Things To Do This Week: Weekend Edition*

*oh how I wish Thursday still felt like the start of the weekend

• Thursday:
• Mike Stinson at The Echo
• Samuel Jackson In-Person "The actor discusses two of his recent films — Resurrecting the Champ and Black Snake Moan at the Aero @ 7:30
• Multimedia European duo Michaela Grill and Giuseppe Ielasi attempt “to link improvised electronic music and abstract live visuals to the highest degree possible,” resulting in an interactive, improvisational video/concert at the Echo Park Film Center
• The Nightwatchman at The Hotel Café
• Charlie Hunter Trio at Vault 350
• Confessions of a Christmas Banshee at the Lankershim Arts Center
• The Crucible at the Matrix Theatre
• Evelyn Glennie at Royce Hall (wow I did not know she was deaf. That makes her even more amazing)
• Fools at West Valley Playhouse
• Girls Night: The Musical at the Coronet Theatre
• Iceland at the Bootleg Theater
• La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
• Light Sensitive at the Pico Playhouse
• Naomi Klein at Temple Emanuel
• SF
• Staircase at Theatre Rhinoceros
• Bondage "A tale by David Henry Hwang and directed by Ryan Yip, set in a Los Angeles S&M parlor." at Exit Theatre on Taylor
• Everything Has Been Arranged at the Intersection for the Arts
• Brian Regan at Nob Hill Masonic Center
• Crowd You’re In With at Magic Theatre
• Neccessity of Hank at the Exit Theatre
• Friday
• Jon Brion (and Nels Cline) at the Largo
  
• Montana Walk Sale and Bake Sale "Support the Aero by contributing to the theater’s first annual benefit bake sale, featuring a free screening of The Simpsons Movie plus an exhibit of Simpsons art in the Every Picture Tells a Story bookstore gallery nearby. Drop off any goodies at the Aero by 4:30 p.m.
  
• KRS-One at the Rhythm Lounge
  
• Andrew Bird (!)(!)(!)at the Orpheum with Handsome Family
  
• Anything at the Lillian Theatre
  
• Crispin Hellion Glover’s” It is Fine! Everything is Fine “The curiously “off” actor presents his second feature as director/producer — part two of his directorial debut It trilogy, the psychosexual story of a wheelchair-bound ladies’ man. Also included: an in-depth post-screening discussion with Glover and a pre-screening live presentation of his Big Slide Show, featuring a dramatic narration accompanying illustrations from Glover’s books" at the Egyptian
  
• Enrique Iglesias at the Nokia Theatre
  
• Grand Delusion at Lost Studio
  
• The Opening of Misty Beethoven at the New Beverly at Midnight
  
• Twist (Pop-rock musical based on Oliver Twist, book and lyrics by Gila Sand, music by Paul Leschen) at the Avery Schreiber Theater
• SF
• Tori Amos at the Paramount Theatre (!)()!()(!)(!) [Oakland]
  
• It Could Have Been a Wonderful Life at the SF Playhouse
• Saturday
• Juliette & the Licks at the Roxy
  
• 1940s Christmas at Club Sweet Lorraine's at KSLG Playhouse Theater Players
  
• The Dig: Death, Genesis, and the Double Helix at the Pacific Resident Theatre
  
• Holiday Appeal for Class War Prisoners "The Partisan Defense Committee and Labor Black League for Social Defense present this event to help free Mumia Abu-Jamal. Music by Exposition of Audible Mainframe" at Immanuel Presbyterian Church @ 2:00
  
• Schoolhouse Rock Live! at Greenway Court Theater
  
• "Christian Bale Marathon at the Aero "Actor Christian Bale appears in person for a program of his work. First, Bale’s a wounded Civil War vet in James Mangold’s remake of 3:10 to Yuma . Then, he’s one of six Bob Dylans in Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There . Then, he reinvents the caped crusader in Batman Begins. And, last, Bale brings yuppie to a new kind of trickle-down disturbing with the adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. Also included: Discussion with Bale, all-evening buffet and special Christian Bale memorabilia.
• SF
  
• Prefuse 73, School of Seven Bells, Blank Blue at Slim's
  
• Andrew Bird at the Warfield
  
• The Apartment at the Castro Theatre
  
• Ingmar Bergman: Light and Shadow at the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley)
• Sunday
• A Christmas Carol at Celebration Theatre
• David Gray at the Wiltern Lounge
  

as always there is a ton of things that I didn't mention here that are happening so...go wandering and discover.

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