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With just about a month left in the exhibit, artists Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, and Simone Legno will be gathering for a discussion about the work of Takashi Murakami at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. The event, called Pervasive Persuasion, is a panel-style talk moderated by Eric Nakamura, publisher and co-editor of Giant Robot, and will include thoughts on "how and why artists in Los Angeles are blurring the lines of media to spread their ideas beyond museum walls." The evening will end with the opportunity for the audience to participate in a collaborative painting with the artists and a enjoy unique performance art experience by Oguri.

Have a taste for deliciously scary eye candy? Check out Christopher Ulrich's phantasmagorical paintings: Demoneater Series One in Santa Monica!

Last week with the Holiday, we said it was slim pickings. This week, classical music in Los Angeles is bountiful and what has piqued our interest is Alternative Opera Theater's three performances this upcoming weekend at the intimate NoHo Arts District space, the Raven Playhouse. The performance will feature two chamber operas, the first being "The Telephone" by Gian Carlo Menotti where a man attempts to propose to the woman she loves. But there's...

Monday Shalom Auslander presents Foreskin's Lament 7pm @ Vroman's Valerie Plame Wilson presents Fair Game 7pm @ Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach Barbara Firestone presents Autism Heroes 7pm @ Dutton's Slash presents Slash 7pm @ Borders, Torrance Lawrence Wright presents The Looming Tower 7:30pm @ UCLA Tuesday David Plante, with host Mark Danielewski, presents ABC 7pm @ Book Soup Michael Lent presents Christmas Letters from Hell 7pm @ Vroman's Tommy Lasorda & Bill Plaschke...

There's no doubt about it, Pasadena is an arts town. Local "old money" patronize the cultural arts in these parts and it shows. Talk about the season opener for the Pasadena Symphony, you can't go wrong with these three composers. Known as Mexico's most distinctive musical voice of the 1930's, Silvestre Revueltas is a madman of a composer -- colorful, energetic and all over the place. "The Homage to Lorca conflates two seemingly incompatible...

Labor Day Weekend is a great time to be in town because everyone else leaves. The streets are empty. There’s elbow room at your favorite local watering hole. And … there’s plenty of local theater just waiting to be seen. Here are LAist’s five theater picks for this weekend: Calling Aphrodite Keiko and her sister were playing outside their home, when something unimaginable happened. It was Hiroshima in 1945. This play focuses on Keiko’s life...

The Chance Theater. 5552 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim. 714-777-3033. Tickets $25. Gala opening on Sunday at 6 pm. Runs Saturdays at 4 pm and Sundays at 6 pm until Sept. 16.

Monday Nathan Englander discusses The Ministry of Special Cases 7pm @ Central Library Nassim Assefi presents Aria 7pm @ Dutton's Bill Bryan presents Keep It Real 7pm @ Book Soup Carolyn See signs There Will Never Be Another You 7pm @ Platt Branch Library Tuesday Antoine Wilson presents The Interloper 7pm @ Dutton's Bruce Dern presents Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have 7pm @ Book Soup Helena Maria Viramontes & Manuel Munoz discuss...

Sea Wolf, The Bird & the Bee, The Little Ones, Dengue Fever @ The Echo MXPX @ Avalon Ima Robot @ Natural History Museum Ima Fucking Gymnast @ Pehrspace Kinky @ El Rey The Autumns, The Sugarplastic @ Spaceland Elini Mandell @ Malibu Performing Arts Center 8-Bit, Bark Bark Bark, 8-Bit Weapon @ The Scene Agnostic Front, U.S. Roughnecks, Viva Hate, Hold My Own @ Knitting Factory Mother Tongue, Maryandi, The Sixth Chamber, The...

Ice Cube @ House of Blues Art Brut (above) @ The Troubadour Smoosh @ Knitting Factory Rita Coolidge @ Torrance Cultural Arts Center Pitbull, Tego Calderon, Ying Yang Twins, Ilegales @ Honda Center Eek-A-Mouse @ Vault 350 The Barbarellatones @ Boardners The Makers @ Spaceland Colin Hay @ Largo Joshua Radin @ El Rey Lady Sinatra, Warner Drive, Itis @ Viper Room Atomic Punks, SWAA, Myridian @ Paladino's Tennis Club, The Front, Killsonic, The...

So there we were. Granted putting ten pounds into a five pound bag, trying to fit too many things into a Friday night but we were fairly convinced we could do what we always do - outsmart LA traffic and when there are moments where the congestion breaks up, well, gun it. Friday was not one of those nights. Maybe it was because it was Friday the 13th. While it has never served as...

O.J. to Auction Book Rights After a long string of controversies and cancellations, rights to O.J. Simpson’s If I Did It will be auctioned off on April 17, according to Los Angeles authorities. Freeing the slaves - in Los Angeles Tales of modern day slavery, in LA. And none of these people work for Disney. Benefit Concert For the Midnight Mission The Malibu Performing Arts Center (MPAC) was the place to be on March...

