All events on Sunday August 31

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Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Chiwan Choi
Sunday Aug 31 (6–7:30pm) @ The Hotel Café
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 »
Chiwan Choi
Film: Shorts
Channel 101
Sunday Aug 31 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Cinespace
Free
"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 »
Channel 101
Music: Punk/Metal
Polvo
Sunday Aug 31 (8pm) @ Echoplex
Giveaway
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 »
Polvo
Music: Rock/Pop
Silver Summit
Sunday Aug 31 (8pm) @ Tangier Restaurant
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 »
Silver Summit
Music: Punk/Metal
Weedeater
Sunday Aug 31 (8pm) @ Relax Bar
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 »
Weedeater

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Art
James Turrell
Sunday Aug 31 (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
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Ugo Wine Bar
Sunday Aug 31 (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
Art: Architecture/Design
Phalanstery Module
Sunday Aug 31 @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents the central challenge, as... View details »
Phalanstery Module
Art
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Sunday Aug 31 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon More times »
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Art
Mexican Calendar Girls
Sunday Aug 31 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum More times »
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 »
Mexican Calendar Girls
Art
Vexing
Sunday Aug 31 (11am–5pm) @ Claremont Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Vexing
Art: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Sunday Aug 31 (11am–8pm) @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art More times »
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 »
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Art
Kori Newkirk
Sunday Aug 31 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art More times »
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 »
Kori Newkirk
Art
Mark Bradford
Sunday Aug 31 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Mark Bradford
Art
Against the Grain
Sunday Aug 31 (noon–6pm) @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions More times »
Free
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 »
Against the Grain
Art: Photography
This Side of Paradise
Sunday Aug 31 (10:30am–4:30pm) @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens More times »
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 »
This Side of Paradise
Art
Peter Saul
Sunday Aug 31 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
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 »
Peter Saul
Art
The Juxtapoz Factor
Sunday Aug 31 (10am–6pm) @ Laguna Art Museum More times »
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 »
The Juxtapoz Factor
Art: Architecture/Design
John Lautner
Sunday Aug 31 (11am–5pm) @ Hammer Museum More times »
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism and disdain. One of... View details »
John Lautner
Music: Festival
F Yeah Fest
Sunday Aug 31 (3pm) @ Echoplex More times »
Giveaway
Echo Park is the scene of the fifth annual F Yeah Fest, which brings first-rate bands and comics to the Echo, Echoplex, Jensen Rec Center,... View details »
F Yeah Fest
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rabbit Hole
Sunday Aug 31 (7pm) @ Skylight Theatre More times »
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 »
Rabbit Hole
Art
Summer Smockshop
Sunday Aug 31 (noon–8pm) @ Smockshop More times »
Free
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling smocks is one of... View details »
Summer Smockshop
Art
Signals: A Video Showcase
Sunday Aug 31 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach More times »
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 »
Signals: A Video Showcase
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Sunday Aug 31 (10am–6pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In Focus: The Landscape explores... View details »
In Focus: The Landscape
Art
Marlene Dumas
Sunday Aug 31 (11am–6pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
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 »
Marlene Dumas
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Scribble Press
Sunday Aug 31 (11am–6pm) @ Scribble Press More times »
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with markers, stickers, paints, wide... View details »
Music: Festival
Long Beach Blues Festival
Sunday Aug 31 (2–10pm) @ Rainbow Lagoon Park More times »
The 29th Annual Long Beach Blues Festival may not be held in the down-home southern countryside, but two outstanding headliners more than make up for... View details »
Long Beach Blues Festival
Film: Documentary
Rock Docs
Sunday Aug 31 (7:30pm) @ Aero Theatre More times »
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 »
Rock Docs
Art
All of This is Melting Away
Sunday Aug 31 (10am–6pm) @ Royal/T More times »
Free
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 prominent collector Susan Hancock's... View details »
All of This is Melting Away
Art
Josh Dorman
Sunday Aug 31 (noon–6pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum More times »
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 »
Josh Dorman
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Pavilion of Wings
Sunday Aug 31 (10am–5pm) @ Natural History Museum More times »
Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience in Mexico can walk... View details »
Pavilion of Wings
Art: Photography
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Sunday Aug 31 (10am–5pm) @ Skirball Cultural Center More times »
Free
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence. Drawing on documentary and... View details »
Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bury the Dead
Sunday Aug 31 (3pm) @ The Actors' Gang Theatre More times »
From director Matt Huffman comes a new adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1936 antiwar masterpiece, Bury the Dead. Shaw, who went on to pen the acclaimed... View details »
Film
I Served the King of England
Sunday Aug 31 (1:20, 4:10, 7 & 9:45pm) @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre More times »
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 »
I Served the King of England
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
Sunday Aug 31 (noon–5pm) @ Fowler Museum, UCLA More times »
Free
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show what an especially talented... View details »
Antonio Pineda
Art
Yoko Ono
Sunday Aug 31 @ One Colorado More times »
Free
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 »
Yoko Ono