DANCE The State Ballet of Georgia arrives for their Los Angeles premiere at UCLA's Royce Hall to perform Giselle. This historic Russian dance company is taking on a classic, with Nina Ananiashvili in the spotlight as the company's artistic director and prima ballerina in the title role. 8 p.m. // Royce Hall, UCLA // Westwood Plz at Charles E Young Dr S// (310) 825-2101 // $20 - 90 SPOKEN WORD It's an Anything Goes Open......

Yes, LAist will go slightly out of their way to step on that crunchy-looking leaf. Thankfully, for this Southern transplant (who used to rake dozens of bags of leaves every year as a kid), red and gold leaves do peep through the palm tree-lined horizon of Los Angeles during the Autumn months. It's already early November and the main indication of the season comes not from the sunny 70-degree weather but from the offerings......

"They're giving it away free? It must be good!" Put on your best pair of ripped jeans and a collared shirt (floss it, of course). It’s time for all the broke posers of LA to pretend they’re cultured! You can’t miss with the second annual "Museums Free-For-All" day on Sunday, October 1. Of course, those broke non-posers will probably realize that most of the 20 participating museums are normally completely free (Getty Center, California......

Opening: Art Now Yeah, yeah. You can’t wait for Night Vision so you can be all hipster again like last summer. Until then, this Thursday is the start of MOCA Focus: Eric Wesley. Wesley “has become internationally known for his large-scale sculptural works that combine highly crafted objects with elements of performance and a wry, pranksterish social criticism.” At the Pacific Design Center. And while you wait for Klimt at LACMA, Contemporary Projects 10:......

FRIDAY • Donita Sparks of L7 is at Spaceland tonight with The Sharp Ease and The Ettes. Doors open at 9 PM. • Tony Bennett performs "The Art of Song" at the Hollywood Bowl tonight at 8:30 PM. Remaining tickets are limited, so get them while you can! • Cinespace features Dinner & a Movie with The Lost Boys tonight at 8 PM. Happy hour is from 6-7:30 PM, followed by club at 10......

Tonight is Art Night in Pasadena, and several museums and gallery spaces will be opening their doors to the public for free from 6-10 p.m. with free shuttle service between venues. Participants include the Armory Center for the Arts, the Student Gallery at the Art Center College of Design, the Norton Simon Museum, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Pasadena Museum of History, and many more. At the Norton Simon you can......

Tonight, the 7th Annual Art Crawl kicks off across the eastside landscape of Silverlake, Los Feliz and Echo Park. The free, self-guided event runs from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Admission is $5.00, which also allows attendees acess to the "Album Cover Art Retrospective" post-crawl party. The Crawl continues throughout the weekend, running from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday. At 7:00 PM, head for Pasadena and Norton Simon Museum to......