Events for August 21st, 2008
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Thursday - August 21st
Restaurants / Dining Event
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
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
Comme des Garçons guerrilla store - 125 W. 4th St., Ste. #106 - Los Angeles (Downtown)
Because everyone needs a little bling
Restaurants / Dining Event
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
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
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
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
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
Hot Tuna - 846 S. Los Angeles St. - Los Angeles (Downtown)
Hang ten in downtown L.A.
Style / Hair Salons
Just opened: Salon 11
Salon 11 - 420 W. 11th St. - Los Angeles (Downtown)
Lofters get cut happy in South Park


