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It’s that time again, and we’ve provided you an extra long weekend guide to help you get out enjoy your holiday in style. Also, as a handy tool, we’ve added dollar signs to help you figure out how much events will set you back before you even read further. We’ve got your back. $ – 0-10 $$-10-25 $$$ 25+ FRIDAY Movie: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs at LACMA        $ We’ve been loving th

FRIDAY Movie: Pixar Shorts Collection at LACMA See where the magic started as LACMA honors Pixar by showcasing a string of thirteen short films which helped launch the Pixar features we know and love. The event is FREE and starts at 8 pm in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, but we recommend getting there early to secure a spot. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036   Music:  El Gavachillo Y Banda Viento de

LACMA’S $2 Tuesday Matinees brings you a classic film from the Univeral Pictures library every Tuesday in May and June at 1 pm. Come see the classic Secret Ceremony (1968/color/109 min.) starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum, and Peggy Aschcroft, in which a tormented rich girl hires a prostitute to act as her mother. LACMA’s Tuesday Matinees are a whopping $2, $1 for seniors over 62. Take

Start your weekend right at LACMA with some FREE jazz. Address: 5905 Wilshire Blvd.

3MG: Murs, Eligh, and Scarub Thursday, May 17, 2012 | 8 pm To kick off the series Through the Mic, 3MG reunites for their first performance together in more than five years. 3MG’s Murs, Eligh, and Scarub met as students at Los Angeles’s Hamilton High and released Gypsy’s Luck before joining forces with The Mystik Journeymen and The Grouch to form The Living Legends. 3MG went back to the studio in 20

Award-winning documentary film director Bruno Wollheim brings his acclaimed documentary, David Hockney: A Bigger Picture, to LACMA for a screening and discussion. Filmed over a span of three years, this documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. Hockney’s most recent work—inspired by digital photography and iPad applications—is currently on view in a major exhibition at the Royal Academy

Free admission to LACMA! Address: 5905 Wilshire Blvd.

This year’s penultimate installment of Jason Reitman’s Live Read features an African-American cast reading Quentin Tarantino’s Resevoir Dogs. Address: 5905 Wilshire Blvd.

Film Independent at LACMA’s celebration of Paramount Pictures’ centennial continues with two films directed by Sidney J. Furie that feature Richard Pryor teamed with Billy Dee Williams. The first  is Lady Sings the Blues (1972), a Billie Holiday biopic starring Diana Ross and Williams, which introduced Pryor to mainstream audiences.   Address: 5905 Wilshire Blvd.  

1991/color & b&w/107 min./Scope Scr: Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel; dir: Lars von Trier; w/ Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Henning Jensen, Erik Mørk, Eddie Constantine, Max von Sydow. Lars von Trier’s noir-soaked thriller casts postwar Germany as a mesmerizing, Kafkaesque dreamscape marauded by “werewolves” (underground Third Reich partisans). Leopold Kessler, a young and ideali