So maybe you holed up inside last night with a hot toddy and are thinking, "rain be damned! I'm going out tonight!" Okay, fine. If you make it out earlier, you can celebrate the Japanese New Year, or you can lay low until the evening hours and then get yourself so theatre. Or you could just stay home and keep drinking. We'll never tell... JAPANESE NEW YEAR/SAKE-TO ME There are multiple events going on today......

We get a lot of press releases here at LAist, and it isn't like us to simply repeat them. But when it comes to telling you about the Sarah Silverman performance at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater tomorrow night at 9:30pm (5 bucks!), we have to pass this along intact: The first time Sarah Silverman performed at UCB Theatre, she nonchalantly unwrapped a tampon while performing her material, took a sip of water, put......

We love Jill Soloway. We love Upright Citizen's Brigade. We love when the two come together and make latkes. Well, the two are coming together tonight and are being even extra Jewish. Heaping Portion is, as Jill says, "a few jews having their way with the torah portion. expect words, music, manischevitz, and actual real live magical acts of god. or g-d. or whatever." How could you miss that? 7pm, UCB Theatre. $5. So,......

Now, let's be honest with ourselves here and just speak the truth: Showgirls is the best movie ever made...ever. Disagree with LAist? Well, you're wrong. It even has a website saying as much with quotes and a picture of Elizabeth Berkeley's dad placed gloriously on her ass. Nomi Malone even has 72 friends on MySpace, many of whom, it seems, have no idea that she is a fictional character. Joe Ezterhas is like a......

The UCB Theatre features Cracked Out tonight and rumor has it that sometimes LAist target but always amusing Andy Milonakis will be joining the rap attack tonight with MCs Record Deal and Rapzilla. How could you not put down $5 for a show with this description: Yo motherfuckers it's time for The Crackdown To Crack Spring. Come smoke crack with Cracked Out while we celebrate the new Crack Spring with Crack. We're also gonna......

The literary quarterly (and probably one of the more bizarrely published things out there today, with the slight exception of Found Magazine) presents an evening of comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. A variety of reasons might take you to this show, but the first and foremost should be the appearance of Paul F. Tompkins, gentleman comedian. And Zoey Deschanel ain't half bad either. Show is this Wednesday night at 9:30pm at the......