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· Music round-up: Kristin Hersh at the El Rey, Sage Francis at Amoeba; Mother Mother at Spaceland.
· If you were impressed by yesterday's "get" of Carmen Electra, get ready to faint in delight as we non-exclusively reveal that Kanye West will be dropping by the Borders in Westwood in just a few hours.
· Michael Chabon will chat about his new book, The Yiddish Policeman's Union ("a hardboiled detective novel set in an alternate world where Israel failed to be born and millions of European Jewish refugees took shelter in Alaska, creating a miniature American Yiddishland"), with LAT film critic Kenneth Turan at the Central Library.