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· Music round-up: The Hold Steady and Art Brut at the Henry Fonda; The Hives at Avalon; The Thrills at Spaceland.
· Slash—rock star, top hat model, author—returns to the Whiskey A Go-Go tonight to sign his memoir, an event put on by his new literary groupies at Book Soup.
· The Coen Brothers' latest, No Country for Old Men (featuring Creepiest Cinematic Hairstyle of the Year frontrunner Javier Bardem), gets a sneak preview at the Aero.