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Tomorrow is the ribbon cutting of the third and newest downtown Famima!! at the California Plaza on Grand Avenue near MOCA. It's about time this part of downtown receive some new food options, even if this is quasi Japanese 7-11 style. However, a made-to-order sushi bar will be the centerpiece of this location.

World Wide Spies, Protection, Plans to Leave, The Drowning Men, Frantic Taste @ Safari Sam's

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco would probably prefer it if you didn't talk on Wednesday Spinal Tap @ Avalon, tonight Joss Stone @ Greek, tonight Metal Skool, Shapes of Racecars @ Key Club, tonight Stevie Wonder @ Santa Barbara Bowl, Tues Gogol Bordello @ Henry Fonda, Tues Wilco @ Greek, Weds. The Like @ Spaceland, Weds Los Lobos @ Santa Monica Pier, Thurs Kronos Quartet @ California Plaza, Thurs Mat Kearney @ House of Blues,...

They are the rock stars of the string quartet. They've played with everyone and everything (such as 'Purple Haze' to the left). And they, the uber-famous and sometimes over-popular Kronos Quartet, are playing for free this Thursday night Downtown. You can't beat that. There are not many Grand Performances left for the summer. If you've never had the chance, pack some food and alcohol (no red wine allowed, it stains the granite), find a spot...

El Vez, a Mexican Elvis impersonator famous in his own right for his adding a Latin and political flavor to the King’s undying legend, is playing a free concert in downtown LA tonight at the California Plaza as part of the Grand Performances summer series.

Morris Day & the Time, Sea Wolf, The Broken West, Ben Harper, Blonde Redhead, The Emotions, Medusa, Breakestra, Autolux, Culver City Dub Collective, The Parson Red Heads, The Pity Party, Division Day, others @ Sunset Junction (10a-10p) Yolanda Adams, Angie Stone, Clarence Carter, The Laws Family, Eloise Laws, Barbara Morrison, Linda Hopkins, Billy Valentine @ Compton Summer Soul Jam, Par 3 Golf Course Stevie Nicks, ZZ Top, The Pretenders, Stray Cats, Sugar Ray @...

The folks at Omni Hotels realize that many of you are still hungering for an Apple iPhone, and they have two cool ways to feed you this week. First, each hotel location will be giving away a brand spanking new iPhone, and there is no purchase necessary. All you have to do to be entered in the sweepstakes is to get yourself down to our local Omni Hotel, which is located Downtown in California Plaza,...

The L.A. Film Festival lumbers towards its final weekend today and The Director Lunch Talk series has its best interview yet. John Horn talks to Danny Boyle (Sunshine, Trainspotting) at 12:30 p.m. at the Target Red Room. Another free talk is on tap at 7:00 p.m. at the Hammer Museum. It's Been There, Done That: A Conversation with Mickey Rooney. If you've never seen Mr. Rooney talk in person, treat yourself to this program. Not only is he a legend, but he has absolutely no filter. Expect hilariously inappropriate non-sequiturs. Another Hollywood legend will be at the Italian Culture Institute when Entertainment Weekly talks with Buck Henry at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for that one, though, are eleven bucks.

Show Date: Tonight, Friday June 22nd, 2007 Venue: Grand Performances, California Plaza, 350 South Grand Avenue $0 @ 8:00 p.m. Artist:Ojo de Brujo Album: Techari + Techari Remixes Label: Six Degrees Records Barcelona-based flamenco-fusion-epxerimentalists Ojo de Brujo kick off their North American tour tonight in Los Angeles with a FREE concert at Grand Performances, California Plaza, 350 South Grand Avenue. This band of gypsy instrumentalists and DJs is touring in support of their most...

