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Friday
 · Death Cab for Cutie at the Wiltern, The Clientele, Radar Brothers and Annie Hayden at the Knitting Factory; Stars are doing an in-store at Amoeba Music right now, so better hurry if you want to see them for free.
· Me2, a one-woman show about "true story of a Kentucky girl’s transformation to a Beverly Hills darling" (something that about one in five Los Angeles residents—and one in two pricey escorts—can probably relate to) plays at the Globe Playhouse in West Hollywood tonight and Saturday.
Saturday
 · KCRW DJs Jason Bentley, Raul Campos, Gary Calomar, Tricia Halloran and Eric J. Lawrence drop by Vidiots Video to screen and discuss their favorite movie songs. Party to follow, with hardly any interruptions asking for listeners to donate money to keep public radio vital.
· 826LA joins in a six-city celebration of McSweeney's new young adult anthology Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out.
 Sunday
 · The Microphones at the Troubadour; Brendan Benson at Spaceland; and Dntel at the Knitting Factory.
· Sinai Temple hosts a Book Soup event with high-powered literary lovebirds Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss, who'll chat about "their remarkable success and how it’s showered them both with Hollywood kisses of praise." Nah, that shouldn't make any bitter writers resent them in the slightest.