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Last week, it was a garment manufacturing business on the 9th floor of the large and historic Broadway Trade Center that lit on Fire on its Hill St. facade. Today, the LA Fire Department said that another fire, this one confined to a single unit on the 6th floor of the building on the Broadway Ave. facing side, was reported at 1:44 p.m. and quickly knocked down 34 minutes later. 115 firefighters responded to the scene where no injuries were reported. The building is the site of the former Hamburger/May Company store.

Sometimes one is in the mood for a gathering of people with great music, but instead of being happy and energetically dancing around, there is Give Up's "A Sad, Slow Dance Party" presented by dublab and Part Time Punks tonight at La Cita. Taking cue from the successfully subdued Give Up shows where DJs played gloomy music and devotees painted tears on their faces, this next installation takes on the lonely theme in time for Valentine's Day. What's interesting is the depressing music actually has the opposite effect and makes for a joyful time.

Grindhouse The week kicks off with a pair of rarely screened gems of black 1970s cinema, Brotherhood of Death about a group of black Vietnam vets who fight back against the Ku Klux Klan, and Johnny Tough, a coming-of-age movie about a troublesome teenager. That's followed by a dose of Italian horror, Autopsy and Eyeball. Then it's a trio of bizarre wonders: Coonskin, a Ralph Bakshi-directed animated blaxploitation spoof about a trio of animals (Philip...

Jim Ruland is one prescient lit organizer. How could he have known that the Governator would be in the news (and in hot water over his deal with American Media) when he modeled this month's Vermin on the Mount poster, the Verminator, after our our governor's signature role?

How can we choose between the following lit events all happening on the same night?