Tonight marks the 37th Annual People's Choice Awards (CBS @ 9pm) and the official beginning of "awards season," a time of year we have mixed feelings about. On the one hand there is the chance for some truly amazing work to be recognized and (promoted) but the pool of recipients for this recognition tends to be homogenous by the time the Oscars roll around in late February. In fact, what gets celebrated are the anomalies - winners who only won an award at one ceremony. We've heard members of the various academies cop to the fact that they end up voting for an actor/film/TV show that has the most buzz or who seems to be the most popular, whether they've seen the work or not and the buzz gets set at the Golden Globes in 10 days time. more ›

You've probably seen the billboards and other advertising promoting this weekend's Erotica LA at the LA Convention Center. While smaller in scale than AVN's Adult Entertainment Expo, the 13th annual incarnation is still the city's largest yearly adult consumer exposition, with predictions of over 40,000 people in attendance, many of whom will be women and couples. more ›