· Make it a huger than huge night of music with Smashing Pumpkins at the Gibson Amphitheater or Sisters of Mercy at the Music Box. Or, for true, ear-splitting torment, Celine Dion will be at the Staples Center.
· Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson perform in Nora Ephron's one-night-only staging of You Can't Take It With You, a UCLA School of Theater, Film and TV gala benefit at Royce Hall.
· Pay profane, oversexed homage to the late Rudy Ray Moore with a twin bill featuring Dolemite and its sequel, The Human Tornado, at the New Beverly.