Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Weekly What To Do: Can You Really Be Slient Around GWAR?

The Cortège
September 11 - 28 (Thursdays - Sundays at dusk)
Los Angeles Equestrian Center, 480 West Riverside Dr., Burbank CA
$$$

Step inside a monumental work of art that merges mythic pageantry, cutting-edge technology, and breathtaking performance. The Cortège is not just a show — it is a collective rite of passage. Occurring outdoors at dusk, this first-of-its-kind theater experience marks the end of one era and announces the dawn of another through movement, sound, costume, and spectacle.


September 12 - September 14, 2025
Los Feliz Theatre
1822 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
$
 
The American Cinematheque, in partnership with Retroformat Silent Films and Mount Saint Mary’s University Graduate Programs in Film, Television and New Media, is thrilled to present the first annual ‘Los Angeles Silent Film Festival,’ featuring nine films, six restoration premieres, all accompanied by live scores as originally and beautifully intended, by Musical Director Cliff Retallick and guest artist Andrew Earle Simpson. Chief Festival Program Director Steven K. Hill, film archivist and Silent Movie Day co-founder, has curated a series which includes both classic silent titles along with rare and exciting new discoveries, many of these recently and beautifully restored to their original glory.
 
SEP 12 IN-PERSON FRI, 8 PM
Redcat 
631 W 2ND ST,
LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
$25*
 
 Sharon Chohi Kim premieres a performance inspired by murmurations—meaning both spontaneous flocks of starlings and a collection of low, continuous sounds. Drawing on the intelligence of decentralized and adaptive systems in nature—such as mushroom spores and moss—this performance is a meditation on shape-shifting and collective intelligence. Bodies resonate in a responsive negotiation of sound and movement, while film and video projections designed by Jennifer Bewerse layered throughout the theater evoke the textures and behaviors of organic systems. Both composing and performing in the work, Kim remixes live, soaring vocals with electronics, accompanied by choreography by Stephanie Zaletel. 
 
MEGADOC
September 12, 2025, 2:00 P.M.
The Michelle and Kevin Douglas IMAX Theatre, RZC 119, Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, 3131 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Free, Must RSVP
 
A raw, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long journey in creating his self-financed passion project, Megalopolis. 
 
 
 
Actors Glenn Plummer, Andrew Liner and Erica Gimpel will appear in person at Landmark's Nuart Theatre on Friday, September 12 for a Q&A after the 7:30pm show. Moderated by actor Frank Grillo.
 
Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski (Tim Blake Nelson) is inspired to try his hand at training once he reconnects with his estranged grandson. While their training brings Bang Bang out of the hole he’s been living in, everyone questions his motivations – including an ex-girlfriend from decades ago who was privy to Bang Bang’s meteoric rise in the sport in the 80s as well as the rivalry with his former opponent, her cousin and Detroit’s Mayoral candidate Darnell Washington. Is Bang Bang merely passing down inherited rage, or is there true altruism behind his tutelage?
 
 
 
 
 
September 13th , 12:00pm - 5:00pm 
Little Tokyo Galleria Mall
333 S Alameda St. LA 90013 
[ 1st & 2nd Floor ]
Paid Parking Garage:
Can be validated at any store: longest validation is 3 hours from our friends at 
 
We will have 45+ Magical Vendors ! 
- Studio Ghibli inspired Art 
- Studio Ghibli Goods 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Alien
Saturday, September 13th
Hollywood Forever Cemetery 
$$
 
Summer Season Finale! Lock the airlock and grab your popcorn—Alien is landing under the stars, and it’s still the scariest thing in space. A routine mission turns into mayhem when something slithers aboard, and, well, dinner doesn’t go as planned. Ridley Scott made outer space scary, H.R. Giger made it nightmare fuel, and Sigourney Weaver made it iconic. Suspenseful, iconic, and totally unmissable—this is the one that started it all. In space, no one can hear you scream. At Cinespia, we don’t mind. Free Photobooth, Bar, Grill and DJs before the movie.
 
Yutanpo Shirane makes his United States debut with his solo exhibition DOU? at Giant Robot 2 (GR2) in West Los Angeles.

Known in Japan for his clean playful illustrations of everyday life Shirane has been a leading illustrator for more than three decades.

