Dancing & Music at Zambuba on Venice Blvd. BB Chung King & the Buddaheads @ Cozy's Bar & Grill Samba music and dancing @ Zabumba Three Bad Jacks, Taildragger, Graceland Mafia, Dead & Broken @ Key Club Eisley@ Silent Movie Theatre Gladys Knight @ Hollywood Bowl Scott Barnhart with The John Heard Trio Charlie O's O.H.M. @ The Baked Potato Hollywood U2, Fallout: the Police Experience @ House of Blues Zach Galifianakis @ Largo......

How would they fill up two hours in the American Idol finale? That was the question on LAist's mind tonight. (And we were particularly bummed since we had to give up the first hour of Lost for this!) Since the show seemed just as long as the Oscars, it was only fitting that AI had filler like the "Golden Idols" -- awards for the freaks during the early part of the show. Remember the......

M. Ward, Victoria Williams @ El Rey Dengue Fever @ Temple Bar Morrissey @ Pasadena Civic Auditorium Gladys Knight @ Gibson The Monolators, Repeater, The Friends of Dennis Wilson @ Mr. T's Bowl KRS-One @ The Knitting Factory Ladysmith Black Mambazo @ Cal State Long Beach Pierre de Reeder @ The Mint Margaret Cho @ Largo Mose Allison @ The Jazz Bakery Ron Sexsmith, Annie Stela @ The Troubadour G Love & Special Sauce,......

Trey Anastasio - Bar 17 (Red Ink) Beck - The Information (Geffen) Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin (Warner Bros.) Cirque Du Soleil - Corteo (Cirque Du Soleil) Dears - Gang of Losers (Arts & Crafts) Decemberists - The Crane Wife (Capitol) Plácido Domingo - Moments of Passion (Sony Classical) Don't Die Cindy - Most Imperfect Skies (Cake) Evanescence - The Open Door (Wind-Up) Goldenboy - Underneath the Radio (Eenie Meenie) Robyn Hitchcock &......

WEDNESDAY • Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan are performing at the Hollywood Bowl at 8 PM. Click here for a complete list of events for the week.......