All events on Sunday October 05
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- Liz Phair performs 'Exile in Guyville'
- Sunday Oct 5 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
- Sold Out!
- Liz Phair was not the only woman channeling desire and anger through a guitar in the early '90s, but she was perhaps the most convincing.... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Elevate Film Festival
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Nokia Theatre LA Live
- As Amy Sedaris once eloquently explained, the term "artist" is too often employed as a vague self descriptor. The Elevate Film Festival is a commerce-free... View details »
- More Flavor: Workshop
- Van Arno
- Sunday Oct 5 (9am–4pm) @ BOXeight
- Van Arno is Los Angeles' quintessential post-classicist illustrator; tonight, he shares his best tricks in a Blue Rooster Art Supplies-sponsored workshop class. Hosted at fashion/art... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- James Turrell
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Ugo Wine Bar
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Art
- Marcel Duchamp Redux
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Art
- Mexican Calendar Girls
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Art
- Mark Bradford
- Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
- Art
- The Juxtapoz Factor
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- John Lautner
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Madama Butterfly
- Sunday Oct 5 (2pm) @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion More times »
- Madama Butterfly's composer, Giacomo Puccini, rightly considered the opera his most "deeply felt and imaginative" work. Inspiring a number of reinterpretations — including a postmodern... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- UCLA Live International Theatre Festival
- Sunday Oct 5 (7–9pm) @ Freud Playhouse More times »
- UCLA Live offers a finely curated nine-month season of performances, with the International Theatre Festival serving as its cornerstone. The event remains peerless in bringing... View details »
- Art: Photography
- In Focus: The Landscape
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Scribble Press
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 Oct 5 (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 »
- Art
- All of This is Melting Away
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Art
- Josh Dorman
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Art
- Aspects of Mel's Hole
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 9 to 5
- Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
- Art
- The Art of War
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Fall for Dance
- Sunday Oct 5 (3pm) @ Orange County Performing Arts Center More times »
- Fall for Dance is the OC Performing Arts Center's gift to the dance-loving masses, bringing ten international companies spanning contemporary, classical, and folkloric dance styles... View details »
- More Flavor: Fashion
- Antonio Pineda
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Art
- Sandrine Pelletier
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Fette's Gallery More times »
- Free
- International-artist-friendly Fette's Gallery rings in its fall season with Insekts, an installation of new works by Swiss mixed-media artist/embroiderer Sandrine Pelletier. The Laussane/Paris-based artist creates... View details »
- Art
- John Bock
- Sunday Oct 5 (noon–6pm) @ REDCAT More times »
- Free
- John Bock's unpredictable performances may seem like exercises in artistic capriciousness, but his loud costumes and absurd statements conceal his skill as a social and... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Sunday Oct 5 (3pm) @ Miles Memorial Playhouse More times »
- Kristina Wong, whose past projects include a parody mail-order bride website called Big Bad Chinese Mama, holds nothing back during her irreverent, no-topic-is-off-limits performances. Like... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Robert Glenn Ketchum
- Sunday Oct 5 (11am–7pm) @ G2 Gallery More times »
- Free
- Photographer and environmentalist Robert Glenn Ketchum makes landscape images, but this isn't Ansel Adams we're talking about here. The 38-year-old UCLA graduate eschews the somber... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- It's the Housewives
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Festival
- FOTW 08
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Los Angeles Theatre Center More times »
- For the second year in a row, the New LATC concocts an enthralling admixture of theatre, dance, and performance that brings together new work and... View details »
- Art: Festival
- Off-Axis
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum More times »
- Free
- Although our neighbor to the north is typically known for its stellar views and celebrity mansions, Santa Barbara has a stash of hidden artistic gems,... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- TarFest
- Sunday Oct 5 (9am) @ Miracle Mile More times »
- GiveawayFree
- Not since the landmark Flintstones road-trip episode have the La Brea Tar Pits seen so much action. Occupying several venues along the Wilshire Blvd corridor... View details »
- Art
- Gordy Grundy
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Western Project More times »
- Free
- The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website for a 21-week series... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Venice Beach Wines
- Sunday Oct 5 (8am–10pm) @ Venice Beach Wines More times »
- Venice's transformation from the sister nabe of Loisaida into Williamsburg West continues with the re-opening of Venice Beach Wines on the increasingly de-sketchified Rose Ave... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- Sunday Oct 5 @ The Landmark More times »
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's famous Speaker's Corner, and... View details »
- Art
- Daniel DeSure
- Sunday Oct 5 (1–5pm) @ Found Gallery More times »
- Free
- Los Angeles-based artist/art producer Daniel DeSure not only creates photography, film, and new media, but he also founded the art production/design house Commonwealth last year... View details »
- Art
- Raw Skies
- Sunday Oct 5 (2–7pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
- Free
- Seven is a lucky number at Carmichael Gallery this month, as the curators carry out another dazzling, high-octane international group exhibition. Raw Skies presents a... View details »
- Art
- Yoko Ono
- Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 »
