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· Music round-up: Bedroom Walls at The Troubadour; Gil Mantera's Party Dream at Spaceland; Pinback at Avalon.
· The monthly Res screening at the Egyptian tonight will feature videos for Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, and Mogwai, and perhaps most importantly, an open bar. "Free" is nearly everyone's favorite flavor of booze.
· Journalist Ben Ehrenreich reads and signs his debut novel, The Suitors (loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, a conceit that gets the epic poetry nerd in us all hot and bothered), at Vroman's.