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Friday
 · P-Towns, an art exhibit that quite logically includes work from Philadelphia and Providence, opens at New Image Art Gallery. Philadelphia and Providence, if you're curious, are cities on the East Coast.
· Friday night music: 4th Avenue Jones with special guest KRS-One at Temple Bar; Xiu Xiu at the Echo; Ok Go! (remember them?) at Spaceland; Tommy Stinson (of Replacements fame) at the Hotel Café.
Saturday
 · 826LA, the new LA outpost of the Dave Eggers Literary Empire's tutoring arm, holds a reading at Beyond Baroque to benefit their shiny Venice digs. Open house to follow. Within weeks, they'll be turning out better writing talent than USC.
· HIN (Hot Import Nights) opens at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I’m not sure what this is, but cars and Brooke Burke are mentioned; we wonder which has fewer original parts remaining.
· Gape in horror/delight as Young Hollywood merrymakers throw ping-pong balls at each other and try to drink themselves to death at the Beer Pong Tournament of Champions at El Guapo (7250 Melrose at 6 pm). 80 teams enter, two hollow-legged assistants from CAA leave. Too late for a Defamer team, we suppose.
Sunday
 ·The LA Marathon: 20 years of bloody nipples, five-inch blisters, and fucked-up traffic.