ENTERTAINMENT
Dec. 9
Jim Kimo West, Ken Emerson
Celebrate the holiday season with some kick-back, stress-reducing island vibes. Kimo’s annual Holiday Slack Key Show will feature terrific hula.
Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 9
Cost: $20
Details: (310) 519-1314; www.alvasshowroom.com
Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
Dec. 9
Anita Chang, Rodney Oakes
The Los Angeles Harbor College Music Department presents Anita Chang and Rodney Oakes during an evening concert.
Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 9
Cost: Free
Details: (310) 233- 4429
Venue: LA Harbor College Music Recital Hall, 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington
Dec. 10
Warehouse One Holiday Show
The second annual ska-rock holiday show with San Pedro’s favorite local band. Originals, covers and classics will put you in a festive spirit with a rockin’ hometown twist. Opening act: Law.
Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 10
Cost: $15 to $30
Details: www.grandvision.org
Venue: Grand Annex, 434 W. 6th St., San Pedro
Dec. 10
Nili Brosh
Instrumental progressive rock-fusion will feature original music by Nili Brosh.
Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 10
Cost: $20
Details: alvasshowroom.com
Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St, San Pedro
Dec. 11
The 19th Annual Carlos Vega Memorial Birthday Concert
Carlos Vega was a renowned recording artist who had recorded and/or performed with Freddy Hubbard, Boz Scaggs, Lee Ritenour, Vince Gill, Reba McIntire, Olivia Newton-John, Larry Carlton, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, and Randy Newman, before he died in 1998. Those paying tribute at this show include David Garfield, Frank Gambale, Michael Thompson, James Harrah, Denny Dias; John “JR” Robinson, Gary Novak, Jimmy Branly, Steve Ferrone, Walfredo Reyes Jr. Oscar Seaton; Jimmy Earl and Alex Ligertwood.
Time: 4 p.m. Dec. 11
Cost: $50
Details: alvasshowroom.com
Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
Dec. 11
Joy to the World!
Justin Rudd and his nonprofit Community Action Team invite the public to a free, 90-minute “Joy to the World” Christmas concert. All ages and all sizes of groups are welcome.=
Time: 4:30 p.m. Dec. 11
Cost: Free
Details: https://2016joytotheworld.eventbrite.com
Venue: Bay Shore Church, 5100 E. The Toledo, Long Beach
Dec. 17
Fleetwood Mac vs Heart
Gaslamp Long each presents Fleetwood Mac vs Heart featuring Mirage and Dog n Butterfly. This is a concert and dinner show you don’t want to miss.
Time: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17
Cost: $15 to $58
Details: www.gaslamptix.com
Venue: Gaslamp Lounge, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach
Dec. 17
Holiday POPS Spectacular
The annual Holiday POPS Spectacular continues with festive music and high spirits. Celebrate the holiday season by joining the Golden State Pops Orchestra, Maestro Steven Allen Fox, and the GSPO Chorale, led by Maestra Marya Basaraba.
Time: 8 p.m., Dec. 17
Cost: $29 to $60
Details: www.grandvision.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
Dec. 18
Celtic Music
World’s Most Recorded Piper” Eric Rigler (soloist on Braveheart, Titanic, The Simpsons, etc.) and multi-talented string player Dirk Freymuth team-up to create a musical panorama of Celtic spirit and energy. Drawing from haunting Irish melodies, barn-burning jigs and reels, and themes from Eric’s film and television work, the duo produce a hearing-is-believing sonic experience.
Time: 4 p.m. Dec. 18
Cost: $20
Details: alvasshowroom.com
Venue: Alvas Showroom, 1417 W. 8th St., San Pedro
Jan. 1
New Year’s Eve 2016 in DTLB
The DLBA will not only once again host the largest party in town, it has shifted gears to one-up itself as it welcomes a plethora of the world’s finest musicians to take part in a three-stage, three-block festival in the heart of downtown on Pine Avenue between 1st and 4th Streets. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and Citizen Cope are headlining this year with each bringing guests to perform throughout the evening. Those guests include a special DJ set from Cut Copy, electro-dance master Big Data, reggae songstress HIRIE, house DJ Plastic Plates, and Latin soul group Boogaloo Assassins. Joining them are The Delta Bombers, DJ Paul V., DJ Taharba, and Sizwe the DJ.
Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 31
Cost: $40
Details: http://tinyurl.com/DTLB-NYE
Venue: Downtown Long Beach
THEATER
Dec. 10
The Nutcracker
San Pedro City Ballet returns with a holiday season tradition, featuring their corps de ballet and some of San Pedro’s ballet stars of the future. This is truly a magical experience for the entire family.
Time: Dec. 10 and 11
Cost: $19 to $39
Details: www.sanpedrocityballet.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
Dec. 10
A Very Special Holiday Special
The Palos Verdes/South Bay Group of the Sierra Club invites you to a holiday outing to see A Very Special Holiday Special, a light comedy by Mark Harvey Levine. From a talking Christmas tree, Grandma’s visit to the babe in the manger, the sons of Israel watching a flame, and Les Miz — elf-style — you’ll love this holiday evening full of theatrical stocking stuffers.
Time: 8 p.m. Dec. 10
Cost: $22
Details: (310) 383-5247
Venue: Little Fish Theater, 777 Centre St., San Pedro
FILM
Dec. 9
Elf
Come enjoy the holidays with the Battleship Iowa.
Time: 6:30 p.m. Dec. 9
Cost: Free
Details: (877) 446-9261; www.pacificbattleship.com
Venue: Battleship Iowa, 250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro
Dec. 16
Frozen
Come enjoy the holidays with the Battleship Iowa.
Time: 6:30 p.m. Dec. 16
Cost: Free
Details: (877) 446-9261; www.pacificbattleship.com
Venue: Battleship Iowa, 250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro
Dec. 23
It’s A Wonderful Life 70th Anniversary
Be part of a holiday classic. It’s the 70th Anniversary of Frank Capra’s timeless It’s A Wonderful Life. 1940’s dress encouraged.
Time: 7 p.m. Dec. 23
Cost: $10
Details: http://spiffest-wonderful-life.bpt.me
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
ARTS
Dec. 10
On Being Blue
TransVagrant and Gallery 478 are pleased to present On Being Blue, Recent Works by Jay McCafferty. Electing the neutrality of the grid as an organizing principle, McCafferty has been creating artworks by focusing rays of sunlight on its points of intersection for more than three decades.
Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, through Dec. 10
Cost: Free
Details: (310) 600-4873
Venue: Gallery 478, 478 W. 7th St., San Pedro
Dec. 12
Altered Objects
Altered Objects offers a reimagining of everyday objects by three Los Angeles artists: Julie Schustack, Tina Turturici, and Nicolas Shake. Shake builds his ghost sculptures from a tire, a shovel, or a palm tree frond, but they change within the context of the media and color he employs. Turturici recreates everyday objects in multiple media including ink drawings, collage, paintings and 3D objects. While Schustack combines found objects with her unique ceramic forms to create mysterious sculptures that capture the essence of time and change, especially her works related to music.
Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, through Dec. 12
Cost: Free
Details: (310) 243-3334
Venue: University Art Gallery, LaCorte Hall, A-107, California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson
Dec. 16
Have an EPIC Election! Exhibit Opens at CSU Dominguez Hills
An election history exhibition Have an EPIC Election! 100 Years of National and California Elections is showing at California State University Dominguez Hills Library Cultural Arts Gallery. Through newspaper headlines and campaign materials of older campaigns juxtaposed with more recent elections, the exhibition presents a case for how much things have changed and how much they’ve stayed the same.
Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, through Dec. 16
Cost: Free
Details: (310) 243-3895
Venue: CSUDH, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson
Dec. 31
L.A. Noir
Since 1999, Mark V. Lord has plied his trade as a professional screenwriter in New York and Los Angeles, while maintaining a mostly private practice as a photographer.
Lord’s images of Los Angeles are filled with the deep shadows and low-key lighting characteristic of these films, but with a decidedly contemporary twist.
Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays.
Cost: Free
Details: www.pvartcenter.org
Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes
Jan. 15, 2017
Chiaroscuro
Cornelius Projects is pleased to present new paintings by San Pedro artist Candice Gawne. The exhibition will also include an installation of several of Gawne’s signature plasma glass sculptures in the Cornelius Projects’ screening room.
