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Fresh FacesFilmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St., second floor, 2:15-3:30 p.m. The subject is the next generation at this panel featuring Dominique Fishback (Night Comes On), Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Assassination Nation; Monster; Monsters and Men), Hari Nef (Assassination Nation) and Rachelle Vinberg (Skate Kitchen).

No, I didn’t burn the turkey, no it wasn’t a takeaway and no, it wasn’t an anti-social meal for one.

Men Don’t Whisper and Painting With Joan Grey Goose Blue Door, 449 Main St., 12:30 a.m. The Grey Goose-sponsored venue hosts the after party for the film’s stars and guests. Expected to attend are Jordan Firstman, Charles Rogers, Clare McNulty, Bridey Elliott and Tim Robbins.

My friend Steve has a birthday at the end of August and it usually involves a party with a food theme.

The effort is worth it to bring the tradition of wood cooking into the modern world. “The oven is special,” said Josh.

The raises appear to be an unintended consequence of the shutdown: When lawmakers failed to pass bills on Dec. 21 to fund multiple federal agencies, they allowed an existing pay freeze to lapse. Congress enacted a law capping pay for top federal executives in 2013 and renewed it each year. The raises will occur because that cap will expire without legislative action by Saturday, allowing raises to kick in that have accumulated over those years but never took effect, starting with paychecks that will be issued next week.

The right dough. Not all dough recipes are created equal. Make sure your dough recipe is wood-fired-friendly. A recipe that works in a gas-fired oven will not translate to baking well in a wood-fired oven, since a wood-fired oven is several hundred degrees hotter and bakes pizzas in less than 90 seconds. An example of this would be the sugar content; sugar helps to brown a crust when baking in a gas oven, but in a wood-fired oven, sugar browns much more quickly on the exterior of the crust, which makes the pizza appear fully baked when in reality it isn’t.

An American woman aboard a Holland America ship sailing in the South Pacific last week died in a fall from a tender platform.

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Horizon AwardThe Spur, 352 Main St., 7-9 p.m. Cassian Elwest, Lynette Howell Taylor and Christine Vachon in association with Endeavor Content are hosting the 4th annual Horizon Award featuring special guest presenters and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Grant, per the invite. 

The city has seen a pizza renaissance in the past year, with countless new pizzerias opening, but the phenomenon isn’t specific to L.A. Not long after Best Pizza was given a positive review in The New York Times in 2011, Pinello was contacted by a Culinary Institute of America graduate hoping to open a pizzeria in Hong Kong. “I thought he was totally crazy,” Pinello said. “But then I saw that, really, every city around the world is having this same pizza boom.” Earlier this year, Pinello helped open a pizzeria in Kuwait in the span of a month.

During the Spanish-American war of 1898, there was a huge typhoid fever outbreak that the illustrious Walter Reed was called in to investigate. He’s the one who first figured out what was going on. He observed these flies walking around on the recruits’ food, with white dust on their feet. He thought, What is that? He realized it was lime they were throwing on dead bodies and in the latrines to try to control odor and bacteria. The flies had picked this up and were now walking around on the food. So, this war on flies began. There were fly control units and death quotas, and an occupation called military entomologist, which still exists today. There are WWII posters that say, “The Fly is your enemy!” with a giant fly bayonetted in the gut. [Laughs]