Picks – February ‘26
Some things you can do in Los Angeles (and beyond)
Tidbits Picks is a monthly selection of California happenings, goings-on, and general commotions we’re excited about. We make these picks to recapture that feeling of flipping through LA Weekly before the weekend hits, provide context for our other writing, and celebrate the raw, uncouth, and sometimes quite bizarre.
This February, we encourage you to seek love with all your senses, meet delight where it finds you, and practice kindness above all things.
OPENINGS
✸ For most of the 1970s, the New Beverly Cinema operated as an adult movie theater called the Eros. Throughout the month, the theater’s programming looks back to that era with hard and softcore entries from Wes Craven, Russ Meyer, and (a Tidbits favorite) Jean Rollin.1
✸ Soon, the Fresno Blossom Trail will be in full bloom. Drive or bike through a panorama of fruit trees, blossoming with bright smells and beautiful flowers, immerse yourself in the orchards at Masumoto Family Farm, and discover California’s Central Valley at its best.
DATES
Saturday, 2/7
✸ Whammy! Fourth Anniversary Party • 12 PM
Whammy celebrates Whammy the way only Whammy can with (1) a rummage sale by T.A.P.E., (2) a screening of three Huell Howser episodes on VHS, (3) a cassette loops workshop, (4) a party-style screening of Skyscraper (1996), and (4) a big screen karaoke party!
✸ Wild-Up: The Great Learning at the Broad • 8 PM
Grammy-nominated ensemble Wild-Up will join 30 pre-assembled non-musicians to present The Great Learning, Paragraphs 2 and 7 by Cornelius Cardew, a work in which boundaries are blurred as it unfolds—collapsing the distance between the personal and the epic.
Tuesday, 2/10
✸ In Sheep’s x Only The Wild Ones Listening Session • 7 PM
A listening session dedicated to Lover’s Rock, a unique subgenre that emerged in 1970s London, spearheaded by artists like Dennis Bovell, Janet Kay, Jean Adebambo, and Kofi. Part of a new series curated by the team behind In Sheep’s Clothing, these sessions will include dedicated listening to classic albums and cult favorites, alongside liner notes and historical context for each release.
Thursday, 2/12
✸ Wendy Clarke’s Love Tapes at PRS • 7:30 PM
Since the early 1970s, Wendy Clarke has expanded the possibilities of video as a medium for artistic expression and human connection. PRS will screen selections from her decades-spanning project, The Love Tapes, which captured the ideas, beliefs, and stories of everyday people answering, “What is love?”
Friday, 2/13
✸ Coffin Prick, Donzii, and Max Jaffe at Gold-Diggers • 7 PM
The Wire says LA-based multi-instrumentalist Coffin Prick’s latest album crackles “with invention.” Pitchfork says Max Jaffe’s latest is “gleefully destabilizing.” This will be a good show, trust us.
Saturday, 2/14
✸ Love is at your door, filling you with tenderness. Pass it along. Love is, after all, a transference: seek and be sought, love and be loved in return — XOXO.
Sunday, 2/15
✸ My Slutty Valentine Fest • 2:30 PM
Basic Cable Programming’s My Slutty Valentine Fest returns for a day and night full of dirty live music, fiendish local vendors, lustful debauchery, and chaos! Featuring LA’s premiere Battle of the Bartenders Hot Dog Eating Contest, performances from over 20 bands, including B.E.G., Bitchkiss, Broken Focus, Cassette Jock, Cissi TV, Dildox, Dizz Brew, Dorothy Fuzz, Fusion Babies, GAYC-DC, Gylt, Healing Gems, Marcus Mayhem, Oog Bogo, ROBBER, Sex Peace, The Crotches, The Orcas, and Vanity Pl8, plus a full market of vendors, a special sexy dance performance by Night Scene LA, dog adoptions by Street Shelter Club, and face painting by Shit Art Club. Be still!
Tuesday, 2/17
✸ Free Drawing Club at Tetrapod Gallery • 7 PM
For the first Free Drawing Club of 2026, artist Adam Abada will share ideas on messaging in protest art and lead a brainstorming session. Afterward, the club will dive into creating images for flyers and posters together.
Wednesday, 2/18
✸ Larissa Pham presents Discipline at Skylight Books • 7 PM
Larissa Pham’s debut novel, Discipline, follows Christine, a writer on a book tour for a revenge fantasy based on a real-life relationship gone bad, as she loses control of her narrative when the inspiration for her novel’s antagonist re-enters her life. A book tour about a book tour? Please be seated.
Friday, 2/20
✸ Mount Eerie at Sid the Cat Auditorium • 8 PM
Is Phil Elverum cringe, or canonically one of the most profound and interesting songwriters? We say
Tuesday, 2/24
✸ Secret Bill Gunn Screening at Whammy! • 8 PM
Hollywood Entertainment (covertly) presents an underseen masterpiece in honor of the great Bill Gunn. Peerless in its surreal incision and morbid wit, Gunn’s work examines sexuality, blackness, postmodernity, and domestic politics. A rare screening of a lost classic in variable quality, a surprise!
ONGOINGS
✸ “Fortune favors no one. / But I’ll take the stage anyway,” writes Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack in the press release for his exhibition at Night Gallery, You Can Hate Me Now, featuring evocative and captivating multimedia works dedicated to the city of Los Angeles. On view through February 14, 2026.
✸ Armenian Market, the debut solo gallery exhibition of Joseph Aivazian at LAST Projects, paints moments of personal interest ranging from classic basketball games on YouTube to Armenian Bart Simpson to car rides with friends. On view through February 20, 2026.
That’s it for our February picks. Follow us on Instagram @tidbits.la for handmade valentines, blown kisses, and sweet nothings whispered in your ear.
If we dropped something, let us know in the comments!
I love TIDBITS!!!! such a great roundup