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· The Week Is 60 Percent Over Music Round-Up: Red Lightning at the Knitting Factory; Nellie McKay sticks around town to play Largo; the Cribs at Spaceland.
· Anne Rice, the Queen of Literary Darkness, turns up at Vroman's in Pasadena to read and sign her new book, but there are scary rules to be observed! Warns the store's website: "Anne will sign one copy of any backlist title, paperback or hardback, and unlimited copies of Christ the Lord. She won’t sign multiple copies of old books, comic books, graphic novels, collectibles, or any other materials, like DVDs (or body parts). She will personalize with names only, no messages. No posed pictures."
· And we mention this because a nice work of charity is involved, not because of the barrage of e-mails we got virally plugging the show: The guy who bid $7,600 on eBay (the money went to the Red Cross for disaster relief efforts) to open up for Jon Lovitz will take his ten minutes of stage time tonight at the Laugh Factory.