Tonight's Triptych: Events for Thinkers

All the world's creatures...
It's too late for the $1 tickets, but $12 ones are still available for tonight's powerhouse performance of Beethoven's 9th at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Phil under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. If you haven't heard this from start to finish, you're really missing out.

He is Alive!
Skirball +AFI = Oliver Stone screening the 1969 political thriller, Z. The movie was not directed by Stone, but there will be a Q&A following the film moderated by film critic and historian Leonard Maltin.

It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is
Eric Liu, former speechwriter and policy adviser to President Clinton, will head up tonight's Zócalo at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in Little Tokyo. The topic: progressive politics.

Photo of the "Monument to Beethoven" in Pershing Square by Clinton Steeds via Flickr