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Friday
 · Freitagnachtmusik: The 88 at the Troubadour; Sean Hayes (no, not the actor, wiseass) at the Hotel Café; Jimmy Eat World plays at the Glass House in Pomona.
· The always hilarious (our words, not his publicist's) Andy Kindler joins Dan Mintz for a lovely night of stand-up at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater; later, Jen Kirkman relives her traumatic experiences growing up a "girl dork" at the same venue.
Saturday
 · The Wrens at the Troubadour; Kayne West at the Gibson Amphitheatre; Anya Marina at the Hotel Café.
· Bite, scratch, and donkey-punch your way to huge savings on designer clothing at the legendary Billion Dollar Babes sample sale, with the general admission carnage starting at 8am at Quixote Studios.
Sunday
 · Rachael Ray gets cookbook collectors totally hot and bothered in under 30 minutes at the Barnes and Noble at the Grove.
· If you locked Metallica and Manheim Steamroller in a log cabin for a week before Christmas with only a keg of beer and a gallon of Spanish Fly, the result might sound a lot like the Trans Siberian Orchestra. (Sunday night at Arrowhead Pond.)