There may be no American musician more ripe for the documentary treatment than Roky Erickson. There’s the tale of great promise in 1966 as the 13th Floor Elevators invent psychedelic rock and gain a reputation as the most other-worldly group alive. There’s a long period of reinvention as he continues to produce great stuff – cryptic and haunted though it is - into the 1980s. There’s a backstory of madness and decline. There’s even a......

Carl Bernstein - the ultimate investigative journalist (think Watergate coverage for The Washington Post, think All the Presiden'ts Men) - will be at Book Soup today @ 4pm to sign his latest book A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bernstein's book provides an inside peek at all things Clinton and answers some of the bigger questions about the Lewinsky affair, her early political ambition, her path to the Senate and her......

FRIDAY • Melt Banana makes an appearance tonight at the Troubadour, along with Das Oath and Toxic Shock & The Flaming Tampons at 8 PM. Tickets are $12. • Architecture in Helsinki will be giving a free in-store performance at Amoeba Music at 7 PM. • The Books and Mia Doi Todd are at the Knitting Factory tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $12 advance, $14 at the door. • At The Fold at......

• At 7:30 PM, the Egyptian Theatre hosts the documentary Inside Deep Throat, produced by Brian Grazer and directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Party Monster), exploring the historical and cultural legacy of Deep Throat. [17+] • The New Beverly Cinema has a Christian Bale double feature: The Machinist at 7:30 PM, followed by American Psycho at 9:30 PM. • Duck Soup/Rhino Records will host three free screenings of a live 1989 in-store......