The show opens September 13 with an online art release and tour at noon followed by a public reception from six to nine in the evening. The exhibition runs through September 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Opening and artist talk: September 13, 
6 PM - 9 PM
Redcat 
631 W 2ND ST,
LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
Free

For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Guadalupe Maravilla transforms REDCAT into an environment for healing and storytelling. Born in El Salvador, Maravilla fled the country at the age of eight as an unaccompanied minor to escape the violence of the twelve-year Salvadoran Civil War, reuniting with his family in the United States. As an adult, the artist survived cancer, a disease he believes resulted from the childhood traumas of war, migration, exile, and formerly living in the US undocumented. Throughout this new exhibition, Maravilla retraces his personal journey as a migrant while connecting it with the journeys of others, offering a site for ancestral healing and collective care.
 
BEYOND THE STREETS PRESENTS “LET THERE BE GWAR”
A Monumental Retrospective Celebrating Four Decades of Intergalactic Chaos
Curated by Bob Gorman & Roger Gastman
Opening September 13 – November 2, 2025 | Los Angeles | Free Entry
434 N La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036 
 
SPECIAL OPENING WEEKEND WITH THE BAND! The public opening reception for LET THERE BE GWAR will take place on Saturday, September 13 and Sunday, September 14, 2025  from 11AM to 6PM with appearances by members of GWAR! The show will be on view through November 2, 2025.
 
LET THERE BE GWAR chronicles this intergalactic saga through the most comprehensive assembly of GWAR artifacts ever seen. The exhibition features: Handcrafted costumes, instruments, weaponry, and stage props, video installations, monumental set pieces and spew tanks, a monster toilet, artwork, and rare ephemera. Every square inch of the gallery transformed into the GWAR universe.
 
Jaws: The Exhibition
Sep 14, 2025–Jul 26, 2026
Academy Museum
$ Admission  
 
Experience Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) like never before. Jaws: The Exhibition is the first-ever exhibition of this scale at the Academy Museum, focused exclusively on a single film, and the largest mounted exhibition ever for Jaws, the Oscar®-winning film from Universal Pictures. It celebrates the film’s 50th anniversary and revisits Jaws scene by scene, through original objects, behind-the-scenes revelations, and interactive moments. Curated with direct access to the collections from Steven Spielberg and The Amblin Hearth Archive, NBCUniversal Archives & Collections, and more, the exhibition dives deep into the film’s production history and explores its enduring impact. 
 
CicLAvia—Historic South Central meets Watts
Sunday, September 14, 2025; 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Connecting Historic South Central, Florence Firestone, and Watts.
Free
 
Enjoy the pop-up park for the day in your favorite people-powered way, whether that's walking, jogging, biking, roller skating, skating, or simply spectating! All ages and abilities are welcome.
 
  
 
September 14, 2025
NHM 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007 
Free with paid Museum admission and to Members
 
On Sunday, September 14, come out and RAWR with us as we celebrate the 10th annual Dino Fest! Discover the amazing world of dinosaurs, their prehistoric past, and the science that brings their world back to life. Meet world-renowned paleontologists from the Museum's Dinosaur Institute and beyond. See unique Cretaceous era fossil collections and learn about dinosaurs’ living descendants, birds! You don’t want to miss this event that is millions of years in the making!

 
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Free Hours at the Autry
Every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m.
Update: During this Wildfire season, The Autry closes off, please check day of event

Let the Autry cover your next visit with Free Hours at the Autry. Every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m. will be free to all Autry visitors. Enjoy access to all the Autry's exhibitions including Imagined Wests, Reclaiming El Camino and more by reserving your spot today!
 

Thanks to the generous support of the Autry Foundation, Free Hours at the Autry* are every Tuesday and Wednesday from 1-4 p.m.
 
UCB, a cheapo comedy show almost every night, see comedians before they make podcasts and have
stories about the UCB and before they hit the big time.



 
Sat, Aug 30, 2025 - Sat, Dec 27, 2025
9:00 am - 2:00 pm every Sat
Isamu Noguchi Plaza
244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Free
 
"Join us at the Little Tokyo Farmers’ Market, a vibrant new Saturday tradition in the heart of Little Tokyo. Presented in partnership by JACCC and Food Access LA, this weekly market brings together fresh, affordable produce, rich cultural experiences, and meaningful community connection."
 

 

American Cinematheque-A celebrated independent theater group that brings both the talent and catalog of films to make for some of LA's best movie nights.
 

Street Food Cinema-Outdoor cult or recent hits you'll love.

Check out classics and cult movies just a few stories above street level. Rooftop Movies at The Montalbán. & Rooftop Cinema Club

 New Bev-Tarantino owned independent theater with old school style
 
Brain Dead Studios-manages to fill its schedule almost every night
611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
 
Vidiots -A one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and everyone curious about cinema. A small theater is more than made-up for with the constant content and special screenings.
4884 Eagle Rock Blvd