The Satellite presents Radiation City, Cuckoo Chaos, Steffaloo

Wed. 05/29 | 9:00PM - Thu. 05/30 | 2:00AM @ The Satellite (map)

Radiation City From the power duo who brought you (and continue to bring you) Soap Collectors and Spesus Christ comes a new destination called Radiation City. Warmly caressed guitar and and w…more»

The Echo & Dub Club Present Dub Club, DJ Tom Chasteen

Wed. 05/29 | 9:00PM @ Echoplex (map)

Dub Club with Resident DJs: Tom Chasteen Roy Corderoy The Dungeonmaster Boss Harmony DJ Tom Chasteen

Low End Theory presents Kastle, Emika, Anomie

Wed. 05/29 | 9:30PM @ The Airliner (map)

Wednesday 5/29: KASTLE, EMIKA, ANOMIE plus residents Daddy Kev, Nobody, D-Styles and Nocando18+ / $10 cover

Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990

Thu. 05/30 | 10:00AM - Thu. 05/30 | 5:30PM @ The Getty Center (map)

This exhibition charts L.A.’s rapid transformation into one of the globe’s most influential industrial, economic and creative capitals. From its ambitious freeway n…more»

In Focus: Ed Ruscha

Thu. 05/30 | 10:00AM - Thu. 05/30 | 5:30PM @ The Getty Center (map)

Highlighting Ruscha’s engagement with photography, vernacular architecture and car culture, this second Getty exhibition for Pacific Standard Time Presents features prin…more»

Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It

Thu. 05/30 | 11:00AM - Thu. 05/30 | 5:00PM @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Stephen Prina: As He Remembered It explores the dialogue between California modernist architecture and contemporary art, beginning with the artist’s perso…more»

Everything Loose Will Land

Thu. 05/30 | 11:00AM - Thu. 05/30 | 6:00PM @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

The MAK Center explores the intersection between architecture and other visual arts in Los Angeles during the 1970s.  Reframing architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s famou…more»

Windshield Perspective

Thu. 05/30 | 11:00AM - Thu. 05/30 | 5:00PM @ A+D Architecture and Design Museum

A +D takes the most common of Los Angeles experiences, a typical drive along a typical boulevard, and exposes the visual impressions that are continually cast off from the urban landscape that…more»

A. Quincy Jones: Building For Better Living

Thu. 05/30 | 11:00AM - Thu. 05/30 | 8:00PM @ Hammer Museum (map)

This is the first monographic exhibition on A. Quincy Jones and his significant impact on the built environment of Southern California.  The Hammer explores a range of Jones’s projects, f…more»

Stefan Sagmeister The Happy Show

Thu. 05/30 | 11:00AM - Thu. 05/30 | 5:00PM @ Pacific Design Center (map)

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles presents the first Los Angeles museum exhibition of the work of graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister. The exhibition Stefan Sagmeister The Happy …more»

The Otolith Group: Neophyte

Thu. 05/30 | 12:00PM - Thu. 05/30 | 6:00PM @ REDCAT (map)

The Otolith Group: NeophyteApril 21-June 26, 2013Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 12:00-6:00 pmConceived as notes toward the making of a future film, The Otolith Group's Neophyte…more»

Technology and Environment: The Postwar House in Southern California

Thu. 05/30 | 12:00PM - Thu. 05/30 | 4:00PM @ W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery at Cal Poly Pomona

While the region’s postwar residential architecture is highly celebrated, less recognized are the innovations in construction technology and materials that made such dev…more»

Outside In: The Architecture of Smith and Williams

Thu. 05/30 | 12:00PM - Thu. 05/30 | 5:00PM @ Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara

The University has drawn from its own rich archives for this first in-depth study of partners Whitney R. Smith and Wayne R. Williams.  Working in the wake of the fi…more»

Imagine Dragons

Thu. 05/30 | 6:30PM @ Hollywood Palladium (map)

KCRW Presents Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series! with Otto Santa Ana

Thu. 05/30 | 7:00PM - Thu. 05/30 | 9:00PM @ Fullerton Public Library

May 30 goes to UCLA professor Otto Santa Ana, perhaps the nation's premier analyst of representations of Latinos in the American media. We'll be talking about his career, and especially his la…more»

Viva Presents: Shannon and the Clams, Dirt Dress, Slipping Into Darkness, Clitorati

Thu. 05/30 | 7:00PM @ The Glass House (map)

Shannon and the Clams Calling all Hobos, Twisters, Freaks, and Geeks: pogo the crust out yr eyes, and marvel in this blindingly bright, full color 3-D world of ours. The sunsets are getting m…more»

The Decorative Arts & Design Council Irma Boom: Building Books

Thu. 05/30 | 7:00PM @ LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) (map)

KCRW and Apogee Present Ludovico Einaudi Private Show Giveaway

Thu. 05/30 | 7:00PM (Doors) @ Apogee

Ludovico Einaudi is playing a private show for KCRW on Thursday, May 30th in Santa Monica at 8pm (Doors at 7pm). It's an intimate, invite-only show in an incredible space! We ha…more»

Anne Carson

Thu. 05/30 | 7:15PM @ Los Angeles Central Library

On Thursday, May 30, revered poet and professor of classics Anne Carson closes ALOUD’s spring season with a reading and conversation of her newest work, Red Doc. This event …more»

David Olney, Anne McCue

Thu. 05/30 | 7:30PM @ Zoey's Cafe (map)

Doors open: 19:30

Erykah Badu, Lyfe Jennings

Thu. 05/30 | 7:30PM @ San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino (map)

Doors open: 19:30

Film Independent at LACMA Presents: Free Screening: The East

Thu. 05/30 | 7:30PM @ LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) (map)

7:30 pm | Includes a conversation with co-writer/director Zal BatmanglijIn his second collaboration with writer/actress Brit Marling (their first, which they co-wrote, was the low-fi thriller&…more»

KCRW Presents Tame Impala

Thu. 05/30 | 7:30PM @ Fox Theater (map)