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· Music round-up: Regina Spektor at the El Rey; Rise Against begins a five-night stand at the Troubadour; Cougars at Spaceland.
· Three-time Pulitzer winner (note to Hollywood: it's like an Oscar, but for the less photogenic) Thomas L. Friedman, author of The World is Flat, speaks at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
· UCLA's Hammer Conversations brings together Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin with Patton Oswalt (does the dude ever take a night off?) to shoot the shit in front of a live audience.