Events on Sunday, December 28

Neil Hamburger

Comedy

Neil Hamburger

Sunday 12/28 @ Spaceland

When Neil Hamburger bills himself as "America's $1 Funnyman," he's inviting audiences to stay away, knowing they'll come back for more.... 

DEEPcares presents NextAid benefit feat. Boddhi Satva w/ Raul Campos

Music: DJ

Boddhi Satva w/ Raul Campos

Sunday 12/28 @ Vanguard

Combining the rich rhythms of his native Africa and the electronic grooves of his European home, Boddhi Satva concocts soulful down-tempo... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art

The Art of War

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

At the Brewery Project 1993-2007: the Finale

Art

At the Brewery Project

Sunday 12/28 @ Armory Center for the Arts

With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past... 

Louise Bourgeois

Art

Louise Bourgeois

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

B.B. King w/ Chris Pierce

Music

B.B. King

Sunday 12/28 @ Club Nokia

B.B. King began his career in the late '40s, pairing heart-wrenching yelps with smooth riffs and a sweet-and-low blues style. The... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 12/28 @ The Getty Center

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

Art

Human Rights: Student Voices

Sunday 12/28 @ Pasadena Central Library

Art Center College of Design students direct their communications prowess towards human rights, presenting 25 emotionally-charged pieces that straddle the line... 

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

Art

Gordy Grundy

Sunday 12/28 @ Western Project

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

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

Special Event

Earworms

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Josh Dorman

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

Ken Roht's 99&cent; Only Calendar Girl Competition

Theatre

99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition

Sunday 12/28 @ Bootleg Theater

Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢... 

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

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

ARMSROCK & ELBOW-TOE: <em>Mostly Memory</em> and Jon Todd: <em>Life Sentence</em>

Art

ARMSROCK & ELBOW-TOE

Sunday 12/28 @ Thinkspace Gallery

Thinkspace Gallery presents new works by artists whose street-based achievements reveal impassioned stratagems on top of fundamental creative impulses. Conceived in... 

Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Fest

Festival: Performing Arts

Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Fest

Sunday 12/28 @ The Fine Arts Theatre

The Fine Arts Theatre plays host to the avant-garde of hi-definition filmmakers, featuring scores of shorts and feature films, across genres... 

<em>Human Resources</em>

Art

Human Resources

Sunday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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... 

A Grand Guignol Children's Show *not for children

Performing Arts

Grand Guignol

Sunday 12/28 @ Art/Works Theatre

For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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... 

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

Art

Eddy Sykes

Sunday 12/28 @ Materials & Applications

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

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

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

Holiday Open House

Art

Holiday Open House

Sunday 12/28 @ Applegate Gallery

Applegate Gallery stays up late with a group show featuring a choice selection of gallery artists that includes Mark Hobley, Britt... 

City Gems

Scribble Press

Sunday 12/28 @ Scribble Press

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

Single Malt Sundays

Food/Wine

Single Malt Sundays

Sunday 12/28 @ 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>In Focus: The Landscape</em>

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

Nomad: <em>The Art of Losing It Part III</em>

Art

Nomad

Sunday 12/28 @ Found Gallery

Nomad is a visual and creative opportunist: the multimedia artist wanders the globe making art that not only responds to the... 

<em>Waltz with Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz with Bashir

Sunday 12/28 @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world really has ever seen before. At the beginning... 

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

Art

Vermeer's A Lady Writing

Sunday 12/28 @ 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 12/28 @ 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>Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde</em>

Art

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

Sunday 12/28 @ The Getty Center

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

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

Performing Arts: Puppetry

Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker

Sunday 12/28 @ 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... 

Silverlake Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market

Fashion/Style: Shopping

Art, Craft & Vintage Flea Market

Sunday 12/28 @ 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...