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Friday
 · Skylight Books goes porny by hosting adult star Nina Hartley's reading and signing of Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex. Note: Skylight is not *that* kind of bookstore, though we're sure they'll pretend not to be offended if you ask where the booths with the naked ladies are.
· Music round-up: Jon Brion at Largo; Heavens at the Troubadour; KMFDM at the Henry Fonda.
· The Discount Cruise to Hell trick-or-treat bash promises lesbian burlesque, zombie go-go dancers, and both costume and bloody underwear contests. And, you know, booze, because you've got to have a few in you before the underwear gets bloodied enough to be entered in a contest.
Saturday
 · General-use rockstar and reality-TV ubiquity Dave Navarro hosts a Halloween Lingerie and Costume Ball at the Highlands club in every tourist's favorite Walk-of-Fame-convenient mall, Hollywood and Highland. We've always felt that skimpy lingerie makes an acceptable substitute for a creative costume.
· "Over 200 porn stars" mingle with ticket-buying civilians at the Heaven and Hell Halloween Party at the Henry Fonda, where the Beastie Boys' DJ Hurricane will be spinning.
Sunday
 · Pere Ubu performs a live underscore of Roger Corman's sci-fi classic X, The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, an event with no explicit porn industry tie-in that we can see, other than the liberal use of the letter "X."
· A little more music: OK Go at the Troubadour; Ladytron at the Glass House in Pomona;