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· Music round-up: The Hold Steady at the Troubadour; Antigone Rising at the El Rey; the Chapin Sisters at the Echo.
· Louis CK, the man who did for the word "cunt" what David Milch did for "cocksucker" on HBO's airwaves, is at Largo—a show that will be hosted by a real magician, for reasons not entirely clear to us.
· Director Alejandro Gonz lez I rritu (Amores Perros, but you knew that) presents a preview screening of Babel (starring Brad Pitt, ditto) at LACMA, and will do the requisite Q&A afterwards, during which you should feel free to intersperse intelligent questions with the intermittent squealing of Pitt's name.