Events on Sunday, December 30

<I>A Tale of Two Sisters</i> (2003)
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Film
A Tale of Two Sisters
@ The Silent Movie Theatre
Kim Ji-woon's supernatural melodrama A Tale of Two Sisters goes beyond the usual Asian horror film's ace-in-the-hole affinity for creepy children....  View details »
<I>Sullivan's Travels</i> (1941) and <I>Hail the Conquering Hero</i>  (1944)
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Film
Sullivan's Travels and Hail the Conquering Hero
@ Aero Theatre
Inimitable critic Manny Farber praised writer/director Preston Sturges for destroying the "image of Americans as tight-lipped Hemingwayan creatures who converse in...  View details »
The Melvins w/ 400 Blows and Tweak Bird
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Music: Rock/Pop
The Melvins
@ Echoplex
Certainly the heaviest offering this evening, longtime sludge champions the Melvins face off with hometown punk trio 400 Blows. As with...  View details »
<I>Destroy All Monsters</i> (1968)
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Film
Destroy All Monsters
@ The Silent Movie Theatre
In Ishiro Honda's 1968 all-star assembly of Japanese behemoths, Destroy All Monsters, 1999 is the doomed year for the scale-model demolition...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
@ Los Angeles Public Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Cassandra C. Jones: <I>Photos Taken</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Cassandra C. Jones
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_12 Monday Day_31
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Steep</i>
Month_12 Monday Day_31
Film
Steep
@ Landmark Nuart Theatre
Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an...  View details »
Ongoing
Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Eliza Geddes: <i>Surface Works</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Eliza Geddes
@ Found Gallery
Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
More Flavor: Exhibition
Treasures from the Vault
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Choi Jeong-Hwa
@ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto: <I>Organic/Structure</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
@ Commissary Arts
While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Soundwaves
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>
Month_12 Monday Day_31
Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Tierney Sutton Band
Month_12 Monday Day_31
Music: Jazz/Blues
Tierney Sutton Band
@ Catalina Bar & Grill
One of the most renowned jazz vocalists around, Tierney Sutton brings her virtuosic band to bless the Catalina Bar and Grill...  View details »
Ongoing
James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
James Turrell
@ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>A Christmas Twist</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Christmas Twist
@ Ark Theatre
Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
@ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art: Architecture/Design
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Francis Alÿs
@ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...  View details »
Ongoing
Stan's Cafe: <i>Of All the People in All the World: The Americas</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art
Stan's Cafe
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition
Month_12 Monday Day_31
Art
Giant Robot Biennale
@ Japanese American National Museum
Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Supersuckers
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Music: Rock/Pop
Supersuckers
@ The Viper Room
Seattle's legendary Supersuckers face off against a series of SoCal challengers in a three-night rock 'n roll showdown that spills out...  View details »
Ongoing
Serena Mitnik-Miller: <I>Quiver</I>
Month_12 Sunday Day_30
Art: Photography
Serena Mitnik-Miller
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free