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THURSDAY • The Fiery Furnaces and Great Northern play tonight at the Troubadour. Tickets are $20; doors open at 8 PM. • For those who didn't get tickets to their sold out show at the Troub, Supergrass will be performing at a free in-store at Amoeba Music tonight at 7 PM. • The New Pornographers are at the Henry Fonda Theater tonight. Doors open at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $16. • David Rakoff (writer...

When LAist thinks of schnitzel and sauerkraut, there is one place that does not come to mind: the San Fernando Valley. At first, we were hesitant. The Valley is known for many things: oppressive summer heat, acres of apartment buildings, terrible road conditions...but not German food. Unless, of course, you make your way to Oxnard and Woodman and the restaurant known as Matterhorn Chef. Originally Hoppe's Old Heidelberg, the restaurant was taken over by...

• Fewer than 18 hours remain to enter for your chance to win passes to the opening night of RESFest. • Barely 24 hours remain to enter to win tickets to see Prefuse 73 during RESFest on Saturday night. Enter soon, before it's too late!...

WEDNESDAY • Little Pedro's features "Clash of the Tetris" with a live performance by 8 Bit Weapon. Play in the 8-bit Tetris tournament and enjoy $2 Pabst, $5 well drinks and no cover. Starts at 10 PM. • The New Beverly is showing City of God at 7:30 PM, followed by Amores Perros at 10 PM. Click here to see our complete list of events for the week....

TUESDAY • Blackalicious and APSCI appear tonight at the Troubadour. Doors open at 8 PM. Tickets are $20. • M83 perform tonight at Avalon. Tickets are $18.50. Doors open at 8 PM. • The Knitting Factory hosts Seu Jorge (the fellow doing Portugeuse covers of Bowie songs in The Life Aquatic), Badi Assad and DJ Jeremy Sole tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $20....

LAist and our friends at RES Magazine would like to send you and a friend to the Shorts One program this Thursday—opening night of RESFest LA, taking place this weekend at the Egyptian Theatre. Along with the program, which includes short films by directors like Mike Mills and Jared Hess, you will also be going to the opening night party immediately following the screening. Shorts One includes the films 11:59, Box, City Paradise, Flesh,...

LAist and our friends at RES Magazine would like to send you and a friend to see Prefuse 73 perform with DJ Nobody on Saturday night as part of RESFest LA. The show will take place at the Egyptian Theatre at 10 PM, following screenings of Richard Linklater's new film, A Scanner Darkly, as well as the RESFest Beck retrospective screening. For more information on RESFest happenings, check out our weekly event listings. To...

FRIDAY • Red Sparrows, Upsilon Acrux and Zombi (aka the new Goblin) perform tonight at Spaceland. Doors open at 9 PM. • Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel & Dimed, will be signing her newest, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream at Skylight Books tonight at 7:30 PM. Click here for our complete list of events for the weekend. Photo of Zombi ©2004 Shawn Brackbill...

Fewer than 24 hours remain to enter! LAist would like to send you and a friend to see a special engagement by Dead Can Dance at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, September 25th. The reformed duo will be stopping in Los Angeles as part of their world tour, and we have two sets of tickets to give away to this performance, featuring quirky French sensations Nouvelle Vague as the opening act. For those who...

WEDNESDAY • The best selling duo of all time—Hall & Oates—perform tonight at the Greek Theatre at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $29-65. • The Black Keys, SSM and Mad Man Moon are on tonight at the Galaxy Theatre at 8 PM. Tickets are $15. • AFI at ArcLight presents a special screening of The French Connection tonight at 8 PM. • A limited number of tickets are available for the LA premiere of David...