Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Los Angeles Conservancy’s Walking Tour Program explores the history and heart of our amazing city through interpretation of L.A.’s unique architectural resources.
DETAILS:
Schedule: Every Saturday
Start time: 10:00 am
Length: 2-1/2 hours
Distance covered: About 1-1/2 miles total walking
Walking difficulty: Easy
Wheelchair accessible: Yes (please contact Conservancy office following ticket purchase to make arrangements)
Meeting Location: Pershing [...]

[ June 2, 2012; 5:00 pm; ] Saturday June 2, 5 pm

As part of LACMA’s Saturday evening Latin Sounds, the San Francisco–based Grupo Falso Baiano presents a program of traditional and modern Brazilian choro music.

This will be   followed by a pulse-pounding set of “roots samba”—the marriage of samba and choro popularized during the 1950s through the 1970s in Brazil—featuring special guest vocalist [...]

[ June 6, 2012; 7:00 pm; ] Wild Horses and Renegades, a call-to-action film hosted by Viggo Mortensen, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson, and Peter Coyote, examines the politics behind the Bureau of Land Management’s controversial policies on public lands and questions the fate of America’s wild horses and burros, whose very existence is in jeopardy (www.theamericanwildhorse.com). The film examines the plight of [...]

[ May 30, 2012; 8:00 pm; ] To help celebrate the launch of his latest album, Older Than My Old Man Now , join them as they  welcome singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III to The GRAMMY Museum.

Wednesday May 30, 8 pm

Wainwright wrote his first song in 1968, Edgar and was soon signed to Atlantic Records by Nesuhi Ertegun. He soon came to fame [...]

[ June 6, 2012; 8:00 pm; ]

A night of music+fashion
Hosted by Stryker from the World Famous KROQ

June 6, 8 pm – midnight

At the famed Tropicana Bar And Pool in the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Live performance by The Pierces (below)
Live Macy’s fashion shows
Hosted bar and complimentary appetizers

7000 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cocktail attire only. Dress code strictly enforced. No athletic wear, [...]

Gail Collins In conversation with columnist Anne Taylor Fleming on her new book: As Texas Goes…How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda

Tue, Jun 12, 7:00 PM
Gail Collins, the best-selling author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, is a national columnist for the New York [...]