Events on Sunday, February 12
Sex Roles & Rules: Gender, Liberation, and Sexuality
Sunday 2/12 @ The Spielberg Theatre
Since 1975, Los Angeles Filmforum has aimed to bring greater recognition to independent film as an art form, with a focus...
Part Time Punks: My Bloody Valentine
Sunday 2/12 @ The Echo
Part Time Punks is a weekly Sunday night jaunt into an often misunderstood genre, going strong since 2005. The soundtrack centers...
Sunday 2/12 @ Los Angeles Zoo
The landmark LA Zoo & Botanical Gardens is home to 900 residents representing 250 different species, and it's the zoo's inhabitants...
Lecture: Genuine or Fake? Establishing Authenticity in Traditional Chinese Painting
Sunday 2/12 @ LACMA
How does one determine a real from a fake Chinese painting? What determines the difference between a copy and a forgery?...
The Magic of Solidarity: Shahrnush Parsipur and Suheir Hammad
Sunday 2/12 @ REDCAT
“Parsipur navigates skillfully between the extremes of mainstream discourse and overt opposition.” World Literature Today “[Hammad] is the embodiment of the global...
Noche Romántica con Ramon Ayala
Sunday 2/12 @ House of Blues Anaheim
Accordion's king Ramón Ayala, son of local musician Ramón Cobarrubias, began playing his favorite instrument at a very young age. Inspired...
Studio Ghibli Family Matinee: Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Sunday 2/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru No Ugoku Shiro), 2004, Walt Disney Pictures, 119 min. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. An average teenage girl working...
Studio Ghibli Series: My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Sunday 2/12 @ Egyptian Theatre
New 35mm Print: My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari No Totoro), 1988, Studio Ghibli, 86 min. The third Studio Ghibli feature from Hayao...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 2/12 @ LACMA
While their male counterparts' focus was diverted with masturbatory hallucinations of women as objects, the female Surrealists delved freely into the...
Sunday 2/12 @ Royal/T
Royal/T is the ideal environment for listening to live DJs while peeping at the ever-revolving art on display, along with the...
Civic Virtue: the Watts Towers Art Center
Sunday 2/12 @ Watts Towers Art Center
Instead of artwork being isolated within a vacuum of the creative minds being represented, the paintings, sculpture, photography, film and other...
Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles
Sunday 2/12 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Seminal photographer Weegee did the same thing in mid-20th century Los Angeles that paparazzi do today: he documented the shocking and...
Sunday 2/12 @ Il Tramezzino
Joseph Lopez's photo series, Nightwork, embodies the under-appreciated elements of our (and possibly any) city and presents it to us in...
Sunday 2/12 @ Michael's Restaurant
Michael's Restaurant in Santa Monica, a much-lauded pioneer of California cuisine, has a new executive chef at the helm, John-Carlos Kuramoto....
Sunday 2/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Kenneth Anger is usually associated with his scandalous Hollywood Babylon oeuvre, but while the books are legendary, his filmic eye is...
Sunday 2/12 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Maximo González recycles materials such as devalued currency, vintage aluminum household items, and plastic kitchen items to create new modes of...
Sunday 2/12 @ Various LA Theatres
Haywire is a well-woven extravaganza of ass-kicking. Director Steven Soderbergh made the inspired decision to cast MMA champ Gina Carano as...
Sunday 2/12 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
The exhibition features twenty-eight photographs from [Rhona] Bitner's ongoing Listen series, a striking body of work devoted to the continued exploration...
Sunday 2/12 @ Palm Springs Art Museum
In conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative, the Palm Springs Art Museum presents a comprehensive visual survey of swimming-pool...
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Sunday 2/12 @ LACMA
Five years in the making, Living in a Modern Way vividly illustrates how California designers of the midcentury helped shape the...
Sunday 2/12 @ Cliff's Edge
Silver Lake's gorgeous Cliff's Edge has been enlivened with the recent addition of a new chef, Frenchman Benjamin Bailly. 29-year-old Bailly...
Sunday 2/12 @ Palmilla Cocina y Tequila
Palmilla Cocina y Tequila is a sophisticated departure for Hermosa Beach. Featuring a glamorous décor designed by Gulla Jonsdottir, famed for...
Sunday 2/12 @ Public School 612
The latest addition to Downtown's burgeoning bar scene is Public School 612, a traditional-meets-contemporary gastropub soft opening March 8 in the...
Sunday 2/12 @ La Sandia
La Sandia, Richard Sandoval's elegant Mexican restaurant at Santa Monica Place, offers four special month-long festivals a year, each celebrating a...
Sunday 2/12 @ Royal/T
Royal/T in Culver City features an art gallery, Japanese-style cosplay café, and one of LA's best gift shops of pop-culture treasures....
Sunday 2/12 @ Salt Fine Art
Saltfineart is proud to present its most daring and intense show to date ¡CUBA! featuring 11 artists living and working within...
Civic Virtue: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Sunday 2/12 @ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
The paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and other works at this dual-venue exhibition have been chosen to represent the history of two...
Sunday 2/12 @ Catalina Zip Line Eco Tour
Take in the beauty of the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island’s terrain while hurtling through the air at speeds of up...
