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· Music round-up: Hem plays the Troubadour, Silversun Pickups play a free show at Amoeba, Soulwax's Night Versions Live with 2 Many DJs are at the Vanguard, and a Doghouse Records showcase is at the Knitting Factory, featuring sisters Meg & Dia, Weatherbox, and Push to Talk.
· The deadly specter of speeding milk trucks looms over Expiration Date, a film premiering tonight at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
· Naomi Gurian and Irma Kalish, writing together under the hybrid pseudonym of Cady Kalian, read from their book As Dead As It Gets, about a fictional screenwriter named Maggie Mars whose "piece for Vanity Fair catapulted her to Los Angeles." It's the perfect Indian summer beach read if you like light fare about people whose careers are going much better than yours is. At Dutton's Brentwood.