Here are five great things you should do in Southern California this week from the makers of the 5 Every Day app.  Get this as a new podcast in iTunes.  If you want five hand-picked things to do in Los Angeles every day, download the free 5 Every Day from the App Store.

ART: Step and Repeat

Last Fall's inaugural Step and Repeat program at the Geffen Contemporary was an embarrassment of riches — a full month of art-slanted spectacle pulled from our city's pop performance vanguard. This time out, MoCA  presents a kind of Step and Repeat concentrate, condensing everything down to one gloriously overwhelming three-day weekend.

There's too much happening, but here are a few ways in: on Friday, two of our very favorite  weirdos —comedian Kate Berlant and performance artist Jibz Cameron — collaborate following a brand  new work from  trans multi-hyphenate Geo Wyeth. Saturday it's NYC post-internet princess Juliana Huxtable, post-everything comedian/artist Casey Jane Ellison, and Google-proof hip hop/hardcore loose-cannons Horror. Sunday's closer has peerless Chicana powerhouse Nao Bustamante, deeply weird stand-up Brent Weinbach, and emcee/comedian Open Mike Eagle.

MOCA Step and Repeat is at The Geffen Contemporary from Friday through Sunday. The Geffen is located at 152 N Central Avenue. It's $30 for all three days, so you should just go to everything.

CITY: Los Angeles City Hall

One great thing about this town: pretty much anytime you need to, you can view the whole thing from a great height. In a place defined by its lateral sprawl, a sense of scale is hard to come by when you stay rooted to the asphalt—but take a hike up in the hills and the city lays itself at your feet like an obedient lap dog. It helps. We recently learned about a great and relatively untrodden downtown vantage point — the observation deck of the City Hall building. Although public, it’s a bit tricky — have to pass through a metal detector, get a visitor's sticker, and take two separate elevators up to the 27th floor — but once you find yourself at the top, you will encounter precious few fellow sightseers. It's just you and the sweeping view of the city, from the skyline of what was once Bunker Hill all the way to Palos Verdes on a clear day. Suitable for dates and ponderous pep talks about how all of this will be yours someday.

The observation deck at Los Angeles City Hall. The public entrance at 201 Main Street. It's open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

FOOD: Magee’s House of Nuts

We love the Fairfax Farmer's Market, that strange and darling little simulacrum of village life perched on the edge of the Grove.  The older vendors in the Farmer's Market are properly old, even by LA standards. Bob's Donuts has been there sixty years; Gill's old-fashioned ice cream and Du-Par's Diner are nearly as old as the Market itself. But Magee's, stall number 624, might have everyone beat on pedigree. Founded in 1917 at the original Grand Central Market downtown, it's been at Fairfax Farmer's Market for ninety years, hawking marvelous, impossibly smooth churned peanut, cashew, and almond butter in neat little plastic tubs stamped with a dancing, smiling peanut. Above the register, a photo of Eisenhower himself beholding the butter-churner. And on the glass countertop, a handwritten note: "Thank you for the Peanut Butter. It was fab. The Beatles." Need we say more?

Magee’s House of Nuts is at the Fairfax Farmer’s Market Stall No. 624, which located at 6333 West Third Street.

MUSIC: Jewel’s Last Dance

When Jewel Thais Williams opened Jewel’s Catch One in Arlington Heights in 73, it was one of the first black discos in the country. 43-years later, it’s the last black-owned queer club in the city. Chaka Khan, Sylvester, and Rick James all spent time at Catch One, and Madonna even lugged a begrudging Warren Beatty here. The rumors about Catch One’s closure have been circulating for about a year now, a curious period in which the West Pico compound has been loaned out for more white-bread stuff like indie rock shows and that massive LA Art Fair afterparty. Details of the future of the Catch One are a little hard to come by, but one thing is clear—Jewel’s scheduled her goodbye party. On Saturday the18th, Catch One hosts “Jewel’s Last Dance”—an all-night last hurrah with a red carpet reception, a velvet-rope VIP room hosted by a Pointer Sister, and DJs until dawn.

Catch One Nightclub is located at 4067 W Pico Boulevard. “Jewel’s Last Dance” runs from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. Saturday. 

WILDCARD: Anarchy, Altruism, and Architecture

The namesake and architect of the Barnsdall Art Park, oil heiress Aline Barnsdall was one of Los Angeles' most flamboyantly out-there foremothers: a staunch anti-authoritarian, a radical feminist, an experimental theatre producer, and a  deliberate single mother at the turn of the 20th Century — a total boss, basically. In the 20s, she hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design what was to be America's premier experimental theater and arts complex, built on a 36 acre olive orchard in East Hollywood. Their working relationship soured, but not before Wright designed Hollyhock House—the recently restored architectural temple, and one of his most recognized works. This Saturday, Atlas Obscura — an indispensable, web-based lexicon of strange attractions all over the world—host "Anarchy, Altruism, and Architecture in Barnsdall Art Park" a guided tour of Barnsdall's grounds, featuring a wealth of weird insights about its radical origins.

“Anarchy, Altruism, and Architecture” is Saturday at Barnsdall Art Park, which is located at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard. 

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