Events on Sunday, May 9

Maja's Magic School: <em>The Magic of God &mdash; Kabbalah & Changing Matter with a Word</em>

Special Event

Maja's Magic School

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Annie Besant Lodge

Maja D'Aoust is a librarian at the Philosophical Research Society, with a Master's degree in Transformational Psychology from the University of... 

Musica Angelica: Bach and Brandenburg

Music: Classical

Musica Angelica: Bach and Brandenburg

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Broad Stage

Bach and Brandenburg - Maestro Haselbock conducts an evening of Baroque music featuring artists Gonzalo Ruiz and Reinhard Friedrich. The program... 

Les Savy Fav @ echoplex

Music

Les Savy Fav @ echoplex

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Echo & Echoplex

Les Savy Fav  LSF has two very decidedly different components to the live show: singer Tim Harrington’s antics in enforcing the... 

MOTHER'S DAY SILENT MATINEE: Stella Dallas (1925 silent version)

Film: Shorts

MOTHER'S DAY SILENT MATINEE: Stella Dallas (1925 silent version)

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Cinefamily

Some stories are just so powerful, so compelling, with veins so deeply rooted within our collective unconscious that we can't stop... 

Widescreen Wednesdays: BARAKA in 70mm!

Film

Widescreen Wednesdays: BARAKA in 70mm!

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Egyptian Theatre

Wednesday, June 9 – 7:30 PM 70mm Print! BARAKA, 1992, Magidson Films, 96 min. Inspired by the Sufi word meaning... 

Mother's Day Tea Party & Screening of MARY POPPINS!

Film

Mother's Day Tea Party & Screening of MARY POPPINS!

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Egyptian Theatre

Sunday, May 9 – 4:00 PM Mother Day’s Tea Party: MARY POPPINS, 1964, Walt Disney Co., 140 min. Dir. Robert Stevenson.... 

<em>Psycho</em> triple feature: <em>Psycho</em>, <em>Psycho II</em> & <em>Psycho III</em>

Film: Double Feature

Psycho triple feature: Psycho, Psycho II & Psycho III

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Cinefamily

For this most tender and sweet of all yearly holidays, we eagerly present this all-night tribute to film's greatest motherlover. It... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Turkey Day</em>

Theatre

Turkey Day

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Eclectic Company Theatre

Written by Jeff Folschinsky, Eclectic's original Turkey Day has the pitch-perfect couple, Bruce and Buffy, being forced to survive their imperfect... 

Family Affair #8

Music: DJ

Family Affair #8

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Standard Downtown Rooftop

Jason Bentley headlines the first night of this weekend's Haiti benefit at the Downtown Standard, plus half a dozen other DJs... 

<em>Caught</em>

Performing Arts: Theatre

Caught

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Zephyr Theatre

David L. Ray's new play Caught travels to the controversial crossroads of gay marriage and the bible belt. Although the play... 

<em>Dementia</em>

Theatre

Dementia

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center

Part of the giddy joy of this rollicking production, by turns hilarious and heart-breaking, is the effervescence of exploding long-kept, unpredictable... 

<em>AWOL (Always West of Lincoln</em>)

Art

AWOL (Always West of Lincoln)

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Dogtown Station Lofts

Venice has always been a magnet for artists and other beachcombers, chic and scruffy alike, and its recent resurgence as an... 

Julia Schwartz: <em>Flesh and Bone</em>

Art

Julia Schwartz

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Bleicher/Golightly

Schwartz' subtle but saturated palette of pure pigment dried to a thick, earthen, frosting-like crust, follows an internal logic rather than... 

<em>London Eight</em>

Art

London Eight

Sunday 5/ 9 @ SCI-Arc

After studying architecture in the '50s, Sir Peter Cook exhibited at ICA (where he later served as director), and co-founded Archigram,... 

