Events for October 7th, 2008
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Tuesday - October 7th
Restaurants / Dining Event
10th Anniversary Menus @ Maison Akira
Maison Akira - 713 E. Green St. - Pasadena (Playhouse District)
Maison Akira celebrates a decade of French/Asian fusion with special menus throughout the month of October. From October 3-31, enjoy a la carte and two special prix fixe menus. 4-Course Menu $60.00 Food Only 5-Course Menu $80 Food Only
Events / Installation Art
Wish Trees - Yoko Ono
Aug. 2 - Nov. 8: Write your wish on a piece of paper and hang it from a limb of one of Yoko Ono's wish trees. Our wishes: paychecks that come on time, Oreos.
Events / Paintings and Drawings
Criag Kauffman - A Drawing Retrospective
Armory Center for the Arts - 145 N. Raymond Ave. - Pasadena (Old Town)
Sept. 21 - Nov. 16: More than 50 years of works on paper from Southern California artist Criag Kauffman, who came of age in the Ferus '50s alongside artists like Wallace Berman, Ed Keinholz and Robert Irwin. Although known primarily for his three-dimensional vaccuum-formed works, this exhibit...
Events / Used Books
Two-Fer Tuesdays at Read Books
Read Books - 4972 Eagle Rock Blvd - Los Angeles (Eagle Rock)
Because the good folks at Read Books know you're a bookish glutton with a limited budget, they're offering two-for-one books every Tuesday. Every week is a different category (sci-fi, mystery, ficiton, etc). From now until the end of time. Maybe.
Restaurants / American Traditional and Classic
Scarlet Tea Ceremony
Scarlet Tea Room - 18 W. Green St. - Pasadena (Old Town)
The Scarlet Tea Room in Pasadena doesn’t just serve afternoon tea, but when they do, they go big. The Scarlet Tea Ceremony includes scones and tea sandwiches, as per tradition, but it also includes sorbet and Strawberries Romanoff, a preparation that calls for Cointreau, sugar, heavy cream, and...
Bars & Clubs / Bar/Club Event
Nightly Drink Specials at Bodega Wine Bar - Pasadena
Bodega Wine Bar - 260 E. Colorado Blvd. - Pasadena (Paseo Colorado)
A small wine bar with some really big deals
Restaurants / Japanese
Red Sun Hour at Sushi Roku - Pasadena
Sushi Roku Pasadena - 33 Miller Alley - Pasadena (Old Town)
A nightly bar menu happy hour with some really raw deals
Events / Literature Event
The Marshall McLuhan - Finnegans Wake Reading Club
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
This is not for the faint of heart. We nearly passed out typing the headline. Gerry Fialka hosts a monthly discussion on all things related to James Joyce's maddening last novel and old-school media guru Marshall McLuhan. "The world of discontinuity came in most vividly with the telegraph and the...
Events / Performance
The Moth StorySLAM
Tangier - 2138 Hillhurst Ave. - Los Angeles (Los Feliz)
This gathering of literary wits meets every first Tuesday of the month at Tangier. You can join in if you've got the gumption. It's a storytelling competition where 10 people get the floor for five minutes each. Prepare a five-minute story on the theme. Sign up at 7 p.m. to tell a story, volunteer...
Events / Book Author Readings
Savannah Knoop / J.T. Leroy / whatever
Book Soup - 8818 W. Sunset Blvd - West Hollywood
7 p.m.
You remember the whole debacle that followed an announcement that author J.T. Leroy wasn't a real person? That she was two? Or three? It was a mind-bender for sure, but after the dust settled, one of the guilty parties stepped forward—a young lady named Samantha Knoop. Her new book is called,...
