Jack Pendarvis, author of the hilarious Your Body is Changing, which we reviewed last year, will be reading from his equally funny, Pendarvisly quirky new book Awesome tonight at 5pm @ Book Soup. Ever wonder what it would be like to be 50-feet-tall and be totally into robots and nearly lose the maybe-love of your life who is not a giant such as yourself? Pendarvis clearly has, and the result of such dreaming is Awesome:......

Tonight The worlds of science and sci-fi collide tonight in Santa Monica at the Michel Mew exhibit Robotanicals. Four of Mew’s robots are currently on display as part of the Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon exhibit at San Jose’s Museum of Art, & he will soon be featured in the upcoming book Art Revolution. - thru July 12th Opening reception 6-9pm Deborah Page Gallery 1028 Montana Ave. Santa Monica 310.458.4400 www.deborahpagegallery.com......

For those interested in entertainment I might liken to wrist-slitting, there's Disney on Ice or George Lopez live at the Nokia. For everyone else there's a few things going down around town. FILM Scarface (1932) scribe Ben Hecht's moody 1927 film Underworld screens tonight at the Silent Movie Theatre. "Viennese director Josef von Sternberg’s gritty revenge narrative follows the turbulent romantic and criminal phiursuits" of felon Bull Weed, and the film is often considered "the......

Pixar today released a new trailer for their upcoming movie, WALL-E. The movie is about the last robot on a human abandoned earth who's task is to clean up the mess we made....

Wired Nextfest in Los Angeles....

Dreamworks and Paramount moved up the release of their summer blockbuster Transformers from 7/4/7 to 7/2/7 when someone realized that opening on Monday instead of Wednesday means you have what may be the very first seven-day opening weekend. If you're like me, you saw the trailers a few weeks ago and thought, "Hey, that looks cool." If you did think that, you won't feel cheated when you celebrate your independence from British rule by......

The way LAist sees it, there are two kinds of people in the world. The kind of people who love giant robots with hydraulic claws and flamethrowers, and those that don’t. If you’re one of the first kind, then you’re most likely familiar with the work of Survival Research Labs. SRL’s exhibitions are about flames, fumes, crushing, and rending…done with loud and very dangerous machines. Chinatown’s Fringe Exhibitions are offering a number of killer......

Photo by Stephanie Asher JPL has just uploaded some brand new software to NASA's robot explorers Opportunity and Freedom, a few million miles away on Mars. These little rovers have kicked around for four years, finding evidence of water, watching the formation of clouds and dust devils, and sending back some really stunning images. The new software will help the rovers move about on the surface, more accurately photograph atmospheric conditions, and give them......