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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Horns plus funk, times eight. The Hot 8 Brass Band brings the sounds of New Orleans street music to the outdoor Keck Amphitheatre at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday, Feb. 12, with two free, family-friendly performances, at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. (tickets are distributed about an hour before each show). The band is known for playing the traditional Second Line parades — descendents of the city’s famous jazz funerals — accompanied by dancing and parasol-twirling in the streets, but minus the casket. Get your own funky dance on at this performance that is part of the World City series. After the shows, kids can explore New Orleans culture in art-making workshops. At 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 972-4396 or musiccenter.org.
• The Da Camera Society, which pairs music with architecture, ventures into a 1,250-foot-long, revitalized freight depot in the Arts District on Sunday, Feb. 13, at 3 p.m. That’s when the Southern California Institute of Architecture hosts the JACK Quartet, a foursome that not only gets inventive with early music, but also performs new, commissioned works. Sunday’s program includes pieces by Machaut (14th century), Gesualdo (16th century), Philip Glass (Quartet No. 5) and architect-composer Iannis Xenakis (Tetras). At 960 E. Third St., (213) 477-2929 or dacamera.org.
• Ever want to just bang on the drums all day? Thirty-nine years ago, a group of young Japanese left their urban lives behind for the remote Sado Island in the Sea of Japan and did just that, banged on drums — big, BIG taiko drums. They also explored dance, song and stagecraft along with other traditional instruments and became… Kodo. Now the “samurai drummers” are off the island, and are brining their One Earth Tour to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. It’s a rare opportunity to get primal in a Frank Gehry building. At 111 S. Grand Ave., (323) 850-2000 or laphil.com.
• What red-hot fowl has 231,624 friends on Facebook? Sriracha, that’s who. Nicknamed “Rooster Sauce” for the bird pictured on the label of the hot sauce brand, the spicy chili sauce began as a Thai condiment and is sprinkled on everything from Vietnamese pho to Mexican nachos to Buffalo wings and Bloody Mary’s. What does this mean to you? Find out on Saturday, Feb. 12, at 10:30 a.m., when the Culinary Historians of Southern California detail the story behind the stuff from aficionado Randy Clemens, author of The Sriracha Cookbook. At 11:30 a.m. they’ll have themed refreshments. You’ve been warned. At 630 W. Fifth St., (323) 663-5407 or chscsite.org.
• A drive-in theater Downtown? Really? Really. Best of all, you don’t even need a car. Once a month, the Devil’s Night Drive In screens a film on the second floor of the parking garage at Broadway and Fourth Street. Sprawl in your car with the FM transmitters provided or hang out on the fanny-friendly Astroturf for the walkers and bikers. On Saturday, Feb. 12, the Charlie Kaufman-penned surrealistic fantasy-romance Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, plays at the concrete movie palace at 7:30 p.m. The gates open at 6 p.m., so settle in to the spins of DJ Morgan and score some food and popcorn delivered by the Angel City Derby Girls carhops. At 240 W. Fourth St., (310) 584-1086 or devilsnight.com.
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