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Sunday - January 29, 2012

Ground Hogs Day

City Wide 7th annual ‘Museums Free-For-All’. 18 of the greatest museums in Los Angeles presenting art, cultural heritage, natural history, and science—will open their doors wide and invite visitors free of charge

ChinaTown • 113th Golden Dragon Parade, over 110,000 individuals lining the parade route include almost two dozen floats, multiple marching bands, government officials, various dignitaries, entertainers, local business leaders and cultural groups.

Eagle Rock "Time Machine". The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS) will transform Eagle Rock’s Welcome Inn into a six-hour tour through key moments in LA’s experimental music history. Over a dozen concurrent micro concerts will transform individual motel rooms into venues for installations and live performances allowing key moments in Southern California sound and music history to be experienced simultaneously and sequentially in a single location.

El Monte Airport • Pasadena Crusin' Weekly Car Show. 

Garden Grove • Tet Festival.  World’s largest Tết Festival outside of Vietnam, boasts 100,000+ visitors and dozens of booths in a span of a three day weekend event. Visitors are emersed with a vibrant array of traditional foods, live entertainment, festive games, and customs celebrating the new year.

Hollywood Ameba Music. Live performing in store tonight

Long Beach • Museum of Latin American Art. MoLAA's mission is to educate the public about contemporary Latin American fine art (by artists who have lived and worked in Latin America since WWII) through the presentation of a significant permanent collection, dynamic exhibitions and related cultural and educational programs.

Mid-Wilsire Concert at the LACMA. Tonights live performance by Brasil Guitar Duo.

Monterey Park • Chinese New Year Festival.  Various types of entertainment will be featured all days. A large carnival fun zone will be featured in parking lots.

Pasadena • Caltech Chamber Music Ensembles.

San Pedro Whale Fiesta,  celebrate the migration of the Pacific gray whale and the beginning of whalewatching season with the building of a life-sized sand sculpture of a humpback whale! It's a family day filled with activities and exhibits for all including games, arts and crafts, puppet shows, food and gift vendors, marine awareness organizations, guest lecturers and music. For those with a competitive edge, enter the Duct Tape Whale Sculpture Contest or the Great Cetacean Creation Sand Sculpture Contest.

 Valley Village • A Scottish Kitchen Cèilidh Bring your musical instruments (fiddles, whistles, bagpipes, harps, guitars, drums, etc.), your dancing feet, your singing voices, traditional songs, lyrical poems, witty jokes, old stories and join us for a casual evening of sharing Scottish music and culture.

Yorba Linda • Richard M. Nixon Library. Free concerts are held Sundays, except when otherwise noted, and are open to the public. Doors open at 1:15 p.m., and concerts begin at 2:00 p.m.