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· Sit in on a conversation between Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Pop Culture Is Actually Making You Smarter and the NY Public Library's Paul Holdengraber at the Skirball Cultural Center. We're pretty certain that the things we write about on a daily basis have made us far, far dumber (example: the inability to write in the first person singular), but it's always interesting to listen to a dissenting opinion while drooling on our laptop.
· Movie critic Stephen Farber screens North Country at Landmark's NuWilshire Theater for his latest Reel Talk event, then discusses the film with screenwriter Michael Seitzman. Even though it's almost certainly not his fault, feel free to ask the poor scribe why pretty, pretty Charlize Theron has to look so dowdy when playing a miner.
· KROQ's Jed the Fish hosts an all-star tribute to Sublime, with Ozomatli, Fishbone, Blackalicious, and the Surviving Members of Sublime at the Henry Fonda. Bonus: It's for charity. More info here.