Events on Sunday, December 9

<I>Old Boy</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Film
Old Boy
@ The Silent Movie Theatre
At once violent and sensitive, the watershed film Old Boy attracted both acclaim and fury while shifting attention to South Korean...  View details »
Shag: <I>The Flesh Is Willing</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
More Flavor: Lecture
Shag
@ Laguna Art Museum
The culture of fear as it relates to mass consumption is ingrained in our social subconscious; and, of course, carnal and...  View details »
M.S. Garvey's <i>Letters to the President</i> with the Hootenanny All-Stars
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Performing Arts
M.S. Garvey
@ Electric Lodge
In a presentation honed over four years in undisclosed sites in Romania, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere, M.S. Garvey — by turns...  View details »
<I>A Christmas Story</i> (1983)
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Film
A Christmas Story
@ Egyptian Theatre
A Christmas TV staple, Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983) follows everychild Ralphie Parker's dream of receiving a carbine-action Red Ryder...  View details »
Free Flavorpill 50
Stacy McQueen's Third Annual Craftsmas Holiday Craft Bash
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
More Flavor: Fair
Craftsmas
@ Bang Comedy Theatre
Leave the glue gun at home and head over to the Fake Gallery's very real all-day drink-and-shop event. Get the rest...  View details »
Prefuse 73 w/ School of Seven Bells and Blank Blue
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Music: Electronic
Prefuse 73
@ The Troubadour
Fresh off their current tour, glitch-master Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) and friends trip into the storied Troubador with bytes,...  View details »
Tongue & Groove feat. Richard Montoya
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Tongue & Groove
@ The Hotel Café
This month's Tongue & Groove has a roster made up entirely of Latino authors, performers, and spoken-word artists. Perhaps one of...  View details »
<I>Dharma River: Journey of a Thousand Buddhas</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Film
Dharma River
@ Norton Simon Museum
Part one of acclaimed cinematographer and director John Bush's Yatra Trilogy, Dharma River: Journey of a Thousand Buddhas is a lush,...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Francis Alÿs
@ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Local Story</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Local Story
@ Theatre of NOTE
Set over the course of two balmy days in August, theatre of NOTE's latest production revolves around the emotional cyclones stirred...  View details »
Ongoing
Los Angeles Poverty Department: <I>Utopia/Dystopia</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Los Angeles Poverty Department
@ REDCAT
Since 1985, the Los Angeles Poverty Department has been committed to creating extraordinary, challenging performances that express the realities and hopes...  View details »
Ongoing
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James Turrell: <em>Dividing the Light</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
James Turrell
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Actors' Gang Holiday Show
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Actors' Gang Holiday Show
@ The Actors' Gang Theatre
Ever since Tim Robbins founded the Actors' Gang in 1981, these motley hoodlums have churned out award-winning dramas, capers, and comedies...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
More Flavor: Exhibition
Treasures from the Vault
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>
Month_12 Monday Day_10
Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
@ Los Angeles Public Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>La Bohème</i>
Month_12 Monday Day_10
Performing Arts: Opera
La Bohème
@ Los Angeles Opera
Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its...  View details »
Ongoing
<i>Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
@ Pasadena Museum of California Art
One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman...  View details »
Ongoing
Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
@ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François...  View details »
Ongoing
Sandow Birk: <I>Depravities of War</i>
Month_12 Monday Day_10
Art
Sandow Birk
@ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
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,...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Grand Delusion</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grand Delusion
@ The Lost Studio
Given the topsy-turvy nature of current geopolitics, the idea of a global conflict being instigated by a cabal of petty, puerile...  View details »
Ongoing
Stan's Cafe: <i>Of All the People in All the World: The Americas</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Stan's Cafe
@ Skirball Cultural Center
In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of...  View details »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
<I>A Christmas Twist</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Christmas Twist
@ Ark Theatre
Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
@ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...  View details »
Ongoing
Milo Martin: <I>The Bunnies of Denham</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Milo Martin
@ Brickhouse Kitchen
Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Cry-Baby</i>
Month_12 Monday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Cry-Baby
@ La Jolla Playhouse
We've entered the John Waters age. A Broadway musical adaptation of Hairspray and a subsequent cinematic "re-adaptation" has made the legendary...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Snow Angels</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Snow Angels
@ Thinkspace Gallery
At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues Art Exhibition
Month_12 Monday Day_10
Art
Giant Robot Biennale
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Choi Jeong-Hwa
@ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto: <I>Organic/Structure</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
@ Commissary Arts
While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Project Series 34: Iva Gueorguieva
Month_12 Monday Day_10
Art
Iva Gueorguieva
@ Pomona College Museum of Art
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Soundwaves
@ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct...  View details »
Ongoing
Los Angeles Physical Theatre Festival
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
LA Physical Theatre Festival
@ Art/Works Theatre
Channeling the Chaplins and Keatons of Hollywood yesteryear, LAPT's inaugural festival salutes the not-so-subtle, yet supremely precise art of physical theatre....  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Benedictus</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Performing Arts: Theatre
Benedictus
@ The New LATC
San Francisco-based Golden Thread Productions presents Benedictus, a transcultural tale of reunion and intrigue. In the play, two men from divergent...  View details »
Ongoing
Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
@ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Eliza Geddes: <i>Surface Works</i>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Eliza Geddes
@ Found Gallery
Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>
Month_12 Monday Day_10
Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
@ 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,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating</em>
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art: Architecture/Design
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
@ Pounder-Koné Art Space
When not hurting bad guys on FX's The Shield, actress CCH Pounder works alongside her husband Boubacar Koné, developing the Boribana...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
Month_12 Sunday Day_09
Art
Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
@ La Luz de Jesus
Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<I>Diva</i> 25th Anniversary
Month_12 Monday Day_10
Film
Diva 25th Anniversary
@ Landmark Nuart Theatre
A genre-bending thriller, Jean-Jacques Beineix's Diva (1982) was among the first French films to herald the Cinéma du Look — the...  View details »
Ongoing