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Friday
 · The Not For Tourists guide is throwing itself a party from 6-9 pm to celebrate its new Los Angeles edition at Footsie's. Free cans of PBR and free guidebooks if you get there early enough.
· Get up close and personal (but not too close! These are stars!) to Erik Estrada, Tom Bosley, Butch Patrick, Henry Winkler, and many, many more famous people of similar quality at the Hollywood Collectors and Celebrities Show at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel & Convention Center, today and Saturday.
· Music round-up: It's Gwen Stefani (and more importantly, Lady Sovereign) at the Gibson Amphitheatre; The Cinematics at Spaceland; Grant Lee Phillips at the Troubadour.
Saturday
 · Wondernig where you can see a musical about Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's doctor/scientist/poet grandfather? At the Machine Project, that's where.
· Meltdown Comics on Sunset hosts a tournament of War on Terror: The Boardgame, this Saturday and Sunday. The designers of the game will be on hand to make sure participants pay proper respect to their creation.
Sunday
 · Want to learn how to put up your own website, all free-like? Then I NEED A WEBSITE RIGHT NOW sounds like it may interest you.
· More music: Travis at the Henry Fonda; Arctic Monkeys at the Troubadour.