Events for August 21st, 2008
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Thursday - August 21st
Bars & Clubs / Bar/Club Event
L'effleur Des Sens burlesque show
King King - 6555 Hollywood Blvd. - Los Angeles (Hollywood)
Portishead meets the Moulin Rouge
Events / Performance
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants
Geffen Playhouse - 10886 Le Conte Avenue - Los Angeles (Westwood Village)
Ricky Jay is the only person we know of with his own collection of special dice on display at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Come to think of it, he's the only person we know with a collection of special dice. Jay returns to the Geffen Playhouse for a rapidly selling-out run of sleight-of-hand...
Events / Performance
Celebrate the Word: Los Angeles Poetry Festival
Greenway Court Theater - 544 North Fairfax Avenue - Los Angeles (Fairfax District)
There's something seductive about spoken word—the passion and rhythms of language paired with a vulnerability of spilling one's guts on stage. Greenway Court, home to the weekly "'Da Poetry Jam," celebrates ten years of being an open mic hub with a seven-day festival. The fest features...
Events / Performance
Tiny's Comedy Open Mic
Tiny's KO - 6377 Hollywood Blvd. - Los Angeles (Hollywood)
Open Mic comedy nights are for the truly brave, as are dive bars on Hollywood Blvd, and $2 chili cheese fries. For those who can stomach all three, the bi-monthly comedy Happy Hour at 6pm will satisfy such cravings. &...
Events / Things To Do
Sizzling Summer Nights at the Autry
Autry National Center - 4700 Western Heritage Way - Los Angeles
Margaritas, free dance lessons and a live Latin band? We'll twirl to that. The Griffith Park museum hosts a night of dancing under the stars with Latin jazz, mambo, Afro-Cuban jams and other worldy beats. Be sure to check out the complimentary dance class taught by dancechatter.com's Trish...
Events / Contemporary Art
Guerrilla Gorilla Thursdays
Ghettogloss - 2380 Glendale Blvd. - Silverlake (Silver Lake)
A Thursday night weekly happenin' with various degrees of gorilla-related fun, gorilla suit and all.
Events / Comedy
Wordplay
Fake Gallery - 4319 Melrose Ave - Los Angeles (East Hollywood)
8 p.m.
Set to a live soundtrack, the August show features tales from local Jewish scribes to benefit IKAR, an organization that helps feed the homeless and fight genocide. Catch words by Jeremy Deutchman, Eric Friedman, Jessi Klein, Alan Olifson and Matt Price with beats by DJ Chris Simental. Free...
Events / Performance
‘The Super Burlesque Show’
El Cid - 4212 W. Sunset Blvd. - Los Angeles (Silver Lake)
Burlesque dancers barrel into El Cid for an evening of leggy entertainment. The show features the lovley, buxom starlets of the Hollywood Pin-Up Girls, who promise to please and tease you through the evening.

