Events on Saturday, December 15

<I>Invasion USA</i> (1985)

Film

Invasion USA

Saturday 12/15 @ New Beverly Cinema

Pop-culture hero/clown Chuck Norris stars in (and scribed) Invasion USA, a Cold War response as only America could imagine: assault all... 

Droid Behavior presents INTERFACE 21 feat. Speedy J and Scott Pagano

Music: Electronic

Speedy J w/ Scott Pagano

Saturday 12/15 @ Warehouse announced day of show

Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) makes his only North American appearance this season, rocking a live audiovisual set with visual mastermind... 

Thrift Store Movie Xmas

Film

Thrift Store Movie Xmas

Saturday 12/15 @ Echo Park Film Center

For its final festive happening of the year, the Echo Park Film Center offers an smorgasbord of seasonal oddities they've dubbed... 

The 17th Pygmy w/ the Spirit Girls

Art

The 17th Pygmy

Saturday 12/15 @ Dangerous Curve

Trakwerx recording artists the 17th Pygmy (who, no joke, changed their name from 17 Pygmies because it wasn't psychedelic enough) release... 

Les Savy Fav w/ the Dodos and We Barbarians

Music

Les Savy Fav

Saturday 12/15 @ El Rey

Is that a bonfire in your solar plexus or just the burning desire for a good post-hardcore pummeling? Whatever it is,... 

<I>It's a Wonderful Life</i> (1946) and <I>Shop Around the Corner</i> (1940)

Film

It's a Wonderful Life

Saturday 12/15 @ Egyptian Theatre

Tonight finds eternal everyman James Stewart in two sublime, aw-shucks acts. Capra-corn informs the undeniably uplifting It's a Wonderful Life, with... 

Xu Hualing: <I>Eternal Beauty</i>

Art

Xu Hualing

Saturday 12/15 @ DF2

With a brilliant juxtaposition of traditional method and modern subject, Chinese artist Xu Hualing's paintings take over this West Hollywood gallery... 

The Greyboy Allstars

Music

The Greyboy Allstars

Saturday 12/15 @ The Troubadour

<I>Mutual Appreciation</i> (2005)

Film

Mutual Appreciation

Saturday 12/15 @ The Silent Movie Theatre

In the existential immediacy of the indie Mutual Appreciation, mumblecore mainstay Andrew Bujalski crafts a contemporary compendium of postcollegiate hesitation and... 

Pigeon John w/ CookBook & UNO Mas and DJ Anthony Valadez

Music

Pigeon John

Saturday 12/15 @ Little Temple

Self-made hip-hop original Pigeon John flies west tonight, hitting his hometown with the energy of a rocket from the roost. While... 

Dana Louise Kirkpatrick feat. the Jane Doe's

Art

Dana Louise Kirkpatrick

Saturday 12/15 @ smart house

Visual artist Dana Louise Kirkpatrick is inspired by a variety of concepts, but more than the urban environment's frantic pace and... 

A Spook-tacular St. Thanksmas Day Eve

Party

A Spook-tacular St. Thanksmas Day Eve

Saturday 12/15 @ Palisades Park

This multi-holiday-themed community competition (courtesy of the Go Game) begins with a digital camera and a wireless-web cell phone, which provides... 

Etta James and the Roots Band

Music

Etta James

Saturday 12/15 @ The Wiltern

Blessed with a voice both brassy and bluesy and admired by present-day belters such as the Gossip's Beth Ditto, Etta James... 

<I>Ashes and Diamonds</i> (1958) & <I>Man of Marble</i> (1977)

Film

Ashes and Diamonds & Man of Marble

Saturday 12/15 @ Aero Theatre

Antiwar auteur Andrzej Wajda's three-part study of wartime Poland's ruin and reclamation culminates in its hypnotic hypotenuse, Ashes and Diamonds. Somewhere... 

Ongoing Events

Elizabeth McGrath: <I>The Incurable Disorder</i>

Art

Elizabeth McGrath

Saturday 12/15 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts

Like Victorian-era toys brought to life by the touch of a creepy goblin's wand, Elizabeth McGrath's works sprout claws and extra... 

<I>Breath of Light: Healing Images for the Soul</i>

Art

Breath of Light

Saturday 12/15 @ Bonsorte Studio

Filmmakers, peace activists, and multimedia artists Antoine Bonsorte and Abram Zinberg have created a unique visual experience. Their short film and... 

<i>URB</i> presents Look Sharp!

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Look Sharp!

Saturday 12/15 @ Melrose & Fairfax Shopping District

This weekend, URB graciously teaches you how to look like you effortlessly hopped off the glossy pages of a magazine, providing... 

<I>Local Story</i>

Theatre

Local Story

Saturday 12/15 @ Theatre of NOTE

Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Saturday 12/15 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François... 

Richard Deacon

Art

Richard Deacon

Saturday 12/15 @ LA Louver Gallery

Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of... 

The Actors' Gang Holiday Show

Theatre

The Actors' Gang Holiday Show

Saturday 12/15 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre

Ever since Tim Robbins founded the Actors' Gang in 1981, these motley hoodlums have churned out award-winning dramas, capers, and comedies... 