Los Lobos, Zen Cruisers (Blondie's Clem Burke, the Cars' Elliot Easton, the Knack's Doug Fieger and Teddy Andreadis) @ Malibu Performing Arts Center

Richard Thompson, Eliza Gilkyson @ Malibu Performing Arts Center Koffin Kats, Viva Hate, The Rocketz, Hot Rod Funeral @ Knitting Factory Charlie Wadhams & the Harmony Brothers, Ivy Walls @ Silverlake Lounge Head Automatica, Takota, March @ The Troubadour Muse Collective, Delusions of Grandeur, Full Moon Rising @ The Good Hurt The Starfuckers, Nick Josephs, 1 Enemy 3, Hollywood Trash @ The Cat Club Rob Giles, Rich Price, Adrianne, Brian Chartrand @ The Hotel...

Himself, June, High Life Kingz, Artistic Expression, Conjuring Evolution @ The Knitting Factory

Snoop Dogg, Pussycat Dolls, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley @ Greek No Means No @ The Knitting Factory Hawthorne Heights @ Wiltern Abby Travis @ Amoeba (free) DJ AM @ LAX Foxycock @ Lava Lounge Track Fighter @ King King Victim of Society, Dork @ Roxy Tom Freund, Brett Dennen @ Largo The Kooks, Trainwreck Riders @ Spaceland Twilight Singers, Stars of Track and Field@ House of Blues Cursive, The Thermals, Eastern Youth @ The...

Helen Slater @ Genghis Cohen Wolf Parade @ The Wiltern Circus Diablo @ Key Club Guttermouth @ Malibu Inn Mick Flower @ Il Corral Brian Evans @Tangier The Killers @ Troubadour Scott H. Biram @ El Cid John Mayall & the Bluebreakers @ The Canyon Peter DiStefano @ DiPiazza's Lava Lounge Chris Pierce, Keaton Simons @ Temple Bar Cat Power @ Malibu Performing Arts Center Pu$$ycow, Bang Sugar Bang, Porterville @ Safari Sam's Davy...

While many people have been celebrating this year's Dia de los Muertos since earlier last week, today and tomorrow are the days when Olvera Street calls all spirits, living and dead, for the sights and sounds of this hallowed ritual. And at the end of this spooky first week of Novemeber, one more local happening celebrates Dia de Los Muertos with a free family festival. Here are the details:

Just exactly what was Algernon, dapper hero of Oscar Wilde's ), he was meeting up with his gay lover Bunbury, a character who never appears in the play. Jacobson has taken this idea and run with it to create an entire play around those less-than-famous offstage characters: Bunbury, Rosaline (Romeo's girlfriend before Juliet), George and Martha's imaginary son, and others.

The days are getting shorter, but that's no excuse to stay at home. Have fun
without emptying your pockets. Unless otherwise noted, all performances are free.

SATURDAY, 9/10

• Shakti Foundation presents a program of classical Indian music and dance
  at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center at 6pm. Call (310) 781-7171.
  
• DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White of Part Time
  Punks continue their two month residency at
  MOCA at 6pm. Kinky
  takes the stage at 8pm, followed by a spoken word performance by David
  St. John. The evening is free with general museum admission. Call (213)
  621-1734.
  

SUNDAY, 9/11

• Catch the Rainwater Bluegrass Band at the Hollywood Farmers Market, from
  8am-noon. Call (323) 463-3171.
  
• The Young Jazz Alliance perform at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena
  at 5pm. For information, call (626) 398-3344.
  
• Violinist
  Bing Wang and pianist Vicki Ray play for the LACMA Sundays
  Live Series.
  The show starts at 6pm. Call (323) 857-6234.
  
• DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White spin post-punk, mutant disco and
  indie 80s-90s at the echo at 10pm.
  
• Carlos Guitarlos hits The Liquid Kitty at 10pm. For info, call (310) 473-3707.
  

MONDAY, 9/12

• The Oohlas continue their residency at the
  echo. Fly Better Broken open
  the night, with Toys That Kill and Tarzana wrapping
  up the evening. The doors open at 8:30pm and the show starts at 9pm. For
  details, call (213) 413-8200.
  
• Run Run Run continue their residency
  at Spaceland.
  Doors open at 8pm and the show begins at 9pm. Call (323) 661-4380
  
• Oliver Future and My
  Sexual Dad open for One Of The Loudest
  Tragedies Ever Heard at the
  Silverlake Lounge. The first show starts at 9pm. Call (323) 666-2407
  

Once again, July 4th is going to make history. We're all familiar with the events that led to Independence Day and our yearly paean to the founding fathers, veterans and ordinary people who made the three-day weekend possible. Most people are not aware that NASA is going to make history again when the Deep Impact probe slams into Tempel 1 to give us our first glimpse at the inside of a comet.

REMEMBER, DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME STARTS ON SUNDAY, APRIL 3RD SO SPRING YOUR CLOCK AHEAD ONE HOUR ON SAT NIGHT.

LAist is happy to find Ms. Arngrim is back to acting; her "New And Improved Prairie Bitch 2005" tour has two dates in LA this month, March 18th and 19th at The Lily Tomlin Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center's Renberg Theatre. She also is appearing at the ACME Theatre in the live version of the tv game show classic, What's My Line, which runs tonight at 8p.m. and also features Marty Ingels, Barry Saltzman, Debra Wilson and host J. Keith van Straaten.

Khalife is internationally known for mastering the oud (the Arabic lute). He has toured the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States giving solo performances as well as performing innovative new works. Khalife also founded the Al Mayadeen Ensemble, which specializes in Arabic chorale and the musical heritage of Lebanon.