All events on Saturday December 08

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Performing Arts: Theatre
Interviewing the Audience
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Bootleg Theater
Inspired by pioneering author, actor, and storyteller Spaulding Gray, this weekend's performance of Interviewing the Audience affords a new generation of LA theatre-goers the opportunity... View details »
Interviewing the Audience
Music
Tea Leaf Green
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (9pm) @ The Troubadour
Get your quota of classically virtuosic rock 'n roll this evening as bluesy, psych-jam troubadours Tea Leaf Green take to the stage. Formed in San... View details »
Tea Leaf Green
Film
Katyn
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (7pm) @ Hammer Museum
Free
Despite the fame of giants Roman Polanski and Krzysztof Kieslowski, the deep roots of modern Polish cinema run to Andrzej Wajda. Since his 1955 film... View details »
Katyn
Film: Documentary
The Documentaries of Jessica Yu
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (7pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
Henry Darger was a workaday janitor and watercolor virtuoso who translated his lonesome life into a lushly illustrated, 15,000-page epic, In the Realms of the... View details »
The Documentaries of Jessica Yu
Film
Christian Bale Marathon
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (6:30pm) @ Aero Theatre
Christian Bale seems to be getting better with age, racking up stranger, deeper, and more physically demanding roles as time passes. Tonight's Bale-head marathon features... View details »
Christian Bale Marathon
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Actors' Gang Holiday Show
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (2pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre More times »
Free
Ever since Tim Robbins founded the Actors' Gang in 1981, these motley hoodlums have churned out award-winning dramas, capers, and comedies that are slathered in... View details »
The Actors' Gang Holiday Show
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
L.A. Voz
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (7pm) @ The New LATC
Tonight at homegrown theatre center LATC, students, followers, and peers pay tribute to local legends Jose Montoya and Sonia Sanchez. Montoya cofounded the Rebel Chicano... View details »
L.A. Voz
More Flavor: Fair
Alt Holiday Book Bazaar
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (6–9pm) @ Wax Poetic Gallery
Free
Ditch the hassle of the mall and head to the fourth annual Alt Holiday Book Bazaar. After asking a few friends for autographed copies of... View details »
Alt Holiday Book Bazaar
Music
Balkan Beat Box
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (9pm) @ [delete] Echoplex
Giveaway
The music of the Mediterranean encompasses a diverse cultural soundscape, from Arabic to klezmer, gypsy, and Eastern European. Balkan Beat Box draw on this eclectic... View details »
Balkan Beat Box
Art
LAAA Open Show
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 825 More times »
Free
Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of the emerging artist community... View details »
LAAA Open Show
Art
Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Los Angeles' illustrative It-girl, Brandi Milne, joins forces with whimsical Chicago-based artist Jeremiah Ketner to transform this Culver City gallery into a veritable candyland. Milne's... View details »
Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence
More Flavor: City Gem
Sunset Junction Block Party
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (7–10pm) @ Sunset Junction
Free
The beloved eastside enclave's shops and art galleries — featuring every kind of strange and beautiful handmade thing under the sun — stay open late... View details »
Sunset Junction Block Party
Art
Sadly Beautiful
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Black Maria Gallery More times »
Free
Forget Wii, kid-sized Escalades, and paintball guns. Atwater Village's Black Maria Gallery shares its nostalgia (and collector's fetish) for old-time toys with Sadly Beautiful, a... View details »
Sadly Beautiful
Art
Breath of Light
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–4pm) @ Bonsorte Studio More times »
Free
Filmmakers, peace activists, and multimedia artists Antoine Bonsorte and Abram Zinberg have created a unique visual experience. Their short film and DVD Breath of Light... View details »
Breath of Light

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Art
Clive Barker
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Saturday Dec 8, 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 »
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Art
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–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
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Saturday Dec 8, 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: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Saturday Dec 8, 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 »
Victor Burgin
Art
Adrià Julià
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grand Delusion
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8pm) @ The Lost Studio More times »
Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile European nobles and military... View details »
Grand Delusion
Art
Green
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8am–4pm) @ 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–4pm) @ 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Art
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ delete More times »
Free
This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of found objects into assemblages... View details »
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Art
Richard Deacon
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Art
Eliza Geddes
Saturday Dec 8, 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 »
Eliza Geddes
More Flavor: Benefit
Wishful Thinking
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Christmas Twist
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8pm) @ 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 »
A Christmas Twist
Art
Pascual Sisto
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ De Soto Gallery More times »
Free
If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds. Like his Spanish countryman,... View details »
Pascual Sisto
Art
Iva Gueorguieva
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Very Grand Guignol Christmas
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Art/Works Theatre More times »
Let the absinthe, eggnog, and blood flow at Art/Works Theater in Hollywood, as the Grand Guignol Theatre Company presents A Very Grand Guignol Christmas. From... View details »
A Very Grand Guignol Christmas
Art
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ Applegate Gallery More times »
Free
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin's paintings and collages radiate pop sensibility: McClure's all-too-lovely works layer nostalgic imagery and text, while the Rauchenburg-influenced Wilkin treats... View details »
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Art
Nicole Eisenman
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8:30pm) @ REDCAT More times »
Since 1985, the Los Angeles Poverty Department has been committed to creating extraordinary, challenging performances that express the realities and hopes of people who live... View details »
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Performing Arts: Theatre
Benedictus
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8pm) @ The New LATC More times »
San Francisco-based Golden Thread Productions presents Benedictus, a transcultural tale of reunion and intrigue. In the play, two men from divergent Middle Eastern faiths meet... View details »
Benedictus
Art
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Saturday Dec 8, 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 »
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Performing Arts: Theatre
Local Story
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8pm) @ Theatre of NOTE More times »
Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred up within the interwoven... View details »
Local Story
Art
You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
High Energy Constructs has put together a three-person show of up-and-coming artists who traverse the unknown and question culture. While the title, You are not... View details »
You are not here, you are still there and think you are here
Art
Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–9pm) @ 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 »
Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
Art
Artel: Variation #50
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8:30pm) @ Highways Performance Space More times »
Giveaway
LA-based live theatre group Artel stages and supports interdisciplinary works of performance art illuminating and exploring the rich, and often misunderstood, legacy of 20th-century Russian... View details »
Artel: Variation #50
Art
Ellen de Meutter
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
LA Physical Theatre Festival
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (8pm) @ Art/Works Theatre More times »
Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre. Festival producers [via]Corpora have... View details »
LA Physical Theatre Festival
Art
Dream of Today
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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 »
Stan's Cafe
Art
Alex Kopps
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art More times »
Free
Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't hold that against him.... View details »
Alex Kopps
Art
Snow Angels
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (1–6pm) @ Thinkspace Gallery More times »
Free
At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction, turning it into a... View details »
Snow Angels
Art
Shepard Fairey
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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: Photography
Julius Shulman
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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
Saturday Dec 8, 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 »
Treasures from the Vault
Art
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ 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 »
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
Art
Wallace Berman
Saturday Dec 8, 2007 (11am–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
Saturday Dec 8, 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: Architecture/Design
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Saturday Dec 8, 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 »
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating