Christine N. Ziemba

Today is International Women's Day, an annual celebration of women's achievements throughout history. To celebrate, there will be dramatic readings from The Afghan Women’s Writing Project at 6 pm at the Museum of Tolerance.

Abe as vampire hunter TALK Tonight at 7 pm the Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts Helen Varola, co-editor of Con Art, a book on art and magic. She’ll discuss history and symbolism of the pulling a rabbit out of the hat trick. Varola’s lecture is part of the museum’s current exhibit Diana Thater: Between Science and Magic. Free admission, but seating is limited. BOOKS* Seth Grahame-Smith moves on from Jane Austen’s zombie problem...

Love advice from a panel of experts to benefit 826LA tonight. | Photo by RobeRt Vega via LAist's flickr pool. FILM There’s a screening and interactive discussion with five other cities for the Ondi Timoner documentary We Live in Public tonight at the Egyptian Theater at 6 pm. The film follows artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris, who experiments with the web, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance....

Living Sisters (left to right: Becky Stark, Eleni Mandell and Inara George) play Saturdays at the Getty on March 13. | Photo: Lauren Dukoff The Getty Museum fires up its free music-spoken word-dance-etc. series on a new night: Saturday Nights at the Getty. (We guess that spending Fridays near the 405 wasn't a great marketing hook for traffic-plagued Angelenos.) But the eclectic season kicks off on Saturday night with a performance by musician, producer...

It’s a little quiet on the event front, so here’s your short and sweet list of options to do tonight tonight: DRINKS Silver Lake says goodbye to Stinkers the trucker bar tonight at 9 pm. To say farewell in style, Stinkers is offering $2 Colt 45 tall boys...

Photo by Benjamin Page via LAist's flickr pool. By now we've heard how terrible the "romantic comedy" Valentine's Day movie really is, so go ahead and check that off your list of possible things to do tomorrow with your paramour. But we found another option that's so much better for fans of romance from the big screen. WordTheatre, an organization that puts on literary salons with authors and actors, presents Hot Flicks: Love Scenes...

Strawberries + booze for a good cause at the Viceroy all month. | Photo by Robbie via LAist's flickr pool. TALK Last year, Lori Gottlieb's wrote a controversial Atlantic article, "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough." Being with Mr. Alright is better than alone, she posits. In another Atlantic article, radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh concluded that marriage was overrated. The two NPR correspondents will discuss modern love and marriage...

Life passes in a blur | Photo by okarol via LAist's flickr pool. HAITI * To Aid Partners In Health Haiti Relief, Tenacious D and friends bring together an awesome lineup of comedy and alternative rock at the Wiltern tonight to benefit Partners In Health and their Haitian earthquake relief efforts. Special guests include: Russell Brand, Aimee Mann, Maya Rudolph, Jason Segel, Ben Stiller, Tig Notaro, Frank Black, James Mercer, Bob Odenkirk and Patton...

Poster designed by Arturo Romo The Haitian people are going to need a lot of help for a long time to come, so we'll continue to pass along interesting fundraisers as they come along. On Saturday night, a group of LA-based writers and musicians are putting together Listen! Dance! Stand with Haiti! A Night of Readings, Music and Dance in Solidarity with the Haitian People. Proceeds from the evening will benefit Partners in Health....

Kathy Griffin's latest DVD D-lister Kathy Griffin recently released her sixth Bravo stand-up special She’ll Cut a Bitch to coincide with a winter tour. The 60-minute DVD, from a show that originally aired last April, includes stories from last year’s Grammys--where she proves she’s definitely not a Jonas Brothers fan--and an Emmy moment(s) with the taciturn James Gandolfini. FIlmed in Portland, the audience is your typical Griffin crowd dominated by gay men, women and...

Nancy Drew for grown-ups: Author Susan Kandel is at Vroman's tonight. BOOKS Book Soup hosts a discussion tonight at 7 pm on the life and work of Harry Smith, a filmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and “collector of string figures and other patterns.” The event is being held in conjunction with the release of Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular. Book editors will lead the discussion and musician Jim Kweskin,...

Photo by jtstrathdee via LAIst's flckr pool. It’s a little slow on the event front tonight, but maybe it’s better if we ease our way into the rest of 2010: PIANO MUSIC* Proper Tools Records presents Piano Night #7 at Home Restaurant in Silver Lake at 8 pm. It’s an evening focusing on local piano-based singer/songwriters. On the bill tonight are Aaron Barnhart and Edward "Tex" Miller. There’s no cover charge. HERTZOG DOUBLE FEATURE...