Time: 12 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, through Jan. 15, 2
Cost: Free
Details: (310) 266-9216; corneliusprojects.com
Venue: Cornelius Projects, 1417 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro
COMMUNITY
Dec. 9
Wilmington Tree Lighting
Enjoy the lighting of the community tree.
Time: 6 to 10 p.m. Dec. 9
Cost: Free
Venue: Wilmington Town Square, near I Street at Avalon Place, Wilmington
Dec. 9
Portraits of the Prince of Peace
Join this celebration, presented through the joint efforts of the Neighborhood Church, St. Luke’s Lutheran, University Baptist, St. Cornelius Roman Catholic, Long Beach Christian Reformed and Calvary Chapel Long Beach. The pageant is an outdoor event featuring more than a dozen separate visual presentations with living actors and live animals depicting the prophecy and birth of Jesus.
Time: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Cost: Free
Details: (562) 421-1721
Venue: Wardlow Road at Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach
Dec. 9
Shabbat Service
Be part of a traditional Shabbat Service with adult birthday and anniversary blessings
Time: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9
Cost: Free
Details: (310) 833-2467; www.bethelsp.org
Venue: Temple Beth El, 1435 W. 7th St., San Pedro
Dec. 10
Tidepool Wonders
Explore low tides on the rocky shore with Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in December. Education Staff led walk to the nearby Point Fermin Tidepools. The area offers a home to a variety of local tidepool animals and seaweeds. Among the organisms are tidepool sculpin, sea urchins, sea hares, hermit crabs, feather-boa kelp and an occasional octopus.
Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Dec. 10, 12:30 to 2 p.m. Dec. 11, 11:30 to 1 p.m. Dec. 24, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Dec. 27, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 29
Cost: Free
Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org.
Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro
Dec. 10
San Pedro Democratic Club Meet and Greet
Celebrate the holidays with fellow San Pedro Dem Club members.
New members welcome. Light hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served. A special tribute to President Robert Brandin will also be part of the event.
Time: 4:30 to 7 p.m.
Cost: Free
Venue: Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles, 112 E. 22nd St., San Pedro
Dec. 10
Bookmaking Workshop
Participate in a bookmaking workshop for adults and teens.
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Dec. 10
Cost: $25
Details: (562) 508-6947
Venue: Angels Gate Pop-Up Gallery, 415 6th St., San Pedro
Dec. 11
Heart of the Holiday Parade
Enjoy Wilmington Heart of the Holiday Parade
Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 11
Cost: Free
Venue: Avalon at E Street in Wilmington
Dec. 17
Gyotaku
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium staff will offer a holiday workshop to teach participants gyotaku, the ancient art of Japanese fish printing. The lab will double as an artist’s studio where beginners and experienced fish printers can create one of a kind holiday gifts.
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Dec. 17
Cost: $18
Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org
Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro
Dec. 18
Salt Marsh Open House
Step out into nature and discover the hidden world of the Salinas de San Pedro Salt Marsh. Join Cabrillo Marine Aquarium educators and Coastal Park Naturalists as they help uncover the world of mud and water that is our local wetland.
Time: 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 18
Cost: Free
Details: (310) 548-7562; www.cabrillomarineaquarium.org
Venue: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, 3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro
Dec. 25
Holiday at The Center
Join The Center staff, community and volunteers for a Winter and Christmas day event. Enjoy a meal, play board games and share in fun times.
Time: 3 to 6 p.m. Dec. 25
Cost: Free
Details: (562) 434-4455
Venue: The Center Long Beach, 2017 E. 4th St., Long Beach
Jan. 8
CHILL
The Queen Mary’s 5th Annual CHILL returns to the majestic ship. CHILL is Southern California’s coolest holiday adventure complete with ice-skating, ice tubing, swingin’ sleigh rides, visits with Santa, gingerbread decorating and the all-new interactive attraction, Alice in Winterland.
Time: 7 p.m., through Jan. 8
Cost: $30 to $40
Details: www.queenmary.com/events/chill
Venue: Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach