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Pencil This In: Poetry, Architecture and Joan Rivers on Plastic Surgery and Murder Mysteries
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Ahh President’s Day is a great holiday for many of us. Read: We don’t have to go into the office and get to stay in on this wet and dreary Monday. But if you suffer from cabin fever tonight, then there are a few interesting options to do while venturing out: LECTURE
Sci-Arc hosts architect Neville Mars in the lecture “From Book to Buildings - The Potential and Problems of a Practice in China” at 7 pm at W.M. Keck Lecture Hall. His career spans commercial architecture and urban design, to documentaries, art installations, urban research and creative writing. Mars is currently the director of the Dynamic City Foundation in Beijing and has a “profound passion for the evolution of the metropolis.”
TALK
Writers Bloc presents the queen of plastic surgery Joan Rivers tonight at 7 pm at the Writer’s Guild Theatre in Beverly Hills. Rivers will be in conversation with Joel Stein of Joel Stein, columnist for the LA Times. Rivers has just published two books: Men Are Stupid...And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery, and Murder at the Academy Awards®: A Red Carpet Mystery.. Tickets are $20.
CLASSICAL
The Monday Evening Concerts series continues tonight at Zipper Hall at 8 pm with Gérard Grisey’s “Les Espaces acoustiques.” It is one of the most influential works in postwar European music, and the L.A. premiere of Part 1 for 18 players is led by members of the Argento Chamber Ensemble. His percussion sextet piece “Tempus ex machina” will be performed from the balcony of Zipper Hall by red fish blue fish, the world-renowned ensemble founded by Steven Schick. Tickets are $25.
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POETRY*
The Red Hen Press Poetry series continues tonight at the Geffen Theatre in Westwood at 7:30 pm. The Poetry Society of America welcomes authors Tony Hoagland, Camille Dungy and James McMichael. Tickets are $20.
STAGED READING
In honor of Black History Month, the Towne Street Theatre presents a staged reading of Purlie Victorious, a comedy by the late Ossie Davis. The play had its Broadway premiere in 1961, where audiences were first introduced to the title character Purlie Victorious Judson, a flamboyant self-ordained minister, as he returned to Georgia to claim his rightful inheritance. Tickets are only $5 for the one-night only reading at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood.
BIKING
Biking fans know that the AMGEN Tour of California’s Stage 7 start takes place in Santa Clarita next Saturday. Lance Armstrong -- training for the Tour de France again -- is among the expected bikers. (Lance, have you met Brett?) So all this week two SCV restaurants, the Salt Creek Grille and Vines Restaurant & Bar at Hyatt Valencia, are hosting viewing parties with nightly food and drink specials. Coverage of day's race will broadcast on the Versus Network nightly from 8 to 9 p.m.
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