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  • The Music Center Plaza in downtown wants you to come down next Saturday and strike a pose — there's nothing to it. The venue is hosting an all-day "Taste of Dance CRAZES." For a single dollar, you can spend 20 minutes learning a dance craze of your choosing.
  • We're at Techcrunch Disrupt in San Francisco where some 30 startups from around the world are launching, execs, entrepreneurs and VCs are staking positions in the future of media and technology and Ashton Kutcher is introducing Walden Schmidt, his character debuting Monday on CBS' "Two and a Half Men."
  • Listen up, Los Angeles! Here are the events of note happening around town tonight. It's a Trek fest of sorts with Leonard Nimoy and Zach Quinto together at the Hammer Museum; Patrick Wolf begins at two-night stint at Hollywood Forever; FIDM opens Fabulous! fashion exhibit; and Skylight Books hosts authors Josh Rolnick’s and Edan Lepucki. Read on for all the details.
  • Looks like Italian model Elisabetta Canalis has had plenty to do since her break-up with George Clooney earlier this year. The leggy brunette is the new face (and mostly, body) of PETA, and she's unveiling her naked anti-fur billboard on Rodeo Drive today at noon. With this campaign, Canalis joins a long list of bare-bottomed celebs who have stood up to fight wearing the fuzzy skins of animals.
  • What were you doing when you were 12? Maybe honing your angry pre-teen demeanor, or filling out a slam book? Important stuff like that? Well, one 12-year-old is putting the rest of us to shame -- Cooper Berella of Northridge recently curated his second show for the Munky King Gallery on Melrose, around a theme of preventing bullying and cyberbullying.
  • The ladies of Beverly Hills are back, and now they're in...Colorado. The second episode of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" Season 2 finds the ladies traveling to Bear Creek, CO, to visit with Camille in a seven-bedroom home that she'll soon have to give up per her divorce proceedings.
  • HBO had a set of finales last night: what did you think of them? --- Fall TV will feature mainly wimpy/clueless male characters and guys seem too wimpy to write about that. --- Spongebob is bad for the 4 and under set say pediatricians. --- All this and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan.
  • Nearly a decade ago, The Walkmen burst onto what was then a nascent indie-rock scene, sporting a wistful, moody and beautiful blend of piano, guitar, drums and bass. Their debut, Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone, was nearly universally lauded while their four albums since have each proved inventive and a study in creative composition that has the potential for widespread appeal.
  • Another Monday in the city, but never fear, we're saving you from having to stay in tonight with these events. It's a School Night rocks Bardot in Hollywood; Moby does a book signing at Book Soup; FOX screens upcoming fall shows at the Paley Center, a free art circle happens at the Ford Amphitheatre; author Julie Otsuka signs her latest book at Vroman's; and The Blank Theatre company holds a star-studded benefit for one of its new play programs. Read on for all the details.
  • A stunning rendition of the ancient anti-war classic, Trojan Women (After Euripides), is playing at Getty Villa. The 2,426 year-old play depicts the brutal aftermath of the mythological Trojan War through dishonor, rape, infanticide, mass murder, enslavement, urban decimation, and despair.

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