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Friday
 · Friday night music: Band of Horses with MT Egypt at The Echo, Built To Spill at the Troubadour, Mark Eitzel at Tangier.
· May the patriarchal film festival system crumble once and for all! "Broad Humor: Female Film Fest" features over 40 films comedies by women.
Saturday
 · Kinky & Sidestepper play a free show at California Plaza.
· The Alameda Writers Group presents hosts an evening "producer/author/story consultant" Christopher Vogler and Craig Mazin, co-writer of Scary Movie 3 and 4, where they will school aspiring writers in such topics as How to Best Utilize Pamela Anderson's Tits to Comic Effect.
· The REDCAT's "Don't Knock the Rock" festival rock n' roll festival continues with a screening of The Treasures of Long Gone John, a documentary about an indie record shop in Dallas, Texas, where Lord willing, no Jack Black-types work.
Sunday
 · Sunday night music: The acoustic duo Anders and Woods play the REDCAT, and the El Rey hosts another free show featuring Murs and the mad remix science of Cut Chemist.
· Dorkbot meets on Alvarado, where you can tear apart and tinker with old electronic equipment to your hearts delight in an all-out nerd jam. Unplugging first recommended.