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· Concert round-up: Regina Spektor, who once joinied forces with the Strokes for a single, starts her two night run at the Hotel Café; Soundtrack of Our Lives brings their Swedish invasion and 70’s time-warp show to the Troubadour. We can almost taste the lava lamps. Meatballs. We meant meatballs. Or did we?
· Readings: World War II vet John Adler reads from his autobiographical novel Quest for Survival at Dutton’s in Beverly Hills. If you're not into "real" history (all those guns and bombs can be so depressing) and still want to be somewhat pointy-headed, Bergamot Station hosts French-American film scholar Michael Henry Wilson as he discusses A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, which he co-authored with the bushy-browed auteur. [info for both here]
· The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents a double bill of man-made disaster with Chernobyl Heart and Inheritance: A Fisherman’s Story, which explore the destruction caused by the Russian nuclear disaster and the dumping of 120,000 tons of cyanide waste in a Hungarian river, respectively. Fun for the whole green family!