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· In what may be the ultimate showdown between people who genuinely enjoy Neal Diamond and those who are drunkenly marinating in an ironic appreciation of the sequined master's songs, the Twilight Dance Series features Super Diamond at the Santa Monica Pier. We think pure love will carry the night.
· Design and tech-obsessed nerds can congregate safely at Visionary-in-Residence Bruce Sterling's lecture at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, without any of that weird Super Diamond tension.
· The Egyptian is screening The Shining, perhaps the scariest that Jack Nicholson has ever been without a golf club or dildo in hand.