Events on Sunday, August 31

Tongue & Groove feat. Chiwan Choi and Les July

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Chiwan Choi

Sunday 8/31 @ The Hotel Café

The Tongue & Groove monthly gets a jolt of mellow soul as it welcomes writer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Les July,... 

Silver Summit w/ Gangi and Winter Flowers

Music

Silver Summit

Sunday 8/31 @ 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... 

Channel 101

Film: Shorts

Channel 101

Sunday 8/31 @ Cinespace

"Development hell" takes on new meaning at Channel 101, where television pilots do battle before real viewers, not jaded network moguls.... 

Polvo w/ Trans Am and the Drones

Music

Polvo

Sunday 8/31 @ Echoplex

In the wake of a deluge of post-punk reunions (Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, etc.), descendant '80s and '90s acts... 

Weedeater

Music

Weedeater

Sunday 8/31 @ 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... 

Ongoing Events

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

Fashion/Style

Antonio Pineda

Sunday 8/31 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mark Bradford

Sunday 8/31 @ 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... 

Marlene Dumas: <em>Measuring Your Own Grave</em>

Art

Marlene Dumas

Sunday 8/31 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

The first stateside exhibit of French/South African/Dutch artist Marlene Dumas' work, Measuring Your Own Grave is a prodding collection of sketches... 

Peter Saul

Art

Peter Saul

Sunday 8/31 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 8/31 @ 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... 

Long Beach Blues Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Long Beach Blues Festival

Sunday 8/31 @ Rainbow Lagoon Park

The 29th Annual Long Beach Blues Festival may not be held in the down-home southern countryside, but two outstanding headliners more... 

Pavilion of Wings

City Gems

Pavilion of Wings

Sunday 8/31 @ Natural History Museum

Pavilion of Wings returns to the Natural History Museum for the exhibition's tenth anniversary. Now, anyone jealous of the Shins' experience... 

Kori Newkirk:<em> 1997-2007</em>

Art

Kori Newkirk

Sunday 8/31 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle:... 

<em>Mexican Calendar Girls</em>

Art

Mexican Calendar Girls

Sunday 8/31 @ 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... 

<em>Signals: A Video Showcase</em>

Art

Signals: A Video Showcase

Sunday 8/31 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work... 

Camelot Artists present <em>Rabbit Hole</em>

Theatre

Rabbit Hole

Sunday 8/31 @ Skylight Theatre

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... 

<em>In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor</em>

Art

The Juxtapoz Factor

Sunday 8/31 @ Laguna Art Museum

To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as... 

<em>Against the Grain</em>

Art

Against the Grain

Sunday 8/31 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the... 

<em>Phalanstery Module </em>

Art

Phalanstery Module

Sunday 8/31 @ Materials & Applications

M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents... 

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

Art

Josh Dorman

Sunday 8/31 @ 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... 

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Art: Photography

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Sunday 8/31 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia's meticulously planned pictures look as effortless as Polaroids. Most of his works feature a single person — who... 

<em>Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs

Sunday 8/31 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Israeli Women: A Portrait in Photographs looks at Israel's female citizenry as a reflection of the state's 60-year history of independence.... 

Theatre

Bury the Dead

Sunday 8/31 @ The Actors' Gang Theatre

From director Matt Huffman comes a new adaptation of Irwin Shaw's 1936 antiwar masterpiece, Bury the Dead. Shaw, who went on... 

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

Art

All of This is Melting Away

Sunday 8/31 @ 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>Marcel Duchamp Redux </em>

Art

Marcel Duchamp Redux

Sunday 8/31 @ Norton Simon Museum

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

City Gems

Scribble Press

Sunday 8/31 @ Scribble Press

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

<em>Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner</em>

Art

John Lautner

Sunday 8/31 @ Hammer Museum

The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism... 

Rock Docs

Film: Documentary

Rock Docs

Sunday 8/31 @ Aero Theatre

The American Cinematheque keeps trumping itself with über-cool event after über-cool event. The latest is Rock Docs, a five-night series that... 

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

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Sunday 8/31 @ 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>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Sunday 8/31 @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre

Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and Communist regimes from a novel... 

Yoko Ono: <em>Wish Tree</em>

Art

Yoko Ono

Sunday 8/31 @ One Colorado

It has been nearly 28 years since John Lennon's passing, but his quest for world peace lives on. Lennon's widow, noted... 

Andrea Zittel: Summer Smockshop

Art

Summer Smockshop

Sunday 8/31 @ Smockshop

For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling... 

<em>Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk</em>

Art

Vexing

Sunday 8/31 @ Claremont Museum of Art

In the early '80s, the Vex was an all-ages music club located in Self Help Graphics and Art, a Chicano landmark... 

<em>This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in LA Photographs</em>

Art: Photography

This Side of Paradise

Sunday 8/31 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses... 

F Yeah Fest

Festival: Performing Arts

F Yeah Fest

Sunday 8/31 @ Echoplex

Echo Park is the scene of the fifth annual F Yeah Fest, which brings first-rate bands and comics to the Echo,... 

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

Art: Photography

In Focus: The Landscape

Sunday 8/31 @ 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...