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Music
[SOLD OUT] Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (8pm) @ El Rey
Sold Out!
The live experience of the soul-shaking sounds of Brooklyn-based Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings trembles you from the core. The deep growl of each... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Film
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Giveaway
Music-video director Zbigniew Rybczyński (pronounced "Rib-chin-ski") is a preposterously talented, tech-savvy maverick. Simultaneously breaking and making the rules of established filmmaking, Rybczyński earned his Hollywood... View details »
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Art
? The War
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (7–10pm) @ Corey Helford
Free
Twenty-one top contemporary artists keep the current antiwar movement in the spotlight with ? The War, producing powerful, iconic imagery that seeps into our cultural... View details »
? The War
Music
Port O'Brien w/ the Cave Singers
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
Giveaway
With their carefree choruses and happy-go-lucky instrumentation, Van Pierszalowski and his four-piece Port O'Brien play a seafaring, down-home brand of indie folk. And, having shared... View details »
Port O'Brien w/ the Cave Singers

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Art
Clive Barker
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Bert Green Fine Art More times »
Free
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The script he submitted for... View details »
Clive Barker
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cry-Baby
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 @ La Jolla Playhouse More times »
We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary Baltimorean a household name.... View details »
Cry-Baby
Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality. In Raw Space, Biedul... View details »
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Art
Giant Robot Biennale
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (9am–5pm) @ 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
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity through evocative combinations of... View details »
Art
Francis Alÿs
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ 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 »
Francis Alÿs
Film: Documentary
Steal a Pencil for Me
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp. The film has... View details »
Steal a Pencil for Me
Art
Adrià Julià
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ LAXART More times »
Free
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last year at the Orange... View details »
Adrià Julià
Art
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Lawrence Asher Gallery More times »
Free
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at Lawrence Asher Gallery. Kimbro's... View details »
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Art
Joan Tucker
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Milo Gallery More times »
Free
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism, this Detroit-born, LA-based painter's... View details »
Joan Tucker
Art
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Richard Heller Gallery More times »
Free
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 Richard Heller Gallery is... View details »
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Art
Green
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
From the minds at Murphy Art Books comes this mixed-media exhibition of small works by more than 40 contemporary artists who were asked to explore... View details »
Green
Art
Milo Martin
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (8am–3pm) @ Brickhouse Kitchen More times »
Free
Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so it makes sense that... View details »
Milo Martin
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Art
Cherie Benner Davis
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ SolwayJones More times »
Free
LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the physical and psychological world.... View details »
Cherie Benner Davis
Art
Robert Hardgrave
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling a "Fantastic Voyage" vision... View details »
Robert Hardgrave
Art
Sue de Beer
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey More times »
Free
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her protagonists appear alternately incandescent,... View details »
Sue de Beer
Art
Plays Well With Others
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College More times »
Free
Following the DIY aesthetic to a T, Sharon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth, and Leslie Yagar, collectively known as the ladies of PiNK (Pins, Needles, and Knives... View details »
Plays Well With Others
Performing Arts: Opera
La Bohème
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 @ Los Angeles Opera More times »
Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its time. The love story... View details »
La Bohème
Art
Kim Dingle
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lightbox Gallery More times »
Free
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes may seem the perfect... View details »
Kim Dingle
Film
Diva 25th Anniversary
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (midnight) @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the glossy, style-conscious movement that... View details »
Diva 25th Anniversary
Art
Richard Deacon
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery More times »
Free
Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of Richard Deacon's Dead Leg,... View details »
Richard Deacon
More Flavor: Benefit
Wishful Thinking
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ project: gallery More times »
Free
To celebrate the first anniversary of its move to Culver City, project: gallery collaborates with Juxtapoz magazine on an exhibition in support of the Make-A-Wish... View details »
Wishful Thinking
Art
Iva Gueorguieva
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 @ Pomona College Museum of Art More times »
Free
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art. Iva Gueorguieva heeds Hugo's... View details »
Iva Gueorguieva
Art
Sandow Birk
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach More times »
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, whose Miseries and Misfortunes... View details »
Sandow Birk
Art
Nicole Eisenman
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects More times »
Free
The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the artist in a crude... View details »
Nicole Eisenman
Art
Ellen de Meutter
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery More times »
Free
For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with desolate backdrops. The collection... View details »
Ellen de Meutter
Art
Carole Caroompas
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Western Project More times »
Free
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project, she counts films by... View details »
Carole Caroompas
Art
Jen Liu
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery More times »
Free
Jen Liu's new multimedia collection at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery finds the anti-technology characters of her Brethren of the Stone series once again entrenched in humorously... View details »
Jen Liu
Art
Dream of Today
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
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 lends her well-trained eye... View details »
Dream of Today
Art
Stan's Cafe
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (noon–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 »
Stan's Cafe
Art
Shepard Fairey
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery More times »
Free
Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through the American dream. Though... View details »
Shepard Fairey
Art
Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Gallery C More times »
Free
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct evidence of their exotic... View details »
Kenny Harris and Roland Reiss
Art
Soundwaves
Tuesday Dec 4, 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 »
Soundwaves
Art
Emma Ferreira
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Tuesday Dec 4, 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 »
La Vida Lowrider
More Flavor: Exhibition
Treasures from the Vault
Tuesday Dec 4, 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
Wallace Berman
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Michael Kohn Gallery More times »
Free
Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show, you've probably never heard... View details »
Wallace Berman
Art
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers demonstrate baton maneuvers, the... View details »
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she has something of a... View details »
Nicole Cohen