Marleigh Riggins

7:00 PM at Dutton's Brentwood marks the start of an evening with poet J.D. McClatchy and photographer Erica Lennard, who will be signing American Writers at Home, their new book featuring the homes of Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Frost and those of 17 other great American authors. At the Troubadour, enjoy a rainy night with The Ocean Blue, Starflyer 59 and Bedroom Walls. Tickets are $15.00 advance and doors open at...

It's a slow, rainy day in our fair Los Angeles, which happens to coincide with the 82nd anniversary celebration of the Egyptian Theatre. Tonight's festivities include a special screening of Cleopatra, starring Claudette Colbert (with original costumes on display in the lobby), a cake-and-beverage reception with a pre-screening slideshow on 'Egyptomania,' a booksigning with Robert S. Birchard (author of Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood), and a 10-minute short, "The Hollywood You Never See" about the...

Tonight at the Knitting Factory, see Morrissey's new chum Nancy Sinatra performing with special guest Tina Dico at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $25.00. At Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, you can see former Presidential hopeful Howard Dean signing his new book, You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America at 1:00 PM. Check the website for further details. At LACMA, this evening brings your chance to see two...

If you're a fan of old-fashioned, kick-ass rock 'n' roll, head for the Knitting Factory tonight and see The Dirtbombs with The Ponys, The Starlite Desperation and the Immortal Lee County Killers. Doors open at 8:00 PM and tickets are $15.00. At the Silverlake Lounge, see LA's very own rock heroes 400 Blows with Heroine Sheiks, Bloody Mary and The Pope. The show starts at 9:00 PM and tickets are $8.00. Starting at 5:00...

There is a beautiful, stately white mansion nestled in the hills above Glendale. Built in 1904 by Leslie C. Brand, El Miradero was the Brand family home for forty years. Noteworthy not only because of its stark whiteness against the rolling green of the hills, architect Nathaniel Dryden employed Saracenic architecture styles, incorporating the crenellated arches, bulbous domes and minars associated with Spanish, Moorish and Indian architecture to mimic the East Indian Pavilion from...

Happy Wednesday, LAists. There is much to hear and see tonight, so check below for information on what's happening in the city. Tonight, KXLU presents Her Space Holiday at the Troubadour. Also performing are Daedelus, Octavius and Thavius Beck. Tickets are $12.00 and doors open at 8:30 PM. At 7:30 PM, see college-rock icons R.E.M. at The Greek Theatre with special guests Five Eight. Tickets are $55.00 and $75.00. Tonight is also the beginning...

At UCLA's Hammer Museum, see artist Lorna Simpson at 7:00 PM giving a lecture on her work, which explores "the photographic medium, viewpoints of the self, and the relationship between image and text." Tonight kicks off the 8th Annual Hollywood Film Festival at the ArcLight, featuring such films as Finding Neverland, I Am David, Undertow, P.S., The Machinist, and Enduring Love. The festival runs through October 18th, and also includes the "Hollywood Horror, Sci-Fi...

It's a busy night for music fans all over town: At Spaceland, Mellowdrone will be playing a free show with Everybody Else, The Tints and Satisfaction. Doors open at 9:00 PM. At The Echo, show up at 8:30 PM for a free show by Lily & the Ladies and friends. (21+) Across town at the Troubadour, Unearth will be performing, along with Black Dahlia Murder, Remembering Never and Sinai Beach. Tickets are $12.00 and...

Tonight at LACMA, see a screening of the 1969 Marlon Brando film Queimada. Previously released only in a shortened, dubbed English version titled Burn!, the museum will be showing the full, original Italian version with English subtitles at 7:30 PM. Also at 7:30 PM, Skylight Books is hosting a free conversation between writers Stephen Elliott and Joshua Bearman. Both are known for their socially and politically charged fiction (and that they are published by...

'Tis a busy night all over, so we'll skip the niceties and get down to business. At MOCA at California Plaza, 5:00 PM brings the beginning of Immersion, with free museum admission, happy hour at Patinette, DJs, exhibition tours and lectures, and MOCA Store events. Hang out until 6:30 PM to catch Raphael Rubinstein, senior editor of Art in America, discussing the crisis in art criticism. Admission is free. The UCLA Hammer Museum has...