All events on Sunday August 31
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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
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Chiwan Choi
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Sunday Aug 31 (6–7:30pm) @ The Hotel Café
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The Tongue & Groove monthly gets a jolt of mellow soul as it welcomes writer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Les July, whose recent on-stage collaborations... View details »
- Film: Shorts
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Channel 101
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Sunday Aug 31 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Cinespace
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"Development hell" takes on new meaning at Channel 101, where television pilots do battle before real viewers, not jaded network moguls. Anyone can send in... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Polvo
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Sunday Aug 31 (8pm) @ Echoplex
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In the wake of a deluge of post-punk reunions (Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, etc.), descendant '80s and '90s acts are taking their turn:... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Silver Summit
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Sunday Aug 31 (8pm) @ Tangier Restaurant
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Brooklyn's Silver Summit are a natural fit for Language of Stone, the baroque psych-folk label run by Espers' Greg Weeks. Sondra Ow Sun-Odeon's trembling voice... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Weedeater
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Sunday Aug 31 (8pm) @ Relax Bar
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Weedeater have quite a reputation: the band boasts ex-members of the notoriously violent Buzzov-en, an album recorded by Steve Albini and released on Southern Lord... View details »
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- Art
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James Turrell
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Sunday Aug 31 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
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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 »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Sunday Aug 31 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum
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Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
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Vexing
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Sunday Aug 31 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art
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In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark in East LA. Although... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia
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Sunday Aug 31 (11am–8pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who diCorcia usually finds through... View details »
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Kori Newkirk
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Sunday Aug 31 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
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Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle: a mural of a... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Sunday Aug 31 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
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Against the Grain
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Sunday Aug 31 (noon–6pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
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Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the Grain, perhaps this summer's... View details »
- Art: Photography
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This Side of Paradise
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Sunday Aug 31 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
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If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses spin many a word.... View details »
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Peter Saul
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Sunday Aug 31 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator of work that's part... View details »
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The Juxtapoz Factor
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Sunday Aug 31 (10am–6pm) @ Laguna Art Museum
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To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as little surprise that some... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Rabbit Hole
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Sunday Aug 31 (7pm) @ Skylight Theatre
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Commissioned as part of South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival, David Lindsay-Abaire's wrenching drama won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize and kick-started Cynthia Nixon's Tony Award-winning... View details »
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Signals: A Video Showcase
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Sunday Aug 31 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work of Mungo Thomson, Enid... View details »
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Marlene Dumas
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Sunday Aug 31 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches and paintings that explore... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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Rock Docs
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Sunday Aug 31 (7:30pm) @ Aero Theatre
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The American Cinematheque keeps trumping itself with über-cool event after über-cool event. The latest is Rock Docs, a five-night series that screens classic concert documentary... View details »
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Josh Dorman
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Sunday Aug 31 (noon–6pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
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Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
- Film
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I Served the King of England
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Sunday Aug 31 (1:20, 4:10, 7 & 9:45pm) @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre
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Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and Communist regimes from a novel into an engaging, balletic... View details »
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Yoko Ono
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Sunday Aug 31 @ One Colorado
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It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted artist Yoko Ono, continues... View details »
