LA WEEKLY Calendar 

• The Moth's Story Slam
  7:30 p.m. May 21 - When novelist George Dawes Green founded the Moth in 1997, it was an attempt to escape the nonstop noise of New York City and re-create the quiet nights of his Georgia youth, where friends would gather on the porch and share stories while moths flittered through the screen door. Sixteen years later,... […]
• The Black Angels
  7:00 p.m. May 21 - The Black Angels bring a different musical inspiration into focus on each album. For their latest, Indigo Meadow, that would primarily be The Doors, as "Always Maybe" with its shuddering keys and poetic strain and the crazed organs of "I Hear Colors (Chromaesthesia)" sound like The Black Ange... […]
• Laura Marling
  9:00 p.m. May 21 - At 16, Laura Marling moved from her Southeast England home to London to join the nu-folk movement. Now 23, the young English folk star sings like she's had a lifetime of experience. Quiet and guarded, Marling doesn't actually fancy bringing up her age but seems comfortable with the woman she is beco... […]
• Temple Grandin
  7:15 p.m. May 22 - There are very few genuine mysteries left in our over-developed 21st century, but autism stands as one. The pervasive neurological disorder casts a punishing shadow over an ever-increasing number of families, yet the available science on its cause or the reason for its effects is about as advanced a... […]
• Youngblood Hawke
  8:00 p.m. May 22 - Youngblood Hawke has one of those inspiring stories about how we all gotta take some knocks on our way to the top, keep our chins up while we're getting there and maintain the faith that it's all gonna happen, and soon. That A for Attitude aids and abets the L.A. quintet's campaign for world dominan... […]