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· "Stimulating and iconoclastic" cinema egghead David Thompson will speak about his new book The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood with Steve Wasserman, editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review at the LA Public Library on 5th Street.
· Two book events? Has our notoriously reading-averse municipality gone crazy? Paul Jasmin signs Lost Angeles at Book Soup.
· You'd think we're on the Kaiser Chiefs' payroll, but now we love them because a reader told us that they're named after a South African football (the soccer kind) squad. They're playing at Spaceland (and sponsored by KROQ, who are doing their darnedest to put the final nail in indie rocks' coffin.)