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Friday
 · Music round-up: Nuos Non Plus are at Safari Sams, The Bell Rays play the Roxy, and Good Riddance rock the El Rey.
· We think we may have mentioned this already, but for the slow-learners among you, the four-day Star Wars Celebration IV at the Convention Center starts today. Go be one with the Force already!
· Writers Bloc presents the inimitable Elmore Leonard, in conversation with Walter Mirisch, who produced West Side Story and The Magnificent Seven.
Saturday
 · Satisfy your enduring obsession with Kim Novak at Hollywood Forever Cemetery's screening of Vertigo.
· The Barnsdall Gallery Theate hosts monologist/performance artist/actress Heather Woodbury's The Last Days of Desmond 'Nani' Reese: A Stripper's History of the World, told from the point of view of a 108-year-old stripper. Boy, does she have Bob Evans stories, don't get her started!
Sunday
 · It's your last chance to check out the "latin-flavored" Memorial Day Festival at Alvarado St. & Wilshire Blvd.
Monday
 · You may want to take a moment to remember fallen soldiers today, in whatever way you see fit; e.g., Ray "Bubba" Sorensen chooses to paint a 56-ton boulder.