PARTY TIME*: Causecast.org, the leading cause-related website and one-stop shop for philanthropy (and LAist’s Sloane’s baby) is hosting various voting parties around LA today. During the day, there will be specials at Pitfire Pizza Company locations in North Hollywood, Westwood and Downtown. After work though, head over to The Edison for the results-watching party. Toast your victory or drown your sorrows. Either way, it’s sure to be a good party. MORE PARTY: CineSpace is......

Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday the 13th, for the 2006 installment of AFI Fest, Los Angeles' valiant (read: sometimes comical, sometimes desperate) attempt to mount a world-class film festival, something this city deserves but sorely lacks. This year AFI Fest will screen 147 feature films and 36 shorts including several special screenings and premieres. The festival will host the U.S. premiere of Bobby, the Emilio Estevez-directed drama about the assassination of Robert F.......

You've only got about an hour to enter to win our Jesus is Magic premiere tickets and signed poster giveaway! The Sarah Silverman flick premieres locally tonight as part of AFI Fest. Click here to enter!......

THURSDAY • Japanese drone band Boris are performing a free in-store at Amoeba Music tonight at 7 PM. • Run Run Run, Golden State (previously known as paloalto), The Plebz and Bird perform at the Viper Room. Doors open at 8 PM. • Jon Brion and Nels Cline play tonight at Largo. Doors open at 8 PM. • AFI Fest opens tonight, featuring a total of 127 films at a variety of locations around......

The number of film festivals held in this town seems only slightly outnumbered by the number of Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf outlets. But tomorrow, AFI Fest 2005 (Nov. 3-13) opens -- and in its 19th year -- this is one that shouldn't be ignored. A few of the week's highlights include: Walk the Line: The Johnny Cash biopic, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the Man in Black and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash,......

The wet weather is a perfect excuse for going to the movies. If you're looking for more than the standard Hollywood fare, check out screenings at various film festivals playing around Los Angeles in the coming weeks. The Century City Film Festival started yesterday and runs until October 30th. The Festival's theme is “Camp, Cult, Classics” and will screen Brian Austin Green's first feature as a director, "Fish Without a Bicycle." LAist wonders which......