Stone & Steel

• Tonight at UCLA Live, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet will be speaking at 8 PM. Tickets range from $25-35, or $15 for UCLA students.

• At 7 PM, the Hammer Museum, author Marilynne Robinson will be reading. Her novel Gilead was one of the top 10 books of 2004 according to the New York Times.

• MOCA Pacific Design Center hosts Royal Art Lodge artist Jonathan Pylypchuk for a free art talk at 6:30 PM.

• Alt-country favorite Jay Farrar will be performing at the Troubadour along with Anders Parker of Varnaline. Tickets are $17 and doors open at 8 PM.

• In film, the New Beverly Cinema is showing Ran, Akira Kurosawa's masterful reweaving of King Lear, at 8 PM.

• At BookSoup on Sunset, wrter-director Bill Condon will present and sign Kinsey: Public and Private, Condon's look at the history and myth of Dr Kinsey.

Photo by Jim Britt