Events on Sunday, November 30

Blitzen Trapper w/ the Parson Red Heads

Music

Blitzen Trapper

Sunday 11/30 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Blitzen Trapper's third release, last year's Wild Mountain Nation, is a collection of lo-fi ditties that convincingly walk the line between... 

The Sisters of Mercy

Music

The Sisters of Mercy

Sunday 11/30 @ House of Blues Anaheim

Given its terminally earnest nature and willingness to establish rules of conduct, goth was destined to eventually lapse into self-parody. Sisters... 

Ongoing Events

Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa: <em>Earworms</em>

Special Event

Earworms

Sunday 11/30 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via... 

Mark Bradford: <em>Help Us</em>

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 11/30 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious... 

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Art: Photography

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Sunday 11/30 @ G2 Gallery

Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA... 

Single Malt Sundays

Food/Wine

Single Malt Sundays

Sunday 11/30 @ Viceroy Santa Monica

Hosted by renowned producers such as Glenfiddich, the Macallan, and Glenmorangie, Single Malt Sundays at the Viceroy Santa Monica Hotel offers... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Sunday 11/30 @ California Heritage Museum

Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The... 

Downtown LA Art & Architecture Scavenger Hunt

City Gems

Art & Architecture Scavenger Hunt

Sunday 11/30 @ Downtown location provided with registration

Adventurous culture lovers team with family and friends today, burning off excess Thanksgiving Day calories in a three-hour, walking scavenger hunt... 

<em>All of This is Melting Away</em>

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Sunday 11/30 @ Royal/T

Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from... 

<em>The Art of War: American Posters from WWI and WWII</em>

Art

The Art of War

Sunday 11/30 @ Norton Simon Museum

When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much... 

<em>Spring Awakening</em>

Theatre

Spring Awakening

Sunday 11/30 @ Ahmanson Theatre

It's easy to see why Spring Awakening snagged eight Tony Awards last year, marking what has been heralded as the new... 

<em>Human Resources</em>

Art

Human Resources

Sunday 11/30 @ The Company

The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the... 

2008 California Biennial

Art

2008 California Biennial

Sunday 11/30 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick... 

The Bob Baker Marionette Theater presents <em>The Nutcracker</em>

Performing Arts: Puppetry

Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker

Sunday 11/30 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater

In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 11/30 @ 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... 

<em>Xanadu</em>

Theatre

Xanadu

Sunday 11/30 @ La Jolla Playhouse

When it comes to '80s nostalgia, Olivia Newton-John guilty-pleasure juggernaut Xanadu has it all: leg-warmers, roller skates, blue eye shadow, men... 

Face of the World Festival 2008

Festival: Performing Arts

FOTW 08

Sunday 11/30 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center

For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings... 

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Art

P-Jay Fidler and Jason Houchen

Sunday 11/30 @ La Luz de Jesus

Art Center alum P-Jay Fidler's works reflect a heady amalgam of artistic influences, including naturalism, surrealism, popular illustration, and modern graphic... 

<em>In It Together</em>

Art

In It Together

Sunday 11/30 @ Tinlark Gallery

In It Together is the meta-title for a pair of simultaneous collaborative exhibitions: Matthew Rodriguez and Nicholas Bohac's Drill, Baby, Drill!... 

<em>Within Four Miles: The World of Josh Dorman</em>

Art

Josh Dorman

Sunday 11/30 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Sunday 11/30 @ Scribble Press

Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with... 

LA Philharmonic feat. Gustavo Dudamel

Music: Classical

LA Phil

Sunday 11/30 @ Disney Concert Hall

The relentless coverage of Esa-Pekka Salonen and the LA Philharmonic's long kiss goodnight is an emotional affair for the city's classical... 

<em>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Sunday 11/30 @ The Getty Center

Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In... 

<em>Bronx Zoo</em>

Art

Bronx Zoo

Sunday 11/30 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move

Downtown's La Cita Bar has hosted Ghettogloss Gallery's Bronx Zoo each Saturday since the start of June, inspiring artists to render... 

<em>Fortuna Rising: Gordy Grundy is the Messenger</em>

Art

Gordy Grundy

Sunday 11/30 @ Western Project

The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website... 

Vermeer's <em>A Lady Writing</em>

Art

Vermeer's A Lady Writing

Sunday 11/30 @ Norton Simon Museum

It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving... 

Ismail Farouk: <em>Cancelled Without Prejudice</em>

Art

Ismail Farouk

Sunday 11/30 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture

Johannesburg-based urban geographer and artist Ismail Farouk offers a multimedia overview of his recent work in the second installment of the... 

<em>Song of Extinction</em>

Theatre

Song of Extinction

Sunday 11/30 @ The Ford Theater

[Inside] the Ford's New Plays Series makes use of the intimate theatre under the venue's more familiar outdoor setting during the... 

<em>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde

Sunday 11/30 @ The Getty Center

In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and... 

<em>A Mulholland Christmas Carol</em>

Theatre

A Mulholland Christmas Carol  

Sunday 11/30 @ Sacred Fools Theater

A holiday must-see for the whole dysfunctional family, theatre of NOTE and Sacred Fools' A Mulholland Christmas Carol is an inspired,... 

Silverlake Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market

Sunday 11/30 @ Citibank Parking Lot (corner of Silverlake Blvd)

East Side shoppers seeking the offbeat were rewarded last holiday season, as the gals at Ghettogloss heard their flea-market pleas. Back... 

<em>Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda</em>

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Sunday 11/30 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show... 

<em>The Little Dog Laughed</em>

Theatre

The Little Dog Laughed

Sunday 11/30 @ Kirk Douglas Theatre

Hollywood and homophobia share the bill in The Little Dog Laughed, a comedy about Tinseltown hypocrisy and the veil of lies... 

<em>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Sunday 11/30 @ Norton Simon Museum

This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at... 

Louise Bourgeois

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Sunday 11/30 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet... 

<em>Carmen</em>

Performing Arts: Opera

Carmen

Sunday 11/30 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Bizet's Carmen isn't just known for its ferociously popular femme fatale but also for its transformation of opera comique into a... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 11/30 @ The Getty Center

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

<em>The School of Night</em>

Theatre

The School of Night

Sunday 11/30 @ Mark Taper Forum

Peter Whelan's latest work, The School of Night, cleverly glides between the modes of traditional murder mystery and avant-garde theatre. As... 

Eddy Sykes: <em>Yakuza Lou</em>

Art

Eddy Sykes

Sunday 11/30 @ Materials & Applications

First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...