· Because you just realized you are old: Forty-year-olds look back at their teenage selves, in this concert reading of a musical called 40 is the New 15 at the The Colony Theatre.
· Because you like breathing: How Air Pollution Affects Us All- Forum 2008 at the Mark Taper Auditorium discusses the health risks and the solutions to reducing emissions from the area's largest polluters. [via]
· Because a good rock show can make it all better: Petra Hayden at Echoplex, Magnetic Fields at the Henry Fonda (again), Death By Stereo at the El Rey, The Airborne Toxic Event at the Troubadour.
In a sharp turnaround, the Republican candidates has opened a 5-point lead on his Democratic rival and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll.
AFP - Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions planned rallies Thursday to ask Russia for recognition as independent states, two weeks after Russian troops occupied both provinces.
· Because you just realized you are old: Forty-year-olds look back at their teenage selves, in this concert reading of a musical called 40 is the New 15 at the 
