Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas Concert, Belly Up Tavern 12/19/06 Great Northern, Happy Hollows @ Viper Room Blind Boys of Alabama Xmas Show @ Disney Hall Guns in Hands, Deadly Sins, Lost Remorse @ Cobalt Cafe Hit Record @ The Troubadour The Lamps, Exit Music, In Waves @ Bordello Metal Skool, Weapon of Choice @ Key Club The Binges, The Ringers, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip @ Spaceland The White Coffin, Terror @......

Talib Kweli @ House of Blues Steve Aoki, DJ AM @ LAX The Spazmatics @ Dragonfly T.S.O.L., Manic Hispanic, The Adz, Black Fag @ Vault 350 You Me & Iowa, Scarlet Grey, The Henry Clay People @ Spaceland Valient Thorr, Nebula, Artimus Pyledriver @ The Scene All Shall Perish, The Faceless, Continuum, 13 Killings @ Whisky Anavan, Sexytime Explosion, Deadly Sins @ Alex's Bar Soft Environmental Collapse, Wrapt in Plastic @ Mr. T's Bowl......

The LA Weekly's annual Best of LA issue came out Thursday. This year's version, Best of LA 2005: Look Homeward, Angeleno, is edited by theater critic Steven Mikulan and features a compilation of creative nonfiction shorts on Los Angeles. Last year's Seven Deadly Sins version provided a mind-numbing number of recommendations - bars, clubs, restaurants. It was a useful guidebook but overwhelming. Here, Mikulan gives the writers room to expand. Rather than a list......

First off, The Stranger's Seattle books department has hit another one out of the park with "Being Savage: Dan Savage's Older Brother Reviews His Younger Brother's New Book." Read it and chuckle in that pleasant feeling of being included in the inner circle. Ben makes comments like "Danny doesn't go far enough, he pulls his punches." This about a man who writes one of the most sexually explicit columns in Internetville? It's funny to......

Today, 1/17, 7 PM, Troy Reed signs his book "Troy’s Summer" at Dutton’s Brentwood Books: 11975 San Vicente Blvd. Tuesday, 1/18 Leander Kahney, author of forth coming book, "The Cult Of Mac," will discuss the Macintosh/Apple subculture and display his photos on 1/18 at the W Hotel Westwood in Los Angeles (930 Hilgard Ave., in the VIP Room)7-9 PM. You must reserve a spot so call 888-718-4764 before you arrive. Carrie Fisher appears at......