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· Music round-up: Lavender Diamond at Safari Sam's; Fear at Key Club; Heartless Bastards at Knitting Factory; Los Abandoned at the Troubadour.
· The Mark Taper Forum hosts the musical 13, a staged representation of what your childhood might have looked like without the profoundly scarring moments that influenced you to one day move to Los Angeles.
· Colson "The Intuitionist" Whitehead reads from latest novel, Apex Hides the Hurt, at Skylight Books.