Now Thanksgiving's over, the Christmas/holiday season is ushered right in. / Photo by Rebecca Joyce via LAist's flickr pool. RED LINE PUB CRAWL: As you heard on LAist earlier, the MTA is running the Red Line until 3 am on the weekends until the end of the year. So do the safe thing this party season by staying off the roads when imbibing as many toddies as you want. There’s public transportation to the......

In the last few years, Los Angeles has taken a risk in hiring brilliant (but young) conductors who gained recognition due to their potential and their interpretations of the Mahler symphonies (see Salonen). This new conductor has a craze to call his own, "Dudamania" (chronicled by the LA Times ). The announcement of Gustavo Dudamel's appointment as the next music director of the LA Phil has created a phenomenon here and abroad, with comparisons......

Photo by JohnnyRokkit via LAist's flickr pool. FILM IN THE OC: Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts presents the world premiere of Giant Steps, a documentary about how dance is changing the lives of at-risk kids in Cambodia, tonight at 7 pm in the school’s Folino Theatre. The film is the first release of Chapman’s new “interdisciplinary documentary program, which sends teams of students around the world to profile leading human......

POP IDOL Remember Paul Potts? (See above video if you don't.) The portly car phone salesman from England who surprised everyone with an operatic voice on Britain’s Got Talent? and YouTube? Well, he’s singing at the Wiltern tonight to promote his debut album One Chance. 8 pm // Wiltern Theatre // 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles // $35-$50. TEEVEE LIVE Calling all X-Files aficionados, series creator Chris Carter and executive producer Frank Spotnitz will......