Christine N. Ziemba

It's a little quiet on the event front in LA tonight, but we found a few things that might entice you to take a break from the holiday parties. There's a Messiah singalong with the LA Master Chorale; Reel Talk with Young Adult's director and writer; and music for a School Night. Read on for all the details.

Solo exhibition by Quim Tarrida opens at T.A.G. Toy Art Gallery tonight. (Photo: Tarrida's Subsub Family Black, ceramic, courtesy of the gallery) TGIF. Here's what's going on around town: A number of art openings, including ones at Kana Manglapus and T.A.G. Toy Art Gallery; a book signing with Patricia Cornwell; a Library Foundation’s Library Store pop-up shop in Encino; and a midnight screening of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Read on for all the...

Here's what going on around town tonight: It's the last LA Art Walk of the year in DTLA; Slake hosts writer Ben Ehrenreich; a curator conversation at A+D Museum; Jimi Hendrix film and discussion at the Grammy Museum; and a cool neighborhood holiday party on West 3rd Street in LA. Read on for all the details.

Tuesday night and we've found a ton of events happening around LA. There's a great film series at Fellows of Contemporary Art that screens Play it as it Lays and Pumping Iron; The Christmas Present onstage at Sacred Fools; Slake wine party at Silverlake Wine; David Lynch signs at Amoeba; Lou Beach book signing at Book Soup; and a benefit for Richard “Steelo” Vazquez. Read on for all the details.

Monday, Monday. Here’s what we found going on tonight around LA: the Paley Center celebrates Lucille Ball; Tubefilter talks about cheating; NerdMelt’s “telethon”; a discussion on Ai Weiwei; Reel Talk screens Rampart; and It’s a School Night at Bardot features Daniel Lanois and Rocco Deluca! Read on for all the details.

TGIF! We found a few events around town tonight that might pique your interest, including art openings at LA Luz de Jesus and Gallery1988; holiday storytelling at Vroman's; Peter Case at McCabe's and a three-day symposium on Latin-American art at LACMA. Read on for all the details.

Pencil in these events in tonight: LACMA screens Barry Levinson's Diner, with special guests Gavin O’Connor and Paul Feig; the broomsticks are back for the holidays as Wicked returns to the Pantages; the Getty Center examines the image of the brooding artist in a lecture; the Grammy Museum talks (and screens) Sintatra; and get into Madame Tussauds on the cheap today. Read on for all the details.

It's a literary extravaganza tonight in LA. Diane Keaton discusses her new memoir at the Hammer Museum; Miranda July in conversation about her new book at ALOUD; staged reading of a play by Polish playwright Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk; Sue Grafton signs her latest mystery at The Grove. Read on for all the details.

Welcome back to a post-holiday working week. Lit events are back in full force tonight, including a book launch at Family; Shaq at Vroman's and Gerald Nicosia on the untold life of Mrs. Neal Cassaday. There's also Star Trek comedy at NerdMelt; Queer Mondays performances and It's a School Night at Bardot. Read on for all the details.

It's getting a little quiet on the events front in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday. Here are a couple of cultural happening that you might be interested in checking out: David Sedaris's The Santaland Diaries in preview; risky storytelling at MeltDown Comics; and live music and dance with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Trey McIntyre Project. Read on for all the details.

So begins the countdown to Thanksgiving. We found a few events tonight that you can take advantage of before leaving town or the guests arrive. Tonight in LA: ALOUD welcomes Margaret Wertheim and Jim Carter on Alternative Science; a beagle fundraiser at Tony's Darts Away; a documentary panel discussion and seminar; and It's a School Night at Bardot. Read on for all the details.

TGIF! We found a few events around town that piqued our interest, and might tempt you as well. Magnolia Park District holds a neighborhood block party; a program on the cult classic TV show Insight at UCLA; experimental chamber orchestra wild Up in Venice; and digital music and presentations with Interface LA, a discussion on a new guidebook on LA’s ethnic spas; and a Beaujolais Nouveau release party. Read on for all the details.