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Fifth Anniversary Tasting Menu @ Grace
Grace celebrates five years with a five-course tasting menu from chef Neal Fraser.  Starting May 6, the special menu will be available for the rest of 2008.  It?s a greatest hits list of Grace?s finest:  Dungeness crab salad with English peas, mint and meyer lemon…

9th Hour Happy Hour @ Katsuya
Shake off the previous 8 hours of work at Katsuya’s 9th Hour Happy Hour. From 5 p.m.-7 p.m. weekdays, a menu of cocktails and small bites is available for $9. Munch on baked crab hand rolls, rock shrimp tempura, or a selection of sushi. Wash it all down with a bellini or watermelon…

‘Lecture on the Weather’ and ‘Doctor Atomic’ haves modern-day lessons
They delve into old American thinking to provide insight into today.

Saturday morning, hyperbolic weather reporters here barked out warnings of heavy wind and drenching rain all day. A shower or two did dampen Manhattan streets, but the real New York weather over the weekend was elsewhere.

Football special @ The Parlor: $15 beer towers and $12 beer-and-meat buffet
No matter who you?re rooting for, everyone wins here

Super Soul Sundays at the Short Stop
Sunday’s ultimate soul music dance party

Live: Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra
Famous Bach and relative unknowns at Zipper Hall concert Saturday.

The Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra opened its fourth season under its music director, Martin Haselböck, at Zipper Hall on Saturday night in fine shape, juxtaposing a clutch of famous baroque-era composers with two lesser-known ones.

Charlie Lustman’s feel-good cancer musical
Writing a pop operetta about surviving the disease was therapeutic for him, so now he’s taking it to the world in ‘Made Me Nuclear.’

Charlie Lustman is on a musical mission to help people feel better.

Olivier Latry at Segerstrom Hall
The organ recital at Segerstrom Hall is an all-too-rare affair, the first and only such showcase for the new $3-million pipe organ this season.

The William J. Gillespie Concert Organ, which has been in operation for a month at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, got a razzle-dazzle baptism in September in the usual way for concert hall organs — with orchestra in Saint-Saëns’ blow-out “Organ” Symphony. ¶ Still, the organ — built by C.B. Fisk, housing 4,322 pipes and costing close to $3 million — will be used only a handful of times this season, mainly in programs by the Pacific Symphony and Pacific Chorale. Two pops events are cliché spookfests: a Halloween program and, in April, an organ-accompanied screening of the silent-film version of “Phantom of the Opera.” ¶ Sunday afternoon was the hall’s first and only organ recital of the season. The soloist was Olivier Latry, who as organist of Notre Dame knows something about Paris spooks. His February recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall concentrated on the ghoulish side of French organ music. He paraded many of the same names Sunday, although with music not quite so weird. ¶ Grafted onto a building’s structure, an organ is part architecture. In Segerstrom, the flat, rectangular pipes that are visible behind the stage are coated in textured tin and intended to have a two-dimensional visual effect. The keyboard is a recessed cube, like something out of a Mondrian painting. With a large, empty stage making Segerstrom feel particularly cavernous, Latry appeared a distant speck playing in a hole in the wall.

9th Hour Happy Hour @ Foxtail
Shake off the previous 8 hours of work at Foxtail?s 9th Hour Happy Hour.  From Monday through Friday 5:30 pm-7:30 pm, all of Foxtail?s specialty cocktails will be available for $9, as will a list of offerings from the kitchen.  Munch on mini croquet madams and monsieurs…

Fifth Anniversary Tasting Menu @ Grace
Grace celebrates five years with a five-course tasting menu from chef Neal Fraser.  Starting May 6, the special menu will be available for the rest of 2008.  It?s a greatest hits list of Grace?s finest:  Dungeness crab salad with English peas, mint and meyer lemon…

USC adds pop music program
The Thornton School of Music bucks ivory tower convention with a program for rock, R & B and more.

USC’s Thornton School of Music will make room starting next year for singers and instrumentalists who play pop music, breaking a long-standing tradition in higher education that requires students to dedicate themselves either to classical music or jazz.

