Best Things To Do This Weekend In Los Angeles and Southern California: Mar. 22 - 24

More than 30 L.A. museums open their doors for free this weekend, so hop online, make your reservations, and check out some of the amazing museums at your doorstep! From LACMA and the Academy Museum in mid-Wilshire to the Japanese American National Museum downtown to smaller museums like the Wende in Culver City, the art world is your oyster this Saturday.

If you live for your best friend’s bad date stories (or just live vicariously through them), About Last Night is the place to be on Saturday. The event series, which has its roots as a monthly night in San Francisco, features a series of bad date stories (all true and likely worse than yours!) told by some very brave participants, accompanied by live music from Jimmy Berry. Go and just be glad it wasn’t you!

Richard Neutra’s designs are iconic to L.A.’s architectural landscape (the Neutra House is a great example and another fantastic weekend activity). On view at the Louis Stern gallery, we’re treated to a collection of Neutra’s travel drawings, where you can see what inspired Neutra on his trips across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The opening is this weekend; the exhibit is on until May 4.

The Hindu festival of Holi celebrates the arrival of spring with colors galore each year. There are several local annual celebrations, with Redondo Beach hosting a big one all weekend long. The lagoon-side shindig will feature DJs spinning Bollywood, American pop, and Afrobeat music, pop-up food stalls, and even a chance to win a Royal Enfield motorcycle.

Paint the town for one last weekend as the Broadway touring company of Chicago plays its final few shows at the Pantages. The 1975 Kander and Ebb musical has never aged – even after 10,000 performances. Shimmy down to Hollywood and catch this latest run.

If learning to play the ukulele made your New Year’s resolution list, then, wow, have we got a festival for you. Take a workshop to learn Cat Stevens’ "Wild World," hear ukulele aficionados like Maui’s Neal Chin perform, or check out a jam session.

Celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim with a farm-themed party in Silver Lake, featuring traditional treats like Hamentaschen and not-so-traditional ones like Hamentaschen pizza – as well as a petting zoo, costume contest, and pony rides.

Hear me out: it’s yoga, set to a reggaeton soundtrack — on a helipad. The edibles are optional. I’d be careful up on that rooftop.

Hollywood noir is the star at the American Cinematheque Noir City festival this weekend. Kicking off with Argentinian director Carlos Hugo Christensen’s Never Open That Door alongside an opening cocktail reception, the event features several rarely-screened classics throughout the weekend.

Food vendors from across the area will be sharing their delicious plant-based bites at the Vegan Street Fair, which runs all weekend long. Visitors can try small (under $4) samples of many plates or choose bigger portions from a variety of restaurants and pop-ups.

Chocolate for breakfast? Yes, please. Chocolatier Spring & Mulberry is popping up at the rising star of farmers market cooking, Botanica in Silver Lake, with a chocolate-centric daytime menu including date-sweetened truffles and cookies, plus free tastings outside the restaurant from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Taste a wide variety of international dishes from pop-up vendors and local restaurants while shopping for artisan goods and meeting new people at this Moorpark night market. There’s also live music!