All events on Sunday December 09
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- Prefuse 73
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
- Giveaway
- Fresh off their current tour, glitch-master Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) and friends trip into the storied Troubador with bytes, boost, and beats to... View details »
- Film
- Dharma River
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (12:30–2pm) @ Norton Simon
- Part one of acclaimed cinematographer and director John Bush's Yatra Trilogy, Dharma River: Journey of a Thousand Buddhas is a lush, timeless, and mystical cinematic... View details »
- More Flavor: Lecture
- Shag
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (1pm) @ Laguna Art Museum
- The culture of fear as it relates to mass consumption is ingrained in our social subconscious; and, of course, carnal and material sin has been... View details »
- Performing Arts
- M.S. Garvey
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (7pm) @ Electric Lodge
- In a presentation honed over four years in undisclosed sites in Romania, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere, M.S. Garvey — by turns fiery, mesmerizing, and wise... View details »
- Film
- Old Boy
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (7pm) @ 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 cinema. Chan-wook Park's second... View details »
- Film
- A Christmas Story
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (2pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
- Free
- A Christmas TV staple, Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983) follows everychild Ralphie Parker's dream of receiving a carbine-action Red Ryder air rifle from his... View details »
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- Craftsmas
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (11am–7pm) @ Fake Gallery
- 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 of your holiday shopping... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- Tongue & Groove
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (6–7:30pm) @ 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 the best-known figures in... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Cry-Baby
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- My Kid Could Paint That
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Victor Burgin
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Grand Delusion
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (4pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Milo Martin
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Materials & Applications: Density Fields
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- La Bohème
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Eliza Geddes
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Christmas Twist
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (2pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Iva Gueorguieva
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Sandow Birk
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Los Angeles Poverty Department
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Actors' Gang Holiday Show
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Benedictus
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (3pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Choi Jeong-Hwa
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Local Story
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (7pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- LA Physical Theatre Festival
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (6pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Stan's Cafe
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Snow Angels
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Soundwaves
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Julius Shulman
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (1–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- La Vida Lowrider
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Treasures from the Vault
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto
- Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
- Art
- James Turrell
- Sunday Dec 9, 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 »
