Stuff To Do

The human body is a disgusting thing. If you live long enough, something truly horrifying will happen to yours. And when it does, well, you wanna talk about it.

Your friends may be sick of listening to your tales of shattered pelvises, festering boils and dislocated eyeballs, but that doesn't mean you're tired of telling them. Local performance troupe Art of Bleeding wants to hear all about it. The group is building a library of real-life medical horror stories and offer a toll-free hotline to anyone who wants to spill their guts. An audio archive of scary stories is available online.

Literary and cultural series Writers Bloc keeps selling out events. We'd like to see discussions with John Irving and Matthew Weiner, but tickets are no longer available for either. If you're a fan of mystery writer Ruth Rendell, you might want to buy tickets now. From the event website:

Fans of P.D. James will love Ruth Rendell, creator of the terrific Inspector Wexford series of great police procedurals, also writes as Barbara Vine. Baroness Rendell is one of the most prolific of our favorite mystery writers, and her newest is The Monster in the Box: An Inspector Wexford Novel. Her novels are deeply psychological explorations of both the good guys and the bad guys. What makes her novels so thrilling and satisfying is that nothing is cut and dried in a Rendell or Vine novel - her characters and their situations are rich and complex. Rendell's strong sense of social justice lift her novels from genre fiction to the best of literary fiction. In conversation with April Smith, one of LA's favorite crime novelists.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at the ICM Screening Room, 10250 Constellation Blvd., Century City, at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20.

Critics Jonathan Gold, Kenneth Turan, David Ulin, and Evelyn McDonnell will be getting together this evening for a little panel discussion. The event, called "Critics Talk Shop: Writing Books, Music, Food, Film, and Why it Matters," will be held at the University of Southern California and moderated by Dinah Lenney of the Master of Professional Writing Program.

The discussion will be from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM in USC's Doheny Memorial Library. More details at the USC website.

The show starts tomorrow.

$20 Tickets for A Grand Night for Dancing!
October 22 & 23 at 8pm
The Broad Stage

Join us for an evening of dance inspired by the music of Richard Rodgers. Reprise resident choreographer Lee Martino has assembled some of the best dancers in Los Angeles to create an exhilarating evening, including the iconic ballet "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue" from On Your Toes.

For Tickets and More Information Visit Reprise.org or Call 310-954-1595
Get $20 tickets when you mention code: RUSH

KPFK radio may be full of crackpots, but they're independent, free-thinking crackpots who know how to throw a party. Ziggy Marley, Poncho Sanchez, Luciana Souza, Christian McBride, Roseanne Barr and more tonight at the Ford Amphitheatre.

More info at the KPFK website.

Full disclosure: we love The Love Junkie Rachel Resnick. We're a notch below parking outside her window at night.

There is a live performance of her recently to paperback book, Love Junkie from director Arye Gross.

The entire release below:

On October 11th at 8pm, members of The Antaeus Theatre Company, under the direction of Arye Gross, will present "Love Junkie, A Performance Piece" at Frank Pictures Gallery against the backdrop of provocative photographs and paintings by Emma Ferreira. The evening will feature a dramatic re-telling of scenes from Resnick's new groundbreaking book about sexual addiction and recovery, followed by a Q&A with Rachel Resnick. The event is hosted by author Rachel Resnick and Laurie Frank, and Emma Ferreira's provocative collection, "Exposed", which explores issues of intimacy, will also be on display. The event is from 6:30-9:30pm, with the live performance beginning at 8pm.

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Vigils for the three hikers detained in Iran are being held around the country tonight. The events mark the second-month anniversary of the American's detention. The Los Angeles vigil will be held at the federal building from 6 to 8 p.m.

More info at FreeTheHikers.org and the L.A. vigil Facebook Page.

Mark your calenders!

What: Drinks and conversation

Who: Media professionals

Why: To bring about greater community among media professionals, and because it's fun!

When: Thursday, October 1, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Where:
The Crocker Club
453 South Spring Street
between 4 and 5 Streets
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Food/Drink: Cash bar

Hosted by: freelance writer Beth Howard, freelance writer Debra Eckerling (Write On! Online) and CBS Interactive editor Michelle Thatcher, featuring special guest author Stefanie Flaxman

RSVP here.

When after 18 years Kevin Bronson was laid off from the LA Times, he took his popular music column Buzz Band with him - and transformed it into a popular music blog. Bronson will be celebrating the one year anniversary of BuzzBands.LA at the Echo this Wednesday, and the lineup looks promising:

Eastern Conference Champions
http://www.myspace.com/easternconferencechampions

Voxhaul Broadcast
http://www.myspace.com/voxhaulbroadcast

Samuel Stewart
http://www.myspace.com/samuelstewartmusic

Radio Freq.
http://www.myspace.com/radiofreqmusic

The DJs from Club Underground
http://www.myspace.com/clubundergroundpage

Visit the FB event page for more info

Student tutoring and writing center 826LA is hosting a preview screening of Where The Wild Things Are to benefit the nonprofit organization. The screening will be held October 1st at the Arclight Theater in Hollywood. Director Spike Jonze, screenwriter Dave Eggers, and actors Catherine Keener and Max Records will host a Q&A following the film.

Tickets are $75 and $200, depending on whether or not you want to go to the after party. If Catherine Keener will be there, we wanna go to the after party.