TODAY’S LIVING BEST BETS

The Long Beach Memorial Medical Center offers a class on “Becoming a Parent,” 6:30-9:30 tonight. $25 per couple. (562) 933-0627.

SCIENCE

The Heart Project displays science-inspired window installations at the Bradbury Building, through Wednesday. Downtown L.A. (323) 962-6761.

READING

Robert Forte discusses and signs “Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In,” at 7 tonight, Borders Long Beach, (562) 799-0486. (Leary is pictured left.)

POLITICS

“Lessons From the Charter Reform Experience,” a talk by USC professor Erwin Chemerinsky, at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Westside Pavilion. (310) 475-4911.

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