Friday · Ultimate unisex Journey tribute band Infinity—with members from L.A. bands like Longstocking and Patsy and led by Steve Perry-channeling Michelle "Woody" Stevenson—plays Spaceland. Start believin'.

· You'll laugh your balls off at Monsters and Prodigies: The History of the Castrati, a farce from Mexico's acclaimed Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes at the REDCAT.
· West Fest 2009 New Works Festival is Hollywood's long-running theater festival. Highlights include a book-club showdown, Bodice Rippers; a supernatural life-support musical, Two Lives; and Sally Spectre, the Musical, a "children's horror story for adults." [via Flavorpill]

Saturday
 · An Evening with the Prelinger Archives at the Silent Movie Theater pulls a few selections out from his collection of 60,000 advertising, classroom, industrial, and amateur films.
· The Edward Gorey-inspired Edwardian Ball makes its L.A. debut after many years in San Francisco. "A turn of the century celebration of music, theatre, dance, circus arts, DJs, ballroom dance, fashion, technology, and of course, the art and stories of Edward Gorey." At the Tower Theater downtown.
· Dimitri From Paris spins you into a retrofrenzy at Club Avalon. Always fun.

Sunday
 · Mother F****r! is all-girl improv at UCB.
· Radio Free Silverlake join the fight against Huntington's disease with a Rock Against HD benefit concert. Light FM, Fol Chen, and Radars to the Sky perform. At Spaceland.
· Dancers from Rabbit in the Moon, Cirque du Soleil and Lucent Dossier perform in Mystic, at Venice's Electric Lodge.
· It's the Super Bowl. And the Puppy Bowl.