Things To Do This Week: Weekend Edition*

*including Thursday of course. And I almost forgot all about this

• Thursday
• Metal:A Headbanger's Journey "[follows] Canadian anthropologist and metal enthusiast Sam Dunn as he travels the world on a quest to understand the origins and controversies of the genre at Silent Movie Theatre"
  
• The Idiots at the Steve Allen Theatre
  
• “The 7th Annual Attack of the 50 Foot Reels” at the Egyptian “Twenty filmmakers compete with this challenge: shoot one 50-foot cartridge of super 8 film, edit entirely in-camera, and create your own original soundtrack without seeing the film. Flicker then assembles the bits and pieces, without the filmmakers seeing the final product until tonight, when the results are revealed."
  
• Grindhouse Film Festival Presents She Freak at the New Beverly
  
• Atlanta: The Musical (co-written by Adrian Pasdar) at the Geffen Playhouse
  
• Benedictus at the LA Theater Center “America plans to bomb Iran, in Motti Lerner's political drama, translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris.”
  
• Bob’s Holiday Office Party “Small-town insurance agent throws his annual Christmas bash, in Joe Keyes and Rob Elk's comedy.” At the Lounge Theatre
  
• Gospels of Childhood “Poland's Teatr Zar collective interprets Christian texts through acting, chanting and movement.” At the UCLA Freud Playhouse
  
• Letters to The President at the Electric Lodge “Selections from the more than 130 letters M.S. Garvey has written to President Bush”
  
• Monna Vanna at the Stella Adler
  
• The Nightwatchman at The Hotel Café
• SF
• Hannah Takes The Stairs at the Red Vic Movie House
  
• Dress Up at the New Conservatory Theatre Group
  
• Stardust and Empty Wagons: Stories From the Katrina Diaspora "Cut from the same cloth as "The Laramie Project" and other interview-based stage docu-dramas, Ellen Gavin's "Stardust and Empty Wagons" assembles testimony from displaced New Orleans residents. Their tales of Hurricane Katrina's destruction, difficult personal flights and our government's failure to properly rebuild sport the inevitable power of real-life disaster reportage" at the Brava Theater Center
  
• Ozomatli at the Fillmore
  
• Van Hunt at the Independent
  

• Friday
• Jimmy Scott at the Echo
  
• The Raspberries at the House of Blues
  
• Cake at the Orpheum
  
• Carole King and James Taylor at the Troubadour
  
• The Glory of Living at the Victory Theatre Group
  
• The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild at the Elephant
  
• “Fusion: The 5th Los Angeles LGBT of Color Film Festival” at the Egyptian Theater Fusion 2007, a “consciously multiracial, gender-inclusive arts event” marrying film, music, spoken word, performance, panels and workshops kicks off with its opening gala, featuring short films of “inspiring personal journeys and the exuberance of youth,” including Dee Rees’ Pariah, Cinzia’s The Matchmaker, Cherien Dabis’ Make A Wish, Nick Oceano’s El Primo, and Soman Chainani’s Kali M (continues all weekend)
  
• “Ninth Annual Nihilist Film Fest” at Track 16 "Ninety minutes of twisted independent short-film nothingness, “ranging from troubling to hilarious” and “profound to completely silly.”
  
• Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show at the El Rey
  
• Bella Sorella at the Coffee Gallery Backstage
  
• The Boofont Sisters at Casita Del Campo
  
• Love Loves a Pornographer at [Inside] the Ford
  
• Narnia at Sierra Madre Playhouse
• SF
• The Comedians of Comedy at The Independent
  
• Issa (Jane Siberry) at the Great American Music Hall
  

• Saturday
• The Lemonheads at The Troubadour
  
• Bury the Dead at the Park La Brea Activities Center
  
• The John Butler Trio at the Orpheum
  
• The Mismatch Game at the Renberg Theatre
  
• Shakespeare's R & J at the Chandler Studio
• SF
• Madam Butterfly at the War Memorial Opera House
  
• "25 Year Anniversary of Thriller" at Milk
  
• Kathy Griffin at the Nob Hill Masonic Center
  
• "NEXMAP: New Experimental Music, Art, Performance" at the Recombinant Media Labs
  

• Sunday
• VHS or Beta at the El Rey
  
• Hong Sang-soo's Woman is the Future of Man at the Silent Movie Theatre
  
• Fire in The Well at the Hammer Museum
  
• Young, Jewish and Left” a new doc examining “race, queerness, spirituality, Zionism, resistance, justice and liberation,” featuring progressive community organizers, playwrights, artists and rabbis” at the Workmen’s Circle
• SF
• Reduced to Ruin, The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir at the Make-Out Room
  
• Rake’s Progress at the War Memorial Opera House
  
• Gays & Dolls at the San Francisco Comedy College
  
• Dodo for President at the Off-Market Theater
  
• "Sunday’s A Drag" at Harry Denton’s Starlight Room
  
• United Genders of the Universe at the Pacific Center for Human Growth
  
  

and that's the end of that chapter

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