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Friday
 · Music round-up: MIA at the Wiltern, Joanna Newsom at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Of Montreal at the Avalon.
· John Waters, the Mozart of bad taste, signs DVD copies of his one-man show This Filthy World at the Grove Barnes and Noble.
· The Jack Oakie Celebration of Comedy in Film hosts Judd Apatow, James L. Brooks, and Larry Gelbart, who come together to "together to crack the code of contemporary screen comedy," code-cracking apparently not falling under the heading of services writers are forbidden to render during the strike. At the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre.

Saturday
 · Saturday night music: Stars at the Orpheum, The Swell Season with Martha Wainwright are at the Wiltern, The Ponys at the Echoplex and Saturday Looks Good To Me at the Echo.
· Noted Ellen DeGeneres Show dance protester Zach Galifianakis takes the stage at Largo.
Sunday
 · More music: Cursive at Spaceland, The Walkmen at the Troubadour, Coheed and Cambria at the Wiltern.
· Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier features those cool Japanese vinyl toys and art inspired by them. At the Pasadena Museum of California Art.