Cherie Benner Davis: <I>Best Laid Plans</i>

Art

Cherie Benner Davis

Saturday 12/15 @ SolwayJones Gallery

LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the... 

Serena Mitnik-Miller: <I>Quiver</I>

Art: Photography

Serena Mitnik-Miller

Saturday 12/15 @ Mollusk Surf Shop

Serena Mitnik-Miller doesn't take the usual kind of surf photography, and Venice's freshly opened Mollusk Surf Shop isn't the usual kind... 

Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Saturday 12/15 @ REDCAT

Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... 

Carole Caroompas: <I>Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler</i>

Art

Carole Caroompas

Saturday 12/15 @ Western Project

Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Saturday 12/15 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

Robert Hardgrave: <I>Xenoglossy</i>

Art

Robert Hardgrave

Saturday 12/15 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling... 

<I>Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling</i>

Art

Soundwaves

Saturday 12/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla

Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct... 

Project Series 34: Iva Gueorguieva

Art

Iva Gueorguieva

Saturday 12/15 @ Pomona College Museum of Art

Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art.... 

<I>Grand Delusion</i>

Theatre

Grand Delusion

Saturday 12/15 @ The Lost Studio

Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile... 

Shepard Fairey: <I>Imperfect Union</i>

Art

Shepard Fairey

Saturday 12/15 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through... 

Stan's Cafe: <i>Of All the People in All the World: The Americas</i>

Art

Stan's Cafe

Saturday 12/15 @ Skirball Cultural Center

In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of... 

Opening Gala Lacy Street Lofts

Art

Lacy Street Lofts

Saturday 12/15 @ Lacy Street Lofts

As Los Angeles is ushered into its role as a creative capital and traffic becomes exceedingly worse, functionality is key and... 

Joan Tucker: <I>The Time Is Always Now</i>

Art

Joan Tucker

Saturday 12/15 @ Milo Gallery

Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,... 

Los Angeles Art Association Open Show

Art

LAAA Open Show

Saturday 12/15 @ Gallery 825

Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of... 

Alex Kopps & the Gothic Dolphins: <I>Your Today Is Their Tomorrow</i>

Art

Alex Kopps

Saturday 12/15 @ New Image Art

Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't... 

<I>You are not here, you are still there and think you are here</i>

Art

You are not here, you are still there and think you are here

Saturday 12/15 @ High Energy Constructs

High Energy Constructs has put together a three-person show of up-and-coming artists who traverse the unknown and question culture. While the... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Saturday 12/15 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

<i>Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier</i>

Art

Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier

Saturday 12/15 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman... 

<I>Dream of Today</i>

Art

Dream of Today

Saturday 12/15 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

East meets West (coast, that is) in this exhibition of 14 NYC-based up-and-comers. Independent curator and New York gallerist Amy Smith-Stewart... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Saturday 12/15 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California... 

Pascual Sisto: <I>Everything Must Go</i>

Art

Pascual Sisto

Saturday 12/15 @ De Soto Gallery

If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds.... 

Wallace Berman: <i>Photography and Other Works of Art 1950-1976</i>

Art

Wallace Berman

Saturday 12/15 @ Michael Kohn Gallery

Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show,... 

<I>Extraordinary Deceptions: A Magical Holiday Extravaganza</i>

Performing Arts

Extraordinary Deceptions

Saturday 12/15 @ Powerhouse Theatre

In this spectacular evening of magic and mirth, illusionist Michael Gutenplan performs a plethora of wondrous feats, from mind reading to... 

<I>A Christmas Twist</i>

Theatre

A Christmas Twist

Saturday 12/15 @ Ark Theatre

Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas... 

Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto: <I>Organic/Structure</i>

Art

Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto

Saturday 12/15 @ Commissary Arts

While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their... 

Sue de Beer: <I>Permanent Revolution</i>

Art

Sue de Beer

Saturday 12/15 @ Sandroni Rey

From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her... 

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: <I>Gumdrops and the Funny Uncle</i>

Dance

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange

Saturday 12/15 @ The New LATC

In this important and timely work, conceived and directed by Peter DiMuro, award-winning dance pioneer Liz Lerman examines accepted definitions of... 

<I>Green</i>

Art

Green

Saturday 12/15 @ Robert Berman Gallery

From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who... 

Jill Greenberg: <I>Ursine</i> & <I>Performance</i>

Art: Photography

Jill Greenberg

Saturday 12/15 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery

Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing... 

<em>SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating</em>

Art

SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating

Saturday 12/15 @ Pounder-Koné Art Space

When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana... 

Ellen de Meutter: <I>Secrets and Lies</i>

Art

Ellen de Meutter

Saturday 12/15 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery

For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with... 

Gardar Eide Einarsson: <I>All My Friends Are Dead</i>

Art

Gardar Eide Einarsson

Saturday 12/15 @ Honor Fraser

Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers... 

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Art

Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann

Saturday 12/15 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at... 

