THURSDAY, JUNE 10
Chamber of Commerce Installation and Awards Dinner, 6 p.m. (dancing and social hour), followed by dinner at 7 p.m., Riviera Country Club. John Petrick, CEO of Perennial Financial Services, will be sworn in as the new Chamber president and Gavin MacLeod will begin his unprecedented third term as honorary mayor. Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting, 7 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library community room, 861 Alma Real. The public is invited. Roma King reads and signs ‘Footsteps in the Snow,’ a book written in memory of her Polish father, Romuald Michniewicz, 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. This love story is the true account of Michniewicz’s amazing quest (after he survives imprisonment by the Russians early in World War II) to find his wife and daughter, who had been transported to Siberia, and their daring and dangerous journey to escape from Siberia.
FRIDAY, JUNE 4
‘Cash on Delivery!’ by Michael Cooney, a Theatre Palisades production directed by Sherman Wayne, 8 p.m. at the Pierson Playhouse on Temescal Canyon Road. Also Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., through July 11. Tickets: call (310) 454-1970 or visit www.theatrepalisades.org. (See Sue Pascoe’s review, page 13.)
‘FRIDAY, JUNE 11
The Palisades High spring musical, ‘City of Angels,’ plays tonight at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 1 and 6 p.m. in Mercer Hall on campus. Tickets are $10 at the door. (See Michael Aushenker’s review, page 12.)
SATURDAY, JUNE 12
Pacific Palisades resident M.L. Malcolm reads and signs her mystery, ‘Heart of Lies,’ 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. The Formalist Quartet performs works by Villa Aurora Fellows and California composers, 8 p.m., at Villa Aurora, 520 Paseo Miramar. Shuttle service starts at 7:30 on Los Liones Drive. For reservations, please leave names and contact information at 310-573-3603 or e-mail invite@villa-aurora.org. Tickets are $20.
SUNDAY, JUNE 13
Palisades Symphony presents the winners of the annual Young Artist Competition in concert, 7:30 p.m., at Palisades High School’s Mercer Hall. Admission is free.
MONDAY, JUNE 14
Moonday, a monthly Westside poetry reading, features poets Chris Crittenden and William Archila, 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore.
TUESDAY, JUNE 15
Temescal Canyon Association hikers and friends will take Mandeville Canyon up to the 1950s missile site on San Vicente Peak. The public is invited. Meet at 6 p.m. in the front parking lot at Temescal Gateway Park for carpooling. Contact: (310) 459-5931 or visit temcanyon.org. Sunrise Assisted Living hosts a free Alzheimer’s support group on the second Monday and fourth Wednesday of each month, 6:30 p.m. at 15441 Sunset. RSVP: the front desk (310) 573-9545. ‘
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16
Snap Shots Literary Troupe presents Bloomsday, a commemoration observed annually on June 16 in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel ‘Ulysses,’ all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904, 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore.
THURSDAY, JUNE 17
Chitra Kallay discusses and signs ‘Flat on Malabar Hill,’ an ethnic novel that spans two continents and three decades, 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore.
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