This shopping season, the daunting decision of which shirt to buy has greater significance than usual. With the October launch of a nationwide HIV/AIDS awareness and aid campaign called (RED), shopping has taken on a new purpose. Read more...

“Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny” Director Liam Lynch New Line Cinema When a beginning scene opens with a cartoon of two men flying through the air by the power of their own flatulence, you know you’re in for a rough few hours. Read more...

My boyfriend doesn’t know this, but tonight I’m going to take him to an Eggnog Anonymous meeting. The fact is every December he starts to mysteriously expand horizontally, and I’m sure I know the culprit. Read more...

This Saturday, the heroes are coming to UCLA. Well, at least the man who created them. On Dec. 2, director Kevin Smith will host “Marvel: Then & Now ““ a Night with Stan Lee and Joe Quesada.” The event will benefit the Hero Initiative, a non-profit organization which raises money for comic book veterans in need of financial assistance. Read more...

He’s been called the grand master of jazz guitar by Dizzy Gillespie and the greatest guitarist in the world by B.B. King. He was Duke Ellington’s favorite. Read more...

leiti hsu She’s seen it all. Restaurateur and chef Suzanne Goin encountered the refrigerator that “stank like bloody hell” in a restaurant kitchen in southwest France. Read more...

KENNY BURRELL’S 75TH Saturday, 8 p.m. Royce Hall, $15 Those who think that jazz music died out alongside Ellington, Coltrane, Davis and Gillespie ought to take another look closer to home. Read more...