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Andy Summers will be at Amoeba Music tonight @ 6pm to sign his just-out book from Taschen, I'll Be Watching You: Inside The Police 1980-83.

The week in Los Angeles bookish events from Monday, January 7th - Sunday, January 13th. Readings, signings and bookish events this week include Andy Summers, Jami Attenberg, Judith Freeman, Alice Fulton, J.A. Jance and Robert Gottlieb.

Chicken Boy, who once stood proudly atop the Chicken Boy restaurant in downtown LA, may finally have found a permanent home. Measuring around 22 feet tall, this statue is impressive not only for its height, but because it is a statue of a man with the head of a chicken. Or a chicken with the body of a man. I’m not sure which is better. Plus, he cannibalistically holds a bucket of chicken parts. He appears to have been created by Steve Dashew’s International Fiberglass Company, creators of the legendary “muffler man” statues. You may have seen the golfing muffler man that watches over the 405 freeway just south of the 110 split. Chicken Boy is like the muffler man's cousin. The chicken-headed cousin that the family would prefer not to discuss.

Beyonce continues to bully the charts. And far too many people think that buying Kenny G CDs is an appropriate use of money. I know we can do better than this. Here to make miserable your otherwise sunny day is a list of this week’s Billboard No.1s. Below is the short list. More good news after the jump... Billboard Charts Issue Date: January 27, 2007 The Billboard 200 - Dreamgirls:Soundtrack The Billboard Hot 100...