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LAist Agenda: October
October has an event for everyone. Don't believe us? See below. / Awesome photo of Union Station by el daverino via LAist's flickr pool.
Oct. 1
Larry Charles presents his film Religulous @ the Aero Theatre
Oct. 2
Don't Blame Me I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas staged reading @ the Landmark
A Taste of Downtown Burbank @ Downtown Burbank
Focus On Female Directors: Five to Watch @ the Aero Theatre
Executive Order Karaoke @ MOCA Grand Avenue, Sculpture Plaza
VP Debate Watch Party @ the Social Hollywood
Oct. 3
Reyes Adobe Days @ Reyes Adobe Historical Site in Agoura Hills
Oct. 4
Detour Festival @ City Hall Eagle Rock Music Festival @ Eagle Rock
Street art opening “Raw Skies” @ Carmichael Gallery Backhausdance @ Segerstrom Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center
Tokyo Nonsense @ Scion's Culver City gallery
"Insiders Wine Class" @ Fraîche Restaurant
Oct. 5
NoHo Scene @ North Hollywood
Backhausdance @ Segerstrom Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center
Taste TV's 2nd Annual Luxury Chocolate Tasting Salon @ The Pasadena Center
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Oct. 6
Reel Talk with Stephen Farber @ Veterans Wordsworth Theater
Oct. 7
Lakers vs. Utah Jazz preseason game @ Honda Center
Oct. 8
LA25 Half-Life @ Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Oct. 9
Health Politics with Mark Halperin, Chris Lehane and Adam Mendelsohn @ the Center for Healthy Communities
Wish Trees lighting @ One Colorado in Pasadena
Oct. 10
Robert Glenn Ketchum @ the G2 Gallery
Ray Bradbury In-Person and screening of Something Wicked This Way Comes @ the Egyptian
The Most Interesting Show in the World @ Henry Fonda Theatre
Pasadena Art Weekend @ all over Pasadena
Oct. 11
Healthy Neighborhood Festival @ Center for Healthy Communities
The Rainmaker @ A Noise Within
Pasadena Art Weekend @ all over Pasadena
Blender exhibit @ CERASOLI : LeBASSE Gallery
Bicycle Bells Ensemble @ 'Hollywould' Freewaves Festival
Oct. 12
Monster Drawing Rally @ William D. Davies Memorial Building in Alta Dena
Pasadena Art Weekend @ all over Pasadena
Joe Forte, Brian & Doug Coffin, Jordania Goldberg, Jorge Albertella opening @ James Gray Gallery
The Rainmaker@ A Noise Within
A Taste of Encino @ Encino Community Center
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Oct. 13
Monday Night Raw @ Honda Center
Anatomy Riot #27 @ The Open Space
Oct. 14
The Writers Room: The Office @ The Paley Center
Guitar Center Drum Off '08 Finals @ Guitar Centers
Oct. 15
The Secret Lives of Bees / Q&A with writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood @ ArcLight Hollywood
Oct. 16
The Writers Room: Family Guy @ The Paley Center
We, the People: A Documentary Film Festival @ Various Venues
TeaZazz Sparkling Tea sampling event @ Night on the Green in Pasadena
Oct. 17
Myth @ UCLA Live's Seventh Internation Theatre Festival www.uclalive.org
Fetish Film Series Night: Salo, of The 120 Days of Sodom @ The Egyptian Theatre
We, the People: A Documentary Film Festival @ Various Venues
Oct. 18
We, the People: A Documentary Film Festival @ Various Venues
Money Shot @ the Alexandria Hotel
Andrew George Photography Exhibit@ Gallery Brown
Dog Faire and Pet Adoption @ Sepulveda Basin Off-Leash Dog Park
Oct. 19
Pianist Ming Tsu @ Music at the Court
Here's Johnnyand The Great Communist Bank Robbery @ the Aero Theatre
Your Neighborhood Studio Open House @ Culver City
ACToberfest @ Miles Memorial Playhouse
Autumn Sea Faire @ Cabrillo Aquarium
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Oct. 20
Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife
Oct. 21
Zócalo presents Gustavo Arellano, "Orange County: Nature's Wonderland?" @ The Actor's Gang
Jose Limon Dance Company @ St. Joseph Ballet in the OC
Oct. 22
Doctors Without Borders "A Refugee Camp" @ Griffith Park
Oct. 23
Tour of Bernini & the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture in Italian @ the Getty
Halo-8: Films That Kill @ The Engine Theatre
Camerata Pacifica @ Zipper Hall
Oct. 24
Miklós Jancsó films @ LACMA
Resolution 3 Symposium @ Pitzer College
The Discount Cruise to Hell @ Highways Performance Space
Oct. 25
West Side Story @ the Egyptian Theatre
JRA's 9th Annual Japanese Food Festival @ Kyoto Grand Hotel and Gardens
Yi Yi by Edward Yang screening @ LACMA
Puppet Up! @ Avalon Hollywood
Resolution 3 Symposium @ Pitzer College
Backhausdance @ the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
Der Golem with live musical accompaniment @ Boston Court Theatre
Musica Angelica @ Zipper Hall
Oct. 26
Tour of Bernini & the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture in Italian @ the Getty
Martin Sheen/Douglas Kmiec @ Diesel Bookstore in Malibu
Resolution 3 Symposium @ Pitzer College
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Oct. 27
Prison Break cast @ The Paley Center
Oct. 28
An Evening with Everyday Italian's Giada De Laurentiis @ The Paley Center
The Picture of Dorian Gray @ LACMA www.lacma.org/film
Oct. 29
The Donaphant Film Festival @ the Skirball
Oct. 30
Jim Dine Debuts New Sculpture and Poetry @ the Getty
The Outsiders and Rumblefish @ The Aero Theatre
Oct. 31
Doctors Without Borders "A Refugee Camp" @ Santa Monica Pier
Halloween @ The Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena
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