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· Music round-up: Mando Diao at the Troubadour; The Mulhollands at the Key Club; Grey Matter at the Knitting Factory.
· Al Gore—creator of the internets, sworn, Oscar-winning foe of global warming, and gentle lover to Tipper—will appear at the Wilshire Theatre to promote his new book, The Assault on Reason.
· Writer Antoine Wilson signs his debut novel, The Interloper, at Dutton's Brentwood.