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· Christopher O'Riley, the classical-reinterpretingest pianist in all the land, covers Radiohead and Elliott Smith at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
· Susan Kandel throws Nancy Drew down a well as she reads from her novel Not a Girl Detective at Book Soup.
· It's not American Idol round-up: Hellen Stellar at the Scene Bar; Smog at Amoeba; And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead and The (International) Noise Conspiracy at the Wiltern.