Your Weekend Of Labor Day

Friday
· Music round-up: You, Me and Iowa at Spaceland, Downtown Six at the Viper Room, and the Great Glass Elevator goes nowhere at the Troubadour.
· Did you have any idea that it's BlogDay today? Well it is! What did you get us?
· American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre presents 1970 concert doc Led Zeppelin Live at the Royal Albert Hall. Director Stanley Dorfman will be on hand for a discussion.
Saturday
· A 48-hour Think Tank kicks off tonight at Echo Park's Eighteen-Thirty performance and art space. It's like a slumber party where artists, progressive thinkers, and educators gather to discuss how "day-to-day life and culture intersect, conflict, and cross-pollinate," and to do each other's hair and rate boys.
· Brian Jonestown Massacre at the Echoplex, The Minus 5 at Spaceland, and John Digweed is at the Avalon.
· Author Diana Serra Cary presents Jackie Coogan, The World's Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary Child Star, at Skylight Books.
Sunday
· Summer Strummer 2007 at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica features Deadbolt, Jesse Malin, Eddie Spaghetti, Whitestarr, and more. We're told it will be a dirty good time.
· Did you have any idea that it's L.A. 226th birthday? Well it is! What did you get it? Perhaps you'd like to join the annual nine-mile "Los Pobladores" walk from the San Gabriel Mission to the El Pueblo Historical Monument to celebrate!
Monday
· It's Labor Day! Founded in 1882, Labor Day "originating from a desire by the Central Labor Union to create a day off for the 'working man.'"
