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Friday
 · Atwater Village tries to prove it's more than just the part of town you drive through on the way to the celebrated Brand Boulevard of Cars, with its free Atwater Movie Night screening of E.T. at Red Car River Park.
· Friday night music round-up: Guster and Nada Surf at the Wiltern; Mojave 3 at the Roxy; Mastodon and The Bronx at the Henry Fonda; Starsailor at the Troubadour.
· We're not even going to pretend to understand what Which Side Are You On? (at Betalevel tonight) is, but it's described as "three multimedia diatribes about this angry, beautiful, and slowly warming world. PowerPoint, tangible electronics, performative lecture, next-gen positive vibrational dome music, among other things..." But it's free, and you can't really argue with that.
Saturday
 · More music: We Are Scientists and Art Brut at the Henry Fonda; Silversun Pickups at the Echo; The Oohlas at Sea Level Records.
· Horror/sci-fi orgy Shriekfest 2006 finishes up Saturday and Sunday with screenings at Raleigh Studios. Sample titles from their offerings: Corpus Interruptus, In Memorium, and Zombie Hunter.
· The Committee to Save Silver Lake Reservoirs gives a tour of houses designed by architects so famous even we've heard of them.
Sunday
 · Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, and Andrew Daly turn up at the UCB Theatre for an exciting night of improvisational Asssscatting.
· Halloween's just around the corner...sort of, anyway. But Northridge's Spooky House (boo!) is already open, ready to service all of your seasonal underemployed-actors-in-rubber-masks- jumping-out-from-around-corners needs.