Sunday 2/12 @ Naya Sunset
"Naya," the Sanskrit word for "new," befits the new incarnation of the Silver Lake Indian restaurant previously known as Tantra. The...
The Cacophony Society Zone Show
Sunday 2/12 @ CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
The Cacophony Society Zone Show is a retrospective look at the Cacophony Society, a national collective of guerrilla artists, dada pranksters,...
Sunday 2/12 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Deconstructing Perestroika is CAFAM's exploration, in poster form, of the cultural and political events that led to the collapse of the...
Sunday 2/12 @ Various LA locations
Take a trip into Hollywood's Golden Age with a tour celebrating 100 years of Tinseltown. The Felix in Hollywood Tour Company...
Zes and Retna: Excavated Revelations
Sunday 2/12 @ Known Gallery
LA graffiti artists Zes and Retna are longtime friends and linchpins of the renowned MSK graffiti crew. Highly influential on both...
Sunday 2/12 @ Yujean Kang
With an elegant, creative take on Chinese cuisine, Yujean Kang's has been a Pasadena institution for 20 years. Kang was born...
Sunday 2/12 @ The Elephant Lab - Lillian Theatre
Spending an evening at the theater can be a gamble, but with a show like Unscreened, the odds are in your...
Sunday 2/12 @ Veggie Grill
Veggie Grill has ably filled a void with their delicious, affordable vegan comfort food that appeals to vegans and meat-eaters alike....
Sunday 2/12 @ Cliff's Edge
While Cliff's Edge in Silver Lake is renowned for the excellent food served on its gorgeous terraced patio, the interior, now...
Sunday 2/12 @ Mezze
Mezze, a Mediterranean-influenced restaurant and bar in West Hollywood, is a great place to begin an evening or indulge in a...
Sunday 2/12 @ Urban Masala
Urban Masala is a new casual Indian restaurant in the heart of Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Opened by three gents from...
Sunday 2/12 @ The Getty Museum
Part of the Getty's ongoing series that highlights photographs from the museum's permanent collection, In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980 is the last...
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Sunday 2/12 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
During a career spanning four decades, George Harrison earned a reputation as one of rock's most talented and innovative musicians and...
Navitat Canopy Adventures Zipline Tour
Sunday 2/12 @ Nativat Canopy Adventures
SoCal adrenaline junkies celebrate a new source of thrills: Wrightwood's Navitat Canopy Tour. Zipline in a harness along ten aerial lines...
Sunday 2/12 @ Greenway Court Theatre
I Love Lucy Live on Stage, a tribute to the most popular sitcom of all time, is back for a second...
California International Antiquarian Book Fair
Sunday 2/12 @ Pasadena Convention Center
Bibliophiles, academics, and literary tenderfoots pore over collections from dozens of rare-book institutions at the California International Antiquarian Book Fair. Vintage...
Sunday 2/12 @ Drago Centro
Downtown's Drago Centro has a sleek décor, featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, stone walls, and a glass wine cellar in the center of...
Sunday 2/12 @ The Actors Company Theatre
Casebolt and Smith is a multidisciplinary performance duo combining physical and musical theatre, fused together with rare humor and intelligence. The...
Sunday 2/12 @ Santa Monica Pier
Every step of Cirque d Soleil's new "Grand Chapiteau" is designed to enthrall L.A. From the star-laced walk (both figuratively and...
Sunday 2/12 @ LACMA
Metropolis II is an intense and a complex kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form...
Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, on Loan from The Frick Collection, New York
Sunday 2/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents a special installation of Hans Memling's Portrait of a Man, c. 1470–75, on loan from The...
Sunday 2/12 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Meiji: Japan Rediscovered explores the connection of Japan and the West in the mid to late 19th century through the early...
Sunday 2/12 @ The Broad Stage
Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe-winner Helen Hunt stars in this groundbreaking new version of Wilder’s iconic American play. Our Town tells...
Obstacleism: Paintings by Farr Ligvani
Sunday 2/12 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Born in Tehran and educated in California, Ligvani focuses his art on ideas of life and evolution. As the artist wrestled...
The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period
Sunday 2/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents The Original Print: An Introduction to Printmaking in the Postwar Period, an exhibition that looks at...
Sunday 2/12 @ The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The first large-scale survey of California art from this period, Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 features artists working...
Cubensis - Grateful Dead Tribute Band
Sunday 2/12 @ CENTRAL S.A.P.C
Cubensis celebrates the Grateful Dead concert experience. Like the Dead, the band plays a wondrous amalgam of blues, country, jazz, electronic...
46 N. Los Robles: A History of the Pasadena Art Museum
Sunday 2/12 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Since 1924, the Chinese-inspiried building at 46 N. Los Robles Avenue in Pasadena has been a Southern California landmark and a...
Sunday 2/12 @ REDCAT
Opening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pm For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of...
Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting
Sunday 2/12 @ Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum is pleased to present the special exhibition Auspicious Beauty: Korean Folk Painting. Korean folk painting during the Joseon...
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California
Sunday 2/12 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
The Norton Simon Museum presents Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California, an exhibition that explores the significance of printmaking...
Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings
Sunday 2/12 @ LACMA
American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Born in Newburgh, New...
Sunday 2/12 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Experience a groundbreaking new exhibition inspired by the critically acclaimed book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,...
