CALENDAR
Friday, Dec. 9th
5:00pm-10:00pm
LADWP Holiday Light Festival @
6:30pm
Live 105's Not So Silent Night @ Bill Graham Civic Center, San Francisco, featuring Coheed and Cambria, The White Stripes, Hot Hot Heat, Death Cab for Cutie and more.
7:00pm
Bon Jovi w/ Damone @ TD Bank north Garden,
Against Me! @ Opera House,
7:30pm
Memoirs of a Geisha: Don’t wait to see this one; I’m thinking this movie could be one of the best of the year!!!
8:30pm
The Dan Band w/ DJ Daniel @ House of Blues, Anaheim
9:00pm
Pat Green @ House of Blues on Sunset
Saturday, Dec. 10th
1:00-3:00pm
Build-Your-Own Gingerbread House Party @ Silverleaf Tavern (
5:00pm
KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas (Night One) @ Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, featuring System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, Fall Out Boy, Thrice, Rise Against, Avenged Sevenfold
7:30pm
Suns @ Clippers: This has the makings of an all out war. With first place up for grabs in the Pacific Division, the Clippers will look to make a statement at home against the suddenly red-hot Suns led by last season’s MVP, Steve Nash.
8:00pm
Socialburn @ Lillian's,
Bauhaus @ Majestic
Rob Thomas w/ Anna Nalick @ Masonic
Sunday, Dec 11th
10:00am
Raider vs. Jets (CBS): Is this the end of the Kerry Collins era? Gee, I sure hope so. It has been announced that Marquis Tuiasosopo will be starting in place of Collins for this game, and all I have to say is why couldn’t Norv have done this earlier. The awful Raiders will head into
1:00pm
The Chronicles of Narnia @ The El Capitan in
2:00pm-5:00pm
Hot Chocolate Soup Shoppe: It’s that fabulous time of the year, ladies, when you can actually justify shopping! Come sip mimosas, spend away and mingle with other extraordinary women! There will be three different and wonderful jewelry designers: Belle, Tami Morrissey and Constanza Little. You’ll also have vintage inspired lingerie by Lucy B (www.lucyblingerie.com). From Sparklehead! you'll get holiday cards, kids' and adult tees, and artwork all featuring characters viewable at www.sparklehead.com. Feed your handbag addiction with Daily Candy’s favorites, Cheap Chic, a company that specializes in 100% real runway, limited-edition handbags from all your favorite designers: Chloe, Celine, Marc Jacobs, Bottega, Chanel and all up to 70% less than retail price! Grab handknit accessories by twirp nits. My Punk Baby has your alternative to the pink and powder-blue baby, (www.mypunkbaby.com). You art lovers can procure a coveted piece of Robert Palacios' one-of-a-kind humorous fine art. Sculpted art as well as paintings, and his work is brilliant. Located at
5:00pm
As I Lay Dying w/ Norma Jean, Madball, A Life Once Lost and Inked in Blood @ Quest Club, Minneapolis
KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas (Night Two) @ Gibson Amphitheatre featuring Depeche Mode, Coldplay, White Stripes, Jack Johnson, The Bravery, Death Cab for Cutie, Nada Surf and more.
7:00pm
Korn @ 4th & B,
6:00pm
Pistons @ Clippers: The concluding game of a five game home stand against the bad boys of the East. Another big test for the clips!!!
Upcoming:
House of Blues
ROY'S RAVES
Walk the Line (20th Century Fox): There are plenty of things to like about James Mangold's faithful-to-the-spirit-of Johnny Cash biopic, especially the performances of Joaquin Phoenix as the Man in Black and his ardent pursuit of performing partner Reese Witherspoon's June Carter to be his wife. Unfortunately, Phoenix's uncanny ability to evoke the stolid, taciturn Cash without looking anything like him isn't nearly as fun to watch as Jamie Foxx's Oscar-winning turn as the twitching, bob-and-weave Ray Charles. But, in some ways,
ROY’S TOP 10 FLICKS THAT CLICKED IN 2005
1. Eytan Fox’s Walk on Water: Haven’t seen Munich, Syriana or Paradise Now, but this Israeli-made sociopolitical thriller, about an intelligence agent whose wife has just committed suicide assigned to spy on a German student and her visiting gay brother for information about their Nazi grandfather, allegedly in hiding in Berlin, neatly summarizes the theme of forgiving without forgetting at the root of the Middle East conflict between Israel and its neighbors. Great soundtrack that combines Israeli pop with rock classics by Springsteen.
2. Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale: Marvelously observed tale of an ’80s Brooklyn boho family coming apart at the seams, with Jeff Daniels’ Oscar-worthy turn as the displaced patriarch intellectual and Laura Linney as his beleaguered, drifting wife. If Jonathan Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude was made into a movie, this is what it would be like.
3. Bennett Miller’s Capote: Philip Seymour Hoffman is this year’s Jamie Foxx, a certain Oscar nominee and odds-on favorite to win as the slyly effeminate, but steel-willed author who gets his story, reality be damned. But Hoffman isn’t the only thing the film has going for it, with an award-level script by actor Dan Futterman and several Oscar type supporting actor performances from the always-great Catherine Keener as To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee and Bruce Greenwood as Capote’s lover.
4. Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know: A modern-day fairy tale of urban alienation and hope with Deadwood’s John Hawkes as a shoe salesman who is kicked out of the house by his wife only to attract the attention of a free-spirited performance artist, set against the pangs of sexuality, both adolescent and mature.
5. Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers: The indie cult icon returns with his most accessible work since Stranger Than Paradise, with a deadpan Bill Murray as a broken-down lothario making the rounds of past loves and a possible son set to the tune of a hip soundtrack provided by the always-amusing Jeffrey Wright, with a fantastic femme supporting cast including Julie Delpy, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Chloe Sevigny, Tilda Swinton and a career-making turn by young Alexis Dziena as a man-eating Lolita.
6. Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener: Best adaptation of a John le Carre novel since The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, with Ralph Fiennes as the conflicted diplomat and Rachel Weisz as his feisty, politically committed wife. Brazilian City of God director Meirelles makes his English-language debut a taut, enigmatic thriller despite the sometimes-implausible plot. Fiennes is a definite sleeper for a Best Actor nod.
7. Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home: Bob Dylan: The year’s best documentary, even if Scorsese had nothing to do with the unflinching interviews with Bob himself that form the basis of the film, along with the searing performances featuring him and The Band during a U.K. tour that saw them hooted off the stage despite the fire and brimstone coming from the musicians.
8. David Dobkins’ Wedding Crashers: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson shine as a comedy team in the year’s funniest comedy, laugh for laugh. And while the finely tuned buddy-buddy cynicism shifts into a benevolent “chick flick” about three-fourths of the way through, the setup is enough to drive this baby all the way home.
9. Gore Verbinski’s The Weather Man: Who knew the director of The Ring and Pirates of the Caribbean was capable of this black comic tale featuring mid-life crisis, dysfunction and a critique of
10. Alan Ball’s Six Feet Under (“Everyone’s Waiting”): The finale of this amazing HBO series’ five-year run was worth waiting for, especially the incredible conclusion, where we see everybody in the cast meet their maker, set against the backdrop of Sia’s haunting “
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