Friday
 · Friday night music: Darker My Love at Echoplex, The Duke Spirit plays the Roxy, and People Under the Stairs are at El Rey.

· Cult Cinema Club offers a double feature of late-'50s movies by Japanese horror director Nobuo Nakagawa. At the Egyptian's Spielberg Theater.
Saturday
 · X and New York Dolls at Club Nokia.
· It's true: Tangier is closing. Stop by tonight for one last drink.
· Holiday Lights Neon Cruise, courtesy the Museum of Neon Art, takes you on a Christmas tour of our city's most spectacular light creations: from Hollywood Blvd. to the Strip to Rodeo Drive window displays.
Sunday
 · Catch Josh Homme in a far more intimate setting: the Hotel Cafe. With The Duke Spirit. Also, Lil Wayne at the Gibson Amphitheater.
· Babes in Toyland, at the Pasadena Playhouse, features a cast of forty children, age 9 to 19—several of whom you can purchase at the souvenir stand after the performance.
· If you have a tape-playing boombox, drag it to Pan-Pacific Regional Park for Unsilent Night, where you can participate in Phil Kline's ambient music performance.