Celebrated portrait photographer Austin Young brings out the beauty and layered emotions in the colorful people he captures with his lens. Tonight when he sets up his camera, it will be aimed at a very lucky party goer who will experience being photographed by Austin Young first hand. During the run of Your Face Here, portrait sittings with Young will be available for a mere $100-$500. As he completes the images they will be added to the show. Your Face Here opens tonight at the new PoptArt Gallery and runs though March 5. more ›

LACMA's year-long celebration and exploration of food, art, politics and culture comes to a close today with the all-day event—Let Them EATLACMA. more ›

From the dinner table to the dish rack to a renowned museum display? Such will be the life of the 1,095 dinner plates collected by L.A.-based artist Bari Ziperstein in the next few weeks as the plates become a one-time site-specific installation piece at LACMA. more ›

The Scootabaker, along with The Sweets Trucks, Vespa of Sherman Oaks and The Pablove Foundation... more ›

Rogue Machine hosts a salon on the Royal Court Theatre, Britain’s leading national company dedicated to new work by innovative writers from around the world for the past 50 years. Panelists include playwrights Phyllis Nagy, Ron Hutchinson and British actress Katherine Tozer, and it will be moderated by Steven Leigh Morris, critic at large at the LA Weekly. The salon begins at 8 pm and the event is free. RSVP here. more ›

Boy, who knew something as simple as a banana was such a big thing? Politics, murder, pop culture, this fruit has it all and the boys from the locally based Fallen Fruit Collective journeyed down to South America to explore the subject and came back with an art exhibit that opened last Tuesday with an event called "Are You Happy to See Me?" more ›

The Hammer Museum presents a lecture by artist and photographer Stephen Berkman tonight at 7 pm. He’ll discuss his work, which uses antiquated photographic and optical processes. “Berkman, currently a teacher at the Art Center of Design, will also discuss his quixotic art in the context of the early history of the photographic medium, including phenomenology, spirit photography, and the technical processes used to achieve them.” The lecture is a related program to “The Darker Side of Light” exhibition. The public program is free, but tickets are required. Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6 pm. more ›

As GOOD is so great to point out, LA is a mecca for homegrown products. (No, not that. Well, yes, that, but that's not what they/we mean!) Fallen Fruit keeps track of where Angelenos can play gatherer on our own city streets. GOOD explains:

FallenFruit.org has neighborhood maps of publicly accessible fruit trees. They also have a great guide to creating your own fruit gathering map. Tips range from the obvious (get out of your car and walk, you’ll find more fruit) to the specific (you should take note of that young fruit tree on private property—it might eventually grow to reach public property.) If more people create maps for other cities, Fallen Fruit could become one of the more delicious free resources on the web.

Gothamist posts on the capture of a NYC perv thanks to Little Brother and a camera phone. They also scour the city for vodka martinis and Shamrock shakes and spot the friend from the Wonder Years at a city law firm. New York police think that Littlejohn is their man. more ›

http://www.artleak.org/civicmatters/">Civic Matters exhibit at LACE and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art downtown. more ›

Dave, Mathias and Austin fight for the betterment of Los Angeles on a number of fronts. In addition to their work with the Fallen Fruit Project, the collaborators submitted a proposal for an Endless Orchard to the Grand Intervention Grand Avenue park design competition organized by the Norman Lear Project and the Los Angeles Times. more ›

Spring is less than 7 days away. What better way to greet the new season's arrival than to focus on the Fallen Fruit Project, which distributes maps of places where people can pick free fruit throughout Los Angeles. The collective also hosts foraging sorties. You can check their website for info on upcoming sorties and maps. more ›

What appears to be our first major storm is upon us, heralding the arrival of gloom and traffic that is fall-winter season in Los Angeles. Perhaps it's the lack of sunshine, the mounting sadness of natural disasters at home and abroad, the upcoming City Council elections, or maybe it's just the impending arrival of the holidays, but we've been thinking a lot about local issues and ways to improve life in LA. more ›