Good morning. It’s Friday, and these are the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.

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The Turning Point circus came to USC last night, led by Ross Johnston, a preacher bro whose main claim to fame is that he was conceived via artificial insemination and raised by two women — but now says the “LGBTQ agenda” is the work of “the devil himself.” You can watch the 45-minute sermon/concert in Founders Park on YouTube.

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Speaking of campus spectacles: Comedians Nick Kroll, Vanessa Bayer, and Kate Berlant will perform Monday at Bing Theater to raise money for blood cancer research. Student tickets are sold out, but you can still purchase general admission entry for $72. “You and your hot mom are invited,” Kroll said in a promo video.

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An event celebrating Arab American Heritage Month was briefly tainted with drama when students criticized USC for cutting a poetry performance, the Daily Trojan reported. The Middle Eastern North African Student Assembly credited an “internal miscommunication” by USC staff for the cut, but said it nonetheless fueled a “sense of erasure.”

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The LA Times will host a special native plant booth at the Festival of Books later this month. Visitors can pick up assorted goodies like 4-inch plants and stickers, then chit-chat with plant experts over a selection of native flora. Find the booth along the edge of McCarthy Quad.

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Cigarettes have made a bona fide comeback in LA, appearing on screen in Hollywood productions and outside the city’s hottest bars and clubs. The Ankler wrote a feature on the resurgence. “People are going analog,” one smoker told the publication. “Like, we’re going away from vaping and back to cigarettes, to physical media.”