I call it Performance Row. That stretch downtown along Grand Avenue between Temple St. and the California Plaza. You can easily walk between 9 performance spaces in 5 minutes. Starting at the Music Center Plaza at Temple and heading South, you first are at the Ahmanson, Center Theatre Group's (CTG) proscenium stage that is used for dance, musicals and other traditional performances. Next is the Mark Taper Forum, a theatre used for newer theatrical...

LA Works is a nonprofit that encourages — and enables — volunteerism in our city. They do this all year round, from setting up regular tutoring to weekend trash cleanup to hanging with seniors (Fun With Nuns!) to brush cleaning at an endangered ape refuge. But maybe this isn't the kind of volunteering that sounds like fun to you.

Here it is again... the weekend. Will it cool down? It's all relative, we suppose. Just remember, whatever you do, keep your cool! There are plenty of things to do around town that are indoors, or outdoors, to suit your mood and temperment, in addition to the other events we're talking about.

It's the weekend already? LAist throws enthusiastic support in the corner of the 4-day work week, and even though perhaps we didn't work as much this week, we're still going to play this weekend. Here are some things going on around town this lovely weekend.

At outdoor events in downtown Los Angeles, such as the Grand Performances series that included Friday night's Ozomatli concert, or the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival's summer performances, part of the fun is people-watching, and much of what you see people doing is turning their heads side to side and murmuring, "This is so cool. I've never seen downtown like this."

On Monday we plan on being in someone's backyard, beer in one hand, grilled meat product in another, head turned skyward to look at falling bits of colored light (or we could head out to some of these spots for more intense fireworks and Fourth-of-July action). So we've got the holiday covered. What about the rest of the weekend? Here are some quirky, cultural, and historical things going on around town--lots of them are FREE, too--that might be worth checking out this long weekend. Or, you could just stay home. We'll never know!

For Independence Day weekend, here are some events that involve hanging out with social activists while listening to good music and wearing cute clothes:

Well, the Solstice has come and gone, which means our days our longer, and our nights are longer, too, somehow. This weekend there is no shortage of fun things to do, and no excuse for us to not get out there and do them. That is, unless, you are one of the lucky few with an ocean breeze or a good air conditioning system to keep you coolly behind your doors--this weekend's forecast is for temperatures in the mid to upper 70s.

Management at the California Plaza have since erected little ramps up to the concrete islands in the middle of the fountain and signs instructing visitors not to feed the ducks. (Though we saw a German tourist sneaking one some lettuce.)

If you're a fan of old-fashioned, kick-ass rock 'n' roll, head for the Knitting Factory tonight and see The Dirtbombs with The Ponys, The Starlite Desperation and the Immortal Lee County Killers. Doors open at 8:00 PM and tickets are $15.00.

'Tis a busy night all over, so we'll skip the niceties and get down to business.

Pay a visit to MOCA today, as the place will be swarming with activity. At 3:00 PM, see a screening of Two Generators, Rodney Graham's 1984 piece "documenting the night-time illumination of a river" at MOCA at California Plaza. The screening is free with musuem admission.

Another Monday has arrived, forcing the weekend into the memory and the week into sharp focus. Though work is the primary fulcrum of weekday activities, we hope that you will take some suggestion and participate in some extracurricular fun.

Enjoy a leisurely evening sipping wine and indulging in cocktail conversation at Slow Food LA's wine tasting. It will be held from 6:30–9:00 PM at Mel & Rose Wine and Spirits. Admission is $30.00 per person for Slow Food members and $35.00 for nonmembers; cost includes the tasting, a vintage chart and wine map.

Good day, LAists! This report makes it to you only slightly hungover, so you are now honorbound to go out and have a good time because LAist is working hard (against a hangover) to bring you tonight's events.

Hello, happy LAists! Thursday is bringing a much-needed respite from the slower pace of the first half of the week. There is a veritable cornucopia of events to keep you busy for the rest of the day.

To LAist, Thursday seems to be an eclectic hodgepodge of music and art. Not to say that any of it is bad, but there is a little something for most everyone going on tonight in and around the city.