Calendar for Week of March 8

THURSDAY, MARCH 8 Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting, 7 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. The public is invited. The 12 Steps for Everybody series, for those who want to work the 12 Steps on any problem, 7 p.m. at 16730 Bollinger. Contact: (310) 454-5138. Palisadian Paul Cummins, founder of Crossroads School, signs ‘Two Americas, Two Educations: Funding Quality Schools for All Students,’ 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. FRIDAY, MARCH 9 Palisades Charter High School presents its senior production, ‘Medieval Nights,’ featuring two shows, ‘Robin Hood: Men In Tights’ and ‘The Princess Bride,’ today at 3 p.m. and Saturday night at 7 p.m., in Mercer Hall, 15777 Bowdoin. Tickets are $8 for students and $10 for adults. Theatre Palisades Youth presents ‘Bubba, the Cowboy Prince,’ tonight and Saturday night at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Pierson Playhouse, 941 Haverford. Tickets are $12. SUNDAY, MARCH 11 Brentwood-Westwood Symphony features Aaron Copland’s ‘Lincoln Portrait,’ narrated by Hal Fishman, 3 p.m. at Paul Revere Middle School auditorium, 1450 Allenford. Free admission. Contact: 829-3149. MONDAY, MARCH 12 Moonday, a monthly Westside poetry reading, featuring poets Carol Davis and Bob Foster, 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 Monthly meeting of the Palisades AARP chapter, 2 p.m., Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford. The public is invited. (See story, page 1.) THURSDAY, MARCH 15 Television writer Allen Rucker signs ‘Best Seat in the House: How I Woke Up One Tuesday and Was Paralyzed for Life,’ 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. (See story, page 16.) FRIDAY, MARCH 16 Movies in the Afternoon presents a free screening of ‘Murder on the Orient Express,’ starring Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall and Sean Connery, 2 p.m., Palisades Branch Library community room. The combined choir and soloists of St. Matthew’s Parish will be joined by the St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra and guest soloists Daniel Plaster and Michael Dean for a performance of J.S. Bach’s ‘The Passion According to St. John,’ 8 p.m. at St. Matthew’s, 1031 Bienveneda. Tickets are $25 at the door. (See story, page 12.)