Things to Do this Week

for the week of (what's today?) the 24th through next Sunday

• Monday: Editors at the Wiltern, Foo Fighters at the Fonda, Martha Wainwright at The Hotel Cafe or Reel Talk at the Wadsworth Theatre "Stephen Farber’s Fall 2007 Monday night series continues with My Kid Could Paint That, a doc about 4-year-old Marla Olmstead, who challenged the definition of modern art when her paintings started to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Discussion following with writer-director Amir Bar-Lev" @ 7
• Tuesday: Arctic Monkeys at the Hollywood Palladium(!)(!)(!)(!)(!), Dr. James Watson "Avoid Boring People" at the L.A. Central Library- The Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of the double helix discusses Avoid Boring People: And Other Lessons From a Life in Science with science writer K.C. Cole @ 7, The Gas House at Sacred Fools Theatre (wednesday also), Bunny Bunny at the Hudson Guild Theatre (wednesday as well)-Alan Zweibel's "sort of romantic comedy" about his relationship with Gilda Radner, or Slow Dancing at the Music Center Plaza (Wednesday as well, 6.p.m. both nights_-With giant screens encircling the plaza fountain, the Music Center launches its 2007-2008 dance season with David Michalek's mesmerizing installation depicting more than 40 dance luminaries filmed for five seconds at high speed then projected in ultraslow motion over 10 minutes. With dancers drawn from ballet, modern dance, hip-hop, tap and international classical dance, the videos reveal secrets of how dancers move and how movement varies among different types of dance.
• Wednesday: Bad Brains at the House of Blues, Klaxons at the Fonda, A Gus Van Sant double feature at the New Beverly Cinema- Mala Noche and My Private Idaho (thursday-saturday showings as well), 2007-2008 Contemporary Documentaries at the A.M.P.A.S. Linwood Dunn Theater- The 26th annual series showcasing feature-length and short docs nominated for the 2006 Academy Awards kicks off with a double feature. First, James Longley’s Iraq in Fragments, Plus, My Country, My Country @ 7, A Streetcar Named Desire at ArcLight or !!! at the Avalon
• Thursday: Leap at the Falcon Theatre- Arnold Margolin's comedy about a window jumper (performances also on wednesday-saturday), Must Don't Whip 'Um at Redcat-(performances on wednesday-sunday as well), Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman at the Egyptian Theatre a six-hour non-fiction Sex in the Cityesque documentary confession by Jennifer Fox, exploring what it really means to be a free woman today, including Fox’s travels to 17 countries “to understand how diverse women define their lives when there is no map.” Tonight: Chapter One: No Fear of Flying, shot in New York, Wyoming, Lapland and South Africa. Plus, Chapter Two: Test Piloting: Tick Tock, an exploration of the concept of the biological clock, shot in New York, Wyoming, Philadelphia, London, Paris and South Africa @ 7 30, The Battle of Wounded Me at the Hudson Guild Theatre, Down in the Basement at Tangier-William Mesnik's "metaphorical re-imagining of the story of Bob Dylan's The Basement Tapes", Girl,20 at the Hudson Mainstage- (performance friday and saturday as well)
  
• Friday: Goblin Market at GTC Burbank-Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon's musical about Victorian sisters transported to a world of goblins (performances through sunday), Journey to Dollywood at the Matrix Theatre (performances thursday through saturday), Jim Morrison: Swimming to the Moon at Art/Works Theatre (performances through saturday), And Neither Have I Wings to Fly at Road Theatre Company, Evel Knievel: The Rock Opera at the Bootleg Theater, Henry V at the Next Stage, NEVAH-EH: Prince of Black Angels at the Stella Adler Theatre-Epic fantasy musical, by Lonnie L. Henderson, Skin of Honey at the Macha Theatre-Odalys Nanin's love story set in Castro's Cuban revolution, Low at the Troubador, Toots & the Maytals at the House of Blues, The National at the Wiltern
  
• Saturday- Bright Eyes at the Hollywood Bowl, @ 7, #*@$$$%!!! EMOTIONAL GARAGE SALE at the Actors Group Theatre, Dead Bride Running at the Underground Theatre, or Bang! New dance rock and Brit-pop at the Ruby @ 10, Defari at the Rhythm Lounge or Morrissey at the Hollywood Palladium (!)(!)(!)(!)(!)(!)
  
• Sunday- The Shins at the Greek, Turbonegro at the Fonda, the L.A. premiere of The Cloud at the Aero Theatre, The Consequence at Billy Wilder Theatre, An Evening of Experimental Middle Eastern Dance at Deaf West.
  

wow, i'm already exhausted.

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