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Friday
 · Friday night music: Irving at The Echo; Ministry at the House of Blues; Aquabats at the El Rey.
· The Getty offers up actors reading short stories on the theme "Much Ado at Dinner" for its weekend of "short story food fictions," with John Lithow and Rene "Clayton Endicott III" Auberjonois participating in tonight's event.
Saturday
 · More music, fewer problems: The Rogers Sisters with I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness at The Echo; the Neighborhood Festival at the Queen Mary has Whirlwind Heat, Moving Units, Ima Robot and, as they say, much, much more.
· Did you know the Hollywood Forever Cemetery movie screenings have already started? Join 10,000 of your best, wine-chugging picnic pals for a showing of Detour among the gaudiest memorials this side of Liberace's coffin.
Sunday
 · The End of Hunger benefit concert at CineSpace features folk-soul acts Quincy Coleman, Shane Alexander, and AM, all in the name of halting global warming. We kid, of course.
· And if all that do-gooding isn't enough for you, the Venice Family Clinic sponsors an art walk around Venice and at the Westminster School.