All events on Monday December 31

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New Year's Eve
Dengue Fever
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm) @ Temple Bar
Thanks to their regular New Year's shows, Silverlake by way of Phnom Penh phenoms Dengue Fever have become perennial favorites. Fronted by the dazzling Khmer... View details »
Dengue Fever
New Year's Eve
Belinda Carlisle and Rufus Wainwright
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (7pm) @ Disney Concert Hall
Ex-Go-Go's frontwoman and noted Francophile Belinda Carlisle joins Rufus Wainwright for a night of New Year's celebration and City of Lights-themed serenades. Pairing the Cali-born... View details »
Belinda Carlisle and Rufus Wainwright
New Year's Eve
Sasha & John Digweed w/ Ferry Corsten
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (7pm–4am) @ LA Sports Arena
At full capacity, the LA Sports Arena expects nearly 17,000 party-goers to ring in the new year, with the world's top DJs converging on the... View details »
Sasha & John Digweed w/ Ferry Corsten
New Year's Eve
Giant Maximus
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (8pm–4am) @ Giant Festival Site
Every New Year's Eve, Giant Village commandeers a few prime patches of downtown real estate, transforming them into a corral for swelling crowds of celebratory... View details »
Giant Maximus
New Year's Eve
Gram Rabbit
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (10pm) @ The Echo
"Take off your pants, it's time for romance, let's all do the fancy dance." That's what passes for sweet nothings when Gram Rabbit are onstage.... View details »
Gram Rabbit
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve feat. Mark Rae
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9:30pm) @ Viceroy Santa Monica
Santa Monica's elegant Viceroy Hotel offers up a stylish New Year's Eve celebration under the stars, complete with poolside cabanas, go-go and Brazilian dancers, live... View details »
New Year's Eve feat. Mark Rae
New Year's Eve
Hard New Year's Eve Music Festival
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (8pm–4am) @ Downtown LA Arts District
Spend the last evening of 2007 dirty dancing in the streets of downtown LA at the first-ever Hard NYE Music Festival. Thrown by the sultans... View details »
Hard New Year's Eve Music Festival
New Year's Eve
Homemade
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (8pm) @ The Roosevelt Hotel
Homemade
New Year's Eve
Run for the Roses
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9:30am–4pm) @ Burger Continental
Free
Here's something for vintage gearhead lovers: a huge quasi-parade of immaculately restored Norton motorcycles. (You won't find these classics in mothballs at the Peterson.) Bikers... View details »
 Run for the Roses
New Year's Eve
KCRW presents New Year's Eve with Breakestra
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm–midnight) @ Zanzibar
This ten-piece hip-hop orchestra's been breakin' it down for a decade, and "it" ain't all the way apart yet. That means there's still time for... View details »
KCRW presents New Year's Eve with Breakestra
New Year's Eve
Fast & Loose
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (8pm–midnight) @ Sacred Fools Theater
... y think outside the tight-deadline-theatre box when you can completely destroy it? Sacred Fools takes the random possibilities of this on-the-fly genre and stretches... View details »
Fast & Loose
New Year's Eve
Sweet and Tender Hooligans
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9pm) @ Spaceland
Morrissey may be at home tonight, sipping tea with a taste of the Thames, but hardcore Smiths fans can ring in the new year... View details »
Sweet and Tender Hooligans

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Monday Dec 31, 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 »
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Monday Dec 31, 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 »
My Kid Could Paint That
Art
Giant Robot Biennale
Monday Dec 31, 2007 @ Japanese American National Museum More times »
Free
Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine, galleries in both San... View details »
Giant Robot Biennale
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Monday Dec 31, 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 »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Music: Rock/Pop
Supersuckers
Monday Dec 31, 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 »
Supersuckers
Music: Jazz/Blues
Tierney Sutton Band
Monday Dec 31, 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 »
Tierney Sutton Band
Art: Photography
Serena Mitnik-Miller
Monday Dec 31, 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 »
Serena Mitnik-Miller
Film
Steep
Monday Dec 31, 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 »
Steep
Art
Emma Ferreira
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (10am–6:30pm) @ Spin Gallery More times »
Free
Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest wall-based offering is a... View details »
Emma Ferreira
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ 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 »
Julius Shulman
More Flavor: Exhibition
Treasures from the Vault
Monday Dec 31, 2007 (9:30am–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 »
Treasures from the Vault
Art
James Turrell
Monday Dec 31, 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 »
James Turrell