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Tonight marks the February installment of Mindshare LA, a monthly evening of “enlightened debauchery,” that celebrates innovations in scholarship, culture, technology and entrepreneurship in LA. This month’s topic celebrates lurrve and Valentine’s Day and includes topics “Return of the Bromance: Victorian Intimacy in the 21st Century” with Ph.D. Candidate Patrick Randolph of U.C. Riverside's English department; “The Reach for Shamanic Media” with multimedia artist David Wexler (VJ Strangeloop); “The Neurophysiology of Attraction” with U.C. Irvine Social Psychology scholar Sena Koleva; “Poledancing for Fitness sponsored by exercise studio Sheila Kelly's S-Factor”; and “How the Brain Processes Emotion” with Ph.D. Candidate Moran Cerf of CalTech's Computation and Neural Systems department. An open bar and jazz accompany the learning, too. Tickets are $25.

LEARNING*: Mindshare at the LA Brewery hosts the following speakers tonight: John Smart, futurist and founder of Acceleration Studies Foundation; Chuck Esterbrook, developer and creator of Cobra Language; Tali Krakowsky, director of experience design of Imaginary Forces; and Scott Pagano, creative director of Equilibrium Entertainment; Sissy St. John, wellness yogini, and Sena Koleva, UC Irvine grad student. Their topics include artificial intelligence, immortality and even the chemistry of love. This mind-sharing evening begins at 8 pm tonight and costs $25 (for the learning and debauchery.

Mr. Brainwash (aka MBW) is an “eccentric French filmmaker” whose first exhibit “Life is Beautiful” is showing at the old CBS studios. The show will feature more than 300 paintings, sculptures and prints alongside an installation made from 100,000 shoes and a life-size re-creation of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks.

Los Angeles resident Douglas Campbell embarked last year on The Tuxedo Travels (subtitled: Two Fools. One Adventure. No Idea), along with a crazy British chap named Heath.