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No portion may be reproduced in whole or in part by any means, including electronic retrieval systems, without the express written permission of the publisher, LA Weekly, 724 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90015. There’s still time to skate! skate outdoors through January 21 TITLE OFFICIAL NON-PROFIT SPONSOR TICKETING PARTNER BENEFICIARY SPONSORS OF LOS AN Y GE IT LE C S D E P A R S T K M R E A N P T D O N F R A ECREATION L.A. County Holiday Celebration: See Monday. 5 LA WEEKLY WEEKLY GO | D - , | WWW . LAWEEKLY .COM PHOTO BY GENNIA CUI LA12/21 poor people in the ubiquitous encampments lm’s simple animation — whose colorful fri HOLIDAYS all over the city — it’s le to the public to sun 12/23 imagery evokes “such disparate sources as try to help. e Dub Brothers’ bene t for FILM Gustave Moreau, Henri Rousseau, ancient Bah! Humbug! the homeless, Skid Row Xmas, features an Egyptian art and African sculpture” — Feeling Scrooge-y this holiday season? acoustic concert by Sublime With Rome; Astronaut of Art belies its fantastic tale of a boy who helps Nothing like a holiday classic that calls out L.A. Car Club’s display of vintage cars; and “Space” is the current exhibition from to save the people of a West African village the worst in humanity to change your per- artwork by Shepard Fairey, Risk and Retna. multimedia artist Christopher Richmond, from an evil sorceress. e lm is sparked by spective. Independent Shakespeare Com- Merry fucking Christmas. Mayfair Hotel, and it’s a multidimensional trip — literally. enchanting, mesmerizing songs by legend- pany (known for its Shakespeare shows in 1256 W. Seventh St., downtown L.A.; Fri., A suite of photographs as well as sculptural ary Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour. Zeb- Gri th Park) presents A Christmas Carol Dec. 21, 8 p.m.; $50. brownpapertickets. works and energetic drawings support the ulon, 2478 Fletcher Drive, Elysian Valley; With Charles Dickens for the 14th year in a com/event/3924103. FALLING JAMES centerpiece of the project: the three-chan- Sun., Dec. 23, 2 p.m.; free. (323) 662-0966, row, and it’s pretty much guaranteed to kick nel, feature-length video Hyperway. With zebulon.la. FALLING JAMES any “blah” humbug feelings to the curb. e shades of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris holiday tradition features David Melville as sat 12/22 and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the COMEDY Mr. Dickens, playing nearly all the charac- FOOD/MUSEUMS lm is an epic work of sci- surrealism with ters in the famous story about Christmas a decidedly philosophical bent. With the Wrestling With Santa past, present and future, and how the latter Culinary Time Machine California desert standing in for alien plan- Anyone can trash-talk a bad movie, but do- can be wonderful if we learn from the for- ere’s a lot to see at the Getty Villa, both ets, and a Honda doing the work of a rock- ing it with an audience is a lot more fun. For mer. Melville is joined by Kalean Ung, pro- inside its galleries and across its landscaped etship, our protagonists have adventures in the last seven years, Susan Wright and John viding interjections, sound e ects and live grounds. Just as much as the architecture consciousness that prompt questions about Mathot have hosted Horrible Movie Night, music. Various dates and times. Indepen- itself, the property is composed to re ect the nature of reality, the purpose of art, the mostly at the much-missed Nerdmelt Show- dent Shakespeare Company, 3191 Casitas an elegant and authentic sense of how the potential of unfettered imagination, and room at Meltdown Comics. Wright and Ave., Atwater Village; u.-Sat., Dec. 20-22, ancient Romans would have done things. what it means to boldly go. ough it’s on Mathot, a storyboard artist whose credits in- 7 p.m.; Sun., Dec. 23, 2 p.m.; $25-$35. (818) is includes vine-draped terraces, the fa- view during regular gallery hours through clude e Simpsons, Futurama, Phineas and 710-6306, iscla.org. LINA LECARO mous majestic re ecting pool and lily-lined Dec. 22, on Sunday, Dec. 23, the gallery Ferb and Star vs. the Forces of Evil, screen sculpture fountains. But there is another, hosts a matinee screening of the entire lm, cinematic stinkers you’ve probably never BENEFIT/MUSIC more functional garden, dedicated to grow- popcorn provided. Moskowitz Bayse, 743 N. heard of and invite members of the cast and ing varieties of the Mediterranean herbs, La Brea Ave., Fairfax; Sun., Dec. 23, 2 p.m.; crew for a Q&A. Tonight’s Horrible Movie Ho, Ho, Homeless fruits and vegetables that would have been free, RSVP required. (323) 790-4882, Night: Santa With Muscles is more of a Like a bad dream or an out-of-control brush popular in Roman cuisine, as well as the moskowitzbayse.com. SHANA NYS DAMBROT Christmas mess than a miracle. Directed re, Skid Row continues to expand bound- colorful, aromatic and “medicinal” plants a by John Murlowski, the 1996 comedy stars lessly. What used to be a relatively nite fancy household requires. Twice a week, a FILM Hulk Hogan as a greedy, toupee-wearing, area of a few blocks has exploded into a bur- 30-minute guided Culinary Garden Tour bodybuilding millionaire who bangs his geoning anti-city in which newly homeless of the mint, marjoram, sage, pomegranate, Magical Animation head, gets amnesia, thinks he’s Santa, regains senior citizens and mothers with bewildered oleander and more obscure botanicals o ers Every month, La Collectionneuse is “the his memory and saves an orphanage from children wander aimlessly in shell-shock a culinary cultural perspective that helps totemic hostess” of a series of free screen- an evil scientist, played by Ed Begley Jr. Do among the walking dead in a soul-crush- bring ancient times to life. Also ursday, ings of classic and unusual French lms at you care about the rest of the plot? No. But ing, Boschian nightmare. With a dithering Dec. 27. e Getty Villa, 17985 Paci c Coast Zebulon. is a ernoon, the salon presents what other lm do you know that includes Mayor Eric Garcetti rmly under the thumb Highway, Paci c Palisades; u. & Sat., 2:30 Kirikou et la Sorcière (Kirikou and the Sor- a sword ght, a young Mila Kunis, Clint of rapacious developers — and doing little p.m.; free with advance ticketing. (310) 440- ceress), a 1998 animated French-language Howard and golden dialogue like, “See ya, more than stepping up police raids to harass 7300, getty.edu.