Unless you are a hardcore devotee of the 3-camera sitcom format (How I Met Your Mother, etc.) then Monday has somehow turned into NBC night. Check out late night offerings as you can while the writer's strike gains traction - Letterman and Conan have good guests. 8:00pm Chuck NBC - TV Junkie 8:00pm Pick 9:00pm Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character PBS - For some she's an annoyance, for many she's a classic, if you're......

There's some great productions opening around town this weekend -- here's a sampling: Bad Seed Buzzworks Theater Company puts on a comic remake of Bad Seed, written by Maxwell Anderson in the 1950s and banned for its homosexual references and other Freudian theories. It’s the story of an 8-year-old murderess born without pity. We can’t wait for this one! Lounge Theatre. 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles. 323.960.5563. Tickets are $25-$30. Opens Saturday at......

Carl Bernstein - the ultimate investigative journalist (think Watergate coverage for The Washington Post, think All the Presiden'ts Men) - will be at Book Soup today @ 4pm to sign his latest book A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bernstein's book provides an inside peek at all things Clinton and answers some of the bigger questions about the Lewinsky affair, her early political ambition, her path to the Senate and her......

Clearly these kids do not understand disco. Nevertheless, silver, swoopy-haired Barry Gibb (sounding oddly like Darryl Hammond’s Sean Connery impression) mentored and coached the hatchlings into eight counts of nostalgia butchering. Much like colorized movies, this was a bad idea. Melinda started us off with the very dirty, “Love You Inside And Out” oblivious to the connotation. For her second number she chose the timeless, the epic, the boooooooooooooring “How Can You Mend A......

We've covered the LA Times Book Prize nominees for the past few weeks and quietly rooted for our picks. The winners, announced at the annual hob-nob affair on Friday night, surprised us. We highlighted our picks weeks ago. What more did the committee have to do other than - you know - pick them? To wit: Biography We said Daniel Mendelsohn for The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (Daniel freaking Mendelsohn, the......

As you continue to nurse your week-long Academy Award champagne hangover and try desperately to block all memory of the "sound effects choir" & Celine Dion's massacre of Ennio Morricone's work (just as Elina predicted!), it should come as a relief to you that while there are yet more awards on the horizon, these are of the bookish kind. The LA Times has announced their Book Awards Finalists. While it may take more work......

An afternoon pick-me-up for your post-party let down… Arcade Fire - Intervention : Live on SNL (Bradley’s Almanac) Speaking of arcades, Barcade is now a real bar with real hours and a real liquor license. Mazel tov and FYI… Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes (extrawack!) Ian Hunter just signed to Yep Roc. And there is much rejoicing… The Robot Ate Me - On Vacation (Indie Folk Forever) Sunny and drippy hangover......

• The Echo hosts Radio 4 with MU and Go Go Go Airheart tonight at 9 PM. Tickets are $10 advance or $12 at the door. [18+] • At the Troubadour KCRW welcomes Tift Merritt with Tres Chicas (featuring Caitlin Cary of Whiskeytown) and Steve Poltz. Tickets are $15 advance, and doors open at 8 PM. • In film, the Egyptian Theatre pays tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky with a special screening of Solaris (the......

LAist discovered the films of Guy Maddin through a friend—a fan—and has since been enthralled by the Canadian filmmaker's aesthetic, inspired by revisiting what Maddin calls the "largely disused film vocabulary" of silent movies, like tinted stocks, deliberately-scratchy soundtracks and title cards. His fims, much like those of Hershell Gordon Lewis, are so bright and colorful, so strange and wonderful, that they become sinister and otherworldly and magical. Presented in association with MOCA, this......