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· Music round-up: Great Northern at Spaceland, The Shys at Silverlake Lounge; The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr. and Incubus at the Wiltern
· Aloud at Central Library presents Michael B. Oren for "Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present," in which the author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East looks back at 230 years of happy-go-lucky U.S. relations with the region.
· The Redcat hosts The Celestial Library, a program of films by avant-garde filmmaker and installation artist Jeanette Liotta, described as "an ode to the void, the stars in their courses, and the shifting earth below." We feel a little more cultured just reading that. [via LA Weekly]