Events for September 8th, 2008
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Monday - September 8th
Events / Book Author Readings
Pot Culture
Book Soup - 8818 W. Sunset Blvd - West Hollywood
7 p.m.
Don't act like you don't know what we're talking about. Former "High Times" editor Shirley Halperin presents and signs her new fact-book of the "green" industry, "Pot Culture: The A to Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life."
Restaurants / Dining Event
9th Hour Happy Hour @ Foxtail
Foxtail - 9077 Santa Monica Blvd. - West Hollywood
Shake off the previous 8 hours of work at Foxtail’s 9th Hour Happy Hour. From Monday through Friday 5:30 pm-7:30 pm, all of Foxtail’s specialty cocktails will be available for $9, as will a list of offerings from the kitchen. Munch on mini croquet madams and monsieurs...
Style / Apparel and Accessories
Band of Outsiders pop-up shop at Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony - 461 N. La Cienega Blvd. - Los Angeles
Celebrate the Lego man's 30th with limited-edition items
Restaurants / Dining Event
Infinite Deal Menu @ BOA Steakhouse
BOA Steakhouse - 8462 W. Sunset Blvd. - West Hollywood
BOA Steakhouse celebrates the good luck of the number 8—the sign for infinity turned on its side—starting 8/8/08 for 88 days. The “Infinite Deal” menu is a four-course dinner for two priced at $88.08. Rotating selections may include the table-side classic Caesar,...
Restaurants / Dining Event
Afternoon Tea @ Gordon Ramsay at the London
Gordon Ramsay at The London West Hollywood - 1020 N. San Vicente Blvd. - West Hollywood
Enjoy afternoon tea the proper English way at Gordon Ramsay at the London. From 3 p.m.-5:30 p.m. daily, $35 per person gets you a selection of teas and sandwiches (like roast beef/horseradish, smoked salmon, and cucumber), scones with Chantilly cream and strawberry jam, and pastries (...
Events / Museum Exhibit
"Please Be Seated" - Nicole Cohen
J. Paul Getty Museum - 1200 Getty Center Drive - Los Angeles (Brentwood)
Nicole Cohen saw the Getty's collection of 18th Century French chairs and wanted to sit in them. Of course she couldn't, but she made the chairs the subject of a video installation piece wherein participants get to see what they would look like sitting in the chairs. Working with Mike Fair to...
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 / Natural History
‘Thomas the T-rex’ lab
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles - 900 Exposition Boulevard - Los Angeles
A T-rex, under glass
Events / Antique
The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue’s History
The Getty Villa - 17985 Pacific Coast Highway - Pacific Palisades
The Roman marble stature of Hygieia, a goddess of health, has changed hands more times than that "Where's George" dollar bill. Found at Ostia in 1797, the sculpture was owned by British interior designer Thomas Hope, then by American newspaper tycoon extraordinaire William Randolph Hearst. In...
Events / Art
Marcel Duchamp redux
Norton Simon Museum of Art - 411 W. Colorado Blvd. - Pasadena
45 years ago, a little venue in Pasadena opened their doors and thrust a retrospective exhibition of Marcel Duchamp into the faces of an unsuspecting Southern California audience. To mark that anniversary, the little venue, now called the Norton Simon Museum, is taking a look back at the iconic...
