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Get Out: Chocolate The Exhibition, Full Frontal Music, THREAD Show
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Don't Lose Your Head, Augustus: A tasty new offering, Chocolate: The Exhibition, now open at MUZEO in downtown Anaheim, explores "the plant, the products, the history, and the culture of chocolate through the lenses of botany and ecology, anthropology and economics, conservation and popular culture." To enter the exhibit, look for a lush, tropical rainforest. Runs through September 11. Free chocolate sample with admission. Tickets $9-$13
Show Us Yours: James Schneider's Full Frontal Music opens at Theatre Assylum Lab tomorrow night and runs through Sunday June 26 as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
A storytelling, pop performance, the show offers songs and monologues like The PeniFesto and Tranny in a Tree as a "live concept album exposing and revealing the humor and challenges of Modern American Man." Runs through Sunday, June 26. Times and tickets here.
At The Seams: THREAD is a curated showcase of emerging designers and independent fashion" staged in a "dynamic one day retail environment, bringing new fashion and art to more than 200,000 fashion savvy, trend pushing, music loving, taste making movers and shakers..." The event will be held at the Cooper Bldg. Directions, parking, schedule here. 860 S Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., $5-$25
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