To Do: Get Baadassss!

· See Mario Van Peebles and pop Melvin in Baadassss! at the Egyptian Theater. It's a son's loving blaxploitation flick about the making of his dad's blaxploitation flick Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Um, three a's and five s's, we think.
· Go see indie grrrl pioneers Sleater-Kinney at the El-Rey and try to pick up hipster chicks. Guys, not so fast!
· Note to both horny dudes and aspiring skanks: DON'T go see Christina Aguilera at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. It was canceled. Take it down a notch and perv wholesome Canadian Nelly Furtado at Avalon Hollywood (reg. req'd.).
· Head to the Standard Downtown for Fader Magazine's "Escape From New York Party." Pretty much everyone in LA has escaped from NY, so expect a huge crowd of people bitching about how there's no pizza here in between hits of ecstasy.