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Friday
 · Nora closes this weekend at the Century City Playhouse. If you need some kind of pop culture orientation for why you might care, think of it of Desperate Housewives, but with one housewive and no gardener who keeps taking off his shirt.
· If you haven't been to the Star Wars thing yet, what are you waiting for? $50 million worth of people who (if they're like us) leave the theater shrugging, Eh, at least no Jar Jar, can't be wrong.
Saturday
 · The Celebration Theatre throws its "Life is a Gamble, A Night at the Theatre Shouldn't Be" Vegas Night benefit. Free: Booze and the smell of card-table felt. $50 in advance and $75 at the door, RSVP by e-mailing celebrationthtr@earthlink.net or calling 323.957.1884.
· Music: Earlimart at the Troubadour; Prefuse 73 at The Knitting Factory; the KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, which should be total OC-style carnage.
Sunday
 · William H. Macy reads the short story "Fatso" by Etgar Keret for "Breakups, Makeups, and Wakeups" at the Getty. We've seen The Cooler, which also means that we've seen Macy's testicles, so we feel something of an obligation to attend. Or at least to call attention to the event. Will that make the nightmares stop?
· The 26th Annual Venice Art Walk and Auction: because there are things do to by the beach besides shoot up and break bricks with your forehead to entertain tourists. (Also, it benefits the Venice Family Clinic.)