Chris Burden's Urban Light | Photo by pink_fish13 from the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Monday Steve Tolz presents A Fraction of the Whole 7pm @ Book Soup Lisa McKay presents My Hands Came Away Red 7pm @ Vroman's Dario Castagno presents A Day in Tuscany 7pm @ Dutton's Terry Cheney signs Manic 7pm @ Borders, Westwood Ray Bradbury, Forrest J. Ackerman and Ray Harryhausen discuss their work 7:30pm @ Mystery & Imagination......

Ten years from now we may look back at 300 as the movie that heralded the final shift away from the star-driven, mega-budget blockbuster paradigm. In an increasingly risk-managed world, why not spend 60 million dollars on a whole movie instead of 25 million on Tom Cruise or one of the Wills? Hot Fuzz signals the definite arrival of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg that was so strongly hinted at in Shaun of the......

Science fiction fans in the rest of the world must be insanely jealous of Angelenos. Tonight we get to watch Clash of the Titans on big screen — and then watch Ray Harryhausen, Ray Bradbury and Harry Hamlin talk about it afterward. You might know Ray Harryhausen is the 85-year-old visual effects genius who made monsters come to life in Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts and more. Ray Bradbury is also 85;......

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury: he's the author of Farenheight 451, The Illustrated Man, the Martian Chronicles and many more. He's won a pile of awards, including a Kennedy Center honor in 2004. (What do you think is going through his mind when this photo was taken?) He's 85, and he lives in our very own Pasadena. After his family moved to LA in the 1930s, Bradbury hung around Hollywood; special effects visionary Ray......

• Tonight the Fahey/Klein Gallery presents the opening reception for "Unbounded Youth," an exhibit of photographs by David Drebin, Mona Kuhn and Nathaniel Welch. The reception is from 7 – 9 PM, and the show runs through March 12th. • At Tower on Sunset, meet film legend Ray Harryhausen at 5 PM, when he makes an in-store appearance. For more information, call (310) 657-3344. • Tonight the Aero Theatre screens the epic and beautiful Lawrence......