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Get Out: Taste of Italy, OohLaLA! Festival & wild Up
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FRENCH: Attention Francophiles! Tonight is the last night of the OohLaLA! Festival in Los Angeles. Nouvelle Vague and Valente perform at Club Nokia at 8 pm. Go here for tickets. Chocolate Genius, François & The Atlas Mountains and Freedom Fry perform at The Satellite at 9 pm. For more information, check out The Satellite's website.
AMERICAN: Tonight the avant-garde classical group wild Up is performing a double header. From 1 until 3 pm, you can catch five of the group's cellists performing six Bach Cello Suites for its "Spatial" program, which will attempt to engage the unique space at The Hammer Museum. Later at 8 pm, the group will be performing selections from Jimi Hendrix, Merle Haggard and Nina Simone in its program "America" at the Broad Stage.
ITALIAN: Today is the annual Taste of Italy in Historic Little Italy (better known as Chinatown). From 5 until 10 pm, you have the opportunity to try out fifty of the region's best Italian restaurants, wineries and other food vendors. Tickets are $60 at the door, and you get 10 tickets to sample different foods and beverages. There will be entertainment, politicians and even Richard Grieco. For more information, check out the event's website.
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