Kenny Harris: <I>New Paintings</i> and Roland Reiss: <I>Onshore Flow</i>

Art

Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss

Saturday 12/15 @ Gallery C

Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct... 

<I>La Bohème</i>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Bohème

Saturday 12/15 @ Los Angeles Opera

Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its... 

<I>Quattro Formaggio</i> feat. Stefan Fabry, Naked with Shoes, and Sarah Swenson

Art

Quattro Formaggio

Saturday 12/15 @ Highways Performance Space

This program of interdisciplinary movement-and-music pieces has a slight scent of inscrutable modern dance about it. Despite phrases like "the presence... 

Brandi Milne: <I>Sugar and Silence</i>

Art

Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence

Saturday 12/15 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Los Angeles' illustrative It-girl, Brandi Milne, joins forces with whimsical Chicago-based artist Jeremiah Ketner to transform this Culver City gallery into... 

<em>Don't Fence Me In</em>

Art

Don't Fence Me In

Saturday 12/15 @ Bandini Art

The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical,... 

Los Angeles Physical Theatre Festival

Theatre

LA Physical Theatre Festival

Saturday 12/15 @ Art/Works Theatre

Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre.... 

Adri&#224; Juli&#224;: <I>A Means of Passing the Time</I>

Art

Adrià Julià

Saturday 12/15 @ LAXART

A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last... 

Bill Owens: <I>Suburbia</i> and <I>Leisure</i>

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Saturday 12/15 @ DNJ Gallery

Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic... 

Eliza Geddes: <i>Surface Works</i>

Art

Eliza Geddes

Saturday 12/15 @ Found Gallery

Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found... 

<i>Generalized Anxiety Disorder</i>

Art

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Saturday 12/15 @ Walter Maciel Gallery

Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,... 

<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Saturday 12/15 @ Los Angeles Public Library: Central Library

Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —... 

Clive Barker: <i>New Paintings and Works on Paper</i>

Art

Clive Barker

Saturday 12/15 @ Bert Green Fine Art

Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The... 

Jen Liu: <I>New Dawn Fades</i>

Art

Jen Liu

Saturday 12/15 @ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery

Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once... 

<i>Cry-Baby</i>

Theatre

Cry-Baby

Saturday 12/15 @ La Jolla Playhouse

We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary... 

<I>Wishful Thinking</i>

Special Event: Benefit

Wishful Thinking

Saturday 12/15 @ project: gallery

To celebrate the first anniversary of its move to Culver City, project: gallery collaborates with Juxtapoz magazine on an exhibition in... 

Cassandra C. Jones: <I>Photos Taken</i>

Art

Cassandra C. Jones

Saturday 12/15 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai

  Don't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just... 

Sandow Birk: <I>Depravities of War</i>

Art

Sandow Birk

Saturday 12/15 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach

Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot,... 

Fruitcake Follies Holiday Show

Party

Fruitcake Follies

Saturday 12/15 @ Cavern Club Theater

Labeled by its creators as a cross between a Perry Como Christmas special and Pee-wee's Playhouse, the Fruitcake Follies have one... 

<I>Sadly Beautiful: A Vinyl Show</i>

Art

Sadly Beautiful

Saturday 12/15 @ Black Maria Gallery

Forget Wii, kid-sized Escalades, and paintball guns. Atwater Village's Black Maria Gallery shares its nostalgia (and collector's fetish) for old-time toys... 

Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Saturday 12/15 @ Materials & Applications

Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore... 

<I>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls</i> (1970) and <I>Head</i> (1968)

Film

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Head

Saturday 12/15 @ New Beverly Cinema

The first "rock-horror exploitation musical," as screenwriter Rogert Ebert crowed, female-fanatic Russ Meyer's hypersexual Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is... 

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Art

Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario

Saturday 12/15 @ Richard Heller Gallery

LA painter Jacob Magraw's gouache-on-paper works are improvisational landscapes composed of layers of Skittles-worthy colors. His latest batch of works at... 

Matthew Barney: <I>Drawing from Guardian of the Veil</i>

Art

Matthew Barney

Saturday 12/15 @ Regen Projects

Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil.... 

<I>Snow Angels</i>

Art

Snow Angels

Saturday 12/15 @ Thinkspace Gallery

At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction,... 

Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen

Art

Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen

Saturday 12/15 @ La Luz de Jesus

Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Saturday 12/15 @ Natural History Museum

Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst... 

Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: <i>Raw Space</i>

Art

Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space

Saturday 12/15 @ DCA Fine Art

Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality.... 

<I>Watch It Happen: Up Close</i>

Art

Watch It Happen: Up Close

Saturday 12/15 @ Eco-Logical Art

Like all great ideas, the inspiration behind the activities of progressive-art-and-design outfit Eco-Logical Gallery was a simple binary realization: discarded billboards... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Saturday 12/15 @ Various locations

An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,... 

<I>A Very Grand Guignol Christmas</i>

Theatre

A Very Grand Guignol Christmas

Saturday 12/15 @ Art/Works Theatre

Let the absinthe, eggnog, and blood flow at Art/Works Theater in Hollywood, as the Grand Guignol Theatre Company presents A Very...