Lots of old school films happening around town tonight. / Photo by get directly down via flickr. THEATRE You have a hand at commenting on the Theatre of NOTE’s play selection this week and next. NOTEwood is their comprehensive series of public readings featuring new, original works. The 2009 season will be chosen from the 30 scripts selected to be read aloud at the year’s NOTEwood reading – but there’s a talk back session......

Killing on the big screen at the New Beverly tonight, courtesy of Eli Roth. / Photo by hemmob via flickr. TALK Author Katha Pollitt discusses her new book On Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories with UC Irvine Professor Jon Wiener as part of the ALOUD at the Central Library series. Pollitt is a poet and columnist for The Nation who’ll discuss her latest essays that deal with sex, death, ex-lovers, politics, motherhood,......

The Venice Beach Drum Orchestra will play at the Spronto Gallery at 4 p.m. The Curse, Sweetest Perfection, Anna Strafford String Quartet @ Roxy All Wrong and the Plans Change, Pedestrian, Chase Frank, Brutus Gets the Girl @ Spaceland Shiny Toy Guns, Moving Units, War Tapes @ The Wiltern Poncho Sanchez's Latin Jazz @ La Ve Lee Medusa @ Temple Bar The Vandals, Supernova, Hunter Revenge & A Kiss Could Be Deadly @ House......

Best line of the day: "If L.A. Unified can't figure out the math on employee paychecks, can it be trusted to teach more than 700,000 students?" It's been 231 days since the whole fiasco began at the LAUSD. Teachers aren't being paid while dead people are being issues paychecks. Autumn officially begins on Sundaysays the Griffith Observatory's Sky Report, which also states Mercury, Jupiter, Mars and Venus can all be seen in the sky......

The Binges @ King King Ratatat @ Henry Fonda Rooney, Big City Rock, Golden State, Scanners @ The Roxy The Minor Canon @ Spaceland Anavan, Health, A++, Foot Village @ Pehrspace Quan & the Chinese Take-Outs, The Changos @ The Scene Wires on Fire, Sabertooth Tiger, Antarticans @ Silverlake Lounge The Kevin Kanner Quintet, The Parker String Quartet @ The Mint......

New releases! Now newer every week!! We begin this installment with a boatload of terrifying and perplexing tribute records, followed by noteables in every genre, including some promising rock offerings, a vault of soundtracks, fancy cello-ing, and more Frankie Valli than you can shake a stick at. Tribute Various Artists - Bluegrass Tribute to Modest Mouse (CMH) Various Artists - Bluegrass Tribute to the Shins (CMH) Various Artists - Can You Bring It? Sing......

A Heartwell Ending - Trust Us, We Lie (Mediaskare) C-Bo - Money to Burn (West Coast Mafia) Cassie - Cassie (Bad Boy) Comets on Fire - Avatar (Sub Pop) Daughters - Hell Songs (Hydra Head) Ani DiFranco - Reprieve (Righteous Babe) Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere (Interscope) Nina Gordon - Bleeding Heart Graffiti (Warner Bros.) Hello Stranger - Hello Stranger (Aeronaut Records) Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! (Drive-Thru) Jonas Brothers -......

Terrace seating at last night's Minimalist Jukebox concert was like bleacher seats at a baseball game - a bit unruly. Well, unruly as a classical concert can get these days at least. Terry Jennings' (1940 - 1981, born in Eagle Rock) String Quartet begat another piece in the audience. The "drone-inspired, modal, repetitive," extremely quiet and delicate work gave room for a chorus of antiphonal coughs, throat clearing and shuffling feet. These small, but......

WEDNESDAY • Tokyo String Quartet and clarinetist Sabine Meyer perform works by Haydn, Dvorak and Mozart tonight at UCLA Live beginning at 8 PM. Tickets are $22-42. • Outfest Wednesdays at the Egyptian Theatre features a sneak preview of Imagine Me & You at 7:30 PM. • AFI at ArcLight features a special screening of the 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy at 8 PM. • The Hammer Museum features "Masters of LA's Underground Comics," a......

Over the past few years, string quartet tributes to pop culture have flourished and it can seem like it's more of a prolific commodity than an artistic endeavor. Vitamin Records are the ones responsible for those String Quartet Tributes you see out there and we are curious who in their right mind made the decision to make a Clay Aiken Tribute? The L.A. based, The Section Quartet (pictured above) participated on a good number......