<em>Darkwave: Eight Artist-Surfers Explore Surfing and the Violence of the City </em> <em> </em>

Art

Darkwave: Surfing and the Violence of the City

Sunday 5/ 9 @ USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery

This expanded and recontextualized exhibition builds on last year's installation at Black Cat Gallery, to now involve the experiences of the... 

Marie Jager: <em>The Big Nowhere</em>

Art

Marie Jager

Sunday 5/ 9 @ François Ghebaly Gallery

François Ghebaly says: The exhibition will include paintings, prints and works on paper. In her Pollution Painting series, Marie Jager makes... 

<em>Accomplice: Hollywood</em>

Get Social

Accomplice: Hollywood

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Various Hollywood locations

Co-produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Tom Salamon, Accomplice: Hollywood sends teams of intrepid folks along Hollywood Boulevard and its environs... 

Chalk Repertory Theatre presents <em>Full Disclosure</em>

Theatre

Full Disclosure

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Location TBA with RSVP

Performed in an actual home listed for sale, Full Disclosure is a standard Chalk Rep enthralling maneuver, placing theatre in environments and capitalizing... 

<em>Water: Our Thirsty World</em>

Art: Photography

Water: Our Thirsty World

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Annenberg Space for Photography

National Geographic puts a new spin on a classic subject, using cutting-edge photographic technology to build a sweeping portfolio of the... 

<em>The Ballad of Emmett Till</em>

Theatre

The Ballad of Emmett Till

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Fountain Theatre

In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime... 

<em>Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art</em>

Special Event

Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual... 

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

Art

James Turrell

Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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... 

Nick Cave: <em>Meet Me at the Center of the Earth</em>

Art

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA

Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found... 

DreamWorlds

Art

DreamWorlds

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Art Center College of Design

Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring... 

Rachel Rosenthal: TOHUBOHU! Extreme Theater Ensemble

Theatre

Rachel Rosenthal

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Espace DbD / Rachel Rosenthal Co.

Having recently celebrated her 83rd birthday with an all-out party, art show, and silent auction, LA-based performance artist Rachel Rosenthal shows... 

Rogue Taxidermy Show

Art

Rogue Taxidermy Show

Sunday 5/ 9 @ La Luz de Jesus

Rogue Taxidermy as a movement of contemporary art is akin to the Radical Craft movement popular in recent years. Just as... 

<em>Behind the Burly Q</em>

Film: Documentary

Behind the Burly Q

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Laemmle's Sunset 5

Pie-throwers and pasties chronicle the history of burlesque in American popular culture in Leslie Zemeckis' documentary, Behind the Burly Q. Told... 

Charles Phoenix & the Third Dimension: Retro 3-D Slide Show

Performing Arts

Retro 3-D Slide Show

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Downtown Independent Theater

Kitsch connoisseur and slideshow maven Charles Phoenix has been regaling audiences with his thrift-shop transparencies for some time. Now, he's taking... 

<em>The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology</em>

Art

The Red Book of C. G. Jung

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Hammer Museum

The Hammer Museum says: This spring the Hammer Museum presents The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New... 

The Eclectech presents Sundaze

Music: DJ

Sundaze

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Custom Hotel

An epic chapter in the story of the DJ pool party scene in LA, the Custom Hotel's Sundaze parties bring a... 

<em>The Never-Ending Story: Fairytale, Fantasy, Obsession</em>

Art

The Never-Ending Story

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Royal/T

It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the... 

Sumi Ink Club: <em>Sumi Room</em>

Art

Sumi Ink Club: Sumi Room

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like... 

Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts

Art

Pasadena Showcase House

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Cravens Estate

The artistry and innovation of the designers, landscapers, and artisans involved in this year's Pasadena Showcase House is as inspirational and... 

David Choe: <em>Nothing to Declare</em>

Art

David Choe

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Lazarides Gallery Beverly Hills

On the eve of the release of the new biographical documentary on his life so far, David Choe takes on the... 

<em>Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy</em>

Art: Installation

Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy

Sunday 5/ 9 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live

The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life... 

