Events for September 5th, 2008
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Friday - September 5th
Events / Film Showing
I Pierre, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother...
Billy Wilder Theater @ the Hammer - 10899 Wilshire Blvd - Los Angeles (Westwood)
7:30 p.m.
In the tradition of "In Cold Blood," this 1976 French film directed by Rene Allio, zeroes in on a horrific murder in 1830's Normandy and the trial that followed. Working primarily with non-actors, and based on texts compiled by philosopher Michel Foucault, "I Pierre..." delves into the psychology...
Events / Movie Event
Demon Seed - Steve Allen Theater
Steve Allen Theatre - 4773 Hollywood Boulevard - Los Angeles (East Hollywood)
9 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 5: Three guesses as to what this movie's all about. Okay, we'll tell you: a self-obsessed scientist (is there any other kind?) creates a machine with a destructive libido. Watch out Julie Christie!
Restaurants / Dining Event
90210 Menu @ Kokomo Cafe
Kokomo Cafe - 7385 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Now that Kokomo Café is the inspiration for the “Peach Pit” on the CW’s new “90210,” the restaurant has come up with a “90210” inspired menu for the month of September. Selections include the “Nat Your Average” peach smoothie, in...
Restaurants / Dining Event
TASTE ABC & Tango @ A + D Museum
A+D Museum - 5900 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
The series of LearnAboutWine events at the A + D Museum (across from LACMA) wraps up for summer with ABC & Tango. Taste the wines of South America and tango the night away. Spicy Malbecs will be paired with Argentina-style grilled meats, cheeses, and other hors...
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
"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 / Art
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
Photographs from Philip-Lorca diGarcia cover previous series such as "Hustler," "Streetwork," "Heads," and "Lucky 13." As one might imagine, his photos depict men and boys from the "wild side" that Lou Reed famously sang of. Like Gregory Crewdson, but on a more intimate scale, the photos assign a...
Style / Apparel and Accessories
Just opened: Kao Pao Shu
Kao Pao Shu - 7227 Beverly Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
This ain't your neighborhood dojo
Events / Art
The Age of Imagination - Japanese Art, 1615–1868
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA - 5905 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)
A collection of Japanese art through the ages. Through September 14
