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• Enjoy the sounds of Gary Jules and Minibar tonight at the Viper Room. Doors open at 8:30 PM. • Tonight, the Knitting Factory has a Dolby 5.1 DJ set by Amon Tobin, preceded by Daedelus, beginning at 8 PM. Tickets are $15 advance, $18 at the door. • AP and Vans present Straylight Run and Minus the Bear performing at the Roxy with The Honorary Title, Gratitude and Spitalfield. Doors open at 7...

• Tonight, the Grindhouse Film Festival returns to the New Beverly Cinema, screening the classics Amityville II: The Possession and Women's Prison Massacre. The double feature begins at 7:30 PM and tickets are $7. • At the Knitting Factory, Bluebeat Lounge Presents Desmond Dekker with Chris Murray Combo and Irie Beats. The show starts at 8 PM; tickets are $22 advance, $25 at the door. Click here to see our complete listing of this...

MONDAY • Outpost Art/Temporary Services begins work on "Construction Site," " a socially interactive environment that will develop spontaneously and collaboratively in Echo Park for two weeks" based on the participation of kindly strangers and friends of public art, as well as the donation of cast-off materials. The site is open from 11 AM – 6 PM everyday, at the empty lot on Sunset between Alvarado and Park. Daily 5 PM potlucks will begin...

• The Troubadour features Q & Not U with Food for Animals and Manhunter. Tickets are $10 advance, $12 day of; doors open at 8 PM. • Crooked Fingers will perform with Dolorean at the Knitting Factory. Tickets are $12 and the show starts at 8 PM. • Perennial loudmouth Henry Rollins will perform at McCabe's twice: 8 and 10 PM. The $15 tickets will benefit the Hollygrove Orphanage. Click here to see our...

• Indie 103 presents The Wedding Present with Crystal Skulls at the Troubadour tonight. Doors open at 8 PM; tickets are $15 advance. • At the Hotel Cafe, see AM with Buddy, Brad Byrd, Single File and others TBA, starting at 8 PM. • At the Egyptian Theatre, an 8:00 PM screening of Raging Bull preceded by a boxing demonstration by former Golden Gloves Champion Mickey Jones in the courtyard at 7:30 PM. •...

Today is your last chance to enter to win tickets! LAist would like to send one lucky winner (plus a guest) to see Rob Thomas, frontman of Matchbox 20, performing in support of his new album, ...something to be, at the Avalon on April 19th at 8 PM. You can listen to the song "Lonely No More" in Real Audio here. Enter to win tickets by filling out the form below:...

• The Knitting Factory hosts The New Year with Silkworm and Doris Henson at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $12. • MOCA presents a screening of the film This Not That – The Artist John Baldessari, with an introduction by filmmaker Jan Schmidt-Garre, and featuring interviews with Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, David Salle and Mike Kelley, at 7 PM. Admission is free, but reservations are required; call (213) 621-1776....

LAist's comrades to the east are looking for someone heading for the Hill this summer to be a DCist intern. The lucky blogger will be posting about the life of a DC intern, "18-and-up happy hours, inexpensive and free activities, and anything else that strikes your fancy". And as a bonus, you get to be a part of our personal favorite ring of metro blogs. Not that we're biased. Because we're not....

• The UCLA Hammer Museum presents a Hammer Lecture by Sylvia Plachy tonight at 7 PM. She will discuss the work in her new book, Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home....

MONDAY • Queens of the Stone Age will be on stage at the Henry Fonda Theater tonight at 9 PM. • The Wiltern hosts a performance by Garbage tonight at 8 PM. Doors open at 7 PM; tickets are $36. • AMPAS presents the "Great To Be Nominated: Part Two" series, featuring the picture from each Academy year which received the most nominations without winning the Best Picture Award, with The Grapes of Wrath...