· Music round-up: The original line-up of Winger (!) joins up with Metal Skool at the Key Club; Great Northern at the Viper Room; Low vs. Diamond at the Echo.
· Stephen Farber's Reel Talk film series screens The Namesake (starring Kal "Kumar of White Castle Fame" Penn) at the Wadsworth, with director Mira Nair on hand to discuss her collaboration with cinema's most celebrated tiny-hamburger joneser.
· Comedian/recovering nerd Opus Moreschi kicks off his "All New Year" project by throwing a Cool Kids Party at the 1160 Bar at the Ramada Hollywood Hotel, which we're told will include a number of DJs, party snacks, and high school-quality make-out games like Spin the Bottle and Fifteen Seconds in the Closet. (We were premature ejaculators.) And it's free! Well, not the booze, but maybe the making out.

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