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· Isn't it great how we can read a story about backstabbing on the eve of the Oscars and then tell you about a reading for a book called The Big Show: High Times & Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards at the Grove? It's like synergy, except we're too lazy and dumb to derive any kind of benefit from it.
· Jon Lovitz, SNL legend and Mom and Dad Save the World star (sorry, we still bear a grudge over that six bucks), hits the stage at the Laugh Factory for the matter-of-factly titled "An Evening with Jon Lovitz."
· Quickie concert round-up: The Prosaics play at Spaceland with local band Golden Arms; Kill Radio tries to "kill," as it were, at the Troubadour.