Events happening Tuesday

MOVIES

Under Great White Northern Lights This feature-length concert film follows indie rock legends the White Stripes as they attempt to play a show in every province and territory in Canada. Echoplex, 1154 Glendale Blvd., L.A. 7:30 p.m. Free. (213) 413-8200. www.attheecho.com. Also at the Redwood Bar, 316 W. 2nd St., L.A. 7 p.m. Free. (213) 680-2600. www.theredwoodbar.com.

BOOKS

Lisa See The author of novels “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” and “Peony in Love” will read and sign her latest, “Shanghai Girls,” an L.A.-centric tale of two sisters, Pearl and May, set in Old Chinatown of the 1930s. 7 p.m. Diesel, 225 26th St., Suite 33, Brentwood. Free. 310-576-9960. www.dieselbookstore.com.

Jared Diamond and John Long Two accomplished scientists and authors will engage in an open-ended discussion for the Hammer Conversations series. Diamond is a professor of geography at UCLA and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” and Long is a paleontologist and the vice president of research and collections at the Natural History Museum. Potential talking points include the evolution of sex and how scientists can communicate better with the general public. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. 7 p.m. (310) 443-7000. hammer.ucla.edu.

POP MUSIC

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club The neo-garage rockers get raucous as they play their signature brand of fuzzed-out psychedelia to promo the new album “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo.” The romantic, Smiths-leaning London indie band the Veils open. House of Blues, 1530 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim. 8 p.m. $20. (714) 778-2583.