Christine N. Ziemba

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• Posted Pencil This In: Foundation Room Wine Tasting, Trunk and Sample Sales to LAist
  Photo by aharvey2k via LAist's flickr pool. SHOP Two interesting sales going on today: Flutter in Pasadena hosts a Minnie Rose, Christopher Fischer, Eze Sur Mer and Tag Jeans Trunk Show today from 11 am-5 pm. And various showrooms at the California Market Center Downtown are opening their doors to the public today for pre-holiday sample sale shopping. FILM 
The Audrey Hepburn retrospective at LACMA continues tonight with a double feature of Charade (7:30...
• Posted Pencil This In: Self Help Graphics Celebrates the Dead in East LA to LAist
  Self Help Graphics celebrates el dia de los muertos tonight. | Photo by ve®onica via LAist's flickr pool. MUERTOS* Self Help Graphics holds the 36th Annual Dia de los Muertos Celebration at the East LA Civic Center tonight from 5-11 pm. The event features children's art workshops, art and crafts vendors, elaborate altars and local food. Guests will also enjoy a day of the dead fashion walk, live music from top local performers including...
• Posted Heroes and Villians: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics at LACMA to LAist
  LACMA’s exhibit Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics, opened last month and features 53 paintings, works on paper, and vintage comic books that examines India’s divine heroes and heroines the genre of comic books. According to LACMA: Indian superheroes and their archenemies are visualized from ancient archetypes that have long been depicted in traditional painting and sculpture, and are deeply ingrained in India’s historical imagination. In the twenty-first century new incarnations...
• Posted Pencil This In's Not-Much-Halloween Edition: America I AM Opens, Johnny Cash 'Tribute Cooking Show' On Stage to LAist
  'Nosferatu' with a twist at the Downtown Independent tonight. 
PERFORMANCE Culture Clash--the Latino performance troupe that hilariously rips the U.S. melting pot--takes to the Royce Hall stage at UCLA tonight. For their 25th anniversary special, the Culture Clash boys are back in their hometown for a raucous party with an all-star guest list: Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine; the band Ollin; comedian Carlos Mencia; actors Edward James Olmos, Tony Plana...
• Posted The Twilight Zone's 50th Anniversary Celebrated Tonight to LAist
  Twilight Zone 50th anniversary screening event at the Egyptian tonight. The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling’s sci-fi TV anthology series celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The original series first launched on Oct. 2, 1959, and it led viewers into another dimension of space and time, full of time travelers, apocalyptic scenarios and other worldly cultures (that often-times weren’t as friendly as E.T.) 

Controversial topics like race relations, prejudice and questioning cultural norms were often...