Don't be angsty like this lady...go out tonight! / Photo by Plankton 4:20 via LAist's flickr pool. FILM “Animation Nite: From Halifax with Love” is a program at the Echo Park Film Center that features short animated and semi-animated films by women who’ve all lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, eh. The screening includes work by host Siloën Daley and six others. Music by local band Foot Foot follows. 7:30 // Echo Park Film......

Love is in the air tonight. / Photo by lush.i.ous via flickr. Ahhh luuuurve is in the air. Need some last-minute ideas for the Hallmark-inspired holiday? Yes, tonight’s Valentine’s Day and here are a few different ideas that will beat flowers and candy any day. ART To coincide with the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) at LACMA this weekend, “Women in the City” selected to exhibit four prominent contemporary artists (Cindy......

Cellos take center stage at the Colburn School tonight | Photo by Lachlan via flickr. FILM Before Alan Alda brought the character Hawkeye Pierce to homes everywhere in the M*A*S*H television series, Donald Sutherland (Keifer’s dad) played the role on the big screen in the Robert Altman-directed film (MASH). In both, though, the plot remains the same: the men who lived in “The Swamp” didn’t care much for military decorum during the Korean war.......

In no particular order... 1. Secret Shows at the Viper Room 2. La Taquiza on Figueroa 3. Saturdays with the USC Trojans 4. The Henry Fonda Theatre 5. A short hop over Laurel Canyon to see my family 6. Friday Nights at the Rainbow Room 7. Using Venice Blvd. to get from work to play 8. The newly built lane at the 405/101 interchange 9. Amoeba Music 10. Some of the most eclectic, intelligent,......

Labor Day Weekend is a great time to be in town because everyone else leaves. The streets are empty. There’s elbow room at your favorite local watering hole. And … there’s plenty of local theater just waiting to be seen. Here are LAist’s five theater picks for this weekend: Calling Aphrodite Keiko and her sister were playing outside their home, when something unimaginable happened. It was Hiroshima in 1945. This play focuses on Keiko’s life......

Dancing & Music at Zambuba on Venice Blvd. BB Chung King & the Buddaheads @ Cozy's Bar & Grill Samba music and dancing @ Zabumba Three Bad Jacks, Taildragger, Graceland Mafia, Dead & Broken @ Key Club Eisley@ Silent Movie Theatre Gladys Knight @ Hollywood Bowl Scott Barnhart with The John Heard Trio Charlie O's O.H.M. @ The Baked Potato Hollywood U2, Fallout: the Police Experience @ House of Blues Zach Galifianakis @ Largo......

Remember when you moved to LA just south of Downtown, and you thought all those people who got to live in Santa Monica and Venice and Manhattan Beach were so lucky? Or maybe that was me. Either way, you were (I was) overlooking one of the major advantages of living so far from the beach -- you can bike there and get a great workout! Back in August I used bikemetro.com to figure out......

This might be a holiday week(end), but LA's theatre scene never rests. Here are this week's five picks: The Catskill Sonata Veteran writer/director/actor Paul Mazursky directs this play about a bohemian (read: leftist) group of writers, artists and musicians who gather at a Catskill hotel in the 1950s. But times are a' changing this particular summer because of McCarthy's blacklist. Matrix Theater 7657 Melrose Ave., L.A Opens Saturday at 8 pm. Runs Fridays and......

The Museum of Jurassic Technology holds cabinets of curiosities, worlds of mysteries, and baffling phenomena explained in scientific, if gently obfuscatory, terms. From a humble storefront in Culver City, the MJT has created some of the most interesting artistic-technological-confusing exhibits and ideas circulating today. Maybe that's why the MacArthur Foundation gave its proprietor, David Wilson, one of those genius grants in 2001. Next Tuesday the reticent Wilson speaks on microminiature art and technology in......

Photo by Ibarionex Perello Bookblogger Laila Lalami of MoorishGirl will be reading from her new book, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, tonight at 7:30 pm at Beyond Baroque in Venice. Lalami, although currently a SoCal expat, lived in Los Angeles for many years. She wrote this on her blog about coming back for a Duttons' reading yesterday: "I hadn't been back in Los Angeles more than an hour when a Land Rover honked at......

LAist is going on a delicious spree around LA from A to Z. This week, A is All About Indian. Yesterday, LAist made a visit to All India Cafe, a restaurant that does a fairly good job of representing foods from all over the subcontinent of India. Today, we go to Asian Kitchen in Culver City, for Indian and Pakistani cuisines. Asian Kitchen is situated in the back corner of a rundown looking plaza......

Share our Strength's Taste of the Nation is an annual event aimed at raising money to fight hunger. With over 60 cities in the U.S. and Canada participating, the event uses the power of sponsorship and the generous donations of participating chefs and restaurants to ensure that 100% of the ticket price goes to the cause. The Los Angeles event is Sunday June 5th, and has two levels of support aimed at giving donors......

Still looking for that perfect gift? Check out some mall-ternatives happening this weekend: Sembradores de Aztlan presents "Tianguis de la Communidad” The Tianguis supports community-based vendors as an alternative to mainstream commercial holiday shopping. Your purchase also helps raise funds for Los Angeles youth to attend the 2005 Chicana/o Indigenous Youth Leadership Institute. Date: Saturday, December 11, 2004, from 11am-5pm. Location: Tierra de la Culebra 240 S. Avenue 57 Highland Park, CA 90042 -Cultural......

As the nights grow darker and colder, we seem to treasure light and make it the centerpiece of the winter season. Here are some upcoming events to get you in the mood: Bottom's Dream Theater Company presents the World Premiere of "FireFlow: Two Tales from Andersen" featuring 2 Hans Christian Anderson tales adapted by Erik Ehn "Matcher in the Nigh" (The Little Match Girl) and "Blister" (The Story of a Mother) directed by James......