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Friday
 · Mireille Guiliano signs her best-selling book French Women Don t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure at the Grove Barnes and Noble. Republican women, on the other hand, do.
· Friday night music: Pretty Girls Make Graves at the Troubadour, Bauhaus at the Wiltern, Sage Francis at the Henry Fonda.
· Check out 18th Street Arts Center s Halloween celebration featuring live electronic band Cirrus and DJs from KXLU, and performance art by Clan Destino, Wide Open Works and Bob Bellerue.
Saturday
 · Arcana books hosts a publication party for Bruce Weber's new collection of photography, Blood Sweat and Tears Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Fashion. Mr. Weber himself will be on hand to sign your purchase. No promises about his almost-naked Abercrombie & Fitch models, though.
· Saturday night music: Suicidal Tendencies and The Germs at the Olympic Auditorium, Chromeo at Little Pedro s, The Warlocks at the El Rey.
Sunday
 · Check out the drunk clowns, cancerous cigarette girls, and perverted carnies at our parents' house. No just kidding, at Carnaville at the Highways Performance Space.
· The appropriately named We Are Scientists and Blood Arm play a show at the Troubadour on Halloween eve.
· Ray Bradbury will speak about his life and work, and what a giant stinker Michael Moore is, at the Studio City Branch Library.