THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting, 7 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. The owner of the Shell Station at Via de la Paz will speak about future plans for his property. Also, council members will discuss two controversial automated stop-sign enforcement cameras in Temescal Gateway Park with MRCA Chief Ranger Walt Young. The most up-to-date agenda can be found at the council’s Web site (www.pp90272.org). FRIDAY, JANUARY 11 Theatre Palisades presents Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of ‘Twentieth Century’ at Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyon Rd. The show runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. For tickets (adults, $16; seniors and students, $14) call (310) 454-1970 or visit www.theatrepalisades.org. (See story, page 11.) SUNDAY, JANUARY 13 Local historian Randy Young leads a walk-and-talk in Rustic Canyon, hosted by the Temescal Canyon Association’s hiking group. Meet at 9 a.m. in the Temescal Gateway Park front parking lot for carpooling. Public invited. MONDAY, JANUARY 14 The Palisades Branch Library’s Drama Book Club meets at 6:45 p.m. in the community room, 861 Alma Real. The public is invited. Members will discuss ‘Lysistrata’ by Aristophanes. There will be staged readings of selected scenes and a description of the playwright and the theatre of his time. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15 Storytime for children ages 3 and up, 4 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. Santa Monica Canyon Civic Association board meeting, 7 p.m., Rustic Canyon Park. Public invited. Photographers Linda Zamelsky and Alice Hall discuss orchid photography at the Malibu Orchid Society meeting, 7 p.m. at the Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford. Guest speaker Joe Edmiston commemorates Scottish heritage, human compassion and the love for nature shared by Robert Burns, 7:30 p.m. in the dining hall at Temescal Gateway Park, corner of Sunset and Temescal Canyon Rd. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 Potrero Canyon Citizen Advisory Committee meets at 7 p.m. in the old gym at the Palisades Recreation Center, 851 Alma Real. Public invited. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 Dr. Denis Rodgerson, professor emeritus at UCLA and a pioneer in stem-cell banking, will speak at the Palisades Rotary Club breakfast meeting on ‘Regenerative Medicine and You,’ 7:15 a.m., Gladstone’s restaurant on PCH at Sunset. Contact: (310) 442-1607. Bill Boyarsky, former Los Angeles Times reporter, columnist and editor, will discuss and sign his new book, ‘Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics,’ 6:30 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. The public is invited. FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 Friends of the Library will screen ‘High Society’ at 1 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. Admission is free. The film stars Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Grace Kelly, with classic songs by Cole Porter.
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