THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 The Chamber of Commerce marketing series features local business owners Elyse Walker, Dave Licht (Kay ‘n’ Dave’s Cantina) and Dr. Luke Cohen (Innate Chiropractic), 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Mort’s Oak Room on Swarthmore. Free to Chamber members; $20 for non-members. RSVP: 459-7963. Check-in and reception is 6 p.m. The speakers will talk about how to grow a successful business in Pacific Palisades. Palisadian Alan Eisenstock signs “Kindergarten Wars: The Battle to Get Into America’s Best Private Schools,” 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. The author, a former screenwriter and seven-year board member of a private elementary school, provides startling insights into the private-school application process. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” a Theatre Palisades production directed by Paula LaBrot and starring Joshua Brandenburg, 8 p.m. at Pierson Playhouse, corner of Haverford and Temescal Canyon Rd. Plays every Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., through October 8. Ticket reservations: 454-1970. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 An opening reception for artist Marilyn Mackie Hamilton, whose technique is Chinese brush painting, will take place from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real. The show, entitled “Garden of Delight,” continues through October 28. Contact: 463-4607. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Friends of Film presents the monthly Palisades Film Festival, 7:30 p.m. at Pierson Playhouse on Haverford. Admission: $5. Tonight’s program features two shorts and “American Blackout,” a multiple award-winning film on the festival circuit which chronicles the recurring patterns of voter disenfranchisement from 2000 to 2004 in Florida, Georgia and Ohio. This is “…a muckraking indictment of…the systematic disenfranchisement of African American voters,” wrote Kenneth Turan, the L.A. Times film critic. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Monthly meeting of the Pacific Palisades Civic League, 7:30 p.m., Gabrielson Hall at the Methodist Church, 801 Via de la Paz. Public invited. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 Palisadian Lance Lee weaves ancient myth and modern angst in his newest collection of poetry, “Human Nature,” 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. The first meeting of the fall season for the Palisades Art Association, 7 p.m. at the Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford Ave. Award-winning artist Sarah Willman Grote, known for her abstract watercolors, will be the guest speaker. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Monthly Chamber of Commerce networking mixer, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., hosted by Affinity Bank at 15310 Sunset Blvd. Public invited. Free to members, $25 for non-members . THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Palisadian Andy Kelly, Distinguished Scholar of English and Medieval Studies at UCLA, will discuss his controversial new book, “Satan: A Biography,” 7:30 p.m., Corpus Christi Church, corner of Sunset and Carey. Public invited.
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