All events on Sunday September 07

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Performing Arts: Opera
The Fly
Sunday Sep 7 (2pm) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story and David Cronenberg's 1986 film adaptation, The Fly wings its way to the Chandler Pavilion tonight for... View details »
The Fly
Performing Arts: Acrobatics
The Peking Acrobats
Sunday Sep 7 (7:30–9:30pm) @ Hollywood Bowl
If the post-Olympics void of Chinese theatricality has got you down, then the awe-inspiring feats of the Peking Acrobats might be the cure for your... View details »
The Peking Acrobats
More Flavor: Fair
UCLA Writers' Faire
Sunday Sep 7 (10am–3pm) @ UCLA Main Campus
Free
Calling all bibliophiles, current and former English majors, and anybody else who enjoys a good read. The UCLA Writers' Faire is more intimate and easier... View details »
UCLA Writers' Faire
Music: Folk/Country
Leslie and the Badgers
Sunday Sep 7 (noon–4pm) @ Safari Sam's
Free
Break out the grits and guitars — Safari Sam's Sunday Brunch Americana serves up no-fuss music folk and morning food just the way you order... View details »
Leslie and the Badgers
Music: Rock/Pop
Death Vessel
Sunday Sep 7 (8:30pm) @ Spaceland
Giveaway
Joel Thibodeau's stratospherically high voice and bright delivery don't sound particularly funereal, but he carries his Death Vessel moniker with unflinching pride. His 2005 release... View details »
Death Vessel
Music: Punk/Metal
Witchcraft
Sunday Sep 7 (3pm) @ Echoplex
Encyclopaedia Metallum lists a whopping 12 bands named Witchcraft, two of which are from Sweden. But only one of these acts sports cable-knit sweaters and... View details »
Witchcraft
Music: DJ
Magda
Sunday Sep 7 (1–9pm) @ Standard Downtown Rooftop
If you can dance to it, the lads at Droog will play it. Whether it's techno, minimal house, or breaks, their omnivorous love of good... View details »
Magda

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Art
James Turrell
Sunday Sep 7 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Sunday Sep 7 (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
Marcel Duchamp Redux
Sunday Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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: Photography
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Sunday Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 @ 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 Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rabbit Hole
Sunday Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
Sunday Sep 7 (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 »
Art
Katie Grinnan
Sunday Sep 7 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture More times »
Katie Grinnan has made a career out of walking the fine line between the second and third dimensions. Grinnan takes architectural structures — as well... View details »
Katie Grinnan
Art
All of This is Melting Away
Sunday Sep 7 (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 Sep 7 (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
Art: Photography
Camera Ephemera
Sunday Sep 7 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
Free
The next generation of children sadly will be deprived of the joyous anticipation that accompanies instant-photograph developing — the whole shaking-and-waiting routine that goes on... View details »
Camera Ephemera
Performing Arts: Theatre
Bury the Dead
Sunday Sep 7 (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 »
Art
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Sunday Sep 7 (11am–4pm) @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana More times »
Free
Beloved radio host Art Bell is a cross between Jean Shepherd and Fox Mulder, and a man whose paranormality-themed broadcasts were among the most misunderstood... View details »
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Art
Syndrome
Sunday Sep 7 (noon–6pm) @ Crewest Gallery More times »
Free
Micah Hancock, James Larese, and Mars Sandoval, who make up the motion-design studio Syndrome, demonstrate their penchants for biting humor and stark realism during an... View details »
Syndrome
Performing Arts: Theatre
9 to 5
Sunday Sep 7 @ Ahmanson Theatre More times »
Based on Collin Higgins' screwball 1980 comedy, 9 to 5: The Musical makes its LA premiere tonight before heading to Broadway in the spring. Directed... View details »
9 to 5
More Flavor: Sports
Malibu Surf Classic
Sunday Sep 7 (6:30am–6pm) @ Surfrider Beach More times »
Free
Finally, there's something to photograph on the beach in Malibu besides the shirtless antics of Matthew McConaughey. The newsworthy occasion is the Malibu Surf Association... View details »
Malibu Surf Classic
Art
The Art of War
Sunday Sep 7 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon Museum More times »
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much further than two-dimensional art.... View details »
The Art of War
Art
Anne Faith Nicholls
Sunday Sep 7 (noon–6pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Anne Faith Nicholls remixes folk art with her quasi-surrealist, richly symbolic narrative works that have roots in the traditional Western high-art style. The result, which... View details »
Anne Faith Nicholls
More Flavor: Fashion
Antonio Pineda
Sunday Sep 7 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
It's the Housewives
Sunday Sep 7 (3pm) @ Whitefire Theatre More times »
Giveaway
Sarah Palin may have the elusive Hockey Mom demographic sewn up, but who knows how she's going to handle the nation's newest and most fabulous... View details »
It's the Housewives
Art
Yoko Ono
Sunday Sep 7 @ 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