Events on Sunday, December 9

Stacy McQueen's Third Annual Craftsmas Holiday Craft Bash

Festival: Fair

Craftsmas

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

<I>A Christmas Story</i> (1983)

Film

A Christmas Story

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

M.S. Garvey's <i>Letters to the President</i> with the Hootenanny All-Stars

Performing Arts

M.S. Garvey

Sunday 12/ 9 @ Electric Lodge

In a presentation honed over four years in undisclosed sites in Romania, Chicago, Berlin, and elsewhere, M.S. Garvey — by turns... 

<I>Dharma River: Journey of a Thousand Buddhas</i>

Film

Dharma River

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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,... 

Tongue & Groove feat. Richard Montoya

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Tongue & Groove

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

Prefuse 73 w/ School of Seven Bells and Blank Blue

Music: Electronic

Prefuse 73

Sunday 12/ 9 @ The Troubadour

Fresh off their current tour, glitch-master Guillermo Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) and friends trip into the storied Troubador with bytes,... 

Shag: <I>The Flesh Is Willing</i>

Special Event

Shag

Sunday 12/ 9 @ Laguna Art Museum

The culture of fear as it relates to mass consumption is ingrained in our social subconscious; and, of course, carnal and... 

<I>Old Boy</i>

Film

Old Boy

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

Eliza Geddes: <i>Surface Works</i>

Art

Eliza Geddes

Sunday 12/ 9 @ Found Gallery

Eliza Geddes' new mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and innovative paintings bring a rough physicality to deconstructivism. Her unconventional use of found... 

Sandow Birk: <I>Depravities of War</i>

Art

Sandow Birk

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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,... 

<i>Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier</i>

Art

Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

<I>Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling</i>

Art

Soundwaves

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

<I>Benedictus</i>

Theatre

Benedictus

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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,... 

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

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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 —... 

Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto: <I>Organic/Structure</i>

Art

Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto

Sunday 12/ 9 @ Commissary Arts

While Deborah Hede and Lynda Pizzuto are both Los Angeles-based artists working in the medium of drawing, the juxtaposition of their... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

Los Angeles Physical Theatre Festival

Theatre

LA Physical Theatre Festival

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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.... 

Milo Martin: <I>The Bunnies of Denham</i>

Art

Milo Martin

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

The Actors' Gang Holiday Show

Theatre

The Actors' Gang Holiday Show

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

Project Series 34: Iva Gueorguieva

Art

Iva Gueorguieva

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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.... 

Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Sunday 12/ 9 @ REDCAT

Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... 

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 12/ 9 @ Hammer Museum

Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Sunday 12/ 9 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Los Angeles Poverty Department: <I>Utopia/Dystopia</i>

Theatre

Los Angeles Poverty Department

Sunday 12/ 9 @ REDCAT

Since 1985, the Los Angeles Poverty Department has been committed to creating extraordinary, challenging performances that express the realities and hopes... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

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

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

<I>Snow Angels</i>

Art

Snow Angels

Sunday 12/ 9 @ Thinkspace Gallery

At Thinkspace Gallery's Snow Angels, audiences would be forgiven for thinking that a fleet of muses had landed in Sunset Junction,... 

Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen

Art

Jordin Isip & Jason Houchen

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

Stan's Cafe: <i>Of All the People in All the World: The Americas</i>

Art

Stan's Cafe

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

<I>Local Story</i>

Theatre

Local Story

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 12/ 9 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she... 

<I>A Christmas Twist</i>

Theatre

A Christmas Twist

Sunday 12/ 9 @ Ark Theatre

Dickens' "Please sir, may I have some more?" meets Animal House's "Thank you sir, may I have another?" in A Christmas... 

<I>La Bohème</i>

Performing Arts: Opera

La Bohème

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

<em>SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating</em>

Art

SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

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

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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>Grand Delusion</i>

Theatre

Grand Delusion

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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... 

<i>Cry-Baby</i>

Theatre

Cry-Baby

Sunday 12/ 9 @ 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...