What's Happening in LA This Week + Healing with Music on Mental Health Day

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L.A.’s Ultimate Halloween Event: Inferno, The Rite and Burlesque

American Contemporary Ballet opens its 13th season at Television City with three provocative, eerie creations on alternating nights throughout October, offering a live Halloween entertainment experience unlike any other in the city. Visit the underworld, witness a sacrifice and see the world’s strangest burlesque. Compelling, surprising and completely unmissable, the show may be different each night, but its message remains the same: Beauty is skin deep; evil goes straight to the bone.

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East Forest Heals With Music For Mushrooms

Psychedelic musician East Forest is taking an elevated approach to mental health by taking a revealing look at how music and sound can bring about healing by combining music and as his form of therapy. In the documentary  “Music for Mushrooms,” he shares his story of helping others using music and mushrooms together for healing and sparks conversations about psychedelic therapy.

For fifteen years, as a pioneering figure, Forest has developed a huge cult following by tapping into a subcultural movement…

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Nights of the Jack

The ultimate family-friendly Halloween event returns with a mile-long walking trail with 30+ immersive environments, pumpkin carvers, hundreds of photo moments, merch shop, face painting, psychic, a pirate jewelry workshop and digital carnival games. Nights Of The Jack is Halloween fun for everyone. Kids will love the renditions of their favorite characters in pumpkin-form and adults will appreciate the artistry of the elaborate sets. Nights Of The Jack runs through November 2, 2024.

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Raia Was is Badu for Good

Raia Was: The best gig I ever saw is the collection of Erykah Badu shows I’ve gone to since age 17. My first show of hers was part of The Sugar Water Festival in 2005 (full disclosure: this whole article has required a lot of googling to remember the years/locations!) and though I barely knew her music, I was hypnotized by her as a performer. Really, she’s a performance artist, slipping between stations at the theremin and sampler and cups of tea. The way she spins the room. I saw this and thought, “How do I do that?”…

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This week at The Ice House!

A fantastic evening of entertainment at an affordable price guaranteed!

🍻Happy Hours: 6:30pm – 7:30pm & 10pm – close (bar & patio only)

🍹All cocktails, wine & select food items $5 off and beer at $8

Thursday, October 10

9PM • Chad Kroeger, Jared Goldstein, Jonathan Kite 9:30PM • Finesse Mitchell and Tisha Campbell

Friday, October 11

7:30PM • Angelo Colina (En Espanol)

7:30PM • Shannon Fiedler

9:30PM • Saul Trujillo & Friends

Saturday, October 12

7:30PM • GOLF TOURNAMENT COMEDY SHOW

8:30PM • The IME Awards

9:30PM • Sean Porter and friends

Wednesday, October 16

8PM • DL HUGHLEY & FRIENDS

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Pickles At Vintage Land And Ventura County Farm Day - Here’s What’s Popping Up

Vintage Land, home of the Los Feliz Flea market,  will be installing three new pickleball courts on the rooftop of their Vintage Land building located at 1030 Alpine St., which will be open seven days a week.  Angel City Pickleball will offer outdoor turf courts with Downtown L.A. views. Memberships are $50 a month and the courts will be open seven days a week, including during flea market hours on Saturdays. 

More than  15 farms, ranches, and agricultural organizations will open their doors to the public for the 12th Annual Ventura County Farm Day on  Saturday, Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Choose a location by visiting the Farm Day Trail Map and travel at your own pace from site to site. The day consists of behind-the-scenes tours, tastings…

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Night Talks @ Lodge Room

Night Talks is coming to Lodge Room Highland Park on October 20th! Performing their latest singles—along with some new material—Night Talks delivers a musical vibe that captures the essence of indie rock from the late 2000s and early 2010s. Doors open at 7 PM for this all-ages event. Tickets are a must, so get yours early!

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Despite the Moldy Tunes, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Is Not Your Father’s Nihilism

A bro-comedy director, a Method-y actor, and a pop star walk into a bar — and that’s as close to a joke as you’ll get with Joker: Folie à Deux, the inevitable sequel/event du jour, released within five weeks of an election in which the most evil-clownish of American electees seeks to re-enter the presidency and turn the federal system into scorched earth. Coincidence?...