FRIDAY · Ben Folds (what—no 5?) at The Wiltern, Berlin at Hollywood Park, and Deerhoof at The Echoplex. · Defamer's own Molly McAleer is the special guest of The Friday Forty, hosted by the one and only Dave Holmes! That's two wonderful, hilarious people and enough malt liquor to make you puke, all for ten measly bucks. At IO West. · Artie Lange does a free reading of his new book, Too Fat to Fish, at Book Soup.SATURDAY · Adult at Echoplex, Calle 13 at Club Nokia, and Gang Gang Dance play the El Rey. · You love it online—now love it live! Elephant Theater hosts Cute With Chris: Live, starring Canadian Chris Leavins, who eschews the grisly beheadings typically associated with his people to focus purely on those adorable things that make you go, "Awwwwwww." 7 p.m. · Turkey Day's coming up, but you don't eat your friends. Take a Vegan Thanksgiving cooking class at Spork Foods Home Kitchen. SUNDAY · Minus the Bear at the Henry Fonda, The B-52's at Club Nokia, and the Part Time Punks Festival invades the Echoplex. · See the Lux Radio Theatre 1950 performance of The Wizard of Oz re-enacted by Fake Radio. With MADtv's Debra Wilson Skelton as the Wicked Witch. At Bang! Comedy Theatre. · Take advantage of the free dental being offered at the International Health & Fitness Fair, at the Pasadena Convention Center.