All events on Sunday December 30
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- Sullivan's Travels and Hail the Conquering Hero
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (7:30pm) @ 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 grating monosyllables and chopped... View details »
- Film
- Destroy All Monsters
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (9:30pm) @ 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 of major metropolises.... View details »
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- A Tale of Two Sisters
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (7pm) @ 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. Instead, Su-mi and Su-yeon... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Melvins
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (9pm) @ Echoplex
- Certainly the heaviest offering this evening, longtime sludge champions the Melvins face off with hometown punk trio 400 Blows. As with so many other underground... View details »
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- Art
- SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
- Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments historicizes the "evolution"... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- My Kid Could Paint That
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
- Art
- Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
- One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman explores the multifaceted world... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Victor Burgin
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
- The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François de Bastide's 1758 novella... View details »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
- Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never quite strips: these are... View details »
- Art
- Materials & Applications: Density Fields
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications More times »
- Free
- Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore the artful use of... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Supersuckers
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (8pm) @ The Viper Room More times »
- Seattle's legendary Supersuckers face off against a series of SoCal challengers in a three-night rock 'n roll showdown that spills out of the tour bus,... View details »
- Art
- Eliza Geddes
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
- Free
- Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found objects within sculpture and... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Tierney Sutton Band
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Catalina Bar & Grill More times »
- One of the most renowned jazz vocalists around, Tierney Sutton brings her virtuosic band to bless the Catalina Bar and Grill with no fewer than... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Christmas Twist
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (2pm) @ Ark Theatre More times »
- Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas Twist — a bizarre,... View details »
- Art
- Choi Jeong-Hwa
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
- Free
- Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture, and ridicules the preciousness... View details »
- Art
- Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
- Free
- Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal means of constructing rough-hewn... View details »
- Art
- Stan's Cafe
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
- In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of rice, creating a hauntingly... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Serena Mitnik-Miller
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–6:30pm) @ Mollusk Surf Shop More times »
- Free
- 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 of board store. While... View details »
- Film
- Steep
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
- Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an extreme sport: big-mountain skiing.... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Extraordinary Deceptions
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Powerhouse Theatre More times »
- In this spectacular evening of magic and mirth, illusionist Michael Gutenplan performs a plethora of wondrous feats, from mind reading to bullet-catching. The intimate setting... View details »
- Art
- Soundwaves
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla More times »
- Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct use of music in... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Julius Shulman
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (1–5pm) @ Los Angeles Public Library More times »
- Free
- Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else — and he's also shot... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- La Vida Lowrider
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Peterson Automotive Museum More times »
- The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the need for expressing cultural... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Treasures from the Vault
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
- Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst stuffed-buffalo-and-antelope dioramas, you probably... View details »
- Art
- Cassandra C. Jones
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
- Free
- ... n't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just offering viewers another photography... View details »
- Art
- Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Commissary Arts More times »
- Free
- While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their work in this dual... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
- Free
- When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana Museum in Dakar and... View details »
- Art
- James Turrell
- Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College More times »
- Free
- 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 is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