‘Saturday Supper 10 Bucks’ at the Arsenal
All American Burger Fries and a draft beer for a measly 10 bucks

$12 Tuesdays @ Murano
Starting April 8, Murano rolls out $12 Tuesdays.  The special menu will feature the three P?s of Italian dining:  pasta, paninis, and pizzas, all $12 apiece.  Selections will change week to week, but you can count on a few signature items every Tuesday, including the pizza…

Three-Course Prix Fixe Dinner @ Blue Velvet
  Blue Velvet introduces a weeknight three-course prix fixe dinner menu, a pared down version of its decadent nine-course spontanée tasting menu.  Start with spot prawn ravioli with pea tendrils, asparagus, and ruby red grapefruit.  For an entrée, choose between…

Valentino 35th Anniversary menu
Valentino is celebrating its 35th anniversary all year long. A three course primi menu will be offered nightly at V-vin bar for a prix-fixe of?you guessed it?$35. Weekly changing selections will highlight Valentino’s exceptional Italian cuisine: antipasti of crudo from new “Crudo” chef Taku…

Autumn Dinner for C-CAP @ Grace
Grace raises funds for Careers through Culinary Arts Program, benefiting underserved students, with a seasonal autumn dinner. The menu includes beef tartare with truffled grilled cheese, roast Sonoma lamb with black olive sauce, and apple turnovers with ricotta custard and brown sugar walnuts.

Bistro Burger Nights @ blue on blue
It?s all about burgers Monday nights at blue on blue with a build-your-own format for Bistro Burger Night. Go decadent with a 100% angus beef burger topped with tempura onion rings, maytag bleu cheese, heirloom tomato, arugula, and garlic aioli accompanied by truffled fries. Or stay healthy…

Monday Night Football Specials @ X Bar
X marks the spot for Monday Night Football. The Hyatt Regency Century Plaza’s X Bar features a 10-foot outdoor screen to take in the game. From 4 pm-6:30 pm, there are half-price discounts on all beers, well drinks, and many wines, as well as game time bites like fiery chicken morsels with…

$3 beer polls at Barney’s Beanery
Getting sloshed in the name of your candidate is a good deed well done

Beefsteak Sundays at Bacaro L.A.
You heard right, all-you-can-eat steak and all-you-can-sip wine is a reality here

Plus+ Sundays at Play
Sunday nights done right

Live: Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra
Famous Bach and relative unknowns at Zipper Hall concert Saturday.

The Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra opened its fourth season under its music director, Martin Haselböck, at Zipper Hall on Saturday night in fine shape, juxtaposing a clutch of famous baroque-era composers with two lesser-known ones.

Live: The Jerusalem Symphony at UCLA’s Royce Hall
Leon Botstein gets the usually somber Jerusalem Symphony to show a brighter side.

Leon Botstein is a can-do conductor eager to get a bright sound out of almost any orchestra, even the moody Jerusalem Symphony . So Tuesday night, Botstein — who juggles a music directorship in the Israeli capital with his other day jobs as president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra — attempted to turn on the lights when he brought his intensely dark-hued Jerusalem band to Royce Hall for a UCLA Live concert. Considerable energy was required.

Leon Botstein brings Jerusalem Symphony to UCLA
Call the music director, who also is head of the American Symphony Orchestra and president of Bard College, an activist musician.

Leon Botstein has been president of Bard College here, 100 miles up the Hudson from New York City, since 1975. He is an outspoken advocate for education. For instance, he believes that college should begin after 10th grade, and at Bard he has created the largest prison education program of any college in the country.

‘Songs of Ascension’
‘Songs of Ascension’ Where: REDCAT, Walt Disney Concert Hall complex, 631 W. 2nd St., L.A.

Live: Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra
Famous Bach and relative unknowns at Zipper Hall concert Saturday.

The Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra opened its fourth season under its music director, Martin Haselböck, at Zipper Hall on Saturday night in fine shape, juxtaposing a clutch of famous baroque-era composers with two lesser-known ones.

Shine Halloween night at Blue Velvet
Put on your best costume and outshine the competition

OMG! Fridays at Avalon
Oh em gee, Friday nights are cool again