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· Music round-up: Lemon Sun at the Echo; OK Go and Rocket at Safari Sam's; Ileen Goldsmith at Spaceland; Guns N' Roses (with special guest Sebastian Bach, should Axl not be enough for you) at Gibson Amphitheatre.
· Greg "Proop Dogg" Proops presents his Non-Denominational Seasonal Festivity Special at Largo, with guests John C. Reilly, Fiona Apple, and Jon Brion.
· The Geffen Playhouse hosts "Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants," a show in which the magician and David Mamet Repertory Player performs a variety of astounding tricks with a deck of cards (i.e., the aforementioned 52 assistants). Especially popular is the act's finale [spoiler alert], where Jay demonstrates his legendary accuracy with a thrown playing card by cleanly circumcising an adult male with a hurled Ace of Spades at ten paces.