“Welcome to violence, the word and the act”. Those are the opening words from Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, the Russ Meyer cinematic ode to cool screening tonight at the Vista in Hollywood. Starring the voluptuous badass Tura Satana as Varla, FPKK is the story of 3 drag racin’ go-go dancers looking for kicks & trouble when they con their way onto an old man’s desert property after a day of murder & kidnapping. The......

FILM ”Cinema Legacy” – a series in its 7th year by the American Film Institute and the Skirball Cultural Center – brings in filmmakers, actors, writers to discuss the origins of their own artwork. Tonight, director Jason Reitman introduces 1999’s Election – starring Reese Witherspoon-Matthew Broderick – as the film that inspired him to become a director. 7:30 pm // Skirball Cultural Center – Magnin Auditorium // 2701 Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles // $6-$10. ART......

For those of us not stuck on the 15 to Vegas, here's what's going on around town tonight: FILM The So Bad It's Good Film Fest presents the movie that showed how crazy Joan Crawford really was: Mommie Dearest. But it's "Faye Dunaway's over-the-top performance in the lead role has become legendary." There are prizes for the best Joan Crawford costume at the show: dinner for two at Saddle Ranch Chop House and a guest......

Feist, Spoon @ Gibson Spiritualized @ Vista Theatre Little Brother, Evidence, Black Milk @ El Rey Sondre Lerche @ The Troubadour The Parson Red Heads, Or the Whale @ The Echo Gliss @ The Viper Room The Jealous Girlfriends, A for Attack @ Silverlake Lounge The Airborne Toxic Event @ Detroit Bar Stars @ Glass House......

Right around the corner from LAist, at the Circuit City near the Pioneer Chicken, KCET, and the amazing Vista Theatre, the good people from Zune are giving away free tickets to the Red Hot Chili Peppers show. Which Red Hot Chili Peppers show? The little secret one they're doing at the Zune launch party somewhere here in LA. LAist loves people who are first in line, so this afternoon we went to the Circuit......

It's Friday the 13th. To make matters worse it’s the Friday the 13th two weeks before Halloween. This means every enterprising event promoter, gallery owner, theater manager and wanna-be goth has come up with a half-assed entertainment venture with some thuddingly obvious Halloween tie-in. Here are a few things you can do tonight that'll probably suck less than sucking on the business end of Satan's pitchfork. Creeper Double Feature WHAT: To gear up for......

Even though the Arclight is modern-day movie-viewing perfection, sometimes you want to step back into the past and enjoy a film in a classic theatre. LAist screened Jack Black's Nacho Libre at the Los Feliz gem Vista Theatre. Known for its unbelievable leg roo, the Vista is a hidden treasure in LA - one of the few last standing single screen movie palaces - their bargain price for showtimes before 6pm is $5. A......

So, cool, right, Jenny Lewis played (with the Watson Twins) in Silverlake adjacent on Thursday night. And not only can you get a little bit of Rilo Kiley at the Vista Theatre, but you can check out the show online at their web site. But wait! It's not their web site...its a damn myspace page. And Jenny Lewis DOES, in fact, have a web site. And its well designed. And well updated. And musically......

On any other night this week, Felicity Huffman would be showcasing why she won a Golden Globe in Transamerica at the Vista Theatre but, last night, Jenny Lewis took over the stage performing songs from her newly released solo debut, Rabbit Fur Coat. We couldn't decide what the show most resembled. Sitting in a theatre with an all ages crowd felt a little like being in a high school auditorium on talent show night......