Christine N. Ziemba

Self Help Graphics celebrates el dia de los muertos tonight. | Photo by ve®onica via LAist's flickr pool. MUERTOS* Self Help Graphics holds the 36th Annual Dia de los Muertos Celebration at the East LA Civic Center tonight from 5-11 pm. The event features children's art workshops, art and crafts vendors, elaborate altars and local food. Guests will also enjoy a day of the dead fashion walk, live music from top local performers including...

Too many fun fests going on around town today and tomorrow. | Photo by mil8 via LAist's flickr pool. We love October because it's the beginning of fall. We hate October because there are entirely too many events to catch. To pace the weekend accordingly, here are just a few of the festivals going on around LA today and tomorrow: South Pasadena ArtsFest 2009 runs tonight from 5-10 pm with open studios and galleries,...

Celebrate Felicity Powell winning the inaugural Chora Prize. Our friends at Coolhaus are working with Metabolic Studio (creators of the Not a Cornfield project) to celebrate the work and art of the first Chora Prize-winner Felicity Powell tonight. The $50,000 prize honors creativity, and in Powell’s case, the work of her last exhibit Medals of Dishonour, which just ended a run at the British Museum in London. The satirical exhibit featured 13 artists (including...

There's a photo workshop tonight with Nick Vedros. | Photo by nicadlr via LAist’s flickr pool. THEATER Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater presents The Revolution Will Not Be Televised tonight at 8 pm. The documentary looks at the charismatic and controversial reign of Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, focusing on the run-up to the dramatic attempt to overthrow him in April of 2002, and the coup d'etat and the extraordinary return to power...

Bye bye summer. | Photo by nicadlr via LAIst’s flickr pool. LEARN Even during a recession, some news outlets are still looking for freelancers. Tonight the Society of Professional Journalists presents “Editors Spill the Beans: What do they want from freelancers?” tonight at 7 pm. On the panel are Sara Wilson, associate editor, Los Angeles Magazine; John Haas, editor, Marketplace; Stephen Pizzello, editor, American Cinematographer. Cost: $18 for SPJ members and students; $23 for...

New LAPD headquarters. / Photo by Alberto Cueto via LAist’s flickr pool. ART* Good kitsch is hard to find these days. But not at Ghettogloss tonight because it’s the Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch Closing Karaoke Night from 7-11 pm. On display are hundreds of artifacts from her personal kitsch collection. There’s going to be a karaoke sing-off of Allee's classic Earth Wind & Fire hit, "September," at the party ("Do you remember...the 21st...

Photo by stephenfalk via LAist’s flickr pool. THEATER TALK Rogue Machine hosts a salon on the Royal Court Theatre, Britain’s leading national company dedicated to new work by innovative writers from around the world for the past 50 years. Panelists include playwrights Phyllis Nagy, Ron Hutchinson and British actress Katherine Tozer, and it will be moderated by Steven Leigh Morris, critic at large at the LA Weekly. The salon begins at 8 pm and...

Choi Jeong-Hwa, Welcome 2009 / Photo courtesy of LACMA For those who don’t want to deal with the Sunset Strip Music Festival tonight, there’s an artsy alternative on the Miracle Mile: late night at LACMA from 8-11 pm. Coinciding with the museum’s reinstalled Korean art collection and the special exhibition Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, the museum’s throwing a party that features featuring traditional and contemporary presentations of Korean art, music,...

Photo by A.C. Thamer via LAist’s flickr pool. ROCK MUSICAL Donovan Leitch’s musical The Dark Root of the Dream is a mix of glam rock, literature and theatre, and it take to Largo’s stage tonight at 8 pm. Written by Leitch and guitarist Larry Cordola, the songs center around the character Mr. E, the fictional son of poet Virginia Woolf. “After his mother commits suicide early in the boy’s life, E is raised by...

Lady Danville at the Hotel Cafe The trio Lady Danville (Michael Garner, Dan Chang and Matthew Frankel) took to the stage for an early set at Hotel Cafe on Tuesday night to solidly appreciative and collegial crowd. Our guess is that many UCLA students, alums and friends ventured East of Westwood to hear the band who were all members of UCLA’s a cappella choir, Awaken A Capella. Now generally there’s no real middle ground...

FOOD* Palate Food + Wine in Glendale presents “Le Cirque du Fromage” tonight at the Wine Bar tonight (and every Tuesday night) at 7 pm. The Truffle Brothers drop in with pounds of black summer truffles from the Molise region of Italy. In addition to this week's Cirque menu (three cheeses + one wine = $12). Fresh table-side shavings for a $6 supplemental. Little nuggets will be available for retail @ $30 per ounce. Cheeses on the menu are stilton, bleu des causses and gorgonzola piccante. No reservations are necessary.

Hip hop culture at the Ford tonight / Photo by kpe II via LAist's flickr pool. JAM There’s a free Hip Hop Get Down J.A.M. session at the Ford Amphitheater tonight at 7 pm with artists from Culture Shock LA, Crewest Gallery, Aesthetics Crew and the Scratch DJ Academy who’ll demonstrate the four elements of hip hop: breakdancing, deejaying, emceeing and graffiti art. This is a fun event for all ages, and bring a...