All events on Sunday September 28

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Film
Slogan
Sunday Sep 28 (8pm) @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Retro French cinema doesn't get much cooler than Slogan, a très chic '60s tribute to advertising and swingin' sexuality. Set against a vibrant European backdrop,... View details »
Slogan
More Flavor: Fair
WeHo Book Fair
Sunday Sep 28 (10am–6pm) @ West Hollywood Park
Free
The West Hollywood Book Fair has so much to offer — panels, signings, readings, exhibitions, and more — that seeing it all is basically impossible.... View details »
WeHo Book Fair
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Tongue and Groove
Sunday Sep 28 (6–7:30pm) @ The Hotel Café
Mayda del Valle is what you might call a spark plug. A ferocious little tiger lily whose spoken-word torrents come on like avalanches of butterflies,... View details »
Tongue and Groove
Music: Electronic
MSTRKRFT
Sunday Sep 28 (7pm) @ El Rey
As MSTRKRFT, producer ALP and former Death from Above 1979 bassist Jesse F. Keeler have become one of indie dance's go-to remix teams. Retooling singles... View details »
MSTRKRFT
Music: Hip-Hop
Living Legends
Sunday Sep 28 (8pm) @ House of Blues Anaheim
West Coast indie-hoppers Living Legends are a lot of things: educational (Grouch), introspective (Scarub), and often a little crazy (Murs). When they get together, the... View details »
Living Legends

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Art
James Turrell
Sunday Sep 28 (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 28 (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 28 (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 28 (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
Mark Bradford
Sunday Sep 28 @ 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
The Juxtapoz Factor
Sunday Sep 28 (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 28 (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
Art: Photography
In Focus: The Landscape
Sunday Sep 28 (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
More Flavor: City Gem
Scribble Press
Sunday Sep 28 (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 28 (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 28 (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 28 (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
Aspects of Mel's Hole
Sunday Sep 28 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
9 to 5
Sunday Sep 28 @ 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
Art
The Art of War
Sunday Sep 28 (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 28 (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 28 (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
Art
Sandrine Pelletier
Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
Sandrine Pelletier
Art
John Bock
Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
John Bock
Performing Arts: Theatre
Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Art: Photography
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
Robert Glenn Ketchum
Performing Arts: Theatre
It's the Housewives
Sunday Sep 28 (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
Mr. Funky
Sunday Sep 28 (1–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
At most galleries and museums, squeezing the art is most definitely at the top of the list of "don'ts" — but then, Ghettogloss has always... View details »
Mr. Funky
Film: Festival
All Roads Film Project
Sunday Sep 28 @ Egyptian Theatre More times »
The concept behind National Geographic's annual All Roads Film Project is fairly straightforward. Imagine the preeminent social anthropology glossy as a volume of moving images,... View details »
All Roads Film Project
Performing Arts: Festival
FOTW 08
Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
FOTW 08
Art
Gordy Grundy
Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
Gordy Grundy
Film
Choke
Sunday Sep 28 @ Landmark Westside Pavilion More times »
Colonial theme-park worker Victor Mancini (an especially disheveled Sam Rockwell) barely survived childhood with his erratic mother (Anjelica Huston, bearing all her wonderful fangs), and... View details »
Choke
Film
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
Sunday Sep 28 (5:45, 7:30 & 9:15pm) @ Regent Showcase More times »
Lured by the lucrative business of Internet pornography, "ladyboy" Raquela longs to escape her native Philippines for a new life in Paris. Queen Raquela has... View details »
The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
Art
Yoko Ono
Sunday Sep 28 @ 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