This has nothing to do with today's Pencil column, we just really like the photo. / Photo by ~db~ via LAist's flickr pool. FILM: The AFI at the ArcLight series in Sherman Oaks continues tonight with Alien (director's cut) on the big screen. See Sigourney Weaver kick ass in the 1980 Ridley Scott-directed film all over again. COMEDY*: At the Upright Citizens Brigade in Hollywood, Doug Benson brings along a few friends and their......

Sam Fuller's White Dog plays at the Silent Movie Theatre tonight. / Photo by ~db~ via LAist's flickr pool. Who knew there was so much good stuff happening on a Monday night? FILM: The Academy continues its “Great to be Nominated” series tonight with the 2001 Best Picture nominee The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The film will screen at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. There will......

EXPERIMENTAL* Starting today, Machine Project hosts three days of banjo trance. Here’s how they describe it: “Conducting light particles passing through the Machine Project window, Emily Lacy will give a 3-day musical performance concerning the speed of light, gravitation, and matter, utilizing banjo, guitar, and violin.” 8 pm // Machine Project // 1200 D. North Alvarado St., Los Angeles // Free. ART Dan Cameron is the director and curator of Prospect.1 New Orleans, an......