Christine N. Ziemba

Rain - A Tribute To The Beatles opens for a one-week run at the Pantages tomorrow. (Photo: Joan Marcus) DANCE* The monthly Anatomy Riot, an evening of dance and works-in-progress, goes old school for the April edition. Presented in partnership with the Blankenship Ballet at the Alexandria Hotel and co-curated by Ilaan Egeland Mazzini and Lionel Popkin, the evening will feature choreographers over 40. Works by David Hurwith, Ilaan Egeland Mazzini, Lionel Popkin, Oguri,...

Nathan Bockelman performs at LACE tonight. LIT AND MUSIC* Wizards & Stars: A Literary And Musical Celebration with Paul Myers & Scott Miller takes over Largo tonight at 8 pm. Hosted by Dave Foley, the evening celebrates the release of two books from two SF-based musician authors. Scott Miller reads from Music: What Happened?, a song-by-song critical essay and homage to some of his favorite songs from the last 53 years of popular music....

Alice Konitz, 'The Premonition' (film still) at REDCAT tonight. People are still recovering from yesterday's Oscars, so it's event-lite tonight. Here are our picks: ART+VIDEO* REDCAT presents The Artist Theater Program: A Group Show of Film and Video Work by Visual Artists tonight at 8:30 pm. Film/video/installation artist Erika Vogt curates a group screening, inviting visual artists who use film and video in their work to present the film in a theatrical venue instead...

LACMA It's a Target Free Monday at LACMA, which means that there's free access to all museum galleries. There are a number of activities, including a performance by The Bohemians at 2:45 and gallery educators ready to answer questions in the new European galleries. LACMA closes at 8 pm tonight. Plus: See what else there is to do in L.A. tonight.

Third Wednesdays in Culver City Culver City celebrates the middle-of-the-road humpdays tonight from 5-9 pm. The new monthly Third Wednesdays, formerly known as the Downtown Culver City Block Party, has a number of local shops, galleries and restaurants participating, including Bottle Rock, Rush Street, Tender Greens, Ford's Filling Station and the Culver Hotel. Tonight's event is also a fundraiser, with a portion of sales proceeds heading to the Culver City Education Foundation's Garden Project,...

Tongue and Groove, the monthly reading and music series, teams up with the newish quarterly print magazine Slake: LA, for an evening of essay, fiction and poetry tonight at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood this evening. Readers tonight are contributors to the upcoming second issue of Slake—founded last year by former LA Weekly editors Laurie Ochoa and Joe Donnelly as a paean to the printed page and long-form writing.

January is LA Arts Month. Go out and have fun! Now for the third year, January has been designated Los Angeles Arts Month—where arts and cultural organizations band together to encourage both tourists and residents to get out there and visit a gallery, museum or theater and experience the culture that LA has to offer. At noon today on the Music Center plaza, politicos including Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Supervisor Gloria Molina, City Councilman Tom...

John Lithgow's show at the Mark Taper. THEATER* John Lithgow: Stories by Heart opens tonight at the Mark Taper Forum. In his one-man show, Lithgow theatrically spins and recreates stories from his life. The show runs through Feb 13. Tickets: $25-40. FILM Tonight the Hammer Museum presents a free screening of the documentary A Small Act at 7 pm. The film follows Kenyan Chris Mburu and his journey from a poor African village to...

Birth of Coffee exhibition at CAFAM. THEATER It’s been more than 50 years since West Side Story made its 1957 Broadway debut with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and choreography by Jerome Robbins. This week marks the final shows of the revival at the Pantages. Runs through Jan. 2. Tonight at 8 pm; single tickets only for tonight’s show: $128.50. ART* Closing next week is the exhibit The Birth of Coffee...

Photo by Shawn Park (Shawnⓒ2010) via LAist's flickr pool. It’s all quiet on the new event front tonight—people are still recovering from their egg nog overdoses—but we managed to unearth a few gems: NOT-SO-FAMILY FILM* The New Beverly screens a double feature of The Godfather and The Godfather II this afternoon starting at 4 pm. Based on the books written by Mario Puzo, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, these films have become integral...

Tia Carrere returns to host the Holiday Celebration at the Music Center today. | Photo: Ed Krieger Have a happy and safe holiday, everyone! Here's what's going on around LA today. HOLIDAY SPECIAL* It's beautiful weather outside so get to the 51st Annual LA County Holiday Celebration today at the Music Center, hosted by actress/singer Tia Carrere and actor Fred Willard. It's billed as the largest multicultural holiday celebration in the country with 24...

Now's you're chance to see it on the big screen: It's a Wonderful Life plays at the Egyptian Theatre tonight. In between holiday shopping stops tonight, think about checking out these holiday events: HOLIDAY FILM* If you’ve ever wanted to see It’s a Wonderful Life on the big screen, you’ll have a chance tonight at the Egyptian Theatre at 7:30 pm. Watch Jimmy Stewart find out what the world would have been like if...