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Friday
 NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg speaks at the Music Center Speaker Series. Nope, we're not gonna sex it up for you. To once again paraphrase the immortal Samuel L. Jackson: You either want to see that, or you don't. (Yeah, you do.)
· Rjd2 is at the El Rey; metal revivalists Avenged Sevenfold at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
Saturday
 · Hey, more music: Saint Etienne at Avalon; It's Rockabilly vs. The 80s with Dick Dale and Bow Wow Wow at the Henry Fonda; Rick Springfield at the Wiltern.
· Damon Wayans tries to atone for the comic sins of My Wife and Kids with an hour set at the Laugh Factory.
Sunday
 · DEEP's marathon seventh anniversary party features the Grammy-winning Louie Vega at the Vanguard. [via flavorpill]
· Blaine Capatch and Linda Pine corral usual suspects Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, and Ron Lynch for Sketch-Up at the Steve Allen Theater, a night mixing the highly volative ingredients of stand-up and sketch comedy.
· Writer Joan Kelly reads from her memoir The Pleasure's All Mine: The Memoir of a Professional Submissive at Skylight Books, a subject that's sure to resonate with just about anyone who's ever worked in the entertainment industry.