The 17th annual Culver City Music Festival – Eight free concerts under the stars in the intimate courtyard of Culver City City Hall. The 2011 summer series offers something for everyone including flamenco, rock ‘n roll, jazz, reggae, salsa and acoustic Celtic…

Bakersfield Mist – A comedy, inspired by true events.Maude Gutman, an unemployed, chain-smoking ex-bartender living in a run down California trailer park, believes the painting she bought in a thrift store for $3 is really an undiscovered Jackson Pollock painting worth millions.…

MUSE ARTWALK  Saturday, May 14  Participating Museums include: LACMA. 5900 Wilshire Blvd. | 11 am–8 pm.  Free general admissionArchitecture+Design Museum. 6032 Wilshire Blvd. | 12–6 pm. Free general admission Global Bazaar at Craft Folk and Art Museum. 5814 Wilshire Blvd. | 10…

George Frideric Handel’s “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato”  Pastoral ode after poems by John Milton, rearranged by Charles Jennens Mark Morris Dance Group Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and Chorus Grant Gershon, CONDUCTOR Hei-Kyung Hong, SOPRANO Sarah Coburn, SOPRANO Barry Banks, TENOR John Relyea, BASS-BARITONEAvailable by phone only…

Revisiting the Regency; England, 1811-1820 April 23- Aug 1, 2011 Library, West Hall Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road. San Marino, CA  91108. http://www.huntington.org

The Fashionable Body: An Art and Fashion Dialogue Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Refreshments: 6:30pm Panel: 7–9pm Ray Kurtzman Theater at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, 90067 Join the MOCA Contemporaries for a discussion about…

“What you are, is by accident of birth; What I am, I created myself. There are, and have been, thousands, of princes;  There is only one Beethoven.” –Ludwig Van Beethoven to Prince Lichnowsky, after storming out of his estate BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR CONCERTO…

In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan in Nineteenth-century Photography March 2–September 12, 2011 Getty Villa. 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA. (310) 440-7300 http://www.getty.edu/ Photo: 1870′s “Jews at the Wailing Wall,” Felix Bonfils

Shakespeare Salon: Scenes and Sonnets April 14 (Thursday) 7 p.m. The Independent Shakespeare Co. will present readings of some of the Bard’s sonnets and scenes, in the Huntington Art Gallery. Catherine Hess, curator of European art, will explore their connections to some…

Tennessee Williams’ final play, never before seen on the West Coast: A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND extends at the Fountain-  till May 22 The Fountain Theatre. 5060 Fountain Ave. LA CA 90029 (Fountain at Normandie) For information on show times and tickets(323) 663-1525 or www.FountainTheatre.com…