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Thursday - May 5, 2011

Brentwood • The Skirball Cultural Center, features an extraordinary museum, changing exhibitions, engaging music, theater, comedy, film, family, and literary programs.

Downtown • Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Grand Avenue. The Museum houses abstract expressionist pieces to pop art to recent works by young artists. 5 to 8 PM.

Hollywood • Comedy Central Stage. Tonight, Nothing says Cinco de Mayo more than funny people     onstage telling you stuff you didn't want to know about them. Join readers Matt Price, Fielding Edlow, Eric Waddell, Wendy Wilkins, music by Gary Shapiro.  Presented by Jill Soloway, Maggie Rowe and Andersen Gabrych.

LA Farmers Market   Cinco de Mayo, live music and the Traditional all-female Mariachi group.

Pasadena • The Tournament of Roses House and Rose Garden. This Italian Renaissance-style mansion that was once owned by chewing-gum pioneer William Wrigley Jr. Open 2 to 4 PM.

San Marino Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. The 150 acres include the Rose Garden, with over 2,000 varieties; the Japanese and Zen Gardens and the Desert Garden.

UCLA • UCLA Hammer Museum. Occidental Petroleum Founder Armand Hammer left his collection of impressionist and Postimpressionist paintings, including work by Monet, Van Gogh and Pissarro to the museum.