THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5 John Badham and Craig Modderno sign “I’ll Be in My Trailer: The Creative Wars Between Directors and Actors,” 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. Badham directed John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever” in 1977. Villa Aurora presents ‘After Schoenberg: The Experimental and the Avant-Garde,’ a lecture by Palisades resident Nancy Perloff, collections curator for Modern and New Media Collections at the Getty Research Institute, 7:30 p.m. at the Villa on Paseo Miramar. For reservations ($10/free for members), call 573-3603. Shuttle service from Los Liones Drive, off Sunset, starts a half-hour before the event. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 Full-moon hike in Temescal Gateway Park, 6:30 p.m. Meet in the front parking lot for a 1-mile hike (about 2 hours) lit by the Harvest Moon. Bring water and a jacket; flashlight optional. Admission is free, parking is $5. “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” a Theatre Palisades production directed by Paula LaBrot and starring Joshua Brandenburg, 8 p.m. at Pierson Playhouse on Haverford. Plays Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., through October 8. Tickets: 454-1970. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 Palisadian Hudson Lofchie will host a showing of his recent photographs at Terri’s Restaurant, 1028 Swarthmore, beginning with an opening reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Lofchie’s subjects cover architectural and natural themes ranging in location from Paris, France to Yosemite National Park and include close-ups of local flora and fauna. The photographs will be displayed until November 30. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 The Potrero Canyon Association (not to be confused with the Potrero Canyon Community Advisory Committee, which meets the third Wednesday of every month) will hold a meeting today at 4:45 p.m. in Mort’s Oak Room on Swarthmore. All Palisades residents are invited to attend meetings and become members. Jazz performer Yve Evans, with sidemen Brad Bobo on bass and Larry Washington on drums, will be the guest artists at the Second Sunday Concert series, 4:30 p.m. at the Palisades Lutheran Church, corner of Sunset and El Medio. Free-will offering. Reception follows. Evans plays piano and sings jazz, contemporary, standards and gospel music. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9 Moonday hosts poets Sherman Pearl and Mary Kay Rummel, 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. Open reading sign-up begins at 7 p.m. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10 Storytime for children ages 3 and up, 4 p.m. at the Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real. Michael Patrick MacDonald, author of “All Souls: A Family Story,” signs the continuation of his family saga, “Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under,” 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. (See story, page TK.) The Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club hosts George Yellich and the San Fernando Valley Banjo Band at 11:45 a.m. in the clubhouse, 901 Haverford. The public is invited to join this free, toe-tapping event. For lunch ($10) following the show, call 459-2507 by noon on October 7. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11 Monthly storytime program for babies and toddlers (under age 3), and their parents and caregivers, 10:15 a.m. at the Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real. The new program, which combines stories, songs and fingerplays, will continue November 8 and December 6. Contact: 459-2754. Monthly meeting of the Palisades AARP chapter, featuring a talk by legendary Palisadian Martha French Patterson, 2 p.m. at the Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford. Public invited. Refreshments will be served. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 Campfire program “Nighttime Tricks to Find Treats,” 6:30 p.m. in Temescal Gateway Park. Meet at the campfire center and discover what tricks the park animals use to find their food and survive. Celebrate the campfire tradition with stories, songs and marshmallows. Bring a blanket and jacket. Parking: $5. Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting, 7 p.m., Palisades Branch Library on Alma Real. Melissa Clark signs her novel, “Swimming Upstream, Slowly,” 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. Sasha hasn’t slept with anyone in more than two years, but her body has unwittingly hosted a medical anomaly known as ‘lazy sperm.’ Now she must summon the courage to revisit her past loves as her future takes shape within her. ______________________________________________________________________ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 Palisades author Carolyn See discusses her new work of fiction, “There Will Never Be Another You: A Novel,” 2 p.m., Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real. The story, which primarily takes place at the UCLA Medical Center in the spring of 2007, addresses ways in which we have been transformed by the events of September 11, 2001. Public invited. Sponsored by the Friends of the Palisades Branch Library. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 The monthly Temescal Canyon Association Sunday hikes resume today with a hike in Hondo Canyon from Old Topanga Road to Fossil Ridge. This hike is about 8 miles round-trip with moderate elevation gains. Meet at 9 a.m. in the Temescal Gateway parking lot for carpooling. Wear hiking boots or sturdy shoes. Bring lunch and water. No dogs! TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 “If These Walls Could Talk: The Story of the Pacific Palisades Chautauqua,” a talk by local author and historian Betty Lou Young, 7:30 p.m., the dining hall in Temescal Gateway Park. Free admission and parking. (See story, page TK.) Wednesday, October 18 David Mark signs Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning. A history of negative campaigning in American politics and an examination of how candidates and political consultants have employed this often controversial technique. Thursday, October 19 An Evening with Editors as Writers featuring Gina Frangello, Stacy Bierlein, Leelila Strogov and Cheryl Alu. Frangello serves as executive director of Other Voices Magazine and will read from My Sister’s Continent, an edgy, compelling, brightly dark first novel. Stacy Bierlein’s fiction appears in the literary magazines and anthologies, Young Wives Tales and All Hands On. Strogov and Alu are editors at SWINK MAGAZINE. _____________________________________ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 Gala opening concert for the Music at St. Matthew’s season, featuring the St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra and the Men and Boys Choir of Hereford Cathedral, England, 8 p.m., in the sanctuary, 1031 Bienveneda Ave. Admission at the door: $25. (See story, page TK.)
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