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Inside the museum are sun 8/11 addition to the readings and book signings, exhibits capturing the sometimes harrowing FILM All About the Plot a reception takes place in the patio garden incarceration of the Japanese-American popu- Doris Wishman apparently never got the memo from 6:45-7:45, before the main event. Beyond lation in internment/detention/concentration Remembering Johnny Ramone that many people consider sexploitation lms Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice; Fri., Aug. (pick your preferred label) camps during World Even though Johnny Ramone isn’t actually to be sexist. Not only was the New York native 8, 8-10 p.m.; $10, free for members. beyondba- War II. At a time when refugees are drowning buried at Hollywood Forever, he is a larger- the only woman directing sexploitation lms roque.org. SHANA NYS DAMBROT o North Africa as Europe closes its doors and than-life presence in the Hollywood cemetery in the 1960s and 1970s, she is also credited as refugees from Central America and Mexico thanks in part to sculptor Wayne Toth’s iconic the most prolic female director of the sound trying to seek asylum in the U.S. are drown- statue, which captures the glowering Ramones era. Wishman’s 1961 lm Nude on the Moon sat 8/10 ing in the Rio Grande or being incarcerated guitarist mid-strum. His ferocious spirit also is a thoroughly kitschy but enjoyably campy PHOTOGRAPHY/FOOD&DRINK and children taken from their families, this lives on with the annual Johnny Ramone Trib- fantasy about astronaut-scientists who dis- performance could not be more timely. e ute, which has evolved from a straightforward cover that the moon is inhabited by beautiful, Field Trip to Little India important proximity to the museum is under- tribute to the Ramones into an ongoing series topless alien space women. Something Weird Fowler Museum at UCLA’s current exhibit, scored as a former WWII internment camp in of screenings of the late guitarist’s favorite Video’s Lisa Petrucci discusses Wishman’s life India’s Subterranean Stepwells: Photographs Oklahoma was recently reactivated to house movies. is year, host Vincent Gallo presides and work at a screening of Nude on the Moon, by Victoria Lautman, features 48 images of minor migrant children separated from their over a screening of Walter Hill’s apocalyptic which is paired with Smut Without Smut: Bi- India’s “manmade water storage systems called parents. Japanese American National Museum 1979 gang odyssey e Warriors and welcomes zarro Horror Nite, a collection of excerpts from stepwells,” built between the 9th and 18th cen- Plaza, Sat., Aug. 10, 2 & 3:30 p.m., free. voic- such guests as comedian Fred Armisen and ’70s porn horror lms in which the sex scenes turies. In conjunction with the display, the escarryinc.net/. ANN HASKINS ex-Pistol Steve Jones. Mr. Musichead presents have been cut, leaving behind only vestiges of museum hosts Global Dining: Northern India a punk and glam photo exhibit in the cathedral tacky horror icks. Hammer Museum, 10899 in Artesia, a chance for visitors to learn about DRINK mausoleum. Hollywood Forever, 6000 Santa Wilshire Blvd., Westwood; Fri., Aug. 9, 7:30 Indian culture beyond art that includes a trip Monica Blvd., Hollywood; Sun., Aug. 11, 6:30 p.m.; $9. (310) 443-7000, hammer.ucla.edu. to Rajdhani, a vegetarian restaurant in Arte- Steeped in the Knowledge of Tea p.m.; $20. (323) 469-1181, hollywoodforever. FALLING JAMES sia’s Little India enclave that specializes in tha- Sip, discuss and learn about the world’s most com. FALLING JAMES li-style cuisine, which consists of several small, consumed beverage — second to water — at the ART all-you-can-eat dishes served on a steel platter ninth annual Los Angeles Tea Festival. Wheth- THEATER and lled with rice, vegetables, chutney, lentil er you prefer Darjeeling, Oolong or Pu-erh, Poetry Between Pacific Shores soup, atbread and rose-avored ice cream. the dozens of exhibitors at the two-day event To Be, or Not to Be? Tonight Beyond Baroque does what it does Following the meal, you can explore the other will display teas and related products from How well do you know Hamlet? Shakespeare best — host and present a roster of diverse and restaurants, grocery stores and shops that run all cultures, while speakers lead classes and gets a remix in Bad Hamlet, an interactive important voices from the world of poetry. And through the neighborhood’s Pioneer Boule- workshops on topics ranging from “Diversity new take on the theatrical classic that meshes they do mean the world, as Tanya Ko Hong vard. Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E. of Ceylon Teas” to “Benets of Tea in Soap” its myriad interpretations via the public into a hosts East Meets West Night of Poetic Lan- Young Drive, Westwood; Sat., Aug. 10, departs to “Cannabis 101.” Industry experts will also uniquely entertaining hot mess. e produc- guage Festival, a co-presentation with Antioch at noon; $60. (310) 825-4361, fowler.ucla.edu.