It’s TV Tuesday at the Silent Movie Theater tonight at 8 pm. The Cinefamily screens “very special episodes” from some of our favorite TV sitcoms: focusing on the the melodrama involved when are favorite characters encounter troubles with drug abuse, violence, sex, disease. etc. They won't tell us what six episodes they've picked, but think Jesse Spano's little drug problem from Saved by the Bell or that very special Blossom episode.) Tickets $12. more ›

As you read earlier on LAist, nonprofit organization NextAid holds a Los Angeles benefit in their multi-date/multi-city World AIDS Day 2009 (WAD2009) campaign. Starting at 7 pm tonight at the Marrakesh House in Culver City, there’s a full slate of performers including comedians Whitney Cummings and Ben Gelb, and music by Louis Vega, Turntables on the Hudson with DJ Nickodemus + Nappy G & Brazilian Drum Troupe + Todd Simon on trumpet. The $75 ticket also includes open bar, light food and dessert. more ›

As any fan of LAistory knows, Los Angeles is a city of vanished places. We tear free of the past, and generally, whatever comes next, is not as fabulous or interesting as what was there before. The same holds true for the property called Pickfair. more ›