Are you old enough to be nostalgic for "Car Toons" comics? Or young enough to wonder what the deal is with Rat Fink? Tonight's art opening for original Big Daddy Roth artwork at La Luz De Jesus is a can't miss event for children of all ages. Big Daddy Roth's characters fathered a movement Howie Pyro refers to as lowbrow/pop surrealism. Roth mentored and inspired artists such as Robert Williams and Ed Newton, not......

With the year winding down, LAist is asking famous celebs, local politicians, and other movers & shakers of LA to tell us what they thought were tops of 2006 Mark Frauenfelder is the co-founder of the wildly successful blog BoingBoing, which many charts rank as the most popular blog in the galaxy. When he's not telling people where to go on the blogosphere, he's helping people create amazing things via MAKE magazine, for which......

WEDNESDAY • Tokyo String Quartet and clarinetist Sabine Meyer perform works by Haydn, Dvorak and Mozart tonight at UCLA Live beginning at 8 PM. Tickets are $22-42. • Outfest Wednesdays at the Egyptian Theatre features a sneak preview of Imagine Me & You at 7:30 PM. • AFI at ArcLight features a special screening of the 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy at 8 PM. • The Hammer Museum features "Masters of LA's Underground Comics," a......