All events on Sunday January 20

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More Flavor: Parade
Doo Dah Parade
Sunday Jan 20 (11:30am) @ Old Town Pasadena
Free
In true bizarro-LA style, the Pasadena Doo Dah parade flaps its ungainly wings for its 31st incarnation. A wacky send-up of the upright 'n uptight... View details »
Doo Dah Parade
Film
He Ran All the Way
Sunday Jan 20 (1pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Appearing in He Ran All the Way, John Garfield demonstrated why he was considered the forerunner to the tongue-tied method actors. Garfield played dim and... View details »
He Ran All the Way
Film
Sherlock Jr.
Sunday Jan 20 (4pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
In the brief and forward-looking Sherlock Jr., Buster Keaton plays a would-be sleuth working as a projectionist. Naïve Keaton is naturally in love, but has... View details »
Sherlock Jr.
Film
Tropical Malady
Sunday Jan 20 (7pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Based on Thai folklore, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's hypnotically sensual film Tropical Malady explores a hesitant romance between a soldier and a shape-shifting country boy. Divided into... View details »
Tropical Malady
Film
Battle of the Sexes and The Mouse That Roared
Sunday Jan 20 (7:30pm) @ Egyptian Theatre
While not quite matching his virtuosic appearance in Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers brings his characteristic mischief to the role of Duchy of Grand Fenwick in... View details »
Battle of the Sexes and The Mouse That Roared
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Sunday Jan 20 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre More times »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Center Theatre Group's world-premiere musical, busts out of the theatrical gate with energetic, rapier wit. Colored by its emo-influenced rock score,... View details »
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Music: Rock/Pop
Om
Sunday Jan 20 (7pm) @ Echoplex
Om have parsed the stripped, devotional hum from their roots in stoner-metal band Sleep — their new record, Pilgrimage, sounds like Alice Coltrane if she'd... View details »
Om
Music: DJ
Custom Sundaze
Sunday Jan 20 (1–9pm) @ Custom Hotel
Free
LA's latest hot spot is the Custom Hotel, and like any self-respecting trendsetter, they're launching a weekly DJ party. This weekend is the very first... View details »
Custom Sundaze

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Art
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Sunday Jan 20 @ 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
Sunday Jan 20 @ 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: Architecture/Design
Victor Burgin
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Francis Alÿs
Sunday Jan 20 (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 »
Francis Alÿs
Art
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Choi Jeong-Hwa
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Film
Steep
Sunday Jan 20 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre More times »
Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an extreme sport: big-mountain skiing.... View details »
Steep
Reading
David Sedaris
Sunday Jan 20 @ Macgowan Little Theatre, UCLA More times »
Fans of David Sedaris' bone-dry wit can get a sneak peak of the humorist's new book, scheduled for release this summer. His last collection, Dress... View details »
David Sedaris
Art: Photography
Julius Shulman
Sunday Jan 20 (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 »
Julius Shulman
Art: Architecture/Design
La Vida Lowrider
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Cassandra C. Jones
Sunday Jan 20 (11am–6pm) @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai More times »
Free
... n't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just offering viewers another photography... View details »
Cassandra C. Jones
Art
David Sandlin & Martha Rich
Sunday Jan 20 (noon–6pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's large-scale paintings, Silverlake's edgier... View details »
David Sandlin & Martha Rich
Art: Photography
Steve Gullick
Sunday Jan 20 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
Steve Gullick
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Sunday Jan 20 (noon–6pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art: Photography
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Sunday Jan 20 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups, "The grand seigneur of... View details »
Lights! Camera! Glamour!
Art: Architecture/Design
SIT: Contemporary and Traditional Seating
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Performing Arts: Dance
LA Improv Dance Festival
Sunday Jan 20 (2pm) @ Diavolo Dance Theatre More times »
Now in its fourth year, iD Fest continues to grow and attract national talent beyond the LA dance community. Festival director Jones Welsh has assembled... View details »
LA Improv Dance Festival
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Sunday Jan 20 (noon–6pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Performing Arts: Opera
Tristan und Isolde
Sunday Jan 20 (4am) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Considered one of the world's greatest operas, Richard Wagner's 1857 Tristan und Isolde sprang from the composer's own torrid love life. Wagner composed the piece... View details »
Tristan und Isolde
Art
Girly Group Show
Sunday Jan 20 (noon–5pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable roster of talented lady... View details »
Girly Group Show
Art
Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Sunday Jan 20 (11am–6pm) @ The Balmoral More times »
Free
This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are equal parts Surreal and... View details »
Art
The Imaginary 20th Century
Sunday Jan 20 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
There was a time when the 20th century seemed like an unimaginable and distant future. The Orange County Museum of Art presents 2,200 images from... View details »
The Imaginary 20th Century
Art
James Turrell
Sunday Jan 20 (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 »
James Turrell
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Sunday Jan 20 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar