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The ACME Comedy Theatre is hosting the LA Comedy Festival today through May 17. Tonight there are two shows on the schedule. At 8:30 pm has the long-form troupe The Waterbrains, followed by Rick Ramos and the sketch comedy of FUCT. The late show at 9:30 pm has Shredding the Envelope, Adam Harrington and Improperetta. For more comedy this week, check out our LAist Week in Comedy.

Sometimes all it takes is a little frontloaded technology to dissipate bureaucratic systems. Today, President Barack Obama and Secretaries Gates and Shinseki announced the creation of a Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record. That means health care records will be maintained in the same place when an individual enters the military with the Department of the Defense and later leaves and comes under the care of the Department of Veteran Affairs. Currently, no system streamlines the transition which undoubtedly is a frustrating process for those who served our country. The full White House press release is below:

Although today is Veterans Day, the holiday also serves as a reminder of those who served next to our Vets that did not come home.

Ever since LA Times' major slash of staff this summer (and a bunch more coming soon), little factual typos have appeared in the paper more often than usual. This is the most blaring and we hope it didn't make the print edition.

As the culminating event of a fifteen week workshop that joined veterans, performing artists, and activists in a series of verbal and physical conversations about their lives and aspirations, "Action Conversations" was presented at Highways Performance Space for only three performances, February 8-9. Through a collaborative process under the direction of UCLA professor and choreographer Victoria Marks, the performers revealed some of the highlights of their explorations of identity, heroics, mortality and civic responsibility in this sixty minute work.

- Barack Obama says that blacks are pissed and there's a "quiet riot" brewing in LA and the rest of the country. Does that mean that the real trouble won't come for another 20 years when folks begin to finally "rage against the machine"? - AP - Although the adult video world generates about $12 billion nationally, Vivid Video co-partner David James says, "Very few people make over $150,000 in this industry" - Daily...

Sometimes we wonder if Bill O'Reilly isn't just trying to get on "Countdown's" Worst Person in the World. Last Friday after inviting University of Minnesota-Duluth Professor Jim Fetzer on The Factor to discuss why he believed the 9/11 tragedies were orchestrated via the White House, O'Reilly refused to let the man speak. LAist trusts this government, blindly. And we object to questioning anything this administration has been involved in, or in the case of...