Christine N. Ziemba

Watch genre films from the comfort of your car or couch two film festivals. Learn about the history of Bunker Hill. View Self Help Graphics' annual Día de los Muertos exhibition. Join Myq Kaplan's birthday party. Prep for the upcoming election with a ballot cram session, presented by KPCC/LAist.

It's Halloween season. Celebrate with safely distanced haunts and drive-in movies. Also, there's Dublab's 21st birthday, National Taco Day and Mortified's new game and storytelling night.

Explore an extensive collection of horror and sci-fi memorabilia. Rent out the Fresh Prince's Bel-Air manse. Learn about early L.A. female foodies. Tune into a concert that recreates a classic Marvin Gaye album.

Take a virtual tour of the Bradbury Building. Attend the bilingual Los Angeles Libros Festival. Play or watch the LGBT Center's The MisMatch Game online. Get your local live music fix with a feast of online shows and festivals.

This week, learn about 1) the supernatural cats of Japan, 2) what happens when an ornithologist, a river guide, and a conservationist walk into a border ecosystem, 3) attend a virtual lunchtime chat about U.S.S.R. brainwashing during the Cold War, 4) enjoy some improvised emo, or 5) dig Dino Fest. And there's oh so much more on the list.

Attend a new drive-in movie experience in Chinatown. Discover the scents of mummification. Catch a sneak peek of Evelina Fernández's latest play. Learn about the solstice and the equinox.

Celebrate Mexican Independence Day with "El Grito" online. Catch a rooftop screening of a doc about designer Pier Cardin. Take part in the Latino Comics Expo. Learn about the architecture of the LBC. Enjoy a pre-Code film about a ne'er-do-well plastic surgeon. Soak up Shakespeare's classic works, transformed for virtual viewing during a pandemic.

Watch new and notable films from Mexico. Explore California's biodiversity. Check out an art show focused on mental health awareness. Listen to Banda El Recodo.

Check out live folklórico music and dance. Take a walk bathed in L.A.'s neon lights. Explore how racism impacts public health. Take advantage of dining and shopping deals.

Corpse flowers. Samba lessons. Drive-in movies. Mint juleps. Virtual Burning Man. A Scarypoolparty.

Watch a horror film on a Hollywood rooftop. Take a forest bath under the light of the full moon. Get ready for dining deals because it's Restaurant Week in L.A.

Watch live music -- from a virtual distance -- performed by Los Lobos, Dawes, Gavin Turek and AK Dan Gwang Chil. Explore the Chicano Moratorium at several events, from discussions to performance. Attend the Inside Lands festival from your living room. Get outside and pick tomatoes. Pretend it's the early aughts and watch David Spade and Rob Schneider do comedy.