<em>Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo</em>

Theatre

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Mark Taper Forum

It's always refreshing to see a work that speaks with such striking originality; it reaffirms the value in taking risks. Playwright... 

Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia: <em>by Deborah Calderwood</em>

Art

Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia

Sunday 5/ 9 @ CB1 Gallery

The thing about Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia is that, although nearly all his creative projects involve paint at some point, he's not... 

Assemblage and Book Show

Art

Assemblage and Book Show

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Land of Odd Gallery

Assemblage has traditionally straddled the blurry line between crafts and fine art. But works by giants like Joseph Cornell and Edward... 

Shizuko Greenblatt: <em>Japanese Character Series</em> and <em>Fusion Ikebana II </em>

Art

Shizuko Greenblatt

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Pacific Asia Museum-

The Pacific Asia Museum says:   In this exhibition, Shizuko Greenblatt explores a new mode of calligraphy on canvas as... 

<em>Lost Panorama</em>

Special Event

Lost Panorama

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Velaslavasay Panorama

The Velaslavasay Panorama says: The Lost Panorama project was never about locating something. It was more about the phenomenon of disappearances... 

<em>Ring Festival LA</em>

Festival

Ring Festival LA

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Various LA locations

"More than a century ago, composer Richard Wagner conceived his epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen as a festival event... 

Henry Jaglom's <em>Just 45 Minutes from Broadway</em>

Theatre

Just 45 Minutes from Broadway

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Edgemar Center for the Arts

Henry Jaglom's father was a wealthy Russian businessman, and one of the few Jews Heinrich Himmler offered make an "honorary Aryan"... 

<em>Home Lands: How Women Made the West</em>

Art

Home Lands

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Autry National Center of the American West

The terminus of Manifest Destiny has produced an unparalleled convergence of cultures, and by using methodologies such as cultural, social, and... 

The Last Chapbook Project

Books: Reading

The Last Chapbook Project

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Last Bookstore

While we certainly wish them all the luck in the world, we hope that the Last Bookstore's name proves un-prophetic. A... 

House of Blues Gospel Brunch

Music

Gospel Brunch

Sunday 5/ 9 @ House of Blues Sunset Strip

Those who summon spirituality from live music and Southern-style cuisine will enjoy the House of Blues' Gospel Brunch, a longtime local... 

<em>The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River</em>

Art

The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art

The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with.... 

Pavilion of Wings

Special Event

Pavilion of Wings

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Natural History Museum

One of the Natural History Museum's most eagerly anticipated annual events is its Pavilion of Wings — the installation of living,... 

<em>The Fool's Journey: The History and Symbolism of the Tarot</em>

Art

The Fool's Journey

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum

Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution... 

<em>Never Very Far Apart</em>

Art

Never Very Far Apart

Sunday 5/ 9 @ REDCAT

Never Very Far Apart

Curated by Ryan Inouye
... 

<em>Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books</em>

Special Event

Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Showcasing more than 100 illustrations and texts from time-honored classics and popular favorites, this new exhibition guides audiences through the colorful... 

Biltmore Hotel Walking Tour

City Gems: Guided Tour

Biltmore Hotel Walking Tour

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Los Angeles Conservancy

The Biltmore Hotel tour explores the architecture and rich history of this magnificent hotel, known in its early days as “The... 

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Special Event

Noah's Ark at the Skirball

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Skirball Cultural Center

Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at... 

<em>Plants, Flowers and Fruits</em>: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs

Special Event

Plants, Flowers and Fruits: Ellsworth Kelly Lithographs

Sunday 5/ 9 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art

The Norton Simon Museum presents an exhibition of twenty lithographs of botanical subjects by American artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923). Though... 

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Art

Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Getty Museum

Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty... 

<em>Strange Kozmic Experience</em>

Special Event

Strange Kozmic Experience

Sunday 5/ 9 @ The GRAMMY Museum

The GRAMMY Museum's third major special exhibit, Strange Kozmic Experience explores the innovations, legacies, and continual impact of the artists who...