Gomez and the Little Ones play the El Rey.

Cherie Currie was a sixteen year old valley girl when she joined the group to become its singer, along with Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Jackie Fox and Sandy West. She has written a book about her time with the group called Neon Angel: Memoir of a Runaway, and she’ll be signing copies right on the Sunset Strip at Book Soup.

Animal Collective’s Deakin performs at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts

Check out the opera in Long Beach, or celebrate Obscura Day with the Echo Park Time Travel Mart!

Gay speed-dating from LA Lords will help you find a spring-time sweetie.

Xiu Xiu, Noveller, and Tune-Yards play at The Echo.

Lorie Zapf has made some indefensibly homophobic comments in 2006, but now claims that they do not reflect her true opinions. Is she fit for San Diego City Council?

Artwork by Riley Richards at the Lex.

I was fortunate enough to spend an evening out with Michael Chioldi, who takes the role of the late President Nixon in the Long Beach Opera’s production of Nixon in China. “It is going to be une spectacle” he told me over martinis at Paradise, conveying the enthusiasm you’d expect from a kid describing the most amazing christmas present he just bought for his mom. From the looks of the rehearsal I saw, I have no doubt that he’s right.

See Hunx and His Punx at an afternoon party from I Hate Rock n Roll.