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Dining
LA Restaurant Week
DINE L.A. RESTAURANT WEEK Jan. 31-Feb. 5. Foodies and restaurateurs alike love the twice-yearly Dine L.A. Restaurant week, when fine restaurants across L.A. offer special menus and pricing to entice diners. Nearly 260 restaurants that participated last fall are on deck for this month’s event. Ready your forks, ladies and gentlemen. dinela.com

SHOPPING
Stunning Swimwear
Donning a swimsuit in February isn’t out of the question in temperate L.A., and two new swimwear shops cater to more fashion-conscious sunbathing beauties. New to upscale Malibu Lumber Yard is La Perla (3939 Cross Creek Road, Malibu, 310.456.7078), the 56-year-old Italian luxury brand featuring intimate apparel, a new bridal collection and the La Perla Mare line of swimwear. Newcomer Beach Bunny Swimwear (136 S. Robertson Blvd., L.A., 310.858.8588), launched by former Maxim model Angela Chittenden and featured in the pages of Sports Illustrated Swim, offers teeny bikinis and other barely there suits at its first boutique. The spring line features bold color and jewel or chain embellishments.

DANCE
Ballanchine's Ballet
In his quote “See the music, hear the dance,” George Balanchine asks us to think anew our experience of ballet. Feb. 20–21 at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse and Feb. 27 at Alex Theatre in Glendale, Los Angeles Ballet offers the chance to do that when it presents three works by the master. Serenade, to Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C, was the first original ballet Balanchine created in America. Kammermusik No. 2 is an abstract ballet of great energy, speed and precision set to music by Paul Hindemith. Balanchine described his Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 as “a contemporary tribute to Petipa, ‘the father of classical ballet,’ and to Tchaikovsky, his greatest composer.” Music & Dance

ART
Getty Museum's New Photography
Two strikingly different exhibitions centering on man-made structures—Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans and Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim—open Feb. 6 at the Getty Center. Evans (English, 1853–1943) focused on medieval cathedrals in England and France; his images are among the most renowned architectural renderings in the history of photography. Urban Panorama highlights work by three contemporary photographers. Minimalls are the subject of Catherine Opie (American, born 1961), while Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (Taiwanese, born 1977) traces the route of the New York subway. By layering hand-cut chromogenic prints made in Reykjavik at midnight during the summer solstice, Soo Kim (American, born South Korea, 1969) achieves the effect of a semitransparent city. 1200 Getty Center Drive, L.A., 310.440.7300 Map K7

EXHIBITIONS
Oscar Fashions
Hollywood is on display in the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising’s 18th Annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design, opening Feb. 9 at the downtown campus’s Museum & Galleries. More than 100 costumes are shown from 20-plus films released in 2009, including star-studded musical film Nine and the Queen Victoria biopic The Young Victoria. Per tradition, last year’s Oscar winner for best costume design—The Duchess, with Keira Knightley as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire—is also featured. 919 S. Grand Ave., downtown, 213.624.1200 Map I16

Dining
Offal Good
BLOODY BILLS POP-UP RESTAURANT Thursdays through Feb. 25. After the launch of his pop-up restaurant in Dec., Chef William "Bloody Bill" Annesley is back "hunting" his way across Los Angeles to bring patrons a new type of tapas cuisine--whether he shot it or bought it, he will scour his way through the Los Angeles mountains for deer, quail and coyote as well as the alleyways of Chinatown for unique herbs and spices. Menu features a balance of global tapas and street food with a strong emphasis on traditional spices. The concept is simple, bold and delicious. As always restaurateur Michael Della Femina will be running front of house. Libertine, 8210 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 646.345.5287.

THEATER
Annette Bening On Stage
The city overflows with stars during awards season, but rather than lurk around the Ivy to celeb-spot, why not buy a theater ticket to see one of Tinseltown’s brightest? Academy Award nominee Annette Bening stars in the eagerly anticipated comedy The Female of the Species at Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse, opening Feb. 10. Bening plays Margot Mason, acclaimed feminist theorist and author of such tomes as Madame Ovary, who takes to a country cabin to write her next masterpiece—only to be kidnapped by a disgruntled student. Another all-star Geffen cast includes David Arquette (Scream), Mireille Enos (HBO’s Big Love) and Julian Sands (A Room With a View). 10886 Le Conte Ave., Westwood, 310.208.5454 Map J10