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Midnight Movies, Utopia, Naked Wrestling [To Do]

· Music round-up: Boom Bip and Junkie XL at the Viper Room; Midnight Movies at Spaceland; Bitchfits (an all-female Misfits Tribute band) at the Knitting Factory. · The Los Angeles Poverty Department, a performance company made up of people who live and work in Skid Row, present UTOPIA/dystopia at the Redcat, their dramatic look at how civic policy has impacted downtown Los Angeles. · AFI hosts a special screening of Eastern Promises at the ArcLight, bringing in star Vigo Mortensen for a post-film Q&A sure to be filled with fun anecdotes about what it was like to be engaged in a naked fight with Russian gangsters on the floor of a steamroom.

Published: 2007-12-06 Provider: Defamer Keywords: To Do

Your Weekend Of Found Objects And Dead Vermin [To Do]

Friday · Music round-up: Polyphonic Spree at Henry Fonda, Yo La Tengo at Ivar, Low Vs. Diamond at the Viper Room. · Join Dunder Mifflin's five-o'clock-shadowed upper-management as B.J. Novak takes to the Hollywood Improv stage. · AFI Fest continues with a screening of Sigur Ros - Heima, a documentary of the Icelandic band's recent tour of their homeland.Saturday · Saturday night music: Enon at the Echo, Minus the Beat at the Avalon, Jon Brion at Largo. · The Giant Robot Biennale celebrates its 50th issue with an exhibition of work featured in the magazine. At the Japanese American National Museum. Sunday · Do Make Say Think at Echoplex, at Rodrigo Y Gabriela at the Henry Fonda, Brand New at the Wiltern. · Skylight Books hosts an evening for Found Magazine, the periodical devoted to "lost, forgotten, left-behind and stepped-on objects," where you can meet next month's cover subject, Jim Carrey's career! · Dios de los Vermin is celebrated at Chinatown's Mountain Bar, with readings from Gustavo "Ask a Mexican" Arellano, Katrina essayist Duncan Murrell, short-story writer Mary Otis, and amusement park expert Kevin Mofett.

Published: 2007-11-02 Provider: Defamer Keywords: To Do