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· UCLA is hosting a Hip Hop Film Festival, with features, docs and shorts and a renowned panel of experts speaking on the subject. If there's a lecture called Love and Hate: The Symbolic Use of Jewelry in "Do the Right Thing", we're totally there.
· Poster artist Jay Ryan will be on hand at Giant Robot signing his new book, 100 Posters, 134 Squirrels, a Decade of Hot Dogs, Large Mammals, and Independent Rock: the Handcrafted Art of Jay Ryan, or as his editor refers to it, "the squirrel thing."
· Grab a cup of Starbucks and a sandwich from Gelson's before heading over to the Echo Park Film Center for "a slate of movies that examine issues of gentrification and class in LA."
· Thursday night music: High on Fire w/ The Bronx at the Troubadour, John Doe at Largo, The Advantage at the Echo.