. It’s a greatest hits list of Grace’s finest: Dungeness crab salad with English peas, mint and meyer lemon...
Restaurants / American Contemporary
Tuesday Night Wine Bar
The Whisper Lounge - 189 The Grove Dr #F-90B - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Tuesday Night Wine Bar is a celebration of wines at discount prices. The Whisper Lounge, arguably the Grove’s most upscale restaurant, offers wine deals on Tuesday evenings along with live jazz. On offer are half-price bottles of wine from the restaurant’s cellar, three-ounce tastings...
Restaurants / American Contemporary
"Close to Home" at Grace
Grace Restaurant - 7360 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Chef Neal Fraser’s endlessly popular restaurant Grace takes contemporary American fine dining to a blissful level. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings guests can enjoy many courses of Fraser’s most inspired cooking with his “Close to Home” tasting menu. The concept is that all the...
Events / Art
Tradition as Innovation in African Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Including the work of over 30 artists, this exhibition covers a late 19th to early 20th Century's worth of African groundbreakers who paved the way for such better-known (read: whiter, or if you will, "European") movements of art like cubism, Dada and surrealism. Jan. 22 - Nov. 12
Events / Photography
Melanie Pullen - Violent Times
Ace Gallery - Los Angeles - 5514 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
July 12 - January, 2009: Los Angeles photographer Melanie Pullen reconstructs epic images of war through history. Working with make-up artists, wardrobe designers and set builders, Pullen has designed single troops and even battlefields by building large sections of the city of Berlin and using a...
Style / Accessories
Just opened: Ten Over Six
Ten Over Six - 7472 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Forget the clothes, give us the accessories!
Events / Folk Crafts
Josh Dorman - Within Four Miles
Craft and Folk Art Musuem - 5814 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Aug. 21 - Jan. 11: Working from old textbooks, vintage maps, scientific diagrams and other topographically-minded material, Josh Dorman presents large-scale visions of travel. Forget about linearity or mileage, Dorman collages together disparate dream-scapes couched in the geographies of M.C....
Events / Gallery Exhibit
Linear Motion - group show
The Loft at Liz's - 453 La Brea Ave. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Sept. 13 - Oct. 11: A group show focused on reinterpretations of the line. With work from Linda Jo RusselI, Joan Tucker, Alessandro Violi, Jordan Gaunce, SA Schimmel Gold, Gary Frederick Brown, Luigia Martelloni, Pierre-Loic Denichou. Opening reception Sept. 13, 7 - 11 p.m.
Events / Photography
Witness: Casualties of War
Stephen Cohen Gallery - 7358 Beverly Boulevard - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Sept. 11 - Oct. 25: As if the date weren't iconic enough, this exhibt of photographs by Nina Berman, Carolyn Cole, Farah Nosh and Suzanne Opton explores the emotional and social repercussions of modern warfare. Opening reception Sept. 11, 7 - 9 p.m.


