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· Help Bravo populate the audiences for comedy shows featuring Paula Poundstone (tonight), Caroline Rhea (tomorrow), and Joan Rivers (Wednesday) at the Orpheum Theater. We know this is terribly unfair to two of them, but we can't help thinking they're going to call their special The Crones of Comedy. Or for a safer alternative comedy solution, there's the Paul F. Tompkins Show at Largo.
· Monday night music: Architecture in Helsinki at the Troubadour; Esthero at the Roxy; The Icarus Line at the Viper Room.
· You're an expert at something, we know you are. Show up at the The Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC) panel tonight at the Veterans Memorial Building, The Writer as Specialist: Finding Your Niche, and learn how to harness your preferred area of know-it-allness for writing gigs.