Events for August 21st, 2008

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Thursday - August 21st

Restaurants / Dining Event

Icon-mmx-pick Dim Sum Olympics Menu @ Noe

Noé Restaurant & Bar - 251 S. Olive St. - Los Angeles (Downtown)

  Noe Restaurant & Bar gets in the Beijing Olympics spirit with an exotic dim sum menu for the duration of the games. Available only at the indoor/outdoor lounge, chef Glen Ishii’s menu will include classic dim sum dishes with a gourmet twist, such as foie gras dumplings. Available...

Music / '80s Music

DJ A-Trak w/DJ Diabetic, DJ Pubes

Icon-mmx-pick DJ A-Trak w/DJ Diabetic, DJ Pubes

La Cita - 336 S. HIll St. - Los Angeles (Downtown)

9 p.m. - 2 a.m.

One of the world's best party DJs will probably level this tiny joint

Style / Jewelry

Sonia Boyajian at Comme des Garçons

Icon-mmx-pick Sonia Boyajian at Comme des Garçons

Comme des Garçons guerrilla store - 125 W. 4th St., Ste. #106 - Los Angeles (Downtown)

Because everyone needs a little bling

Restaurants / Dining Event

Icon-mmx-pick Peach and Plum Festival @ Patina Restaurant Group

Patina - 141 S. Grand Ave. - Los Angeles (Downtown)

  Stone fruit takes center stage at the Patina Restaurant Group’s first national Peach and Plum Festival during the height of the season, August 4-September 14.  Special menus featuring a range of peach and plum varieties will be available in both sweet and savory forms, as well as...

Events / Art

Marlene Dumas - Measuring Your Own Grave

Marlene Dumas - Measuring Your Own Grave

Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA - Grand Avenue - 250 South Grand Avenue - Los Angeles (Downtown)

With just over one hundred paintings and drawings, Marlene Duras's exhibit at MOCA is, at its simplest, a study of people through portraiture. Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1953, Duras has spent more than 30 years distilling issues of race, family and (of course) personal identity into her...

Events / Art

Lisa Lapinski - The Fret and Its Variations

Lisa Lapinski - The Fret and Its Variations

Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA - Grand Avenue - 250 South Grand Avenue - Los Angeles (Downtown)

Like a honeycomb of structural variants, Lisa Lapinski's sculptures mix together elements of wood, wallpaper and other found objects. An Art Center grad, Lapinski returns to Los Angeles for her first musuem showing, bearing new and recent work. June 26 - Aug. 25Opening reception June 26, 6 - 8 p.m.

Events / Installation Art

Haegue Yang - Asymmetric Equality

Haegue Yang - Asymmetric Equality

REDCAT - 631 West 2nd Street - Los Angeles (Downtown)

June 27 - Aug. 24: South Korean installation artist Haegue Yang attempts to reformulate the experiences that underlie our day-to-day world.  The installation includes lights and customized blinds as well as humidifiers and scent emitters. And perhaps Glade Plug-Ins. Opening reception June 27,...

Events / Paintings and Drawings

Li Yan - Quotidian Truths

Li Yan - Quotidian Truths

Morono Kiang Gallery - 218 West 3rd Street - Los Angeles (Downtown)

July 19 - Aug. 23: With the spotlight nearly burning a hole through China's Olympic banners, Morono Kiang finds itself—as one of L.A.'s only Chinese-centered art galleries—with a timely exhibit from Li Yan. Covering politics, sports and images of media-saturated topics (in China and...

Style / Apparel and Accessories

Just opened: Hot Tuna

Just opened: Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna - 846 S. Los Angeles St. - Los Angeles (Downtown)

Hang ten in downtown L.A.

Style / Hair Salons

Just opened: Salon 11

Just opened: Salon 11

Salon 11 - 420 W. 11th St. - Los Angeles (Downtown)

Lofters get cut happy in South Park

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