It’s SATURDAY! It’s NOT RAINING! It’s THE FIRST DAY OF A NEW MONTH! Let’s celebrate by learning something new and enjoying some new experiences. Here are some “Gayle on the Go!” suggestions!
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The Queen Mary Limited Tours Reopen
1126 Queens Highway
Long Beach
queenmary.com
The Queen Mary resumes today limited tours of the historic ship! Tours available for purchase include Glory Days Historical Tour, Steam & Steel Tour, and Haunted Encounters Tour. According to the queenmary.com website, tours are available daily from 11am until 6pm.
The website also contains information about the reopening of guest staterooms and more by this coming May.
Free!
Art of Costume Design in Film
Fashion Institute of Merchandising Museum
919 South Grand Avenue
Downtown Los Angeles
fidmmuseum.org
From the Queen Mary to the Queen of Costume Design. Film and television costume designer Ruth E. Carter is the first Black woman in history to win two Oscars. Carter won her first Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Marvel’s “Black Panther.”
Then, Carter made history as only the second costume designer honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Costume designer Edith Head was the first in 1960.
And, at the 2023 Academy Awards, Carter received her second Academy Award for her work on the Marvel sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
We can see the Oscar winning BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER costumes of Ruth E. Carter now on display at the FIDM Museum in downtown Los Angeles.
This FREE exhibition featuring the BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FORVER costumes, the four Oscar nominated movie costumes, plus the costumes of your favorite 2022 movies is happening at the ART OF COSTUME DESIGN at the FIDM Museum. Visitor details are on the fidmmuseum.org website.
Free!
Vietnam in Transition, 1976 – Present
Wende Museum
10808 Culver Boulevard
Culver City
310 216 1600
wendemuseum.org
Opening today at the Wende Museum, the contemporary art exhibition VIETNAM IN TRANSITION, 1976 TO PRESENT.
This exhibition presents Vietnamese artists who fled or immigrated to the United States and those who returned to their homeland, as well as those who never left Vietnam.
The wendemuseum.org website says we can explore this Culver City experience for free!
Vietnam Veterans Monument
Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum
18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
Yorba Linda
714 993 5075
nixonfoundation.org
This is the 50th anniversary year of the last American troops and prisoners of war leaving Vietnam. The new Vietnam War Veterans Monument has been installed at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda to commemorate the occasion the Nixon Administration ended the Vietnam War. To visit this memorial and to learn about Mr. Nixon and the Vietnam War, check the nixonfoundation.org website.
CLAY LA 2023
10am – Noon
Craft Contemporary
5814 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
craftcontemporary.org
It’s CLAY LA weekend at Craft Contemporary! The annual ceramic marketplace and fundraiser brings dozens of ceramic makers from the Greater Los Angeles area to the Mid-Wilshire venue. Proceeds from this event support Craft Contemporary’s ceramic and education programs.
Now – Sunday, April 2nd
Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals
IN-N-OUT BURGER Pomona Dragstrip
2780 Fairplex Drive
Pomona
nhra.com
We can satisfy the craving for speed at this weekend’s Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals. The sport’s superstars are at the newly renamed historic IN-N-OUT BURGER Pomona Dragstrip, among them TOP FUEL champion Justin Ashley seen here accelerating to victory at this Thunder Valley, Bristol, Tennessee competition.
The complete weekend schedule for the Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock competitors is on the nhra.com website.
So, let’s make this a “speed craving” Saturday. Gayle Anderson, KTLA 5 News.