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· Thursday night music: The Roots with Talib Kweli and Blackalicious at the House of Blues on Sunset, Foreigner ("Hot Blooded," "Urgent," "Juke Box Hero," "I Want to Know What Love Is..." Do we need to go on?) is at the Roxy, and Opus Dai (no relation to The Da Vinci Code or self-flagellating albinos, to our knowledge) are at the Troubadour.
· The Duncan Miller Gallery is hosting an opening artist's reception for the new photography exhibit, "Icons of Rock," featuring portraits of all the biggies by famed rock photographers George Rose, Ethan Russell and Baron Wolman.
· The Music Center has Julie Taymor's directed vision of husband Elliot Goldenthal's Beowulf opera, Grendel. We hear King Hroðgar and Wealhþeow have been whoring it up at Privilege since the production hit town.