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FRIDAY
· Sonic Youth leader Thurston Moore makes the solo rounds with The Haters, Dead Machines and Hive Mind at the Smell. More »
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· In honor of Darwin's 200th birthday, USC's Master of Professional Writing program brings acclaimed scientists and poets to the Natural History Museum to examine Darwin's influence on poetry in Darwin Among the Poets. More »
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· Glockenspiel master (among other instruments) Andrew Bird plays the Orpheum. It's sold out, but that shouldn't stop you. More »
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Friday
· Annie Lennox appears at the Grammy Museum for a Q&A/mini-performance. More »
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· Or, in a simpler variation, just drop 20 on her DVD Totally Fit and call it good. She'll sell it to you personally tonight at the Virgin Megastore. More »
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· Mortified LA: Doomed Valentine's Show offers an evening of epically humiliating romantic raconteurship. Misery loves company, especially around this time of year. At King King. More »
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· The exquisite Cat Power takes the stage at the Avalon. Will it be one of those mental breakdown quickies? Or a 3 1/2 hour set that exhausts her repertoire? Either way, go. More »
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· American Gladiators alumnus Nitro — née Dan Clark — will share good, bad, ugly and 'roidally deranged tales from the old days while reading his new biography at Book Soup. More »
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Friday
· U.K. rapper Lady Sovereign brings her rhymes to the Echo.
· Stormy Weather, the Lena Horne biographical musical with Leslie Uggams in the title role, continues at the Pasadena Playhouse. More »
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· The Silent Movie Theatre screens Ernst Lubitsch Musicals, from the silent film pioneer who combined his love of European operettas and his mastery of film to produce the first Hollywood musicals. Tonight: 1934's The Merry Widow. More »
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· Be among the baffled public to help Josh Homme and Jesse Hughes work out their deafening joke-rock identity crises when the Eagles of Death Metal appear at The Music Box. More »
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· Joyless, dyslexic, elitist fungus of a film critic David Denby discusses his book Snark at the ICM Screening Room. Should be fun! More »
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· It's Dustin Lance Black night at Book Soup! He'll sign just about anything, but preferably Milk: The Shooting Script. It's your chance to brush up against a possible Oscar-winner. (No groping.) More »
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Friday · Ultimate unisex Journey tribute band Infinity—with members from L.A. bands like Longstocking and Patsy and led by Steve Perry-channeling Michelle "Woody" Stevenson—plays Spaceland. Start believin'. More »
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· After three decades and a half-million hairstyles, Patti LaBelle finally reunites her eponymous R&B trio in LA at the Nokia Theater. More »
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· Brian Wilson will sing some of pop history's most influential songs at the Wiltern. Indigo Girl Amy Ray will present less important songs at the Troubador, but is likelier to sing in key. More »
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· 826LA's monthly Tiny Vaudeville series comes to the Echoplex, with the musical stylings of Pop Levi, Dave Foley, Al Madrigal, Dave (Gruber) Allen, and James Adomian. More »
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Friday · The Phantom of the Opera fills the void left by Wicked at the Pantages. Everyone loves Phantom: It has a falling chandelier! More »
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· The Mayan hosts the Art of Change Inaugural Ball, featuring multimedia vaudeville troupe the Mutaytor and the Crystal Method, helping move your feet in the right direction. More »
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· Join Harry Shearer as he throws George W. Bush a going-away party at Largo. He'll perform selections from his Grammy-nominated album, Songs of the Bushmen. More »
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Friday · San Francisco cult-movie drag legend Peaches Christ brings the first of two L.A. Midnight Mass screenings: Jawbreaker at Nuart, with auteur Darren Stein, Judy Greer, and Terminator's Thomas Dekker singing a tribute song. More »
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· Local art-scene wunderkind Mark Bradford's rooftop installation—a Katrina-evoking sign visible only from the sky that says "HELP US"—continues at the Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery. Sums things up nicely, we'd say. More »
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· Socioculturalist Malcolm Gladwell ("You may remember me from such bestsellers as Stop, Or That Giant Stack of Hush-Puppies Will Crush Us All! and Venti or Grande: Just Decide Already...") speaks at the WGA Theater. More »
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· Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Aniz Anzari and Patton Oswalt are at the Orpheum shooting another scene for Funny People. Good news: They need audience extras! Bad news: You have to pay them. More »
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· Even without the onstage accompaniment of friends Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk and Andy Kindler — who will all be on hand — you would still rush to see Todd Barry tonight at Largo. More »
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Friday· Friday Night Music: Gram Rabbit at the Troubadour, L.A.'s The Little Ones and Montreal's Plants & Animals at the Natural History Museum, Zomby at the Echoplex. More »
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· Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth will visit the WGA Theater, where he'll reveal the most insulting thing David Fincher ever called him during pre-production on Benjamin Button. More »
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· Pop Noir at Echoplex, and Swedish singer Theresa Andersson at The Hotel Café. More »
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· Robert Francis at the Echo, Rocco Deluca starts their Spaceland residency, and Gay Beast are at Pehrspace. More »
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· Aaron Beaumont at Hotel Cafe, and George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic are at Club Nokia. More »
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· The Marshall Tucker Band play the House of Blues, Gipsy Kings at The Conga Room, and Akon does whatever it is Akon does at Club Nokia. More »
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· Robin Thicke at Club Nokia, and The Movies play the final show of their December Spaceland residency. More »
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· Soweto Gospel Choir at Disney Hall, Mike Stinson at The Redwood Bar & Grill, and Camp Freddy at The Roxy. More »
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· The Polyamorous Affair, Vaginals and Halloween Swim Team at The Echo, The Count Basie Orchestra swings up your Xmas at Disney Hall, and Rockapella at House of Blues. More »
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Friday
· Friday night music: Darker My Love at Echoplex, The Duke Spirit plays the Roxy, and People Under the Stairs are at El Rey. More »
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· Music round-up: Juliette Commagere at the Troubadour, Ozomatli at House of Blues, and Sarah Brightman at the Nokia Theatre (gotta love LA Weekly's capsule review). More »
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· There is only One: Metallica magnetizes the Forum with death. More »
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· Mercury Rev at the El Rey, Amanda Palmer & Danger Ensemble at the Henry Fonda, War Tapes at Spaceland, and Grammy-winning a cappella all-male "orchestra of voices" Chanticleer sing Christmas music at Disney Hall. More »
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· Banjo legend Roni Stoneman at the Echoplex (part of the Pure Country book release party), Cheap Trick at House of Blues, The Movies at Spaceland. More »
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Friday: · Von Iva at Echo, Los Lobos at HoB, Phantom Planet at Troubadour.
· Toph Eggers hosts Hal Ashby's The Landlord, part of The Forgotten Classics Movie Series. At 826LA's Time Travel Mart. More »
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