…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, The Blood Brothers Thursday, Nov. 30 Henry Fonda Theater If you’d like to picture the Blood Brothers and …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead show, think of a sedimentary layer containing all sorts of fossilized human bones and odd-sized uranium blow-up dolls. Read more...

Every time I check my fantasy basketball team, I beam like a proud father at Luol Deng’s stat line. Deng, a third-year forward for the Chicago Bulls, is currently one of my most productive players. Read more...

Wouldn’t it be nice if they made a portable device that could store and play, say, every episode of the TV show “Lost?” Technically, they have. Read more...

In the iconic Billy Wilder film “Sunset Boulevard,” Gloria Swanson plays an aging starlet of the 1920s fading in the new era of the 1950s. The new Billy Wilder Theater will also pair the past and present together, but it will successfully assimilate the two, bringing a legacy of films from now and before together with the cutting-edge breakthroughs of the future. Read more...

“Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny” Director Liam Lynch New Line Cinema When a beginning scene opens with a cartoon of two men flying through the air by the power of their own flatulence, you know you’re in for a rough few hours. Read more...

My boyfriend doesn’t know this, but tonight I’m going to take him to an Eggnog Anonymous meeting. The fact is every December he starts to mysteriously expand horizontally, and I’m sure I know the culprit. Read more...

This Saturday, the heroes are coming to UCLA. Well, at least the man who created them. On Dec. 2, director Kevin Smith will host “Marvel: Then & Now ““ a Night with Stan Lee and Joe Quesada.” The event will benefit the Hero Initiative, a non-profit organization which raises money for comic book veterans in need of financial assistance. Read more...