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Design for Life

At MOCA at the Pacific Design Center, Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena, partners at Escher GuneWardena Architecture, will be giving an art talk on the Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec exhibition currently at MOCA. The talk begins at 6:30 PM.
At Spaceland, see rowdy country rockers The Gourds with Von Cotten and Brokedown. Doors open at 9:00 PM.
Tonight is the second and final Cheap Trick show at the Canyon Club. Doors open at 6:00 PM for dinner reservations; the show starts at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $42.50.
At The Fold at the Silverlake Lounge, see Japanese avant-garde noise makers Afrirampo, along with Snake vs Wizard, Pink Mochi and The Sharp Ease. Show starts at 9:00 PM and tickets are $7.00.
In film, the Silver Lake Film Festival concludes today at the ArcLight. Click here for schedule and event information.
At the New Beverly Cinema it's a Charles Bukowski kind of evening, with the amazing documentary Bukowski: Born Into This at 7:30 PM, followed by Mickey Rourke as Buk in the big-screen adaptation Barfly.