Marleigh Riggins

As with most people of our acquaintance, LAist does not have overly fond memories of high school. Something like purgatory with more self-consciousness and angst, it was mostly useful as a test of will. Needless to say, LAist does not look back on those days with more than a small bit of wistfulness for the blissful stupidity of being a teenager. Blissful, that is, assuming you had a more or less trouble-free meander through...

Tonight at the Knitting Factory, the Early Day Miners are performing with Chris Brokaw at 8:30 PM. Admission is $7. At The Fold at King King, tonight features Darker My Love, Eskimohunter and The Drips (members of The Bronx). Cover is $7. AFI at ArcLight presents a special screening of the Marlon Brando classic On the Waterfront at 8 PM....

Being as today is announcement day for this year's Oscar contenders, LAist thought it more than appropriate to recommend some film as today's entertainment. At the New Beverly Cinema, tonight is a bit of cult fascination with Satan's Sadists at 7:30 PM, followed by The Northville Cemetery Massacre at 9:30 PM. Meanwhile, KCRW presents French Kicks with Dios Malos and Innaway at The Glass House in Pomona. The show starts at 7:30 PM and...

At Dutton's Beverly Hills, Bill Kurtis will be signing his new book, The Death Penalty on Trial, at 7 PM. There will also be a roundtable discussion with Kurtis and members of the Death Penalty Focus Group. Tonight at The Smell, see local favorites The Fucking Champs with Upsilon Acrux, Bad Dudes and Goliath Bird Eater. Doors open at 9 PM and admission is $5....

LAist discovered the films of Guy Maddin through a friend—a fan—and has since been enthralled by the Canadian filmmaker's aesthetic, inspired by revisiting what Maddin calls the "largely disused film vocabulary" of silent movies, like tinted stocks, deliberately-scratchy soundtracks and title cards. His fims, much like those of Hershell Gordon Lewis, are so bright and colorful, so strange and wonderful, that they become sinister and otherworldly and magical. Presented in association with MOCA, this...

• Today is the beginning of "Like A Waking Dream: An In-Person Tribute to Director Guy Maddin" at the Aero Theatre. See our post about the event for more information. • Tonight at Spaceland, see San Diego instrumentalists Tristeza with Arabella Harrison and Division Day. Doors open at 9 PM. • Menwhile, the Viper Room hosts Qbert with DJ Swamp. Doors open at 8 PM. • LACMA hosts a 6 PM reception celebrating the...

• Tonight at UCLA Live, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet will be speaking at 8 PM. Tickets range from $25-35, or $15 for UCLA students. • At 7 PM, the Hammer Museum, author Marilynne Robinson will be reading. Her novel Gilead was one of the top 10 books of 2004 according to the New York Times. • MOCA Pacific Design Center hosts Royal Art Lodge artist Jonathan Pylypchuk for a free art talk at...

• Tonight at El Cid, see Mike Stinson at 10:30 PM, preceeded by Jonny Kaplan and the Lazy Stars, Paul Chesne Band and Rancho Deluxe. Cover is $8. • At the ArcLight, AFI at ArcLight presents the Gary Cooper western High Noon at 8 PM. • Also in film, the New Beverly Cinema is showing Ran, Akira Kurosawa's masterful reweaving of King Lear, at 8 PM....

• At the Knitting Factory, see Imaad Wasif with Charles Bissell of The Wrens. Tickets are $8 and the show starts at 9:30 PM. • For the second and final night, see Colin Meloy of The Decemberists performing solo at the Hotel Cafe, along with sometime-labelmate Corina Repp. The show begins at 8 PM, but LAist would recommend arriving early, as Mr Meloy tends to draw a crowd. • At the ArcLight, director Antoine...

Tonight's entertainment features Colin Meloy of The Decemberists performing solo at the Hotel Cafe, along with sometime-labelmate Corina Repp. The show begins at 7 PM, but LAist would recommend arriving early, as Mr Meloy tends to draw a crowd....