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Friday
 · Friday night music, "Smorgasbord of Riches" Edition: There's a Homage to Woody Guthrie at the Will Geer Teahtricum, featuring Mike Andrews, James Combs, Elini Mandell and hosted by Inara George, the Junior Boys play the Troubadour*, Wolf Parade are headlining at the Wiltern, catch a pre-Sunset Junction Black Rebel Motorcycle Club gig at the Echo, and hope Cat Power's feeling it when she performs solo at the Malibu Performing Arts Center.
· We had no idea that Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett, aka What's Love Got To Do With It's Ike and Tina, had reunited at the Pasadena Playhouse for a production of August Wilson's Fences. It's not a musical, but you're also spared watching him beat the shit out of her, so it all kind of evens out in the end.
Saturday
 · Revenge of the Book-Eaters at Royce Hall is a benefit for Dave Eggers' 826 Writing Centers. NYC got David Byrne and Sufjan Stevens, but we get Aimee Mann, Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis, and...drumroll...His Dreammuffinness himself, Jake Gyllenhaal. We're there.
· It's the first day of Sunset Junction, when hipsters, leather daddies, Latino families and yuppies come together to celebrate the fact that they don't live in Beverly Hills. Though with this year's VIP section, have the proceedings finally turned a Scott Speedmanesque corner?
Sunday
 · Gotan Project, Zero 7 Featuring Sia, Jos Gonz lez, & Herbert perform at the Hollywood Bowl.
· Jon Favreau fields some questions and presents Buster Keaton's silent classic, Steamboat Bill, Jr., at the Skirball Center. Inevitable topic of conversation: How the film's famous cyclone sequence influenced Zathura. Discuss.
· Put the final touches on the makeshift "red carpet" and angel-shaped canapes for your Emmy party no one wants to come to.

*Sorry, we're told that Junior Boys gig is September 25, not August 25.