First Fridays at the Natural History Museum perfect date night opportunity for parents
Parent Date Night: First Fridays at the Natural History Museum
If you secretly long for your clubbing days (pre-children), try getting pre-historic with your date night endeavors at the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays series. Dance with the North American Mammals or sip drinks with the main lobby dinosaur skeletons. With a venue like the Natural History Museum, the right combination of live music, dim, mood-lit ambience, drinks, performances and academic discussions makes this the perfect place to revisit your youth while keeping the adults that you’ve become firmly intact.
The Natural History Museum First Friday events begin at 5:30 p.m. every (you guessed it!) first Friday of the month with the museum staying open for the occasions until an absolutely reasonable 10 p.m. Make the date with your significant other for Opening Night this Friday, March 5, 2010. The theme and talk will be about the Science of Southern California with NHM Curator Dr. Brian Brown leading an entomology tour called “Flies: They’re Everything You Think They’re Not.” Then, Caltech’s Dr. David Anderson talks about his work in mapping neural circuits that underlie innate behaviors in fruit flies. Why Anderson’s fly fascination? Because the fly’s behavioral responses, and associated internal states (such as arousal), form the evolutionary underpinnings of emotional behavior in higher organisms.
The First Friday series will run until June.
First Fridays at the Natural History Museum
900 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, 90007; (213) 763-DINO
Friday, January 8, 2010
5:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Ages: Adults
Cost: Concert + Museum Admission ($15.00);Museum Admission Only (no access to concert hall) ($2.00-$9.00); FREE for NHM members. (Purchase tickets in advance HERE)
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Performances (8:30 pm – 10:30 pm)
Deer Tick and Everest (Diorama Hall)
Labeled as one of Rolling Stone’s Top 5 Bands from SXSW in 2009, Deer Tick, will be kicking off their US tour this month at First Fridays. Don’t miss their country-rock must-see show. Los Angeles based Everest, who have opened for the likes of Neil Young and Wilco, have been hailed as the new face of American rock-and-roll.
DJs (5:30 pm – 10:30 pm)
Resident DJ, Them Jeans (a.k.a. Jason Stewart) and headliner, DJ Shortee
Hailed as #1 female scratch DJ in the world and a pioneer of the turntablist movement, Shortee crosses genres spinning an eclectic mix from hip hop to electro to drum and bass.
With musical tastes spanning from hardcore punk to dancefloor-friendly hip-hop, post-rock to ambient electronic, Them Jeans never fails to deliver a set with the perfect mood for the gathering.
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There’s nothing like a novel Valentine’s Day aphrodisiac than searching for nudes throughout a museum! So book a sitter parents and head to the J. Paul Getty Museum for a date with Watson Adventures the Saturday before Valentine’s Sunday. The Naked at the Getty (For Adults Only) Scavenger Hunt offers a humorous, mind-tingling search for nudity at the amazing Getty Center. You don’t need to know anything about art or the museum—or nudity for that matter—to solve their tricky questions. After the hunt, linger in the mountain-top gardens for a romantic sunset. The bashful need not worry, this hunt is rated a mild PG-13!