Events on Monday, December 31

 Run for the Roses

Party: New Year's Eve

Run for the Roses

Monday 12/31 @ Burger Continental

Here's something for vintage gearhead lovers: a huge quasi-parade of immaculately restored Norton motorcycles. (You won't find these classics in mothballs... 

KCRW presents New Year's Eve with Breakestra

Party: New Year's Eve

KCRW presents New Year's Eve with Breakestra

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

Sacred Fools presents <i>Fast & Loose</i>

Party: New Year's Eve

Fast & Loose

Monday 12/31 @ Sacred Fools Theater

  Why think outside the tight-deadline-theatre box when you can completely destroy it? Sacred Fools takes the random possibilities of this... 

Gram Rabbit

Party: New Year's Eve

Gram Rabbit

Monday 12/31 @ The Echo & Echoplex

"Take off your pants, it's time for romance, let's all do the fancy dance." That's what passes for sweet nothings when... 

Giant Maximus feat. Tiesto and MSTRKRFT

Party: New Year's Eve

Giant Maximus

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

Together as One 2008 feat. Sasha & John Digweed w/ Ferry Corsten, Lee Coombs, and Swedish Egil

Party: New Year's Eve

Sasha & John Digweed w/ Ferry Corsten

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

Dengue Fever

Party: New Year's Eve

Dengue Fever

Monday 12/31 @ Little Temple

Thanks to their regular New Year's shows, Silverlake by way of Phnom Penh phenoms Dengue Fever have become perennial favorites. Fronted... 

Homemade feat. Talib Kweli, Harvey, and the Rapture DJs

Party: New Year's Eve

Homemade

Monday 12/31 @ The Roosevelt Hotel

Sweet and Tender Hooligans

Party: New Year's Eve

Sweet and Tender Hooligans

Monday 12/31 @ Spaceland

Morrissey may be at home tonight, sipping tea with a taste of the Thames, but hardcore Smiths fans can ring... 

Paris à Go-Go: New Year's Eve in Paris feat. Belinda Carlisle and Rufus Wainwright

Party: New Year's Eve

Belinda Carlisle and Rufus Wainwright

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

New Year's Eve feat. Mark Rae and Valida

Party: New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve feat. Mark Rae

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

Hard New Year's Eve Music Festival feat. Justice, Peaches, and Steve Aoki

Party: New Year's Eve

Hard New Year's Eve Music Festival

Monday 12/31 @ 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.... 

Ongoing Events

<i>Steep</i>

Film

Steep

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Serena Mitnik-Miller

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Monday 12/31 @ 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,... 

Supersuckers

Music

Supersuckers

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Monday 12/31 @ 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 —... 

Tierney Sutton Band

Music

Tierney Sutton Band

Monday 12/31 @ Catalina Bar & Grill

One of the most renowned jazz vocalists around, Tierney Sutton brings her virtuosic band to bless the Catalina Bar and Grill... 

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

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Monday 12/31 @ 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>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

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

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

Emma Ferreira: <I>When Life Dances II: Classic Beauty</i>

Art

Emma Ferreira

Monday 12/31 @ Spin Gallery

Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest... 

Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition

Art

Giant Robot Biennale

Monday 12/31 @ 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,... 

James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>

Art

James Turrell

Monday 12/31 @ 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... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Monday 12/31 @ 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...