Things To Do: Monday-Thursday

• Monday:
• Read Newsweek's cover article on "The Sleeper" John Edwards on how he will win Iowa.
  
• Go Tell It on the Mountain: The Blind Boys of Alabama Christmas Show at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
• The Sun That Lights the Rainbow: The Life and Times of Elizabeth I at Cal State Northridge's Oviatt Library
• "Covers of Covers": Steve Keene, paintings of famous album covers at Cartoon Network Studios
• Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold at Laguna Playhouse
• SF
• Monday Night Marsh at The Marsh
• Tuesday
• Causes and Consequences of Anti-Americanism Around the World at the Skirball
  
• "Punk 365": photographs by Jenny Lens, Dawn Wirth, Theresa Kereakes, Gary Leonard and Chuck Krall" at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
  
• La Posada Magica: The Magical Journey at South Coast Repertory
  
• Angels & Demons: Blessed or Possessed?: juried group show at A Shenere Velt Gallery
  
• Carnival of the Strange: Highlighting Original Works of Emily the Strange: original artwork by the creative forces (Rob Reger and Buzz Parker) behind the cult comic character, as well as carni-inspired works at the Wonderful World Art Gallery
  
• "Merry Titmas": group show of breast-themed holiday art at World of Wonder
• SF
• Tracy/Hepburn Double Feature at the Castro Theatre
  
• Mary Zimmerman’s Argonautika at Berkeley Repertory's Roda Theatre (her Metamorphoses was like the most wonderful thing)
  

• Wednesday:
• Hope From a Dark Place: Slater Bradley, at Blum & Poe
  
• "Sadly Beautiful: A Vinyl Show" at Black Maria
  
• Unique Works from the 1970s": Robert Mapplethorpe, assemblage at Marc Selwyn Fine Art
  
• The Gay Mafia: Nu-Queer Winter at the Lounge Theatre
• SF
• David Sedaris’ “The SantaLand Diaries & Season's Greetings” staged at the Eureka Theatre
• "The Knife: Silent Shout: An Audiovisual Experience" at Mezzanine
• Thursday
• Ozomatli at House of Blues
  
• Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art at UCLA’s Fowler Museum
  
• Lessons at the Lee Strasberg Institute
• SF
• In the Shadow of the Moon at the Red Vic
  
• Queens of the Stone Age at The Warfield
  
• The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller at the Post Street Theatre
  
• "Jackie Beat: Give 'Til It Hurts" at the Empire Plush Room