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Go out and eat today for a good cause. / Truffles photo by Eye of the Brad via LAist's flickr pool.
JOURNALISM*
Newspapers are dying. And the LA Press Club knows it: Tonight’s panel discussion is bluntly titled, "What to Do After You Leave Your Job in Journalism." Moderated by LA Weekly’s News Editor Jill Stewart, former LA reporters (Brent Hopkins, Gayle Pollard-Terry) will offer their personal stories on pursuing a life after journalism. Other panelists will offer career advice and talk about the opportunities out there right now. The program begins at 7 pm and will be held at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood. The event is free to press club members (R.S.V.P. here). All others: $10 prepaid, $20 at the door and students $5. The fee includes all drinks and appetizers.
FILM
The UCLA Film And Television Archive presents The Love Parade at the Silent Movie Theatre tonight at 8 pm. It’s an early talkie (1929) directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring screen idols Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. The plot is classic: Playboy Count Alfred returns home to Sylvania where he marries the queen. But he’s relegated to the role of first husband and doesn’t like it too much. “Manly Alfred resents taking orders while Louise gets to run the kingdom, and the battle of the sexes rages over the course of several charming, effervescent musical numbers. In true form, Lubitsch has the last laugh in this parade, filming the ending reconciliation as a reversal of the first wooing scene between the Count and Queen.”
ART
There’s an opening reception tonight for “The Storyteller's Art: A Retrospective of the Work of Designer Kit Hinrichs” at the Art Center of Pasadena. For 40 years Hinrichs has used graphic design as a “force for communicating ideas and social relevancy, relying on storytelling devices--pacing, narrative voice, irony, humor, pathos--to engage audiences emotionally and draw them into the story in a thought-provoking and memorable way.” The opening reception will begin at 7 pm with a presentation by Hinrichs in the Ahmanson Auditorium, followed by wine and hors d'oeuvres in the Williamson Gallery. The exhibit runs through May 3.
EAT
Eat out for a good cause today. GO EAT LA is an annual one-day dining fundraising event. Selected LA restaurants have agreed to donate 20 percent or more of their day's proceeds to Aid For AIDS to help prevent homelessness and hunger for individuals and families impoverished and disabled by HIV/AIDS. So if you have squirreled enough money away to eat out once a week, then maybe tonight should be the night.
TALK
Author, poet and screenwriter Sherman Alexie comes to USC to discuss the status of Native Americans today. His first novel, Reservation Blues, won Booklist’s Editors Choice Award for Fiction. His latest book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, was a 2007 National Book Award winner in Young People’s Literature. He's also written and produced the film Smoke Signals that won the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. The event begins at 7 pm at USC's Alfred Newman Recital Hall. General admission: $20, USC staff/faculty: $10, USC students: $5.
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Regarding the journalism discussion, I find it very ironic that nitwit Jill Stewart is speaking being that she is pals with so many of those who are killing journalism in LA. Hopefully someone will bounce a muffin off her empty head.
As a reporter myself, congrats to the LA Press Club for a timely discussion with a big dose of reality. .I do not believe all newspapers are dying. Certainly many newspapers are in big trouble. I know that truthful representation of news and information will continue to be provided for communities for many years.