New York & LA Events

Friday 8/18
Fitz & Walloughs Get It In The End
7 PM; see schedule for more dates
$15

E-commerce's Alexander Rea works her percussive magic in the orchestra of the Fringe Festival's "Homo-Musical-Spectacular" from the award-winning producers of The Only Thing Straight is My Jacket.

Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction
30 Avenue A
Manhattan, NY
(212) 777-5660
http://www.mopitkins.com/
http://www.fitzandwalloughs.com

Saturday 8/19
Clogs w/ Excepter, Fern Knight, and Blues Control
2 PM - 6 PM
Free

Although headliner Clogs had to bail, there still is an impressive lineup of electronic and no-wave experimentalists. Now with Magik Markers on the bill.

East River Amphitheater
FDR Drive & Cherry St
Manhattan, NY
http://ermp.org/eastriver/

Monday 8/21
Holiday
8:30 PM
Free plus $10 min.

Monkeytown's Bollywood film series takes on the Hindi re-make of Dirty Dancing. Because no one puts Baby in the corner.

Monkeytown
58 N. 3rd between Wythe and Kent
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718)384-1369
http://www.monkeytownhq.com/bollywood.html

Matthew De Gennaro
8 PM
$10

"Outsider folk" artist Matthew De Gennaro performs his atmospheric music alongside his hand-processed Super 8 films. David Grubs and Norwegian electronic freakstars Alog open.

Tonic
107 Norfolk St.
Manhattan, NY
(212)358-7501
http://www.tonicnyc.com

Los Angeles:

Friday 8/18
Cinema al Fresco
6:00 PM
Free

The Tar Pits hosts a free series of classic Italian films under the stars every Friday evening in August at sundown. Tonight's feature is Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio. Bring your picnic baskets and blankets and enjoy great music before the show.

La Brea Tar Pits
5801 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
(818) 508-0082
http://www.sangennarofoundation.org/cinema

Saturday 8/19
Catalina Tiki Fest
11:00 AM
Varied

This Hawaiian three-day fest is overstuffed like a Kalua pig. Check out tiki bands, lei-making classes, workshops on tiki carving, hula dancing lessons, a contest seeking the ugliest Hawaiian shirt, and a Saturday-night luau featuring a traditional, grass skirt-shakin' Polynesian dance show. (We're crossing our fingers for some traditional fire-throwing action as well). And a special boat will leave the island at 11:30pm on Saturday night so daytrippers won't have to miss any of the big luau action.

Descanso Beach
Descanso Canyon Rd.
Catalina Island, CA
(310) 510-7410
http://www.catalinatikifest.com

The MONA Neon Cruise
7:30 PM
$45

Organized by the Museum of Neon Art, the three-hour summertime cruises highlight the finest neon signage the city has to offer, all viewed from the comfort of a red, open-top double-decker bus. The tongue-in-cheek narrated romp offers tour-goers a condensed history of advertising, lessons in local lore and a quick tutorial in the science of neon, all via a display of light and color rarely seen west of Times Square (Las Vegas notwithstanding).

Museum of Neon Art
501 West Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
(213) 489-9918
http://www.neonmona.org/flash/index.html

Sunday 8/20
JVC Jazz Festival
6:00 PM
$7 - $31

This popular annual festival features the summer's best line-up of contemporary jazz artists. This year’s artists include: Fourplay, Norman Brown’s Summer Storm, Michael Franks and Najee.

Hollywood Bowl
2301 N. Highland Avenue
Hollywood, CA
(323) 850-2000
http://www.festivalproductions.net/jvcjazz/concert_view.php?ID=21

Monday 8/21
Claire Falkenstein: Structure and Flow
10:00 AM

Falkenstein's best works fuse painting and sculpture by inviting such middlebrow enthusiasms as glass-blowing, jewelry-making and home-decorating into the mix. At a time when eccentricity seems to be in short supply, and artists seem to stick to conventions more than they used to, it's refreshing to see Falkenstein's nutty and often dazzling attempts to have it all in one work.

Louis Stern Fine Arts
9002 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
(310) 276-0147
http://www.louissternfinearts.com/exhibitions.html

Tuesday 8/22
Red Hot Chili Peppers
7:30 PM
$54.50

Few rock groups of the '80s broke as many musical barriers and were as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musical style by combining funk and punk rock -- with an explosive stage show to boot, usually headlining the oft-forgotten accessory, the athletic sock -- the Chili Peppers still reign supreme in the dawn of the 21st century.

ipayOne Center at the Sports Arena
3500 Sports Arena Blvd.
San Diego, CA
(619) 224-4171
http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com
http://www.sandiegoarena.com/